South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Volume 39, Issue 3 (2016)

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Writing Revolution: Practice, History, Politics in Modern South Asia. Guest Editors: J. Daniel Elam, Kama Maclean and Chris Moffat

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On the Form, Politics and Effects of Writing Revolution
J. Daniel Elam & Chris Moffat
Pages: 513-524
Published online: 11 Aug 2016
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Born Like Krishna in the Prison-House: Revolutionary Asceticism in the Political Ashram of Aurobindo Ghose
Alex Wolfers
Pages: 525-545
Published online: 17 Jul 2016
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Law and Radical Rhetoric in British India: The 1897 Trial of Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Sukeshi Kamra
Pages: 546-559
Published online: 12 Jul 2016
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Gandhi and the Terrorists: Revolutionary Challenges from Bengal and Engagements with Non-Violent Political Protest
Durba Ghosh
Pages: 560-576
Published online: 12 Jul 2016
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Agyeya's Unfinished Revolution: Sexual and Social Freedom in Shekhar: Ek Jivani
Snehal Shingavi
Pages: 577-591
Published online: 12 Jul 2016
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Commonplace Anti-Colonialism: Bhagat Singh's Jail Notebook and the Politics of Reading
J. Daniel Elam
Pages: 592-607
Published online: 13 Jun 2016
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‘My Heart, My Fellow Traveller’: Fantasy, Futurity and the Itineraries of Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Roanne Kantor
Pages: 608-625
Published online: 13 Jun 2016
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Revolutionary History and the Post-Colonial Muslim: Re-Writing the ‘Silk Letters Conspiracy’ of 1916
Faridah Zaman
Pages: 626-643
Published online: 14 Jul 2016
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Bhagat Singh's Corpse
Chris Moffat
Pages: 644-661
Published online: 20 Jun 2016
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A Prehistory of Violence? Revolution and Martyrs in the Making of a Political Tradition in Kerala
Dilip M. Menon
Pages: 662-677
Published online: 23 Jun 2016
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Revolution and Revelation, or, When is History Too Soon?
Kama Maclean
Pages: 678-694
Published online: 26 Jun 2016
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Book Reviews

Book Review
The Nay Science. A History of German Indology, by Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014, 512 pp., £27.99 (paperback), ISBN 9780199931361
Eli Franco
Pages: 695-698
Published online: 12 Jul 2016
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Narasinha Mehta of Gujarat: A Legacy of Bhakti in Songs and Stories, by Neelima Shukla-Bhatt
New York, Oxford University Press, 2014, 325 pp. + 29 illustrations, US$36.95 (paperback), ISBN 9780199976423
John E. Cort
Pages: 699-700
Published online: 12 Jul 2016
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Sacred and Secular Musics: A Postcolonial Approach, by Virinder S. Kalra
London, Bloomsbury, 2015, xii + 237 pp., £65.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781441121325
Bob van der Linden
Pages: 700-702
Published online: 14 Jul 2016
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Ramayana Stories in Modern South India: An Anthology, compiled and edited by Paula Richman
Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2008, 226 pp., US$18.00 (paperback), ISBN 9780253219534
Linda Hemphill
Pages: 702-703
Published online: 12 Jul 2016
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The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth, by Dipesh Chakrabarty
Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2015, 320 pp., US$30.00 (paperback), ISBN 9780226240244
Dinyar Patel
Pages: 703-705
Published online: 14 Jul 2016
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Steamboats on the Indus: The Limits of Western Technological Superiority in South Asia, by Clive Dewey
New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2014, xvii + 296 pp. (including maps, figures, 59 coloured and black and white plates, appendix and glossary), Rs2,395 (hardback), ISBN 9780198092193
Murari Jha
Pages: 705-707
Published online: 14 Jul 2016
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The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories and the Bangladesh War of 1971, by Nayanika Mookherjee
Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2015, 352 pp., US$26.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-8223-5968-5
Seuty Sabur
Pages: 707-709
Published online: 14 Jul 2016
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Education for Development in Northern Pakistan: Opportunities and Constraints for Rural Households, by Andreas Johannes Benz
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014, 437 pp. with index and illustrations, PKR.1,850 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-19-906917-0
Ayesha Bashiruddin
Pages: 709-711
Published online: 17 Jul 2016
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Beyond South Asia. India's Strategic Evolution and the Reintegration of the Subcontinent, by Neil Padukone
New York, Bloomsbury, 2014, 220 pp., US$30.99 (paperback), ISBN 9781628922523
Rizwan Zeb
Pages: 711-713
Published online: 14 Jul 2016
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