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Volume 80 - Issue 3 - August 2021

Book Reviews—South Asia

Sarnath: A Critical History of the Place Where Buddhism Began. By Frederick M. Asher. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2020. xi, 192 pp. ISBN: 9781606066164 (paper).

Unforgetting Chaitanya: Vaishnavism and Cultures of Devotion in Colonial Bengal. By Varuni Bhatia. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xiii, 291 pp. ISBN: 9780190686246 (cloth).

Reciting the Goddess: Narratives of Place and the Making of Hinduism in Nepal. By Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xx, 321 pp. ISBN: 9780199341160 (cloth).

Urdu Poetry, 1935–1970: The Progressive Episode. By Carlo Coppola. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 702 pp. ISBN: 9780199403493 (cloth).

To Be an Entrepreneur: Social Enterprise and Disruptive Development in Bangladesh. By Julia Qermezi Huang. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2020. xix, 259 pp. ISBN: 9781501748271 (cloth).

The Broken Spell: Indian Storytelling and the Romance Genre in Persian and Urdu. By Pasha M. Khan. Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, 2019. xii, 312pp. ISBN: 9780814345993 (paper).

Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought. By Durba Mitra. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2020. vii, 290 pp. ISBN: 9780691196343 (cloth).

Banishment and Belonging: Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka and Ceylon. By Ronit Ricci. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xiv, 282 pp. ISBN: 9781108480277 (paper).

Intimate Geopolitics: Love, Territory, and the Future on India's Northern Threshold. By Sara Smith. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2020. 168 pp. ISBN: 9780813598574 (cloth).

Nālandā Mahāvihāra: A Critical Analysis of the Archaeology of an Indian Buddhist Site. By Mary L. Stewart. Delhi: Manohar, 2018. 268 pp. ISBN: 9789350981146 (cloth).

Defining Girlhood in India: A Transnational History of Sexual Maturity Laws. By Ashwini Tambe. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019. xii, 202 pp. ISBN: 9780252042720 (cloth).

Resisting Disappearance: Military Occupation & Women's Activism in Kashmir. By Ather Zia. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. xxx, 288 pp. ISBN: 9780295744988 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Asian Place, Filipino Nation: A Global Intellectual History of the Philippine Revolution, 1887–1912. By Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. vii, 256 pp. ISBN: 9780231192156 (paper).

Coup, King, Crisis: A Critical Interregnum in Thailand. Edited by Pavin Chachavalpongpun. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Council on Southeast Asia Studies, 2020. xii, 379 pp. ISBN: 9781732610200 (paper).

Asymmetrical Neighbors: Borderland State Building between China and Southeast Asia. By Enze Han. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 240 pp. ISBN: 9780190060787 (paper).

Cina Timor: Baba, Hakka, and Cantonese in the Making of Timor-Leste. By Douglas Kammen and Jonathan Chen. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Council on Southeast Asia Studies, 2019. xviii, 240 pp. ISBN: 9780985042988 (cloth).

On Our Own Strength: The Self-Reliant Literary Group and Cosmopolitan Nationalism in Late Colonial Vietnam. By Martina Thucnhi Nguyen. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2021. xiii, 262 pp. ISBN: 9780824883331 (cloth).

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