New Books in South Asian Studies

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Interviews with Scholars of South Asia about their New BooksSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/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
Recent Reviews
  • cyrardwp21
    Breadth and depth in an underrepresented (podcast-wise) region
    The podcasts certainly have the format and flare of an academic 1-on-1, but do a major service to those interested in South Asia. There are very few other podcast sources on South Asia that cover the range of topics or dive into them as well as this does.
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