Contemporary South Asia, Volume 27, Issue 3 (2019)

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Awakening Hindu nationalism through yoga: Swami Ramdev and the Bharat Swabhiman movement
Bhuvi Gupta & Jacob Copeman
Pages: 313-329
Published online: 17 Mar 2019
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Island journeys: fisher itineraries and national imaginaries in Colombo
Alessandra Radicati
Pages: 330-341
Published online: 29 May 2019
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Everyday routines and the making of youth politics in Bangladesh
Morten Koch Andersen
Pages: 342-357
Published online: 05 Aug 2019
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Smart cities, backward frontiers: digital urbanism in India's north-east
Duncan McDuie-Ra & Lauren Lai
Pages: 358-372
Published online: 24 Jul 2019
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Producing local neoliberalism in a Leftist regime: neoliberal governmentality and populist transition in West Bengal, India
Ritanjan Das
Pages: 373-391
Published online: 15 Mar 2019
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Zeba Rizvi’s memory-emotions of Partition: silence and secularism-pyar
Deepra Dandekar
Pages: 392-406
Published online: 24 Jul 2019
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Exporting culture: festival of India 1982
Smriti Sawkar
Pages: 407-421
Published online: 04 Mar 2019
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Menus matter: examining class and Bengali cuisine culture through restaurant menus in Kolkata
Runa Das Chaudhuri
Pages: 422-435
Published online: 30 Jul 2019
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Displaying time: the many temporalities of the festival of India
by Rebecca M. Brown, Washington, Millard Meiss Publication, 2017, xvi + 211 pp., ₹2712.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-295-99994-4, Biswas
Paulami Guha Biswas
Pages: 436-437
Published online: 05 Aug 2019
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Ideology & identity: the changing party systems of India
by Pradeep K. Chhibber and Rahul Verma, New York, Oxford University Press, 2018, 336 pp., £20.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-19-062388-3, Schoeman
Albertus Schoeman
Pages: 437-438
Published online: 28 Jul 2019
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Mobilizing religion and gender in India: the role of activism
by Nandini Deo, London, Routledge, 2016, xiv + 159 pp., ISBN 978-1-138-49342-1, Sahoo
Sarbeswar Sahoo
Pages: 438-439
Published online: 06 Aug 2019
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Religion, space and conflict in Sri Lanka: colonial and postcolonial contexts
by Elizabeth J. Harris, London, Routledge, 2018, 256 pp., £115 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-138-30201-3, Purushothaman
Keerthi Purushothaman
Pages: 439-440
Published online: 30 Jul 2019
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Speak, memory: oral histories of Kodaikanal Dalits
by Alexandra de Heering, Pondicherry, Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, 2018, 401 pp., ISBN 978-81-8470-220-0, Sharma
Bhushan Sharma
Pages: 440-441
Published online: 30 Jul 2019
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Book Review
Migration and human security in South Asia
edited by Pramod Jaiswal, New Delhi, Adroit Publishers, 2018, 167 pp., 595 INR, $30.00 (hardback), ISBN 97-81-87393-62-7, Awasthi
Soumya Awasthi
Pages: 441-443
Published online: 06 Aug 2019
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A republic in the making: India in the 1950s
by Gyanesh Kudaisya, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2017, 233 pp., £22.99 (paper back), ISBN 978-0-198-09855-3, Anil
Pratinav Anil
Pages: 443-444
Published online: 30 Jul 2019
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Ambivalent engagement: the United States and regional security in Southeast Asia after the Cold War
by Joseph Chinyong Liow, Washington, Brookings Institution Press, 2017, 270 pp., ISBN 978-0-815-72967-9, Oinam
Anuradha Oinam
Pages: 444-445
Published online: 01 Aug 2019
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Gandhi’s moral politics
edited by Naren Nanda, London, Routledge, 2018, xv + 148 pp., £96.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-138-08273-1, Ghosh
Sujay Ghosh
Pages: 445-446
Published online: 31 Jul 2019
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Mobile citizens: French Indians in Indochina, 1858-1954
by Natasha Pairaudeau, Copenhagen, NIAS Press, 2016, v  +  370 pp., £65 (hardback), £25 (paperback), ISBN 978-87-7694-159-8, Somaiah
Chand Somaiah
Pages: 446-447
Published online: 01 Aug 2019
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Historical dictionary of Sri Lanka
by Patrick Peebles, Plymouth, Rowman and Littlefield, 2015, xliii + 449 pp., $145.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-4422-5584-5, Khan
Nazia Khan
Pages: 448-449
Published online: 31 Jul 2019
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Interrogating communalism: violence, citizenship and minorities in South India
by Salah Punathil, London, Routledge, 2019, xiv + 161 pp., 92 GBP (hardback), ISBN 978-1-138-50568-1, Susewind
Raphael Susewind
Pages: 449-450
Published online: 01 Aug 2019
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Northeast India: a place of relations
edited by Yasmin Saikia and Amit R Baishya, Delhi, Cambridge University Press, 2017, xi + 291 pp., ISBN 978-1-316-64188-0, Mishra
Swasti Vardhan Mishra
Pages: 450-451
Published online: 30 Jul 2019
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Caste and nature: dalits and Indian environmental politics
by Mukul Sharma, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2017, 336 pp., ₹995 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-199-47756-2, Kaithwar
Raj Kaithwar
Pages: 451-452
Published online: 02 Aug 2019
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Islam in Pakistan: A History
by Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2018, 401 pp., £30.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-691-14922-6, Briskey
Mark F. Briskey
Pages: 452-453
Published online: 02 Aug 2019
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Calls for Papers

Announcement
Books Available for Review
Pages: 454-455
Published online: 09 Sep 2019
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