Publications of Sumathi Ramaswamy    :chronological  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

1. S. Ramaswamy, The Goddess and the Nation: Mapping Mother India (2010), Durham, Duke University Press (Indian edition: Zubaan Books, New Delhi, 2011.)  [abs]
2. S. Ramaswamy, Lost Land of Lemuria: Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories (2004), University of California Press, Berkeley
3. S. Ramaswamy, Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970 (1997), University of California Press, Berkeley (Hans Rosenhaupt Memorial Book Award of The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 1999; ACLS History e-book project: http://www.historyebook.org/.)

Edited Volumes

1. Barefoot across the Nation: Maqbool Fida Husain and the Idea of India, Visual and Media Histories, edited by S. Ramaswamy (2010), Routledge (Indian edition: Yoda Press, New Delhi, 2011.)  [abs]
2. Beyond Appearances?: Visual Practices and Ideologies in Modern India, edited by S. Ramaswamy (2003), Sage Publications, New Dehli: Thousand Oaks, London

Journal Articles

1. S. Ramaswamy, Doing Pictorial History at the Roja Muthiah Research Library, Māṟṟuvēli, vol. 4 (2010), pp. 82-89
2. S. Ramaswamy, Maps, Mother/goddesses and Martyrdom in Modern India, Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 67 no. 3 (2008), pp. 1-35  [abs]
3. S. Ramaswamy, Conceit of the Globe in Mughal India, Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 49 no. 4 (2007), pp. 751-782
4. S. Ramaswamy, Visualizing India’s Geo-body: Globes, Maps, Bodyscapes, in Contributions to Indian Sociology, vol. 36 no. 1 & 2 (2002), pp. 157-195 (Reprinted in Sumathi Ramswamy, ed. Beyond Appearances? Visual Practices and Ideologies in Modern India. New Delhi/Thousand Oaks/London: Sage, 2003, pp. 157-95. Abridged version reprinted in Indira Chandrasekhar and Peter C. Seel, eds. Body.city: Siting Contemporary Culture in India. Berlin and New Delhi: House of World Cultures and Tulika Books, 2003, pp. 219-241.)
5. S. Ramaswamy, Maps and Mother Goddesses in Modern India, in Imago Mundi: A Periodical Review of Early Cartography, vol. 53 (2001), pp. 97-114 (Slightly modified version entitled, “Body Politic(s): Maps and Mother Goddesses in Modern India,” reprinted in Richard Davis, ed. Picturing the Nation. Delhi: Orient Longman, 2006, pp. 32-50.)
6. S. Ramaswamy, Remains of the Race: Archaeology, Nationalism, and the Yearning for Civilization in the Indus Valley, Indian Economic and Social History Review, vol. 38 no. 2 (2001), pp. 105-145
7. S. Ramaswamy, History at Land’s End: Lemuria in Tamil Spatial Fables, Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 59 no. 3 (2000), pp. 575-602 (Special Issue: Geographies at Work in Asian History.)
8. S. Ramaswamy, The Demoness, the Maid, the Whore, and the Good Mother: Contesting the National Language in India, International Journal of Sociology of Language, vol. 140 (1999), pp. 1-28, International Journal of Sociology of Language (Abridged version entitled “Battling the Demoness in Tamil India.” In Crispin Bates, ed. Beyond Representations: Colonial and Post-Colonial Constructions of Indian Identity. Delhi: Oxford University Press (2006), pp. 123-150..)
9. S. Ramaswamy, Catastrophic Cartographies: Mapping the Lost Continent of Lemuria, in Representations, vol. 67 (1999), pp. 92-129
10. S. Ramaswamy, Sanskrit for the Nation, Modern Asian Studies, vol. 33 no. 2 (1999), pp. 339-383, Modern Asian Studies
11. S. Ramaswamy, Body Language: The Somatics of Nationalism in Tamil India, Gender and History, vol. 10 no. 1 (1998), pp. 78-109
12. S. Ramaswamy, The Language of the People in the World of Gods: Ideologies of Tamil before the Nation, Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 57 no. 1 (1998), pp. 66-92 (Symposium: "Cultural Ideologies of Language in Pre-colonial India".)
13. S. Ramaswamy, Virgin Mother, Beloved Other: The Erotics of Tamil Nationalism, in Thamyris: Mythmaking from Past to Present, vol. 4 no. 1 (1997), pp. 9-39 (Reprinted in Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, ed. Signposts: Gender and Modernity in India (New Delhi: Kali For Women, 1999; Rutgers University Press, 2001.)
14. S. Ramaswamy, The nation, the region, and the adventures of a Tamil hero, Contributions to Indian Sociology, vol. 28 no. 2 (1994), pp. 295-322
15. S. Ramaswamy, En/gendering Language: The Poetics of Tamil Identity, Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 35 no. 4 (October, 1993), pp. 683-725
16. S. Ramaswamy, Daughters of Tamil: Language and the Poetics of Womanhood in Tamilnadu, 1938-1940, South Asia Research, vol. 12 no. 1 (May, 1992), pp. 38-59

Book Chapters

1. S. Ramaswamy, Barefoot across India: An Artist and his Country, in Barefoot across the Nation: Maqbool Fida Husain and the Idea of India, edited by S. Ramaswamy (2010), pp. 1-20, Routledge
2. S. Ramaswamy, Foreword, in Printed Icons from the Struggle for Independence in India, edited by Erwin Neumayer and Christine Schelberger (2007), pp. vii-xii, New Dehli:Oxford University Press
3. S. Ramaswamy, Introduction, in Beyond Appearances? Visual Practices and Ideologies in Modern India, edited by Sumathi Ramaswamy (2003), pp. xiii-xxix, Sage Publications, New Dehli:Thousand Oaks, London

Articles in a Collection

1. S. Ramaswamy, Midnight's Line, in Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space, edited by Iftikhar Dadi and Hammad Nasar (March, 2012), Herbert F. Johnson Museum and Green Cardamom
2. S. Ramaswamy, The Work of Goddesses in the Age of Mass Reproduction, in Transcultural Turbulences: Towards a Multi-Sited Reading of Image Flows., edited by Christiane Brosius and Roland Wenzlhuemer (2011), pp. 191-220, Springer Verlag
3. S. Ramaswamy, Mapping India after Husain, in Barefoot across the Nation: Maqbool Fida Husain and the Idea of India, edited by S. Ramaswamy (2010), pp. 75-99, Routledge
4. S. Ramaswamy, The Mahatma as Muse: An Image Essay on Gandhi in Popular Indian Visual Imagination, in Art and Visual Culture in India 1857-2007, edited by Gayatri Sinha (2009), pp. 236-249, Marg Publications
5. S. Ramaswamy, Thinking Territory: Some Reflections, in Thinking Territory: Some Reflections, edited by Bed P. Giri and Prafulla Kar (Winter, 2008), Pencraft International
6. S. Ramaswamy, Of Gods and globes: The territorialisation of Hindu deities in Indian popular visual culture, in India’s Popular Culture: Iconic Spaces and Fluid Images, edited by Jyotindra Jain (2008), pp. 19-31, Marg, Mumbai  [abs]
7. S. Ramaswamy, Enshrining the map of India: Cartography, nationalism, and the politics of deity in Varanasi, in Visualized Space: Constructions of Locality and Cartographic Representations in Varanasi, edited by Martin Gaenszle and Jeorg Gengnagel (2006), pp. 165-188, Weisbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag)
8. S. Ramaswamy, Home away from Home? The Spatial Politics of Modern Tamil Identity., in Regions and Regional Consciousness in India, edited by Anne Feldhaus and Rajendra Vora (2005), pp. 150-168, Manohar Books, New Delhi  [abs]
9. S. Ramaswamy, The Goddess and the Nation: Subterfuges of Antiquity, the Cunning of Modernity, in The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism (2002), pp. 549-566, Oxford: Blackwell

Book Reviews

1. S. Ramaswamy, Review of Alfred Hiatt, Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), American Historical Review, vol. October (2010), pp. 1210-1211

Other

1. S. Ramaswamy, Artful Mapping in Bazaar India, Tasveerghar: A Digital Archive of South Asian Popular Visual Culture (February, 2011) [html]
2. S. Ramaswamy, When a language becomes a mother/goddess: An image essay on Tamil, Tasveerghar: A Digital Archive of South Asian Popular Visual Culture (April, 2008) [html]