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Book Review: Rajiv Kumar and Omita Goyal (Eds), Thirty Years of SAARC—Society, Culture, and Development

research. At the end, in a way they reiterate Professor Patnaik’s own conviction (see page 9 of the reviewed volume) that ‘the need of the hour is a sustained attempt to understand the present through a “reconstruction of Marxism”’ and his evaluation that (see page 10 of the same, quoted from Patnaik (2009)) ‘Such “openness” could prevent development of group interests within the Party as happened in the Soviet Union’. The edited volumes on technically challenging subjects are often not popular among the readers as they contain chapters on diverse topics which are rarely comprehensible to a single reader. However, the present volume avoids this problem. It will be of interest to any reader focused on capitalism, socialism and growth. Though the chapters use different techniques, all of them are built around one central theme. So the book will be of interest not only to the innumerable admirers of professor Patnaik around the world but also to the general readers in this field. The editors and the publisher of the book should get special thanks for presenting such a useful book to the readers. The production quality of the book is good, which is expected from a reputed publisher like SAGE. The idea of using the photograph of professor Patnaik on the cover is excellent. I have a small complaint on editing: while in the content the ‘sections’ have been mentioned in numerical order, in the introductory chapter they are referred in alphabetical order, which makes the reading of the introductory chapter slightly difficult. But this is an insignificant error compared to the elegance of the volume.