Book review: S. Levitsky & D. Ziblatt, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future; D. Acemoglu & J.A. Robinson, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty and D. Roy Chowdhury & J. Keane, To Kill a Democracy: India’s Passage to Despotism

2021 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 678-682
Author(s):  
Mahendra Prasad Singh
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Oxford University Press

S. Levitsky & D. Ziblatt, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future. New York: Penguin Random House UK, 2018, £ 9.99. D. Acemoglu & J.A. Robinson, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty. London: Crown, 2013 (South Asian Edition), ₹699. D. Roy Chowdhury & J. Keane, To Kill a Democracy: India’s Passage to Despotism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, £20.00; $25.95.

scholarly journals Book Review of Biography of a Yogi (Foxen, 2017).

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 93-96
Author(s):  
Matthew Clark ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Popular Book ◽  
Modern Yoga ◽  
Philosophical Texts ◽  
Oxford University Press

Biography of a Yogi: Paramahansa Yogananda and the Origins of Modern Yoga. Anya P. Foxen. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. 238 pages. First published in 1946, Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda has to date sold over four million copies. It is by far Yogananda’s most popular book and has been translated into thirty-three languages. Aside from South Asian religio-philosophical texts, Autobiography of a Yogi is perhaps the most widely read publication on the life of a yogi of all time.

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