Extracts from reviews of the
first edition of Subalterns and
Sovereigns
I would recommend her book
as a bench-mark study and one which every scholar and administrator should read
in order to understand tribal society.
M.N. Buch,
The Book Review
Sundar has constructed a text
remarkable for its honesty and commonsense...The result is a richly complex
story, akin to ‘total’ history.
David Baker, Indian
Economic and Social History Review
In a work alive with imagination and craftsmanship, wit and irony, Sundar braids multiple themes together.
Satish Saberwal, Studies in History
..an impressive monograph that addresses many important themes in the
modern history of subaltern groups in the hills of Asia.
David Ludden,
American Historical Review
Sundar
has written a superb account, at once impassioned and scholarly, of what
colonization has meant for Bastar.
Ajay Skaria,
Journal of Interdisciplinary History
An immensely readable book...an excellent contribution to literature on
state formation and subalterns.
Walter Fernandes,
Economic and Political Weekly
Investigative, readable sociology...a fascinating
portrait of a land ..where local histories and popular responses are as
important to the reconstitution of Bastar’s culture
as the creation of sociological and epistemological categories through law.