South Asian Studies - 2020

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A Guru’s Journey Pandit Chitresh Das and Indian Classical Dance in Diaspora SARAH MORELLI

A Guru’s Journey provides an ethnographic study of the kathak dance form in the San Francisco Bay Area community formed by Pandit Chitresh Das, an important modern exponent of Asian dance. Morelli investigates issues in teaching, learning, and performance that developed around Das during his time in the United States.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS Series: Music in American Life December 2019 270pp 9780252084683 £20.99 PB now £14.69

In the Name of the Nation India and Its Northeast SANJIB BARUAH

In the Name of the Nation offers a critical and much-needed contemporary historical account of the country’s troubled relations with this Northeastern region. Sanjib Baruah offers a nuanced account of this impossibly complicated story, asking how democracy can be sustained, and deepened, in these conditions.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: South Asia in Motion February 2020 296pp 9781503611283 £23.99 PB now £16.79

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Dying to Serve

Militarism, Affect, and the Politics of Sacrifice in the Pakistan Army MARIA RASHID

The Pakistan Army has deep roots in the colonial armed forces and relies heavily on certain regions to supply its soldiers, especially parts of rural Punjab, where men have served in the army for generations. These men and the military culture surrounding them are the focus of Dying to Serve, which addresses the question: how does the military thrive when so much of its work results in injury, debility, and death?

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: South Asia in Motion April 2020 288pp 9781503611986 £21.99 PB now £15.39

Grieving for Pigeons

Twelve Stories of Lahore ZUBAIR AHMED TRANSLATED BY ANNE MURPHY

In this poignant and meditative collection of short stories, Zubair Ahmad captures the lives and experiences of the people of the Punjab, a region divided between India and Pakistan. In an intimate narrative style, Ahmad writes a world that hovers between memory and imagination, home and abroad. The narrator follows the pull of his subconscious, shifting between past and present, recalling different eras of Lahore’s neighbourhoods and the communities that define them.

ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY PRESS Mingling Voices Series May 2020 128pp 9781771992817 £14.99 PB now £10.49

A Fragile Inheritance

Battle for Malaya

Saloni Mathur investigates the radical work of two seminal figures—New Dehli-based critic and curator Geeta Kapur, and her husband, contemporary multimedia artist, Vivan Sundaram—to show how their approach to artistic practice and theory may inform subsequent generations and serve as a model for artistic politics in our time.

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS October 2019 64 illus. 256pp 9781478003014 £20.99 PB now £14.69

Focusing on tactics of the ground battle that unfolded in Malaya between December 1941 and February 1942, rather than the failures of command, Kaushik Roy analyzes the organization of the imperial armies, looking primarily at the Indian Army, which comprised the largest portion of Commonwealth troops, and compares that army with those of Britain and Australia, which fought side by side with Indian soldiers.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Twentieth-Century Battles December 2019 13 maps 296pp 9780253044174 £27.99 PB now £19.59

Radical Stakes in Contemporary Indian Art SALONI MATHUR

A Human Rights Based Approach to Development in India EDITED BY MOSHE HIRSCH, ASHOK KOTWAL & BHARAT RAMASWAMI

Over the last twenty years, India has enacted legislation to turn development goals such as food security, primary education, and employment into legal rights for its citizens. But enacting laws is different from implementing them. This title examines a diverse range of human development issues over a period of rapid economic growth in India.

UBC PRESS Series: Asia Pacific Legal Culture and Globalization August 2019 12 charts, 25 tables 216pp 9780774860307 £50.00 HB now £35.00

The Indian Army in Defeat, 1941– 1942 KAUSHIK ROY

Bhakti and Power

Debating India’s Religion of the Heart EDITED BY JOHN STRATTON HAWLEY, CHRISTIAN LEE NOVETZKE & SWAPNA SHARMA

This title provides an accessible entry into key debates surrounding bhakti, presenting voices and vignettes from the 6th century to the present and from many parts of India’s cultural landscape. This volume showcases one of the most influential concepts in Indian history.

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS Series: Global South Asia May 2019 25 b&w illus. 272pp 9780295745503 £22.99 PB now £16.09

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Brand New Nation

Capitalist Dreams and Nationalist Designs in Twenty-First-Century India RAVINDER KAUR

The early twenty-first century was an optimistic moment of global futuresmaking, the chief narrative being the emergence of the BRICS nations. Brand New Nation reaches into the past and, inevitably, the future of this phenomenon as well as the fundamental shifts it has wrought in our understanding of the nation-state.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: South Asia in Motion August 2020 328pp 9781503612594 £21.99 PB now £15.39

Defining Girlhood in India

A Transnational History of Sexual Maturity Laws ASHWINI TAMBE

Tambe takes a transnational feminist approach to legal history, showing how intergovernmental debates influenced Indian laws and how expert discourses in India changed UN terminology about girls. Tambe argues the focus on child marriage has been tethered less to th UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS October 2019 218pp 9780252084560 £18.99 PB now £13.29

Elusive Lives

Hematologies

Muslim South Asia is widely thought of as a culture that idealizes female anonymity. However, Siobhan LambertHurley highlights an elusive strand of female autobiographical writings dating back several centuries to explore the ways in which they challenge our notions of a culture thought to both literally and figuratively veil its women.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: South Asia in Motion July 2018 296pp 9781503606517 £23.99 PB now £16.79

In this ground-breaking account of the political economy and cultural meaning of blood in contemporary India, Jacob Copeman and Dwaipayan Banerjee examine how the giving and receiving of blood has shaped social and political life. Hematologies traces how the substance congeals political ideologies, biomedical rationalities, and activist practices.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS December 2019 9 b&w halftones 288pp 9781501745096 £36.00 HB now £25.20

Faithful Fighters

Legalizing Sex

Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia SIOBHAN LAMBERT-HURLEY

Identity and Power in the British Indian Army KATE IMY

Faithful Fighters explores how military culture created unintended dialogues between soldiers and civilians, including Hindu nationalists, Sikh revivalists, and pan-Islamic activists.

Imy argues that the army militarized racial and religious difference, creating lasting legacies for the violent partition and independence of India and the endemic warfare and violence of the post-colonial world.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: South Asia in Motion December 2019 328pp 9781503610743 £21.99 PB now £15.39

The Political Life of Blood in India JACOB COPEMAN & DWAIPAYAN BANERJEE

Sexual Minorities, AIDS, and Citizenship in India CHAITANYA LAKKIMSETTI

This original ethnographic research explores the relationship between the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the rights-based struggles of sexual minorities in contemporary India. Sex workers, gay men, and transgender people became visible in the Indian public sphere in the mid-1980s when the rise of HIV/AIDS became a frightening issue.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS January 2020 208pp 9781479826360 £23.99 PB now £16.79

Mafia Raj

The Rule of Bosses in South Asia LUCIA MICHELUTTI, ASHRAF HOQUE, NICOLAS MARTIN, DAVID PICHERIT, PAUL ROLLIER, ARILD E. RUUD & CLARINDA STILL

Through stories of the lives of powerful and aspiring mafia bosses in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, this book illustrates their personal struggles as they climb the ladder of success.

Focusing on the particularities of these locations, the authors provide nuanced ideas about crime, corruption, and the lure of the strongman.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: South Asia in Motion December 2018 352pp 9781503607316 £23.99 PB now £16.79

Paradoxes of the Popular

Crowd Politics in Bangladesh NUSRAT SABINA CHOWDHURY

Chowdhury offers insight into what she calls, “the paradoxes of the popular,” which encompass the so-called Bangladesh Paradox to include the constitutive contradictions of popular politics, making an original case for the crowd as a defining feature and a foundational force of democratic practices in South Asia and beyond.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: South Asia in Motion August 2019 264pp 9781503609471 £21.99 PB now £15.39

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Partisan Aesthetics Modern Art and India’s Long Decolonization SANJUKTA SUNDERASON

Partisan Aesthetics explores art’s entanglements with conjunctural and climactic histories of late-colonial and postcolonial India, to foreground political, social, and intellectual formations of modern art during India’s long decolonization.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: South Asia in Motion July 2020 336pp 9781503612990 £23.99 PB now £16.79

Reading India Now

Contemporary Formations in Literature and Popular Culture ULKA ANJARIA

Anjaria categorizes post-2000 Indian literature and popular culture as constituting “the contemporary,” a movement defined by new and experimental forms—where high- and low-brow meet, and genres break down. Reading India Now studies the implications of this developing trend as both the right-wing resurges and marginalized voices find expression.

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS April 2019 322pp 9781439916636 £55.00 HB now £38.50

Shareholder Cities

Land Transformations Along Urban Corridors in India SAI BALAKRISHNAN In Shareholder Cities, Sai Balakrishnan

argues that some of India’s most decisive conflicts over its urban futures will unfold in the regions along the new economic corridors, such as the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, where electorally strong agrarian propertied classes directly encounter financially powerful incoming urban firms.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Series: The City in the Twenty-First Century November 2019 29 illus. 256pp 9780812251463 £56.00 HB now £39.20

case of AMP provides a unique lens through which to examine state and society relations in Pakistan, one that bridges literatures from subaltern studies and military and colonial power.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: South Asia in Motion May 2019 224pp 9781503608764 £21.99 PB now £15.39

Storytime in India

Looks at the complex series of events that allowed the entire Indian film industry to defy attempts to control, reform, and refine it in the twentieth century and beyond. Traces Indian cinema’s complicated history from the 1930s triumph over Hollywood imports to the global neoliberal aesthetic that encouraged the emergence of Bollywood.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS June 2020 232pp 9780252084997 £18.99 PB now £13.29

Wedding Songs, Victorian Tales, and the Ethnographic Experience HELEN PRISCILLA MYERS & UMESH CHANDRA PANDEY

Storytime in India is an exploration of the stories that come out of ethnographic fieldwork. The authors examine the ways in which their research collecting Bhojpuri wedding songs became interwoven with the stories of their lives, their work together, and their shared experience reading The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS June 2019 1 b&w illus, 1 map 544pp 9780253041630 £40.00 PB now £28.00

The Ethics of Staying

Social Movements and Land Rights Politics in Pakistan MUBBASHIR A. RIZVI

Mubbashir A. Rizvi presents an original framework for understanding the Anjuman Mazarin Punjab (AMP)–a major social movement in Pakistan. The

Unruly Cinema

History, Politics, and Bollywood RINI BATTACHARYA MEHTA

Where Histories Reside

India as Filmed Space PRIYA JAIKUMAR

Priya Jaikumar examines seven decades of films shot on location in India to show how attending to filmed space reveals alternative timelines and histories of cinema as well as the myriad ways cinema constructs India as a place.

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS October 2019 80 illus. 416pp 9781478004752 £24.99 PB now £17.49

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