New Books in South Asian Studies
Cecilia Leong-Salobir, “Food Culture in Colonial Asia: A Taste of Empire” (Routledge, 2011)
Cecilia Leong-Salobir
Food Culture in Colonial Asia
A Taste of Empire
Routledge, 2011

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in FoodNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books Network September 13, 2011 Dhara Anjaria

Hobson-Jobson was not just about administration and geopolitics- the language of Empire extended to its culinary endeavours as well. Thus chota hazri, tiffin,and curry puffs at Peliti’s were the things that sustained an army of civil servants as… Read More
Mark Bradley, “Classics and Imperialism in the British Empire” (Oxford UP, 2010)
M. Bradley
Classics and Imperialism in the British Empire

University Press, 2010

New Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books Network August 15, 2011 Dhara Anjaria

The Greco-Roman world was the prism through which the British viewed their imperial efforts, and Mark Bradley’s compendium Classics and Imperialism in the British Empire (Oxford University Press, 2010) explores the various ways in which this reception of the classics… Read More
Vinayak Chaturvedi, “Peasant Pasts: History and Memory in Western India” (University of California Press, 2007)
Vinayak Chaturvedi
Peasant Pasts
History and Memory in Western India
University of California Press, 2007

New Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books Network August 11, 2011 Dhara Anjaria

The odds are that if you don’t figure in an administration’s records, you won’t figure in the historical record. But what do you do to get into those records? Raising a ruckus is one way. But that works only if… Read More
Howard Spodek, “Ahmedabad: Shock City of Twentieth Century India” (Indiana University Press, 2011)
Howard Spodek
Ahmedabad
Shock City of Twentieth Century India
Indiana University Press, 2011

New Books in JournalismNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books Network July 25, 2011 Dhara Anjaria

As Ahmedabad, the chief city of Gujarat state in Western India, puts itself up as a contender for World Heritage status, Howard Spodek’s lovely book, Ahmedabad: Shock City of Twentieth Century India (Indiana University Press, 2011), can only give a… Read More
Nile Green, “Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915” (Cambridge UP, 2011)
Nile Green
Bombay Islam
The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915
Cambridge University Press, 2011

New Books in Hindu StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books Network July 15, 2011 Dhara Anjaria

Bombay (Mumbai), India, is a city that has never lacked chroniclers from Rudyard Kipling to Salman Rushdie to Suketu Mehta, bards of pluralism have written about Bombay’s divers religions and peoples and the interactions between them. Now here comes a… Read More

 
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