Book Reviews—South Asia
Contrasting and Yet Sharing: A History of Two Western Medicine Traditions in British India - Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India: Family, Market and Homeopathy. By Shinjini Das. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 304 pp. ISBN: 9781108420624 (cloth). - Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820–1909. By Rohan Deb Roy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 350 pp. ISBN: 9781316623619 (paper).
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Two Glimpses into the State of Bhakti Studies Today - A Genealogy of Devotion: Bhakti, Tantra, Yoga, and Sufism in North India. By Patton E. Burchett. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. xiii, 433 pp. ISBN: 9780231190329 (cloth). - Bhakti and Power: Debating India's Religion of the Heart. By John Stratton Hawley, Christian Lee Novetzke, and Swapna Sharma. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. xi, 255 pp. ISBN: 9780295745510 (cloth).
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- 01 September 2021, pp. 770-774
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Down and Out in Saigon: Stories of the Poor in a Colonial City. By Haydon Cherry. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2019. xviii, 259 pp. ISBN: 9780300218251 (cloth).
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- 25 February 2021, pp. 238-239
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Slums: Of Labor and Democracy in Indian Cities - Demanding Development: The Politics of Public Goods Provision in India's Urban Slums. By Adam Michael Auerbach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xvii, 304 pp. ISBN: 9781108491938 (cloth). - Making the Modern Slum: The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay. By Sheetal Chhabria. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. xi, 235 pp. ISBN: 9780295746289 (cloth).
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Amboina, 1623: Fear and Conspiracy on the Edge of Empire. By Adam Clulow. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. xvii, 289 pp. ISBN: 9780231175128 (cloth).
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- 25 February 2021, pp. 240-241
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Celluloid Classicism: Early Tamil Cinema and the Making of Modern Bharatanātyam. By Hari Krishnan. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2019. xii, 323 pp. ISBN: 9780819578877 (paper). - Moving Bodies, Navigating Conflict: Practicing Bharata Natyam in Colombo, Sri Lanka. By Ahalya Satkunaratnam. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2020. x, 171 pp. ISBN: 9780819578907 (paper).: Challenges to the Received History of Bharata Natyam
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- 01 September 2021, pp. 774-777
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Pakistan's Nuclear Bomb: A Story of Defiance, Deterrence and Deviance. By Hassan Abbas. New Delhi: Penguin Random House, 2018. 356 pp. ISBN: 9780190901578 (cloth).
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Wondrous Modernity: Refashioning Religion in Urban India - The Making of a Modern Temple and a Hindu City: Kalighat and Kolkata. By Deonnie Moodie. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xv, 217 pp. ISBN: 9780190885267 (cloth). - The Cow in the Elevator: An Anthropology of Wonder. By Tulasi Srinivas. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2018. xvii, 296 pp. ISBN: 9780822370642 (cloth).
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Textures of the Ordinary: Doing Anthropology after Wittgenstein. By Veena Das. New York: Fordham University Press, 2020. pp. 410. ISBN: 9780823287697 (cloth, also available as paper).
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India Connected: How the Smartphone Is Transforming the World's Largest Democracy. By Ravi Agrawal. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. viii, 230 pp. ISBN: 9780190858650 (cloth). - A Village Goes Mobile: Telephony, Mediation, and Social Change in Rural India. By Sirpa Tenhunen. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. 216 pp. ISBN: 9780190630270 (cloth).: Mobile and Smartphone Technology and Social Change in India
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- 01 September 2021, pp. 777-780
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Cosmopolitan Dreams: The Making of Modern Urdu Literary Culture in Colonial South Asia. By Jennifer Dubrow. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018. xv, 178 pp. ISBN: 9780824872700 (cloth).
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Television in Post-Reform Vietnam: Nation, Media, Market. By Giang Nguyen-Thu. New York: Routledge, 2019. xii, 152 pp. ISBN: 9781138069022 (cloth).
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The Unforgettable Queens of Islam: Succession, Authority, Gender. By Shahla Haeri. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xxiii, 257 pp. ISBN: 9781107554894 (paper).
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Sarnath: A Critical History of the Place Where Buddhism Began. By Frederick M. Asher. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2020. xi, 192 pp. ISBN: 9781606066164 (paper).
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- 01 September 2021, pp. 780-782
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Frontier Encounters and State Formation in Northeast Asia - Making Borders in Modern East Asia: The Tumen River Demarcation. By Nianshen Song. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 324 pp. ISBN: 9781316626290 (paper). - Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border. By Sören Urbansky. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2020. 392 pp. ISBN: 9780691181684 (cloth).
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In Praise of Kings: Rajputs, Sultans and Poets in Fifteenth-Century Gujarat. By Aparna Kapadia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. ix, 183 pp. ISBN: 978110753318 (cloth).
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Unforgetting Chaitanya: Vaishnavism and Cultures of Devotion in Colonial Bengal. By Varuni Bhatia. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xiii, 291 pp. ISBN: 9780190686246 (cloth).
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- 01 September 2021, pp. 782-783
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Belonging across the Bay of Bengal: Religious Rites, Colonial Migrations, National Rights. By Michael Laffan. London: Bloomsbury, 2017. 272 pp. ISBN: 9781350022614 (cloth, also available as paper).
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Manchukuo Revisited: Transnational Culture and Radical Politics - - Manchukuo Perspectives: Transnational Approaches to Literary Production. Edited by Annika A. Culver and Norman Smith. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2020. xii, 315 pp. ISBN: 9789888528134 (cloth). - Fascism in Manchuria: The Soviet-China Encounter in the 1930s. By Susanne Hohler. London: I.B. Tauris, 2017. ix, 262 pp. ISBN: 9781784535223 (cloth).
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From Hierarchy to Ethnicity: The Politics of Caste in Twentieth-Century India. By Alexander Lee. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xiv, 272 pp. ISBN: 9781108489904 (cloth).
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- 17 May 2021, pp. 511-513
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