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Embodying Difference: The Making of Burakumin in Modern Japan
Timothy D. Amos
ISBN 9788189059293 Hardback 302 pages 5.5 x 8.5” Rs 495
The book attempts to rethink the boundaries of buraku history and the
category of the outcaste in Japan. ‘A clear and readable account
of the
contingencies of buraku identity in Japan.’—Elyssa Faison, Associate
Professor of Japanese History, University of Oklahoma
(Rights sold to University of Hawi‘i Press)
In Pursuit of Ambedkar: A Memoir
Bhagwan Das (with DVD)
ISBN 9788189059255 Paperback 86 pages 7 x 7” Rs 175
A meeting with Ambedkar in 1943 defined the trajectory of Das’ life, and inspired him
in his single-minded pursuit of Babasaheb’s ideals. This memoir, and the DVD of a
documentary feature that accompanies it, offer a dalit perspective on key events and
figures of modern Indian history.
Thus Spoke Ambedkar, Vol. 1: A Stake in the Nation
Ed. Bhagwan Das
ISBN 9788189059262 Hardback 228 pages 7.5 x 7.5” Rs 395
ISBN 9788189059279 Paperback 228 pages 7.5 x 7.5” Rs 295
The twenty speeches (with annotations) showcase the wide range of issues that
Dr B.R. Ambedkar had engaged with. They unravel a story otherwise jettisoned by
mainstream ‘nationalist’ narratives that valorise a rather Hinduised ‘idea of India’.
The Rupture with Memory: Derrida and the Specters that Haunt Marxism
Nissim Mannathukkaren
ISBN 9788189059088 Paperback 116 pages 5 x 7.5” Rs 150
The author argues the Marxists need to engage with Derrida to rebuild strategies for
mounting a challenge to the evangelical neo-liberal hegemony and to other religious
fundamentalisms. ‘A clear-headed study of Jacques Derrida’s venture into Marxist political
theory.’—Frontline
The Blindness of Insight: Essays on Caste in Modern India
Dilip M. Menon
ISBN 9788189059071 189 pages Paperback 5 x 7.5” Rs 200
Exploring the intimate relation between the discourses of caste, secularism and
communalism, Dilip Menon argues that communalism in India may well be the
return of the repressed histories of caste. ‘An elegantly argued book... It offers a
provocative thesis.’—New Indian Express
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Waking is Another Dream: Poems on the Genocide in Eelam
Cheran, Jayapalan, Yesurasa, Latha, Ravikumar
Ed. Ravikumar
Trans. Meena Kandasamy and Ravi Shanker
ISBN 9788189059378 Paperback 68 pages 6.5 x 8.5” Rs 180
What is the poetry that can emerge from a ‘wounded landmass’ where ‘no bird is able to
fly’, where people ‘ate death’? Five frontline Tamil poets from Eelam lament the loss of
their land, their language and thousands of people. ‘Evokes the ravaged world of the Sri
Lankan Tamil.’—DNA, Mumbai