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[In Press] Prakash, Pranav, Christopher L. Diamond and Coralynn V. Davis, eds. 2026. Critical Contours of Mithila Studies, a special issue of Asian Ethnology. Nagoya: Nanzan University.

[In Press] Prakash, Pranav. 2026. “A Cowherd’s Chapbook: An Inquiry into the Ethics of Literary Historiography,” Asian Ethnology. Nagoya: Nanzan University.

[In Press] Prakash, Pranav, Christopher L. Diamond and Coralynn V. Davis. 2026. “Introduction to the Critical Contours of Mithila Studies,” Asian Ethnology. Nagoya: Nanzan University.

[Submitted] Prakash, Pranav. 2025. “An Inquiry into the Transregional Imagination of Book Arts in Persianate Societies: ʿAbdullāh Ṣayrafī’s (d. 1345) Ādāb-i Khaṭṭ and Shams al-Dīn Āmulī’s (d. c.1352-53) Fann-i Khaṭṭ,” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. Berlin and Leiden: Brill.

[Under Review] Khalid, Hina, Pranav Prakash and Ankur Barua, eds. 2025. Inter-religious Interactions in South Asia, a special issue of South Asian Studies. London: British Association for South Asian Studies and Taylor & Francis.

[Submitted] Prakash, Pranav. 2025. “A 17th Century Persian Retelling of Śiva Purāṇa: Mapping Religious and Literary Exchanges in Precolonial India,” South Asian Studies. London: British Association for South Asian Studies and Taylor & Francis.

[Submitted] Prakash, Pranav. 2025. “Transcripts for Manuscripts, Colophons for Closure: Forging Archival Collections in the Age of Colonialist Print Cultures,” Modern Asian Studies, a special issue edited by Megan Eaton Robb and Pranav Prakash. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[In Press] Prakash, Pranav. 2025. “A Consummate Reckoning with the Book Arts of South Asia,” Printing History: The Journal of the American Printing History Association, New Series. New York: American Printing History Association (APHA).

Prakash, Pranav. 2024. “Paratexting Persian Purāṇas: Probing Religious and Communal Boundaries in South Asian History,” Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts, Interpretation, a special issue on "Material Texts: Religion, Mobility, and Responsibility" edited by Sonia Hazard and Elizabeth A. Cecil, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 157–193. Bloomington: Society for Textual Scholarship and Indiana University Press. Weblink.

Prakash, Pranav. 2024. “Unravelling the Ethos of Literary Imagination in the Basātin al-Ons of Akhsetān Dehlavi,” Journal of Persianate Studies, a special issue on "Persian Translation and Textual Production in the South Asian Multilingual Context" edited by Pegah Shahbaz, vol. 17, issue 1–2, pp. 12–41. Leiden: Association for the Study of Persianate Societies and Brill. DOI: 10.1163/18747167-bja10044. Print-ISSN: 1874-7094. E-ISSN: 1874-7167. Weblink.

[In Press] Prakash, Pranav. 2024. “Lekhaka.” In: Philological Practices: A Comparative Historical Lexicon. Edited by Glenn W. Most, Anne Eusterschulte and Martin Kern; section on Indian Languages edited by Christopher Zand Minkowski and Aleksandra (Sasha) Restifo. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Prakash, Pranav. 2024. “Not so White, Not quite Black: A Provincial Life in Monotones,” Montréal Serai, a special issue on "Out of the Ethers: Art as a Cultural Force" edited by Ocean DeRouchie, Jody Freeman and Jessica Stillwell, vol. 37, no. 2. Montréal: Canada Council for the Arts/Conseil des arts du Canada. Weblink.

[In Press] Prakash, Pranav. 2024. “A Persian Translation of Siṅghāsan Battīsī,” Indiran, issue 18. Cambridge: Ancient India and Iran Trust.

[Submitted] Prakash, Pranav. 2023. “Colophons, Book Objects and Scribal Communities in South Asia: The case of a colonial-era scribe copying Sanskrit panegyrics dedicated to early modern Mughal elites.” In: Cultural and Textual Exchanges: The Manuscript Across Premodern Eurasia. Edited by Paul Dilley and Katherine H. Tachau. New York: Institute for the Study of Ancient World (ISAW), New York University.

Prakash, Pranav. 2022. “Rudra Kavi and the Mughal Elite: A Codicological Reappraisal,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, a special issue on "Situating Sanskrit after the Sultanates" edited by Luther Obrock, vol. 32, issue 1, pp. 83–114. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI: 10.1017/S1356186322100078X. Weblink.

Prakash, Pranav. 2021. “Reviving Indo-Islamic Papermaking Traditions: Radha Pandey, Johan Solberg and Holden Bookworks,” Guild of Book Workers Newsletter, no. 259, pp. 9–10. New York: Guild of Bookworkers, Inc. Weblink.

Prakash, Pranav. 2020. Reimagining Sufi Poetics in South Asia: The Literary Works of Ḥasan Sijzī Dihlavī. University of Iowa, Iowa City: PhD Dissertation. DOI: 10.17077/etd.005358. Weblink.

Prakash, Pranav. 2019. “ʿIšqnāma.” In: Perso-Indica: An Analytical Survey of Persian Works on Indian Learned Traditions, vol. 1. Edited by Fabrizio Speziale and Carl W. Ernst. Berlin and London: Brill. ISSN 2267-2753. Weblink.

Prakash, Pranav. 2018. “Maithili’s Resistance to Hindi’s Hegemony and Undemocratic Nationalism: Mithilesh Kumar Jha’s Making of the Maithili Movement,” Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 53, issue no. 44, Nov 3, pp. 24–27. Mumbai: Sameeksha Trust. Weblink.

Prakash, Pranav. 2018. “Abʾul Kalām Āzād.” In: Islam, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism: Encyclopedia of Indian Religions, pp. 7–15. Edited by Zayn R. Kassam, Yudit Kornberg Greenberg and Jehan Bagli. Dordrecht: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-94-024-1267-3_773. Print-ISBN: 978-94-024-1266-6. E-ISBN: 978-94-024-1267-3. Weblink.

Prakash, Pranav. 2015. "Toward a Surprisingly Similar Yet Different Form of Imagination." Translation of a Persian essay by Azita Ghahreman. In: Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation. University of Iowa, Iowa City: Iowa Translations Workshop. Weblink.