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Volume 79 - May 2020

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Historia cultural de los hispanohablantes en Japón. By Araceli Tinajero. New York: Escribana Books, 2019. 306 pp. ISBN: 9781940075778 (paper).

Book Reviews—South Asia

The Power of Place: Contentious Politics in Twentieth-Century Shanghai and Bombay. By Mark W. Frazier. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 296 pp. ISBN: 9781108722193 (paper).

A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World. By Erika Rappaport. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2017. 549 pp. ISBN: 9780691167114 (cloth).

Hindu Law: A New History of Dharmaśāstra. Edited by Patrick Olivelle and Donald R. Davis Jr. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xviii, 551 pp. ISBN: 9780198702603 (cloth).

Nightmarch: Among India's Revolutionary Guerrillas. By Alpa Shah. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 320 pp. ISBN: 9780226590165 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Imaginative Mapping: Landscape and Japanese Identity in the Tokugawa and Meiji Eras. By Nobuko Toyosawa. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2019. 305 pp. ISBN: 9780674241121 (cloth).

Book Reviews—South Asia

The Political Philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal: Islam and Nationalism in Late Colonial India. By Iqbal Singh Sevea. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xix, 234 pp. ISBN: 9781316633700 (paper).

Rites of the God-King: Śānti & Ritual Change in Early Hinduism. By Marko Geslani. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. 314 pp. ISBN: 9780190862886 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Flowering Tales: Women Exorcising History in Heian Japan. By Takeshi Watanabe. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2020. 303 pp. ISBN: 9780674244405 (cloth).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Lord Cornwallis Is Dead: The Struggle for Democracy in the United States and India. By Nico Slate. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2019. 372 pp. ISBN: 9780674983441 (cloth).

Privileged Minorities: Syrian Christianity, Gender, and Minority Rights in Postcolonial India. By Sonja Thomas. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. 210 pp. ISBN: 9780295743844 (paper).

Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India's Central Himalayas. By Radhika Govindrajan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. 256 pp. ISBN: 9780226559988 (paper).

The Emergence of Modern Hinduism: Religion on the Margins of Colonialism. Richard S. Weiss. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019. 203 pp. ISBN: 9780520307056 (paper).

History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200–2000. By Sumit Guha. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. 240 pp. ISBN: 9780295746210 (paper).

Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear and the Making of a Massacre. By Kim A. Wagner. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2019. xxvi, 325 pp. ISBN: 9780300200355 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Islam and Colonialism: Becoming Modern in Indonesia and Malaya. By Muhamad Ali. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016. 335 pp. ISBN: 978147440920 (cloth).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Seeding Buddhism with Multiculturalism: The Transmission of Sri Lankan Buddhism in Toronto. By D. Mitra Barua. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2019. 280 pp. ISBN: 9780773556577 (paper).

Animal Labor and Colonial Warfare. By James L. Hevia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. 328 pp. ISBN: 9780226566285 (paper).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

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Volume 79 - May 2020

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Book Reviews—South Asia

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Book Reviews—South Asia

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Book Reviews—South Asia

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Book Reviews—South Asia

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia