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Hidden Tantric Lessons in an Eighth-Century Temple, Padma Kaimal
Hidden Meanings in the Temple Terracottas of Seventeenth-Century Bengal, Pika Ghosh
The Hidden and the Modern: P.T. Reddy, Neo-Tantrism, and the Struggle for Modern Art in India, Rebecca Brown
The Adi Prajna Guhyeshvari and the Beginnings of Samvara Cycle Tantra in Newar Buddhism, John C. Huntington
Cannibalism, Astral Seduction, and Raising the Dead: Bizarre Rites or Metaphorical Terrain in the Cakrasamvara-tantra? Miranda Shaw
Goddess of Purified Amrita: Varuni in the Chakrasamvara Tradition, Dina Bangdel
Mandala of the Self: On Identity Construction in a South Asian Religious Tradition, David B. Gray
Biography of a Language: Telugu "Charitras" and the Foundations of Twentieth-Century Politico-Cultural Formations, Lisa Mitchell
Protestant Textual Practice and the Objectification of Saivism, Bernard Bate
What Is It Worth? Canon(s) in the Colonial Tamil World, A. R. Venkatachalapathy
Telugu Literary History and the Emergence of a Regional Identity, Rama Mantena
Producing State and Civil Society: The Status of the Inquiry, Radhika Mongia
The NGO Phenomenon and State-Civil Society Theory, Sangeeta Kamat
The State, Its Security, and a Matter of Goodwill, Ravina Aggarwal
Bearing Witness: States, Citizens and Inquiries on Violence, Srirupa Roy
The Poetics of Location: Ghalib’s Sense of Belonging in Nineteenth-Century India, S. Akbar Hyder
The Politics of Kashmiriyat in South Asia, Chitralekha Zutshi
The Dynamics of Narrative Disagreement: Treatment of Ramkatha in South Indian Plays, 1920–1961, Paula Richman
Sources of Subversion: Mahadevi Varma and the Poetic Construction of the Feminine Subject, Sarah Houston Green
Tears of Freedom: Recasting Women and the Nation in Wajeda Tabassum’s Urdu Short Stories, Karline McLain
Refiguring the Feminine: Mapping the Social and Cultural Lives of Women in Dalit Literature, Laura Brueck
Framing the Writer-Activist: Arundhati Roy and the Journey from Fiction to Court, Modhurima Dasgupta
Mapping Persia, India, and Asia: 750–1750, Richard M. Eaton
Of Hometowns and Diasporic Aesthetics, Rosemary M. George
To Be or Not to Be South Asian: Contemporary Indian American Politics, Prema Kurien
South Asia: A Subcontinental Mind-Set? Willem van Schendel
Bhattoji Diksita on Sphota, Johannes Bronkhorst
The New and the Old in Seventeenth-Century Indian Logic: The Case of Gokulanatha Upadhyaya, Jonardon Ganeri
The Production of Philosophical Literature in South Asia during the Precolonial Period: The Case of the Nyayasutra Commentarial Tradition, Karin Preisendanz
Change and Creativity in Early Modern Indian Medical Thought, Dominik Wujastyk
Bordering the Impossible: The Crisis of Identity and Nationalist Utopias in Contemporary Indian Cinema, Raminder Kaur
Ethnicity, Masculinity, Diaspora: Representing South Asian Men, Koushik Banerjea
Colourline within Colourline: The Politics of Bombay Cinema in the British South Asian Context, Meeta Rani Jha
The Wake of the Sublime: Representing Sikh Americans after September 11th, Brian Axel
Visions of the Past: Genealogies, Kings, and Society in Early Modern Bengal, Kumkum Chatterjee
Cross-Cultural Translations in an Era of Transition: Jaynarayan Ghoshal and Later Eighteenth-Century Bengal, David L. Curley
Interlocuting Texts and Monuments: "Insider" Knowledges and "Native" Scholarship in Nineteenth-Century India, Tapati Guha-Thakurta
Consider the Pandit: The Place of Sanskrit Scholars in the History of Colonial Bengal, Brian A. Hatcher
Conceptualizing South Asian Religion: A Precolonial Perspective, Will Sweetman
Knowing Arampur: Western Epistemologies in Colonial Knowledge of Village Religions, Peter S. Gottschalk
Constructing Hinduism in Postcolonial Catholicism, Mathew N. Schmalz.
End of Ideology, Pax Americana or Clash of Civilizations? The Broader Logic of U.S. South Asia Politics in the post 9/11 Period, Maya Chadda and David Ariosto
The Political Economy of America’s Non-War War in Afghanistan, Syed B. Hussain
Changes in International Relations Theory in the Aftermath of 9/11 from an Islamic Perspective, Zohair Husain
The Effect of Changing Patterns of Consumption on the Production of Traditional Manufactures in Colonial India, Tirthankar Roy
Honor, Desire, and Fashion: Textile Consumption in Northwest India and Pakistan, Michelle E. Maskiell
Economic Change in Western India and the Consumption of Handloom Cloth, 1870–1920, Douglas E. Haynes
Crafting Modern Consumers of Traditional Goods: The Making and Remaking of Artisanal Consumption in Colonial India, 1880–1920, Abigail McGowan
Benighted Folk, Modern Families: Nayak Reform and Middle Class Domesticity, 1850–1931, Sanjay Joshi
Gender, Sex, and Nation: Politics of Birth Control in Colonial India, 1920–1947, Sanjam Ahluwalia
The Sexual Politics of Richard Burton’s Kamasutra, Anne Hardgrove
Administered Behavior: Bureaucratic Representations of Gendered Identity in Local Spheres, Shailaja Fennell
Music, Masculinity, and the Performance of Sexuality in the Mughal Mehfil, Katherine R. Brown
Penetrating the Veil of Mystery: India as the Veiled Orient in British Travel Writing of the Late Eighteenth Century, Ananya Jahanara Kabir
Refusing Marginality: East Bengali Hindu Refugees and Their Politics of Entitlement, Nila Chatterjee
Biharis, Bengalis, and the War of 1971: Speaking Silence and Displacement, Yasmin Saikia
Citizens and Denizens: The Ethnic Homelands and the Crisis of Displacement in Northeast India, Sanjib Baruah
Rehabilitating the Sikh "Marauder": Changing Colonial Perspectives of Sikhs, 1765–1840, Purnima Dhavan
Caste, Ethnicity, and Policing in Colonial North India, 1870–1920, David A. Campion
Approaches to the Study of Language and Culture in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Northwest India, Jeffrey M. Diamond
Law, Women, and the Family in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Punjab, Tabassam Shah
Worldly Moves: The Changing Political Economy of a South Indian Classical Dance, Shanti Pillai
Mass Mediated Music in North India during WWII: The Life of a Lucknowi Jazz Musician, Brad Shope
Festivals, Faqirs, and Foreigners: The 2001 Kumbh Mela Sondra, Leslie Hausner
Can the Indian Tune Go Global? Peter Kvetko
Revisiting the Silence around the 1947 East Bengal Partition, Shelley Feldman
The Aftermath of Partition: Muslims in West Bengal, 1947–67, Joya Chatterji
Civilization and Barbarism, Then and Now: Post-Partition India and Post-Cold War America, Gautam Ghosh
Rootless in Bengal: Films of the Partition (1950s–70s), Abhijeet Paul
Making the Chamar a Criminal: The Crime of Cattle Poisoning in Nineteenth-Century Uttar Pradesh, Ramnarayan S. Rawat
Dalit Intellectual Discourse in Modern Andhra: Gurram Jashua, Jangam Chinnaiah
On the Outside Looking In: Rural Dalits, Reproduction and Modernity, Sarah K. Pinto