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Book Reviews

Questions of Belonging

Rajshree Chandra

The Deoliwallahs reminds us that the journey from citizen to foreigner is a short one

The End of Middle East History and Other Conjectures | The Caravan: Abdallah Azzam and the Rise of Global Jihad /
The End of Middle East History and Other Conjectures | The Caravan: Abdallah Azzam and the Rise of Global Jihad
Richard W Bulliet | Thomas Hegghammer
Religious War Inc

The life of an extraordinary jihadist and where it fits in the sweep of history

The Drive /
The Drive
Yair Assulin | Translated by Jessica Cohen
Soldier, at Unease

A young Israeli man’s struggle against institutions, society and himself

Ordinary People, Extraordinary Teachers: The Heroes of Real India /
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Teachers: The Heroes of Real India
S Giridhar
To Teachers, With Love

The educators who help students break out of poverty

Akbar: The Great Mughal /
Akbar: The Great Mughal
Ira Mukhoty
Akbar’s Idea of India

The topical reverberations of Ira Mukhoty’s biography of the great Mughal

Animosity at Bay: An Alternative History of the India-Pakistan Relationship, 1947-1952 /
Animosity at Bay: An Alternative History of the India-Pakistan Relationship, 1947-1952
Pallavi Raghavan
The Subcontinent at Ease

A history of a brief window of cooperation casts an interesting light on India’s relations with Pakistan

Amnesty /
Amnesty
Aravind Adiga
Nowhere Man

In his novel about a Sri Lankan migrant in Australia, Aravind Adiga makes the reader care with his well-earned facts

Jaipur Journals /
Jaipur Journals
Namita Gokhale
Festival Insider

Namita Gokhale's true fiction about the most interesting and least known characters of a lit fest

The Story of Yoga: From Ancient India to the Modern West /
The Story of Yoga: From Ancient India to the Modern West
Alistair Shearer
An East-West Encounter

An anecdotal account of yoga’s journey from an ancient road to enlightenment to a wellness industry

I Could Not Be Hindu: The Story of a Dalit in the RSS /
I Could Not Be Hindu: The Story of a Dalit in the RSS
Bhanwar Meghwanshi | Translated from the Hindi by Nivedita Menon
The Dalit Who Got Out

Bhanwar Meghwanshi tells Bhavya Dore how he has become a non-Hindu

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