Jootan: A Dalit's Life
Valmiki; Out of God's Oven: Travels in a Fractured Land
Dalit Assertion and the Unfinished Democratic Revolution: the Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh (Sage)
Locked in Place: State-building and late industrialisation in India
Marginality: Ethnicity, Insurgency and Subnationalism in Northeast India
After writing a book on Dilip Kumar, Lord Meghnad Desai is moving on to an even more celebrated subject: Mahatma Gandhi. He knows there's at least a book a month on Gandhiji. But it's not deterring him or his agent Gillon Aitken. Lord Meghnad says he'll focus on the "hidden violence" in Gandhi's personality and of course his sex life. His richest source will be Gandhi's autobiography, but in the original uncensored Gujarati.
Having sealed his runaway romance with his former editor, Kishwar Ahluwalia, with a registered marriage in London, Lord Meghnad and his lady are now preparing for a doubles writing career. Their first project—a book on Nargis—has yet to take off, but for now they work well together: he does the writing, she the cooing.
