India and South Asian Studies
The Muslim World in Modern South Asia
Sets out the challenges presented to Muslim societies by Western dominance over the past two hundred years, and explores Muslim responses, particularly in the context of South Asia.
Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds
Broadens the parameters of religious studies by accounting for material acts that help shape religious worlds.
Till Kingdom Come
The first book to offer a detailed framework, a fine-grained history, and an analytically nuanced understanding of one of the rarest branches of Hindu worship.
The World of Agha Shahid Ali
Critical essays on the transnational Kashmiri-American poet.
The Other Rāma
A systematic analysis of the myth cycle of Paraśurāma (“Rāma with the Axe”), an avatára of Viṣṇu with a much darker reputation.
South of the Future
Unique interdisciplinary analysis of gendered and racialized economies of care in South Asia and the Americas.
Higher Education for Democracy
Uses a cross-national comparison of Los Angeles, New Delhi, and Hong Kong to develop strategies universities should employ to strengthen democracy and resist fascism.
The Great Agrarian Conquest
Groundbreaking analysis of how colonialism created new conceptual categories and spatial forms that reshaped rural societies.
Fiction as History
Explains the Hindi novel’s role in anticipating and creating the story of middle-class modernity and modernization in North India.
Living Landscapes
Explores the role of meditation on the five elements in the practice of Yoga.
Himalayan Histories
A rare look at the history of Himalayan peasant society and the relationship between culture and environment in the Himalayas.
Essays of a Lifetime
A distillation of the historian’s finest writings on modern Indian historical themes.
Nine Nights of the Goddess
Explores the contemporary nature and the diverse narratives, rituals, and performances of the Navarātri Festival.
Sons of Sarasvatī
Presents rare biographies of traditional Indian scholars during the nineteenth century, a critical moment of transition for the Indian intellectual tradition.
The Concept of Bharatavarsha and Other Essays
This exploration of key terms related to social and political order, found in early Indian texts, challenges the idea of a unified ancient India and a unified national identity at that time.
Protestant Christianity in the Indian Diaspora
Captures how Indian Protestant Christians negotiate their religious and cultural identities within the Indian diaspora.
Ritual Innovation
Challenges prevailing conceptions of what religious ritual does and how it achieves its ends.
Hindu Pasts
Challenges the monolithic view of Hinduism in the nineteenth century, and instead offers a vision of India that contains a rich multiplicity of Hinduisms, women’s stories, and cultural histories.
Religious Journeys in India
Explores how religious travel in India is transforming religious identities and self-constructions.
Everyday Sustainability
Illuminates the contradictions that emerge within conscious capitalism initiatives that are designed to empower women.
Text and Tradition in South India
Essays on Telugu and South Indian literature and culture by distinguished Telugu scholar Narayana Rao.
Vernacular Catholicism, Vernacular Saints
A collection of Raj’s groundbreaking ethnographic studies of “vernacular” Catholic traditions in Tamil Nadu, India.
Re-ending the Mahābhārata
Offers a fresh perspective on the Mahābhārata based on an exploration of its ending, the Svargārohaṇa parvan.
Undervalued Dissent
Uses two case studies to demonstrate how neoliberal reforms in India have de-democratized labor politics.
The Dashing Ladies of Shiv Sena
Explores the activities and political personas of women activists in Shiv Sena, a militant Indian political party.