Shunting the Nation by Aniruddha Bose explores the tumultuous decade in South Asian history from 1939 to 1949 through the lens of Indian railway workers. The book delves into their experiences during World War II, the freedom struggle, partition, and class conflicts. While it offers a vivid ground-level view of historical events, it relies heavily on elite biases and organized labor actions, overlooking everyday resistance strategies, gender, and caste dynamics. Despite its limitations, the book provides valuable insights into critical labour experiences and subaltern perspectives, making it an important contribution to South Asian history.
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Narendra Modi must be so happy.
Even though the Indian prime minister lost a powerful ally when voters booted
Donald Trump the kind of friend who attended a “Howdy Modi!” rally
Joe Biden is turning out to be a decent buddy, too.
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If the 2010s were a decade of defiance and dissent, the 2020s promise to make mass anti-government protests a fixture of the greater Middle East’s political landscape. Protests in the coming decade are likely to be fuelled by the challenges Middle Eastern states face in enacting economic and social reforms as well as reducing their dependence on energy exports against the backdrop of a global economic crisis and depressed oil prices and energy markets. Complicating the challenges is the fact that youth that often constitutes a majority of the population have lost or are losing confidence in government and religious establishments at a time that social contracts are being unilaterally rewritten by political elites.