New Books in South Asian Studies

1164 Episodes

1. Required Reading

   Published: 23/11/2024
2. Shalini Kakar, "Devotional Fanscapes: Bollywood Star Deities, Devotee-Fans, and Cultural Politics in India and Beyond" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023)

   Published: 21/11/2024
3. Sasikumar Harikrishnan, "Social Spaces and the Public Sphere:: A Spatial-history of Modernity in Kerala" (Routledge, 2023)

   Published: 20/11/2024
4. Ruth Vanita, "A Slight Angle" (India Viking, 2024)

   Published: 14/11/2024
5. Tyler W. Williams, "If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi" (Columbia UP, 2024)

   Published: 14/11/2024
6. Nandini Sundar, "The Burning Forest: India's War In Bastar" (Verso, 2019)

   Published: 12/11/2024
7. Manan Ahmed Asif, "Disrupted City: Walking the Pathways of Memory and History in Lahore" (New Press, 2024)

   Published: 10/11/2024
8. Roberto Morales-Harley, "The Embassy, the Ambush, and the Ogre: Greco-Roman Influence in Sanskrit Theater” (Open Book, 2024)

   Published: 07/11/2024
9. Stuart Anderson, "Pharmacopoeias, Drug Regulation, and Empires: Making Medicines Official in Britain's Imperial World, 1618-1968" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2024)

   Published: 06/11/2024
10. Subhashini Kaligotla, "Shiva's Waterfront Temples: Architects and Their Audiences in Medieval India" (Yale UP, 2022)

    Published: 31/10/2024
11. Anuradha Sajjanhar, "The New Experts: Populist Elites and Technocratic Promises in Modi's India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

    Published: 30/10/2024
12. Bihani Sarkar, "Classical Sanskrit Tragedy: The Concept of Suffering and Pathos in Medieval India" (I. B. Tauris, 2021)

    Published: 30/10/2024
13. Rajbir Singh Judge, "Prophetic Maharaja: Loss, Sovereignty, and the Sikh Tradition in Colonial South Asia" (Columbia UP, 2024)

    Published: 30/10/2024
14. Sabina Faiz Rashid, "Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh: Children of Crows" (Routledge, 2024)

    Published: 29/10/2024
15. Townsend Middleton, "Quinine's Remains: Empire’s Medicine and the Life Thereafter" (U California Press, 2024)

    Published: 28/10/2024
16. How Did Arabic Get on That Sign?

    Published: 26/10/2024
17. Omer Aijazi, "Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

    Published: 25/10/2024
18. Daniela Bevilacqua, "From Tapas to Modern Yoga: Sādhus' Understanding of Embodied Practices" (Equinox, 2024)

    Published: 24/10/2024
19. Andrea Benvenuti, "Nehru's Bandung: Non-Alignment and Regional Order in Indian Cold War Strategy" (Oxford UP, 2024)

    Published: 24/10/2024
20. India Rising: Navigating the Second Cold War in South Asia from Nepal to the Maldives

    Published: 23/10/2024