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Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya is a strange and enigmatic name to give to a book about Tamil women labourers to the British Malaya rubber plantations. Read the book review by Peggy Mohan:https://t.co/BrqQHzzZtY

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Preeti Gulati reviews Bhairabi Prasad Sahu's book, The Making Of Regions In Indian History: Society, State And Identity In Premodern Odisha. Read the #EPWBookReview here: https://t.co/7ZV3N9Y8MU

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City of Shadows: Slums and Informal Work in Bangalore gets to the crux of the issue of wages as driving urban poverty—the urban poor who find work in the informal economy find jobs that are irregular and get paid less than the minimum wage. Read a review:https://t.co/FRhKiaH5ly

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This is a review of Pietro Maffettone's book International Toleration: A Theory, by Vaibhav Abhnave. https://t.co/buFXDMDTiO

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#BookReview | Patching Development: Information Politics and Social Change in India is an important contribution in the debate on development in India. https://t.co/CUcsOl8hXF

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The authors argue in this paper that Arundhati Roy’s novel, The God of Small Things, is really an exercise in two histories, one official and the other interpretative, resulting from the writer’s sensitisation to the realities of everyday life. https://t.co/9yukMSeKSE https://t.co/aRMKLW9FN2

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In her book 'Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents' Isabel Wilkerson looks to the Indian caste system to provide the vocabulary to expose the invisible substructure underlying race in America. https://t.co/8xhMZsHliw

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The author invokes the #Gandhian concept of ahimsa and compares it to that of the "war machine" from the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. https://t.co/P9diwyocfq

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25th November marks the ‘International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women’. This #thread of articles from the archives of #EPW examines the incidences of #ViolenceAgainstWomen and approaches adopted to counter them. https://t.co/1cGYmQJlNn

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Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs asks whether we are willing to align ideals with actions or remain mute spectators unmoved by the plight of animals. https://t.co/hs5ljs0R87