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New Books in South Asian Studies
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Asad Q. Ahmed, "Palimpsests of Themselves: Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia" (U California Press, 2022)
44 mins; August 26, 2022
Brahma Prakash, "Cultural Labour: Conceptualizing the 'Folk Performance' in India" (Oxford UP, 2019)
56 mins; August 26, 2022
Michael J. Altman, "Hinduism in America: An Introduction" (Routledge, 2022)
44 mins; August 25, 2022
Shrayana Bhattacharya, "Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence" (Harper Collins, 2021)
53 mins; August 22, 2022
Temperatures on the Rise: Adapting to Heat Extremes in South Asia
28 mins; August 19, 2022
Roanne Kantor, "South Asian Writers, Latin American Literature, and the Rise of Global English" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
57 mins; August 18, 2022
Caleb Simmons, "Singing the Goddess Into Place: Locality, Myth, and Social Change in Chamundi of the Hill, a Kannada Folk Ballad" (SUNY Press, 2022)
49 mins; August 18, 2022
Angela Ki Che Leung et al., "Moral Foods: The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
61 hours 44 mins; August 16, 2022
Anoma Van Der Veere et al., "Public Health in Asia During the Covid-19 Pandemic" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)
58 mins; August 15, 2022
Meenal Shrivastava, "Amma’s Daughters: A Memoir" (Athabasca UP, 2018)
59 mins; August 15, 2022
Roselyn Hsueh, "Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
51 mins; August 12, 2022
Koushiki Dasgupta, "Sadhus in Indian Politics: Dynamics of Hindutva" (Sage, 2021)
33 mins; August 11, 2022
Kajri Jain, "Gods in the Time of Democracy" (Duke UP, 2021)
53 mins; August 04, 2022
Wendy Doniger, "After the War: The Last Books of the Mahabharata" (Oxford UP, 2022)
57 mins; August 02, 2022
Suman Nath, "Democracy and Social Cleavage in India: Ethnography of Riots, Everyday Politics and Communalism in West Bengal (2012-2021)" (Routledge, 2022)
27 mins; July 28, 2022
Lachlan Fleetwood, "Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
45 mins; July 28, 2022
Sarah Lamb, "Being Single in India: Stories of Gender, Exclusion, and Possibility" (U California Press, 2022)
52 mins; July 26, 2022
Simran Jeet Singh, "The Light We Give: How Sikh Wisdom Can Transform Your Life" (Riverhead, 2022)
44 mins; July 19, 2022
Publishing in Asian Studies Journals
62 hours 34 mins; July 15, 2022
Antonio Rigopoulos, "The Hagiographer and the Avatar: The Life and Works of Narayan Kasturi" (SUNY Press, 2021)
52 mins; July 14, 2022
Rochelle Potkar, "Bombay Hangovers" (Vishwakarma Publications, 2021)
19 mins; July 12, 2022
Reena Kukreja, "Why Would I Be Married Here?: Marriage Migration and Dispossession in Neoliberal India" (Cornell UP, 2022)
51 mins; July 12, 2022
Jayita Sarkar, "Ploughshares and Swords: India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2022)
66 hours 27 mins; July 11, 2022
ApabhraáčƒĆ›a
18 mins; July 08, 2022
Naman P. Ahuja, "Marg Magazine: Readings on the Temple"
34 mins; July 07, 2022
Matthew Clark, "Botanical Ecstasies: Psychoactive Plant Formulas in India and Beyond" (Psychedelic Press, 2021)
59 mins; July 07, 2022
Pallavi Banerjee, "The Opportunity Trap: High-Skilled Workers, Indian Families, and the Failures of the Dependent Visa Program" (NYU Press, 2022)
74 hours 7 mins; July 06, 2022
Leila Neti, "Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
58 mins; July 06, 2022
Nilanjana Paul, "Bengal Muslims and Colonial Education, 1854–1947: A Study of Curriculum, Educational Institutions, and Communal Politics" (Routledge, 2022)
44 mins; July 05, 2022
Sushmita Pati, "Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
65 hours 47 mins; July 04, 2022
Radha Raghunathan, "Soaring with Bharati in the Wisdom-Chariot (Ñānaratam)" (Adyar Library, 2022)
27 mins; June 30, 2022
Omar Kasmani, "Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan" (Duke UP, 2022)
81 hours 24 mins; June 29, 2022
Simon Atkinson, "Krishnamacharya on Kundalini: The Origins and Coherence of His Position" (Equinox Publishing, 2022)
62 hours 37 mins; June 29, 2022
Yin Cao, "From Policemen to Revolutionaries: A Sikh Diaspora in Global Shanghai, 1885-1945" (Brill, 2017)
53 mins; June 28, 2022
Raj Balkaran, "The Stories Behind the Poses: The Indian Mythology That Inspired 50 Yoga Postures" (Leaping Hare, 2022)
52 mins; June 27, 2022
Mick Conefrey, "Everest 1922: The Epic Story of the First Attempt on the World's Highest Mountain" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
50 mins; June 23, 2022
Bharat Jayram Venkat, "At the Limits of Cure" (Duke UP, 2021)
80 hours 57 mins; June 23, 2022
Srilata Raman, "The Transformation of Tamil Religion: Ramalinga Swamigal and Modern Dravidian Sainthood" (Routledge, 2022)
38 mins; June 23, 2022
Michael Heneise, "Agency and Knowledge in Northeast India: The Life and Landscapes of Dreams" (Routledge, 2018)
58 mins; June 22, 2022
Tehmton S. Mistry, "The 24th Mile: An Indian Doctor's Heroism in War-torn Burma" (HarperCollins, 2021)
39 mins; June 21, 2022
James Elisha Taneti, "Telugu Christians: A History" (Fortress Press, 2022)
89 hours 27 mins; June 20, 2022
Karen O'Brien-Kop, "Rethinking 'Classical Yoga' and Buddhism" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
41 mins; June 16, 2022
Ghazal
16 mins; June 14, 2022
Shiv Kunal Verma, "1965: A Western Sunrise--India's War with Pakistan" (Aleph Book Company, 2021)
55 mins; June 09, 2022
Roger R. Jackson, "Rebirth: A Guide to Mind, Karma, and Cosmos in the Buddhist World" (Shambhala, 2022)
56 mins; June 09, 2022
Richard G. Marks, "Jewish Approaches to Hinduism: A History of Ideas from Judah Ha-Levi to Jacob Sapir (12th-19th Centuries)" (Routledge, 2021)
51 mins; June 02, 2022
Rashna Darius Nicholson, "The Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage: The Making of the Theatre of Empire (1853-1893)" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
41 mins; June 01, 2022
Diaspora with Diasporastan
18 mins; June 01, 2022
Rajesh Veeraraghavan, "Patching Development: Information Politics and Social Change in India" (Oxford UP, 2021)
76 hours 0 mins; May 31, 2022
Aniket Aga, "Genetically Modified Democracy: Transgenic Crops in Contemporary India" (Yale UP, 2022)
58 mins; May 30, 2022
Peter Scharf, "Sabdanugamah: Indian Linguistic Studies in Honor of George Cardona; Volume 1: Vyakarana and Sabdabodha" (Sanskrit Library, 2021)
62 hours 58 mins; May 26, 2022
Juan-JosĂ© MartĂ­n-GonzĂĄlez, "Transoceanic Perspectives in Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
31 mins; May 25, 2022
Akshya Saxena, "Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India" (Princeton UP, 2022)
42 mins; May 23, 2022
Annabella Pitkin, "Renunciation and Longing: The Life of a Twentieth-Century Himalayan Buddhist Saint" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
84 hours 32 mins; May 20, 2022
Emma Natalya Stein, "Constructing Kanchi: City of Infinite Temples" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)
55 mins; May 19, 2022
Ratan Kumar Roy, "Television in Bangladesh: News and Audiences" (Routledge, 2020)
46 mins; May 17, 2022
Suman Seth, "Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
64 hours 55 mins; May 13, 2022
Banu Subramaniam, "Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism" (U of Washington Press, 2019)
41 mins; May 12, 2022
Studying Borderlands: Talking Ethnography with Dr. Sahana Ghosh
75 hours 1 min; May 10, 2022
South Asian Studies in Canada
37 mins; May 05, 2022
80 We are Not Digested: Rajiv Muhabir (Ulka Anjaria, JP)
50 mins; May 05, 2022
The Importance of Pali, the Language of Ancient Buddhism
32 mins; May 04, 2022
Aditya Pratap Deo, "Kings, Spirits and Memory in Central India: Enchanting the State" (Routledge, 2021)
52 mins; May 03, 2022
Gregory M. Clines, "Jain Rāmāyaáč‡a Narratives: Moral Vision and Literary Innovation" (Routledge, 2022)
53 mins; May 02, 2022
Shobana Shankar, "An Uneasy Embrace: Africa, India and the Spectre of Race" (Oxford UP, 2021)
64 hours 12 mins; April 29, 2022
Anthony Cerulli, "The Practice of Texts: Education and Healing in South India" (U California Press, 2022)
35 mins; April 28, 2022
Harry Verhoeven and Anatol Lieven, "Beyond Liberal Order: States, Societies and Markets in the Global Indian Ocean" (Oxford UP, 2022)
54 mins; April 21, 2022
Priyambada Sarkar, "Language, Limits, and Beyond: Early Wittgenstein and Rabindranath Tagore" (Oxford UP, 2021)
58 mins; April 20, 2022
Patrick Olivelle, "Grhastha: The Householder in Ancient Indian Religious Culture" (Oxford UP, 2019)
55 mins; April 14, 2022
G. S. Sahota, "Late Colonial Sublime: Neo-Epics and the End of Romanticism" (Northwestern UP, 2018)
45 mins; April 12, 2022
Ramachandra Guha, "Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India's Freedom" (Knopf, 2022)
48 mins; April 12, 2022
India’s Ukrainian Dilemma
33 mins; April 11, 2022
The Spalding Symposium on Indian Religions
39 mins; April 11, 2022
Partha Chatterjee, "The Truths and Lies of Nationalism: As Narrated by Charvak" (SUNY Press, 2021)
66 hours 43 mins; April 11, 2022
ZoltĂĄn Biedermann, "(Dis)connected Empires: Imperial Portugal, Sri Lankan Diplomacy, and the Making of a Habsburg Conquest in Asia" (Oxford UP, 2019)
83 hours 24 mins; April 08, 2022
Manu Pillai, "False Allies: India’s Maharajahs in the Age of Ravi Varma" (Juggernaut, 2021)
50 mins; April 07, 2022
M. K. Raghvendra, "The Hindu Nation: A Reconciliation with Modernity" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
37 mins; April 07, 2022
Pamela Kyle Crossley, "Hammer and Anvil: Nomad Rulers at the Forge of the Modern World" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
66 hours 8 mins; April 06, 2022
Anita Lama, "Ethnic Inequality in the Northeastern Indian Borderlands" (Routledge, 2020)
29 mins; April 04, 2022
Scott Kugle, "Hajj to the Heart: Sufi Journeys Across the Indian Ocean" (UNC Press, 2021)
77 hours 49 mins; April 01, 2022
Arild Engelsen Ruud and Mubashar Hasan, "Masks of Authoritarianism: Hegemony, Power and Public Life in Bangladesh" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
33 mins; April 01, 2022
Rama Srinivasan, "Courting Desire: Litigating for Love in North India" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
66 hours 7 mins; March 31, 2022
Swami Medhananda, "Swami Vivekananda's Vedantic Cosmopolitanism" (Oxford UP, 2022)
64 hours 30 mins; March 31, 2022
Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. Swamy, "Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy: India 1947 and Beyond" (UChicago Press, 2022)
81 hours 7 mins; March 30, 2022
Eiren L. Shea, "Mongol Court Dress, Identity Formation, and Global Exchange" (Routledge, 2020)
55 mins; March 25, 2022
Deepra Dandekar, "Baba Padmanji: Vernacular Christianity in Colonial India" (Routledge, 2020)
60 hours 54 mins; March 24, 2022
Nayma Qayum, "Village Ties: Women, NGOs, and Informal Institutions in Rural Bangladesh" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
63 hours 1 min; March 21, 2022
Democratic Backsliding in Sri Lanka
42 mins; March 18, 2022
Saptarishi Bandopadhyay, "All Is Well: Catastrophe and the Making of the Normal State" (Oxford UP, 2022)
42 mins; March 18, 2022
Samuel Wright, "A Time of Novelty: Logic, Emotion, and Intellectual Life in Early Modern India, 1500-1700 C.E." (Oxford UP, 2021)
45 mins; March 17, 2022
Vikrant Pande, "The SBI Story: Two Centuries of Banking" (Westland, 2021)
48 mins; March 15, 2022
India's Five State Elections and their Implications
37 mins; March 14, 2022
Poulomi Saha, "An Empire of Touch: Women's Political Labor and the Fabrication of East Bengal" (Columbia UP, 2019)
55 mins; March 11, 2022
Arup K. Chatterjee, "Indians in London: From the Birth of the East India Company to Independent India" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
49 mins; March 10, 2022
Pratik Chakrabarti, "Inscriptions of Nature: Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
50 mins; March 10, 2022
Samir Chopra, "The Evolution of a Cricket Fan: My Shapeshifting Journey" (Temple UP, 2021)
66 hours 8 mins; March 09, 2022
Michael Silvestri, "Policing ‘Bengali Terrorism’ in India and the World: Imperial Intelligence and Revolutionary Nationalism, 1905-1939" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
78 hours 52 mins; March 08, 2022
Nupurnima Yadav, "Astrology in India: A Sociological Inquiry" (Taylor & Francis, 2021)
59 mins; March 08, 2022
Nandi Timmana, "Theft of a Tree" (Harvard UP, 2022)
69 hours 4 mins; March 07, 2022
Ira Mukhoty, "Song of Draupadi" (Aleph Book Company, 2021)
47 mins; March 03, 2022
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