New Books in South Asian Studies

1249 Episodes

1. Keya Maitra, “Philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita: A Contemporary Introduction” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)

   Published: 8/15/2018
2. Sumana Roy, “How I Became a Tree” (Aleph, 2017)

   Published: 8/7/2018
3. Sucharita Adluri, “Textual Authority in Classical Indian Thought: Ramanuja and the Vishnu Purana” (Routledge, 2014)

   Published: 8/2/2018
4. Lavanya Vemsani, “Modern Hinduism in Text and Context” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)

   Published: 7/2/2018
5. Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey, “Waste of a Nation: Growth and Garbage in India” (Harvard UP, 2018)

   Published: 6/29/2018
6. Sumita Mukherjee, “Indian Suffragettes: Female Identities and Transnational Networks” (Oxford UP, 2018)

   Published: 6/26/2018
7. Daisy Deomampo, “Transnational Reproduction: Race, Kinship, and Commercial Surrogacy in India” (NYU Press, 2016)

   Published: 6/21/2018
8. Tarak Barkawi, “Soldiers of Empire: Indian and British Armies in World War II” (Cambridge UP, 2017)

   Published: 5/25/2018
9. Elaine Fisher, “Hindu Pluralism: Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South Asia” (U California Press, 2017)

   Published: 5/21/2018
10. Milan Vaishnav, “When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics” (Yale UP, 2017)

    Published: 5/9/2018
11. Walter N. Hakala, “Negotiating Languages: Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia” (Columbia UP, 2016)

    Published: 5/2/2018
12. Mark Liechty, “Far Out: Countercultural Seekers and the Tourist Encounter in Nepal” (U of Chicago Press, 2017)

    Published: 5/1/2018
13. Bhoomi Thakore, “South Asians on the U.S. Screen: Just Like Everyone Else?” (Lexington Books, 2018)

    Published: 4/26/2018
14. Aidan Forth, “Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain’s Empire of Camps, 1876-1903” (U California Press, 2017)

    Published: 4/24/2018
15. David Atkinson, “The Burden of White Supremacy: Containing Asian Migration in the British Empire and the United States” (UNC Press, 2016)

    Published: 4/19/2018
16. Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, “Indian Muslim Minorities and the 1857 Rebellion: Religion, Rebels and Jihad” (I. B. Tauris, 2017)

    Published: 4/17/2018
17. Debarati Sen, “Everyday Sustainability: Gender Justice and Fair Trade Tea in Darjeeling” (SUNY Press, 2017)

    Published: 4/6/2018
18. Fahad Bishara, “A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950” (Cambridge UP, 2017)

    Published: 4/3/2018
19. Fareen Parvez, “Politicizing Islam: The Islamic Revival in France and India (Oxford UP, 2017)

    Published: 3/21/2018
20. Reiko Ohnuma, “Unfortunate Destiny: Animals in the Indian Buddhist Imagination” (Oxford UP, 2017)

    Published: 3/20/2018