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India Studies
Interviews with scholars of India about their new books.
January 5, 2023
Futures of Artificial Intelligence
Twenty-first century life is increasingly governed by artificial intelligence (AI) technologies such as machine learning, big data analysis, facial re…
October 14, 2022
Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization
Sandeep Banerjee's book Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization: Literary Pre-Figurations of the Postcolony (Routledge, 2021) illuminates the spatial …
September 26, 2022
India After World History
In the twenty-first century, terms such as globalization, global, and world function as key words at the cusp of new frontiers in both historical writ…
September 16, 2022
Retro-modern India
Manuela Ciotti's Retro-modern India: Forging the Low Caste Self (Routledge, 2020) is interesting engagement with Chamar identity and understanding it …
September 8, 2022
Goddess Traditions in India
Silvia Schwarz Linder's Goddess Traditions in India: Theological Poems and Philosophical Tales in the Tripurarahasya (Routledge, 2022) is a study of t…
August 11, 2022
Sadhus in Indian Politics
Koushiki Dasgupta's Sadhus in Indian Politics: Dynamics of Hindutva (Sage, 2021) maps the changing face of contemporary Hindu politics, evaluating the…
July 28, 2022
Democracy and Social Cleavage in India
Suman Nath's book Democracy and Social Cleavage in India: Ethnography of Riots, Everyday Politics and Communalism in West Bengal (2012-2021) (Routledg…
July 26, 2022
Being Single in India
Today, the majority of the world's population lives in a country with falling marriage rates, a phenomenon with profound impacts on women, gender, and…
July 7, 2022
Botanical Ecstasies
In Botanical Ecstasies: Psychoactive Plant Formulas in India and Beyond, Dr Matthew Clark proposes that soma/hoama is instead an ayahuasca-like plant …
June 27, 2022
The Stories Behind the Poses
Raj Balkaran's 200th podcast episode: Christa Kuberry interviews him on his beautifully written new book The Stories Behind the Poses: The Indian Myth…
May 26, 2022
Sabdanugamah
Sabdanugamah (Sanskrit Library, 2021) is the first of two volumes of studies in honor of Professor George Cardona, the preeminent authority on Paninia…
May 3, 2022
Kings, Spirits and Memory in Central India
Part anthropological history and part memoir, this book is a study of the polity of the colonial-princely state of Kanker in central India. Aditya Pra…
April 21, 2022
Spiritual Empires in Europe and India
Spiritual Empires in Europe and India: Cosmopolitan Religious Movements from 1875 to the Interwar Era (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021) provides a comparativ…
April 14, 2022
Grhastha
Today I talked to Patrick Olivelle about his book Grhastha: The Householder in Ancient Indian Religious Culture (Oxford UP, 2019). For scholars of an…
April 11, 2022
India’s Ukrainian Dilemma
The Russian war in Ukraine has placed India in a difficult situation: how to retain the historically good relationship with Russia, without jeopardizi…
April 4, 2022
Ethnic Inequality in the Northeastern Indian Borderlands
Anita Lama's book Ethnic Inequality in the Northeastern Indian Borderlands (Routledge, 2020) analyses the relationship between symbolic violence, ineq…
March 17, 2022
A Time of Novelty
Samuel Wright's A Time of Novelty: Logic, Emotion, and Intellectual Life in Early Modern India, 1500-1700 C.E. (Oxford UP, 2021) argues that a philoso…
March 10, 2022
Indians in London
London has always been a galvanizing factor for the South Asian community—whether due to the machinations of empire, the drive for higher education, o…
March 8, 2022
Astrology in India
Astrology in India: A Sociological Inquiry (Taylor & Francis, 2021) critically examines the larger world of astrology in India, its ubiquity and relat…
February 17, 2022
Strong Arms and Drinking Strength
Today I talked to Jarrod Whitaker about his book Strong Arms and Drinking Strength: Masculinity, Violence, and the Body in Ancient India (Oxford UP, 2…