1109, 2013

Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica – July 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 11, 2013|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Islam Christian Muslim relations : a bibliographical history / edited by David Thomas, Barbara Roggema and Alexander Mallett with Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala … [et al.]. Studies in medieval Shi’ism / Wilferd Madelung edited by Sabine Schmidtke. Studies on Sufism in Central Asia / Devin DeWeese. The dynamics of Sunni-Shia relationships : doctrine, transnationalism, intellectuals and the media / edited by Brigitte Maréchal and Sami Zemni. Hizbullah’s identity construction / Joseph

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0406, 2013

South Asia – May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 4, 2013|South Asia|0 comments

Agriculture and a changing environment in Northeastern India / editor, Sumi Krishna. The making of Bihar and Biharis : colonialism, politics and culture in modern India, c. 1870-1912 / Narendra Jha. The Tibetan world of the Indian Himalayas : an ethnography of the ‘garden of Dakini’ / Tanase Jiro. Filming fiction : Tagore, Premchand, and Ray / edited by M. Asaduddin and Anuradha Ghosh. The underside of things : India

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0705, 2013

South Asia – April 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 7, 2013|South Asia|0 comments

Sri Lanka and the Kandy Esala Perahera : discovering the spirit of Buddah in the land of elephants / Michael Sarnacki. The great Indian phonebook : how the mass mobile changes business, politics and daily life / Robin Jeffrey and Assa Doron. Beyond Swat : history, society and economy along the Afghanistan-Pakistan frontier / edited by Magnus Marsden, Benjamin Hopkins. Contesting nation : gendered violence in South Asia : notes on the postcolonial present / edited by Angana P. Chatterji and Lubna Nazir Chaudhry. Coins of Jahangir : creations of a

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0605, 2013

Development Studies – April 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 6, 2013|Development Studies|0 comments

Coffee and power : revolution and the rise of democracy in Central America / Jeffery M. Paige The art of coercion : the primitive accumulation and management of coercive power / Antonio Giustozzi. The new protectorates : international tutelage and the making of liberal states / James Mayall, Ricardo Soares De Oliveira, editors. Understanding economic growth in China and India : a comparative study of selected issues / Yanrui Wu.

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0803, 2013

South Asia – January and February 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 8, 2013|South Asia|0 comments

Gujarati communities across the globe : memory, identity and continuity / edited by Sharmina Mawani and Anjoom Mukadam. Bamboo : the wonderful grass / by G.K. Ghosh. Dalits and environment : a critical analysis / D.V. Rao, P. Lakshmi. Narrative noodles : essays on Indian novels in English / C.L. Khatri. A report on the preservation of Buddhist monuments at Bamiyan in Afghanistan / by B.B. Lal and R. Sengupta ; edited

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1412, 2012

South Asia – November 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 14, 2012|South Asia|0 comments

Ancient Indian influence on Japanese culture : a comparative study of civilizations / Yoshihiro Kaburagi. Abibhakta Bāṃlāra kr̥shaka saṃgrāma / Susnāta Dāśa South Asian texts in history : critical engagements with Sheldon Pollock / edited by Yigal Bronner, Whitney Cox, and Lawrence McCrea. Nepal : nation-state in the wilderness : managing state, democracy, and geopolitics / by Lok Raj Baral. Partition of India : why 1947? / edited by Kaushik

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1312, 2012

Development Studies – November 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 13, 2012|Development Studies|0 comments

Politics from afar : transnational diasporas and networks / [edited by ] Terrence Lyons and Peter Mandaville. Basic water science / Ajaya Dixit. The Communist revolution in Asia; tactics, goals, and achievements. Edited by Robert A. Scalapino.  The Elgar companion to development studies / edited by David Alexander Clark. [Also available as an e-book from Dawsonera] Decoding subaltern politics : ideology, disguise, and resistance in agrarian politics / James C.

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2211, 2012

South Asia – September and October 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 22, 2012|South Asia|0 comments

E- Book Princes of the Mughal Empire, 1504-1719 / Munis D. Faruqui. Available from Dawsonera The tiger vanquished : LTTE’s story / M.R. Narayan Swamy. Available from ebrary Print Journal The International Journal of Jaina Studies Books Nartanam. vol. 12, no. 2. –  Special issue of the journal ‘Narantam’ on Tagore’s vision of dance. Penser, dire et représenter l’animal dans le monde indien / textes réunis par Nalini Balbir et Georges-Jean

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3007, 2012

South Asia – July 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 30, 2012|South Asia|0 comments

South Asia Pakistans freedom & Allama Mashriqi : statements, letters, chronology of Khaksar Tehrik (movement) period : Mashriqis birth to 1947 / edited & compiled by Nasim Yousaf. Indian and Persian prosody and recitation / Hiroko Nagasaki ; English editing by Ronald I. Kim. Changing homelands : Hindu politics and the partition of India / Neeti Nair. Cross-disciplinary perspectives on a contested Buddhist site : Bodhgaya jataka / [edited by]

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