Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai by Nikhil Anand, New Delhi: Durham; London: Duke University Press, 2017; pp xiv + 296, ₹ 995 .
Life in Peace and Conflict: Indigeneity and State in the Chittagong Hill Tracts edited by Nasir Uddin, Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2017; pp xix+248, ₹ 495 .
Hinduism in India: The Early Period edited by Greg Bailey, New Delhi: Sage, 2017; pp 215, ₹ 695. Hinduism in India: Modern and Contemporary Movements edited by Will Sweetman and Aditya Malik, Series Editor–Geoffrey A Oddie, New Delhi: Sage, 2016; pp 311, ₹ 785.
First Citizens: Studies on Adivasis, Tribals, and Indigenous Peoples in India edited by Meena Radhakrishna, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2016; p ix +444, ₹ 995.
House Full: Indian Cinema and the Active Audience by Lakshmi Srinivas, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2016; pp xi + 315, $37.50 | £26.50.
Writing Self, Writing Empire: Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo–Persian State Secretary by Rajeev Kinra, Delhi: Primus Books (by arrangement with University of California Press), 2016; pp xix+369, ₹1,250.
