South Asia – December 2013 to July 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 11, 2015|South Asia|

Art, Archaeology and Architecture

• Excavations at Kanaganahalli (Sannati), Taluk Chitapur, Dist. Gulbarga, Karnataka / K.P. Poonacha.
• The hermit’s hut : architecture and asceticism in India / Kazi K. Ashraf.
• Late temple architecture in India 15th to 19th centuries : continuities, revivals, appropriations, and innovations / George Michell.
• Nalanda : situating the great monastery / Frederick M. Asher.
• No touching, no spitting, no praying : the museum in South Asia / editors, Saloni Mathur and Kavita Singh.
• Power, memory, architecture : contested sites on India’s Deccan Plateau, 1300-1600 / by Richard M. Eaton, Phillip B. Wagoner.

Caste

• Civility against caste : dalit politics and citizenship in western India / Suryakant Waghmore.
• Beyond caste : identity and power in South Asia, past and present / by Sumit Guha.

Conflict

• Unconventional warfare in South Asia : shadow warriors and counterinsurgency / by Scott Gates and Kaushik Roy.
• Useful enemies : when waging wars is more important than winning them / David Keen.

Economics

• The Indian Ocean in world history / Edward A. Alpers.
• Regional economic integration in South Asia : trapped in conflict? / Amita Batra.

Geography

• A matter of rats : a short biography of Patna / Amitava Kumar. [on order]

History

• A history of Rajasthan / Rima Hooja.
• Indian doctors in Kenya, 1890-1940 : the forgotten history / Anna Greenwood and Harshad Topiwala.
• In freedom’s shade / Anis Kidwai ; translated by Ayesha Kidwai.
• King, governance, and law in ancient India : Kauṭilya’s Arthaśāstra / a new annot. transl. by Patrick Olivelle.
• Knowing India : colonial and modern constructions of the past : essays in honor of Thomas R. Trautmann / [edited by Cynthia Talbot].
• The non-aligned movement and the Cold War : Delhi – Bandung – Belgrade / edited by Nataša Mišković, Harald Fischer-Tiné and Nada Boškovska.
• Raja Serfoji II : science, medicine and enlightenment in Tanjore / Savithri Preetha Nair.
• Rethinking early medieval India : a reader / edited by Upinder Singh.
• Sophia : princess, suffragette, revolutionary / Anita Anand. [on order]
• Voyage to Goa and back, 1583-1592, with his account of the East Indies : (from Linschoten’s Discourse of voyages, in 1598) / Jan Huyghen van Linschoten ; [with an introduction by C. Raymond Beazley].

Languages and Linguistics

• Bengali and other related dialects of South Assam / S.S. Tunga
• Descriptive grammar of Bangla / Anne Boyle David ; edited by Thomas J. Conners, Dustin A. Chacon. [on order]
• Script, identity, region / a study in Sylhet Nagri : editor Anuradha Chanda

Literature & poetry

• 2 states : the story of my marriage / a novel by Chetan Bhagat.
• A history of the Indian novel in English / edited by Ulka Anjaria.
• Indian writing in English and issues of visual representation : judging more than a book by its cover / Lisa Lau, E. Dawson Varughese. [on order]
• Of gardens and graves : essays on Kashmir, poems in translation / Suvir Kaul ; photographs: Javed Dar.
• Sleeping on Jupiter / Anuradha Roy. [on order]
• Paul Scott : a life / Hilary Spurling.
• Kāvyamīmāṃsā of Rājaśekhara : original text in Sanskrit and translation with explanatory notes / by Sadhana Parashar. [on order]

Music

• Remembered rhythms : issues of diaspora and music in India / edited by Shubha Chaudhuri and Anthony Seeger.
• The Songs of K̲h̲ayāl / Nicolas Magriel with Lalita du Perron.

Politics

• Politics as performance : a social history of the Telugu cinema / S.V. Srinivas.
• Why India votes? / by Mukulika Banerjee.

Poverty & Malnutrition

• Diets, malnutrition, and disease : the Indian experience / edited by Raghav Gaiha, Raghbendra Jha, Vani S. Kulkarni.
• Quantifying malnutrition in India : an analysis of the determinants of nutrient intake / Rekha Sharma

Religion

Buddhism

• Analysis of the Bhikkhu Patimokkha / Bhikkhu N̄āṇatusita [on order]
• The Buddhist heritage of Pakistan : art of gandhara / [edited by Adriana Proser].
• Buddhist nuns, monks, and other worldly matters : recent papers on monastic Buddhism in India / Gregory Schopen.
• The Buddhist philosophy of the middle : essays on Indian and Tibetan Madhyamaka / David Seyfort Ruegg.
• Golden faces of Dipankara Buddha : Samyak Mahadan festival of Nepal : excellence in Newari arts and crafts / Chandra B. Shakya. [on order]
• In clear words : the Prasannapada, chapter one / Anne MacDonald.
• Image problems : the origin and development of the Buddha’s image in early South Asia / Robert DeCaroli.
• Nagarjuna’s Middle way : the Mulamadhyamakakarika / Mark Siderits and Shoryu Katsura.
• Narrating karma and rebirth : Buddhist and Jain multi-life stories / by Naomi Appleton.
• The ornament of lay followers : a translation of Ānanda’s Upāsakajanālaṅkāra / [by Bhadanta Ananda, Svāmin]; translated by Giulio Agostini.

Christianity

• Preach and heal : a history of the missionaries in India / edited by Sandeep Sinha.

Sikhism

• The Oxford handbook of Sikh studies / edited by Pashaura Singh and Louis E. Fenech.
• Sikhism : an introduction / by Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh.

Hinduism

• Cult of the goddess / edited by Arputha Rani Sengupta ; foreword by R.C. Mishra ; prologue by Jawhar Sircar ; preface by Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty.
• Hindu pilgrimage : shifting patterns of worldview of Shri Sailam / Prabhavati C. Reddy.
• Was Hinduism invented? : Britons, Indians, and colonial construction of religion / Brian K. Pennington

Zoroastrianism

• Zoroastrianism /  Suresh K. Sharma [on order]

Yoga

• Guruji : a portrait of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois through the eyes of his students / Guy Donahaye and Eddie Stern