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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Literature – January and February 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 20, 2013|Literature|0 comments

Criticism & interpretation Changing currents : transnational Caribbean literary and cultural criticism / edited by Emily Allen Williams, Melvin B. Rahming. Southeast Asian writers / ed. by David Smyth. Narrative noodles : essays on Indian novels in English / C.L. Khatri. Love’s subtle magic : an Indian Islamic literary tradition, 1379-1545 / Aditya Behl Realism in the twentieth-century Indian novel : colonial difference and literary form / Ulka Anjaria. Life

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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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South East Asia and Pacific – April 2012

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

Journals Asia Pacific World – Vol.1 (2010) onwards. Books Poverty and global recession in Southeast Asia / edited by Aris Ananta and Richard Barichello.  Governance in Pacific Asia : political economy and development from Japan to Burma / Peter Ferdinand. Film in contemporary Southeast Asia / edited by David C. L. Lim and Hiroyuki Yamamoto. Khmer bronzes : new interpretations of the past / Emma C. Bunker and Douglas Latchford. Manuel

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