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New Books in Indian Religions

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Walter N. Hakala, “Negotiating Languages: Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia” (Columbia UP, 2016)

72 hours 10 mins; May 02, 2018

Hugh Urban, “Zorba the Buddha: Sex, Spirituality, and Capitalism in the Global Osho Movement” (U. Cal Press, 2016)

44 mins; October 09, 2017

Michael J. Altman, “Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu: American Representations of India, 1721-1893” (Oxford UP, 2017)

54 mins; September 12, 2017

William Elison, et.al. “Amar Akbar Anthony: Bollywood, Brotherhood, and the Nation” (Harvard UP, 2016)

73 hours 37 mins; June 20, 2017

Rupa Viswanath, “The Pariah Problem: Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern India” (Columbia UP, 2014)

35 mins; November 02, 2016

Roman Sieler, “Lethal Spots, Vital Secrets: Medicine and Martial Arts in South India” (Oxford UP, 2015)

77 hours 10 mins; October 28, 2016

Arie L. Molendijk, “Friedrich Max Muller and the Sacred Books of the East” (Oxford UP, 2016)

52 mins; October 18, 2016

Sangay Mishra, “Desis Divided: The Political Lives of South Asian Americans” (U of Minnesota Press, 2016)

24 mins; April 12, 2016

Amanda Lucia, “Reflections of Amma: Devotees in a Global Embrace” (University of California Press, 2014)

57 mins; September 26, 2015

Alf Gunvald Nilsen and Srila Roy, “New Subaltern Politics: Reconceptualizing Hegemony and Resistance in Contemporary India” (Oxford UPs 2015)

37 mins; September 08, 2015

Joyce B. Flueckiger, “When the World Becomes Female: Guises of a South Indian Goddess” (Indiana UP, 2013)

59 mins; July 03, 2015

Andrea Jain, “Selling Yoga: From Counterculture to Pop Culture” (Oxford UP, 2014)

65 hours 8 mins; May 13, 2015

Peter Gottschalk, “Religion, Science, and Empire: Classifying Hinduism and Islam in British India” (Oxford UP, 2012)

63 hours 13 mins; April 13, 2015

Barbara Harriss-White, “Dalits and Adivasis in India’s Business Economy” (Three Essays Collective, 2013)

69 hours 12 mins; October 23, 2014

Karen Pechilis, “South Asian Religions: Tradition and Today” (Routledge, 2012)

68 hours 21 mins; March 06, 2014

Parna Sengupta, “Pedagogy for Religion: Missionary Education and the Fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal” (University of California Press, 2011)

71 hours 34 mins; January 24, 2012

Nile Green, “Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915” (Cambridge UP, 2011)

68 hours 25 mins; July 15, 2011

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