New Books in South Asian Studies

1184 Episodes

1. Jessica Marie Falcone, "Battling the Buddha of Love: A Cultural Biography of the Greatest Statue Never Built" (Cornell UP, 2018)

   Published: 4/12/2018
2. Aasim Sajjad Akhtar, "The Politics of Common Sense: State, Society and Culture in Pakistan" (Cambridge UP, 2018)

   Published: 29/11/2018
3. Sumantra Bose, "Secular States, Religious Politics, India, Turkey and the Future of Secularism" (Cambridge UP, 2018)

   Published: 28/11/2018
4. Danna Agmon, "A Colonial Affair: Commerce, Conversion, and Scandal in French India" (Cornell UP, 2017)

   Published: 28/11/2018
5. Sohini Kar, "Financializing Poverty: Labor and Risk in Indian Microfinance" (Stanford UP, 2018)

   Published: 28/11/2018
6. Shenila Khoja-Moolji, “Forging an Ideal Educated Girl: The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia” (U California Press, 2018) 

   Published: 12/11/2018
7. Philip Lutgendorf, “The Epic of Ram” (Harvard University Press, 2016-)

   Published: 2/11/2018
8. Anand Taneja, “Jinnealogy: Time, Islam, and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi”

   Published: 31/10/2018
9. Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, “What Slaveholders Think: How Contemporary Perpetrators Rationalize what They Do” (Columbia UP, 2017)

   Published: 17/10/2018
10. Jennifer Yusin, “The Future Life of Trauma: Partitions, Borders, Repetition” (Fordham UP, 2017)

    Published: 15/10/2018
11. Michael Levien, “Dispossession Without Development: Land Grabs in Neoliberal India” (Oxford UP, 2018)

    Published: 20/09/2018
12. Merin Shobhana Xavier, “Sacred Spaces and Transnational Networks in American Sufism: Bawa Muhaiyaddeen and Contemporary Shrine Cultures” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)

    Published: 17/09/2018
13. Jeremy Martens, “Empire and Asian Migration: Sovereignty, Immigration Restriction and Protest in the British Settler Colonies, 1888–1907” (UWA Publishing, 2018)

    Published: 14/09/2018
14. Madiha Afzal, “Pakistan Under Siege: Extremism, Society, and the State” (Brookings, 2018)

    Published: 31/08/2018
15. Shyam Ranganathan, “Hinduism: A Contemporary Philosophical Investigation” (Routledge, 2018)

    Published: 20/08/2018
16. Keya Maitra, “Philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita: A Contemporary Introduction” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)

    Published: 15/08/2018
17. Sumana Roy, “How I Became a Tree” (Aleph, 2017)

    Published: 7/08/2018
18. Sucharita Adluri, “Textual Authority in Classical Indian Thought: Ramanuja and the Vishnu Purana” (Routledge, 2014)

    Published: 2/08/2018
19. Lavanya Vemsani, “Modern Hinduism in Text and Context” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)

    Published: 2/07/2018
20. Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey, “Waste of a Nation: Growth and Garbage in India” (Harvard UP, 2018)

    Published: 29/06/2018