THE VEDIC PEOPLE
Their History and Geography
Rajesh Kochhar
Orient Longman, Hyderabad
2000, Paperback, 259 pp
ISBN 81 250 1080 7
IRs 275
By Rhoderick Chalmers
The search for origins
In Search of the 'Authentic' Diasporic Subject.
Irony and brilliance in Tibetan literature.
Maps are a peculiar kind of visual text. Their mundane practicality makes them appear to be mere instruments of utility, which tell us where we are going, and puts everything
The revolutionary who succeeds underground is not the one who hides like a mouse under the floorboards, shunning the light of day and social involvement. The successful and resourceful underground
A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Indian History of a British Sport
by Ramachandra Guha
Picador, New Delhi, 2002
INR 495, pp xvt+496
South Asian Islam's varied and multiple forms.
A ludicrously designated set of contiguous regions that involuntarily, almost distractedly, constitutes a nebulous landmass — there you have it, Asia. Perhaps the onslaught of the globalising West will impart the impetus for giving meaning to the idea of Asia.
On the way to dominating us, the West defined Asia for the Asian and continues to do so in the post-colonial era. But other than a landmass called a continent and given a name, there is nothing that binds 'Asians'.
The development of a regional Southeast Asian identity may not necessarily conform to the 'facts' of geography, history, culture or politics. The notion of Southeast Asia as a homogenous cultural or geographic entity can indeed be overstated. But its social and political identity, derived from the c
