Books available for review

As Review Editor for Contemporary South Asia, I invite academic colleagues, postgraduate research students and other suitably qualified persons to review one of the works listed below. Potential reviewers should send their full name, position, institutional affiliation (if applicable), full mailing address and mobile number, a brief summary of their published work, and the title of the book they would like to review to:

[1]  Ekta Singh.  Prophet and statesmen in crafting democracy in India: political leadership, ideas, and compromises , 2021, Contemporary South Asia.

[2]  A. Guha.  Caste, entrepreneurship and the illusions of tradition: branding the potters of Kolkata , 2020 .

[3]  Damien Krichewsky.  Corporate Social Responsibility and Economic Responsiveness in India , 2020 .

[4]  Kenneth Bo Nielsen.  The Ethics of Staying: Social Movements and Land Rights Politics in Pakistan , 2020, Journal of Contemporary Asia.

[5]  J. Sreedharan.  Navaneetha Mokkil, Unruly Figures: Queerness, Sex Work, and the Politics of Sexuality in Kerala , 2019 .

[6]  Nimanthi Perera-Rajasingham.  Assembling Ethnicities in Neoliberal Times: Ethnographic Fictions and Sri Lanka’s War , 2019 .

[7]  B. Simpson,et al.  Research as Development , 2019 .

[8]  Katherine Lemons.  Divorcing Traditions , 2019 .

[9]  E. Huntington.  Creating the Universe: Depictions of the Cosmos in Himalayan Buddhism , 2019 .

[10]  Sidharthan Maunaguru.  Marrying for a Future: Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Marriages in the Shadow of War , 2019 .

[11]  K. Sivaramakrishnan,et al.  Gandhi's Search for the Perfect Diet: Eating with the World in Mind , 2019 .

[12]  Alexander Rocklin.  THE REGULATION OF RELIGION AND THE MAKING OF HINDUISM IN COLONIAL TRINIDAD. By AlexanderRocklin. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. Pp. 310. Cloth, $90.00; paper, $34.95. , 2019, Religious Studies Review.

[13]  Matthew Maycock.  Masculinity and Modern Slavery in Nepal , 2018 .

[14]  Steve Derné.  The Cow in the Elevator: An Anthropology of Wonder , 2018, Asian Anthropology.

[15]  S. Sahoo.  Pentecostalism and Politics of Conversion in India , 2018 .

[16]  S. Horvat,et al.  Welcome to the Desert of Post-Socialism: Radical Politics After Yugoslavia , 2016, International Dialogue.

[17]  Barbara A. Holdrege.  Bhakti and Embodiment : Fashioning Divine Bodies and Devotional Bodies in Krsna Bhakti , 2015 .

[18]  D. Hollanders.  Buying time: The delayed crisis of democratic capitalism , 2015 .

[19]  R. Rybakov.  The Communist Youth League and the Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1917–1932. By Matthias Neumann (London and New York: Routledge, 2011. xxi plus 289 pp.) , 2015 .

[20]  L. Williamson.  Reflections of Amma: Devotees in a Global Embrace , 2015 .

[21]  McKenzie Wark,et al.  Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene , 2015 .

[22]  Ian D. Thatcher.  Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy , 2015 .

[23]  Murray E. G. Smith,et al.  Marxist Phoenix: Studies in Historical Materialism and Marxist Socialism , 2014 .

[24]  M. Lipton.  The Indian Economy , 1979 .

[25]  Arun W. Jones.  Book Review: Privileged Minorities: Syrian Christianity, Gender, and Minority Rights in Postcolonial India , 2019, Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies.

[26]  Arghya Sengupta.  Independence and accountability of the Indian higher judiciary , 2014 .

[27]  Marcello Musto.  Workers unite! : the international 150 years later , 2014 .