Reviews

A recent anthropological volume on Jammu & Kashmir makes important new contributions to scholarship on the region.

An untold history of mrdangam makers.

A recent graphic novel highlights the human cost of Sri Lanka’s civil war.

The internment of Chinese Indians during the Sino-Indian War of 1962 has contemporary echoes.

Who has the power to secure and legislate public spaces in cities?

What the simplistic narratives on China’s advances in the Indian Ocean miss.

A recently translated novel brings a new perspective on Partition to the English-speaking world.

A defence of immigration on the grounds of history, economics and security.

A new book documents the forgotten history of tawaifs – or courtesans – in northern India.

A review of Sidharthan Maunaguru’s 'Marrying for a Future: Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Marriages in the Shadow of War'.