Eqbal Ahmad: Confronting Empire
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Archway Road, London. ISBN 0-7453-1713-8
177pp Rs495
During the years of slavery in America, there was a hierarchy of blackness. 'House niggers', those slaves who curried favour with their white masters, were allowed to live
Self and Sovereignty Individual and Community in South Asian Islam Since 1850
by Ayesha Jalal, Oxford University Press
New Delhi, 2001 Pages: 630 Rs 875
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The Indian government's announcement in June 2001, of the extension of the five year old Naga ceasefire by another year and enlarging its scope to cover not just
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Mid-summer this year, village in Kuth on the western-most tip of India resolved to divide itself. About 40 families, out of a total of 70 odd, gathered their
War at the Top of the World: The Struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir and Tibet
by Eric Margolis; Routledge, New York; 2000; pp 250; USD 22; ISBN: 0415927129
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The Politics of Cultural Practice: Thinking through Theatre in an Age of Globalisation
by Rustom Bharucha
New Delhi: OUP, 2001, pp. xiv+243, hardcover, Rs 545
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