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South Asian Studies
South Asian Studies
February 26, 2021
Rethinking Markets in Modern India
Embedded Exchange and Contested Jurisdiction
A. Gandhi, B. Harriss-White, D. E. Haynes and S. Schwecke
Hosted by Saronik Bosu
Modern markets and exchange, compared with other social and political spheres, are seen through technical abstractions. This intellectual compartmentalization has political consequences: if capitalism operates through arcane, objective, and rational …
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Indian Religions
February 25, 2021
The Mahabharata
Bibek Debroy
Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Dispute over land and kingdom may lie at the heart of this story of war between cousins the Pandavas and the Kouravas but the Mahabharata is about conflicts of dharma …
Asian Review of Books
February 25, 2021
Bombay Hustle
Making Movies in a Colonial City
Debashree Mukherjee
Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
In 1935, the writer Baburao Patel writes the following about Bombay’s film industry: “In India, with financing conditions still precarious, the professional film distributor thrives. . . . He comes …
Indian Religions
February 24, 2021
Education and Modernity in Colonial Punjab
Khalsa College, the Sikh Tradition and the Webs of Knowledge, 1880-1947
Michale P. Brunner
Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Michael P. Brunner's Education and Modernity in Colonial Punjab: Khalsa College, the Sikh Tradition and the Webs of Knowledge, 1880-1947 (Palgrave, 2020) explores the localisation of modernity in late colonial India. As a …
Indian Religions
February 17, 2021
Ownership and Inheritance in Sanskrit Jurisprudence
Christopher T. Fleming
Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Ownership and Inheritance in Sanskrit Jurisprudence (Oxford UP, 2021) provides an account of various theories of ownership (svatva) and inheritance (dāya) in Sanskrit jurisprudential literature (Dharmaśāstra). It examines the evolution of different …
South Asian Studies
February 16, 2021
The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity
A Cultural Genealogy of Sinhala Nationalism
Harshana Rambukwella
Hosted by Samee Siddiqui
What is the role of cultural authenticity in the making of nations? Much scholarly and popular commentary on nationalism dismisses authenticity as a romantic fantasy or, worse, a deliberately constructed …
Indian Religions
February 9, 2021
Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions
Knut A. Jacobsen
Hosted by Raj Balkaran
The Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions (Routledge, 2020) presents critical research, overviews and case studies on religion in historical South Asia and in the seven nation states of contemporary South …
Law
February 8, 2021
Asia's New Geopolitics
Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific
Michael R. Auslin
Hosted by Jane Richards
Is the Indo-Pacific already the most dominant in terms of global power, politics, and wealth? In his newest book, Michael R. Auslin considers the key issues facing the Indo-Pacific which have ramifications …
Japanese Studies
January 29, 2021
Seeking Sakyamuni
South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism
Richard M. Jaffe
Hosted by Samee Siddiqui
Though fascinated with the land of their tradition’s birth, virtually no Japanese Buddhists visited the Indian subcontinent before the nineteenth century. In the richly illustrated Seeking Śākyamuni: South Asia in the …
Indian Ocean World
January 28, 2021
Imperial Mecca
Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj
Michael Christo Low
Hosted by Ahmed Almaazmi
With the advent of the steamship, repeated outbreaks of cholera marked oceanic pilgrimages to Mecca as a dangerous form of travel and a vehicle for the globalization of epidemic diseases …
Anthropology
January 27, 2021
The Occupied Clinic
Militarism and Care in Kashmir
Saiba Varma
Hosted by Sneha Annavarapu
In The Occupied Clinic: Militarism and Care in Kashmir (Duke UP, 2020), Saiba Varma explores the psychological, ontological, and political entanglements between medicine and violence in Indian-controlled Kashmir—the world's most …
Anthropology
January 26, 2021
The Cow in the Elevator
An Anthropology of Wonder
Tulasi Srinivas
Hosted by Lakshita Malik
In The Cow in the Elevator: An Anthropology of Wonder (Duke UP, 2018), Tulasi Srinivas explores a wonderful world where deities jump fences and priests ride in helicopters to present …
Indian Religions
January 26, 2021
Digital Hinduism
Xenia Zeiler
Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Digital Religion does not simply refer to religion as it is carried out online, but more broadly studies how digital media interrelate with religious practice and belief. Xenia Zeiler's book …
Indian Religions
January 20, 2021
Anti-Christian Violence in India
Chad M. Bauman
Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Does religion cause violent conflict, asks Chad M. Bauman, and if so, does it cause conflict any more than other social identities? Through an extended history of Christian-Hindu relations, and …
Islamic Studies
January 15, 2021
The Bruce B. Lawrence Reader
Islam Beyond Borders
Bruce B. Lawrence and Ali Altaf Mian
Hosted by SherAli Tareen
For more than four decades, Bruce Lawrence’s multivalent and fulsomely prolific scholarship has influenced and imprinted the Western study of Islam and Religious Studies more broadly in singularly profound ways …
Asian Review of Books
January 14, 2021
Three Asian Divas
Women, Art and Culture In Shiraz, Delhi and Yangzhou
David Chaffetz
Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
The “diva” is a common trope when we talk about culture. We normally think of the diva as a Western construction: the opera singer, the Broadway actress, the movie star …
Indian Religions
January 12, 2021
Tracing the Path of Yoga
The History and Philosophy of Indian Mind-Body Discipline
Stuart Ray Sarbacker
Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Clear, accessible, and meticulously annotated, Tracing the Path of Yoga: The History and Philosophy of Indian Mind-Body Discipline (SUNY Press, 2021) offers a comprehensive survey of the history and philosophy of …
Indian Religions
January 8, 2021
Maya in the Bhagavata Purana
Human Suffering and Divine Play
Gopal K. Gupta
Hosted by Raj Balkaran
The idea of Maya pervades Indian philosophy. It is enigmatic, multivalent, and foundational, with its oldest referents found in the Rig Veda. Maya in the Bhagavata Purana: Human Suffering and …
South Asian Studies
January 6, 2021
The Loss of Hindustan
The Invention of India
Manan Ahmed Asif
Hosted by Samee Siddiqui
Did South Asia have a shared regional identity prior to the arrival of Europeans in the late fifteenth century? This is a subject of heated debate in scholarly circles and …
Indian Ocean World
December 31, 2020
Narrating Africa in South Asia
South Asian History and Culture, Volume 11, Issue 4, 2020
Mahmood Kooria, Khatija Khader, and Sofia Péquignot
Hosted by Ahmed Almaazmi
Narrating Africa in South Asia (Special Journal Issue: South Asian History and Culture, Volume 11, Issue 4, 2020) explores the multifaceted and longue durée history of the African diaspora in …
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