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Q&A with Divya Cherian, author of Merchants of Virtue
Nov 17 2023
Winner of the 2022 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences, Merchants of Virtue explores the question of what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia. Divya Cherian presents a fine-grained study of everyday life and local politics in the kingdom of Marwar in eighteenth-century wes
Bordering in South Asia
Oct 24 2023
Sahana Ghosh, author of "A Thousand Tiny Cuts" on borders and bordering South Asia.
The Modern Day Lives of Old Healing Texts
Jun 23 2022
By Anthony Cerulli, author of The Practice of Texts: Education and Healing in South IndiaIn the early 2000s, I spent some time in south India learning about the history and contemporary life of Ayurveda, one of India's classical healing traditions that I wanted to become a central topic of my di
Is Decentralizing Authority Key to Afghanistan’s Path to Peace?
Mar 26 2021
Afghanistan has a rich history of customary or traditional governance structures which have remained central to the lives of most citizens, who rely on these community-based bodies to resolve disputes, provide small-scale public goods and services, and to broker relations with local government. The
Asia in 2020: The Covid-19 Pandemic and the U.S.-China Trade War
Mar 23 2021
We've removed the paywall from Asian Survey's annual year-in-review issue which looks back at the biggest stories concerning Asia in 2020, a year during which the COVID-19 pandemic and a trade dispute between the United States and China dominated the headlines. As the world continues to grapple with