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.
Allchin, Joseph. Many rivers, one sea: Bangladesh and the challenge of Islamist militancy. London: Hurst, 2019.
Auerbach, Adam Michael. Demanding development: The politics of public goods provision in India's urban slums. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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.
Behl, Natasha. Gendered citizenship: Understanding gendered violence in democratic India. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Bhandari, Parul. Money, culture, class: Elite women as modern subjects. London: Routledge, 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.
Chowdhury, Nusrat Sabina. Paradoxes of the popular: Crowd politics in Bangladesh. Stanford: Stanford 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.
Cons, Jason. Sensitive space: Fragmented territory at the India-Bangladesh border. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016.
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.
Finkelstein, Maura. The archive of loss: Lively ruination in mill land Mumbai. Durham: Duke University Press, 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.
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.
Jayawardena, Kumari and Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena, eds. The search for justice: The Sri Lanka papers. Delhi: Zubaan, 2016.
Jazeel, Tariq and Stephen Legg, eds. Subaltern geographies. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2019.
Hall, Ian. Modi and the reinvention of Indian Foreign Policy. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2019.
Heierstad, Geir. Caste, entrepreneurship and the illusions of tradition: Branding the potters of Kolkata. London: Anthem, 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.
Lemons, Katherine. Divorcing traditions: Islamic marriage law and the making of Indian secularism. Ithaca, 2019.
Leone, Fabio. Prophet and statesmen in crafting democracy in India: Political leadership, ideas, and compromises. Lanham: Lexington, 2019.
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.
Mokkil, Navaneetha. Unruly figures: Queerness, sex work, and the politics of sexuality in Kerala. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019.
Perera-Rajasingham, Nimanthi. Assembling ethnicities in neoliberal times: Ethnographic fictions and Sri lanka's war. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2019.
Rai, Amit S. Jugaad time: Ecologies of everyday hacking in India. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.
Rizvi, Mubbashir A. The ethics of staying: Social movements and land rights politics in Pakistan. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019.
Rocklin, Alexander. The regulation of religion and the making of Hinduism in colonial Trinidad. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019.
Sahoo, Sarbeswar. Pentecostalism and politics of conversion in India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Sandten, Cecile. Re-inventing the postcolonial (in the) metropolis. Leiden, Brill, 2016.
Sariola, Salla, and Bob Simpson. Research as development: Biomedical research, ethics, and collaboration in Sri Lanka. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019.
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.
Singh, Amardeep. The films of Mira Nair: Diaspora vérité. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2018.
Slate, Nico. Gandhi's search for the perfect diet: Eating with the world in mind. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019.
Snehi, Yogesh. Spatializing popular Sufi shrines in Punjab: Dreams, memories, territoriality. London: Routledge, 2019.
Srinivas, Tulasi. The cow in the elevator: An anthropology of wonder. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018.
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.