New Books in South Asian Studies

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Disaster Nationalism: Tsunami and Civil War in Sri Lanka with Vivian Y Choi (Duke UP, 2025) – New Books in South Asian Studies
Palimpsests Past and Present: The Sufis and Sultans of the Maklī Necropolis, 1380–1660 with Fatima Quraishi (UNC Press, 2026) – New Books in South Asian Studies
Shared Sacred Sites in South Asia: Negotiating Coexistence and Belonging with Christophe Jaffrelot (Hurst, 2026) – New Books in South Asian Studies
Safar: Finding Home, History, and Culture through Punjabi Food in the American West with Madhushree Ghosh (Bloomsbury, 2026) – New Books in South Asian Studies
Terror, Torture and State Violence in Colonial India, with Deana Heath, hosted by Salman Sayyid and Claudia Radiven – New Books in South Asian Studies
The Cultural Heritage of Śākta Tantric Communities in India: Goddesses and Magicians in the Holy Groves of Kerala with Maciej Karasinski (Routledge, 2026) – New Books in South Asian Studies
Sea of Treasures: A Cultural History of Ancient Indian Ocean Trade – New Books in South Asian Studies
Emotions in Digital Heritage Language Use – New Books in South Asian Studies
An Alaṅkāra Reader: Classical Indian Poetics with Yigal Bronner (Columbia UP, 2026) – New Books in South Asian Studies
Fictions of Freedom: Migration, Modern Slavery and Bureaucracy in India with Pankhuri Agarwal (Cambridge UP, 2026) – New Books in South Asian Studies
Immoral Traffic An Ethnography of Law, NGOs, and the Governance of Prostitution in India with Vibhuti Ramachandran (Cambridge UP, 2025) – New Books in South Asian Studies
The Steppe and Its Empires: The Russian Empire and Its Eurasian Counterparts – New Books in South Asian Studies
The Colombo Plan: Development Internationalism in Cold War Asia with David Lowe (Cambridge UP, 2025) – New Books in South Asian Studies
Lives, Land, and Labour: A Social History of Eighteenth-Century Sri Lanka with Luc Bulten (Brill, 2026) – New Books in South Asian Studies
India, China, and Climate Change Governance: Leadership and Responsibility in the Asian Global South with Amit Ranjan and Agnieszka Nitza-Makowska (Routledge, 2026) – New Books in South Asian Studies
The Range of the River: A Riverine History of Empire Across China, India, and Southeast Asia with Iftekhar Iqbal (Stanford UP, 2025) – New Books in South Asian Studies
Spies and Other Pigeons: Hospitality and Hostility in Multispecies Pakistan with Muhammad A. Kavesh (U Washington, 2026) – New Books in South Asian Studies
Weaponizing Civilian Protection: Counterinsurgency and Collateral Damage in Afghanistan with Thomas Gregory (Oxford UP, 2025) – New Books in South Asian Studies
Karline McLain, "Living with Gandhi: Experiments in Utopia" (Association for Asian Studies, 2026) – New Books in South Asian Studies
Mehran Gul, "The New Geography of Innovation: The Global Contest for Breakthrough Technologies" (Simon and Schuster, 2026) – New Books in South Asian Studies
Pushpesh Kumar et al. eds., "Sociology of Gender in India: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives" (Cambridge UP, 2026) – New Books in South Asian Studies
Darinee Alagirisamy, "Sober State: Origins of Alcohol Prohibition in India" (Cambridge UP, 2025) – New Books in South Asian Studies
Sanjay Joshi, "Brahmins of the Himalaya: Upper-Caste Ways of Belonging, 1850-1950" (SUNY Press, 2026) – New Books in South Asian Studies
Ashish Koul, "Reinventing Caste: Islam and Hierarchy in Late Colonial India" (Stanford UP, 2026) – New Books in South Asian Studies
Janaka Jayawickrama and Jerome Wright, "Under the Gaze of Global Mental Health: A Critical Reflection" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) – New Books in South Asian Studies
Srirupa Roy, "The Political Outsider: Indian Democracy and the Lineages of Populism" (Stanford UP, 2024) – New Books in South Asian Studies
Kanchana N. Ruwanpura and Wilfried Swenden eds., "Protecting Workers? Crisis, COVID-19 and South Asia" (Helsinki UP, 2026) – New Books in South Asian Studies
Niharika Pandit, "Occupying the Everyday: Militarisation and Gendered Politics of Living in Kashmir" (Oxford UP, 2026) – New Books in South Asian Studies
Vivek Neelakantan, "The Emergence of International Health Policy in Southeast Asia, India, and Sri Lanka, 1937–1978" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026) – New Books in South Asian Studies
Sandip Roy, "Chapal Rani, the Last Queen of Bengal" (Seagull Books, 2026) – New Books in South Asian Studies