BOOKS REVIEWED

The Omnipresent Past: Historical Anthropology of Africa and African Diaspora

Edited by Dmitri M. Bondarenko and Marina L. Butovskaya.

Social Evolution and History 20.1 (2021): 198-215


Good Economics for Hard Times 

By Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo. Penguin Random House, London, 2019.

Asian Affairs, Vol. 51, 2020


Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora

By Edda L. Fields-Black, Indiana University Press 2014

Agricultural History (2010) 84 (3): 417–418.


The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World

By Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University Press, 2006

Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2, Third World Problems and Issues: Past and Present (Fall, 2009), pp. 321-323


An African Republic: Black and White Virginians in the Making of Liberia

By Marie Tyler-McGraw, University of North Carolina, 2017

The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Vol. 105, No. 4 (Autumn 2007), pp. 703-705


Hybridity: Limits, Transformations, Prospects

By Anjali Prabhu Review, State University of New York, 2007

Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2, Third World Problems and Issues: Past and Present (Fall, 2009), pp. 323-327


Getting in: Mediators' Entry into the Settlement of African Conflicts

By  Mohammed O. Maundi  United States Institute of Peace, 2006.

Perspectives on Political Science, Vol. 36, Iss. 2, (Spring 2007): 116-117.


Postmodern Gandhi and Other Essays: Gandhi in the World and at Home

By Lloyd Rudolph, University of Chicago Press, 2006

Perspectives on Political Science, Philadelphia Vol. 36, Iss. 3 (Summer 2007): 179-180.


The Middle East: A Political History Since the First World War

By Mehran Kamrava, University of California Press; 2nd edition (2011)

Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. 23, No. 2, Fall 2006.


Why Ethnic Parties Succeed: Patronage and Ethnic Headcounts in India

Kanchan Chandra, Cambridge University Press, 2007

Perspectives on Political Science, Philadelphia Vol. 33, Iss. 4 (Fall 2004): 241-242.


Issues in the Contemporary Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa: The Dynamics of Struggle and Resistance

By Graham Harrison, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

Journal of Third World Studies Vol. 23, No. 1, Spring, 2006


Religion and Personal Law in Secular India: A Call to Judgment

By Gerald James Larson, Indiana University Press, 2002

Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. 23, No. 1, Spring, 2006


Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories

By Gyanendra Pandey, Stanford, 2005.

Perspectives on Political Science, Vol. 35, Iss. 3, (Summer 2006): 175.


South Asia in World Politics

By Devin T. Hagerty, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005

Perspectives on Political Science; Philadelphia Vol. 34, Iss. 4 (Fall 2005): 226-227


Freedom Unfinished: Fundamentalism and Popular Resistance in Bangladesh Today

By Jeremy Searbrook, Zed Books, 2002

Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. 22, No. 2, Fall 2005.


Globalization of the Other Underdevelopment: Third World Cultural Identities

By Mahmoud Dhaouad, A. S. Noordeen, 2002

Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Spring, 2004), pp. 330-331


The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars

By Douglas H. Johnson, Indiana University Press, 2003

Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. 21, No. 2, Fall, 2004


Changing India: Bourgeois Revolution on the Subcontinent

By Robert Stern, Cambridge University Press, 2003

Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. 21, No. 2, Fall 2004


The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India

By Paul Brass, University of Washington Press (2015)

Perspectives on Political Science, Vol. 32, Iss. 3,  (Summer 2003): 182-183.


Social Development, and Public Policy: A Study of Some Successful

By Dharam Ghai, St. Martin’s Press, 1999

Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1, Spring, 2003


NGOs in India: A Cross-Sectional Study

By R. Sooryamoorthy, K.D. Gangrade, Praeger, 2001

Reviewed by Santosh Saha and Leo Chan

Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1, Spring 2003


Religion and Politics in the Developing World: Explosive Interactions

Edited by Rolin G. Mainuddin, Routledge, 2018

Perspectives on Political Science, Vol. 31, Iss. 4, Fall 2002: 256.


Taraknath Das: Life and Letters of a Revolutionary in Exile

By Tapan K. Mukherjee, National Council of Education, Bengal, Jadavpur University, 1998

Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. 17, No. 1, Spring, 2000


The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary

By James S. Olson, Greenwood, 1996

Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Spring, 1998), pp. 267-269


The Making of Indian Working Class: A Case of the Tata Iron and Steel Company, 1880-1946

By Vinay Bahl Review, Sage Publications, 1995

Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. 15, No. 1, Spring 1998, pp. 241-243


Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent Power in Action

By Dennis Dalton, Cambridge University Press, 2012

Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Feb, 1997), pp. 219-22


Asian Industrialization and Africa: Studies in Policy Alternatives to Structural Adjustment 

By Howard Stein, St. Martin’s Press, 1995

Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. 16, No. 2, Fall 1999, pp. 193195


Consumption to Consumerism in the Context of Kerala

By R. Sooryamoorthy Review, Classical Publishing Company, 1997.

Journal of Third World Studies, Spring, 1999, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 211-213.


First World, Third World

By William Ryrie Review, St. Martin’s Press, 1995

Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. 15, No. 2, Fall 1998, pp. 224-226


The Politics and Economics of India's Foreign Policy

By Ramesh Thakur, St, Martins, Press, 1994

Indian Journal of Asian Affairs, Vol. 10, No. 1, June 1997


Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent Power in Action

By Dennis Dalton. Columbia University Press: New York, 1993

Modern Asian Studies, Volume 31, Issue 1, February 1997, pp. 218 - 221


Reaction and Renewal in South Africa

By Paul B. Rich Review, St. Martin’s Press, 1996

The Journal of Developing Areas, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Spring, 1997), pp. 439-440


All That Glitters

by Mukur K. Khisha, Minerva Press, 1996

Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. 14, No. 1, Spring 1997


Development Policy of a Communist Government: West Bengal Since 1977

By Ross Mallick, Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Journal of Third World Studies Vol. 13, No. 2, Fall 1996


Transition and Change: Issues and Politics in the New World Order

By B. M. Jain Review, RBSA, 1995

The Journal of Developing Areas, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Autumn, 1996), pp. 125-127.


The Government and Politics of India

By Ramesh Thakur, St. Martin’s Press, 1995

Indian Journal of Asian Affairs, Vol. 8/9, No. 1/2, 1995-1996


Politics and Society in the Third World

By Mehran Kamrava, Routledge, 1993

Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring, 1995


The Fallacies of Hope: The Post-Colonial Record of the Commonwealth Third World

By James Mayall, Anthony Payne, Manchester University Press, 1991

Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring, 1995


Wild Africa: Three Centuries of Nature Writing from Africa

By John A. Murray, Oxford University Press, 1993.

Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, Vol. 29, No. 3 (1995), pp. 520-522


The Cambridge History of China, Vol. 6: Alien Regimes and Border States

Edited by Twitchett Denis, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

The China Quarterly, Volume 142, June 1995, pp. 632 - 634


Centuries of Economic Endeavor: Parallel Paths in Japan and Europe and Their Contrast with the Third World

By John P. Powelson, The University of Michigan Press, 1994

Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. 12, No. 2, Fall 1995


Arguing With the Crocodile: Gender and Class in Bangladesh

By Sarah C. White, South Asia Books, 1992

Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. 12, Iss. 1 (Spring 1995): 294.


The American Colonization Society and the Creation of the Liberian State: A Historical Perspective, 1822-1990

By Amos J. Beyan, Lanham, 1991

Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. 11, Iss. 1,  (Spring 1994): 479.


A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1974

By Bahru Zewde, Ohio University Press, 1991

The Journal of Developing Areas, Vol. 28, Iss. 2 (Jan 1, 1994): 269.


Dependency and the Foreign Policy of a Small Power: The Liberian Case

By George Klay Kieh, Edwin Mellen Press (1992)

Journal of World History, Vol. 5, No. 2, Fall, 1994, pp. 376-378.


Liberia's Underdevelopment – In Spite of the Struggle

By S. Augustu, P. Horton Lanham, University Press of America, 1994

The Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol 32, Issue 3, September 1994, pp. 544 - 546


Modern Japan: A Concise Survey

By Hugh Cortazzi, Palgrave Macmillan, 1993

Indian Journal of Asian Affairs, Vol. 7, No. 2, December 1994


Gandhi: Voice of a New Age Revolution

By Martin Green, New York: Continuum, 1993.

Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. 11, No. 2, Fall, 1994


City, Class and Trade: Social and Economic Change in the Third World

by Nigel Harris, I.B.Tauris, 1991

Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. 11, No. 2, Fall, 1994


Africa: Dispatches from a Fragile Continent 

by Blaine Harden, Fontana Harper Collins, 1992

Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, Vol. 28, No. 2 (1994), pp. 317-318