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Volume 78 - August 2019

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Book Reviews—South Asia

Far Out: Countercultural Seekers and the Tourist Encounter in Nepal. By Mark Liechty. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. xiv, 387 pp. ISBN: 9780226428949 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book).

The Use of Confessionary Evidence under the Counter-Terrorism Laws of Sri Lanka: An Interdisciplinary Study. By Visakesa Chandrasekaram. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017. 227 pp. ISBN: 9789462981577 (cloth).

Recasting Folk in the Himalayas: Indian Music, Media, and Social Mobility. By Stefan Fiol. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017. xiii, 228 pp.

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Book Reviews—South Asia

Filming Horror: Hindi Cinema, Ghosts and Ideologies. By Meraj Ahmed Mubarki. New Delhi: SAGE Publications, 2016. 216 pp. ISBN: 9789351508724 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

The Economics of Religion in India. By Sriya Iyer. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018. 295 pp.

Amritsar 1984: A City Remembers. By Radhika Chopra. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2018. xxiv, 107 pp. ISBN: 9781498571050 (cloth).

Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature. By Jairam Ramesh. New Delhi: Simon & Schuster India, 2017. ix, 437 pp. ISBN: 9788193355244 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Book Reviews—South Asia

Worldly Affiliations: Artistic Practice, National Identity, and Modernism in India, 1930–1990. By Sonal Khullar. Oakland: University of California Press, 2015. xiii, 352 pp.

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Outcasts of Empire: Japan's Rule on Taiwan's “Savage Border,” 1874–1945. By Paul D. Barclay. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. xvii, 307 pp. ISBN: 9780520296213 (paper).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Text and Tradition in South India. By Velcheru Narayana Rao. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2016. 494 pp. ISBN: 9788178244723 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

The Right Spouse: Preferential Marriages in Tamil Nadu. By Isabelle Clark-Decès. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2014. x, 204 pp. ISBN: 9780804788069 (cloth).

The Skull of Alum Bheg: The Life and Death of a Rebel of 1857. By Kim A. Wagner. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xxix, 288 pp. ISBN: 978019087023 (cloth, also available as e-book).

Waste of a Nation: Garbage and Growth in India. By Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2018. xv, 393 pp. ISBN: 9780674980600 (cloth).

The Making of an Indian Ocean World-Economy, 1250–1650: Princes, Paddy Fields, and Bazaars. By Ravi Palat. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xii, 305 pp.

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan. By Yulia Frumer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. vii, 270 pp. ISBN: 9780226516448 (cloth).

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Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

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