Dear friends and colleagues,

We are delighted to announce the publication of our special issue in Asian Ethnology (Vol. 85, No. 1, 2026), guest edited by Pranav Prakash, Christopher L. Diamond, and Coralynn V. Davis.

Growing out of the 2022 preconference seminar of the same name at the Annual Conference on South Asia (University of Wisconsin-Madison) — the event that founded this network — the issue brings together scholars from across the humanities and social sciences to establish Mithila Studies as a new, inclusive, and critical field of academic inquiry.

The issue is open access and available now.

Read the special issue · See details on our Publications page

With warm regards,
The Mithila Studies Network