Nowhere to Be Home: Narratives from Survivors of Burma's Military Regime
edited by Maggie Lemere and Zoe West
Voice of Witness/McSweeney's Books, 2011
Although personal
The cover of Snake Lake is a Photoshopped mess: Tibetan motifs, a snakeskin pattern, a golden Buddha, all against the backdrop of a pristine lake and mountains that anyone familiar
Footprints in Time:
Reminiscences of a Sindhi matriarch
by Ghulam Fatima Shaikh translated by Rasheeda Husain Oxford University Press (Pakistan), 2011
'His eyes burned with a smouldering, rich fire
Secularizing Islamists?
Jama'at-e-Islami and Jama'at-ud-Da'wa in Urban Pakistan
by Humeira Iqtidar
University of Chicago Press, 2011
Of late, there has
Land of the Unconquerable: The lives of contemporary
Afghan women
edited by Jennifer Heath
& Ashraf Zahedi
University of California Press, 2011
Among the more common forms of violence inflicted
Everyday Nationalism:
Women of the Hindu right in India
by Kalyani Devaki Menon
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010
Few historians bothered with Hindu nationalism before the upsurge of the 1980s,
1857: The real story of the great uprising
by Vishnu Bhatt Godshe Versaikar
translated by Mrinal Pande
Harper Perennial, 2011
In war, goes the old saying, the victor gets to
Harud
directed by Aamir Bashir Chasingtales, 2010
'Heaven on Earth' is how my teacher used to introduce us kids to the combustible turf that was, and is, Kashmir.
Unruly Hills: Nature and Nation in India's Northeast
by Bengt G Karlsson Social Sciences Press and Orient BlackSwan, 2011
It is with a sense of déjà vu that
Bollywood Weddings: Dating, engagement and marriage in Hindu America
by Kavita Ramdya
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010
This engaging book begins with Ramdya's own wedding, when she married
