New Books in South Asian Studies

1246 Episodes

1. Roger R. Jackson, "Saraha: Poet of Blissful Awareness" (Shambhala, 2024)

   Published: 1/16/2025
2. Javaria Farooqui, "Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

   Published: 1/16/2025
3. Richard H. Davis, "Religions of Early India: A Cultural History" (Princeton UP, 2024)

   Published: 1/9/2025
4. Alastair Gornall, "Rewriting Buddhism: Pali Literature and Monastic Reform in Sri Lanka, 1157–1270" (UCL Press, 2020)

   Published: 1/6/2025
5. Ilanit Loewy Shacham, "Empire Inside Out: Religion, Conquest, and Community in Kṛṣṇadevarāya's Āmuktamālyada" (Oxford UP, 2024)

   Published: 1/5/2025
6. Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen, "Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility Among India’s Professional Elite" (Princeton UP, 2021)

   Published: 1/3/2025
7. Arvind Sharma, "From Fire To Light: Rereading the Manusmriti" (Harper Collins, 2024)

   Published: 1/2/2025
8. Jessica Namakkal, "Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India" (Columbia UP, 2021)

   Published: 1/1/2025
9. Oishik Sircar, "Ways of Remembering: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

   Published: 12/29/2024
10. Radha Kumar, "Police Matters: The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900–1975" (Cornell UP, 2021)

    Published: 12/28/2024
11. Mukulika Banerjee, "Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India" (Oxford UP, 2021)

    Published: 12/28/2024
12. China and the Indo-Pacific: Policies and Global Implications

    Published: 12/27/2024
13. Pakistan, Populism and the Left

    Published: 12/27/2024
14. Antoinette Denapoli and June McDaniel, "Gurus, Priestesses, Saints, Mediums and Yoginis: Holy Women as Influencers in Hindu Culture" (MDPI, 2024)

    Published: 12/26/2024
15. Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, "Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire" (Princeton UP, 2024)

    Published: 12/23/2024
16. Daniel Joseph Majchrowicz, "The World in Words: Travel Writing and the Global Imagination in Muslim South Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

    Published: 12/20/2024
17. Sandhya Fuchs, "Fragile Hope: Seeking Justice for Hate Crimes in India" (Stanford UP, 2024)

    Published: 12/14/2024
18. Azad Essa, "Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel" (Pluto Press, 2023)

    Published: 12/13/2024
19. Samuel Hodgkin, "Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

    Published: 12/12/2024
20. Mou Banerjee, "The Disinherited: The Politics of Christian Conversion in Colonial India" (Harvard UP, 2025)

    Published: 12/11/2024