This Blog!

There is an urgent need for independent book review. Most book reviews are motivated or sponsored. In most cases the reviews are solicited/motivated by the publishers. many a times authors get them reviewed by people closely associated with them. This blog intends to review books mainly on Indian history and allow students, teachers and book buyers to make up their minds regarding these books.
I and the group of reviewers would meet once a month and review all kinds of books on Indian history: old and new; classics and outdated. The idea is to be able to visit and revisit a book that has been done on Indian History. new generations of students would not have read say a book by R.P. Tripathi or Sir Jadunath Sarkar or a Lane Poole. We may have missed a book in our area of interest or say in modern India or Ancient Indian history if our specialisation is medieval Indian history! so we can catch up with books in those areas and empower ourselves in teaching and research.
we solicit books for review from all sources: authors, publishers, distributors or donors. but we are since we are just a few academic in South Asia, we are not in a position to return them or pay them the cost. The books will be given to us on this condition. obviously we are no obligation to do their kind of review. Till we are able to get books from independent sources, we shall source them from libraries or purchase ourselves.
The people intending to have the books reviewed may write to us through this blog and we shall respond soon.