New Books in South Asian Studies

1249 Episodes

1. Anastasia Piliavsky, ed., “Patronage as Politics in South Asia” (
Cambridge UP, 2014)

   Published: 3/2/2017
2. Projit Bihari Mukharji, “Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Science: (University of Chicago Press, 2016)

   Published: 1/16/2017
3. “Best New Books in Political Science 2016: International Politics Edition”

   Published: 12/29/2016
4. Carol Upadhya, “Reengineering India: Work, Capital, and Class in an Offshore Economy” (Oxford UP, 2016)

   Published: 11/23/2016
5. Rupa Viswanath, “The Pariah Problem: Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern India” (Columbia UP, 2014)

   Published: 11/2/2016
6. Roman Sieler, “Lethal Spots, Vital Secrets: Medicine and Martial Arts in South India” (Oxford UP, 2015)

   Published: 10/28/2016
7. Arie L. Molendijk, “Friedrich Max Muller and the Sacred Books of the East” (Oxford UP, 2016)

   Published: 10/18/2016
8. Harini Nagendra, “Nature in the City: Bengaluru in the Past, Present, and Future” (Oxford UP, 2016)

   Published: 9/26/2016
9. Liam Brockey, “The Visitor: Andre Palmeiro and the Jesuits in Asia” (Harvard UP, 2014)

   Published: 9/11/2016
10. Prerna Singh, “How Solidarity Works for Welfare: Subnationalism and Social Development in India” (Cambridge UP, 2015)

    Published: 9/7/2016
11. Simanti Dasgupta, “BITS of Belonging: Information Technology, Water, and Neoliberal Governance in India” (Temple UP, 2015)

    Published: 8/17/2016
12. D. Asher Ghertner, “Rule by Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi” (Oxford UP, 2015)

    Published: 8/11/2016
13. Lisa Bjorkman, “Pipe Politics, Contested Waters: Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai” (Duke UP, 2015)

    Published: 8/2/2016
14. Anand Pandian, “Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation” (Duke UP, 2015)

    Published: 6/26/2016
15. Srimati Basu, “The Trouble with Marriage: Feminists Confront Law and Violence in India” (U of California Press, 2015)

    Published: 6/13/2016
16. Sahana Udupa, “Making News in Global India: Media, Publics, Politics” (Cambridge UP, 2015)

    Published: 5/19/2016
17. Sangay Mishra, “Desis Divided: The Political Lives of South Asian Americans” (U of Minnesota Press, 2016)

    Published: 4/12/2016
18. Nayanika Mathur, “Paper Tiger: Law, Bureaucracy and the Developmental State in Himalayan India” (U of Cambridge Press, 2015)

    Published: 4/8/2016
19. Jeff Koehler, “Darjeeling” (Bloomsbury, 2015)

    Published: 3/31/2016
20. Mitra Sharafi, “Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia: Parsi Legal Culture, 1772-1947” (Cambridge UP, 2015)

    Published: 3/2/2016