South Asian History and Culture

Can there be another Vikalp? Documentary film, censorship histories, and film festival publics in India

New histories of political violence and revolutionary terrorism in modern South Asia

Framing religion in constitutional politics: a view from Indian Constitutional Law

Indian migration and empire: a colonial genealogy of the modern state

Identity matters: Hunza and the hidden text of Britain and China

The mosque as juristic person: law, public order and inter-religious disputes in India

Codification of Islamic law in South Asia, or how not to do comparative law

Defying modesty: sexuality, female desire and stardom, Chandidas (1932)

View of a city: an immersive history of Kolkata via camera-eye

Religion, law and state policing: accusations, inquests and arbitration of religious conflicts in colonial India

Communities and Courts: Religion and Law in Modern India

Ritual death in a secular state: the Jain practice of Sallekhana

Negotiating mobility and media: the contemporary digital afterlives of Feluda

Subjects of modernity: time-space, disciplines, margins

Shari’a politics, ʿulamā and Laity Ijtihād: fields of normativity and conviviality

Secular moral/legal commitments revisited: an interlude by way of afterword

A Rendezvous with the Ghosh Brothers: a sneak peek into Bengal’s homegrown exploitation cinema

The Great War, communal identity and personal emotions in the fiction of Kazi Nazrul Islam

Monsoons and medicine: the biopolitics of crisis and state indifference in Gilgit-Baltistan

Geopolitics, statehood, violence and space compression in Gilgit-Baltistan

A divided movement: urban activists, NGOs, and the fault-lines of a peasant struggle

A feminist foremother: critical essays on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain

Sectarianism at workplace in Gilgit

The politics of exclusion

Taming the tamed elephant: Rāvaṇa, aesthetics, and the generation of humor in Raviṣeṇa’s Padmapurāṇa

Identity, community and the state: Jains under the Mughals

Language as identity in colonial India: policies and politics

Art, law and the violence of offence taking