New Books in South Asian Studies

Interviews with Scholars of South Asia about their New Books

Society & Culture
History
1026
Simon Wolfgang Fuchs, "In a Pure Muslim Land: S...
Fuchs interrogates this framework with a novel intervention by examining the case of Shi’i Islamic intellectual thought in Pakistan as it relates to the Middle East....
46 min
1027
Nosheen Ali, "Delusional States: Feeling Rule a...
Ali presents a lyrical and at many times haunting account of the aspirations, anxieties, and tragedies enfolding everyday life in the rarely studied Gilgit-Baltistan region in Pakistan...
40 min
1028
Angela Rudert, "Shakti's New Voice: Guru Devoti...
Gurumaa’s syncretic approach innovates Hindu religiosity, as does her progressive attitudes towards treatment of women...
78 min
1029
Karine Gagné, "Caring for Glaciers: Land, Anima...
Gagné explores how relations of reciprocity between land, humans, animals, and glaciers foster an ethics of care in the Himalayan communities of Ladakh...
97 min
1030
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
1031
Jessica Hinchy, "Governing Gender and Sexuality...
Hinchy documents the ability many Hijras have to preserve in spite of systematic policing and criminalization...
60 min
1032
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
1033
Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee, "Philology a...
The Hindu great epic, Mahābhārata, exists today in hundreds of variant manuscripts across India...
65 min
1034
Farhat Haq, "Shariʿa and the State in Pakistan:...
Few doctrinal and political issues are more controversial in Pakistan today than that of blasphemy...
60 min
1035
Mark McClish, "The History of the Arthaśāstra: ...
Was ancient India ruled by politics or religion?
40 min
1036
Ather Zia, "Resisting Disappearance: Military O...
Zia's urgent ethnography is centered on Kashmiri women of the APDP (Association of the Parents of the Disappeared Persons)...
77 min
1037
Kim A. Wagner, "The Skull of Alum Bheg: The Lif...
How did a Danish historian wind up with a human skull from colonial India in his University of London office
58 min
1038
Geoffrey Barstow, "Food of Sinful Demons: Meat,...
Barstow explores the tension between Buddhist ethics and Tibetan cultural norms to offer a novel perspective on the spiritual and social dimensions of meat eating...
62 min
1039
Dolly Kikon, "Living with Oil and Coal: Resourc...
Kikon offers a rich account of life in the midst of a landscape defined by multiple overlapping extractive industries and plantation economies...
54 min
1040
Shayne Legassie, "The Medieval Invention of Tra...
Legassie talks about medieval travel, especially long distance travel, and the way it was feared, praised, and sometimes treated with suspicion.
37 min
1041
Mubbashir A. Rizvi, "The Ethics of Staying: Soc...
Rizvi presents an original framework for understanding this major social movement, called the Anjuman Mazarin Punjab (AMP)...
51 min
1042
Arik Moran, "Kingship and Polity on the Himalay...
Arik Moran examines three Rajput kingdoms during the transition to British rule (c. 1790-1840) and their interconnected histories and court intrigues.
51 min
1043
William M. Gorvine, "Envisioning A Tibetan Lumi...
Gorvine provides a multifaceted analysis of Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen (1859-1934), one of the most prominent modern representatives of the Tibetan Bön tradition...
63 min
1044
William Elison, "The Neighborhood of Gods: The ...
Elison explores how slum residents, tribal people, and members of other marginalized groups use religious icons to mark urban spaces in Mumbai...
64 min
1045
Berthe Jansen, "The Monastery Rules: Buddhist M...
Jansen discusses the position of the monasteries in pre-1950s Tibetan Buddhist societies...
59 min
1046
Kapila D. Silva and Amita Sinha, "Cultural Land...
South Asian architecture and landscapes are not as well known in the western design schools...
50 min
1047
Ithamar Theodor, "Exploring the Bhagavad Gītā: ...
The Bhagavad Gītā remains to this day a mainstay of Hinduism and Hindu Studies alike,..
52 min
1048
Julia Cassaniti, "Remembering the Present: Mind...
How do you understand mindfulness?
98 min
1049
Harshita M. Kamath, "The Artifice of Brahmin Ma...
This book features an investigation of men donning a women’s guises to impersonate female characters...
47 min
1050
Robert Haug, "The Eastern Frontier: Limits of E...
Haug offers an in-depth look at the frontier zone of the Sassanian, Umayyad, and Abbasid Empires...
60 min