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New Books in South Asian Studies
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Rukmini S. "Whole Numbers and Half Truths: What Data Can and Cannot Tell Us About Modern India" (Context, 2021)
63 hours 4 mins; January 29, 2023
Shailaja Paik, "The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India" (Stanford UP, 2022)
63 hours 40 mins; January 28, 2023
Uther Charlton-Stevens, "Anglo-India and the End of Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)
41 mins; January 26, 2023
Shaping Civilisations: The Sea in Asian History
24 mins; January 26, 2023
Padma Kaimal, "Opening Kailasanatha: The Temple in Kanchipuram Revealed in Time and Space" (U Washington Press, 2020)
42 mins; January 26, 2023
Catholic in Karachi: Living as a Christian in an Islamic Country
48 mins; January 23, 2023
Namita Vijay Dharia, "The Industrial Ephemeral: Labor and Love in Indian Architecture and Construction" (U California Press, 2022)
53 mins; January 22, 2023
Malini Ambach et al., "Temples, Texts, and Networks: South Indian Perspectives" (HASP, 2022)
42 mins; January 19, 2023
The Ideology of Innovation in India
68 hours 22 mins; January 17, 2023
Simon Brodbeck, "Divine Descent and the Four World-Ages in the Mahābhārata" (Cardiff UP, 2022)
54 mins; January 12, 2023
Jayita Sarkar, "Ploughshares and Swords: India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2022)
39 mins; January 12, 2023
Patrick Olivelle, "Reading Texts and Narrating History: Collected Essays III" (Primus Books, 2022)
52 mins; January 09, 2023
Afsar Mohammad, "An Evening with a Sufi" (Red River, 2022)
64 hours 28 mins; January 06, 2023
Robert M. Geraci, "Futures of Artificial Intelligence: Perspectives from India and the U.S." (Oxford UP, 2021)
45 mins; January 05, 2023
Hindu Nationalism and the Politics of Lord Parshuram
24 mins; December 30, 2022
Tarun Khanna and Michael Szonyi, "Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present" (Oxford UP, 2022)
42 mins; December 29, 2022
Mani Rao, "Saundarya Lahari: Wave of Beauty" (HarperCollins, 2022)
44 mins; December 29, 2022
Sayan Dey, "Green Academia: Towards Eco-Friendly Education Systems" (Routledge, 2022)
44 mins; December 26, 2022
Anatoly Liberman, "Take My Word for It: A Dictionary of English Idioms" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
48 mins; December 25, 2022
Jerry Pinto and Madhulika Liddle, "Indian Christmas: Essays, Memories, Hymns" (Speaking Tiger, 2022)
41 mins; December 24, 2022
Holly Walters, "Shaligram Pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas" (Amsterdam UP, 2020)
51 mins; December 22, 2022
Rumya Sree Putcha, "The Dancer's Voice: Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India" (Duke UP, 2022)
79 hours 1 min; December 22, 2022
The Future of Global Trade: A Discussion with Shannon K. O'Neil
45 mins; December 22, 2022
John Stratton Hawley, "A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement" (Harvard UP, 2015)
52 mins; December 20, 2022
“This Claim has been Fact Checked”: A Glimpse into Fact Checking in India
20 mins; December 16, 2022
The World Sanskrit Conference: A Discussion with McComas Taylor
25 mins; December 16, 2022
Rohan Mukherjee, "Ascending Order: Rising Powers and the Politics of Status in International Institutions" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
52 mins; December 12, 2022
Mrinal Pande, "Popular Hinduism, Stories and Mobile Performances: The Voice of Morari Bapu in Multiple Media" (Routledge, 2022)
30 mins; December 12, 2022
Prakash Kashwan, "Climate Justice in India" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
58 mins; December 09, 2022
Maria Heim, "Words for the Heart: A Treasury of Emotions from Classical India" (Princeton UP, 2022)
41 mins; December 08, 2022
Max Haiven, "Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire" (Pluto Press, 2022)
54 mins; December 08, 2022
Ashutosh Bhardwaj and Judith Misrahi-Barak, "Kala Pani Crossings: Revisiting 19th Century Migrations from India's Perspective" (Routledge, 2021)
55 mins; December 06, 2022
Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, "Human Being, Bodily Being: Phenomenology from Classical India" (Oxford UP, 2021)
51 mins; December 01, 2022
Joseph Sassoon, "The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire" (Pantheon Books, 2022)
44 mins; December 01, 2022
Monica Juneja and Sumathi Ramaswamy, "Motherland: Pushpamala N.'s 'Woman and Nation'" (Roli Books, 2022)
54 mins; November 29, 2022
Kasia Paprocki, "Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh" (Cornell UP, 2021)
64 hours 15 mins; November 24, 2022
John Keay, "Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
44 mins; November 24, 2022
On "The Mahābhārata"
42 mins; November 23, 2022
Sushmita Nath, "The Secular Imaginary: Gandhi, Nehru and the Idea(s) of India" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
62 hours 59 mins; November 23, 2022
Elliott H. Powell, "Sounds from the Other Side: Afro-South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
57 mins; November 21, 2022
Charles Goodman, "The Tattvasaáčƒgraha Of ƚāntarakáčŁita: Selected Metaphysical Chapters" (Oxford UP, 2022)
61 hours 3 mins; November 21, 2022
Yigal Bronner et al., "Sensitive Reading: The Pleasures of South Asian Literature in Translation" (U California Press, 2022)
53 mins; November 18, 2022
Eric Tagliocozzo, "In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama" (Princeton UP, 2022)
35 mins; November 17, 2022
Ruth Vanita, "The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
56 mins; November 17, 2022
Janaki Srinivasan, "The Political Lives of Information: Information and the Production of Development in India" (MIT Press, 2022)
67 hours 56 mins; November 15, 2022
Kedar Arun Kulkarni, "World Literature and the Question of Genre in Colonial India: Poetry, Drama, and Print Culture 1790-1890" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
51 mins; November 14, 2022
Sofi Thanhauser, "Worn: A People's History of Clothing" (Vintage, 2022)
52 mins; November 11, 2022
Rustom Bharucha, "The Second Wave: Reflections on the Pandemic Through Photography, Performance, and Public Culture" (Seagull Books, 2022)
58 mins; November 10, 2022
Steven W. Ramey, "Hinduism in Five Minutes" (Equinox, 2022)
40 mins; November 10, 2022
Arvind Narrain, "India's Undeclared Emergency: Constitutionalism and the Politics of Resistance" (Context, 2022)
58 mins; November 10, 2022
Jianglin Li, "When the Iron Bird Flies: China's Secret War in Tibet" (Stanford UP, 2022)
44 mins; November 09, 2022
Lavanya Vemsani, "Hinduism in Middle India: Narasimha, The Lord of the Middle" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
47 mins; November 09, 2022
Aisha Khan, "The Deepest Dye: Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World" (Harvard UP, 2021)
75 hours 0 mins; November 07, 2022
Thomas G. Cowan, "Subaltern Frontiers: Property and Labour in the Neoliberal Indian City" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
67 hours 23 mins; November 04, 2022
Cornelia Baciu, "Civil-Military Relations and Global Security Governance: Strategy, Hybrid Orders and the Case of Pakistan" (Routledge, 2022)
20 mins; November 04, 2022
Geetanjali Srikantan, "Identifying and Regulating Religion in India: Law, History and the Place of Worship" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
23 mins; November 03, 2022
Online Sanskrit Study Resources
29 mins; October 31, 2022
Political Deification in South Asia
33 mins; October 28, 2022
Sanaa Alimia, "Refugee Cities: How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
69 hours 38 mins; October 28, 2022
Ayurveda and Alchemy: A Conversation with Dagmar Wujastyk
51 mins; October 27, 2022
Maaz Bin Bilal, "Temple Lamp: Verses on Banaras by Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan" (India Penguin Classics, 2022)
36 mins; October 26, 2022
Amina Yaqin, "Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing" (Anthem, 2022)
55 mins; October 26, 2022
Michael Francis Laffan, "Under Empire: Muslim Lives and Loyalties Across the Indian Ocean World, 1775–1945" (Columbia UP, 2022)
126 hours 29 mins; October 24, 2022
Yohanan Friedmann, "Messianic Ideas and Movements in Sunni Islam" (Oneworld Academic, 2022)
59 mins; October 21, 2022
Mansi Choksi, "The Newlyweds: Rearranging Marriage in Modern India" (Atria Books, 2022)
42 mins; October 20, 2022
Martin FĂĄrek, "India in the Eyes of Europeans: Conceptualization of Religion in Theology and Oriental Studies" (Karolinum Press, Charles University, 2021)
54 mins; October 20, 2022
Asim Sajjad Akhter, "The Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan: Fear, Desire and Revolutionary Horizons" (Pluto Press, 2022)
36 mins; October 18, 2022
Sandeep Banerjee, "Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization: Literary Pre-Figurations of the Postcolony" (Routledge, 2021)
38 mins; October 14, 2022
Ruth Harris, "Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda" (Harvard UP, 2022)
44 mins; October 13, 2022
Rita Dhamoon et al., "Unmooring the Komagata Maru: Charting Colonial Trajectories" (UBC Press, 2019)
93 hours 8 mins; October 13, 2022
Sanjeev Routray, "The Right to Be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi" (Stanford UP, 2022)
46 mins; October 13, 2022
Nissim Mannathukkaren, "Communism, Subaltern Studies and Postcolonial Theory: The Left in South India" (Routledge Chapman & Hall, 2021)
73 hours 17 mins; October 12, 2022
Vibha Joshi, "A Matter of Belief: Christian Conversion and Healing in North-East India" (Berghahn Books, 2012)
69 hours 5 mins; October 12, 2022
SOAS’ Yoga Studies Online
34 mins; October 12, 2022
The Future of the Taliban: A Discussion with Ahmed Rashid
35 mins; October 11, 2022
Sarah Fatima Waheed, "Hidden Histories of Pakistan: Censorship, Literature, and Secular Nationalism in Late Colonial India" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
59 mins; October 07, 2022
René Provost, "Rebel Courts: The Administration of Justice by Armed Insurgents" (Oxford UP, 2021)
90 hours 8 mins; October 06, 2022
Sanjay Krishnan, "V. S. Naipaul's Journeys: From Periphery to Center" (Columbia UP, 2020)
32 mins; October 05, 2022
Waleed Ziad, "Hidden Caliphate: Sufi Saints Beyond the Oxus and Indus" (Harvard UP, 2021)
94 hours 21 mins; September 30, 2022
Beyond Meat? Dietary Shifts and Meat Contestations in China, India and Vietnam
31 mins; September 30, 2022
Usha Iyer, "Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema" (Oxford UP, 2020)
66 hours 14 mins; September 30, 2022
Samhita Sunya, "Sirens of Modernity: World Cinema via Bombay" (U California Press, 2022)
57 mins; September 29, 2022
Rahul Sagar, "To Raise a Fallen People: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Indian Views on International Politics" (Columbia UP, 2022)
44 mins; September 29, 2022
Michael Slouber, "Early Tantric Medicine: Snakebite, Mantras, and Healing in the Garuda Tantras" (Oxford UP, 2016)
62 hours 57 mins; September 29, 2022
Chitranshul Sinha, "The Great Repression: The Story of Sedition in India" (India Viking, 2019)
44 mins; September 27, 2022
Neilesh Bose, "India After World History: Literature, Comparison, and Approaches to Globalization" (Leiden UP, 2022)
38 mins; September 26, 2022
Peter J. Kalliney, "The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature" (Princeton UP, 2022)
52 mins; September 26, 2022
Sudhir Chella Rajan, "A Social Theory of Corruption: Notes from the Indian Subcontinent" (Harvard UP, 2020)
49 mins; September 22, 2022
Amber Sinha, "The Networked Public: How Social Media is Changing Democracy" (Rupa Publications, 2019)
54 mins; September 20, 2022
Rohan J. Alva, "Liberty After Freedom: A History of Article 21, Due Process and the Constitution of India" (Harper Collins, 2022)
58 mins; September 19, 2022
Manuela Ciotti, "Retro-modern India: Forging the Low Caste Self" (Routledge, 2020)
64 hours 17 mins; September 16, 2022
Transcendence and Sustainability: Asian Visions with Global Promise
27 mins; September 16, 2022
Michael S. Allen, "The Ocean of Inquiry: Niscaldas and the Premodern Origins of Modern Hinduism" (Oxford UP, 2022)
64 hours 38 mins; September 15, 2022
Manoj Joshi, "Understanding the India-China Border: The Enduring Threat of War in High Himalaya" (Hurst, 2022)
37 mins; September 13, 2022
R. B. More and Satyendra More, "Memoirs of a Dalit Communist: The Many Worlds of R.B. More" (Leftword Books, 2020)
88 hours 19 mins; September 12, 2022
Silvia Schwarz Linder, "Goddess Traditions in India: Theological Poems and Philosophical Tales in the Tripurarahasya" (Routledge, 2022)
45 mins; September 08, 2022
Sri Lanka: Meet the New Dynast, Same as the Old Dynast
35 mins; September 07, 2022
Triumph for Independent Candidates? Observations on the 2022 Local Elections in Nepal
29 mins; September 02, 2022
Aniket De, "The Boundary of Laughter: Popular Performances Across Borders in South Asia" (Oxford UP, 2022)
37 mins; September 01, 2022
Vinayak Chaturvedi, "Hindutva and Violence: V. D. Savarkar and the Essentials of History" (SUNY Press, 2022)
90 hours 3 mins; August 31, 2022
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