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Merchants, Religious Associations, and the Mughal State, Brendan LaRocque
Princely Rebellion and Empire Building in Mughal India, Munis D. Faruqui
Biography of a Corpse: Discourses of Incorruptibility and the Making of a Portuguese Saint, Pamila Gupta
Rethinking State Formation and Sovereignty in Precolonial India, Christopher Chekuri
Civil Society and Development Discourse under the Musharraf Regime, Robert Nichols
Democracy and Non-Governmental Organizations: Lessons from Pakistan, Christopher Candland
Struggling for a Political Voice: Women Contesting the System in Pakistan, Anita M. Weiss and Farzana Bari
Dissonant Memories: Recontextualising the Sikh Past in Dhadi Memory Delivery, Michael Nijhawan
Alternative Imaginings: Shared Piety in Panjabi Popular Narrative, c. 1850–1900, Farina Mir
A House of Miracles for One and All: Sufi Shrines, Islamic Identity, and the Synthesis of (Sub-)Cultures in India Today, Kelly L. Pemberton
Having Her Say: Authority and Resistance in the Calcutta Family Courts, Srimati Basu
Domestic Love: The Negotiation of Moral Parameters at a Legal Aid Cell in Delhi, Perveez Mody
A Contradictory Task for an Indian Wife: Cutting off the Marital Tie, Siru Maunuksela-Aura
Muslim Women’s Access to Divorce by Khul’: An Analysis of a Qazi’s Divorce Register, Sylvia Vatuk
Science, Colonialism and Romanticism, David Arnold
Translating Science in Nineteenth-Century India , Michael S. Dodson
Freud and His Indian Friends: Religion, Selfhood and Psychoanalysis, Shruti Kapila
Faith in Experts and the Soil of Bengal: Scientific Agriculture in Colonial India, c. 1870–1945, Ian C. Petrie
The Cold War Science of Population: Demography, Kingsley Davis, and the Always-Already of Overpopulation in India, Sarah Hodges
Sufism in Tamil-Speaking South Asia: Evidence for Hindu-Muslim Shared Spirituality? Susan Schomburg
Defying Binary Categories: A Gujarati Religious Community, Shafique N. Virani
Light, Light-bearer, and the Enlightened Word: Shared Spiritual Symbolism of ‘Mahapanth’ and Nizari Ismaili Communities of Gujarat, Neelima Shukla-Bhatt
South Asian Shia Majalis: Articulating Alterity through Invoking Outside Authorities, S. Akbar Hyder
Profit and Science: Business and Laboratories at Crossroads in British India, 1897–1930, Prakash Kumar
Practicing Science: Language and Culture of Modern Science in India, Abha Sur
Purdah and the Practice of Medical Research in Late Colonial India, Maneesha Lal
The Scientific Vedist and the Vedic Scientist: Religion and the Practice of Science in Modern India, Banu Subramaniam
Novelty of Form and Novelty of Substance in Seventeenth-Century Mimamsa, Lawrence McCrea
What is New and What is Navya: Sanskrit Poetics on the Eve of Colonialism, Yigal Bronner
Turtles All the Way Down? Tradition and Experiment in Cosmological Reasoning, Christopher Minkowski
Ritual as Medium in Precolonial South Asia, Jan Houben
Discipline, Delicacy and Labor: Women’s Bodies, Fetishisms and Resistance on an Indian Plantation, Piya Chatterjee
Sri Lankan "Juki Girls": A Foreign Brand, a Stereotype, and a Response, Caitrin Lynch
"That Money Burns Like Oil": A Sri Lankan Cultural Logic of Morality and Work, Michele Gamburd
The Work of Networking: Women Entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka, Manjari Wijenaike
The Progressive-Regressive Politics of Expatriates: South Asians Negotiating Hindu Nationalism in the U.S., Arvind Rajagopal
The Racial Implications of ‘Protected Women’ and ‘Predatory Men,’ Raminder Kaur
Race and Forced Migration in the South Asian Diaspora, Suvendrini Perera
Racism, Bollywood and Politics of Identity: Fiji Indians from Indenture to Diaspora, Manas Ray
Charous and Ravans: Racial Encounters in a South African Township, Thomas Blom Hansen
Speaking and Seeing: Language, Reality, and Technology in South Indian Cinema, V. Sanil
Recasting Femininity: A Study of the Reconstruction of Indian Womanhood in Contemporary Indian Popular Cinema, Shivani Chakravorty
From Bombay to Ray: Indian Film through the Orality-Literacy Continuum, Sheila Nayar
What You Hear . . . What You See . . . That’s Not All You Get (Films and the South Asian Diaspora), Monica Ghosh
Quratullain Hyder’s River of Fire: The Urdu Novel, the English Novel, the Audience and the Critics, Laurel Steele
When a Critical Conversation Is Interrupted: Ghalib and His Commentators, Frances W. Pritchett
Translating Jibanananda Das’ Fiction: Reconstructions and Confusions, Abhijeet Paul
Were the Smells Strong; the Colors Intense? Exploring the Poetics of Place in English, Hindu and Urdu Fiction, Daisy Rockwell....130
Muslim Women in Transition: Narratives of Childhood, Sonia Nishat Amin
Narratives of Childhood: Three Readings from Colonial Bengal, Swapna Banerjee
". . . To Be Young Was Very Heaven": Gandhi, Nationalism and Youth, Ranjit Kumar Roy
Passages from India: International Dimensions of Indian Nationalism, 1880–1947, Srirupa Roy
Politics of Economic Reform: Gender, Consumption and Middle Class Identity in India, Leela Fernandes
Methodical Worlds: India’s Partition in Comparative Context, Sankaran Krishna
Royal Processions in the Cola Kingdom, Daud Ali
Processions in the Medieval South Indian Temple: Sociology, Sovereignty and Soteriology, Leslie C. Orr
What’s That British Couple Doing in Jagannatha’s Procession? Richard H. Davis
Temple Processions in Sri Lanka, Paul Younger
Decanni Regional Difference and Princely Modernity: Modern and Premodern Historical Writing in the Hyderabad Deccan, Eric L. Beverley
History, Memory, and Representation in Kashmiri Historical Narratives, Chitralekha Zutshi
Chronicle, History, and Identity in Colonial Maharashtra, Prachi Deshpande
Informants’ Perspectives on Representation and Other Uses of Anthropology: Vignettes from Suburban America and a Bengali Village, Sarah Lamb
Image, Text, and Hypertext: Representation, Reciprocity and Concealment in the Virtual Village, Peter S. Gottschalk and Mathew N. Schmalz
Initiation, Reciprocity, and Disclosure in Ethnographic Studies of Tantric Traditions, Sarah Caldwell
Burdens of a Messianic History: Negotiating the Politics of Identity and Representation among the Nurbakhshis of Baltistan, Shahzad Bashir
Orientalism, Ethnology and Race: William Jones in Bengal, Minakshi Menon
Pensioning Off Race, Geeta Patel
North Carolina’s Indians: Erasing Race to Make the Citizen, Ajantha Subramanian
Custom and the Country: Matrilineal Customary Law in Post-Colonial India, Narendra Subramanian
Regulating Heterosexuality and Subsuming Caste: Adultery and Bigamy in the Late-Nineteenth-Century Bombay High Court, Rachel Sturman
Sexuality, Capital and Colonial Law: Engendering Histories of Property and the State, Mytheli Sreenivas
The Memsahib Undressed: Reconstituting the Sexuality of the White Woman in Colonial India, Deana Lee Heath
National Education and the Social Logic of Swadeshi Nationalism, Andrew Satori
History, Literature, and Gender: Recasting the Critique of Nationalism, Kavita Daiya
Along the Peninsula’s Edge: Rethinking Sri Lankan Nationalist History, Cynthia M. Caron
National or Local Roots? India’s Economic Reforms in Comparative Perspective, Aseema Sinha
The Internet in India: The Emergence of Transnational Identities and Their Relation to National Identities, Shoma Munshi
Fine Art/Decorative Art Curricula in Colonial Art Education, Deepali Dewan
Imagining the Economy Through Education, Abigail McGowan
An Object Lesson in Colonial Pedagogy, Parna Sengupta
Colonial Textbooks as Myths of the Modern, Clare Talwalker
Creating the Modern Consumer: Gender and Identity at the Site of an Indian Development Project, Kathleen O’Reilly
Our Rajput Brothers: History, Romanticism and Imperial Critique in Tod’s Rajasthan, Jason Freitag
The Eye of the City: Dowry and Civility in Colonial Calcutta, 1880–1940, Rochona Majumdar
Law, Gender and Identity: Colonial Civil Law, the Family and Household in North India, 1780–1880, Malavika Kasturi
The Explanation of Draupadi’s Polyandry in Amaracandrasuri’s Balabharata, Jonathan Geen