Narrative Pasts: The Making of a Muslim Community in Gujarat, c 1400–1650 by Jyoti Gulati Balachandran, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2020; pp xvii+ 227, `1,295.
As the migrant labour exodus unfolded with unrelenting grimness through the summer of 2020, there was frequent mention of how the COVID-19 pandemic had exposed the “invisibility” of migrant labour to Indian planners and policymakers.
The last decade has seen a rapid transformation in the distribution of cable and satellite TV services in India. The 1991 Gulf war marked the beginning of foreign satellite broadcasting and the entry of commercial cable networks in India.
