The Afterlife of Sai Baba

Karline McLain

• Hardcover | Engels | Global South Asia
• Nearly a century after his death, the image of Sai Baba, the serene old man with the white beard from Shirdi village in Maharashtra, India, is instant... Lees meer

Adivasi Art and Activism

Alice Tilche

• Hardcover | Engels | Global South Asia
• The uneasy alliance of tribal art and the museum movement As India consolidates an aggressive model of economic development, indigenous tribal people ... Lees meer

Mumbai Taximen

Tarini Bedi

• Paperback | Engels | Global South Asia
• Best Read for the General Public: IBP 2023 Accolades in the Humanities by the International Institute for Asian Studies 2nd Prize Winner of the 2022 V... Lees meer

Banaras Reconstructed

Madhuri Desai

• Paperback | Engels | Global South Asia
• Between the late sixteenth and early twentieth centuries, Banaras, the iconic Hindu center in northern India that is often described as the oldest liv... Lees meer

Mobilizing Krishna's World

Heidi Pauwels

• Paperback | Engels | Global South Asia
• Savant Singh (1694-1764), the Rajput prince of Kishangarh-Rupnagar, is famous for commissioning beautiful works of miniature painting and composing de... Lees meer

New Lives in Anand

Sanderien Verstappen

• Hardcover | Engels | Global South Asia
• In 2002 widespread communal violence tore apart towns and villages in rural parts of Gujarat, India. In the aftermath, many Muslims living in Hindu-ma... Lees meer

High-Tech Housewives

Amy Bhatt

• Hardcover | Engels | Global South Asia
• Tech companies such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft promote the free flow of data worldwide, while relying on foreign temporary IT workers to build, ... Lees meer

History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200-2000

Sumit Guha

• Hardcover | Engels | Global South Asia
• In this far-ranging and erudite exploration of the South Asian past, Sumit Guha discusses the shaping of social and historical memory in world-histori... Lees meer

The Gender of Caste

Charu Gupta

• Hardcover | Engels | Global South Asia
• Caste and gender are complex markers of difference that have traditionally been addressed in isolation from each other, with a presumptive maleness pr... Lees meer

The Afterlife of Sai Baba

Karline McLain

• Paperback | Engels | Global South Asia
• Nearly a century after his death, the image of Sai Baba, the serene old man with the white beard from Shirdi village in Maharashtra, India, is instant... Lees meer

New Lives in Anand

Sanderien Verstappen

• Paperback | Engels | Global South Asia
• In 2002 widespread communal violence tore apart towns and villages in rural parts of Gujarat, India. In the aftermath, many Muslims living in Hindu-ma... Lees meer

Lahore Cinema

Iftikhar Dadi

• Paperback | Engels | Global South Asia
• A pioneering analysis of exemplary feature films Commercial cinema has been among the most powerful vectors of social and aesthetic modernization in S... Lees meer

Marrying for a Future

Sidharthan Maunaguru

• Paperback | Engels | Global South Asia
• The civil war between the Sri Lankan state and Tamil militants, which ended in 2009, lasted more than three decades and led to mass migration, mainly ... Lees meer

Adivasi Art and Activism

Alice Tilche

• Paperback | Engels | Global South Asia
• The uneasy alliance of tribal art and the museum movement As India consolidates an aggressive model of economic development, indigenous tribal people ... Lees meer

Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains

Nachiket Chanchani

• Hardcover | Engels | Global South Asia
• From approximately the third century BCE through the thirteenth century CE, the remote mountainous landscape around the glacial sources of the Ganga (... Lees meer

Displaying Time

Rebecca M Brown

• Paperback | Engels | Global South Asia
• From the fluttering fabric of a tent, to the blurred motion of the potter's wheel, to the rhythm of a horse puppet's wooden hooves--these scenes make ... Lees meer

A Place for Utopia

Smriti Srinivas

• Hardcover | Engels | Global South Asia
• Exploring several utopian imaginaries and practices, A Place for Utopia ties different times together from the early twentieth century to the present,... Lees meer

Making the Modern Slum

Sheetal Chhabria

• Hardcover | Engels | Global South Asia
• In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Bombay was beset by crises such as famine and plague. Yet, rather than halting the flow of capit... Lees meer

Displaying Time

Rebecca M Brown

• Hardcover | Engels | Global South Asia
• From the fluttering fabric of a tent, to the blurred motion of the potter's wheel, to the rhythm of a horse puppet's wooden hooves--these scenes make ... Lees meer

Making the Modern Slum

Sheetal Chhabria

• Paperback | Engels | Global South Asia
• In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Bombay was beset by crises such as famine and plague. Yet, rather than halting the flow of capit... Lees meer

Creating the Universe

Eric Huntington

• Hardcover | Engels | Global South Asia
• Winner, 2018 Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities Buddhist representations of the cosmos across nearly two thousand years of hist... Lees meer

Gandhi's Search for the Perfect Diet

Nico Slate

• Hardcover | Engels | Global South Asia
• Mahatma Gandhi redefined nutrition as fundamental to building a more just world. What he chose to eat was intimately tied to his beliefs, and his key ... Lees meer

Bhakti and Power

• Paperback | Engels | Global South Asia
• Bhakti , a term ubiquitous in the religious life of South Asia, has meanings that shift dramatically according to context and sentiment. Sometimes tra... Lees meer

Making New Nepal

Amanda Thérèse Snellinger

• Hardcover | Engels | Global South Asia
• One of the most important political transitions to occur in South Asia in recent decades was the ouster of Nepal's monarchy in 2006 and the institutio... Lees meer