In our continued effort to spotlight recent scholarly outputs of our faculty, the South Asia Center is proud to present a summary of recent publications that contribute to various fields related to South Asia Studies and beyond.
The list below contains a snapshot of scholarly publications related to South Asian or international topics appearing since late 2024. For more, see our post from November 2024.
Featured publications:
Citrin, David, et al. 2024. ““Even things they won’t share with their sisters-in-law” – Assessing an integrated Community Health Worker intervention on person-centered postpartum contraception in rural Nepal.” medRxiv (Preprint). https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.23.24307832.
Dhavan, Purnima and Heidi Pauwels. 2025. Vali Dakhani and the Early Rekhtah Networks: Sharing Poetry’s Pleasures. I.B. Tauris. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/vali-dakhani-and-the-early-rekhtah-networks-9780755650071/.
Kale, Sunila S. 2025. “Governing Subterranean Wealth in India: The Shifting Boundaries Around Mining’s Sectoral Political Network.” Studies in Comparative International Development. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-025-09460-8.
Marshall, Julian D., et al.2025. “Characterizing indoor-outdoor PM2.5 concentrations using low-cost sensor measurements in residential homes in Dhaka, Bangladesh.” Atomospheric Environment 342 (1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2024.120945.
Osanloo, Arzoo and Cabeiri deBergh Robinson (eds.). 2024. Care in a Time of Humanitarianism: Stories of Refuge, Aid, and Repair in the Global South. Berghan Books. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.9891575.
Pauwels, Heidi. 2025. “The Benefits of Marrying a Demoness: The Mahābhārata’s Hiḍimbā Episode.” In Mythologizing in South Asian Traditions, edited by Diana Dimitrova, 81-101. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-76830-9_4.
Ramesh, Aditya. 2024. “From Irrigation to Hydropower: The Political Economy of a Multipurpose Reservoir in Interwar South India.” Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics 5 (1), 119-151. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cap.2024.a934540.
Ramesh, Aditya. 2025. “Flows and Fixes: Water, Disease and Housing in Bangalore, 1860–1915.” Urban History 52 (1):118–40. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963926821000705.
Rao, Deepa, et al. 2025. “Exploring supportive roles for global north investigators in global health research.” PLOS Global Health 5(4). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0004358.