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Mumbai on Two Wheels
Cycling, Urban Space, and Sustainable Mobility
Mumbai is not commonly seen as a bike-friendly city because of its dense traffic and the absence of bicycle lanes. Yet the city supports rapidly expanding and eclectic bicycle communities. Exploring how people bike and...
ISBN: 9780295752693
more detailsEcologies of Empire in South Asia, 1400-1900
Reveals how imperial power and local resistance have shaped landscapes
The perception, valuation, and manipulation of human environments all have their own layered histories. So Sumit Guha argues in this sweeping examination of a pivotal five...
ISBN: 9780295751498
more detailsThe Brush of Insight
Artists and Agency at the Mughal Court
Sheds light on the art and artists that gave material form to Mughal imperial vision
Over the course of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Mughal court painters evolved from illustrators of manuscripts and albums to...
ISBN: 9780295751092
more detailsSurviving the Sanctuary City
Asylum-Seeking Work in Nepali New York
Honorable Mention for the Shelley Fisher Fishkin Prize. Sponsored by the American Studies Association
On the production of migrant labor and suffering through asylum enforcement
Over the past several decades, the vibrant, multiethnic borough of Queens has...
ISBN: 9780295751528
more detailsOld Stacks, New Leaves
The Arts of the Book in South Asia
A deep dive into the visual forms, material contexts, social lives, and global circulations of books
In the twenty-first century, debates on the future of books and print culture have intensified with the rise of digital...
ISBN: 9780295751115
more detailsLahore Cinema
Between Realism and Fable
A pioneering analysis of exemplary feature films
Commercial cinema has been among the most powerful vectors of social and aesthetic modernization in South Asia. So argues Iftikhar Dadi in his provocative examination of cinema produced between...
ISBN: 9780295750811
more detailsGoverning Water in India
Inequality, Reform, and the State
Intensifying droughts and competing pressures on water resources foreground water scarcity as an urgent concern of the global climate change crisis. In India, individual, industrial, and agricultural water demands exacerbate inequities of access and expose...
ISBN: 9780295750439
more detailsNew Lives in Anand
Building a Muslim Hub in Western India
In 2002 widespread communal violence tore apart towns and villages in rural parts of Gujarat, India. In the aftermath, many Muslims living in Hindu-majority villages sought safety in the small town of Anand. Following such...
ISBN: 9780295749648
more detailsMisreading the Bengal Delta
Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh
Perilously close to sea level and vulnerable to floods, erosion, and cyclones, Bangladesh is one of the top recipients of development aid earmarked for climate change adaptation. Yet to what extent do adaptation projects address...
ISBN: 9780295749617
more detailsMumbai Taximen
Autobiographies and Automobilities in India
Best Read for the General Public: IBP 2023 Accolades in the Humanities by the International Institute for Asian Studies
2nd Prize Winner of the 2022 Victor Turner Prize sponsored by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology
Brings...
ISBN: 9780295749860
more detailsAdivasi Art and Activism
Curation in a Nationalist Age
As India consolidates an aggressive model of economic development, indigenous tribal people known as adivasis continue to be overrepresented among the country’s poor. Adivasis make up more than eight hundred communities in India, with a...
ISBN: 9780295749716
more detailsReproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India
Finalist for the inaugural ACLS Open Access Book Prize
Calculating the cost of life in a transnational context
Beginning in the late nineteenth century, India played a pivotal role in global conversations about population and reproduction. In...
ISBN: 9780295748849
more detailsOutcaste Bombay
City Making and the Politics of the Poor
Caste, class, and development converge in a booming metropolis
Over the course of the twentieth century, Bombay’s population grew twentyfold as the city became increasingly industrialized and cosmopolitan. Yet beneath a veneer of modernity, old prejudices...
ISBN: 9780295748504
more detailsOpening Kailasanatha
The Temple in Kanchipuram Revealed in Time and Space
Stone figures hardened by ascetic discipline and heroic effort face north in deep shadow. There they meet the gazes of the same gods and goddesses but with gentler bodies enacting grace, warmth, seduction, and marriage,...
ISBN: 9780295747774
more detailsSouth Asian Filmscapes
Transregional Encounters
In South Asia massive anticolonial movements in the twentieth century created nation-states and reset national borders, forming the basis for emerging film cultures. Following the upheaval of the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947...
ISBN: 9780295747859
more detailsSacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian
The Everyday Politics of Eating Meat in India
Bovine politics exposes fault lines within contemporary Indian society, where eating beef is simultaneously a violation of sacred taboos, an expression of marginalized identities, and a route to cosmopolitan sophistication. The recent rise of Hindu...
ISBN: 9780295747880
more detailsThe Ends of Kinship
Connecting Himalayan Lives between Nepal and New York
For centuries, people from Mustang, Nepal, have relied on agriculture, pastoralism, and trade as a way of life. Seasonal migrations to South Asian cities for trade as well as temporary wage labor abroad have shaped...
ISBN: 9780295747699
more detailsMaking Kantha, Making Home
Women at Work in Colonial Bengal
In Bengal, mothers swaddle their infants and cover their beds in colorful textiles that are passed down through generations. They create these kantha from layers of soft, recycled fabric strengthened with running stitches and use...
ISBN: 9780295746999
more detailsA Secular Need
Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India
Whether from the perspective of Islamic law’s advocates, secularism’s partisans, or communities caught in their crossfire, many people see the relationship between Islamic law and secularism as antagonistic and increasingly discordant. In the United States...
ISBN: 9780295747088
more detailsGandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet
Eating with the World in Mind
Mahatma Gandhi redefined nutrition as fundamental to building a more just world. What he chose to eat was intimately tied to his beliefs, and his key values of nonviolence, religious tolerance, and rural sustainability developed...
ISBN: 9780295744964
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