Labourers and Artisans in Seventeenth-Century Ahmadabad
Studies in People’s History, Volume 9, Issue 1, Page 22-30, June 2022. Among the inhabitants of medieval Indian cities, the largest group was naturally represented by its workforce. They were a crucial element in the urban dynamics of these cities. Ahm…
Book review: Saiyid Zaheer Husain Jafri, Beyond the Chronicles: ‘Recovering’ Histories of the Institutions and Families (Persian Documents in India, 17th–19th C.)
Studies in People’s History, Volume 9, Issue 1, Page 118-118, June 2022. Saiyid Zaheer Husain Jafri, Beyond the Chronicles: ‘Recovering’ Histories of the Institutions and Families (Persian Documents in India, 17th–19th C.) (New Delhi: Gyan Publishing H…
Book review: Robert Eric Frykenberg, ed., Land Control and Social Structure in Indian History and Robert Eric Frykenberg, ed., Land Tenure and Peasant in South Asia
Studies in People’s History, Volume 9, Issue 1, Page 121-121, June 2022. Robert Eric Frykenberg, ed., Land Control and Social Structure in Indian History (Delhi: Primus Books), 2020, 273 pp., ₹300 (Pb) [originally published in 1969].Robert Eric Frykenb…
Book review: Ravi K. Mishra and Narendra Shukla, ed., Selected Works of C. Rajagopalachari: Vol. VI, 1936–39
Studies in People’s History, Volume 9, Issue 1, Page 135-137, June 2022. Ravi K. Mishra and Narendra Shukla, ed., Selected Works of C. Rajagopalachari: Vol. VI, 1936–39 (New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan), 2021, 576 pp., ₹2,095 (Hb).
Book review: Arunima Dutta, Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya
Studies in People’s History, Volume 9, Issue 1, Page 133-135, June 2022. Arunima Dutta, Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), xviii + 240 pp., ₹1,195 (Hb).
A Chapter in the History of Indian Social Thought: Irawati Karve’s Contributions as Public Intellectual
Studies in People’s History, Volume 9, Issue 1, Page 72-85, June 2022. This article seeks to revisit the contributions of Professor Irawati Karve, one of the foremost anthropologists of twentieth-century India. In particular, it highlights her work as …
Review Article: Audrey Truschke, The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Muslim Pasts
Studies in People’s History, Volume 9, Issue 1, Page 86-91, June 2022. Audrey Truschke, The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Muslim Pasts (New Delhi: Penguin Random House India), 2021, xlviii + 354 pp., ₹699.
List of Books Received
Studies in People’s History, Volume 9, Issue 1, Page 141-141, June 2022.
Book review: S.K. Kumar, and S. Sarkar, eds., Contextualizing the body: An Indian Experience
Studies in People’s History, Volume 9, Issue 1, Page 126-127, June 2022. S.K. Kumar, and S. Sarkar, eds., Contextualizing the body: An Indian Experience (New Delhi: Manohar Publishers & Distributors), 2020, ₹1,650.