The Ganga River & State Formation in Mughal India
A Review of The Political Economy of the Ganga River: Highway of State Formation in Mughal India, c. 1600-1800, by Murari Kumar Jha. Murari Jha’s dissertation…
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Mini India: The Politics of Migration and Subalternity in the Andaman Islands
A review of Mini India: The Politics of Migration and Subalternity in the Andaman Islands, by Philipp Zehmisch. In this doctoral dissertation, Philipp Zehmisch takes…
The Geopolitics of Infrastructure on the Indus Rivers since the 1940s
A review of The Geopolitics of Infrastructure: Development, Expertise and the Nation on the Indus Rivers, by Majed Akhter. The politics of water-sharing and development…
Domination, Resistance, and Violence in Ahmedabad
A review of Domination et résistance de la minorité musulmane après le pogrom de 2002 à Ahmedabad (Inde): Les paradoxes de la ghettoïsation à Juhapura…
India-Pakistan Relations, 1947-1957
A review of The Finality of Partition: Bilateral Relations between India and Pakistan, 1947- 1957, by Pallavi Raghavan. Pallavi Raghavan’s dissertation is a counter-narrative of…
The Global History of Indo-Byzantine Exchange
A review of Indo-Byzantine Exchange, Fourth–Seventh centuries: A Global History, by Rebecca Darley. Rebecca Darley’s doctoral dissertation is commendable for bringing to the limelight a…
Early Human Settlement in Coastal Western India
A review of A Pleistocene Passage to India: The Paleoanthropology of Early Human Settlement in Coastal Western India, by August Gerald Costa A commonly held…
Maharashtra State Archives in Mumbai
A review of the Maharashtra State Archives in Mumbai (Maharashtra), India. The Maharashtra State Archives is a major resource for academics interested in the study…
Eunuchs, Colonialism, and Modernity in North India
A review of Power, Perversion and Panic: Eunuchs, Colonialism and Modernity in North India, by Jessica Hinchy. Jessica Hinchy’s dissertation is a deeply researched history…
Library of Tibetan Works and Archives (India)
A review of the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives (བོད་ཀྱི་དཔེ་མཛོད་ཁང་།) (Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, India). The Library of Tibetan Works and Archives (LTWA) in Dharamshala,…