New Books in South Asian Studies
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Gopal K. Gupta, "Maya in the Bhagavata Purana: ...
An interview with Gopal K. Gupta
49 min
1002
Manan Ahmed Asif, "The Loss of Hindustan: The I...
An interview with Manan Ahmed Asif
68 min
1003
Narrating Africa in South Asia
An interview with Mahmood Kooria, Khatija Khader, and Sofia Péquignot
98 min
1004
A Road into the Past: Reading a 19th-Century Il...
An interview with Diana Lange
22 min
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Michiel Baas, "Muscular India: Masculinity, Mob...
An interview with Michiel Baas
56 min
1006
Courtney Bruntz and Brooke Schedneck, "Buddhist...
An interview with Courtney Bruntz and Brooke Schedneck
59 min
1007
Sienna R. Craig, "The Ends of Kinship: Connecti...
An interview with Sienna Craig
78 min
1008
Beatrice Nicolini, "Land and Maritime Empires i...
An interview with Beatrice Nicolini and Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya
54 min
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Saiba Varma, "The Occupied Clinic: Militarism a...
An interview with Saiba Varma
57 min
1010
Leah E. Comeau, "Material Devotion in a South I...
An interview with Leah Comeau
41 min
1011
Ayon Maharaj, "The Bloomsbury Research Handbook...
Maharaj offers first in-depth discussion of Vedanta and the many different systems of thought that make up this tradition of Indian philosophy...
48 min
1012
Antoinette Burton, "Africa in the Indian Imagin...
An interview with Antoinette Burton
41 min
1013
Leela Prasad, "The Audacious Raconteur: Soverei...
Can a subject be sovereign in a hegemony? Can creativity be reined in by forces of empire?
30 min
1014
Brian Black, "In Dialogue with the Mahābhārata"...
This book offers the first extensive study of the dialogue form in the Mahābhārata.,,
75 min
1015
P. Bilimoria and P. Hughes, "The Indian Diaspor...
Since the late 1990s, the Indian community in Australia has grown faster than any other immigrant community....
62 min
1016
Daniel Simpson, "The Truth of Yoga: A Comprehen...
Much of what is said about yoga is misleading.,.
69 min
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Dinyar Patel, "Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Natio...
Mahatma Gandhi called Dadabhai Naoroji the “father of the nation,” a title that today is reserved for Gandhi himself....
89 min
1018
Jinee Lokaneeta, "The Truth Machines: Policing,...
Using case studies and the results of extensive fieldwork, this book considers the nature of state power and legal violence in liberal democracies by focusing on the interaction between law, science, and policing in India...
55 min
1019
S. Newcombe and K. O'Brien-Kop, "Routledge Hand...
This book offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary resource, which frames and contextualises the rapidly expanding fields that explore yoga and meditative techniques...
46 min
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Ithamar Theodor, "The Bhagavad-Gītā: A Critical...
Theodor offers a systematic and comprehensive introduction to one of the most read texts in South Asia....
51 min
1021
Jason Keith Fernandes, "Citizenship in a Caste ...
Fernandes explores the interconnected themes of language, citizenship and identity, showing how, by deliberately excluding the Roman script, the largely lower-caste and lower-class Catholic users of this script were denoted as less-than-authentic members of civil society....
58 min
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Suraj Yengde, "Caste Matters" (India Viking, 2019)
At once a reflection on inequality and a call to arms, Caste Matters argues that until Dalits lay claim to power and Brahmins join hands against Brahminism to effect real transformation, caste will continue to matter...
50 min
1023
Dwaipayan Banerjee, "Enduring Cancer: Life, Dea...
Banerjee explores the efforts of Delhi's urban poor to create a livable life with cancer as patients and families negotiate an overextended health system unequipped to respond to the disease...
62 min
1024
Marco Ferrante, "Indian Perspectives on Conscio...
Ferrante shows how a set of tenth century philosophers living in Kashmir argue for the existence of a self on the basis of the interrelationship between linguistic concepts and mental experience...
62 min
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Sumit Guha, "History and Collective Memory in S...
In this far-ranging and erudite exploration of the South Asian past, Sumit Guha discusses the shaping of social and historical memory in world-historical context...
57 min