Open Access Nidān International Journal for Indian Studies Vol. 2, No 2, December 2017 (pgs. 78-82) contains a generous and detailed review of Watson Professor Ann Grodzins Gold's book Shiptown. The book review is by P. Pratap Kumar, Emeritus Professor University of KwaZulu-Natal South Africa.

The book is full of ethnographic and methodological insights from an accomplished ethnographer who perfected her art in the course of a long focused career. It is a must read for those who intend doing ethnography not just in India but anywhere. It reveals the spontaneity that is needed by the ethnographer in times of uncertain and unwelcome interviews and how to make sense of the world from the unexpected data that comes your way when you are least expecting. Gold’s book reveals not only the pitfalls but many opportunities that ethnographers encounter on the field.

P. Pratap Kumar, review of Shiptown: Between Rural and Urban North India, by Ann Grodzins Gold, Publication, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 2017, pp. 332 [ISBN: 9780812249255], Nidān Vol. 2, No 2, December 2017. https://issuu.com/coh-newsletter-2014/docs/nidan__vol._2__no._2__december_2017/10