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An Elegy on India’s Majestic Waterways

In the contemporary discourse on environmental humanities and ecological conservation, the intersection of cultural sacrality and hydrologic reality remains a fertile ground for inquiry. B. Suresh Lal’s Rivers of Grace: Exploring the Majestic Waterways and Timeless Beauty of India offer a comprehensive , interdisciplinary examination of India’s fluvial systems.

A deeply sourced historical narrative

Amazing as it may sound, a huge swath of Asia, including mo dern India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Yemen, Oman, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait, was once woven together under a single imperial flag, an entity officially known as the "Indian Empire," or more simply as the Raj.

Book extract: India’s Spatial Imaginations of South Asia

Written by Shibashis Chatterjee, a professor at the Department of International Relations, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, this volume probes reasons behind the relevance of differentiated cartography of territorial nationalism in our shared understanding of space, politics, society, and the community.