Open Source Books

Many publishers offer open source books, which can be downloaded free of charge by any interested readers.  Open source books are a significant source of knowledge. However, everything free is not of equal value.   What follows is a selection of the TAP editorial team of open source books from a number of global academic publishers on a variety of themes of interest. Some resonate with current concerns such as protests over racism and statues of slavers in cities, others offer insights into perennial issues such as religious offence and yet others take us to uncharted territories and the distant past. We have also collected some recent Open access books that deal more specifically with Sri Lanka.

This list will be updated regularly. Enjoy the read!

  • RACE/POLICING/ DISEASES
  • SRI LANKA STUDIES
  • SOUTH ASIA STUDIES
  • HERITAGE PRACTICES/MUSEUMS
  • JOURNALS

Citizen Outsider
Children of North African immigrants in France
By Jean Beaman
https://www.luminosoa.org/site/books/10.1525/luminos.39/

Policing the Planet
Eds., Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2107-policing-the-planet

The End of Policing
By Alex S. Vitale
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2817-the-end-of-policing

Emergence of Infectious Diseases
Eds., Serge and Muriel Figuié
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23958

Rewriting Buddhism:Pali Literature and Monastic Reform in Sri Lanka, 1157–1270
By Alastair Gornall
https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/123312

The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity: A Cultural Genealogy of Sinhala Nationalism
By Harshana Rambukwella
https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/95138

Modernizing Composition: Sinhala Song, Poetry, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Sri Lanka
By Garrett Field
https://www.luminosoa.org/site/books/10.1525/luminos.27/

Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History
Eds., Zoltán Biedermann and Alan Strathern
https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/86201

A Fragile Inheritance. Radical Stakes in Contemporary Indian Art
By Saloni Mathur
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/71073

Outrage: The Rise of Religious Offence in Contemporary South Asia
Eds., by Paul Rollier, Kathinka Frøystad, and Arild Engelsen Ruud
https://www.uclpress.co.uk/collections/open-access/products/123480

The Wild East: Criminal Political Economies in South Asia
Eds., Barbara Harriss-White and Lucia Michelutti
https://www.uclpress.co.uk/collections/sociology/products/109083

The Emergence of Modern Hinduism: Religion on the Margins of Colonialism
By Richard S. Weiss
https://www.luminosoa.org/site/books/10.1525/luminos.75/

Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia
By Shankar Nair
https://www.luminosoa.org/site/books/10.1525/luminos.87/

Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia: Comparative Perspectives
By Michael Feener et al
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/67424

Across Anthropology: Troubling Colonial Legacies, Museums, and the Curatorial
Eds., Margareta von Oswald and Jonas Tinius (a preface by Arjun Appadurai and an afterword by Roger Sansi)
https://lup.be/products/126702

Heritage Futures: Comparative Approaches to Natural and Cultural Heritage Practices
Rodney Harrison, Caitlin DeSilvey, Cornelius Holtorf, Sharon Macdonald, Nadia Bartolini, Esther Breithoff, Harald Fredheim, Antony Lyons, Sarah May, Jennie Morgan, and Sefryn Penrose
https://www.uclpress.co.uk/collections/open-access/products/125034

Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia: An Anthropology of Forgetting, Repair and Urban Traces
By Francisco Martinez
https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/109623

Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critial Theory
https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-times/issue/3/1

Environmental Humanities
https://read.dukeupress.edu/journals/search-results?page=1&allJournals=1&fl_SiteID=1000009&access_openaccess=true&f_JournalDisplayName=Environmental+Humanities

https://www.dukeupress.edu/About/OPEN-ACCESS/Open-Access-Publications