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August 16, 2022
Moral Foods
The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia
Angela Ki Che Leung, Melissa L. Caldwell, and Robert Ji-Song Ku
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Nathan Hopson
The twelve chapters of Moral Foods: The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia (U Hawai’i Press, 2020) are divided into three sections: Good Foods, Bad Foods, and Moral …
South Asian Studies
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Interviews with scholars of South Asia about their new books.
Japanese Studies
August 15, 2022
Public Health in Asia During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Global Health Governance, Migrant Labour, and International Health Crises
Anoma Van Der Veere, Florian Schneider, and Catherine Lo
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Jingyi Li
Every nation in Asia has dealt with COVID-19 differently and with varying levels of success in the absence of clear and effective leadership from the WHO. As a result, the …
Indian Religions
August 15, 2022
Amma’s Daughters
A Memoir
Meenal Shrivastava
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Raj Balkaran
Today I talked to about Amma’s Daughters: A Memoir (Athabasca UP, 2018). This book is available open access here. As a precocious young girl, Surekha knew very little about the details of …
Economics
August 12, 2022
Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism
Roselyn Hsueh
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Peter Lorentzen
Roselyn Hsueh’s Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism (Cambridge, 2022) presents a new framework for understanding how developing countries integrate into the global economy. Examining the labor-intensive textile sector and the capital-intensive …
Indian Religions
August 11, 2022
Sadhus in Indian Politics
Dynamics of Hindutva
Koushiki Dasgupta
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Raj Balkaran
Koushiki Dasgupta's Sadhus in Indian Politics: Dynamics of Hindutva (Sage, 2021) maps the changing face of contemporary Hindu politics, evaluating the influence of sadhus (ascetics) on the course of politics …
Indian Religions
August 4, 2022
Gods in the Time of Democracy
Kajri Jain
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Raj Balkaran
In 2018 India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, inaugurated the world's tallest statue: a 597-foot figure of nationalist leader Sardar Patel. Twice the height of the Statue of Liberty, it is …
Indian Religions
August 2, 2022
After the War
The Last Books of the Mahabharata
Wendy Doniger
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Ujaan Ghosh
Wendy Doniger's After the War: The Last Books of the Mahabharata (Oxford UP, 2022) is a new translation of the final part of the Mahabharata, the great Sanskrit Epic poem about …
Indian Religions
July 28, 2022
Democracy and Social Cleavage in India
Ethnography of Riots, Everyday Politics and Communalism in West Bengal C. 2012-2021
Suman Nath
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Raj Balkaran
Suman Nath's book Democracy and Social Cleavage in India: Ethnography of Riots, Everyday Politics and Communalism in West Bengal (2012-2021) (Routledge, 2022) explores the emergence of identity politics and violence at …
Asian Review of Books
July 28, 2022
Science on the Roof of the World
Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya
Lachlan Fleetwood
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Nicholas Gordon
Today, the idea that the Himalayas have the world’s tallest peaks—by a large margin—is entirely uncontroversial. Just about anyone can name Mount Everest and K2 as the world’s tallest and …
Anthropology
July 26, 2022
Being Single in India
Stories of Gender, Exclusion, and Possibility
Sarah Lamb
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Garima Jaju
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 sexuality. In Being Single in India …
Indian Religions
July 21, 2022
Marg Magazine
Readings on the Temple
Naman P. Ahuja
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Raj Balkaran
In October 1946, shortly before Independence, Mulk Raj Anand founded Marg, a magazine that soon became a pioneering forum for research on Indian and South Asian art and architecture. Over …
Indian Religions
July 19, 2022
The Light We Give
How Sikh Wisdom Can Transform Your Life
Simran Jeet Singh
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Raj Balkaran
An inspiring approach to a happier, more fulfilling life through Sikh teachings on love and service. As a boy growing up in South Texas, Simran Jeet Singh and his brothers …
Nordic Asia Podcast
July 15, 2022
Publishing in Asian Studies Journals
A Discussion with Julie Yu-Wen Chen and Hyung-Gu Lynn
Julie Yu-Wen Chen and Hyung-Gu Lynn
Hosted by
Duncan McCargo
How can we get our articles in Asian studies published? What criteria should we use in selecting what journals to target? On what basis do journal editors make decisions on …
Indian Religions
July 14, 2022
The Hagiographer and the Avatar
The Life and Works of Narayan Kasturi
Antonio Rigopoulos
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Raj Balkaran
In The Hagiographer and the Avatar: The Life and Works of Narayan Kasturi (SUNY Press, 2021), Antonio Rigopoulos explores the fundamental role of a hagiographer within a charismatic religious movement …
Literature
July 12, 2022
Victory Colony, 1950
Bhaswati Ghosh
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G. P. Gottlieb
Victory Colony, 1950 (Yoda Press, 2020) by Bhaswati Ghosh is a story of resilience about East Pakistani refugees who were forced to leave their homes in East Pakistan because of …
Literature
July 12, 2022
Bombay Hangovers
Rochelle Potkar
Hosted by
Sharonee Dasgupta
The stories in Bombay Hangovers (Vishwakarma Publications, 2021) are laced with the grit, sleaze and dynamism of Bombay. They explore the nerve centre of a great metropolis with caustic wit and …
South Asian Studies
July 11, 2022
Ploughshares and Swords
India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War
Jayita Sarkar
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Shatrunjay Mall
Ploughshares and Swords: India’s Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War (Cornell University Press, 2022) by Jayita Sarkar challenges this received wisdom by narrating a global story of India's nuclear …
High Theory
July 8, 2022
Apabhraṃśa
A Discussion with Abhishek Avtans
Abhishek Avtans
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Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Abhishek Avtans talks about the apabhraṃśa, a word that refers to the middle stage of the Indo-Aryan languages, crucial links between ancient languages like Sanskrit, and modern South Asian languages …
Indian Religions
July 7, 2022
Botanical Ecstasies
Psychoactive Plant Formulas in India and Beyond
Matthew Clark
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Raj Balkaran
In Botanical Ecstasies: Psychoactive Plant Formulas in India and Beyond, Dr Matthew Clark proposes that soma/hoama is instead an ayahuasca-like plant complex made from many different species. He discusses a …
Literary Studies
July 6, 2022
Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination
Leila Neti
Hosted by
Gargi Binju
Situated at the intersection of law and literature, nineteenth-century studies and post-colonialism, Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination (Cambridge UP, 2021) draws on original archival research to shed …
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