Divyabhanusinh celebrates The Gir Inheritance edited by Bittu Sahgal and Lakshmy Raman

Anuradha Roy enjoys Chloe Dalton’s delicate and immersive memoir –
Raising Hare

Pranay Lal on Martin Goodman’s extraordinary story of the Bishnoi –
My Head for a Tree

Aniruddh Sheth reviews Uprooted –
Ita Mehrotra’s graphic reportage on the
Van Gujjars

Rakesh Kalshian applauds Alexander Clapp’s brilliant muckracking in Waste Wars

Jay Mazoomdaar on Shades of Blue by Harini Nagendra and Seema Mundoli – an ‘eminently accessible compendium of essential reading’ on water

Suniti Bhushan Datta reviews Poorva Joshipura’s persuasive arguments for the better treatment of animals in Survival
at Stake

Natural selection or sexual selection? Ranjit Lal reads about the debates around Charles Darwin’s idea in Matt Ridley’s Birds, Sex and Beauty

Nitoo Das says In Search for India’s Rarest Birds edited by Shashank Dalvi and Anita Mani is another thoughtful addition from the Pitta Books stable

Ghazala Shahabuddin on Ramachandra Guha’s return to environmentalism – Speaking with Nature

Queen Sarkar reviews Sumana Roy’s Plant Thinkers of Twentieth-Century Bengal

Radha Gopalan on Vidya Rajan’s fascinating history of Rubber

Bittu Sahgal fondly remembers India’s voice of the tiger – Valmik Thapar

TCA Raghavan reviews Sam Dalrymple’s ambitious narrative history Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia

Gangeya Mukherji on Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee’s work of ‘high scholarship and subtle understanding’ – Gandhi: The End of Non-violence

Amritesh Mukherjee appreciates Audrey Truschke’s many interpretative frames in India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent

Kesavan Veluthat tags the pitfalls of making history ‘readable’ in Anirudh Kanisetti’s Lords of Earth and Sea: A History of the Chola Empire

Adit Shankar reads Manu S Pillai’s latest book on The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity – and asks for another