New Books in South Asian Studies

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Recent Episodes
  • Abdul Wohab, "Secularism and Islam in Bangladesh: 50 Years After Independence" (Routledge, 2025)
    May 22, 2025 – 38:42
  • Gazi Mizanur Rahman, "In the Malay World: A Spatial History of a Bengali Transnational Community" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
    May 20, 2025 – 50:53
  • Lines of Control: India’s Foreign Policy and China
    May 18, 2025 – 39:56
  • Mayukh Sen, "Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star" (Norton, 2025)
    May 15, 2025 – 57:15
  • Pāṇḍitya: Mapping Sanskrit Texts Online
    May 15, 2025 – 49:25
  • Catherine Hartmann, "Making the Invisible Real: Practice of Seeing in Tibetan Pilgrimage" (Oxford UP, 2025)
    May 9, 2025 – 01:07:20
  • Andrew Ollett, "The Mirror of Ornaments (Alaṅkāradappaṇō): A Prakrit Work of Poetics" (UniorPress, 2025)
    May 8, 2025 – 55:18
  • Tupur Chatterjee, "Projecting Desire: Media Architectures and Moviegoing in Urban India" (NYU Press, 2025)
    May 4, 2025 – 42:36
  • Subho Basu, "Intimation of Revolution: Global Sixties and the Making of Bangladesh" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
    May 2, 2025 – 44:45
  • Karl-Stéphan Bouthillette, "Metaphysics As Therapy: List-Making and Renunciation in Gnostic Yogas" (Springer, 2025)
    May 1, 2025 – 59:18
  • Tithi Bhattacharya, "Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal" (Duke UP, 2024)
    Apr 29, 2025 – 38:20
  • Shailendra Kumar Singh, "Between Resistance and Conformity: Premchand’s Fiction in Colonial North India" (Routledge, 2024)
    Apr 27, 2025 – 54:27
  • Christopher Harding, "The Light of Asia: A History of Western Fascination with the East" (Allen Lane, 2024)
    Apr 25, 2025 – 01:10:23
  • Philip J. Stern, "Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism" (Harvard UP, 2023)
    Apr 24, 2025 – 56:32
  • Paul M. McGarr, "Spying in South Asia: Britain, the United States, and India's Secret Cold War" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
    Apr 20, 2025 – 01:05:30
  • Political Mythmaking in Nepal
    Apr 18, 2025 – 31:27
  • John Nemec, "Brahmins and Kings: Royal Counsel in the Sanskrit Narrative Literatures" (Oxford UP, 2025)
    Apr 17, 2025 – 53:57
  • Sarah Saddler, "Performing Corporate Bodies: Multinational Theatre in Global India" (Routledge, 2025)
    Apr 16, 2025 – 01:10:32
  • Titas Chakraborty, "Empire of Labor: How the East India Company Colonized Hired Work" (U California Press, 2025)
    Apr 15, 2025 – 01:30:21
  • Christopher Key Chapple, "The SāṃKhya System: Accounting for the Real" (SUNY Press, 2024)
    Apr 10, 2025 – 56:21
  • William Dalrymple, "The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
    Apr 8, 2025 – 39:01
  • Philip Harling, "Managing Mobility: The British Imperial State and Global Migration, 1840-1860" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
    Apr 1, 2025 – 01:11:10
  • Rhys Machold, "Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements Across India and Palestine/Israel" (Stanford UP, 2024)
    Mar 31, 2025 – 40:47
  • Hemangini Gupta, "Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India" (U California Press, 2024)
    Mar 31, 2025 – 41:59
  • Vidyan Ravinthiran, "Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir" (Icon Books, 2025)
    Mar 30, 2025 – 54:04
  • Azmeary Ferdoush, "Sovereign Atonement: Citizenship, Territory, and the State at the Bangladesh-India Border" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
    Mar 29, 2025 – 01:22:44
  • Kiyokazu Okita, "The Building of Vṛndāvana: Architecture, Theology, and Practice in an Early Modern Pilgrimage Town" (Brill, 2023)
    Mar 27, 2025 – 42:41
  • Farah Ahamed, "Period Matters: Menstruation in South Asia" (Pan Macmillan, 2022)
    Mar 26, 2025 – 49:24
  • Joshua Ehrlich, "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
    Mar 25, 2025 – 51:23
  • V. Chitra, "Drawing Coastlines: Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai's Shore" (Cornell UP, 2024)
    Mar 24, 2025 – 01:04:16
  • Madhavi Devasher, "Crossing Lines: Cross-Ethnic Coalitions in India and Prospects for Minority Representation" (Routledge, 2024)
    Mar 23, 2025 – 42:07
  • India in the Global Attention Economy
    Mar 22, 2025 – 26:32
  • Ashis Ray, "The Trial That Shook Britain: How a Court Martial Hastened Acceptance of Indian Independence" (Routledge India, 2024)
    Mar 21, 2025 – 41:50
  • Jon Chapple, "Sri Krishna Prem: A Wing and a Prayer" (Blazing Sapphire Press, 2024)
    Mar 20, 2025 – 43:02
  • Radha Kapuria and Vebhuti Duggal, "Punjab Sounds: In and Beyond the Region" (Routledge, 2024)
    Mar 19, 2025 – 01:09:44
  • Mick Brown, "The Nirvana Express: How the Search for Enlightenment Went West" (Oxford UP, 2023)
    Mar 18, 2025 – 01:43:10
  • Brian Collins, "The Other Rama: Matricide and Genocide in the Mythology of Parasurama" (SUNY Press, 2020)
    Mar 18, 2025 – 01:00:50
  • Patrick Beldio, "The Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram: Co-Creator of the Integral Yoga" (Lexington Books, 2024)
    Mar 13, 2025 – 49:06
  • Daemons, Tantra, and Cultural Exchange with David Gordon White
    Mar 11, 2025 – 01:02:16
  • Nadira Khatun, "Postcolonial Bollywood and Muslim Identity: Production, Representation, and Reception" (Oxford UP, 2024)
    Mar 7, 2025 – 46:26
  • Manu Pillai, "Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity" (Allen Lane, 2025)
    Mar 6, 2025 – 01:02:51
  • Anna Lise Seastrand, "Body, History, Myth: Early Modern Murals in South India" (Princeton UP, 2024)
    Mar 6, 2025 – 44:07
  • Violent Majorities 2.3: Long-Distance Ethnonationalism Roundup (LA, AS)
    Mar 6, 2025 – 46:52
  • Janam Mukherjee, "Hungry Bengal: War, Famine and the End of Empire" (Oxford UP, 2015)
    Mar 6, 2025 – 01:00:46
  • Paul G. Keil, "The Presence of Elephants: Shared Lives and Landscapes in Assam" (Routledge, 2024)
    Mar 2, 2025 – 57:15
  • Esha Niyogi De, "Women's Transborder Cinema: Authorship, Stardom, and Filmic Labor in South Asia" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
    Mar 1, 2025 – 01:16:44
  • Material Religion, Assemblage, and the Agency of Things in South Asia
    Feb 27, 2025 – 49:33
  • Raheel Dhattiwala, "Keeping the Peace: Spatial Differences in Hindu-Muslim Violence in Gujarat in 2002" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
    Feb 27, 2025 – 56:28
  • Preetha Mani, "The Idea of Indian Literature: Gender, Genre, and Comparative Method" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
    Feb 21, 2025 – 55:40
  • Tahir Kamran, "Chequered Past, Uncertain Future: The History of Pakistan" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
    Feb 20, 2025 – 01:00:53
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