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2015</span></span> </div> <div class="views-field-body"> <div class="field-content"><div class="book-dis"><p><strong style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">Jonathan Fenby</strong><br/> <strong style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">simon and schuster, 544 pages, RS.899</strong></p> <p>France lived through two tumultuous centuries following the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo, in June 1815. Fenby conducts an expert and riveting journey through this period, covering the end of the First Revolution and then two others, the return of Empire, three catastrophic wars with Germany and, more recently, France’s struggle to become the leader of the European Union. Along the way, he reflects on social changes and cultural landmarks, and on fundamental questions of what this nation, which considers itself exceptional, really stood—and stands—for.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div></div> </div> <div class="views-field-view-node"> <span class="field-content"><div class="story-body">FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE PRESENT DAY </div></span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="view-footer"> <div class="view view-bookshelf view-id-bookshelf view-display-id-block_1 view-dom-id-1"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first"> <div class="views-field-field-story-include-fid"> <div class="field-content"><a href="/web/20150908035758/http://www.caravanmagazine.in/bookshelf/pedagogue%E2%80%99s-romance-reflections-schooling"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150908035758im_/http://www.caravanmagazine.in/sites/default/files/imagecache/Reporting/a-pedagogues-romance.jpg" alt="" title="" width="90" height="90" 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now updated, Kumar, one of the country’s best-known and most passionate writers on education, takes us into what he calls the “inner world of education”—India’s schools and training institutes, the public examination system and textbooks—and alerts us to the cultural, economic and technological factors that influence the system, and the students and teachers in it<b>.</b></p> </div></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-2 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field-field-story-include-fid"> <div class="field-content"><a href="/web/20150908035758/http://www.caravanmagazine.in/bookshelf/37-bridges-and-other-stories"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150908035758im_/http://www.caravanmagazine.in/sites/default/files/imagecache/Reporting/37-bridges-and-other-stories.jpg" alt="" title="" width="90" height="90" class="imagecache imagecache-Reporting imagecache-default imagecache-Reporting_default"/></a></div> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span 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the sea in Karachi in ‘Two Old Friends.’ <em>37 Bridges</em> displays the attributes which make Hussein one of the subcontinent’s leading short–story writers.</p> </div></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-3 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field-field-story-include-fid"> <div class="field-content"><a href="/web/20150908035758/http://www.caravanmagazine.in/bookshelf/seven-sages"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150908035758im_/http://www.caravanmagazine.in/sites/default/files/imagecache/Reporting/the-seven-sages.jpg" alt="" title="" width="90" height="90" class="imagecache imagecache-Reporting imagecache-default imagecache-Reporting_default"/></a></div> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20150908035758/http://www.caravanmagazine.in/bookshelf/seven-sages"><div class="story-created">The Seven Sages </div></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-story-dop-value"> <span class="field-content"> <span class="date-display-single">1 August 2015</span></span> </div> <div class="views-field-body"> <div class="field-content"><div class="book-dis"><p style="margin-left:5.65pt;"><span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">Ramchandra Gandhi</span><br/> <span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">Edited by A Raghuramaraju</span><br/> <span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">Penguin India</span><strong style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">, 450 pages, Rs. </strong><strong style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">499</strong></p> <p>In these essays, the philosopher and writer Ramchandra Gandhi, who passed away aged 70, in 2007, reflects on themes ranging from non-violence and karma to swaraj, brahmacharya and modern Indian spirituality. Bridging the moral, religious and social worlds, this book offers many original insights: on how the nineteenth-century mystics Ramakrishna and Sarada Devi’s catholic vision of religion annihilated exclusivism; on how brahmacharya transcends celibacy in a joyous renunciation of sex; and on swaraj as a struggle for the autonomy of the self, and not mere political independence.</p> </div></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-4 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field-field-story-include-fid"> <div class="field-content"><a href="/web/20150908035758/http://www.caravanmagazine.in/bookshelf/mare%E2%80%99s-trap-nature-and-culture-kamasutra"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150908035758im_/http://www.caravanmagazine.in/sites/default/files/imagecache/Reporting/the-mares-trap.jpg" alt="" title="" width="90" height="90" class="imagecache imagecache-Reporting imagecache-default imagecache-Reporting_default"/></a></div> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20150908035758/http://www.caravanmagazine.in/bookshelf/mare%E2%80%99s-trap-nature-and-culture-kamasutra"><div class="story-created">The Mare’s Trap Nature and Culture in the Kamasutra </div></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-story-dop-value"> <span class="field-content"> <span class="date-display-single">1 August 2015</span></span> </div> <div class="views-field-body"> <div class="field-content"><div class="book-dis"><p style="margin-left:5.65pt;"><span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">Wendy Doniger</span><br/> <span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">Speaking Tiger</span><strong style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">, 184 pages, Rs. </strong><strong style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">399</strong></p> <p style="margin-left:5.65pt;">The <em>Kamasutra</em>, composed in the third century CE, is the world’s most famous textbook of erotic love; it was then and remains by today’s standards an astonishingly sophisticated work. Yet, in its country of origin, it is sometimes considered a matter of national shame rather than pride. In this scholarly and readable book, Doniger seeks to restore the <em>Kamasutra</em> to its proper place in the Sanskrit canon, as a landmark of India’s secular literature. 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The author, herself a leading feminist theatre artist, thinks her way through a new feminist idiom for contemporary theatre practice.</p> </div></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-6 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field-field-story-include-fid"> <div class="field-content"><a href="/web/20150908035758/http://www.caravanmagazine.in/bookshelf/indian-ideology"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150908035758im_/http://www.caravanmagazine.in/sites/default/files/imagecache/Reporting/the-indian-ideology.jpg" alt="" title="" width="90" height="90" class="imagecache imagecache-Reporting imagecache-default imagecache-Reporting_default"/></a></div> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20150908035758/http://www.caravanmagazine.in/bookshelf/indian-ideology"><div class="story-created">The Indian Ideology </div></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-story-dop-value"> <span class="field-content"> <span class="date-display-single">1 August 2015</span></span> </div> <div class="views-field-body"> <div class="field-content"><div class="book-dis"><p style="margin-left:5.65pt;"><span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">Partha Chatterjee, Sudipta Kaviraj and Nivedita Menon</span><br/> <span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">Orient BlackSwan</span><br/> <strong style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">176 pages,</strong><span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;"> <strong>Rs. </strong></span><strong style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">495</strong></p> <p style="margin-left:5.65pt;">In <em>The Indian Ideology</em>, the Marxist historian Perry Anderson attacked subcontinental unity as a myth, castigated Gandhi for infusing Indian nationalism with Hindu religiosity, and blamed the Congress Party for Partition. These three essays systematically critique the intellectual foundations of Anderson’s political analysis. Menon exposes his failure to engage with feminist, Marxist and Dalit scholarship. Chatterjee studies key historical episodes to counter the “Great Men” view of history. Kaviraj contends that reductive Orientalist tropes, such as those Anderson deploys, frequently mar European analyses of non-European contexts.</p> </div></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-7 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field-field-story-include-fid"> <div class="field-content"><a href="/web/20150908035758/http://www.caravanmagazine.in/bookshelf/baluta"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150908035758im_/http://www.caravanmagazine.in/sites/default/files/imagecache/Reporting/baluta.jpg" alt="" title="" width="90" height="90" class="imagecache imagecache-Reporting imagecache-default imagecache-Reporting_default"/></a></div> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20150908035758/http://www.caravanmagazine.in/bookshelf/baluta"><div class="story-created">Baluta </div></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-story-dop-value"> <span class="field-content"> <span class="date-display-single">1 August 2015</span></span> </div> <div class="views-field-body"> <div class="field-content"><div class="book-dis"><p style="margin-left:5.65pt;"><span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">Daya Pawar</span><br/> <span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">Translated from Marathi </span><span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">by Jerry Pinto</span><br/> <span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">Speaking Tiger</span><strong style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">, 336 pages, Rs. </strong><strong style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">350</strong></p> <p>As a Dalit autobiography, <em>Baluta</em> caused a sensation when it first appeared, in 1978. Set in Mumbai and rural Maharashtra in the 1940s and 1950s, it describes in shocking detail the practices of untouchability and caste violence, as well as the courage of the Dalit community as it fights for dignity. <em>Baluta</em> is also a frank account of the author’s own failings and prejudices, as well as those of some of the Dalit movement’s leading lights.</p> </div></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-8 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field-field-story-include-fid"> <div class="field-content"><a href="/web/20150908035758/http://www.caravanmagazine.in/bookshelf/alibaba%E2%80%99s-world"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150908035758im_/http://www.caravanmagazine.in/sites/default/files/imagecache/Reporting/alibabas-world.jpg" alt="" title="" width="90" height="90" class="imagecache imagecache-Reporting imagecache-default imagecache-Reporting_default"/></a></div> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20150908035758/http://www.caravanmagazine.in/bookshelf/alibaba%E2%80%99s-world"><div class="story-created">Alibaba’s World </div></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-story-dop-value"> <span class="field-content"> <span class="date-display-single">1 August 2015</span></span> </div> <div class="views-field-body"> <div class="field-content"><div class="book-dis"><p style="margin-left:5.65pt;"><span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">Porter Erisman</span><br/> <span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">Pan Macmillan India</span><br/> <strong style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">320 pages, Rs. </strong><strong style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">499</strong></p> <p style="margin-left:5.65pt;">In September 2014, a Chinese company that most Westerners had never heard of held the largest IPO in history—bigger than those of Google, Facebook and Twitter combined. 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