As Review Editor for Contemporary South Asia, I invite academic colleagues, postgraduate research students and other suitably qualified persons to review one of the works listed below. Potential reviewers should send their full name, position, institutional affiliation (if applicable), full mailing address and mobile number, a brief summary of their published work, and the title of the book they would like to review to:
Dr Raphael Susewind, King’s College London, 40 Aldwych, London WC2B 4BG, United Kingdom
Email: [email protected], Twitter: @contemporarySA
A regularly updated version of this list can be found at https://bit.ly/csa-available.
Abraham, Itty, How India became territorial: Foreign policy, diaspora, geopolitics. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2014.
Ahmad, Irfan and Pralay Kanungo, eds, The algebra of warfare-welfare: A long view of India’s 2014 election. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2019.
Allchin, Joseph, Many rivers, one sea: Bangladesh and the challenge of Islamist militancy. London, Hurst, 2019.
Andersen, Walter and Shridhar D Damle, Messengers of Hindu nationalism: How the RSS reshaped India. London, Hurst, 2019.
Basu, Tapan and Tasneem Shahnaaz, eds, Crossing Borders: Essays on Literature, Culture and Society in Honour of Amritjit Singh. Madison, Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017.
Bose, Chandan, Perspectives on work, home, and identity from artisans in Telangana. Cham, Palgrave MacMillan, 2019.
Brooten, Lisa, Jane Madlyn McElhone and Gayathry Venkiteswaran, eds, Myanmar media in transition: Legacies, challenges and change. Singapore: ISEAS, 2019.
Chakraborty, Achin, Subhanil Chowdhury, Supurna Banerjee and Zaad Mahmood, Limits of bargaining: Capital, labor and the state in contemporary India. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Chua, Lynette J, The politics of love in Myanmar: LGBT mobilization and human rights as a way of life. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 209.
Das, Ritanjan, Neoliberalism and the transforming left in India: A contradictory manifesto. London, Routledge, 2018.
Davis, Carol C, Theatre of Nepal and the people who make it. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Duara, Prasenjit and Elizabeth J Perry, Beyond regimes: China and India compared. Cambridge, Harvard University Asia Centre, 2018.
Dubash, Navroz K, Sunila S Kale and Ranjit Bharvirkar, eds, Mapping power: The political economy of electricity in India’s states. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2018.
Elahi, N, Terrorism in Pakistan: The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the challenge to security. London, IB Tauris, 2019.
Fuchs, Simon Wolfgang, In a pure Muslim land: Shi’ism between Pakistan and the Middle East. Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 2019.
Gagné, Karine, Caring for glaciers: Land, animals, and humanity in the Himalayas. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2019.
Holdrege, Barbara A, Bhakti and embodiment: Fashioning divine bodies and devotional bodies in Krsna Bhakti. London, Routledge, 2015.
Huntington, Eric, Creating the universe: Depictions of the cosmos in Himalayan Buddhism. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2018.
Jaaware, Aniket, Practicing caste: On touching and not touching. New York, Fordham University Press, 2019.
Jain, B M, South Asia conundrum: The great power gambit. Lanham, Lexington, 2019.
Jayawardena, Kumari and Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena, eds, The search for justice: The Sri Lanka papers. Delhi, Zubaan, 2016.
Jegathesan, Mythri, Tea & solidarity: Tamil women & work in postwar Sri Lanka. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2019.
Krichewsky, Damien, Corporate social responsibility and economic responsiveness in India. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Legg, Stephen and Deana Heath, eds, South Asian governmentalities: Michel Foucault and the question of postcolonial orderings. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Lucia, Amanda J, Reflections of Amma: Devotees in a global embrace. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2014.
Maunaguru, Sidharthan, Marrying for a future: Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil marriages in the shadow of war. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2019.
Maycock, Matthew, Masculinity and modern slavery in Nepal: Transitions into freedom. London, Routledge, 2019.
McCartney, Matthew, The Indian Economy. Newcastle, Agenda, 2019.
McDuie-Ra, Duncan, Debating race in contemporary India. Basingstoke, Palgrave MacMillan, 2015.
Raychaudhuri, Anindya, Homemaking: Radical nostalgia and the construction of a South Asian diaspora. London, Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.
Rocklin, Alexander, The regulation of religion and the making of Hinduism in colonial Trinidad. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2019.
Sandten, Cecile, Re-inventing the postcolonial (in the) metropolis. Leiden, Brill, 2016.
Sengupta, Arghya, Independence & accountability of the Indian higher judiciary. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Sethi, Devika, War over words: Censorship in India, 1930-1960. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Shah, Alpa, Nightmarch: Among India’s revolutionary guerillas. London, Hurst, 2018.
Singh, Amardeep, The films of Mira Nair: Diaspora vérité. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2018.
Slate, Nico, Lord Cornwallis is dead: The struggle for democracy in the United States and India. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2019.
Slate, Nico, Gandhi’s search for the perfect diet: Eating with the world in mind. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2019.
Srinivas, Tulasi, The cow in the elevator: An anthropology of wonder. Durham, Duke University Press, 2018.
Tagliacozzo, Eric, Helen F Siu and Peter C Perdue, eds, Asia inside out: Itinerant people. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019.
Talbot, Cynthia, The last Hindu emperor: Prithviraj Chauhan and the Indian past 1200-2000. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Thomas, Sonja, Privileged minorities: Syrian Christianity, gender, and minority rights in postcolonial India. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2018.