New Books in South Asian Studies
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1151
Christine Fair, "In Their Own Words: Understand...
Fair reveals a little-known aspect of how LeT functions in Pakistan and beyond, by translating and commenting upon a range of publications produced and disseminated by Dar-ul-Andlus, the publishing wing of LeT..
87 min
1152
Kate Imy, "Faithful Fighters: Identity and Powe...
"Faithful Fighters" is a powerful and brilliant meditation on the impossibility of modern colonial power to canonize religion and religious identity...
67 min
1153
Sanjib Baruah, "In the Name of the Nation: Indi...
Baruah's book is a wide-ranging analysis of a mode of governance that has become associated with the region where armed resistance, electoral institutions, states of exception and the force of development co-exist...
64 min
1154
Brian A. Hatcher, "Hinduism Before Reform" (Har...
Did modern Hinduism truly emerge due to the “reforms” instigated by “progressive” colonial figures such as Rammohun Roy?
58 min
1155
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Parad...
According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...
51 min
1156
Ahmet T. Kuru, "Islam, Authoritarianism, and Un...
Kuru offers a ground-breaking history and analysis of the evolution of the state in Muslim countries...
59 min
1157
Andrew Ollett, "Language of the Snakes" (U Cali...
Ollett argues that Prakit is “the most important Indian language you’ve never heard of.”
63 min
1158
SherAli Tareen, "Defending Muhammad in Modernit...
Tareen takes us into the fascinating world of the ‘ulama (theologians) of the late eighteenth and nineteenth century South Asian Islam...
65 min
1159
Patrick Inglis, "Narrow Fairways: Getting By an...
Inglis uses the interactions between elite members of golf clubs in city of Bangalore and the caddies who carry their bags to examine how globalization is both upending and reproducing a status quo of extreme inequality...
57 min
1160
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
39 min
1161
Jennifer B. Saunders, "Imagining Religious Comm...
Saunders tells the story of the Gupta family through the personal and religious narratives they tell as they create and maintain their extended family and community across national borders..
70 min
1162
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
36 min
1163
Kenneth R. Valpey, "Cow Care in Hindu Animal Et...
What does cow care in India have to offer modern Western discourse animal ethics?
54 min
1164
Dr. Alice Collett, "Lives of Early Buddhist Nun...
Collett delves into the lives of six of the best-known nuns from the period of early Buddhism...
64 min
1165
Kim A. Wagner, "Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fea...
Wagner puts this act of colonial violence in its proper historical context...
74 min
1166
Ajantha Subramanian, "The Caste of Merit: Engin...
Subramanian provides an insightful account of their emergence is post-independence India as a set of distinct and “world class” institutions underwritten by the Indian state...
62 min
1167
Simon Brodbeck, "Krishna's Lineage: The Harivam...
While typically circulating as a separate text, The Harivamsha forms the final part of the Mahabharata storyline...
45 min
1168
James M. Vaughn, "The Politics of Empire at the...
Vaughn offers an powerful challenge to the received view that the Asian domains were acquired by accident and formed part of an empire of liberty.,,
39 min
1169
Sidharthan Maunaguru, "Marrying for a Future: T...
Maunaguru sketches for us the journeys and scenes of transnational Sri Lankan Tamil marriage between Sri Lanka, India, the United Kingdom and Canada during the ‘wedding season’...
67 min
1170
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
54 min
1171
Sebastian Prange, "Monsoon Islam: Trade and Fai...
Prange provides a fascinating window into the Muslim world of the medieval (12-16th century) Malabar Coast and the development of Islam that was defined by significant trade networks.
54 min
1172
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
1173
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
1174
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
1175
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...
98 min