Recent peer-reviewed publications on Kerala. We circulated news of such 75+ Kerala studies in 2024.

Books

Menon, Nandagopal R. Intra-Muslim Polemics in South India: Intimacies, Mass Publicity, and Secularism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024.

Kannan, Divya. Contested Childhoods: Caste and Education in Colonial Kerala. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Book chapters

Raj, Dileep. ‘Beyond Binaries: Sreenarayana and the Political’. In India and Its Intellectual Traditions: Of Love, Advaita, Power, and Other Things, edited by Vinay Lal, 3: 319–46. Backwaters Collective on Metaphysics and Politics. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2024.

Mohan, Amritha. ‘All Play and No Work? The Sporting Body Inside the Classroom in Kerala’. In The Postcolonial Sporting Body: Contemporary Indian Investigations, edited by Veena Mani and Mathangi Krishnamurthy, 111–30. Research in the Sociology of Sport. Leeds, UK: Emerald Publishing, 2024.

Journal articles

(Open Access) Johnson, Deepak, and Takashi Kurosaki. ‘Price and Non-Price Factors in Development of Rice Cultivation: Case Studies From Southern India and Mekong-Delta Vietnam’. Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies 11, no. 3 (2024), Article e399.

Kottai, Sudarshan R. ‘“Doctors Advised to Take Medicines to Remove These Thoughts”: The Violence and Violations in Sexual Mental Health Care in Community Mental Health Programmes in Kerala’. Community Development Journal 59, no. 2 (April 2024): 230–51.

(Open Access) Sooraj, S. S., K. R. Kavya Krishna, and Ajit Kumar Mishra. ‘Undoing the Masculine Hero: Fahadh Faasil’s Stardom in Contemporary Malayalam Cinema’. Intersections, no. 50 (December 2023).

Sreekumar, P. K., and A. Y. Eldhose. ‘Text and Tradition: The Dynasty of Villarvattom among Syrian Christians in Kerala, India’. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 47, no. 3 (July 2024): 634–55.

Ul-Ihthisam, Ihsan, and Simi K. Salim. ‘Persianate Malabar: Muhammad Shah’s Takiyya and the Composition of an Arabi-Malayalam Sufi Romance-Mathnawī in Southern India’. Postmedieval. Published ahead of print, 17 December 2024.

(Open Access) Wagner, Roy, and Arun Ashokan. ‘Content and Context of Kaṇakkatikāram Manuscripts: Pre-Modern Malayalam Elementary Mathematics’. History of Science in South Asia 12 (3 July 2024): 1–31.

Updated: January 2025

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