{"title":"Book review: Saurav Kumar Rai, Ayurveda, Nation and Society: United Provinces, c. 1890–1950","authors":"Amol Saghar","doi":"10.1177/02627280241272496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280241272496","url":null,"abstract":"Saurav Kumar Rai, Ayurveda, Nation and Society: United Provinces, c. 1890–1950 (Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan, 2024), xxviii + 264 pp.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142183055","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":"Heteronormativity and its Private and Public Balancing in Sri Lanka","authors":"Subham Ghosh, Smriti Singh","doi":"10.1177/02627280241272432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280241272432","url":null,"abstract":"Within the public sphere of South Asian countries, prominent movements to formally recognise gender diversity and decriminalise same-sex relations have had effects in Nepal and India, but same-sex relations remain a criminal offence in Sri Lanka and other South Asian countries. Against this background, the article analyses an early novel by the Sri Lankan Canadian writer Shyam Selvadurai, showing how prohibition and tolerance go rather uneasily hand in hand within the public and private spheres of Sri Lanka, creating anxious precarities in the everyday lives of individuals, their families and supporters within a heteronormative framework. Since formal legal recognition per se can never fully guarantee the freedom to live one’s life as one desires, the article discusses, in light of Selvadurai’s work, to what extent private individual strategies of navigation and self-management remain crucial for non-heteronormative individuals.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142183057","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, The Writing of the Nation by Its Elite: The Politics of Anglophone Indian Literature in the Global Age","authors":"Devapriya Sanyal","doi":"10.1177/02627280241272354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280241272354","url":null,"abstract":"M.K. Raghavendra, The Writing of the Nation by Its Elite: The Politics of Anglophone Indian Literature in the Global Age (London and New York: Routledge, 2022), vii + 221 pp.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142183058","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: Pallavi Chakravarty, Boundaries and Belonging: Rehabilitating Refugees in India, 1947–71","authors":"Werner Menski","doi":"10.1177/02627280241272353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280241272353","url":null,"abstract":"Pallavi Chakravarty, Boundaries and Belonging: Rehabilitating Refugees in India, 1947–71 (Delhi: Primus Books, 2022), xvi + 412 pp.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142183056","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: Neera Chandhoke, We, the People, and Our Constitution","authors":"Ashutosh Kumar","doi":"10.1177/02627280241264385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280241264385","url":null,"abstract":"Neera Chandhoke, We, the People, and Our Constitution (New Delhi: Speaking Tiger, 2023), 160 pp.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141920791","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: Francesca Orsini, East of Delhi: Multilingual Literary Culture and World Literature","authors":"Dolly Sharma","doi":"10.1177/02627280241265538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280241265538","url":null,"abstract":"Francesca Orsini, East of Delhi: Multilingual Literary Culture and World Literature (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023), xix + 288 pp.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141919721","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: Diotima Chattoraj, Displacement among Sri Lankan Tamil Migrants: The Diasporic Search for Home in the Aftermath of War","authors":"Roshni Kapur","doi":"10.1177/02627280241264391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280241264391","url":null,"abstract":"Diotima Chattoraj, Displacement among Sri Lankan Tamil Migrants: The Diasporic Search for Home in the Aftermath of War (Singapore: Springer, 2022), xv + 180 pp.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141920028","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: Ann R. David, Ram Gopal: Interweaving Histories of Indian Dance","authors":"Nilima Devi","doi":"10.1177/02627280241264411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280241264411","url":null,"abstract":"Ann R. David, Ram Gopal: Interweaving Histories of Indian Dance (London et al., Methuen Drama, 2024), xii + 232 pp.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141919882","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: Nalini Iyer and Pallavi Rastogi (Eds), Teaching South Asian Anglophone Diasporic Literature","authors":"Susmita Roye","doi":"10.1177/02627280241264396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280241264396","url":null,"abstract":"Nalini Iyer and Pallavi Rastogi (Eds), Teaching South Asian Anglophone Diasporic Literature (New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2024), xii + 308 pp.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141920877","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}