Biblio: A Review of Books

VOL. XII NOS. 9 & 10

SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2007

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© PRASHANT PANJIAR from his recent exhibition and monograph ‘King, Commoner, Citizen’. Curated by Sanjeev Saith and presented by IndiaPicture. The monograph is published by IndiaPicture and is the first in their series of India Picture Photography Monographs.

Journeys

		Asra Q. Nomani's Pilgrimage into the Heart of Islam

		Akbar Ahmad travels to the Muslim world and discovers its complexities

		Paul Theroux's Elephanta Suite: American travellers in quest for the "real India" and serious sex

Fiction: Writing about War and Violence

		Alienation and belonging in the times of communal violence: M.G. Vassanji's The Assassin's Song

		Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns transforms the horrors of war into saleable kitsch, argue Kalpish Ratna

		Tishani Doshi reviews Roma Tearne's Mosquito, a tale of love and civil war

		Tahmima Anam's debut novel, A Golden Age looks back at the 1971 War of Liberation

		David Davidar's The Solitude of Emperors argues for an Indian interpretation of secularism

History of Medicine in India

		Projit B. Mukharji and Waltraud Ernst declare The History of Medicine in India to be in the pink of health

		Mark Harrison reviews Old Potions, New Bottles: Recasting Indigenous Medicine in Colonial Punjab by Kavita Sivaramakrishnan

		Guy Attewell charts the entangled History of Unani Tibb

		David Hardiman on the invention of Indian Medical traditions

		Between Parasitology and Bacteriology: Pratik Chakrabarti on Tropical Medicine in British India

		Margaret Jones surveys the scene in Sri Lanka and Helen Lambert writes about the recent trends in Medical Anthropology

A woodcut from a 19th century Bengali pamphlet showing a vaid feeling the pulse

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