12 noteworthy books on Southasia reviewed by our contributors this year.
The documentary 'Bloody Phanek' explores social and political realities in Manipur.
Megha Majumdar’s novel depicts a world where progress requires bigotry.
A recent anthropological volume on Jammu & Kashmir makes important new contributions to scholarship on the region.
An untold history of mrdangam makers.
The present world in which I am writing this review is vastly different to the one in which I began reading Vanni: A Family's Struggle Through the Sri
The internment of Chinese Indians during the Sino-Indian War of 1962 has contemporary echoes.
Who has the power to secure and legislate public spaces in cities?
What the simplistic narratives on China’s advances in the Indian Ocean miss.
A recently translated novel brings a new perspective on Partition to the English-speaking world.
A defence of immigration on the grounds of history, economics and security.
A new book documents the forgotten history of tawaifs – or courtesans – in northern India.
