Books in the South Asia Across the Disciplines series (original) (raw)

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With support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, three of the academy’s leading publishers in South Asian studies combined their resources to publish a major series devoted to first books. “South Asia Across the Disciplines,” showcases work aiming to address innovative questions in the field. These include the relationship between South Asian studies and the disciplines; the conversation between past and present in South Asia; the history and nature of modernity, especially in relation to cultural change, political transformation, secularism and religion, and globalization. Above all, the series contains monographs that open up new archives, especially in South Asian languages, and suggest new methods and approaches, while demonstrating that South Asian scholarship can be at once deep in expertise and broad in appeal.

Each book in the series is published under the imprint of one of the three presses, but all are promoted as part of the series, sharing in design, advertising, and publicity.

Published Books

The Social Space of Language: Vernacular Culture in British Colonial Punjab

The University of California Press, 2010
John Richards Prize in South Asian History, American Historical Association
Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies

Extreme Poetry: The South Asian Movement of Simultaneous Narration

YIGAL BRONNER

Columbia University Press, 2010

Unifying Hinduism: Philosophy and Identity in Indian Intellectual History

ANDREW J. NICHOLSON

Columbia University Press, 2010
Best First Book in the History of Religions, American Academy of Religion

The Powerful Ephemeral: Everyday Healing in an Ambiguously Islamic Place

CARLA BELLAMY

The University of California Press, 2011

Conjugations: Marriage and Form in New Bollywood Cinema

SANGITA GOPAL

The University of Chicago Press, 2011

Secularizing Islamists?: Jama'at-e-Islami and Jama'at-ud-Da'wa in Urban Pakistan

HUMEIRA IQTIDAR

The University of Chicago Press, 2011

Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia

RONIT RICCI

The University of Chicago Press, 2011
Best First Book in the History of Religions, American Academy of Religion Short Listed for the Award for Excellence in Textual Studies Category, American Academy of Religion Harry J. Benda Prize in Southeast Asian Studies, Association for Asian Studies

Unfinished Gestures: Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India

DAVESH SONEJI

The University of Chicago Press, 2012
Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies

Document Raj: Writing and Scribes in Early Colonial South India

BHAVANI RAMAN

The University of Chicago Press, 2012

The Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam

A. AZFAR MOIN

Columbia University Press, 2012
Best First Book in the History of Religions, American Academy of Religion John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History, American Historical Association

Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism: History, Semiology, and Transgression in the Indian Traditions

CHRISTIAN K. WEDEMEYER

Columbia University Press, 2012
Award for Excellence in Historical Studies Category, American Academy of Religion

Receptacle of the Sacred: Illustrated Manuscripts and the Buddhist Book Cult in South Asia

JINAH KIM

The University of California Press, 2013

Body of Victim, Body of Warrior: Refugee Families and the Making of Kashmiri Jihadists

CABEIRI DEBERGH ROBINSON

The University of California Press, 2013
Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies

Democracy against Development: Lower Caste Politics and Political Modernity in Postcolonial India

JEFFREY WITSOE

The University of Chicago Press, 2013