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How do we make sense of a field that's exploding? Sometimes, by compiling a thread :) So here are #HistSci #HistSTM special issues/sections on South Asia from the past decade that I know of. I'm sure I've missed some, so please do add!
"Health and healing in South Asia" (South Asian History and Culture, 2010) ed by Assa Doron & Alex Broom https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19472491003590577
"States of Healing" (South Asian History and Culture, 2013), ed by Pratik Chakrabarti ( @PratikChakrab) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19472498.2012.750451
"Science, History and Modern India" (Isis, 2013) ed by Jahnavi Phalkey ( @JahnaviPhalkey) https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/670950?mobileUi=0
"Technology in the South Asian Imaginary" (History and Technology, 2015) ed by Asif Siddiqui ( @historyasif) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07341512.2016.1142632
2019 issue of Technology and Culture ed by Prakash Kumar on technology in South Asian https://muse.jhu.edu/article/741378
"Translating Sex: Locating Sexology in Indian History" ( @southasiajsas 2020) ed by Ishita Pande ( @IshitaPande2) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00856401.2020.1843770
"Medicines and Memories in South Asia" (Asian Medicine 2020) ed by Lisa Allette Brooks, Anthony Cerulli, and Victoria Sheldon https://brill.com/view/journals/asme/15/1/asme.15.issue-1.xml
Anyone teaching courses that are trying to make sense of all this new work and want to swap ideas or read together in 2021, please let me know! I'd be happy to have company.
