Society and Culture in South Asia, Ahead of Print. The Buddhist reformist movement of nineteenth century Sri Lanka was a composite of wealth and the knowledge of the emerging local middle-class. The new middle class owned trades and industries, which f…
Society and Culture in South Asia, Ahead of Print. Anthropological–sociological studies since the colonial period in India largely saw tribes as homogeneous, unchanging and undifferentiated groups which were free from conflicts or exploitation. This ar…
Society and Culture in South Asia, Volume 8, Issue 1, Page 154-156, January 2022. Prathama Banerjee, Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South. Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan, 2021. 284 pp., ₹625, ISBN: 9789354420023.
Society and Culture in South Asia, Volume 8, Issue 1, Page 151-153, January 2022. J. Daniel Elam, Impossible and Necessary: Anticolonialism, Reading, and Critique. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2021, 212 pp., ₹895, ISBN: 9788194925835
Society and Culture in South Asia, Volume 8, Issue 1, Page 147-149, January 2022. Anil Kumar (Ed.), Women, Gender, and Justice: Issues and Perspectives. Delhi: Pragati Publications, 2019, xxiv + 248 pp., ₹895, ISBN: 978-81-7307-176-8.
Society and Culture in South Asia, Volume 8, Issue 1, Page 149-151, January 2022. Awadhendra Sharan, Dust and Smoke: Air Pollution and Colonial Urbanism, India, c.1860-c.1940. New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan Private Limited, 2020, ix+319 pp., ₹795. ISBN 97…
Society and Culture in South Asia, Volume 8, Issue 1, Page 144-147, January 2022. Wendy Doniger, The Ring of Truth and Other Myths of Sex and Jewelry. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017. 424 pp., ₹413, ISBN: 978-0-19-026711-7
Society and Culture in South Asia, Volume 8, Issue 1, Page 142-144, January 2022. Sharmistha Saha, Theatre and National Identity in Colonial India: Formation of a Community Through Cultural Practice. Aakar Books, Delhi, 2018, 253 pp., ₹695.00 (hardback…
Society and Culture in South Asia, Volume 8, Issue 1, Page 118-141, January 2022. Subsequent to the Partition of Bengal in 1905, the consolidation of linguistic identities and movements emerged as an important assertion of core democratic values, posit…
Society and Culture in South Asia, Volume 8, Issue 1, Page 96-117, January 2022. From the second-half of the twentieth century, a nascent Tamil cinema became increasingly influential in Tamil society and more prominent in political life. The Dravidar K…