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The article reviews the book "Codes of Misconduct: Regulating Prostitution in Late Colonial Bombay," by Ashwini Tambe.

The article reviews the book "Liberalization's Children: Gender, Youth, and Consumer Citizenship in Globalizing India," by Ritty A. Lukose.

The article reviews the book "Colonial and Post-Colonial Geographies of India," edited by Saraswati Raju, M. Satish Kumar and Stuart Corbridge.

The article reviews the book "Freud Along the Ganges," edited by Salman Akhtar.

For watchers of India's labor scene, the key question is: What role, if any, did labor policies and practices play in the post-reform period? It is clear from several chapters that unions and the laws that empower unions are unlikely champions for the 90% of workers who toil in informal employment arrangements. To make workers prosperous and to convert their consumer spending into an engine for economic growth, they would need to reduce informality, increase worker skills (a topic covered only slightly in the book), and trigger a shift to more value-added goods and services. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "Schooling Passions: Nation, History and Language in Contemporary Western India," by Veronique Benei.

The article reviews the book "Adivasis in Colonial India," edited by Biswamoy Pati.

The article reviews the book "We Also Made History: Women in the Ambedkarite Movement," by Urmila Pawar and Meenakshi Moon.

The article reviews the book "Playing with Fire: Feminist Thought and Activism Through Seven Lives in India," by Sangtin Writers Collective and Richa Nagar.

The article reviews the book "Shifting Landscapes: The Making and Unmaking of Village Commons in India," by Rita Brara.

The article reviews the book "Social Movements in India: Poverty, Power, and Politics," by Raka Ray and Mary Fainsod Katzenstein.

Reviews the book 'Peasant Moorings: Village Ties and Mobility Rationales in South India,' edited by J.L. Racine.