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Book Reviews

Chasing Lalit Modi

Boria Majumdar

The former IPL chairman makes you sweat and enjoys your discomfort before agreeing to tell his side of the story

An American Girl in India: Letters and Recollections 1963–64 /
An American Girl in India: Letters and Recollections 1963–64
Wendy Doniger
The Making of an Indophile

Wendy Doniger’s early impressions of the country, written in her 20s

Half-Blood /
Half-Blood
Pronoti Datta
Fractured Lives

A daughter’s quest for her father helps her find herself

Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History /
Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History
Vidya Krishnan
Bad Blood

A portrait of tuberculosis that reveals society’s ill-informed choices

How China Sees India and the World  /
How China Sees India and the World
Shyam Saran
China’s India Complex

The model that frightens Beijing the most

To Raise A Fallen People: How Nineteenth-Century Indians Saw Their World And Shaped Ours /
To Raise A Fallen People: How Nineteenth-Century Indians Saw Their World And Shaped Ours
Rahul Sagar
India of the Mind

Far from being colonised subjects, Indians in the 19th century had a vibrant sense of strategic affairs

How Democracies Live: Power, Statecraft and Freedom in Modern Societies /
How Democracies Live: Power, Statecraft and Freedom in Modern Societies
Stein Ringen
The Persistence of Democracy

Stein Ringen offers a new definition for democracy and hits out at sceptics

In the Language of Remembering: The Inheritance of Partition /
In the Language of Remembering: The Inheritance of Partition
Aanchal Malhotra
Aanchal Malhotra: The Memory Keeper

Aanchal Malhotra maps the legacy of Partition through oral histories. The author in conversation with Aditya Mani Jha

Aurangzeb’s Iconoclasm /
Aurangzeb’s Iconoclasm
François Gautier
Aurangzeb’s Reign in the Light of His Own Orders

Aurangzeb’s reign in the light of his own orders

Scorching Love: Letters from Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to His Son, Devadas /
Scorching Love: Letters from Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to His Son, Devadas
Edited by Gopalkrishna Gandhi and Tridip Suhrud
Gandhi, the Father

A shared vein of political reflection makes the letters to his son Devadas special

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