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Winner of the 2022 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences, Merchants of Virtue explores the question of what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia. Divya Cherian presents a fine-grained study of everyday life and local politics in the kingdom of Marwar in eighteenth-century wes

Sahana Ghosh, author of "A Thousand Tiny Cuts" on borders and bordering South Asia.

By Anthony Cerulli, author of The Practice of Texts: Education and Healing in South IndiaIn the early 2000s, I spent some time in south India learning about the history and contemporary life of Ayurveda, one of India's classical healing traditions that I wanted to become a central topic of my di

Afghanistan has a rich history of customary or traditional governance structures which have remained central to the lives of most citizens, who rely on these community-based bodies to resolve disputes, provide small-scale public goods and services, and to broker relations with local government. The

We've removed the paywall from Asian Survey's annual year-in-review issue which looks back at the biggest stories concerning Asia in 2020, a year during which the COVID-19 pandemic and a trade dispute between the United States and China dominated the headlines. As the world continues to grapple with