With support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, three of the academy’s leading publishers in South Asian studies have combined their resources to launch “South Asia Across the Disciplines,” a major new series devoted to first books by scholars in this vibrant area of scholarship. Read more about the series.
Extreme Poetry: The South Asian Movement of Simultaneous Narration
Columbia University Press, 2010
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 of Asian Studies
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
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 for Southeast Asian Studies, Association for Asian Studies
Conjugations: Marriage and Form in New Bollywood Cinema
The University of Chicago Press, 2011
Unfinished Gestures: Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India
The University of Chicago Press, 2011
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
Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism: History, Semiology, and Transgression in the Indian Traditions
Columbia University Press, 2012
Body of Victim, Body of Warrior: Refugee Families and the Making of Kashmiri Jihadists
The University of California Press, 2012
Receptacle of the Sacred: Illustrated Manuscripts and the Buddhist Book Cult in South Asia
The University of California Press, 2013
Cut-Pieces: Celluloid Obscenity and Popular Cinema in Bangladesh
Columbia University Press, 2013
Democracy against Development: Lower Caste Politics and Political Modernity in Postcolonial India
The University of Chicago Press, 2013
editors
Muzaffar Alam
Robert Goldman
Gauri Viswanathan
editorial board
Akeel Bilgrami
Dipesh Chakrabarty
Lawrence Cohen
Vidya Dehejia
Wendy Doniger
Munis Faruqui
Leela Gandhi
Akhil Gupta
Sudipta Kaviraj
William Mazzarella
Kathleen D. Morrison
Sheldon Pollock
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
authors should send a book proposal, a curriculum vitae, and the complete manuscript to Kathryn Schell at ks2976@columbia.edu.
♦ The series is exclusively for first monographs. Edited collections, multi-authored works, critical editions, and translations of already published books cannot be considered.
♦ Unrevised dissertations will not be reviewed. The cover letter should briefly explain the work that has been done on the manuscript since the deposit of the thesis.
♦ Manuscripts must be complete at the time of submission and submitted as a single PDF file.
♦ No simultaneous submission, please. The SAAD series requires exclusive review of submitted manuscripts.
