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Volume 80 - Issue 4 - November 2021

Book Reviews—South Asia

Pakistan's Nuclear Bomb: A Story of Defiance, Deterrence and Deviance. By Hassan Abbas. New Delhi: Penguin Random House, 2018. 356 pp. ISBN: 9780190901578 (cloth).

Textures of the Ordinary: Doing Anthropology after Wittgenstein. By Veena Das. New York: Fordham University Press, 2020. pp. 410. ISBN: 9780823287697 (cloth, also available as paper).

The Unforgettable Queens of Islam: Succession, Authority, Gender. By Shahla Haeri. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xxiii, 257 pp. ISBN: 9781107554894 (paper).

Belonging across the Bay of Bengal: Religious Rites, Colonial Migrations, National Rights. By Michael Laffan. London: Bloomsbury, 2017. 272 pp. ISBN: 9781350022614 (cloth, also available as paper).

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).

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).

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

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—Southeast Asia

Hàm Nghi: Empereur en exil, artiste à Alger. By Amandine Dabat. Paris: Sorbonne Université Presses, 2019. 544 pp. ISBN: 9791023106510 (cloth).

Champa: Territories and Networks of a Southeast Asian Kingdom. Edited by Arlo Griffiths, Andrew Hardy, and Geoff Wade. Paris: École Française d'Extrême-Orient, 2019. 448 pp. ISBN:9782855392691 (paper).

Les migrations impériales au Vietnam: Travail et colonisations dans l'Asia-Pacifique français, XIXe–XXe siècles. Edited by Eric Guerassimoff, Andrew Hardy, Nguyen Phuong Ngoc, and Emmanuel Poisson. Paris: Hémisphères éditions, 2020. 406 pp. ISBN: 9782377010813 (paper).

In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Repatriates. By Jana K. Lipman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020. 328 pp. ISBN: 9780520343665 (paper).

Un moi sans masque. L'Autobiographie au Vietnam, 1887–1945. By Doan Cam Thi. Paris: Riveneuve, 2019. 260 pp. ISBN: 9782360135226 (paper).

Book Reviews—Transnational and Comparative

Stalin and Mao: A Comparison of the Russian and Chinese Revolutions. By Lucien Bianco. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2018. xxv, 448 pp. ISBN: 9789882370654 (cloth).

Hammer and Anvil: Nomad Rulers at the Forge of the Modern World. By Pamela Kyle Crossley. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. xxiii, 334 pp. ISBN: 9781442214439 (cloth).

Mapping the Great Game: Explorers, Spies and Maps in 19th-Century Asia. By Riaz Dean. Oxford: Casemate, 2019. xvii, 293 pp. ISBN: 9781612008141 (cloth).

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Volume 80 - Issue 4 - November 2021

Book Reviews—South Asia

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Book Reviews—Transnational and Comparative