Reads of 2011

In no particular order

The State of Islam: Culture And Cold War Politics In Pakistan

by Saadia Toor

Excerpt

Beyond Crisis: Re-evaluating Pakistan (Critical Asian Studies)

by Naveeda Khan

Contents

Intro (PDF)

Some of the essays from the book are here, here, and here.

Where the Wild Frontiers Are: Pakistan and the American Imagination

by Manan Ahmed

See this review and a sample post.

The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Historieszami (Cultures of History)

by Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar

Siddhartha Deb’s review.

Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology

by David Graeber

PDF

Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh: Remembering 1971

by Yasmin Saikia

Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora

by Junaid Akram Rana

An interview with the author.

Prophecy Continuous: Aspects of Ahmadi Religious Thought and Its Medieval Background (Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies, Vol 3)

by Yohanan Friedmann

Reflections on Exile and Other Essays (Convergences: Inventories of the Present)

by Edward W. Said

Especially the following essays: On Lost Causes, Reflections on Exile, Representing the Colonized

The Counter-Counter​insurgency Manual

by The Network of Concerned Anthropologists

“Exterminate All the Brutes”: One Man’s Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide

by Sven Lindqvist

Terra Nullius: A Journey Through No One’s Land

by Sven Lindqvist

Migrants and Militants: “Fun” and Urban Violence in Pakistan (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics)

by Oskar Verkaaik

Husband Of A Fanatic: A Personal Journey Through India, Pakistan, Love, And Hate

by Amitava Kumar

See Also: 2010: Top 10 (+5) Books

Update: um, how could I have forgotten to mention these three?!

Mumbai Fables  See Rohit Chopra’s review.

Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories (Cultural Memory in the Present) Read the intro, and this (pdf), and this (pdf).

Precarious Life: The Power of Mourning and Violence (available on scribd!)