South Asia Research, Ahead of Print. Rahul Sagar, To Raise a Fallen People: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Indian Views on International Politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022), xviii + 289 pp.
South Asia Research, Ahead of Print. In a much-publicised event in 1928, a section of the Goan Catholics of tribal origin reconverted to Hinduism. In this highly charged political context, the act of shuddhi framed the event as a straightforward homeco…
South Asia Research, Ahead of Print. This article analyses the manner in which bourgeois environmentalism and aspirational urban planning have brought about a recalibration of justice for agrarian communities along the Yamuna in Delhi. Bela Estate, the…
South Asia Research, Ahead of Print. Domestic workers used to be treated virtually as members of the family in South Asian contexts, with much evidence of various forms of exploitation. Presently, the increasing prevalence of formal patron–client dynam…
South Asia Research, Ahead of Print. Saurav Kumar Rai, Ayurveda, Nation and Society: United Provinces, c. 1890–1950 (Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan, 2024), xxviii + 264 pp.
South Asia Research, Ahead of Print. Anjali Singh, Voices and Silences: Narratives of Girmitiyas and Jahajis from Fiji and the Caribbean (London: Routledge, 2023), 215 pp.
South Asia Research, Ahead of Print. Amya Agrawal, Contesting Masculinities and Women’s Agency in Kashmir (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022), xi + 161 pp.
South Asia Research, Ahead of Print. Within the public sphere of South Asian countries, prominent movements to formally recognise gender diversity and decriminalise same-sex relations have had effects in Nepal and India, but same-sex relations remain a…
South Asia Research, Ahead of Print. Ranjana Saha, Modern Maternities: Medical Advice about Breastfeeding in Colonial Calcutta (London and New York: Routledge, 2024), xvi + 274 pp.
South Asia Research, Ahead of Print. Postnatal experience is one of the most under-researched areas within medical sociology and anthropology scholarship in India. Using a qualitative lens, this study examines the postnatal experiences of a particular …