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New Books in South Asian Studies
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Amrita Ghosh, "Kashmir's Necropolis: Literary, Cultural, and Visual Texts" (Lexington Books, 2023)
52 mins; June 04, 2024
Sohini Pillai, "Krishna's Mahabharatas: Devotional Retellings of an Epic Narrative" (Oxford UP, 2024)
43 mins; May 30, 2024
Aakriti Mandhwani, "Everyday Reading: Middlebrow Magazines and Book Publishing in Post-Independence India" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
54 mins; May 29, 2024
Lamia Karim, "Castoffs of Capital: Work and Love among Garment Workers in Bangladesh" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
52 mins; May 26, 2024
Stephen Phillips, "The Metaphysics of Meditation: Sri Aurobindo and Adi-Sakara on the Isa Upanisad" (Bloombury, 2024)
37 mins; May 23, 2024
Timothy P. A. Cooper, "Moral Atmospheres: Islam and Media in a Pakistani Marketplace" (Columbia UP, 2024)
59 mins; May 21, 2024
Anjali Arondekar, "Abundance: Sexuality’s History" (Duke UP, 2023)
52 mins; May 21, 2024
Robert Lyman, "A War of Empires: Japan, India, Burma, and Britain: 1941–45" (Osprey, 2021)
100 hours 0 mins; May 21, 2024
Priya Satia, "Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
53 mins; May 18, 2024
Rajrishi Singhal, "Slip, Stitch and Stumble: The Untold Story of Financial Reforms in India" (Viking, 2024)
47 mins; May 16, 2024
Raghuram G. Rajan and Rohit Lamba, "Breaking the Mold: India’s Untraveled Path to Prosperity" (Princeton UP, 2024)
31 mins; May 15, 2024
Ketaki Chowkhani, "The Limits of Sexuality Education: Love, Sex, and Adolescent Masculinities in Urban India" (Routledge, 2024)
27 mins; May 13, 2024
Karen Pechilis et al. ed., "Devotional Visualities: Seeing Bhakti in Indic Material Cultures" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
45 mins; May 09, 2024
Hemjyoti Medhi, "Gendered Publics: Chandraprava Saikiani and the Mahila Samiti in Colonial Assam" (Oxford UP, 2024)
68 hours 39 mins; May 08, 2024
Sreeparna Chattopadhyay, "The Gravity of Hope" (Crossed Arrows, 2023)
44 mins; May 06, 2024
Richard M. Jaffe, "Seeking Sakyamuni: South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
66 hours 50 mins; May 05, 2024
Fauzia Husain, "The Stigma Matrix: Gender, Globalization, and the Agency of Pakistan's Frontline Women" (Stanford UP, 2024)
53 mins; May 03, 2024
Nancy M. Martin, "Mirabai: The Making of a Saint" (Oxford UP, 2023)
47 mins; May 02, 2024
Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil, "The Gulf Migrant Archives in Kerala: Reading Borders and Belonging" (Oxford UP, 2024)
42 mins; May 01, 2024
Kenneth R. Valpey, "Cow Care in Hindu Animal Ethics" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
58 mins; April 30, 2024
Jason Birch, "The Amaraugha and Amaraughaprabodha of Goraksanatha" (Institut Francais de Pondichery, 2024)
55 mins; April 29, 2024
Tarana Husain Khan and Claire Chambers, "Forgotten Foods: Memories and Recipes from Muslim South Asia" (Pan Macmillan, 2023)
75 hours 34 mins; April 28, 2024
India Votes 2024
33 mins; April 26, 2024
Purushottama Bilimoria et al., "Contemplative Studies and Jainism: Meditation, Prayer, and Veneration" (Routledge, 2023)
41 mins; April 25, 2024
Mukund Padmanabhan, "The Great Flap of 1942: How the Raj Panicked over a Japanese Non-invasion (Vintage Books, 2024)
31 mins; April 25, 2024
Sudev Sheth, "Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
72 hours 27 mins; April 24, 2024
Arsalan Khan, "The Promise of Piety: Islam and the Politics of Moral Order in Pakistan" (Cornell UP, 2024)
81 hours 7 mins; April 19, 2024
Robert P. Goldman and Sally J. Sutherland Goldman, "The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: The Complete English Translation" (Princeton UP, 2022)
103 hours 16 mins; April 18, 2024
Sanskrit Study: A Conversation with Antonia Ruppel
95 hours 22 mins; April 12, 2024
Miss Tibet: Representing Tibet through Beauty Pageants
22 mins; April 12, 2024
Peter Scharf, "Ramopakhyana - the Story of Rama in the Mahabharata" (Routledge, 2023)
35 mins; April 11, 2024
Tantra: A New Understanding
42 mins; April 10, 2024
Matthew Robertson, "Puruᚣa: Personhood in Ancient India" (Oxford UP, 2024)
68 hours 54 mins; April 09, 2024
Translating a Śrī Vidyā Text: The Cidvilāsastava of Amṛtānanda
48 mins; April 05, 2024
Patrick Olivelle, "Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King" (Yale UP, 2024)
52 mins; April 04, 2024
William S. Waldron, "Making Sense of Mind Only: Why Yogacara Buddhism Matters" (Wisdom Publications, 2023)
134 hours 11 mins; April 04, 2024
Rina Verma Williams, "Marginalized, Mobilized, Incorporated: Women and Religious Nationalism in Indian Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
45 mins; April 02, 2024
India’s Waste Problem: A Discussion with Pamela Das
30 mins; March 29, 2024
Pravina Rodrigues, "A Sakta Method for Comparative Theology: Upside Down, Inside Out" (Lexington, 2023)
27 mins; March 28, 2024
Michael Ortiz, "Anti-Colonialism and the Crises of Interwar Fascism" (Bloombury, 2023)
53 mins; March 27, 2024
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, "Across the Green Sea: Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640" (U Texas Press, 2024)
44 mins; March 26, 2024
Caste, Music, and Microinequities with Supriya Subramani
32 mins; March 23, 2024
Radha Kapuria, "Music in Colonial Punjab" (Oxford UP, 2023)
64 hours 24 mins; March 21, 2024
Shakuntala Gawde, "Narrative Analysis of Bhagavata Purana: Selected Episodes from the Tenth Skandha" (Dev Publishers, 2023)
32 mins; March 21, 2024
Stephen Phillips, "The Metaphysics of Meditation: Sri Aurobindo and Adi-Sakara on the Isa Upanisad" (Bloombury, 2024)
63 hours 35 mins; March 20, 2024
Ashok Gopal, "A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B.R. Ambedkar" (Navayana Press, 2023)
123 hours 25 mins; March 18, 2024
The Pioneering Life of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
46 mins; March 18, 2024
Stephanie Chasin, "British Jews and Imperial Service: Nationalism, Pan-Islamism and Zionism in Mandate Palestine and Colonial India" (I. B. Tauris, 2023)
71 hours 4 mins; March 17, 2024
Eva De Clercq, ed. and trans., "The Life of Padma" (Harvard UP, 2023)
61 hours 5 mins; March 15, 2024
SherAli Tareen, "Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire" (Columbia UP, 2023)
91 hours 35 mins; March 15, 2024
Pankaj Jain and Jeffery D. Long, "Indian and Western Philosophical Concepts in Religion" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023)
40 mins; March 14, 2024
Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, "The Inhumans and Other Stories: A Selection of Bengali Science Fiction" (MIT Press, 2024)
62 hours 25 mins; March 13, 2024
Patrick Olivelle, "Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King" (Yale UP, 2024)
63 hours 56 mins; March 08, 2024
Priyasha Saksena, "Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia" (Oxford UP, 2023)
75 hours 48 mins; March 07, 2024
Priyanka Basu, "The Poet’s Song: ‘Folk’ and its Cultural Politics in South Asia" (Routledge, 2023)
37 mins; March 06, 2024
Razak Khan, "Minority Pasts: Locality, Emotions, and Belonging in Princely Rampur" (Oxford UP, 2022)
68 hours 59 mins; March 06, 2024
Baidik Bhattacharya, "Colonialism, World Literature, and the Making of the Modern Culture of Letters" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
54 mins; March 05, 2024
Who owns Khadi?
31 mins; March 01, 2024
Upal Chakrabarti, "Assembling the Local: Political Economy and Agrarian Governance in British India" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
67 hours 57 mins; February 29, 2024
Ina Marie Lunde Ilkama, "The Play of the Feminine" (HASP, 2023)
42 mins; February 29, 2024
Christian R. Burset, "An Empire of Laws: Legal Pluralism in British Colonial Policy" (Yale UP, 2023)
44 mins; February 28, 2024
Knut A. Jacobsen, "The Oxford History of Hinduism: Hindu Diasporas" (Oxford UP, 2023)
59 mins; February 22, 2024
Kunal Purohit, "H-Pop: The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars" (HarperCollins, 2023)
54 mins; February 20, 2024
Kartik Nair, "Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror" (U California Press, 2024)
57 mins; February 14, 2024
Yamini Narayanan, "Mother Cow, Mother India: A Multispecies Politics of Dairy in India" (Stanford UP, 2023)
77 hours 36 mins; February 11, 2024
Order and Disorder in South Asia with Christopher Chapple and Debashish Banerji
73 hours 56 mins; February 08, 2024
Jeffery D. Long, "Discovering Indian Philosophy: An Introduction to Hindu, Jain and Buddhist Thought" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
52 mins; February 08, 2024
Jessica Hinchy, "Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India: The Hijra, c.1850-1900" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
64 hours 6 mins; February 05, 2024
Joshua Ehrlich, "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
38 mins; February 01, 2024
Francesca Orsini, "East of Delhi: Multilingual Literary Culture and World Literature" (Oxford UP, 2023)
71 hours 27 mins; January 29, 2024
Amanda Lanzillo, "Pious Labor: Islam, Artisanship, and Technology in Colonial India" (U California Press, 2024)
60 hours 26 mins; January 27, 2024
Stephen Harris, "Buddhist Ethics and the Bodhisattva Path: Santideva on Virtue and Well-Being" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
51 mins; January 26, 2024
David J. Brick, "Widows Under Hindu Law" (Oxford UP, 2023)
55 mins; January 25, 2024
Amar Sohal, "The Muslim Secular: Parity and the Politics of India's Partition" (Oxford UP, 2023)
69 hours 49 mins; January 24, 2024
Hannah Gould and Gwyn McClelland, "Aromas of Asia: Exchanges, Histories, Threats" (Penn State UP, 2023)
37 mins; January 23, 2024
Jan Westerhoff, "Candrakirti's Introduction to the Middle Way: A Guide" (Oxford UP, 2023)
54 mins; January 20, 2024
Ajantha Subramanian on "The Caste of Merit" ((EF,JP))
51 mins; January 18, 2024
Veena R. Howard, "Gandhi's Global Legacy: Moral Methods and Modern Challenges" (Lexington Books, 2022)
63 hours 50 mins; January 18, 2024
Rishad Choudhury, "Hajj Across Empires: Pilgrimage and Political Culture After the Mughals, 1739-1857" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
87 hours 7 mins; January 14, 2024
Tulasi Srinivas, "Wonder in South Asia: Histories, Aesthetics, Ethics" (SUNY Press, 2023)
57 mins; January 11, 2024
Vera Lazzaretti and Kathinka Frøystad, "Beyond Courtrooms and Street Violence: Rethinking Religious Offence and Its Containment" (Routledge, 2022)
53 mins; January 11, 2024
Lindsay Pereira, "The Memoirs of Valmiki Rao" (Vintage Books, 2023)
32 mins; January 11, 2024
Jayaseelan Raj, "Plantation Crisis: Ruptures of Dalit life in the Indian Tea Belt" (UCL Press, 2022)
56 mins; January 06, 2024
Nilima Chitgopekar, "Shakti: An Exploration of the Divine Feminine" (DK Publishing, 2022)
48 mins; January 04, 2024
120 A Roundup Conversation About Indian and Israeli Ethnonationalism
47 mins; January 04, 2024
Chinmay Tumbe, "The Age Of Pandemics (1817-1920): How They Shaped India and the World" (Harper Collins, 2020)
49 mins; January 03, 2024
Khurram Hussain, "Islam as Critique: Sayyid Ahmad Khan and the Challenge of Modernity" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
62 hours 33 mins; January 01, 2024
Benjamin R. Siegel, “Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
44 mins; January 01, 2024
Alice Collett, "Lives of Early Buddhist Nuns: Biographies as History" (Oxford UP, 2016)
66 hours 48 mins; December 26, 2023
Ricardo Sousa Silvestre et al., "Vaiṣṇava Concepts of God: Philosophical Perspectives" (Routledge, 2024)
58 mins; December 21, 2023
Vineeta Sinha. "Temple Tracks: Labour, Piety and Railway Construction in Asia" (Berghahn Books, 2023)
46 mins; December 20, 2023
Yasser Kureshi, "Seeking Supremacy: The Pursuit of Judicial Power in Pakistan" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
61 hours 32 mins; December 18, 2023
Chetan Choithani, "Migration, Food Security and Development: Insights from Rural India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
40 mins; December 17, 2023
Between Jesus and Krishna: Christian Encounters with South Indian Temple Dance
32 mins; December 15, 2023
Pankaj Jain, "Modern Jainism: A Historical Approach" (Springer, 2023)
48 mins; December 14, 2023
Stephen Legg, "Round Table Conference Geographies: Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
51 mins; December 10, 2023
Sahana Ghosh, "A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security Across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands" (U California Press, 2023)
70 hours 10 mins; December 10, 2023
Fae Dussart, "In the Service of Empire: Domestic Service and Mastery in Metropole and Colony" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
58 mins; December 07, 2023
Violent Majorities, Indian and Israeli Ethnonationalism. Episode 1
51 mins; December 07, 2023
Dolly Kikon and Joel Rodrigues, "Food Journeys: Stories from the Heart" (Zubaan Books, 2023)
50 mins; December 06, 2023
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