South Asian Studies

In Praise of Anarchy

Taming the Anarchy: Groundwater Governance in South Asia Edited by Tushaar Shah

Changing Landscapes

Global Power Shifts and Strategic Transition in Asia By N.S. Sisodia

A Nation in Disarray

The Culture of Power and Governance of Pakistan: 1947-2008 By Ilhan Niaz

South Asian Regionalism

Promoting Economic Cooperation in South Asia: Beyond SAFTA By Sadiq Ahmed

How a Brutal Civil War was Ended

The Tiger Vanquished: LTTE's Story Edited by M.R. Narayan Swamy

A Time for Reconstruction

om Winning the War to Winning Peace: Post War Rebuilding of the Society in Sri Lanka Edited by V.R. Raghavan

Highlighting Commonality of Concerns

How Green Is My Journalism

The Green Pen: Environmental Journalism in India and South Asia Edited by Keya Acharya

Conflicting Pulls

New Nepal:The Fault lines Edited by Nischal Nath Pandey

Factors Shaping The Region

GOVERNANCE, CONFLICT AND DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTH ASIA: PERSPECTIVES FROM INDIA, NEPAL AND SRI LANKA By Siri Hettige, and Eva Gerharz

Changing Patterns

Towards a History of Consumption in South Asia Edited by Douglas E. Haynes

Veneration and Appropriation of the Feminine

The Iconic Female: Goddesses of India,Nepal and Tibet Edited by Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat

The Role Language Plays

Speaking Like a State: Language and Nationalism in Pakistan Edited by Alyssa Ayres

Complex Realities

Back to the Future: The Khanate of Kalat and the Genesis of Baloch Nationalism 1915-1955 By Martin Axmann

Credible Minimum Or Minimum Credible Juggling With Semantics

What the Empire Stood For

Journeys to Empire: Enlightenment, Imperialism, and the British Encounter with Tibet, 1774-1904 Edited by Gordon T. Stewart

Of Hopes,Dreams and Aspirations

Unleashing Nepal: Past, Present and Future of the Economy Edited by Sujeev Shakya

A Comprehensive Source

The No Nonsense Guide to Minority Rights in South Asia By Rita Manchanda

Opportunities and Challenges

Accelerating Growth and Job Creation in South Asia Edited by Ejaz Ghani

Gendering of Violence: Multivalent Relationships

States of Trauma: Gender and Violence in South Asia Edited by Piya Chhatterjee

South Asia Special Issue XIV

Postcolonialism In South Asia

ORIENTALISM, TERRORISM, INDIGENISM: SOUTH ASIAN READINGS IN POSTCOLONIALISM By Pavan Kumar Malreddy

A Vision for South Asia*

All Of Human History

Violence And Social Orders : A Conceptual Framework For Interpreting Recorded Human History By Douglass C . North

Making Sense of Masculinities

South Asian Masculinities: Context of Change, Sites of Continuity Edited by Radhika Chopra

A Developing Story

THE SHI�A IN MODERN SOUTH ASIA: RELIGION, HISTORY AND POLITICS Edited by justin Jones

Problems and Prospects

ASIAN IRRIGATION IN TRANSITION: RESPONDING TO CHALLENGES Edited by Ganesh P. Shivakodi

West Non-West Encounter

At Home in Diaspora: South Asian Scholars and the West By Jackie Assayag

Radicalizing Institutionalization

FROM THE MARGINS TO THE MAINSTREAM: INSTITUTIONALISING MINORITIES IN SOUTH ASIA Edited by Hugo Gorringe

Conflict Literature: A Sociological Perspective

CIVIL WARS IN SOUTH ASIA: STATE, SOVEREIGNTY, DEVELOPMENT Edited by Nandini Sundar

Reading Lives Through Paper Trails

SUBALTERN LIVES: BIOGRAPHIES OF COLONIALISM IN THE INDIAN OCEAN WORLD 1790-1920 By Claire Anderson

Nature, Politics and Conservation

Ecological Nationalisms: Nature, Livelihoods and Identities in South Asia Edited by Gunnel Cederlof

Myths of Construction

Militarizing Sri Lanka: Popular Culture, Memory and Narrative in the Armed Conflict By Neloufer de Mel

Beyond Eurocentric Perspectives

A View from Below

Contested Coastlines: Fisherfolk, Nations and Borders in South Asia By Charu Gupta and Mukul Sharma

An End to Drought?

Droughts and Integrated Water Resource Management in South Asia: Issues, Alternatives and Futures Edited by Jasveen Jairath and Vishwa Ballabh

Preaching to the Converted

An Indo-Muslim Tradition

Islam and Healing: Loss and Recovery of an Indo-Muslim Medical Tradition, 1600-1900 By Seema Alavi

Sexuality�Normality and Abnormality

With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India By Gayatri Reddy

Scarce Elixir

Water Supply in Karachi: Issues and Prospects By Noman Ahmed

A Dyadic Relationship

An Exercise in Moral Philosophy

Muslim Zion: Pakistan As A Political Idea By Faisal Devji

Discourses of Religious and Political Violence

Religion, Violence and Political Mobilisation in South Asia Edited by Ravinder Kaur

Mystical Cross-currents

Reassessing the World of Sher Shah Suri

Sufism, Culture and Politics: Afghans and Islam in Medieval North India By Raziuddin Aquil

International Lives of Migrants

The Sun never sets: South Asian Migrants in an age of U.S. power Edited by Vivek Bald

The Sage of Thiruvannamalai

Ramana Maharshi By K. Swaminathan

Governance and Knowledge

Surveying and Mapping in Colonial Sri Lanka By Ian J. Barrow

Why is Pakistan the Way it is?

Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an epic history of misunderstanding By Husain Haqqani

Universality of Religion

The Heathen in his Blindness: Asia, the West and the Dynamic of Religion By S.N. Balagangadhara

Who Killed Cock Robin

The End and the Beginning: Pakistan 1969-71 By Herbert Feldman

Changing Balance Of Power

From Unipolar To Tripolar World: Multipolar Transition Paradox By Arvind Virmani

On the Edge of an Abyss?

Apocalypse Pakistan: an anatomy of �the world�s most dangerous nation� By Francesco Marino and Beniamino Natale

Reality of Religious Plurality

Kashrut, Caste and Kabbalah: The Religious Life of the Jews of Cochin By Nathan Katz

Columns Anthologized

Islam, South Asia and the Cold War By A.G. Noorani

Meaning of Jihad

Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia By Ayesha Jalal

In the Penumbra of Might Have-Beens

Between Dreams And Realities By Sartaj Aziz

Community Management of Forests

Decentralization, Forests and Rural Communities: Policy Outcomes in South and Southeast Asia Edited by Edward L. Webb and Ganesh P. Shivakoti

Power, Threat and Violence

In Search of Intellectual Roots

The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics By Faisal Devji

Cameos On a Broad Canvas

Tinderbox: The Past and Future Of Pakistan By M.J.Akbar

An Intractable Problem

The Politics of Extremism in South Asia By Deepa M. Ollapally

The Chinese Calculus of Deterrence By Allen S. Whiting

Beyond A Conventional Reading

Constructing Pakistan: Foundational Texts And The Rise Of Muslim National Identity,1857-1947 By Masood Ashraf Raja

A Portpourri on Pakistan

Myriad Methods of Othering

A Peep into the Great Game

McMurdo's Account of Sind A Project of James McMurdo

India a General Survey By George Kuriyan

Challenges of Political Islam

The Islamist Challenge in West Asia: Doctrinal and Political Competitions after the Arab Spring By Talmiz Ahmad

Securing A Peaceful South Asia

Soviet Military Strategy (Third Edition) By V.D. Sokolovskiy

A Handy Reference Book

NUCLEAR SOUTH ASIA: KEYWORDS AND CONCEPTS By Rajesh Rajagopalan

Footnoting History

Understanding Bangladesh By S. Mahmud Ali

Stephen Cohen Festschrift

Security and South Asia: Ideas, Institutions and Initiatives Edited by Swarna Rajagopalan

Science, Rationality or Faith?

Modern Makeovers: Handbook of Modernity in South Asia Edited by Saurabh Dube

The State and Religious Fervour

Frontline Pakistan: The Struggle with Militant Islam By Zahid Hussain

A Tale Told By an Idiot By R.P. Noronha

Exclusive Identities

Indian Identity Narratives And the Politics Of Security By Gitika Commuri

India-South East Asia Interface

INDIA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA:TOWARDS SECURITY CONVERGENCE By Sudhir Devare

Practice and Politics of Marriage in South Asia

Marrying in South Asia: Shifting Concepts, Changing Practices in a Globalising World Edited by Ravinder Kaur

Complexities Of Changing Political Geography

States In Conflict With Their Minorities: Challenges To Minority Rights In South Asia Edited by Rita Manchanda

Border-Crossings, Displacements and Diasporas

An Academic Journey to India

DESTINATION INDIA: FROM LONDON OVERLAND TO INDIA By Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph

A Forgotten Heroine

Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan By Shrabani Basu

Female Subject and Pursuit of Playfulness

COMING OF AGE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY INDIA: THE GIRL-CHILD AND THE ART OF PLAYFULNESS By Ruby Lal

A Safe And Secure Passage Through Life

TAMIL BRAHMANS: THE MAKING OF A MIDDLE-CLASS CASTE By C.J. Fuller

Why Ghettoization Happens

BEYOND HYBRIDITY AND FUNDAMENTALISM: EMERGING MUSLIM IDENTITY IN GLOBALIZED INDIA By Tabassum Ruhi Khan

Punitive States/Weak States

Armed Militias Of South Asia Edited by Laurent Gayer

Development Realities

ocial Development in Indian Subcontinent: India, Pakistan and Bangladesh By H.Y. Siddiqui

Overcoming Caste Today?

CASTE IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA By Surinder S. Jodhka

Enemies of �Living Religion�

Lived Islam in South Asia: Adaptation, Accommodation & Conflict Edited by Imtiaz Ahmad

Rich Histories

Strategizing the Security Matrix

India's National Security: Annual Review 2009 Edited by Satish Kumar

Uncommon Rulers

MAKERS OF MODERN ASIA Edited by Ramchandra Guha

Incompatibility Thesis Examined: Islam and Democracy

Democracy in Muslim Societies: The Asian Experience Edited by Zoya Hasan

Evolution of a Religion

Islam in South Asia: A Short History By Jamal Malik

Of Ownership and Control

Women, Land and Power in Asia Edited by Govind Kelkar and Maithreyi Krishnaraj

Early gains, Later Strains

Taking Social Development seriously: the Experience Of sri Lanka By Laksiri Jayasuria

Relevance Of Nonviolence

Non-Violence: Challenges and Prospects Edited by Bidyut Chakrabarty

The 'Wise' Ones

SUFIS AND SUFISM : Some Reflections Edited by Neeru Misra

Politicizing the Muslim Ideal

The Mosque as Symbol

Piety and Politics in the Early Indian Mosque Edited by Finbarr Barry Flood

Mythological Sagas

Militant Or Moderate?

IBN Taymiyya And his Times Edited by yossef Rapoport

Living At The Edge

BREAKING THROUGH: INDIA�S STORIES OF BEATING THE ODDS ON POVERTY By Meera Mitra

Tracing Linguistic History

Language in South Asia Edited by Braj B. Kachru, Yamuna Kachru, and S.N. Sridhar

Contextualizing Ritualism

Ritual Matters: Dynamic Dimensions In Practice Edited by christiane Brosius

Peace Process in Sri Lanka

Defining Human Security

Evolution of a Programme

Valleys in Transition: Twenty Years of AKRSP�s Experience in Northern Pakistan Edited by Geof Wodd, Abdul Malik and Sumaira Sangheer

Territory as a Social Construct

Territory,Soil And Society In South Asia Edited by Daniela Berti

Narrativizing History And Causality

TARIQ-I FIROZ SHAHI By Zia ud Din Barani

Seeking Linkages

Democratic Dilemma: Ethnic Violence and Human Rights in Sri Lanka By N. Manoharan

A Blueprint for Reconstruction

Power and Civil Society in Pakistan Edited by Anita M. Weiss

Seeking Peace in Sri Lanka

The Identity Politics of Peacebuilding: Civil Society in War Torn Sri Lanka By Camilla Orjuela

Revolution�s Long Shadow

Aziz�s Notebook: at the heart of the Iranian revolutions By Chowra Makaremi Trasnslated by Renuka George

The Debate Extended

LIMITS OF ISLAMISM: JAMAAT-E-ISLAMI IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA AND BANGLADESH By Maidul Islam

Cross Country Growth Experiences

Explaining Growth in South Asia Edited by Kirit S. Parikh

Exercises in Interpretation

A LivingTradition

Ginans:Texts and Contexts-Essays on Ismaili Hymns From South Asia In Honour Of Zawahir Moir Edited by Tazim R. Kassam

Complex Interstices

LANGUAGE, IDEOLOGY AND POWER: Language-learning among the Muslims of Pakistan and North India By Tariq Rahman

Search for a Liberal Political Tradition

Makers Of Modern India Edited and Introduced by Ramchandra Guha

Of Two Volatile States

Bangladesh and Pakistan: Flirting with Failure in South Asia By William B. Milam

Realistic Prognoses

India & Pakistan: Pathways Ahead Edited by Amitabh Mattoo, Kapil Kak, Happymon Jacob

Celebrating Plurality

Hieterotopias: Nationalism And The Possibility Of History In South Asia Edited by Manu Bhagwan

Reforming Agendas

Resistance and the State: Nepalese Experiences; Translating Development: The Case of Nepal Edited by David Gellner

Creativity Amidst Loss

Lives in Exile: Exploring the Inner World of Tibetan Exiles By Honey Oberoi Vahali

Commercial Sex Workers of Bangladesh: Policies and Practices

Small Towns, Grand Ideas

LOCALE, EVERYDAY ISLAM, AND MODERNITY: QASBAH TOWNS AND MUSLIM LIFE IN COLONIAL INDIA By M. Raisur Rahman

Perils of a National Security State

Intersections, Interpellation and Collision

The Gendered Nation � Contemporary Writings from South Asia By Neluka Silva

The Burmese Enigma

The State in Myanmar By Robert H. Tagor

A Multifaceted Life

Chingiz Khan: The Life And Legacy Of An Empire Builder By Sonia Faleiro

A Journey of Discovery

Bhutan By Lekha Singh

Micro-finance at Centre-stage

Banker to the Poor: The Autobiography of Muhammad Yunus, Founder of the Grameen Bank By Muhammad Yunus with Alan Jolis

In a Human Security Framework

Women Building Peace Between India and Pakistan Edited by Shree Muley and Jackie Kirk

Role of the 'Islamic' Factor

Pakistan: The Struggle Within Edited by Wilson John

Capturing An Idea

Imagining The Urban: Sanskrit And The City In Early India By Shonaleeka Kaul

Making History of their Choice

The United States and India: A History Through Archives�The Formative Years Edited by Praveen K. Chaudhry and Marta Vanduzer-Snow

Womens Sexuality in a Plural Temporal Expanse

The Power of Gender and the Gender of Power: Explorations in Early Indian History By Kumkum Roy

Bangladesh History as Structure

A History of Bangladesh By Willem van Schendel

A Wide-angle Perspective

Collected Works of Rehman Sobhan (in three volumes) By The Centre for Policy Dialogue

'Modern'Indentity

Asian Voices in Postcolonial Age: Vietnam, India and Beyond By Susan Bayly

Displacing Class with Ethnicity

Hindu Kingship, Ethnic Revival and Maoist Rebellion in Nepal By Marie Lecomte-Tilouine

A Critique of Hybrid Islam

Constructing Bangladesh: Religion, Ethnicity, and Language in an Islamic Nation By Sufia M. Uddin

Imperatives of National Interest

West Asia and the Region: Defining India's Role Edited by Rajendra M. Abhyankar

The Other Tamils of Sri Lanka

CLASS, PATRIARCHY AND ETHNICITY ON SRI LANKAN PLANTATIONS: TWO CENTURIES OF POWER AND PROTEST By Kumari Jayawardena

Consistencies And Variations

Nation and Family: Personal Law, Cultural Pluralism and Gendered Citizenship in India By Narendra Subramanian

Mysterious/Opulent, Evil?

Kingdom Without Borders: Saudi Political, Religious and Media Frontiers Edited by Madawi Al-Rashid

Unending Conflict

Descent into Chaos: How the War Against Islamic Extremism is Being Lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia By Ahmed Rashid

Brutalizing the Young

Power Games in War and Peace: The Tragic impact of corruption, violence and impunity on the Sri Lankan Child By Harendra de Silva

Human Development: Two Kinds or One?

Battling Odds

POWER FAILURE: A POLITICAL ODYSSEY OF A PAKISTANI WOMAN By Syeda Abida Hussain

Antecedents from the Past

Love�s Rite: Same Sex Marriage in India and the West By Ruth Vanita

People-Related Security Issues

NON-TRADITIONAL SECURITY CHALLENGES IN ASIA Edited by Shebonti Ray Dadwal

Making Of A Jehadi

THE SPINNER�S TALE By Omar Shahid Hamid Pan

Global Frameworks

Towards An Inclusivist Discourse

Sri Lankan Society in an Era of Globalization : Struggling to Create a New Social Order Edited by H.S. Hasbullah

Dynamics of Development Initiatives

Community-Based Natural Resource Management: Issues and Cases from South Asia By Ajit Menon, Praveen Singh, Esha Shah, Sharachchandra Lele, Suhas Paranjape and K.J. Joy

That Entrenched Malady

Nepal�s Maoist Movement and Implications for India and China By Nischal Nath Pandey

Migrants from the Frontier

Pashtun Migration 1775-2006 By Robert Nichols

Voice of Experience

Making of a Nation: Bangladesh: An Economist�s Tale By Nurul Islam

Retrieving Hidden Jewels of the Sanskrit Deep

The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture and Power in Premodern India By Sheldon Pollock

Contesting Terrains

Behind the Veil: Resistance, Women and the Everyday in Colonial South Asia Edited by Anindita Ghosh

Alternative Approaches

Call for Transnational Jihad

Call for Transnational Jihad: Lashkar-e-Taiba, 1985-2014 By Arif Jamal

Speaking of Suffering

Speaking Havoc, Social Suffering & South Asian Narratives By Ramu Nagappan

At The Crossroads

Pakistan�s Counterterrorism Challenge Edited by Moeed Yusuf

Politics and Angst of Migrant Identity

Migration, Modernity and Social Transformation in South Asia Edited by Filippo Osella

Trajectories of Political Change

BATTLES OF THE NEW REPUBLIC: A CONTEMPORARY HISTORY OF NEPAL By Prashant Jha

Lusting After Sun and Moon

When Men Speak as Women: Vocal Masquerade in Indo-Muslim Poetry By Carla Petievich

�Insider� Accounts

Action Plan for the Northeast

Terror Sans Frontiers: Islamist Militancy in North East India By Jaideep Saikia

Defining Reconciliation

Reconciliation in Sri Lanka: Voices from the Former War Zones By Minna Thaheer

Complexities of A Social System

Crucible of Conflict: Tamil and Muslim Society on the East Coast of Sri Lanka By Dennis B. McGilvray

Complex Realities

Terrorism In Southeast Asia: Implications for South Asia Edited by Wilson John

Of A Mystery Man in Urdu Literature

Lyrical Movements, Historical Hauntings: On Gender, Colonialism, and Desire in Miraji�s Urdu Poetry By Geeta Patel

Cartographies of Struggle

Women in Concert: An Anthology of Bengali Muslim Women's Writings (1904-38) Edited by Shaheen Akhtar and Moushumi Bhowmik

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