New Books in South Asian Studies

1249 Episodes

1. Avinash Paliwal, "India's Near East: A New History" (Oxford UP, 2024)

   Published: 1/23/2025
2. Ashish Avikunthak, "Bureaucratic Archaeology: State, Science and Past in Postcolonial India" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

   Published: 1/21/2025
3. Amrita Narayanan, "Women's Sexuality and Modern India: In a Rapture of Distress" (Oxford UP, 2022)

   Published: 1/18/2025
4. Roger R. Jackson, "Saraha: Poet of Blissful Awareness" (Shambhala, 2024)

   Published: 1/16/2025
5. Javaria Farooqui, "Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

   Published: 1/16/2025
6. Richard H. Davis, "Religions of Early India: A Cultural History" (Princeton UP, 2024)

   Published: 1/9/2025
7. Alastair Gornall, "Rewriting Buddhism: Pali Literature and Monastic Reform in Sri Lanka, 1157–1270" (UCL Press, 2020)

   Published: 1/6/2025
8. Ilanit Loewy Shacham, "Empire Inside Out: Religion, Conquest, and Community in Kṛṣṇadevarāya's Āmuktamālyada" (Oxford UP, 2024)

   Published: 1/5/2025
9. Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen, "Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility Among India’s Professional Elite" (Princeton UP, 2021)

   Published: 1/3/2025
10. Arvind Sharma, "From Fire To Light: Rereading the Manusmriti" (Harper Collins, 2024)

    Published: 1/2/2025
11. Jessica Namakkal, "Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India" (Columbia UP, 2021)

    Published: 1/1/2025
12. Oishik Sircar, "Ways of Remembering: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

    Published: 12/29/2024
13. Radha Kumar, "Police Matters: The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900–1975" (Cornell UP, 2021)

    Published: 12/28/2024
14. Mukulika Banerjee, "Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India" (Oxford UP, 2021)

    Published: 12/28/2024
15. China and the Indo-Pacific: Policies and Global Implications

    Published: 12/27/2024
16. Pakistan, Populism and the Left

    Published: 12/27/2024
17. Antoinette Denapoli and June McDaniel, "Gurus, Priestesses, Saints, Mediums and Yoginis: Holy Women as Influencers in Hindu Culture" (MDPI, 2024)

    Published: 12/26/2024
18. Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, "Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire" (Princeton UP, 2024)

    Published: 12/23/2024
19. Daniel Joseph Majchrowicz, "The World in Words: Travel Writing and the Global Imagination in Muslim South Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

    Published: 12/20/2024
20. Sandhya Fuchs, "Fragile Hope: Seeking Justice for Hate Crimes in India" (Stanford UP, 2024)

    Published: 12/14/2024