OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Modern Asian Studies is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-06-01 to 2023-06-01.)

Article	Citations
From Transience to Immanence: Consumption, Life-Cycle and Social Mobility in Kerala, South India	60
From Indochine to Indochic: The Lang Bian/Dalat Palace Hotel and French Colonial Leisure, Power and Culture	36
The Office of Akhbār Nawīs: The Transition from Mughal to British Forms	32
MarketizingHindutva: The state, society, and markets in Hindu nationalism	29
Dutch Income in and from Indonesia 1700–1938	27
From Gandhi to Violence: Ahmedabad's 1985 Riots in Historical Perspective	26
Violence, Reconstruction and Islamic Reform—Stories from the Muslim ‘Ghetto’	21
Waiting for the ‘Just King’: The Agrarian World of South-Central Java from Giyanti (1755) to the Java War (1825–30)	19
Cows and Constitutionalism	19
From Land to the Tiller to Land Liberalisation: The Political Economy of Gujarat's Shifting Land Policy	18
From Kabul to Kiev: Afghan trading networks across the former Soviet Union	17
Death and Celebration among Muslim Women: A Case Study from Pakistan	17
From Plantation to Padi-field: The Origins of the Nineteenth Century Transformation of Java's Sugar Industry	17
From Crisis to Community Definition: The Dynamics of Eighteenth-Century Parsi Philanthropy	16
The Modernity of Caste and the Market Economy	16
Measuring Living Standards in Different Colonial Systems: Some Evidence from South East Asia, 1900–1942	16
Petitioning and Political Cultures in South Asia: Introduction	15
Mobility Towards Work and Politics for Women in Kerala State, India: A View from the Histories of Gender and Space	14
From Rulers to Servants: The I.C.S. and the British Demission of Power in India	14
Transition from Indian to British Indian Systems of Money and Banking 1800–1850	14
From Empire Defence to Imperial Retreat: Britain's Postwar China Policy and the Decolonization of Hong Kong	13
One Asia, or Many? Reflections from connected history	13
Transformation from Below in Bangladesh: Decentralization, local governance, and systemic change	12
The Surface—Subsoil Form of Divided Ownership in Late Imperial China: Some Examples from the New Territories of Hong Kong	11
‘Produce or Perish’. The crisis of the late 1940s and the place of labour in post-colonial India	11

Negotiating Respectability: Comparing the experiences of poor and middle-class young urban women in India	10
From Buddhist Icons to National Antiquities: Cultural Nationalism and Colonial Knowledge in the Making of Thailand's History of Art	10
Exchanges of Professionals between the Public and Non-Governmental Sectors: Life-work Histories from Bangladesh	9
From Custom to Right: The Politicization of the Village in Early Meiji Japan	9
From Language to Script: Graphic practice and the politics of authority in Santali-language print media, eastern India	8
From Negotiation to Coercion: Textile Manufacturing in India in the Eighteenth Century	8
Manufacturing Village Identity and Its Village: The View From Nineteenth-Century Andhra	8
Good Deeds: Parsi trusts from ‘the womb to the tomb’	8
‘The Viceroys are Disappearing from the Roundabouts in Delhi’: British symbols of power in post-colonial India	8
Southeast Asia ‘Inside Out,’ 1300–1800: A Perspective from the Interior	8
Federating the Raj: Hyderabad, sovereign kingship, and partition	8
Courts of Law and Styles of Self in Eighteenth-Century Madras: From Hybrid to Colonial Self	7
Faraway Siblings, So Close: Ephemeral conviviality across the Wakhan divide	7
Volatile Conviviality: Joking relations in Moscow's marginal marketplace	7
The Glory of Ancient India Stems from her Aryan Blood: French anthropologists ‘construct’ the racial history of India for the world	7
From Hell to Paradise? Voluntary Transfer of Convicts to the Andaman Islands, 1921–1940	7
A Dreadful Scourge: Cholera in early nineteenth-century India	7
From Buddha Bones to Bo Trees: Nehruvian India, Buddhism, and the poetics of power, 1947–1956	7
From Landgrabbing to Landhunger: High Land Appropriation in the Plantation Areas of Sri Lanka during the British Period	7
Writing History Sideways: Lessons for Indian Economic Historians from Meiji Japan	7
Chinatowns and the Rise of China	7
‘Performed Conviviality’: Space, bordering, and silence in the city	6
A Master Narrative for the History of Pakistan: Tracing the origins of an ideological agenda	6
The Transfer of Power, 1947	6
At the Crossroads of Empire and Nation-State: Partition, gold smuggling, and port cities in the western Indian Ocean	6
From Subjects to Citizens? Rationing, refugees and the publicity of corruption over Independence in UP	6
Corruption and Factionalism in Contemporary Punjab: An ethnographic account from rural Malwa	6
From Subjects to Citizens: Society and the Everyday State in India and Pakistan, 1947–1970	6
An Introduction to the Language of the Historical Documents from Rājasthān	6
Fitness for Modernity? The YMCA and physical-education schemes in late-colonial South Asia (circa1900–40)	5
Bullion for Trade, War, and Debt-Relief: British Movements of Silver to, around, and from Asia, 1760–1833	5
Japanese Aggression and the Emperor, 1931–1941, from Contemporary Diaries	5
Regulating the Terminal Economy: Difference, disruption, and governance in a Papuan commercial hub	5
Beyond Colonial Dichotomies: The deficits of Spain and the peripheral powers in treaty-port China	5
The Emergence of the Informal Sector: Labour legislation and politics in South India, 1940–60	5
From Orientals to Imagined Britons: Baghdadi Jews in Shanghai	5
The Response to Rural Reform in an Overseas Chinese Area: Examples from Two Localities in the Western Pearl River Delta Region, South China¹	5
A View from Mecca: Notes on Gujarat, the Red Sea, and the Ottomans, 1517–39/923–946 H.	5
The Advance of Marketization in North Korea: Between political rigidity and economic flexibility	5
Voices From The Kelantan Desa 1900–1940	5
A Rule of Proprietary Right for British India: From revenue settlement to tenant right in the age of classical legal thought	4
Sino-Foreign Business Networks: Foreign and Chinese banks in the Chinese banking sector, 1890–1911	4
China's World's Fair of 1910: Lessons from a Forgotten Event	4
Indian Petitioning and Colonial State-Formation in Eighteenth-Century Bengal	4
Urban Politics in the Local Kingdoms of India: A View from the Princely Capitals of Saurashtra under British Rule	4
From (Violent) Protest to Policy: Rearticulating authority through the National Youth Policy in post-war Nepal	4
The Nilgiri Tribal Systems: A View From Below	4
Indonesian Islamic Socialism and its South Asian Roots	4
From Moral Exemplar to National Hero: The transformations of Trần Hưng Đạo and the emergence of Vietnamese nationalism	4
Documents in Chinese from the Chinese Secretary's Office, British Legation, Peking, 1861–1939	4

‘For how Long can your Pīharwāle Intervene?’: Accessing natal kin support in rural North India	4
Marginal Hubs: On conviviality beyond the urban in Asia: Introduction	3
Settling the Citizen, Settling the Nomad: ‘Habitual offenders’, rebellion, and civic consciousness in western India, 1938–1952	3
‘From Our Side Rules Are Followed’: Authorizing bureaucracy in Nepal's ‘permanent transition’	3
Weak Ties in a Tangled Web? Relationships between the Political Residents of the English East India Company and their munshis, 1798–1818	3
Interrupted Sovereignties in the North-East Frontier of British India, 1787–1870	3
Legal Mediators: British consuls in Tengyue (western Yunnan) and the Burma-China frontier region, 1899–1931	3
Collaboration and British Military Recruitment: Fresh perspectives from colonial Punjab, 1914–1918	3
In the Presence of Witnesses: Petitioning and judicial ‘publics’ in western India, circa 1600–1820	3
Illegal Border Crossers and Unruly Citizens: Burma-Pakistan-Indian borderlands from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries	3
The Cosmopolitan Moment in Colonial Modernity: The Bahá’í faith, spiritual networks, and universalist movements in early twentieth-century China	3
Dynamics of Memory and Religious Nationalism in a Sino-Vietnamese Border Town	3
Getting out of Hand? Examining the discourse of ‘character amnesia’	3
‘What You See is What You Get’: Local journalism and the search for truth in Lyari, Karachi	2
Reluctant Reconciliation: South Korea's tentative détente with North Korea in the Nixon era, 1969–72	2
Children, Emotion, Identity and Empire: Views from the Blechyndens' Calcutta Diaries (1790–1822)	2
Money and Meaning in Elections: Towards a theory of the vote	2
From Campsie to Kedgeree: Scottish Enterprise, Asian Trade and the Company Raj	2
‘If I Speak, They Will Kill Me, to Remain Silent Is to Die’: Poetry of resistance in General Zia's Pakistan (1977–88)	2
The Petition as Event: Colonial Bombay,circa1889–1914	2
Negotiating Uncertainty in Late-Socialist Vietnam: Households and livelihood options in the marketizing countryside	2
From Bonded to Industrial Labour: Precarity, Maoism, and ethnicity in a modern industrial factory in western Nepal	2
Cornelis Matelief, Hugo Grotius, and the King of Siam (1605–1616): Agency, initiative, and diplomacy	2
The Sewing-Machine in Colonial-Era Photographs: A record from Dutch Indonesia	2
The Ahl-e-Hadith: From British India to Britain	2
Producing Monyul as Buffer: Spatial politics in a colonial frontier	2
In the Name of Anticommunism: Chinese practices of ideological accommodation in the early Cold War Philippines	2
Between Sovereignty and Legitimacy: China and UNESCO, 1946–1953	2
‘Useful’ and ‘Earning’ Citizens? Gender, state, and the market in post-colonial Delhi	2
The Transportation of Narain Sing: Punishment, Honour and Identity from the Anglo–Sikh Wars to the Great Revolt	2
A Laboratory for a Composite India? Jamia Millia Islamia around the time of partition	2
Decolonizing Nationalist Racism? Reflections on travel writing from mid-twentieth century Kerala, India	2
A Response to ‘One Asia, or Many? Reflections from connected history’	2
Folk Art and the Art Books: Who Speaks for the Traditional Artists? - The Art of Mithila: Ceremonial Paintings from an Ancient Kingdom. By Yves Vequaud, translated from the French by George Robinson.	2
Solidarity in Three Acts: Narrating US black freedom movements in China, 1961–66	2
‘At Least the Government is Watching out for us Now’: Dalit perceptions and experiences of governance and cash transfers in three villages in Sarlahi, Nepal	2
‘Controlling from Afar’ Open Communications and the Tao-Kuang Emperor's Control of Grand Canal-Grain Transport Management, 1824–1826	1
Ethnic Conflicts in Hillside Borderlands. A study on headhunting in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Taiwan	1
Warriors and States: Military labour in southern India, circa 1750–1800	1
The School Diary in Wartime Japan: Cultivating morale and self-discipline	1
The Great Second World War Vietnam and Java Famines	1
Poor Man's Crop: Evading opium monopoly	1
Producing a Distant Centre: The role of wilderness in the post-Mao Tibetan Buddhist revival	1
Publicity, Civil Liberties, and Political Life in Princely Hyderabad	1
Toddy, Race, and Urban Space in Colonial Singapore, 1900–59	1
Power, Patronage, and the Candidate-nomination Process: Observations from Bangladesh	1
Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and its Implications. By Louis Dumont. Translated from the French by Mark Sainsbury. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, The Nature of Human Society Series; London, 1970. Pp.	1
Edge of Enlightenment: The Akbar tradition and ‘universal toleration’ in British Bengal	1
Doctoring the Body and Exciting the Soul: Drugs and consumer culture in medieval and early modern Iran	1
Meet the Abrahams: Colonial Law and a Mixed Race Family from Bellary, South India, 1810–63	1
Of Music and the Maharaja: Gender, affect, and power in Ranjit Singh's Lahore	1
From Sepoy to Film Star: Indian interpreters of an Afghan mythic space	1
From Empiricist Conflation to Distortion: Caste in South Asia	1
Embodying Maoism: The swimming craze, the Mao cult, and body politics in Communist China, 1950s–1970s	1
A Bureaucracy of Rejection: Petitioning and the impoverished paternalism of the British-Indian Raj	1
Danger and Difference: Teatime at the northeast India-Bangladesh border	1
Civil Address and the Early Colonial Petition in Madras	1
Petitions and Local Politics in the Late Mughal Empire: The view from Kol, 1741	1
The Haiphong Shipping Boycotts of 1907 and 1909–10: Business interactions in the Haiphong-Hong Kong rice shipping trade	1
Saritā and the 1950s Hindi Middlebrow Reader	1
Losing the Waterways: The Displacement of Khmer Communities from the Freshwater Rivers of the Mekong Delta, 1945–2010	1
‘Civis Indianus sum’?Ambedkar on democracy and territory during linguistic reorganization (and partition)	1
The Lesson from the Disciples: Is there a Contradiction in Gandhi's Philosophy of Action?	1
Reimagining Asia: Indian and Australian women crossing borders	1
Sanjhi: ‘Rang Sey Roshni’ From Colour to Light	1
Jiagongchang Household Workshops as Marginal Hubs of Women's Subcontracted Labour in Guangzhou, China	1
Petitions, the City, and the Early Colonial State in South India	1
The Cripps Mission - The Transfer of Power 1942–7. Volume I. The Cripps Mission, 01–04 1942. Edited by Nicholas Mansergh and E. W. R. Lumby. H.M.S.O.: London, 1970. Pp. lxiii, 928, map, illustrations,	1
Nominalism: Negotiating ethnicity and Christian identity in contemporary Yunnan	1
Combating ‘Filth’: The temple, the state, and urbanization in late nineteenth-century Puri	1