Forthcoming Stanford University Press Series: South Asia in Motion

Forthcoming Stanford University Press Series: South Asia in Motion

South Asia is on the move. People, goods, ideas, aesthetic forms, institutional designs, and political dynamics originating in South Asia have been increasingly important across the globe throughout the 20th century. Today, seismic social, economic, and cultural shifts across the region undermine old certainties, unsettle long established social hierarchies and patterns of life, transforming the lives of hundreds of millions of people. While the elite and middle classes across the region clamor for global recognition, their social standing and political dominance are severely challenged by multiple cultural and social minorities, and by the large majorities that are still waiting for the wages of postcolonial freedom and self-determination.

This series foregrounds scholarly work that critically and imaginatively explores these vast and deep transformations and the complex historical conditions that made them possible. The series is focused on contemporary issues and distinctly modern and colonial investigations.
We are interested in publishing academic studies from across the disciplines that share a commitment to rigorous analysis grounded in strong empirical, ethnographic, and archival work. The series is particularly interested in promoting academic studies that bring together three qualities:

1. Outstanding academic work that speaks to multiple audiences, appeals across disciplinary boundaries while seeking to go beyond well-established theoretical and political paradigms.
2. Deeply engaged work that critically explores questions and dilemmas arising from longstanding public and political conflict and contestations – the legitimacy of democratic politics; questions of caste and social hierarchy; gender and public morality; the transformation of domestic life; informal economies; ideas of culpability and punishment; cultural-religious difference; the demotic meanings of the secular, to mention a few.
3. Imaginative work that seeks to address larger analytical questions from the vantage point of one or several of the region’s rich vernacular public cultures. We are interested in promoting work that can bring the texture and nuance of the vibrant public and academic debates across the region to bear on how national and global issues are framed and understood.

This series seeks to publish works that address subjects for an interdisciplinary audience with varying interests in South Asia and the social, cultural, and economic issues that arise within the region. The series is oriented towards the social sciences in a broad sense. The books in this series will be of interest to a range of disciplines including (but not necessarily limited to): Anthropology, History, Sociology, Political Science, Cultural Studies and South Asian studies.

A note on format and style
The series will welcome submissions from scholars at all stages of their
career: senior scholars, mid-career scholars, and the occasional outstanding first book. Instead of a classical research monograph model, the series will promote more innovative manuscripts that combine detailed and specialized knowledge with broader global and theoretical concerns.

Submissions
Submissions to the series should be directed to both the Series Editor (Thomas Blom Hansen) and the internal Stanford Press Editor (Michelle
Lipinski) for further consideration. All submission guidelines should adhere to the standard guidelines on the Stanford University Press website.
 Series Editor
Thomas Blom Hansen, Reliance-Dhirubhai Ambani Professor in South Asian Studies and Professor in Anthropology at Stanford University. He is also the Director of Stanford’s Center for South Asia.

Editorial Board
Sanjib Baruah
Anne Blackburn
Satish Deshpande
Faisal Devji
Christophe Jaffrelot
Naveeda Khan
Stacey Leigh Pigg
Mrinalini Sinha
Ravi Vasudevan

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