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UPLAND GEOPOLITICS: Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush. Culture, Place, and Nature | By Michael B. Dwyer; Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan

Miles Kenney-Lazar

WAITING FOR DIGNITY: Legitimacy and Authority in Afghanistan | By Florian Weigand

Amin Saikal

BETWEEN WAR AND THE STATE: Civil Society in South Vietnam, 1954–1975 | By Van Nguyen-Marshall

Ryan Nelson

UNEARTHING POLITICS: Environment and Contestation in Post-socialist Vietnam | By Jason Morris-Jung

Duy D. Trinh

QUEER COMPANIONS: Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan | By Omar Kasmani

Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz

COLONIZING KASHMIR: State-building under Indian Occupation | By Hafsa Kanjwal

Jugdep Singh Chima

BECOMING A MIGRANT WORKER IN NEPAL: The Governmentality and Marketization of Transnational Labor | By Hannah Uprety

Anita Ghimire

EMPIRE BUILDING: The Construction of British India, 1690–1860 | By Rosie Llewellyn-Jones

Pushkar Sohoni

CULTIVATING DEMOCRACY: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India | By Mukulika Banerjee

Anindita Adhikari

HOUSE OF THE PEOPLE: Parliament and the Making of Indian Democracy | By Ronojoy Sen

Pahi Saikia