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HISTORY Thapar, Romila. The Mauryas Revisited. Calcutta: Bagchi 1987. Chattopadhyaya, B. D. Introduction: The Making of Early Medieval India, in B.D. Chattopadhyaya, The Making of Early Medieval India (Delhi: Oxford University Press,1994), pp. 1-37. Ali, Daud. Courtly Culture and Political Life in Early Medieval India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Harbans Mukhia, ed. The Feudalism Debate. Delhi: Manohar, 1999. Talbot, Cynthia. Pre-Colonial India in Practice: Society, Religion and Identity in Medieval Andhra. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Stein, Burton, Peasant State and Society in Medieval South India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1980. Kumar, Sunil. The Emergence of the Delhi Sultanate. Delh: Permanent Black, 2007. Flood, Finbarr. Objects of Translation: Material Culture and Medieval Hindu-Muslim Encounter. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. Eaton, Richard. Essays on Islam and Indian History. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000. Digby, Simon. Before Timur Came: Provincialization of the Delhi Sultanate Through The Fourteenth Century Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 47:3 (2004): 298-356. Wagoner, Philip. A Sultan among Hindu Kings: Dress, Titles, and the Islamicization of Hindu Culture at Vijayanagara, Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 55, no. 4 (1996): 851-80. Kolff, Dirk. Naukar, Rajput, Sepoy: The Ethnohistory of the military labour market in Hindustan, 1450-1850. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Habib, Irfan. The Agrarian System of Mughal India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999. Alam, Muzaffar, and Sanjay Subrahmanyam, eds. The Mughal State, 1526-1750. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998. Sreeinvasan, Ramya. The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen: Heroic Pasts in India, c. 1500-1900. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. Das Gupta, Ashin. The World of the Indian Ocean Merchant, 1500-1800. Collected Essays of Ashin Das Gupta. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001. Alavi, Seema, ed. The Eighteenth Century. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002. Amin, Shahid. Gandhi as Mahatma: Gorakhpur District, Eastern UP, 1921, in Ranajit Guha, ed. Subaltern Studies III: Writings on South Asian History and Society. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 1-61. Guha, Ranajit. Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983. Guha, Ranajit. On Some Aspects of the Historiography of Colonial India, in Ranajit Guha, ed. Subaltern Studies I: Writings on South Asian History and Society. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1982, pp. 1-8. Dirks, Nicholas. From Little Kingdom to Landlord: Colonial Discourse and Colonial Rule, in Dirks, ed. Colonialism and Culture. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992, pp. 175-208.

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Bayly, C. A. Rulers Townsman, Bazaars: North Indian Society in the Time of British Expansion, 1770-1870. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Sangari, Kumkum & Sudesh Vaid, ed. Recasting Women: Essays in Indian Colonial History. Delhi: Kali for Women, 1989. Sarkar, Sumit. The Decline of the Subaltern in Subaltern Studies, Writing Social History. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 82-108. Sarkar, Sumit. Kaliyuga, Chakri and Bhakti: Ramakrishna and His Times, Writing Social History. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 282-357. Jalal, Ayesha. The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan. Cambridge University Press, 1985. Chandavarkar, Rajnarayan. The Origins of Industrial Capitalism: Business Strategies and the Working Classes in Bombay, 1900-1940. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Washbrook, David. Law, State and Agrarian Society in Colonial India, Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 15, No. 3 (1981): 649-721. Hardiman, David. Feeding the Baniya: Peasants and Usurers in Western India. Delhi: OUP, 1997. Joshi, Chitra, Histories of Indian Labour: Predicaments and Possibilities, History Compass 6/2, (2008): 439454. Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi, Introduction, in: S. Bhattacharya, J. Bara and C. R. Yagati (eds), Educating the Nation: Documents on the Discourse of National Education in India, 1880-1920, (New Delhi: Kanishka, 2003). RELIGION *Heesterman, J. C. The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship and Society, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985). Smith, Brian K. Classifying the Universe: The Ancient Indian Varna System and the Origins of Caste. New York: Oxford, 1994. King, Richard. Indian Philosophy: An Introduction to Hindu and Buddhist Thought. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University, 1999, pg. 1-91. *Chattopadhyaya, B.D. Representing the Other? Sanskrit Sources and the Muslims. Delhi: Oxford University Press . *Chakrabarti, Kunal. Religious Process: The Puranas and the making of a regional tradition. (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001). *Inden, Ronald. Text and Practice: Essays on South Asian History. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006. Eschmann, A. Hinduization of Tribal Deities in Orissa: the Sakta and Saiva Typology, The Vaisnava Typology of Hinduization and the Origin of Jagannatha, in Eschmann, A., H. Kulke, and G.C. Tripathi, eds. The Cult of Jagannath and the Regional Tradition of Orissa. Delhi: Manohar, 1986. Ahmad, Aziz. Studies in Islamic Culture in the Indian Environment. Oxford, Oxford University Press,1964. This is a classic in the field. *Eaton, Richard, ed. Indias Islamic Traditions, 711-1750. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003. Coburn, Thomas. Encountering the Goddess: A translation of the Devi Mahatmya and a study of its Interpretation, (Albany: SUNY Press, 1991).

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*Prasad, Leela. Poetics of Conduct: Oral Narrative and Moral Being in a South Indian Town. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. *Baird, Robert, ed. Religion in Modern India. Delhi: Manohar, 2009. *Madan, T.N., ed., Religion in India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1991. *Peterson, Indira V. Lives of the Wandering Singers: Pilgrimage and Poetry in Tamil Saivite Hagiography History of Religions (1983). Metcalf, B. D. A Pilgrimage Remembered: South Asian Accounts of the Haj in Metcalf, ed. Islamic Contestations: Essays on Muslims in India and Pakistan, (Oxford: Oxford Unviersity Press, 2006). *Pollock, Sheldon. The Rmyaa and the Political Imagination in India, Journal of Asian Studies 52, 2 (1993): 261-97. *Cort, John. "Bhakti in the Early Jain Tradition: Understanding Devotional Religion in South Asia.". History of Religions. v. 42 (2002) pp. 59-86. *Schopen, G. Bones, Stones, and Buddhist Monks: Collected Essays on the Archaeology, Epigraphy and Texts of Monastic Buddhism in India, (Honolulu: Hawaii University Press, 1997), pp. 1-55. *Srinivas, M. N., "Sanskritization," Social Change in Modern India, Berkeley: University of California, 1966, pp. 1-45. *Srinivas, M. N., Westernization, Social Change in Modern India, Berkeley: University of California, 1966, pp. 46-88. Sangari, Kumkum. The Spiritual Economy of Bhakti, parts 1 and 2 in Economic and Political Weekly XXV, no. 27 (July 7, 1990):1464-75; no. 28 (July 14, 1990): 1537-52. *Stephen Dale, Conversion to Islam in Kerala, in G. A. Oddie, ed., Religion in South Asia: Religious Conversion and Revival Movements in South Asia in Medieval and Modern Times, (Delhi: Manohar, 1991). Aquil, Raziuddin. Conversion in Chishti Sufi Literature (13th-14th Centuries), The Indian Historical Review, 24: 1-2, 1997-98, pp. 70-94 *Frykenberg, R. E. Introduction: Dealing with Contested Definitions and Controversial Perspectives, and Christians in India: An Historical Overview of their Complex Origins in Frykenberg et. al., eds. Christians and Missionaries in India: Cross-cultural Communication since 1500, (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2003), pp. 1-61. Webster, John. Dalits and Christianity in Colonial Punjab: Cultural Interactions, in Frykenberg et. al., eds. Christians, Cultural Interactions, and Indias Religious Traditions, (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2002), pp. 92-118. *Oddie, Geoffrey. Constructing Hinduism: The Impact of the Protestant Missionary Movement on Hindu Self-Understanding in Frykenberg et. al., eds. Christians and Missionaries in India: Cross-cultural Communication since 1500, (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2003), pp. 155-182. Halbfass, Wilhelm. Neo-Hinduism, Modern Indian Traditionalism, and the Presence of Europe, in India and Europe: An Essay in Understanding (Binghamton: SUNY, 1988), pp. 217-246. *Bhargava, Rajeev, What is Secularism For? in Bhargava, ed., Secularism and its Critics, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 486-542. Galanter, Marc. Hinduism, Secularism and the Indian Judiciary, in Bhargava, ed., Secularism and its Critics, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 268-293.

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LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE *Stark, Ulrike. An Empire of Books. The Naval Kishore Press and the Diffusion of the Printed Word in aColonial India (Ranikhet, 2008). *Meisami, Julie, Scott. Medieval Persian Courtly Poetry. Princeton University Press, 1987. Orsini, Francesca. The Hindi Public Sphere 1920-1940: Language and Literature in the Age of Nationalism. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002. *Richman, Paula, ed. Many Ramayanas: The Diversity of Narrative Tradition in South Asia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. Viswanathan, Gauri. Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India (Oxford: OUP, 1990). *Satchidanandan, K. Indian Poetry: Modernism and After. Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 2001. Shulman, David. The Wisdom of Poets: Studies in Tamil, Telegu and Sanskrit. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001. Losensky, Paul. Welcoming Fighani: Imitiation and Poetic Individuality in the Safavid-Mughal Ghazal. New York: Mazda, 1998. *Blackburn, Stuart, and A.K. Ramanjuan, eds. Another Harmony: New Essays on the Folklore of India. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. Husain, Ali Akbar. Scent in the Islamic Garden: a Study of Deccani Urdu Literary Sources. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2000 *Behl, Aditya. Introduction. Madhumalati: An Indian Sufi Romance. (New York: Penguin, 2000), pp. xi-xlvi. *Ramanujan, A.K. and Norman Cutler. From Classicism to Bhakti. In Bardwell Smith, ed. Essays in Gupta Culture. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1983. *Ingalls, Mason, Patwardhan. Introductionin Dhvanyloka of nandavardhana with the Locan of Abhinavagupta. Harvard University Press, 1990. *Pollock, Sheldon. The Sanskrit Cosmopolis, 300-1300 CE: Transculturation, Vernacularization, and the Question of Ideology. In Jan E. M. Houben, ed., Ideology and Status of Sanskrit: Contributions to the History of the Sanskrit Language. New York: E. J. Brill, 1996, pp. 197-249. *----. The Death of Sanskrit. Comparative Studies in Society and History 43, 2 (2001): 392426. *----. India in the Vernacular Millennium: Literary Culture and Polity, 1000-1500, Daedalus 127, 3 (1998): 41-74. ----. Introduction. In Pollock, ed., Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003, pp. 1-37. *Faruqi, Pritchett, McGregor, Trivedi. The Twinned Histories of Hindi and Urdu. In Pollock, ed., Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003, pp. 805-1022. *Narayana Rao, Velcheru and David Shulman. A Poem at the Right Moment: Remembered Verses from Premodern South India. (Berkeley: University of California, 1998), pp. 1-25; 135-207 Lutgendorf, Philip. The Life of a Text: Performing the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas. Berkeley: Univesity of California Press, 1991.

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*Tharu, Susie and K. Lalitha. Introduction (s), in Women Writing in India. 2 vols. New York: The Feminist Press, 1993. *Mitchell, Lisa. Language, Emotion and Politics in South India: The Making of a Mother Tongue. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008). Washbrook, David, To Each a Language of His Own: Language, Culture, and Society in Colonial India, in Penelope J. Corfield, ed., Language, History, Class (Oxford: B. Blackwell, 1991), 179-203. *Rushie, Salman. Damme,This is the Oriental Scene For You! (from Special Fiction Issue of The New Yorker (June 23, 30 1997). *Mukherjee, Meenakshi. The Anxiety of Indianness and Divided by a Common Language in Mukherjee, The Perishable Empire: Essays on Indian Writing in English (Dehli: Oxford, 2000), pp. 166-86; 194-202. *Chandra, Vikram The Cult of Authenticity (in Boston Review Febrary/March 2000)

CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES Orientalism and Knowledge Production Ramanujan, A.K. Is there an Indian way of thinking? An Informal Essay, in McKim Mariott, ed., India through Hindu Categories. Delhi: Sage Publications, 1990, pp. 42-58. Nandy, Ashis, The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self under Colonialism (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983). Bayly, C. A., Knowing the Country: Empire and Information, Modern Asian Studies, 71, 1 (1993): 3-43. Cohn, Bernard, The Census, Social Structure and Objectification, An Anthropologist among the Historians and Other Essays (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1987), pp. 224-254. Cohn, Bernard, Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996). Inden, Ronald. Orientalist Constructions of India, Modern Asian Studies 20, 3 (1986): 401-446. Dirks, Nicholas. The Invention of Caste: Civil Society in Colonial India, in H. L. Seneviratne, ed. Identity, Consciousness and the Past: Forging of Caste and Community in India and Sri Lanka, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1990. Visual Culture and Visual Anthropology Babb, Lawrence A. Glancing: Visual Interaction in Hinduism. Journal of Anthropological Research 37 (1981): 387401. Davis, Richard. The Lives of Indian Images, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999). Meister, Michael W. Seeing and Knowing: Semiology, Semiotics and the Art of India. In Los Discursos sobre el Arte. Edicin a cargo de Juana Gutirrez Haces. XV Coloquio Internacional de Historia del Arte. Mxico: Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico (Instituto de Investigaciones Estticas), 1995, pp. 193207. Pinney, Christopher. To Know A Man From His Face: Photo Wallahs and the Uses of Visual Anthropology. Visual Anthropology Review 9.2 (1993): 118125. Pinney, Christopher. The Indian Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Or, What Happens when Peasants Get Hold of Images. In Media Worlds: Anthropology on New

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Terrain. Edited by Faye Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, and Brian Larkin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002, pp. 355369. State, Identity, and Collective Mobilization Tarlo, Emma, "Gandhi and the Recreation of Indian Dress," in Clothing Matters: Dress and Identity in India Chatterjee, Partha. The Nation and its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. Baviskar, Amita, In the Belly of the River, Oxford University Press, 2005. Butalia, Urvashi, "Blood" and "Facts," The Other Side of Silence, pp. 21-84. Tambiah, Stanley J. Leveling Crowds: Ethnonationalist Conflicts and Collective Violence in South Asia, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. Raheja, Gloria Goodwin, Introduction: Gender Representation and the Problem of Language and Resistence in India and On the Uses of Subversion: Redefining Conjugality, in Gloria Goodwin Raheja and Ann Grodzins Gold, Listen to the Heron's Words: Reimagining Gender and Kinship in North India, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994, pp. 1-29, 121-148. Chatterjee, Partha, Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of theWorld. New York: Columbia Press, 2004, pp. 3-78. Fuller, C. J. and John Harriss, For an Anthropology of the Modern Indian State, in C. J. Fuller and Veronique Benei, eds., The Everyday State and Society in Modern India. New Delhi: Social Science Press, 2000, pp. 1-17 only Hansen, Thomas Blom, The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Mosse, David, Irrigation and Statecraft in Zamindari South India, in C. J. Fuller and Veronique Benei, eds., The Everyday State and Society in Modern India. New Delhi: Social Science Press, 2000, pp. 163-93. Veer, Peter van der, Virtual India: Indian IT Labor and the Nation-State, in Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat, eds., Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants and States in the Postcolonial World, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005, pp. 276-90. Khilnani, Sunil, The Development of Civil Society, in Kaviraj & Khilnani, Civil Society: Histories and Possibilities, Cambridge University Press 2001, pp. 11-32 Gopal Guru, "How Egalitarian Are the Social Sciences in India?" Economic and Political Weekly, December 14, 2002, pp. 5003-5010. Space and Circulation Heitzmann, James, Temple Urbanism in Medieval South India, Journal of Asian Studies 46:4 (1987), pp. 791-826. Gupta, Narayani, "The Indian City," in Veena Das (ed.) Handbook of Indian Sociology. Oxford University Press, 2004. Markovits, Claude, Jacques Pouchepadass, & Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Society and Circulation: Mobile People and Itinerant Cultures in South Asia, 1750-1950, Permanent Black, 2003. Tarlo, Emma, Body and Space in a Time of Crisis: Sterilization and Resettlement during the Emergency in Delhi, in Veena Das, et.al., ed., Violence and Subjectivity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), pp. 242-270

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Appadurai, Arjun and Carol Breckenridge, Public Modernity in India, in Breckinridge, ed., Consuming Modernity: Public Culture in a South Asian World, University of Minnesota Press, 1995, pp. 1-20. Freitag, Sandria, The Public and its Meanings in Colonial South Asia and Enactments of Rams Story and the Changing Nature of the Public in British India, South Asia XIV(1), 1991, pp. 1-13, 65-90. Bayly, C. A., The Indian Ecumene: An Indigenous Public Sphere, in Bayly, Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780-1870 (Cambridge University Press, 200), pp. 180-211.

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