By Anthony Cerulli, author of The Practice of Texts: Education and Healing in South India In the early 2000s, I spent some time in south India learning about the history and contemporary …
By Rashmi Sadana, author of The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure One of the first people I interviewed for my new book, The Moving …
By Michael Slouber, editor of A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses: Tales of the Feminine Divine from India and Beyond In the Internet age, memes have come to refer to images that are …
Anirudh Krishna’s essay “The Poorest After the Pandemic” is featured in Current History’s November special issue on the pandemic’s global ramifications. Krishna is the Edgar T. Thompson Professor of Public Policy and …
This guest post is published around the Association for Asian Studies conference in Washington D.C., occurring March 22-25, 2018. #AAS2018 In the eighteenth-century, the scholar Mirza Khan observed that India had many languages, …
We are delighted to announce that Sonal Khullar was awarded the Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize for her book, Worldly Affiliations: Artistic Practice, National Identity, and Modernism in India, 1930-1990 on behalf …
By Claire Snell-Rood, author of No One Will Let Her Live: Women’s Struggle for Well-Being in a Delhi Slum This guest post is published in advance of the American Anthropological Association conference in Denver. Check …
Every year, the United Nations dedicates May 15th, the International Day of Families, to bringing attention to the rights of families across the world and society as a whole, with a particular focus on …
English Heart, Hindi Heartland examines Delhi’s postcolonial literary world—its institutions, prizes, publishers, writers, and translators, and the cultural geographies of key neighborhoods—in light of colonial histories and the globalization of English. Rashmi …