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’	18
Kitchen Hinduism: Food politics and Hindi cookbooks in colonial North India	14
Religious entanglements with the politics of infrastructure in the Maldives	12
The power to disempower: The government of caste and the career of Dr Sathiavani Muthu in Tamil Nadu, circa 1960–1979	11
Homeland, magnet, and refuge: Mecca in the travels and imaginaries of Chinese Muslims	8
Banal revolutionary objects: Counter-memory and the materialization of Khana Ratsadon in Thailand	8
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City of lights, city of pylons: Infrastructures of illumination in colonial Hanoi, 1880s–1920s	7
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Erasure: The largest forcible mass disrobing of monks in modern Thai history	5
Strategic fluidity: Expansion by Kengtung (Chiang Tung) into Siam-controlled Lan Na, 1869–1892	5
From home production to modern mills: Labour allocation, gender, and living strategies of Chinese peasant households, circa 1910s–1930s	5
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Infrastructural splintering along the BRI: Catholic political ecologies and the fractious futures of Sri Lanka’s littoral spaces	4
Strategic forgetting: Britain, China, and the South China Sea, 1894–1938	4
Material modernities: Tracing Janbai’s gendered mobilities across the Indian Ocean	4
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An Eastern hero: Biographies of Muhammad in imperial Japan	3
Santal indigenous knowledge, cultural heritage, and the politics of representation	3
The translation of foreign films and cosmopolitan Shanghai (1896–1949)	3
The making of transnational Islamic networks in early Cold War South Korea	3
Jogendra’s properties in Noakhali: Displacement and the death of hope	3
Minakata Kumagusu and the emergence of queer nature: Civilization theory, Buddhist science, and microbes, 1887–1892	3
Silk Road orientations in Xinjiang archaeology and shifting implications for Eurasian studies	3

Rewriting the hills: Youth sociality as a mode of navigating unemployment in a context of outmigration in North India	3
Interrogating Indian nationalism: A subaltern perspective	3
Broadcasting the ‘(anti)colonial sublime’: Radio SEAC, Congress Radio, and the Second World War in South Asia	3
From collaboration to commemoration: Zhang Wojun and the ambiguities of identity for intellectuals from Taiwan	3
Against the crematorium: Materializing Hindu space in colonial Calcutta, 1920s–1940s	3
Rethinking markets to rethink economics	3
Religion, political parties, and Thailand’s 2019 election: Cosmopolitan royalism and its rivals	3
Insurgent law: Bengal Regulation III and the Chin-Lushai expeditions (1872–1898)	3
Revisiting Rabindranath Tagore’s critique of nationalism	2
Cosmopolitan collaboration and wartime collaborationism: The Chinese Maritime Customs Service and its staff, 1932–1941	2
Tang ‘cosmopolitanism’: Towards a critical and holistic approach — CORRIGENDUM	2
Simultaneously ‘national medicine’ and ‘East Asian medicine’: A cross-boundary network of medical exchange in wartime East Asia	2
Serving All-under-Heaven: Cosmopolitan intellectuals of the Warring States period	2
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Real abstractions: Markets, moralities, and social segmentation in modern India	2
Chinese migration and the ‘colonial question’: Perspectives of Chinese intellectuals, 1900s–1940s	2
Japan’s local imperialists: Expansive ideas of hometown and empire within the Asia-Pacific world	2
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Small polities and expanding empires in upland Asia: An introduction	2
A region in dispute: Racialized anticommunism and Manila’s role in the origins of Konfrontasi, 1961–63	2
The fetish in the market	2
Negotiating extra-settlement roads: Boundary making, administrative disputes, and power shifts in treaty-port Shanghai, 1860–1937	2
Tunnels of power: The cultural politics of the Beijing subway	2
The cheese, the worm, and the law: Grassroots legal cosmopolitanism in the Manchurian borderland, 1906–1927	2
Arms of ethnocracy: Hui Muslims and modern China’s gun control	2
Art diplomacy: Drawing China-Indonesia relations in the early Cold War, 1949–1956	1
Beliefs, practices, and taboos in Indigenous Pottery of Nagaland	1
Find the river: Discovering the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra in the age of empire	1
Letters of labourers: Girmitiya women, petitions, and patriarchy under indenture	1
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Armed and bureaucratic violence in the formation of British governance in Southeast Asian contested tracts	1
Pashtun homelands in an Indo-Afghan hagiographical collection	1
The secret of September: The 1949 oil agreements between the United States and South Korea	1
The cosmopolitanism of Karakorum, capital of the Mongol empire in Mongolia	1
Everywhere a market: Rethinking embedded exchange in modern India	1
Forum introduction. The chrysanthemum, the sword, and the dharmacakra: Buddhist entanglements in Japan’s wartime empire (1931–1945)	1
Accommodating cosmopolitan experiences: Jiang Dunfu’s 蔣敦復 and Wang Tao’s 王韜 autobiographical processing of their treaty port years	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
Symposium on Mitra Sharafi, ‘Abortion in South Asia, 1860–1947: A medico-legal history’, Modern Asian Studies , vol. 55, no. 2, 2021, pp. 371–428.	1
Refuelling the Cold War: The China factor in the United States and Japan’s pursuit of economic détente with the USSR, 1972–1980	1
The transnational historiography of a dynastic transition: Writing the Ming-Qing transition in seventeenth-century China, Korea, and Japan	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
A new world of Islam in early twentieth-century East Asia: Tatars in Harbin, colonized colonizers, and Muslim encounters	1
Buddhist friendship under occupation: Daxing, Kanda Eun, and Fujii Sōsen during the Sino-Japanese War	1
Wormwood, nomads’ rights, and capitalism: the birth of a chemical industry in Russian Turkestan (1870s–1914)	1
Evading and inviting states in ‘No-Man’s-Lands’: Headhunters in Zomia’s blank spaces (1944–1964)	1

The sacred dimensions of the BRI’s infrastructural commons	1
‘The state won’t stop us’—Hate-crime adjudication under the SC/ST Atrocities Act in India	1
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‘In the interest of your bank and our country’: Two encounters between China and the International Chamber of Commerce	1
Framing the Fifth Schedule: Tribal agency and the making of the Indian Constitution (1937–1950)	1
Making Manchuria Japan’s frontier: The bazoku fantasy and imperial masculinity, 1900s–1920s	1
Imperial inheritance: The transnational lives of Gurkha families in Asian contexts, 1948–1971 – ERRATUM	1
Beyond the masculinity of kingship: The making of a modern queen in early second millennium Sri Lanka	1
Siblings, comrades, friends: Kin(g)ship, hierarchy, and equality in Thailand’s youth struggle for democracy	0
Free sea or territorial waters? The Sino-Japanese Xiongyue fishing dispute, 1906–1912	0
What are the limits of political violence? Ebihara Toshio’s murder and the Umemoto-Kuroda controversy in 1970s Japan	0
Encouraging Warsaw Pact intervention? North Vietnam and the 1968 Prague Spring in light of new archival evidence	0
A Sikh Advaita Vedānta	0
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The fall: The Soviet community in North Korea	0
Japanese imperialism and the Chinese delegation to the Second General Conference of Pan-Pacific Young Buddhists’ Associations (1934)	0
The imagining of ‘others’ in colonial Korea in the works of Yi In-sŏng	0
Whose crescent moon to follow? Trust, communication technology, and the crisis of authority in Hui Muslim communities in Republican China	0
Wireless nation: Infrastructural politics of Tibetan and Mongolian Morse codes in China	0
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Nudity, obscenity, and the rule of colonial difference in Singapore, 1900s–1930s	0
‘Elections can wait!’ The politics of constructing a ‘Hindu atmosphere’ in Kerala, South India	0
From fascism to famine: Complicity, conscience, and the narrative of ‘peasant passivity’ in Bengal, 1941–1945	0
Tourism as informal political propaganda: Competing representations of ‘Cultural China’ in postwar Formosa tourism	0
Beyond conservation: Royal picnics at Elephanta and the legitimization of empire	0
Adivasi images, Adivasi voices. The resonance of the Eickstedt collection	0
Demolishing the wall: Missionary University, public access, and Sino-Western space negotiation in Republican Chengdu (1895–1937)	0
‘It all comes from me’: Bahu Begam and the making of the Awadhnawabi, circa1765–1815	0
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The Hindu Nationalist politics of caste harmony: Balasaheb Deoras, Sāmājik Samarastā , and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, 1973–90	0
The moment of marriage: Towards a history of temporality in South Asia, circa 1650–1850	0
Act XI of 1857: The life and afterlife of an emergency statute in colonial and post-colonial India	0
The making of ‘public opinion’: Media and open diplomacy in China’s strategy at Versailles and the May Fourth Movement	0
Torn between the nation and the world: D. F. Karaka and Indian journalism in the Second World War	0
‘Enjoying life’: Consumption, changing meanings, and social differentiation in Kerala, India	0
The man-eater writes back: (Anti-)colonial discourses of Chinese cannibalism in the empire of Japan (1868–1947)	0
Berita Filem , Malay fan magazines, and modernity in the early 1960s	0
Inventing the ‘Maritime Silk Road’	0
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Cotton, capital, and colonialism in southern Korea, 1910–1945: Semi-governmental organizations in the construction of imperial agriculture	0
The paradox of authenticity: The Korean Product Showroom of Mitsukoshi department store in colonial Seoul	0
Rajaratnam in London: Writing, race, and capital in Singapore’s intellectual history	0
In the shadow of the BRI: The figurative infrastructures of Chinese religion along the Maritime Silk Road	0
Tiger shikars: The Wodeyars’ construction of a Rajput identity through sport	0
Sacred politics of Chinese infrastructure: Christians, Buddha’s tooth, dragons, and conflict at Myitsone, Kachin, Burma	0
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Reshaping the figure of the Shudra: Tukaram Padwal’s Jatibhed Viveksar (Reflections on the Institution of Caste)	0
To run with the hare and hunt with the hounds: Unpacking Thailand’s post-Second World War anti-communist and anti-Chinese politics	0
Cosmopolitan dramaturgies from contemporary China: Li Jing’s Daxiansheng	0
Taiwanese DNA versus Chinese DNA: Genetic science and identity politics across the Taiwan Straits	0
Muslim feminism as Islamic modernism: Women’s activism in India between the Quran and the Constitution	0
‘A sea of blood and hate’: Mass mobilization of emotion in China’s Anti-narcotics Campaign, 1949–1952	0
Saving China and admiring Japan: Cultural traitor Qian Daosun	0
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‘Willing’ ethnic-nationalists, diffusion, and resentment in India: A micro-foundational account	0
The question of Islam and the Muslim citizen in Republican China: Insights from the Turkish model	0
The Oraons of Chhotanagpur: A journey through colonial ethnography	0
The prison-handicraft complex: Convict labour in colonial India	0
Representations of disaster victimhood: Framing suffering and loss after the 1934 Bihar-Nepal earthquake	0
The embodied and the occult: Exploring corpo-reality and ‘unreason’ in colonial India	0
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Nanyang University and the Cold War origins of American higher education in Singapore	0
Whose women and whose honour? A fragile imperial discourse on the Baluch-Punjab frontier, late nineteenth century	0
The decline of multilingualism in a divided public sphere: The Indian Press and cultural politics in colonial Allahabad (1890–1920)	0
The entanglements of exchange in India	0
What keeps the Kitans enigmatic: Roots of the ethnic narrative in Liao historiography	0
Special issue: Multiple worlds of the Adivasi. An introduction	0
From racial survival to revolutionary strategy: The localization of Asianism in the political practice of Tang Caichang	0
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Songs of Tamil plantation women of Malaya: Contesting memories and histories	0
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Chinese translations of Korean writing in Manchukuo: Reading beyond Chang Hyŏkju	0
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Ritual, war, and opium: Infrastructural sedimentations in the ethnohistory of the Mun (Lanten Yao) of Laos	0
Hearts and minds in Hong Kong’s New Territories: Agriculture and vegetable marketing in a Cold War borderland,circa1946–1967	0
Bonded citizenship: Caste, Partition, and the prevention of exit	0

Agents of capital: Matriarchs, law, and agrarian transactions in the Eastern Gangetic plains of eighteenth-century India	0
‘The Jews of Ceylon’: Antisemitism, prejudice, and the Moors of Ceylon	0
‘Great Northern Wilderness’-style environmentalism: Nature preservation and the legacies of Mao-era land reclamation in China’s northeast borderland	0
An anti-secularist pan-Asianist from Europe: Paul Richard in Japan, 1916–1920	0
Satellite as method: China’s Great Leap Forward revisited	0
Towards a limited and ‘quality’ population: Debates on maternity benefits in mid-twentieth century India	0
The fly-by-night ustad: Problems of music education in North India, 1863–1915	0
Crime and violence against women: Legal categories, approaches, and responses to kidnapping, forced marriage, and elopement under the Peshwas	0
The lure of land: Peasant politics, frontier colonization and the cunning state in Sri Lanka	0
Mapping tianxia and mapping the world: Cosmopolitan ideas in geographic sources of fifteenth- to eighteenth-century China	0
China’s and Japan’s winding path to the Refugee Convention: State identity transformations and the evolving international refugee regime	0
‘Jostling for right of way’: Hawker discourse, legitimation, and politics in post-independence Malay(si)a, 1957–1969 — CORRIGENDUM	0
Logistics behind revolution: Mengla and the Laos-Thailand connection in the Cold War	0
The bazaar as archive: Legibility, cosmopolitanism, and ‘refugee entrepreneurs’ in Delhi	0
Is Bathou Hindu? Consolidated Hinduism and assertions of a traditional religion among the Boros of Assam	0
Vietnamese Buddhist encounters with South Asia in the 1950s	0
The Radheshyam Ramayan and the Sanskritization of Khari Boli Hindi- ERRATUM	0
Life of a Dalit magistrate: Ideologies and politics in Dalit life in North India, 1920–1954	0
Demographic engineering: Population resettlement in the ethnoterritory of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh	0
‘East Punjab must not lag behind’: Partition, museums, and identity in independent India	0
Which fascism? Historicizing Chiang Kai-shek’s engagements with the idea during the Nanjing Decade, 1927–37	0
Law and Sufism in modern South Asia: A changing relationship	0
Struggles about class and Adivasi-ness in an eastern Indian steel plant	0
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Cohabiting a textualized world: Elbow room and Adivasi resurgence	0
‘That unfortunate speculation’: Colonialism, capitalism and the reclamation of Sagar Island, 1810–1833	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
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
Overcoming a stigmatic past: National Central University students in Nanjing, China, and the politics of wartime history	0
Facsimiles of yore: printing technology and the page image in the Japanese Government General of Korea’s reproduction of historical sources	0
The point of death: Religious conversion and the self in South India	0
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Rethinking the Second World War in South Asia: Between theatres and beyond battles	0
Translating transactions: Markets as epistemic and moral spheres	0
Between idealism and geopolitics: Yoshii Hōjun and the Sino-Japanese Society for the Study of Esoteric Buddhism in 1930s North China	0
Tribal land alienation and Adivasis’ struggle for autonomy: The case of Bhadrachalam Scheduled Area, Telangana, India	0
Singing songs for a secular society? The elusive politics of cultural activism in contemporary Bangladesh	0
Negotiating power: Disputes over electrification in rural India	0
Irrigation pumps in late colonial Taiwan: Farmers’ utilization of technology and the transition to rice cultivation	0
‘I am safer in Hong Kong’: Transimperial entanglements in Filipino nationalist explorations	0
Political notes of nauras : Emergence of an aesthetically embodied kingship practice in Adil Shahi Bijapur	0
Challenges and recalibration: Ecological governance and state building in late Qing China	0
To revive India’s industries: The global and imperial roots of swadeshi in the nineteenth century	0
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(Re)imagining ‘Tears of Mokp’o’: From a Korean resistance anthem to a baseball fight song	0
How the first revolution affected the second: The setback of 1927 for the Chinese Communist Party Revolution in the 1920s	0
The Manchurian saviour? Re-examining the ‘Otpor Incident’ in imperial and contemporary Japan	0
The Belt and Road Initiative and spirit mediums: The Lower Sesan 2 Dam and sacred space in northeastern Cambodia	0
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‘Farewell, My Uyghur Language’: Linguistic anxiety and resistance in Uyghur poetry and songs, 1990s–2010s	0
Glorious pasts of forest dwellers: Memories of land in the ex-zamindari of Borasambar, Central Provinces, 1861–1905	0
‘The first step towards racial equality’: The Kuroda-Araya engagement and the dream of a transnational non-white alliance	0
The theological foundations of Muslim modernism and traditionalism in South Asia	0
‘Trishul vs Cross’: Hindutva, Church, and the politics of secularism in Christian-majority states of North-east India	0
Crafting literary Urdu: Mirza Hatim’s engagement with Vali Dakhani	0
Satellite as method: China’s Great Leap Forward revisited – CORRIGENDUM	0
Introduction to the Forum: Muslim modernity in South Asia	0
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Cold War cattle, dairy farming, and transnational development cooperation in South Korea during the 1960s/70s	0
Tang ‘cosmopolitanism': Towards a critical and holistic approach	0
The uncertain world: The gift of development on the Mekong	0
Gandhi’s cosmic body and the Chauri Chaura incident: The political and moral dynamics of India’s national movement, 1919–1922	0
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The point of death: Religious conversion and the self in South India – CORRIGENDUM	0
‘Jostling for right of way’: Hawker discourse, legitimation, and politics in post-independence Malay(si)a, 1957–1969	0
A forgotten famine of ’43? Travancore’s muffled ‘cry of distress’	0
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Can migrants be indigenous? Affirmative action, space, and belonging in the Andaman Islands	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
And red flows the Koina river: Adivasi resistance to the ‘loot’ of their land and resources in eastern India, 1980–2020	0
In-between two Buddhisms: Ueda Tenzui’s Theravada ordination and activities to recover the remains of the war dead in wartime Burma	0
When art was political: Visualizing the Chinese cultural Cold War in Singapore, 1950s–1970s	0
The ‘sero-rationalization’ of the Imperial Japanese military, 1926‒1945	0
Sites to sights: The construction of the ‘monument’ in modern Delhi	0
Crafting a nation, fishing for power: The Universal Exposition of 1906 and fisheries governance in Late Qing China	0
The many swords of Shivaji: Searching for a weapon, finding a nation	0
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The missionary works of a Taiwanese Buddhist monk in mainland China during the Japanese colonial period (1911–1939): The case of Venerable Shanhui of Keelung Yuemei Mountain	0
The grey zones of antiquarian pursuits: The 1938 Barger expedition to the princely state of Swat	0
Missing millions: Java’s 1944–45 famine in Indonesia’s historiography	0
Justifying the use of excessive force: A critical discourse analysis of Chinese police individual WeChat Subscription Accounts	0
Christian diplomacy in peace and war: Protestant internationalism, (anti-)imperialism, and the future of Asia, 1920–1950s	0
‘Made in Hong Kong’: Deriving value from the place-of-origin label, 1950s and now	0
Cosmopolitanisms in China’s Eurasian history: A critical approach	0
Introduction to the Forum: Mediating collaborationism: Cosmopolitism, Asianism, and the recounting of history	0
From ‘mystic synthesis’ to ‘Jesuit plot’: The Society of Jesus and the making of religious policy in Indonesia	0
Yellow peril with a dash of green: The global imagining of an Islamized China at the turn of the twentieth century	0
‘Brains and beauty plus pedigree’: Conjugality, commodification, and capital accumulation in the colonial Indian marriage market	0
Delinking ‘the two rupees’: The devaluation dilemma and economic divergence in the decolonized subcontinent, September 1949–February 1951	0
East Asia and Islamic Asia: Space, time, and mobility	0
The spectre of Ma Phyu? Loyalty, competence, and the spatial dynamics of imperial administration in colonial Burma	0