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Rupa Viswanath, “The Pariah Problem: Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern India” (Columbia UP, 2014)

Rupa Viswanath
The Pariah Problem
Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern India
Columbia University Press, 2014

New Books in Hindu Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion New Books in Religion & Faith New Books in Sociology New Books in South Asian Studies New Books Network November 2, 2016 Ian Cook

The so called “Pariah Problem” emerged in public consciousness in the 1890s in India as state officials, missionaries and “upper”caste landlords, among others, struggled to understood the situation of Dalits (those subordinated populations once called untouchables). In The Pariah Problem: … Read More

Roman Sieler, “Lethal Spots, Vital Secrets: Medicine and Martial Arts in South India” (Oxford UP, 2015)

Roman Sieler
Lethal Spots, Vital Secrets
Medicine and Martial Arts in South India
Oxford University Press, 2015

New Books in Anthropology New Books in Hindu Studies New Books in Medicine New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion & Faith New Books in Science & Technology New Books in South Asian Studies New Books in Sports New Books Network October 28, 2016 Ian Cook

Roman Sieler’s   Lethal Spots, Vital Secrets: Medicine and Martial Arts in South India (Oxford University Press, 2015) is a fine-grained ethnographic study of varmakkalai–the art of vital spots, a South Indian practice that encompasses both martial and medical… Read More

Arie L. Molendijk, “Friedrich Max Muller and the Sacred Books of the East” (Oxford UP, 2016)

Arie L. Molendijk
Friedrich Max Muller and the Sacred Books of the East

Oxford University Press, 2016

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Hindu Studies New Books in History New Books in Intellectual History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion New Books in Religion & Faith New Books in South Asian Studies New Books Network October 18, 2016 Swami Narasimhananda

Arie L. Molendijk is Professor of the History of Christianity and Philosophy in the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He has written Friedrich Max Muller and the Sacred Books of the East … Read More

Harini Nagendra, “Nature in the City: Bengaluru in the Past, Present, and Future” (Oxford UP, 2016)

Harini Nagendra
Nature in the City
Bengaluru in the Past, Present, and Future
Oxford University Press, 2016

New Books in Environmental Studies New Books in Geography New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Science & Technology New Books in South Asian Studies New Books Network September 26, 2016 Ian Cook

In Nature in the City: Bengaluru in the Past, Present, and Future (Oxford University Press, 2016), Harini Nagendra traces centuries of interaction between ecology and urban change, revealing not only the destructive tendencies of urbanization, but also the remarkable ways… Read More

Liam Brockey, “The Visitor: Andre Palmeiro and the Jesuits in Asia” (Harvard UP, 2014)

Liam Brockey
The Visitor
Andre Palmeiro and the Jesuits in Asia
Harvard University Press, 2014

New Books in Biography New Books in Christian Studies New Books in East Asian Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion & Faith New Books in South Asian Studies New Books Network September 11, 2016 Franklin Rausch

The transmission of a religion closely connected to a particular culture into a very different religious and cultural environment is a difficult act of translation in which a balance must be struck between remaining true to doctrine while understanding and… Read More