Spring/Summer 2006

Courtly Culture and Political Life in Early Medieval India. By Daud Ali. Cambridge University Press, 2004. Reviewed by Blake Wentworth, Published in South Asia News, pp. 7-8.

The Buddhist Visnu: Religious Transformation, Politics, and Culture. By John Clifford Holt. Columbia University Press, 2004. Reviewed by Gautham Reddy, Published in South Asia News, pp. 9-10.

Bringing the Gods to Mind: Mantra and Ritual in Early Indian Sacrifice. By Laurie L. Patton. University of California Press, 2005. Reviewed by Jeanette Darcy, Published in South Asia News, pp. 10.

A History of Nepal. By John Whelpton. Cambridge University Press, 2005. Reviewed by Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, Published in South Asia News, pp. 11.

Reorganising Power in Indonesia: The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of Markets. By Richard Robison and Vedi R. Hadiz. Routledge Curzon, 2004. Reviewed by Rachel Rinaldo, Published in South Asia News, pp. 12-13.

Stigmas of the Tamil Stage: An Ethnography of Special Drama Artists in South India. By Susan Seizer. Duke University Press, 2005. Reviewed by Jim Sykes, Published in South Asia News, pp. 13-14.

Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siècle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship. By Leela Gandhi. Duke University Press, 2005. Reviewed by Sean Dowdy, Published in South Asia News, pp. 14-15.

Connected Places: Region, Pilgrimage, and Geographical Imagination in India. By Anne Feldhaus. Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Reviewed by Aaron Rester, Published in South Asia News, pp. 15.

 

Autum/Winter 2005-06

The Mughals of India. By Harbans Mukhia. Blackwell Publishing, 2004. Reviewed by Rajeev Kinra, Published in South Asia News, pp. 8-10.

The Gendered Nation: Contemporary Writings from South Asia. By Neluka Silva. Sage Publications, 2004. Reviewed by Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury, Published in South Asia News, pp. 10-11.

Much Ado About Religion. By Bhatta Jayanta. Edited by Csaba Dezso. The Clay Sanskrit Library: New York University Press and The JJC Foundation, 2005. Reviewed by Whitney Cox, Published in South Asia News, pp. 11-12.

The Absent-Minded Imperialists: Empire, Society and Culture in Britain. By Bernard Porter. Oxford University Press, 2004. Reviewed by Manan Ahmed, Published in South Asia News, pp. 12-13.

Telling Lives in India: Biography, Autobiography, and Life History. By David Arnold and Stuart Blackburn. Indiana University Press, 2004. Reviewed by Jocelyn Marrow, Published in South Asia News, pp. 13-14

Fraternal Capital: Peasant-workers, Self-made Men, and Globalization in Provincial India. By Sharad Chari. Stanford University Press, 2004. Reviewed by Sareeta Amrute, Published in South Asia News, pp. 14-15.

Spring/Summer 2005

The Ramayana Revisted. Edited by Mandakranta Bose. Oxford University Press, 2004. Reviewed by Adheesh Sathaye, Published in South Asia News, pp. 7-8.

God Willing: The Politics of Islamism in Bangladesh. By Ali Riaz. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2004. Reviewed by Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury, Published in South Asia News, pp. 8-9.

Sri Lankan Society in an Era of Globalization: Struggling to Create a New Social Order. Edited by S.H. Hasbullah and Barrie M. Morrison. Sage Publications, 2004. Reviewed by Jim Sykes, Published in South Asia News, p. 10.

Away: The Indian Writer as an Expatriate. By Amitava Kumar. Routledge Press, 2004. Reviewed by Lisa Outar, Published in South Asia News, p. 11.



Autumn/Winter 2004-05

The Indian Princes and their States (The New Cambridge History of India). By Barbara N. Ramusack. Cambridge University Press, 2004. Reviewed by Bali Sahota.

Investigating Social Capital: Comparative Perspectives on Civil Society, Participation and Governance. Edited by Sanjeev Prakash and Per Selle. Sage Publications, 2004. Reviewed by Liza Weinstein.

Modern South Asia : History Culture, Political Economy. Second Edition. By Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal. New York : Routledge, 2001. Reviewed by Ben Schonthal.

Producing India : From Colonial Economy to National Space. By Manu Goswami. University of Chicago Press, 2004. Reviewed by Aishwarya Lakshmi.

Reading the East India Company, 1720-1840: Colonial Currencies of Gender. By Betty Joseph. University of Chicago Press, 2004. Reviewed by Aishwarya Lakshmi.

The Mahabharata: 11. The Book of the Women. 12. The Book of the Peace, Part One. Translated and Edited by James L. Fitzgerald. University of Chicago Press, 2003. Reviewed by Whitney Cox, Published in South Asia News, pp. 7-8.

The Artists of Nathadwara: The Practice of Painting in Rajasthan. By Tryna Lyons. Indiana University Press, 2004. Reviewed by Aishwarya Laskhmi, Published in South Asia News, p. 9.

Blowback: Linguistic Nationalism, Institutional Decay and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka. By Neil DeVotta. Stanford University Press, 2004. Reviewed by Ben Schonthal, Published in South Asia News, p. 10.

The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World. By Partha Chatterjee. Columbia University Press, 2004. Reviewed by Genevieve Lakier, Published in South Asia News, p. 11.



Spring/Summer 2004

Nehru: A Political Life. By Judith M. Brown. Yale University Press, 2004. Reviewed by Boria Majumdar.

Reading the East India Company, 1720-1840: Colonial Currencies of Gender. By Betty Joseph. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004 . Reviewed by Aishwarya Lakshmi.

The Trauma and the Triumph: Gender and Partition in Eastern India. Edited by Jasodhara Bagchi, Subhoranjan Dasgupta. Stree, 2003. Reviewed by Debali Mookerjee.

The Political Economy of Craft Production: Crafting Empire in South India, c. 1350-1650. By Carla M. Sinopoli. Cambridge University Press, 2003. Reviewed by Peter G. Johnson, Published in South Asia News, pp. 8-9.

Bhrama in the West: William Blake and the Oriental Rennaissance. By David Weir. State University of New York Press, 2003. Reviewed by Bali Sahota, Published in South Asia News, pp. 9-10.

Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary India. By William Mazzarella. Duke University Press, 2003. Reviewed by Richard Delacy, Published in South Asia News, p. 11.

Poetrics of Village Politics: The Making of West Bengal's Rural Communism. By Arild Engelsen Ruud. Oxford University Press, 2003. Reviewed by Sharmistha Gooptua, Published in South Asia News, pp. 10-11.

Autumn/Winter 2003-04

Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India. By Antoinette Burton. Oxford University Press, 2003. Reviewed by Heather Hindman.

Encountering Kali in the Margins, at the Center, in the West. Edited by Jeffrey J. Kripal and Rachel Fell McDermott. University of California Press, 2003. Reviewed by Brian Collins.

The Scandal of the State: Women, Law and Citizenship in Postcolonial India. By Rajeswari Sunder Rajan. Duke University Press, 2003. Reviewed by Ananya Vajpeyi.

Buying and Believing: Sri Lankan Advertising and Consumers in a Transnational World. By Steven Kemper. University of Chicago Press, 2001. Reviewed by Ben Schonthal, Published in South Asia News, pp. 7-8.

Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India. By Ashutosh Varshney. Yale University Press, 2002. Reviewed by Ira Parnerkar, Published in South Asia News, pp. 8-9.

Children of Colonialism: Anglo-Indians in a Postcolonial World. By Lionel Caplan. Oxford University Press, 2001. Reviewed by Amanda Hamilton, Published in South Asia News, p. 9.

Beyond Nationalist Frames: Postmodernism, Hindu Fundamentalism, History. By Sumit Sarkar. Indiana Unviersity Press, 2002. Reviewed by Shreeyash Palshikar, Published in South Asia News, p. 10.

Seeking Bauls of Bengal. By Jeanne Openshaw. Cambridge University Press, 2000. Reviewed by Bertie Kibreah, Published in South Asia News, pp. 10-11.

Spring/Summer 2003

Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic. By Osho. Saint Martin 's Griffin Press, 2001. Reviewed by Gretchen Badami.

 

Autumn/Winter 2002-03

Women Saints in World Religions. Edited by Arvind Sharma. SUNY Press, 2000. Reviewed by David Clairmont.