August 6, 2025
Priyasha Mukhopadhyay’s Required Reading is a narratively elegant and intellectually courageous work that threads the author’s perspective through a vast colonial archive. Refusing the comfort of linear bibliographical accounts, the book focuses on ephemeral texts, protocols of reading and non-reading, and the pedagogical infrastructures of the empire. With conceptual precision and archival ambition, Mukhopadhyay expands the methodological scope of book history, foregrounding reading as ideological labor and offering a striking reorientation of the field.
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