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New Books in South Asian Studies
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James McHugh, "An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian Religion and History" (Oxford UP, 2021)
35 mins; March 03, 2022
Jacqueline Leckie, "Invisible: New Zealand's History of Excluding Kiwi-Indians" (Massey, 2021)
39 mins; March 02, 2022
Tarini Bedi, "Mumbai Taximen: Autobiographies and Automobilities in India" (U Wash Press)
81 hours 51 mins; March 02, 2022
Mythopolitics in South Asia
37 mins; February 25, 2022
Diana Dimitrova, "Rethinking the Body in South Asian Traditions" (Routledge, 2020)
38 mins; February 24, 2022
Andrea Wright, "Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil" (Stanford UP, 2021)
57 mins; February 23, 2022
Rachel E Brulé, "Women, Power, and Property: The Paradox of Gender Equality Laws in India" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
72 hours 34 mins; February 23, 2022
Love-Jihad and the Politics of Hindu Nationalist Statecraft
28 mins; February 18, 2022
Jarrod Whitaker, "Strong Arms and Drinking Strength: Masculinity, Violence, and the Body in Ancient India" (Oxford UP, 2011)
49 mins; February 17, 2022
Dagmar Schwerk, "A Timely Message from the Cave" (2020)
97 hours 41 mins; February 14, 2022
Nauman Faizi, "God, Science, and Self: Muhammad Iqbal's Reconstruction of Religious Thought" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2021)
47 mins; February 11, 2022
Gitte Bechsgaard and Gillian McCann, "Yoga and Alignment: From the Upanishads to B. K. S. Iyengar" (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021)
29 mins; February 10, 2022
Jagriti Gangopadhyay, "Culture, Context and Aging of Older Indians: Narratives from India and Beyond" (Springer, 2021)
34 mins; February 09, 2022
Rashmi Sadana, "The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure" (U California Press, 2021)
66 hours 46 mins; February 09, 2022
Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma, "The Kural: Tiruvalluvar's Tirukkural" (Beacon Press, 2022)
37 mins; February 08, 2022
Elora Shehabuddin, "Sisters in the Mirror: A History of Muslim Women and the Global Politics of Feminism" (U California Press, 2021)
62 hours 15 mins; February 04, 2022
Renny Thomas, "Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment" (Routledge, 2021)
57 mins; February 04, 2022
Julian Strube, "Global Tantra: Religion, Science, and Nationalism in Colonial Modernity" (Oxford UP, 2022)
41 mins; February 03, 2022
Mohamed Zeeshan, "Flying Blind: India's Quest for Global Leadership" (Vintage Books, 2021)
68 hours 43 mins; February 02, 2022
Oishik Sircar, "Violent Modernities: Cultural Lives of Law in the New India" (Oxford UP, 2021)
73 hours 43 mins; January 28, 2022
Mircea Raianu, "Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism" (Harvard UP, 2021)
72 hours 9 mins; January 27, 2022
A Conversation with Hanuman Dass: Founder and Chairman of Go Dharmic
45 mins; January 27, 2022
Lisa Björkman ed., "Bombay Brokers" (Duke UP, 2021)
87 hours 30 mins; January 26, 2022
Durba Ghosh, "Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919-1947" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
80 hours 4 mins; January 20, 2022
Sanjukta Sunderason, "Partisan Aesthetics: Modern Art and India's Long Decolonization" (Stanford UP, 2020)
66 hours 21 mins; January 18, 2022
Heritage, Humour and Regional Identity in Goa
28 mins; January 14, 2022
Sumantra Bose, "Kashmir at the Crossroads: Inside a 21st-Century Conflict" (Yale UP, 2021)
63 hours 10 mins; January 13, 2022
A Conversation with Laurie Patton: Professor of Religions and President of Middlebury College
52 mins; January 13, 2022
Alistair Shearer, "The Story of Yoga: From Ancient India to the Modern West" (Hurst, 2020)
65 hours 48 mins; January 12, 2022
Jonathan B. Edelmann, "Hindu Theology and Biology: The Bhagavata Purana and Contemporary Theory" (Oxford UP, 2020)
52 mins; January 11, 2022
Neha Sahgal on the Pew Study “Religion in India: Tolerance and Segregation”
52 mins; January 06, 2022
Caterina Guenzi, "Words of Destiny: Practicing Astrology in North India" (SUNY Press, 2021)
62 hours 18 mins; January 04, 2022
Saumya Roy, "Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings" (Profile Books, 2021)
42 mins; December 30, 2021
Ionut Moise and Ganesh U. Thite, "VaiƛeáčŁikasĆ«tra: A Translation" (Routledge, 2021)
40 mins; December 30, 2021
Ian Almond, "World Literature Decentered: Beyond the 'West' Through Turkey, Mexico and Bengal" (Routledge, 2021)
75 hours 22 mins; December 27, 2021
Smitha Radhakrishnan, "Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India" (Duke UP, 2022)
56 mins; December 27, 2021
Farha Bano Ternikar, "Intersectionality in the Muslim South Asian-American Middle Class" (Lexington Books, 2021)
49 mins; December 24, 2021
E. H. Rick Jarow, "The Cloud of Longing: A New Translation and Eco-Aesthetic Study of Kalidasa's Meghaduta" (Oxford UP, 2021)
60 hours 24 mins; December 23, 2021
A Conversation with Vasudha Narayanan about Hindu Studies
53 mins; December 21, 2021
Wasif Rizvi: President of Habib University, Karachi, Pakistan
74 hours 55 mins; December 20, 2021
Michael S. Dodson, "Bureaucracy, Belonging, and the City in North India: 1870-1930" (Routledge, 2020)
71 hours 20 mins; December 16, 2021
Gloria Maité Hernåndez, "Savoring God: Comparative Theopoetics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
47 mins; December 16, 2021
Megha Wadhwa, "Indian Migrants in Tokyo: A Study of Socio-Cultural, Religious, and Working Worlds" (Routledge, 2020)
75 hours 52 mins; December 14, 2021
Pankaj Jain, "Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities: Sustenance and Sustainability" (Ashgate, 2011)
47 mins; December 13, 2021
Autocratization in South Asia
22 mins; December 13, 2021
Ute HĂŒsken et al., "Nine Nights of Power: Durgā, Dolls, and Darbārs" (SUNY Press, 2021)
46 mins; December 09, 2021
Amish Raj Mulmi, "All Roads Lead North: China, Nepal and the Contest for the Himalayas" (Context, 2021)
75 hours 4 mins; December 09, 2021
Nishaant Choksi, "Graphic Politics in Eastern India: Script and the Quest for Autonomy" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
31 mins; December 08, 2021
Jisha Menon, "Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in the Indian City" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
43 mins; December 07, 2021
Anustup Basu, "Hindutva as Political Monotheism" (Duke UP, 2020)
65 hours 19 mins; December 03, 2021
Sabrina D. MisirHiralall, "Devotional Hindu Dance: A Return to the Sacred" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
38 mins; December 02, 2021
Andrew T. Jarboe, "Indian Soldiers in World War I: Race and Representation in an Imperial War" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
64 hours 26 mins; December 01, 2021
Nishant Shahani, "Pink Revolutions: Globalization, Hindutva, and Queer Triangles in Contemporary India" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
44 mins; November 30, 2021
Jyotirmaya Sharma, "Elusive Nonviolence: The Making and Unmaking of Gandhi’s Religion of Ahimsa" (Westland, 2021)
43 mins; November 25, 2021
Atmadarshan Laura Santoro, "Song of Your Soul," a New Translation of the Bhagavad Gita
55 mins; November 24, 2021
Radha Kumar, "Police Matters: The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900–1975" (Cornell UP, 2021)
64 hours 27 mins; November 23, 2021
Sana Haroon, "Mosques of Colonial South Asia: A Social and Legal History of Muslim Worship" (I. B. Tauris, 2021)
77 hours 54 mins; November 19, 2021
Sanskrit Tools on the Web: An Discussion with Martin Gluckman (Part 2)
55 mins; November 18, 2021
Clara A. B. Joseph, "Christianity in India: The Anti-Colonial Turn" (Routledge, 2020)
38 mins; November 17, 2021
Suchitra Samanta, "Kali in Bengali Lives: Narratives of Religious Experience" (Lexington Books, 2021)
46 mins; November 15, 2021
In Search of New Social Democracy: Insights from the South - Implications for the North
22 mins; November 12, 2021
Sanskrit Tools on the Web: An Discussion with Martin Gluckman (Part 1)
43 mins; November 11, 2021
Manu S. Pillai, "False Allies: India’s Maharajahs in the Age of Ravi Varma" (Juggernauth, 2021)
41 mins; November 04, 2021
Clemens Cavallin et al., "The Future of Religious Studies in India" (Routledge, 2020)
48 mins; November 03, 2021
Koral Dasgupta, "Kunti: The Sati Series II" (Pan Macmillan India, 2021)
54 mins; October 28, 2021
The Modi Wave: Politics of the Pandemic in India
24 mins; October 22, 2021
Katherine Young, "Turbulent Transformations: Non-Brahmin ƚrÄ«vaiáčŁáč‡avas on Religion, Caste and Politics in Tamil Nadu" (Orient Blackswan, 2021)
46 mins; October 21, 2021
Anuk Arudpragasam, "A Passage North" (Granta Books, 2021)
47 mins; October 20, 2021
Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, "Elusive Lives: Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia" (Stanford UP, 2018)
56 mins; October 15, 2021
Hans Martin KrÀmer and Julian Strube, "Theosophy across Boundaries: Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Modern Esoteric Movement" (SUNY Press, 2020)
63 hours 29 mins; October 12, 2021
Mans Broo, "The Rādhā Tantra: A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation" (Routledge, 2019)
50 mins; October 07, 2021
Pankaj Mirshra, “Turning the Mirror: A View From the East” (Open Agenda, 2021)
84 hours 37 mins; October 07, 2021
Wendy Doniger, "Winged Stallions and Wicked Mares: Horses in Indian Myth and History" (U Virginia Press, 2021)
68 hours 27 mins; October 05, 2021
John Nemec, "The Ubiquitous Siva: Somananda's Sivadrsti and His Philosophical Interlocutors" (Oxford UP, 2021)
41 mins; October 01, 2021
Gidi Ifergan, "The Psychology of the Yogas" (Equinox Publishing, 2021)
60 hours 35 mins; September 30, 2021
Gayatri Nair, "Set Adrift: Capitalist Transformations and Community Politics Along Mumbai's Shores" (Oxford UP, 2021)
49 mins; September 23, 2021
Kusumita P. Pedersen, "The Philosophy of Sri Chinmoy: Love and Transformation" (Lexington, 2021)
43 mins; September 22, 2021
Danish Sheikh, "Love and Reparation: A Theatrical Response to the Section 377 Litigation in India" (Seagull Books, 2021)
49 mins; September 20, 2021
Stephen Phillips, "Jewel of Reflection on the Truth about Epistemology: A Complete and Annotated Translation of the Tattva-Cinta-mani" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
71 hours 17 mins; September 20, 2021
Paula Richman and Rustom Bharucha, "Performing the Ramayana Tradition: Enactments, Interpretations, and Arguments" (Oxford UP, 2021)
48 mins; September 16, 2021
Yashaswini Chandra, "The Tale of the Horse: A History of India on Horseback" (Picador India, 2021)
41 mins; September 16, 2021
Alastair Gornall, "Rewriting Buddhism: Pali Literature and Monastic Reform in Sri Lanka, 1157–1270" (UCL Press, 2020)
55 mins; September 15, 2021
Jessica Namakkal, "Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India" (Columbia UP, 2021)
79 hours 12 mins; September 14, 2021
Jelle J. P. Wouters, "In the Shadows of Naga Insurgency: Tribes, State, and Violence in Northeast India" (Oxford UP, 2018)
45 mins; September 13, 2021
Online Dharmaƛāstra Library: A Conversation with Don Davis
40 mins; September 09, 2021
James D. Reich, "To Savor the Meaning: The Theology of Literary Emotions in Medieval Kashmir" (Oxford UP, 2021)
39 mins; September 09, 2021
Arnab Dey, "Tea Environments and Plantation Culture: Imperial Disarray in Eastern India" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
80 hours 16 mins; September 07, 2021
Nayanika Mathur, "Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
97 hours 55 mins; September 07, 2021
Camelia Dewan, "Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh" (U Washington Press, 2021)
24 mins; September 03, 2021
Arvind Sharma, "The Ruler's Gaze: A Study of British Rule Over India from a Saidian Perspective" (HarperCollins, 2018)
47 mins; September 01, 2021
Tanya Jakimow, "Susceptibility in Development: Micropolitics of Local Development in India and Indonesia" (Oxford UP, 2020)
39 mins; September 01, 2021
Andrew Flachs, "Cultivating Knowledge: Biotechnology, Sustainability, and the Human Cost of Cotton Capitalism in India" (U Arizona Press, 2019)
60 hours 24 mins; August 27, 2021
Jagjeet Lally, "India and the Silk Roads: The History of a Trading World" (Oxford UP, 2021)
41 mins; August 26, 2021
Open Access Publishing: A Conversation with Dominik Haas
41 mins; August 26, 2021
Y. Bronner and L. J. McCrea, "First Words, Last Words: New Theories for Reading Old Texts in Sixteenth Century India" (Oxford UP, 2021)
48 mins; August 26, 2021
Janaki Bakhle, "Two Men and Music: Nationalism in the Making of an Indian Classical Tradition" (Oxford UP, 2005)
51 mins; August 25, 2021
A European Perspective on the Indo-Pacific: A Conversation with Camilla SĂžrensen
30 mins; August 20, 2021
Kristin Hanssen, "Women, Religion and the Body in South Asia: Living With Bengali Bauls" (Routledge, 2020)
29 mins; August 19, 2021
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, "ReOrienting Histories of Medicine: Encounters Along the Silk Roads" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
61 hours 28 mins; August 16, 2021
Emilia Bachrach, "In the Service of Krishna: Illustrating the Lives of Eighty-Four Vaishnavas from a 1702 Manuscript" (Mapin, 2020)
59 mins; August 12, 2021
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