The final issue of this volume begins with Anne Feldhaus’s Presidential Address, entitled “Biography as Geography.” Feldhaus examines the Līḷācaritra, a thirteenth-century biographical text written in Marathi, as a work of geography. She argues that the text not only includes narratives of the life story of the religious figure Cakradhar but also provides new insights for interpreting the geography of western India by mapping sacred spaces bounded by temple complexes and pilgrimage routes. This geographical conceptualization based on “reading against the grain” of a work of biography opens new directions for studying how individuals imagined their territories, communities, and spaces in the thirteenth century.
In his article, Andrew B. Liu argues for rethinking the debates on the histories of capitalism in China and South Asia at a time when Asia is playing a central role in the global reconfiguration of capitalism. By bringing together key...
