Book review: Suvobrata Sarkar, Let There Be Light: Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Electricity in Colonial Bengal, 1880–1945

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 154-156
Author(s):  
J.N. Sinha

Suvobrata Sarkar, Let There Be Light: Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Electricity in Colonial Bengal, 1880–1945 (New Delhi: Cambridge University Press), 2020, xiv + 294 pp., (hb.), ₹659.

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-126
Author(s):  
Ranjeeta Dutta,

Whitney Cox, Politics, Kingship, and Poetry in Medieval South India: Moonset on Sunrise Mountain, Cambridge University Press, New Delhi (South Asian Edition), 2017, 309 + i–xv pp., ₹470.


2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 409-411
Author(s):  
Harsh V Pant

Aseema Sinha, Globalizing India: How Global Rules and Markets are Shaping India’s Rise to Power. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2016, pp. 354, ₹2509, ISBN 9781108447706.


2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 481-484
Author(s):  
Rajesh Rajagopalan

Paul T.V., Accommodating Rising Powers: Past, Present and Future. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2016, pp. 326, ₹595, Paperback. ISBN: 978-1-316-63394-6.


2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-173
Author(s):  
Krushna Ranaware

Shakya, M. 2018: Death of an Industry: The Cultural Politics of Garment Manufacturing During the Maoist Revolution in Nepal. New Delhi, India: Cambridge University Press. xv + 157 pp. £67.50 cloth, ISBN: 9781107191266 (hardback).


2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-102
Author(s):  
Alisha Dhingra

Sunil Khilnani, Vikram Raghavan and Arun K. Thiruvengadam (eds), Comparative Constitutionalism in South Asia. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2013. 401 pages. ₹ 950. Maneesha Tikekar (ed.), Constitutionalism and Democracy in South Asia; Political Developments in India’s Neighbourhood. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2014. 181 pages. ₹ 675. Mark Tushent and Madhav Khosla (eds), Unstable Constitutionalism: Law and Politics in South Asia. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2015. 403 pages. US$ 35.99.


2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 93-95
Author(s):  
Prakash Sharma

The Indian Legal Profession in the Age of Globalization: The Rise of Corporate Legal Sector and Its Impact on Lawyers and Society. Edited by David B. Wilkins, Vikramaditya S. Khanna, and David M. Trubek, Cambridge University Press, New Delhi, 2018 (South Asian Edition). xv + 756 pp., (Paperback), ₹895. ISBN: 978-1-108-44487-3


2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-291
Author(s):  
Ritambhara Malaviya

Kanchan Chandra. (Ed.), Democratic Dynasties: State, Party and Family in Contemporary Indian Politics. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press. 2016. 279 pages. ₹495.


2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 575-578
Author(s):  
Blessy C. Abraham

Ishita Banerjee-Dube, A History of Modern India, New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2015, 486 pp.; Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal, Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy, Third Edition, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014, 274 pp.; and Thomas R. Trautmann, India: A Brief History of a Civilization, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2011, 242 pp.


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