Michael W. Charney, Kathryn Wellen, eds.
Warring Societies of Pre-colonial Southeast Asia: Local Cultures of Conflict Within a Regional Context.
Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2018. 272 pp.
$29.00 (paper), ISBN 978-87-7694-229-8. 
Ling Zhang. The River, the Plain, and the State: An Environmental Drama in Northern Song China, 1048–1128. Studies in Environment and History Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 328 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-15598-5.
Reviewed by Mahesh Rangarajan (Ashoka University) Published on H-Asia (July, 2020) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Prashant Kidambi, Manjiri Kamat, Rachel Dwyer, eds.
Bombay Before Mumbai: Essays in Honour of Jim Masselos.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 336 pp.
$55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-006170-8.
Reviewed by Frank F. Conlon (University of Washington) Published on H-Asia (July, 2020) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Martin Thomas, Andrew Thompson, eds.
The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 760 pp.
$125.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-871319-7.
Reviewed by Rohit Wanchoo (Jagellonian University) Published on H-Asia (July, 2020) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Nhung Tuyet Tran.
Familial Properties: Gender, State, and Society in Early Modern Vietnam, 1463–1778.
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2018. 280 pp.
$68.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8248-7482-7.
Reviewed by Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox (Western Connecticut State University) Published on H-Asia (June, 2020) Commissioned by Bradley C. Davis (Eastern Connecticut State University)
Sebastian R. Prange. Monsoon Islam: Trade and Faith on the Medieval Malabar Coast. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 358 pp. $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-42438-7.
Reviewed by Samira Sheikh (Vanderbilt University) Published on H-Asia (June, 2020) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=53037
Vasudha Dalmia. Hindu Pasts: Women, Religion, Histories. Albany: State University of New York Press (SUNY), 2017. 390 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-6805-1.
Reviewed by Leslie Orr (Concordia University) Published on H-Asia (June, 2020) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=51744
Peter Keppy.
Tales of the Southeast Asia's Jazz Age: Filipinos, Indonesians and Popular Culture, 1920-1936.
Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2019. xiii + 269 pp.
$36.00 (paper), ISBN 978-981-3250-51-2.
Pankaj Jha. A Political History of Literature: Vidyapati and the Fifteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Illustrations, tables, chart. 272 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-948955-8.
Reviewed by Dalpat Rajpurohit (University of Texas at Austin) Published on H-Asia (May, 2020) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Rohit De.
A People's Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. ix + 296 pp.
$45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-17443-3.
Reviewed by Sunila Kale (University of Washington International Studies Department) Published on H-Asia (May, 2020) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Corinne Lefèvre.
Pouvoir impérial et élites dans l'Inde moghole de Jahangir.
Asie - Pacifique Series. Paris: Les Indes Savantes, 2017. 506 pp.
EUR 35 (paper), ISBN 978-2-84654-474-0.
Reviewed by Gail Minault (University of Texas at Austin) Published on H-Asia (April, 2020) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
M. Reza Pirbhai.
Fatima Jinnah: Mother of the Nation.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Illustrations. viii + 279 pp.
$99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-19276-8.
Reviewed by Siobhan Lambert-Hurley (University of Sheffield) Published on H-Asia (April, 2020) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Jennifer Dubrow.
Cosmopolitan Dreams: The Making of Modern Urdu Literary Culture in Colonial South Asia.
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2018. xv + 175 pp.
$62.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8248-7270-0.
Reviewed by S. Akbar Zaidi (Columbia University) Published on H-Asia (April, 2020) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Patton Burchett. A Genealogy of Devotion: Bhakti, Tantra, Yoga, and Sufism in North India. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. 456 pp. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-19032-9.
Reviewed by Aloka Parasher-Sen (University of Hyderabad) Published on H-Asia (April, 2020) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Gerard Sasges, Shi Wen Ng, eds. Teo. Hard at Work: Life in Singapore Today. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2019. xxxvi + 377 pp. $32.00 (paper), ISBN 978-981-3250-50-5.
Reviewed by Michael Barr (Flinders University) Published on H-Asia (April, 2020) Commissioned by Bradley C. Davis (Eastern Connecticut State University)
