Secularizing Islamists?
Jama'at-e-Islami and Jama'at-ud-Da'wa in Urban Pakistan
by Humeira Iqtidar
University of Chicago Press, 2011
Of late, there has been an efflorescence of
California-based Jeff Greenwald is the author of six travel books, several of which were written in Southasia. His best-known titles include Shopping for Buddhas, The Size of the World (for
Everyday Nationalism:
Women of the Hindu right in India
by Kalyani Devaki Menon
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010
Few historians bothered with Hindu nationalism before the upsurge of the 1980s,
The origins of baila, a popular dance-music genre of Sri Lanka, are steeped in the history of conquering nations, colonial powers and a rich tapestry of dance and music. On