With support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, three of the academy’s leading publishers in South Asian studies combined their resources to publish a major series devoted to first books. “South Asia Across the Disciplines,” showcases work aiming to address innovative questions in the field. These include the relationship between South Asian studies and the disciplines; the conversation between past and present in South Asia; the history and nature of modernity, especially in relation to cultural change, political transformation, secularism and religion, and globalization. Above all, the series contains monographs that open up new archives, especially in South Asian languages, and suggest new methods and approaches, while demonstrating that South Asian scholarship can be at once deep in expertise and broad in appeal.
Each book in the series is published under the imprint of one of the three presses, but all are promoted as part of the series, sharing in design, advertising, and publicity.
The Social Space of Language: Vernacular Culture in British Colonial Punjab
The University of California Press, 2010
John Richards Prize in South Asian History, American Historical Association
Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies
Extreme Poetry: The South Asian Movement of Simultaneous Narration
Columbia University Press, 2010
Unifying Hinduism: Philosophy and Identity in Indian Intellectual History
Columbia University Press, 2010
Best First Book in the History of Religions, American Academy of Religion
The Powerful Ephemeral: Everyday Healing in an Ambiguously Islamic Place
The University of California Press, 2011
Conjugations: Marriage and Form in New Bollywood Cinema
The University of Chicago Press, 2011
Secularizing Islamists?: Jama'at-e-Islami and Jama'at-ud-Da'wa in Urban Pakistan
The University of Chicago Press, 2011
Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia
The University of Chicago Press, 2011
Best First Book in the History of Religions, American Academy of Religion
Short Listed for the Award for Excellence in Textual Studies Category, American Academy of Religion
Harry J. Benda Prize in Southeast Asian Studies, Association for Asian Studies
Unfinished Gestures: Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India
The University of Chicago Press, 2012
Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies
Document Raj: Writing and Scribes in Early Colonial South India
The University of Chicago Press, 2012
The Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam
Columbia University Press, 2012
Best First Book in the History of Religions, American Academy of Religion
John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History, American Historical Association
Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism: History, Semiology, and Transgression in the Indian Traditions
Columbia University Press, 2012
Award for Excellence in Historical Studies Category, American Academy of Religion
Receptacle of the Sacred: Illustrated Manuscripts and the Buddhist Book Cult in South Asia
The University of California Press, 2013
Body of Victim, Body of Warrior: Refugee Families and the Making of Kashmiri Jihadists
The University of California Press, 2013
Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies
Democracy against Development: Lower Caste Politics and Political Modernity in Postcolonial India
The University of Chicago Press, 2013
The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet’s Great Saint Milarepa
Columbia University Press, 2013
Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication, Yale University
Cut-Pieces: Celluloid Obscenity and Popular Cinema in Bangladesh
Columbia University Press, 2013
2016 Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies
Text to Tradition: The Naisadhīyacarita and Literary Community in South Asia
Columbia University Press, 2014
Writing Resistance: The Rhetorical Imagination of Hindi Dalit Literature
Columbia University Press, 2014
Into the Twilight of Sanskrit Court Poetry: The Sena Salon of Bengal and Beyond
The University of California Press, 2014
Voicing Subjects: Public Intimacy and Mediation in Kathmandu
The University of California Press, 2014
Wombs in Labor: Transnational Commercial Surrogacy in India
Columbia University Press, 2014
I Too Have Some Dreams: N. M. Rashed and Modernism in Urdu Poetry
The University of California Press, 2014
We Were Adivasis: Aspiration in an Indian Scheduled Tribe
University of Chicago Press, 2015
The Place of Devotion: Siting and Experiencing Divinity in Bengal-Vaishnavism
University of California Press, 2015
The University of California Press, 2015
Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court
Columbia University Press, 2016
Spiritual Despots: Modern Hinduism and the Genealogies of Self Rule
University of Chicago Press, 2016
Landscapes of Accumulation: Real Estate and the Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary India
University of Chicago Press, 2016
Polemics and Patronage in the City of Victory
University of California Press, 2016
Negotiating Languages: Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia
Columbia University Press, 2016
2015 Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities from the American Institute of Indian Studies
Building Histories: The Archival and Affective Lives of Five Monuments in Modern Delhi
University of Chicago Press, 2016
Reading the Mahavamsa: The Literary Aims of a Theravada Buddhist History
Columbia University Press, 2016
Hindu Pluralism: Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South India
University of California Press, 2017
Modernizing Composition: Sinhala Song, Poetry, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Sri Lanka
University of California Press, 2017
Language of the Snakes: Prakrit, Sanskrit, and the Language Order of Premodern India
University of California Press, 2017
The Hegemony of Heritage: Ritual and the Record in Stone
University of California Press, 2018
The Monastery Rules: Buddhist Monastic Organization in Pre-Modern Tibet
University of California Press, 2018
The Neighborhood of Gods: The Sacred and the Visible at the Margins of Mumbai
University of Chicago Press, 2018
founding editors
Dipesh Chakrabarty
Sheldon Pollock
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
This series is closed to new submissions.
