New Books in South Asian Studies

1246 Episodes

1. Nissim Mannathukkaren, "Hindu Nationalism in South India: The Rise of Saffron in Kerala" (Routledge, 2024)

   Published: 12/9/2024
2. Kāvyacandrikā: A Hitherto Unknown Work of Sanskrit Poetics

   Published: 12/5/2024
3. Fatima Rajina, "British Bangladeshi Muslims in the East End: The Changing Landscape of Dress and Language" (Manchester UP, 2024)

   Published: 11/30/2024
4. James Mallinson, "The Dattatreyayogasastra" (Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient, 2024)

   Published: 11/27/2024
5. Sandipto Dasgupta, "Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

   Published: 11/26/2024
6. Required Reading

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 11/7/2024
14. Stuart Anderson, "Pharmacopoeias, Drug Regulation, and Empires: Making Medicines Official in Britain's Imperial World, 1618-1968" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2024)

    Published: 11/6/2024
15. Subhashini Kaligotla, "Shiva's Waterfront Temples: Architects and Their Audiences in Medieval India" (Yale UP, 2022)

    Published: 10/31/2024
16. Rajbir Singh Judge, "Prophetic Maharaja: Loss, Sovereignty, and the Sikh Tradition in Colonial South Asia" (Columbia UP, 2024)

    Published: 10/30/2024
17. Anuradha Sajjanhar, "The New Experts: Populist Elites and Technocratic Promises in Modi's India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

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

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

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

    Published: 10/28/2024