Author: Jef Pierce

Assistant Director of the Center for Global Collections and South Asian Studies Librarian

The Penn Libraries and Khajistan have collaborated to bring several groupings of ephemera, popular magazines, pulp fiction, and rare books to campus, and we’re currently working to make these available to researchers from around the world.

A colorful movie poster depicts several men in action poses with weapons as well as women lounging. A yellow dog is also shown.

In the last year, the Penn Libraries purchased more than 400 volumes published by the recently-shuttered Indian publisher Westland Books.

A pile of colorful books. Visible titles include "Reconciliation: Journey of Solidarity Through A Wounded India," "My Days In the Underworld: The Rise of the Bangalore Mafia," and "Queen of Hearts."

A sample drawing of South Asian Folk Arts.

Three books with orange and grey covers with titles written in Sanskrit.

Old postcard with hand colored photographs of women in Trinidadian dress

Author: Jef Pierce

Diversity in the Stacks: Collecting as Resistance: Khajistan and the Shaping of Pakistani Cultural Histories

Diversity in the Stacks: Westland Books and the Complexities of Publishing in Neoliberal India

Diversity in the Stacks: Folk and Tribal Arts in South Asia

Diversity in the Stacks: Old and Rare Sanskrit Series

Diversity in the Stacks: Dalit Literature

Diversity in the Stacks: Indo-Caribbean Identity