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Volume 80 - November 2021

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Book Reviews—South Asia

Unruly Figures: Queerness, Sex Work, and the Politics of Sexuality in Kerala. By Navaneetha Mokkil. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. 288 pp. ISBN: 9780295745572 (cloth).

Reciting the Goddess: Narratives of Place and the Making of Hinduism in Nepal. By Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xx, 321 pp. ISBN: 9780199341160 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Transnational and Comparative

American Exodus: Second-Generation Chinese Americans in China, 1901–1949. By Charlotte Brooks. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. xviii, 309 pp. ISBN: 9780520302686 (cloth).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Exile and the Nation: The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran. By Afshin Marashi. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2020. xiv, 312 pp. ISBN: 9781477320792 (cloth).

Dying to Serve: Militarism, Affect, and the Politics of Sacrifice in the Pakistan Army. By Maria Rashid. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2020. 267 pp. ISBN: 9781503611986 (paper).

Urdu Poetry, 1935–1970: The Progressive Episode. By Carlo Coppola. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 702 pp. ISBN: 9780199403493 (cloth).

Feeding a Thousand Souls: Women, Ritual, and Ecology in India—An Exploration of the Kōlam. By Vijaya Nagarajan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 336 pp. ISBN: 9780190858070 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Transnational and Comparative

Remapping the Sinophone: The Cultural Production of Chinese-Language Cinema in Singapore and Malaya before and during the Cold War. By Wai-Siam Hee. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2019. 242 pp. ISBN: 9789888528035 (cloth).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Narrating South Asian Partition: Oral History, Literature, Cinema. By Anindya Raychaudhuri. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. ix, 223 pp. ISBN: 9780190249748 (cloth).

Musicophilia in Mumbai: Performing Subjects and the Metropolitan Unconscious. By Tejaswini Niranjana. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2020. 256 pp. ISBN: 9781478008187 (paper).

Book Reviews—Transnational and Comparative

Opening the Gates to Asia: A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion. By Jane H. Hong. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. xii, 264 pp. ISBN: 9781469653358 (cloth).

Book Reviews—South Asia

To Be an Entrepreneur: Social Enterprise and Disruptive Development in Bangladesh. By Julia Qermezi Huang. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2020. xix, 259 pp. ISBN: 9781501748271 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Transnational and Comparative

Faithful Fighters: Identity and Power in the British Indian Army. By Kate Imy. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2019. 328 pp. ISBN: 9781503610743 (paper).

Book Reviews—South Asia

The Broken Spell: Indian Storytelling and the Romance Genre in Persian and Urdu. By Pasha M. Khan. Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, 2019. xii, 312pp. ISBN: 9780814345993 (paper).

Outsourcing Empire: How Company-States Made the Modern World. By Andrew Phillips and J. C. Sharman. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2020. 256 pp. ISBN: 9780691203515 (cloth).

A Secular Need: Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India. By Jeffrey A. Redding. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. xvii, 220 pp. ISBN: 9780295747088 (cloth).

The Doctor and Mrs. A.: Ethics and Counter-Ethics in an Indian Dream Analysis. By Sarah Pinto. New York: Fordham University Press, 2020. xi, 242 pp. ISBN: 9780823286669 (paper).

Unani Medicine in the Making: Practices and Representations in 21st-Century India. By Kira Schmidt-Stiedenroth. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. 285 pp. ISBN: 9789463724210 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Transnational and Comparative

On the Brink: Trump, Kim, and the Threat of Nuclear War. By Van Jackson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 236 pp. ISBN: 9781108473484 (cloth).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought. By Durba Mitra. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2020. vii, 290 pp. ISBN: 9780691196343 (cloth).

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