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Volume 80 - Issue 2 - May 2021

Book Reviews—South Asia

Cosmopolitan Dreams: The Making of Modern Urdu Literary Culture in Colonial South Asia. By Jennifer Dubrow. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018. xv, 178 pp. ISBN: 9780824872700 (cloth).

In Praise of Kings: Rajputs, Sultans and Poets in Fifteenth-Century Gujarat. By Aparna Kapadia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. ix, 183 pp. ISBN: 978110753318 (cloth).

From Hierarchy to Ethnicity: The Politics of Caste in Twentieth-Century India. By Alexander Lee. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xiv, 272 pp. ISBN: 9781108489904 (cloth).

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).

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).

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

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).

Mountain, Water, Rock, God: Understanding Kedarnath in the Twenty-First Century. By Luke Whitmore. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018. 278 pp. ISBN: 9780520298026 (paper).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Rise of the Brao: Ethnic Minorities in Northeastern Cambodia during Vietnamese Occupation. By Ian Baird. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2020. xvi, 370 pp. ISBN: 9780299326104 (cloth).

If You Meet the Buddha on the Road: Buddhism, Politics, and Violence. By Michael Jerryson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. ix, 226 pp. ISBN: 9780190683566 (cloth).

The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century. By Thant Myint-U. New York: W. W. Norton, 2019. xiii, 304 pp. ISBN: 9781324003298 (cloth).

Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Memories: Jarai and Other Lives in the Cambodian Highlands. By Jonathan Padwe. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 280 pp. ISBN: 9780295746906 (paper).

Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines. By Victoria Reyes. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2019. xviii, 288. ISBN: 9781503607996 (cloth).

Anthropogenic Rivers: The Production of Uncertainty in Lao Hydropower. By Jerome Whitington. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2018. xvi, 266 pp. ISBN: 9781501730900 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Transnational and Comparative

Spies and Scholars: Chinese Secrets and Imperial Russia's Quest for World Power. By Gregory Afinogenov. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020. 367 pp. ISBN: 9780674241855 (cloth).

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