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Amit Baishya

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Associate Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. Postcolonialist, South Asian Literatures, Anthropocene, Human Animal Studies, Plant Humanities, Northeast Indian Studies. Book Reviews Editor at "South Asian Review"

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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Review 58: "Globalizing through the Vernacular" by Aniruddha Dutta (Bloomsbury). Reviewed by Rahul Gairola: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Globalizing Through the Vernacular: Kothis , Hijras , and the Making of Queer and Trans Identities in India
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Review 57: "The Future that Was" (Durba Mitra, Princeton UP) reviewed by Paulomi Sharma: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Review 56: "Migrant Epistemologies" by Manisha Basu (Edinburgh UP), reviewed by Alok Amatya: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Migrant Epistemologies in Indian Nonfiction of the Long Twentieth Century
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Review 55: "Contemporaneity of the Mahabharata Narrative" (Routledge), ed. Anirban Bhattacharjee and Dhrubajyoti Sarkar. Reviewed by Chaitali Choudhury: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Contemporaneity of the Mahabharata Narrative: Epic of the Moment
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Review 54: States in Waiting by Lydia Walker. Reviewer Sainico Ningthoujam: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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States-in-Waiting: A Counternarrative of Global Decolonization
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Review 53: Dalit Journeys for Dignity (ed. Ramnarayan Rawat et al), SUNY Press. Reviewer: Siddharth Arora: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Dalit Journeys for Dignity
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Review 52: Tension: Mental Distress and Embodied Inequality in the Western Himalayas (Duke UP) by Nikita Kaur Simpson--reviewer Ranu Sherpa: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Tension: Mental Distress and Embodied Inequality in the Western Himalayas
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I am one of the co-editors of a special issue of E-Tropics on "Tropical Gothic." Please find CFP below: journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/anno...
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Announcements | eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the Tropics
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Review 51: Sita’s Voice in the Assamese Rāmāyaṇa edited and translated by Tilottoma Misra (Zubaan); reviewed by Ajitabh Hazarika: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Sita’s Voice in the Assamese Rāmāyaṇa
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Review 50: The Planetary Subaltern: On Indian History, Theory, and Texts in the Anthropocene (Routledge), edited Somasree Sarkar and Agnibha Maity; reviewed by Subhashish Bhattacharjee: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Planetary Subaltern: On Indian History, Theory, and Texts in the Anthropocene
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Review 48: Sing, Slivered Tongue: An Anthology of South Asian Women’s Poetry of Trauma in English by Nabina Das: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Sing, Slivered Tongue: An Anthology of South Asian Women’s Poetry of Trauma in English
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
My forthcoming book has now been listed on the Cambridge UP site: www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
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Attunement to Others
Cambridge Core - Environmental Policy, Economics and Law - Attunement to Others
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
An essay on Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih's Anthropocene Poetics in modernism/modernity: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
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Northeast Indian Literature in Planetary Time: Creation Myths, Zones of Extraction and Anthropocene Heterotemporality in Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih’s Poetics | Modernism / Modernity Print+
Fig. 1. Cover of Kynpham Sing Nonkynrih, Around the Hearth: Khasi Legends. Anglophone Literature from the borderland region of Northeast India has a relatively short history with the major works comprising the oeuvre published in the last four decades or so. One of the most visible trajectories in Northeast Indian Anglophone Literature (NIAL)[1] is the reworking of myths and
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University of Oklahoma AAUP @uoklahomaaaup.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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AAUP Condemns OU Suspension, Political Interference
We urge OU to affirm the right of instructors to teach, grade, and research without political interference, unlawful mandates, or external pressures that hinder academic freedom.
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Review 47: Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas of Nationhood by Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav (Penguin): Reviewed by Abhinandan Banerjee www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas of Nationhood
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Review 46: Pakistan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere (Duke UP); ed. Omar Kasmani. Reviewed by Namrata Varghese: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Pakistan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere,
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Review 45: Traces of the Real by Bidisha Banerjee (Liverpool UP)--reviewed by Harveen Mann: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Traces of the Real: The Absent Presence of Photography in South Asian Literature
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Review 44: Migration of Metaphors by Sumon Rahman (Dhaka UP); reviewed by Md Hasan Ashik Rahman www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Review 43: Insurgent Visions: Feminism, Justice, Solidarity by Chandra Talpade Mohanty (Duke UP) reviewed by Shailee Rajak: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
My review essay on Plant Theory in This Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory: academic.oup.com/ywcct/advanc...
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Plant Theory
Abstract. In this review of works in the plant humanities, I focus on how five major publications from 2024 engage with and amplify some of the major conce
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Review 42: Cold War Genres: Local and International in Hindi Literature (SUNY Press) reviewed by Moinak Banerjee: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Review 41: Colonizing Kashmir by Hafsa Kanjwal (Stanford UP); reviewer: Shabeeh Rahat www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Review 40: Overdetermined by Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan (Columbia UP); reviewer Sneha Khaund: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Overdetermined: How Indian English Literature Becomes Ethnic, Postcolonial, and Anglophone
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Review 39: Iconoclast: A Reflective Biography of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar by Anand Teltumbde (Penguin Random House). Reviewer: Krishan Kumar: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Iconoclast: A Reflective Biography of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Review 38: Salman Rushdie in Context (Ed. Florian Stadtler, Cambridge UP. Reviewer Moumin Quazi: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Salman Rushdie in Context
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Review 37: Subjectivity and Decolonization in the Post-Independence Novel and Film by Sarah Jilani, Edinburgh University Press (reviewed by Rudrani Gangopadhyay): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Subjectivity and Decolonization in the Post-Independence Novel and Film
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
@worldlittoday.bsky.social and Ananke will be hosting a conversation event on the special issue of WLT on "Delhi in the Anthropocene" guest edited by me at 9.00 AM on June 30. Registration link for the event in the publicity doc: worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/news-an...
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Ananke and WLT to Host “Delhi in the Anthropocene” Conversation on June 30, by The Editors of WLT
On June 30, Ananke and World Literature Today will co-host a special Zoom conversation event to showcase WLT’s latest city issue, “Delhi in the Anthropocene,” guest-edited by Amit R. Baishya.
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Review 36: Boats in a Storm by Kalyani Ramnath (Stanford UP). Reviewed by Prapti Kakati: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Review 35: Vikram Seth's Poetics of Pastiche (Palgrave) by Melanie Heydari. Reviewed by Sneha Roy. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Vikram Seth’s Poetics of Pastiche
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Review 34: Intelligence Services in South Asia (edited Ryan Shaffer and ASM Ashraf Ali, Routledge) reviewed by Vipanchika Bhagyanagar: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Intelligence Services in South Asia: Colonial Past and Post-Colonial Realities
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Review 33: Rated A by Darshana Mini (University of California P)--reviewer Ankita Deb: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Review 32: Women's Transborder Cinema (by Esha Niyogi De) reviwed by Salmaan Rafique: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Women’s Transborder Cinema: Authorship, Stardom, and Filmic Labor in South Asia
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I review Tithi Bhattacharya's Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence (Duke UP) for H-Net: www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
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H-Net Reviews
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Review 31: The Promise of Piety by Arsalan Khan (Cornell UP) reviewed by Taha Firdous Shah: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Promise of Piety: Islam and the Politics of Moral Order in Pakistan
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Review 30: Plantation Worlds by Maan Barua (Duke UP) reviewed by Bikash Bhattacharya: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Plantation Worlds
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Review 29: Hanif Kureishi: Writing the Self, A Biography (Manchester UP) by Hans-Georg Erney: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Hanif Kureishi: Writing the Self: A Biography
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Review 28: The New Screen Ecology in India by Smith Mehta (Bloomsbury). Reviewer: Anmol Dutta: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The New Screen Ecology in India
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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
“Such encounters with migrants, plants, macaques, dust storms, human-plant assemblages, and angels in Delhi can lead conventional conversations about Indian English literature astray, composting and remaking it anew.” – Amit R. Baishya worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/may/int...
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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The May issue is out, with a cover feature on Delhi + Laila Lalami, Marie Lundquist, Katie Goh, visits to Tashkent & Xalapa, reading trends in Iran, 30 book reviews, and more. Check out the contents here: worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/may.
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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
“Given the multispecies theme of this issue’s Delhi cover feature, I got to wondering: How often do plants and animals appear in WLT?” Daniel Simons’s editor’s note is a great place to begin the May issue. worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/may/edi...
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
An edited special issue of @worldlittoday.bsky.social on Delhi in the Anthropocene has been published in print and online. The issue has works by Vandana Singh, Siddhartha Deb, Manjula Padmanabhan, Sumana Roy, Nitoo Das, Prateek Vats and Vishwajyoti Ghosh: worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/may/int...
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Introduction, by Amit R. Baishya
Guest editor Amit R. Baishya introduces this special section on Delhi | In the Anthroposcene
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Review 27: Mumbai on Two Wheels (Stanford UP) by Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria. Reviewer: Abhisruti Sarma: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Mumbai on Two Wheels: Cycling, Urban Space, and Sustainable Mobility
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
New at PB, @amitbaishya.bsky.social interviews @siddharthadeb.bsky.social about his third novel “The Light at the End of the World” (Soho Press), which is both metaphorically and literally weird: “Nature” is both ruined and available for reading as ruins.
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Wings, Angels, Tentacles: Talking with Siddhartha Deb
“What lies outside the weird—the subconscious, our dreams, our fantasies, the monster, the alien—these are possible sources of liberation.”
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
My interview with @siddharthadeb.bsky.social in Public Books. We talk about traditions of the weird, Walter Benjamin, Strugatsky brothers, the Anthropocene and a whole host of stuff: www.publicbooks.org/wings-angels...
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Wings, Angels, Tentacles: Talking with Siddhartha Deb - Public Books
“Each novel is always a new project, somewhat experimental, building on earlier obsessions but departing from them formally.”
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Review 26: Ecooceanic: Southern Flows edited by Tarun Saint and Francesco Verso. Reviewed by Atanu Bhattacharya and Anna Juhi John: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Ecoceanic: Southern Flows
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Natalia Theodoridou @natalia-theodoridou.com · 13/03/2025
EVERYONE READ THIS BOOK
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Amy Kahrmann Huseby @akhuseby.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Folks, please #SignalBoost this story about Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holder with a US wife. He has been detained and disappeared by ICE for his political protests about Palestine.
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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Ricardo's newest offering isn't a new poster - it's a book! The Land Knows The Way: Eco-Social Insights for Liberation is a collection of political medicines – gathered and gleaned over 6 decades from people's movements and our planet's ecology. Get your copy: www.rlmartstudio.com/product/land...
The cover of Ricardo Levins Morales' paperback book The Land Knows the Way - Eco-Social Insights for Liberation. It features a solidarity fist rising from lower left to the top right, inside which is drawn various layers of soil and substrates, some with small critters, building up to a stream and tall green plants above. In the background are rolling hills with lush vegetation against a sky streaked with different shades of blue.
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Alia Yunis's "The Indian Restaurant(s)"--Essay 4 in the forum Palestine and South Asia: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Indian Restaurant(s)
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Ather Zia's Palestine and the Political Life of Prayer in Kashmir--Essay 3 in the forum "Palestine and South Asia": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Palestine and the Political Life of Prayer in Kashmir
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