Modern Asian Studies

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A tale of a tyre: National space, infrastructure, and narration in S. H. Vatsyayan’s ‘Parśurām se tūrxam’	10
City of lights, city of pylons: Infrastructures of illumination in colonial Hanoi, 1880s–1920s	9
Kitchen Hinduism: Food politics and Hindi cookbooks in colonial North India	8
Homeland, magnet, and refuge: Mecca in the travels and imaginaries of Chinese Muslims	6
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From home production to modern mills: Labour allocation, gender, and living strategies of Chinese peasant households, circa 1910s–1930s	4
Constructing a caste in the past: Revisionist histories and competitive authority in South India	3
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Placement agencies for care-domestic labour: Everyday mediation, regimes of punishment, civilizing missions, and training in globalized India	3
Minakata Kumagusu and the emergence of queer nature: Civilization theory, Buddhist science, and microbes, 1887–1892	3
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Earth's Amphibious Transformation: Tange Kenzo, Buckminster Fuller, and marine urbanization in global environmental thought (1950s–present)	3
Product, equipment, uniform: Material environment and the consumption of work in New Delhi, India	3
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Material modernities: Tracing Janbai’s gendered mobilities across the Indian Ocean	3
An Eastern hero: Biographies of Muhammad in imperial Japan	3
From collaboration to commemoration: Zhang Wojun and the ambiguities of identity for intellectuals from Taiwan	2
Insurgent law: Bengal Regulation III and the Chin-Lushai expeditions (1872–1898)	2
Perceptions and purpose of the bomb: Explaining India's nuclear restraint against China	2
Silk Road orientations in Xinjiang archaeology and shifting implications for Eurasian studies	2
Rethinking markets to rethink economics	2
The translation of foreign films and cosmopolitan Shanghai (1896–1949)	2
Rewriting the hills: Youth sociality as a mode of navigating unemployment in a context of outmigration in North India	2
Religion, political parties, and Thailand’s 2019 election: Cosmopolitan royalism and its rivals	2

Jogendra’s properties in Noakhali: Displacement and the death of hope	2
Strategic forgetting: Britain, China, and the South China Sea, 1894–1938	2
The Ahl-e-Hadith: From British India to Britain	2
Santal indigenous knowledge, cultural heritage, and the politics of representation	2
Broadcasting the ‘(anti)colonial sublime’: Radio SEAC, Congress Radio, and the Second World War in South Asia	2
Serving All-under-Heaven: Cosmopolitan intellectuals of the Warring States period	1
Imperial inheritance: The transnational lives of Gurkha families in Asian contexts, 1948–1971 – ERRATUM	1
Commemorative contention: The Taipei National Revolutionary Martyrs’ Shrine and the politics of death	1
Beyond the masculinity of kingship: The making of a modern queen in early second millennium Sri Lanka	1
Art diplomacy: Drawing China-Indonesia relations in the early Cold War, 1949–1956	1
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The cheese, the worm, and the law: Grassroots legal cosmopolitanism in the Manchurian borderland, 1906–1927	1
A secular empire? Estates,nom, and religions in the Mongol empire	1
Informal diplomacy in Chosŏn Korea and new engagement with the West and Westernized Japan, 1873–1876	1
Reform in fragments: Sovereignty, colonialism, and the Sikh tradition	1
Real abstractions: Markets, moralities, and social segmentation in modern India	1
Revisiting Rabindranath Tagore’s critique of nationalism	1
The Unbearable Lightness of Trust: Trade, conviviality, and the life-world of Indian export agents in Yiwu, China	1
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The cosmopolitanism of Karakorum, capital of the Mongol empire in Mongolia	1
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Bulldozing the dead: Chinese, citizenry, and cemetery in post-colonial South Korea	1
Prisoners of Pakistan: Bengali military personnel and civil servants in Pakistan, 1971–1974	1
Sacred book, profane print: Print-as-commodity and patronage in colonial western India	1
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Cosmopolitan collaboration and wartime collaborationism: The Chinese Maritime Customs Service and its staff, 1932–1941	1
Negotiating extra-settlement roads: Boundary making, administrative disputes, and power shifts in treaty-port Shanghai, 1860–1937	1
A region in dispute: Racialized anticommunism and Manila’s role in the origins of Konfrontasi, 1961–63	1
Simultaneously ‘national medicine’ and ‘East Asian medicine’: A cross-boundary network of medical exchange in wartime East Asia	1
Wormwood, nomads’ rights, and capitalism: the birth of a chemical industry in Russian Turkestan (1870s–1914)	1
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Afro-Asian resonances: Staging the Congo Crisis in 1960s’ Chinese theatre	1
Flagstone empire: Materiality and technical expertise in Japanese road construction in northeast China (1905–1945)	1
Exercises in peace: Āẕar Kayvānī universalism and comparison in the School of Doctrines	1
Accommodating cosmopolitan experiences: Jiang Dunfu’s 蔣敦復 and Wang Tao’s 王韜 autobiographical processing of their treaty port years	1
Find the river: Discovering the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra in the age of empire	1
Entanglements in the colony: Jewish–Muslim connected histories in colonial India	1
Tunnels of power: The cultural politics of the Beijing subway	1
Anger and Atonement in Mughal India: An alternative account of Akbar's 1578 hunt	1
The fetish in the market	1
Adivasi images, Adivasi voices. The resonance of the Eickstedt collection	0
And red flows the Koina river: Adivasi resistance to the ‘loot’ of their land and resources in eastern India, 1980–2020	0
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Pashtun homelands in an Indo-Afghan hagiographical collection	0
The moment of marriage: Towards a history of temporality in South Asia, circa 1650–1850	0
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Irrigation pumps in late colonial Taiwan: Farmers’ utilization of technology and the transition to rice cultivation	0
Know Your Rights: The (un)making of the colonial legal subjects in rural North India, circa 1770–1857	0
Facsimiles of yore: printing technology and the page image in the Japanese Government General of Korea’s reproduction of historical sources	0

Thailand's First Revolution? The role of religious mobilization and ‘the people’ in the Ayutthaya rebellion of 1688	0
The Oraons of Chhotanagpur: A journey through colonial ethnography	0
The lure of land: Peasant politics, frontier colonization and the cunning state in Sri Lanka	0
The prison-handicraft complex: Convict labour in colonial India	0
The ‘theory of the unity of all classes and races against foreign capital’ in Malaya: Socialism, communalism, and uneven development in the thought of James Puthucheary	0
The making of ‘public opinion’: Media and open diplomacy in China’s strategy at Versailles and the May Fourth Movement	0
Can migrants be indigenous? Affirmative action, space, and belonging in the Andaman Islands	0
From ‘mystic synthesis’ to ‘Jesuit plot’: The Society of Jesus and the making of religious policy in Indonesia	0
Singing songs for a secular society? The elusive politics of cultural activism in contemporary Bangladesh	0
Introduction to the Forum: Mediating collaborationism: Cosmopolitism, Asianism, and the recounting of history	0
An anti-secularist pan-Asianist from Europe: Paul Richard in Japan, 1916–1920	0
Everyday rehearsal of death and the dilemmas of dying in super-ageing Japan	0
Mehmed the Conqueror between Sulh-i Kull and Prisca Theologia	0
Is Bathou Hindu? Consolidated Hinduism and assertions of a traditional religion among the Boros of Assam	0
The grey zones of antiquarian pursuits: The 1938 Barger expedition to the princely state of Swat	0
‘Elections can wait!’ The politics of constructing a ‘Hindu atmosphere’ in Kerala, South India	0
What keeps the Kitans enigmatic: Roots of the ethnic narrative in Liao historiography	0
A forgotten famine of ’43? Travancore’s muffled ‘cry of distress’	0
‘Rahman’ before Muhammad: A pre-history of the First Peace (Sulh) in Islam	0
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Hearts and minds in Hong Kong’s New Territories: Agriculture and vegetable marketing in a Cold War borderland,circa1946–1967	0
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Life of a Dalit magistrate: Ideologies and politics in Dalit life in North India, 1920–1954	0
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Reshaping the figure of the Shudra: Tukaram Padwal’s Jatibhed Viveksar (Reflections on the Institution of Caste)	0
Border Governance: Reframing political transition in Myanmar	0
Torn between the nation and the world: D. F. Karaka and Indian journalism in the Second World War	0
The paradox of authenticity: The Korean Product Showroom of Mitsukoshi department store in colonial Seoul	0
Cosmopolitan Visions and Intellectual Passions: Macanese publics in British Hong Kong	0
Measuring the Tibetan nation: Anthropometry in 1950s Kalimpong	0
Abolitionist parallels: International law and domestic servitude in South China (1900–1940)	0
The entanglements of exchange in India	0
Agents of capital: Matriarchs, law, and agrarian transactions in the Eastern Gangetic plains of eighteenth-century India	0
‘Winning the Peace’: The Chinese Maritime Customs Service, foreign technocrats, and planning the rehabilitation of post-war China, 1943–1945	0
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‘Great Northern Wilderness’-style environmentalism: Nature preservation and the legacies of Mao-era land reclamation in China’s northeast borderland	0
‘The Jews of Ceylon’: Antisemitism, prejudice, and the Moors of Ceylon	0
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‘Enjoying life’: Consumption, changing meanings, and social differentiation in Kerala, India	0
India and overseas Indians in Ceylon and Burma, 1946–1965: Experiments in post-imperial sovereignty	0
Communities of skill in the age of capitalism: Handloom weavers in twentieth-century United Provinces, India	0
‘I am safer in Hong Kong’: Transimperial entanglements in Filipino nationalist explorations	0
Everywhere a market: Rethinking embedded exchange in modern India	0
A political sociology of empire: Mughal historians on the making of Mughal paramountcy	0
Sulh-i kull to Vedānta: The Dādū Panth and the Mughal-Rajput imperial paradigm	0
Tiger shikars: The Wodeyars’ construction of a Rajput identity through sport	0
The secret of September: The 1949 oil agreements between the United States and South Korea	0
Enacting Border Governance through Multi-scalar Violence: Exclusion and discrimination of Rohingya people in Rakhine state	0
Act XI of 1857: The life and afterlife of an emergency statute in colonial and post-colonial India	0
Wearing fire and chewing iron: Oaths of peace and the suspension of monotheism in contemporary Alevism	0
Rethinking the Second World War in South Asia: Between theatres and beyond battles	0
A Mongol-Mughal lens on religion and empire in Eurasian history: An introduction	0
Ethnic politics, the Cold War and sub-national dynamics: the Indonesian Communist Party, the ethnic Chinese minority and anti-Chinese activities in West Java, 1949–67	0
Missing millions: Java’s 1944–45 famine in Indonesia’s historiography	0
Afforestation, Propaganda, and Agency: The case of Hangzhou in Mao's China	0
The Sufi method behind the Mughal ‘Peace with All’ religions: A study of Ibn ‘Arabi's ‘taḥqīq’ in Abu al-Fazl's preface to the Razmnāma	0
Struggles about class and Adivasi-ness in an eastern Indian steel plant	0
The point of death: Religious conversion and the self in South India	0
Rediscovering Afghan Fine Arts: The life of an Afghan student in Germany, Abdul Ghafur Brechna	0
The modernity of tradition: Women and ‘healthy progress’ in late colonial Java and Sumatra	0
Sulh-i kull as an oath of peace: Mughal political theology in history, theory, and comparison	0
Cohabiting a textualized world: Elbow room and Adivasi resurgence	0
Framing the Fifth Schedule: Tribal agency and the making of the Indian Constitution (1937–1950)	0
The decline of multilingualism in a divided public sphere: The Indian Press and cultural politics in colonial Allahabad (1890–1920)	0
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Representations of disaster victimhood: Framing suffering and loss after the 1934 Bihar-Nepal earthquake	0
Ritual cursing as an oath of submission: The problem of religious difference across Safavid Iran and modern Pakistan	0
Saving China and admiring Japan: Cultural traitor Qian Daosun	0
Overcoming a stigmatic past: National Central University students in Nanjing, China, and the politics of wartime history	0
‘Jostling for right of way’: Hawker discourse, legitimation, and politics in post-independence Malay(si)a, 1957–1969 — CORRIGENDUM	0
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The Radheshyam Ramayan and the Sanskritization of Khari Boli Hindi- ERRATUM	0
How the first revolution affected the second: The setback of 1927 for the Chinese Communist Party Revolution in the 1920s	0
Media wars: Remaking the logics of propaganda in India’s wartime cine-ecologies	0
Muslim feminism as Islamic modernism: Women’s activism in India between the Quran and the Constitution	0
Crafting literary Urdu: Mirza Hatim’s engagement with Vali Dakhani	0
Chen Mengzhao's storeroom in Park Street, Calcutta. Wartime India-China smuggling, 1942–1945	0
Caldwell's Dravidians: Knowledge production and the representational strategies of missionary scholars in colonial South India	0
‘The first step towards racial equality’: The Kuroda-Araya engagement and the dream of a transnational non-white alliance	0

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Cosmopolitanism and imperial women in the Sixteen Kingdoms and the Northern Dynasties (304–581)	0
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Hindutva in the shadow of the Mahatma: M. S. Golwalkar, M. K. Gandhi, and the RSS in post-colonial India	0
Free sea or territorial waters? The Sino-Japanese Xiongyue fishing dispute, 1906–1912	0
‘It all comes from me’: Bahu Begam and the making of the Awadhnawabi, circa1765–1815	0
Demographic engineering: Population resettlement in the ethnoterritory of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh	0
Vietnamese Buddhist encounters with South Asia in the 1950s	0
Parallel lives or interconnected histories? Anagarika Dharmapala and Muhammad Barkatullah's ‘world religioning’ in Japan	0
Delinking ‘the two rupees’: The devaluation dilemma and economic divergence in the decolonized subcontinent, September 1949–February 1951	0
Poetry for linguistic description: The Maldives inside and outside the Arabic cosmopolis in 1890	0
Cosmopolitan dramaturgies from contemporary China: Li Jing’s Daxiansheng	0
‘Jostling for right of way’: Hawker discourse, legitimation, and politics in post-independence Malay(si)a, 1957–1969	0
Muslim pasts and presents: Displacement and city-making in a Delhi neighbourhood	0
Translating transactions: Markets as epistemic and moral spheres	0
Contested Colonial Metrological Sovereignty: The daching riot and the regulation of weights and measures in British Malaya	0
Nudity, obscenity, and the rule of colonial difference in Singapore, 1900s–1930s	0
Tang ‘cosmopolitanism': Towards a critical and holistic approach	0
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The transnational historiography of a dynastic transition: Writing the Ming-Qing transition in seventeenth-century China, Korea, and Japan	0
Rajaratnam in London: Writing, race, and capital in Singapore’s intellectual history	0
Refuelling the Cold War: The China factor in the United States and Japan’s pursuit of economic détente with the USSR, 1972–1980	0
Crafting a nation, fishing for power: The Universal Exposition of 1906 and fisheries governance in Late Qing China	0
Stolen Skin and Children Thrown: Governing sex and abortion in early modern South Asia	0
‘A sea of blood and hate’: Mass mobilization of emotion in China’s Anti-narcotics Campaign, 1949–1952	0
‘In the interest of your bank and our country’: Two encounters between China and the International Chamber of Commerce	0
The point of death: Religious conversion and the self in South India – CORRIGENDUM	0
The spectre of Ma Phyu? Loyalty, competence, and the spatial dynamics of imperial administration in colonial Burma	0
‘Willing’ ethnic-nationalists, diffusion, and resentment in India: A micro-foundational account	0
The many swords of Shivaji: Searching for a weapon, finding a nation	0
Dam(n)ing the hills: Indigeneity, American aid, and Cold War politics in the Kaptai Dam, East Pakistan, 1957–1964	0
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Sanskrit and the labour of gender in early modern South India	0
Inventing the ‘Maritime Silk Road’	0
Taiwanese DNA versus Chinese DNA: Genetic science and identity politics across the Taiwan Straits	0
Mapping tianxia and mapping the world: Cosmopolitan ideas in geographic sources of fifteenth- to eighteenth-century China	0
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The privilege of the Indian passport (1947–1967): Caste, class, and the afterlives of indenture in Indian diplomacy	0
‘East Punjab must not lag behind’: Partition, museums, and identity in independent India	0
Tribal land alienation and Adivasis’ struggle for autonomy: The case of Bhadrachalam Scheduled Area, Telangana, India	0
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The Last Hump: The Lahore Elementary Flying Training School, the Chinese Civil War, and the final days of the British Raj	0
Negotiating power: Disputes over electrification in rural India	0
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Songs of Tamil plantation women of Malaya: Contesting memories and histories	0
Cotton, capital, and colonialism in southern Korea, 1910–1945: Semi-governmental organizations in the construction of imperial agriculture	0
Was Aśoka really a secularist avant-la-lettre? Ancient Indian pluralism and toleration in historical perspective	0
Neoplatonism and the Pax Mongolica in the making of ṣulḥ-i kull. A view from Akbar's millennial history	0
Chinggisid pluralism and religious competition: Buddhists, Muslims, and the question of violence and sovereignty in Ilkhanid Iran	0
Imperial inheritance: The transnational lives of Gurkha families in Asian contexts, 1948–1971	0
Beyond conservation: Royal picnics at Elephanta and the legitimization of empire	0
From fascism to famine: Complicity, conscience, and the narrative of ‘peasant passivity’ in Bengal, 1941–1945	0
Doing ‘coolie’ work in a ‘gentlemanly’ way: Gender and caste on the famine public works in colonial North India	0
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Siblings, comrades, friends: Kin(g)ship, hierarchy, and equality in Thailand’s youth struggle for democracy	0
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The theological foundations of Muslim modernism and traditionalism in South Asia	0
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To revive India’s industries: The global and imperial roots of swadeshi in the nineteenth century	0
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Law and Sufism in modern South Asia: A changing relationship	0
A Song of Fallen Flowers: Miyazaki Tōten and the making of naniwabushi as a mode of popular dissent in transwar Japan, 1902–1909	0
Sanskrit and the labour of gender in early modern South India – CORRIGENDUM	0
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‘Trishul vs Cross’: Hindutva, Church, and the politics of secularism in Christian-majority states of North-east India	0
Introduction to the Forum: Muslim modernity in South Asia	0
‘Farewell, My Uyghur Language’: Linguistic anxiety and resistance in Uyghur poetry and songs, 1990s–2010s	0
Justifying the use of excessive force: A critical discourse analysis of Chinese police individual WeChat Subscription Accounts	0
China’s and Japan’s winding path to the Refugee Convention: State identity transformations and the evolving international refugee regime	0
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Towards a Burma-inclusive South Asian Studies: A Roundtable	0
Brahman wives and pedagogies of conscience in mid-nineteenth century British India	0
Glorious pasts of forest dwellers: Memories of land in the ex-zamindari of Borasambar, Central Provinces, 1861–1905	0
Cleansing Macau's Image as the ‘Wickedest City in the World’: Eurasia,Long Way, and Luso-tropical film production in Macau in the 1950s	0
‘Made in Hong Kong’: Deriving value from the place-of-origin label, 1950s and now	0
Special issue: Multiple worlds of the Adivasi. An introduction	0
What are the limits of political violence? Ebihara Toshio’s murder and the Umemoto-Kuroda controversy in 1970s Japan	0
Relocated tigers and relocated villagers: Ferality and human–animal entanglement in Indian conservation	0