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Chiefly on the protest movements of Meghwals, a dalit caste in Rajasthan, India.
This collection of a hundred book reviews, from Sham Lal’s well-known literary column ‘Life and Letters’, gives a vivid idea of how leading social scientists diagnose the ills of modernity. While going into the reasons which led to the collapse of all communist regimes, representing one side of the modernity project, it also explains why the triumphalism of liberalism, standing for the other side, will have ...
Despite the progress made in India in many fields, its overall experience since the advent of independence has been one of defeated hopes, warped institutions and a fractured political life. This collection of over a hundred pieces from Sham Lal's writings analyze with a new zing the larger forces at work in today's world and their impact on the course of events in this country. He is at his best when he describes how these forces often cut both ways. ...