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South Asian Studies July 15, 2020

Intimate Geopolitics

Love, Territory and the Future on India’s Northern Threshold

Sara Smith

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What’s love got to do with it? Intimate Geopolitics: Love, Territory and the Future on India’s Northern Threshold (Rutgers University Press, 2020) by feminist political geographer Sara Smith tell us …
South Asian Studies April 2, 2020

In the Name of the Nation

India and its Northeast

Sanjib Baruah

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Sanjib Baruah’s latest book In the Name of the Nation: India and its Northeast (Stanford University Press, 2020) completes a trilogy on India’s northeastern borderland region of which the first …
South Asian Studies December 27, 2019

The Caste of Merit

Engineering Education in India

Ajantha Subramanian

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What is merit? How is it claimed? In her much-awaited book The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India (Harvard University Press, 2019), Ajantha Subramanian addresses the pertinent question of …
British Studies December 19, 2019

Marrying for a Future

Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Marriages in the Shadow of War

Sidharthan Maunaguru

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Sidharthan Maunaguru’s Marrying for a Future: Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Marriages in the Shadow of War (University of Washington Press 2019) is an unusual ethnography of the ‘in-betweenness’ and ‘potential’ …
African Studies November 20, 2019

Fada

Boredom and Belonging in Niger

Adeline Masquelier

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Fada: Boredom and Belonging in Niger (University of Chicago Press 2019) is a study of the kinds of experimentation and creative engagements that young men in the urban public spaces …