New Books in South Asian Studies

1184 Episodes

1. Michelle Murphy, “The Economization of Life” (Duke University Press, 2017)

   Published: 27/11/2017
2. Sujatha Gidla, “Ants among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India” (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2017)

   Published: 26/11/2017
3. Hugh Urban, “Zorba the Buddha: Sex, Spirituality, and Capitalism in the Global Osho Movement” (U. Cal Press, 2016)

   Published: 9/10/2017
4. Jane McCabe, “Race, Tea and Colonial Resettlement: Imperial Families, Interrupted” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017)

   Published: 29/09/2017
5. Michael J. Altman, “Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu: American Representations of India, 1721-1893” (Oxford UP, 2017)

   Published: 12/09/2017
6. Mengia Hong Tschalaer, “Muslim Women’s Quest for Justice: Gender, Law and Activism in India” (Cambridge UP, 2017)

   Published: 27/08/2017
7. Rahuldeep Singh Gill, “Drinking From Love’s Cup: Surrender and Sacrifice in the Vars of Bhai Gurdas Bhalla” (Oxford UP, 2016)

   Published: 27/08/2017
8. Manan Ahmed Asif, “A Book of Conquest: The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia” (Harvard UP, 2017)

   Published: 6/08/2017
9. Kief Hillsbery, “Empire Made: My Search for an Outlaw Uncle Who Vanished in British India” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017)

   Published: 26/07/2017
10. Michael Youngblood, “Cultivating Community: Interest, Identity, and Ambiguity in an Indian Social Mobilization” (South Asian Studies Press, 2016)

    Published: 30/06/2017
11. William Elison, et.al. “Amar Akbar Anthony: Bollywood, Brotherhood, and the Nation” (Harvard UP, 2016)

    Published: 20/06/2017
12. Rajan Gurukkal, “Rethinking Classical Indo-Roman Trade: Political Economy of Eastern Mediterranean Exchange Relations” (Oxford UP, 2016)

    Published: 8/06/2017
13. Audrey Truschke, “Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court” (Columbia UP, 2016)

    Published: 3/04/2017
14. Ronojoy Sen, “Nation at Play: A History of Sport in India” (Columbia UP, 2016)

    Published: 6/03/2017
15. Benjamin Schonthal, “Buddhism, Politics and the Limits of the Law: The Pyrrhic Constitutionalism of Sri Lanka” (Cambridge UP, 2016)

    Published: 3/03/2017
16. Anastasia Piliavsky, ed., “Patronage as Politics in South Asia” (
Cambridge UP, 2014)

    Published: 2/03/2017
17. Projit Bihari Mukharji, “Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Science: (University of Chicago Press, 2016)

    Published: 16/01/2017
18. “Best New Books in Political Science 2016: International Politics Edition”

    Published: 29/12/2016
19. Carol Upadhya, “Reengineering India: Work, Capital, and Class in an Offshore Economy” (Oxford UP, 2016)

    Published: 23/11/2016
20. Rupa Viswanath, “The Pariah Problem: Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern India” (Columbia UP, 2014)

    Published: 2/11/2016