Suggested monographs spring 2019
The course readings will be selected from the best monographs within South Asian studies, a main criterion being that they are published by a renowned academic publisher. To optimize the thematic relevance, we select our monographs jointly at our first course meeting. We encourage you to bring your own monograph suggestion along, which we will add to the following list of possible choices provided that it meets the quality criteria.
Atreyee Sen 2007: Shiv Sena Women: Violence and Communalism in a Bombay Slum. London: Hurst & Company
Lamb, Sarah 2000: White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender, and Body in North India. Berkeley: University of California Press
Hanssen, Kristin 2018: Women, Religion and the Body in South Asia: Living with Bengali Bauls. London: Routledge South Asia Series
Ghassem-Fachandi 2012: Pogrom in Gujarat: Hindu Nationalism and Anti-Muslim Violence in India. Princeton: Princeton University Press
Jean M. Langford 2002: Fluent Bodies: Ayurvedic Remedies for Postcolonial Imbalance. Durham: Duke University Press
Dominique-Sila Khan 2003 [1997]: Conversions and Shifting Identitites: Ramdev Pir and the Ismailis in Rajasthan. Delhi: Manohar/Centre de Sciences Humaines
David Mosse 2012: The Saint in the Banyan Tree: Christianity and Caste Society in India. Berkeley: University of California Press
Mark Singleton 2010: The Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice. New York: Oxford University Press
Sondra L. Hausner 2007: Wandering with Sadhus: Ascetics in the Hindu Himalayas. Bloomington: Indiana University Press
Jacob Copeman 2008: Veins of Devotion: Blood Donation and Religious Experience in South Asia. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press