{"title":"Book review: Indudharan Menon, Hereditary Physicians of Kerala: Traditional Medicine and Ayurveda in Modern India","authors":"S. Rai","doi":"10.1177/02627280221115701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280221115701","url":null,"abstract":"Indudharan Menon, Hereditary Physicians of Kerala: Traditional Medicine and Ayurveda in Modern India (London and New York, Routledge: 2019), xiii + 237 pp.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":"42 1","pages":"449 - 452"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41344228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: M.K. Raghavendra, Philosophical Issues in Indian Cinema: Approximate Terms and Concepts","authors":"Devapriya Sanyal","doi":"10.1177/02627280221115709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280221115709","url":null,"abstract":"M.K. Raghavendra, Philosophical Issues in Indian Cinema: Approximate Terms and Concepts (New Delhi: Routledge, 2020), 182 pp.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":"42 1","pages":"454 - 457"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48698549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: Amartya Sen, Home in the World: A Memoir","authors":"Soni Wadhwa","doi":"10.1177/02627280221119652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280221119652","url":null,"abstract":"Amartya Sen, Home in the World: A Memoir (London: Allen Lane, 2021), xv + 464 pp.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":"42 1","pages":"479 - 481"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49377416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: Sreejith K., The Middle Class in Colonial Malabar: A Social History","authors":"Sreejith Murali","doi":"10.1177/02627280221115692","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280221115692","url":null,"abstract":"Sreejith K., The Middle Class in Colonial Malabar: A Social History (New Delhi, Manohar Books, 2021), xiv + 191 pp.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":"42 1","pages":"446 - 449"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47668663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: Aditya K. Mishra, Agriculture, Technology and Globalization: A Social Capital Perspective","authors":"R. Sahu","doi":"10.1177/02627280221119577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280221119577","url":null,"abstract":"Aditya K. Mishra, Agriculture, Technology and Globalization: A Social Capital Perspective (New Delhi: Serials Publications, 2019), xxix + 265 pp.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":"42 1","pages":"468 - 470"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45485420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: Bala Ramulu Chinnala, Marginalized Communities and Decentralized Institutions in India: An Exclusion and Inclusion Perspective","authors":"Devapriya Sanyal","doi":"10.1177/02627280221115708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280221115708","url":null,"abstract":"Bala Ramulu Chinnala, Marginalized Communities and Decentralized Institutions in India: An Exclusion and Inclusion Perspective (New York: Routledge, 2021), xviii + 141 pp.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":"42 1","pages":"457 - 460"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46968512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Changing Birth Practices in India: Oils, Oxytocin and Obstetrics","authors":"Sreeparna Chattopadhyay, Suraj Jacob","doi":"10.1177/02627280221105126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280221105126","url":null,"abstract":"Institutional births increased in India from 39% to 79% between 2005 and 2015. Drawing from 17 months of fieldwork, this article traces the shift from home to hospital births across three generations in a hamlet in Assam in Northeast India. Here, too, one finds that most births have shifted from home to hospital in less than a decade, aided by multiple factors. These include ‘free’ birthing facilities and financial incentives offered by government schemes, idiosyncratic changes within the hamlet, such as the introduction of biomedical practices through home births where oxytocin was used, and changes in cultural belief systems among local people. The exploration reveals significant transitions between (and fluidities of) categories such as local/global, tradition/modernity, past/present and nature/technology, creating a complex and ambivalent narrative of change, in which the voices of mothers should not be ignored.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":"42 1","pages":"364 - 380"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47601694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sri Lankan Northern Tamils in Colombo: Broken Memories of Home","authors":"D. Chattoraj","doi":"10.1177/02627280221091796","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280221091796","url":null,"abstract":"The Sri Lankan conflict that officially ended in 2009 resulted not only in large numbers of Tamils leaving the country to join the vast global Tamil diaspora but also created many internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Sri Lanka’s Northern Tamil communities who settled in Colombo. This article examines the idea of home among such IDPs, showing how broken memories of an earlier home and different approaches towards return shape feelings of being an ‘insider’ or ‘outsider’ among Tamil IDPs in Colombo. Drawing on the life experiences of such IDPs, the article shows that they now often view Colombo as a more suitable home yet are still ‘becoming insiders’ rather than ‘being insiders’.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":"42 1","pages":"233 - 248"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43269151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}