{"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":"141919619","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: Indranil Acharya and Sayantan Dasgupta, Writings from the Sundarbans","authors":"Deepanwita Dey","doi":"10.1177/02627280241233649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280241233649","url":null,"abstract":"Indranil Acharya and Sayantan Dasgupta, Writings from the Sundarbans (New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2023), xxvi + 203 pp.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141119826","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: Werner Menski and Muneeb Yousuf (Eds), Kashmir after 2019: Completing the Partition","authors":"Zahid Hussain","doi":"10.1177/02627280241233650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280241233650","url":null,"abstract":"Werner Menski and Muneeb Yousuf (Eds), Kashmir after 2019: Completing the Partition (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2022), xii + 380 pp.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141119177","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}
Pub Date : 2024-05-20DOI: 10.1177/02627280241233686
J. Tilak
Maya John (Ed.), Debating Education in India: Issues and Concerns (New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2023), x + 290 pp.
Maya John (Ed.), Debating Education in India：问题与关切》（新德里：Tulika Books，2023 年），x + 290 页。
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{"title":"Book review: Dipsikha Acharya, Iron in India: History and Historiography","authors":"Chanchal Adhikary","doi":"10.1177/02627280241233648","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280241233648","url":null,"abstract":"Dipsikha Acharya, Iron in India: History and Historiography (Delhi: Primus Books, 2022), xiii + 392 pp.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141122637","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}
Pub Date : 2024-05-20DOI: 10.1177/02627280241233684
Damion Sturm
Vidya Subramanian, Speeding up Sport: Technology and the Indian Premier League (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), vii + 142 pp.
Vidya Subramanian, Speeding up Sport：技术与印度超级联赛》（牛津：牛津大学出版社，2022 年），vii + 142 页。
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Pub Date : 2024-04-29DOI: 10.1177/02627280241241545
Nidhin Donald
This article analyses the meanings, practices and socio-historical contexts of kudumbayogams (family associations) among the large, relatively prosperous, multi-denominational community of Syrian Christians in Kerala, who are today spread across the globe. Kudumbayogams present new ways of mobilising and displaying family, kinship and community ties. The article argues that while earlier socio-economic shifts inaugurated the spatial dispersal and reconstitution of Syrian Christian patrilineal families and households, they also led to the formation of family associations, alongside other modern associational forms. Based on a detailed analysis of printed family histories, and allied documents, this study conceptualises kudumbayogam as a modern fortification of attempts to resolve the ambiguities of changing times by tethering a Christian brand of upper-caste social conservatism with ‘neoliberal’ individualism. This modern fortification mobilises households and families through an array of structures and activities that seek to foster cultural continuity, communication, conflict resolution and charity among its members. In the process, kudumbayogams actively blunt intra-group contradictions and highlight inter-group differences.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-29DOI: 10.1177/02627280241240033
Canan Yogurt, Aykut Kismir
This article showcases that studies on Hindi and Urdu literature are also being conducted outside South Asia and that elsewhere, too, such literary studies and socio-political analyses are being combined in quite specific ways. Boycott of foreign goods was one of the most important parts of colonial India’s freedom struggle and many intellectuals from the literary and art worlds expressed their views on it. In his Hindi and Urdu stories, Munshi Premchand used his unique narrative technique, critical perspective on social events, and deep understanding of Indian society also to comment on the boycott of foreign goods. The article examines how such reflections of India’s struggle for independence manifest in two of Premchand’s lesser-known stories in which he argued for boycotting foreign goods. Our analysis portrays Premchand as an activist writer, who chose common people’s language to present gendered social documents, in a form akin to oral history, as his specific contribution to India’s freedom from foreign rule.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-26DOI: 10.1177/02627280241240031
Nicholas Lassi
The phenomenon of ‘signature pharmacists’ in South Asia has allowed allopathic prescription medication to be dispensed without the necessary medical knowledge, specifically of drug interactions, dosages and side effects. This practice, in which qualified pharmacists delegate their professional inputs to often unqualified and unsupervised sales staff, persists due to complicity among pharmacists, other healthcare professionals and regulatory officials. The article discusses the extent of this significant risk to public health in South Asia and argues that pharmacy enforcement and education standards should be reformed to address these huge challenges to ensure consumer protection and the general public’s welfare. While the advice is that regulatory authorities should intensify their supervision and inspection efforts to ensure registered pharmacists actively participate in regular pharmacy operations, the article also identifies predicaments related to corruption that are difficult to tackle.
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