OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Modern Asian Studies is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Constructing a caste in the past: Revisionist histories and competitive authority in South India	10
The Fractured Centre: ‘Two-headed government’ and threats to the peace process in Myanmar	7
Inventing the ‘Maritime Silk Road’	5
The Ahl-e-Hadith: From British India to Britain	5
Rapsodia Ibero-Indiana: Transoceanic creolization and the mando of Goa	4
Sanskrit and the labour of gender in early modern South India	4
Allies among Enemies: Political authority and party (dis)loyalty in Bangladesh	4
The privilege of the Indian passport (1947–1967): Caste, class, and the afterlives of indenture in Indian diplomacy	4
Sulh-i kull as an oath of peace: Mughal political theology in history, theory, and comparison	4
Reform in fragments: Sovereignty, colonialism, and the Sikh tradition	3
Perceptions and purpose of the bomb: Explaining India's nuclear restraint against China	3
The lure of land: Peasant politics, frontier colonization and the cunning state in Sri Lanka	3
Refugee Policy as Border Governance: Refugee return, peacebuilding, and Myanmar's politics of transition	3
Enacting Border Governance through Multi-scalar Violence: Exclusion and discrimination of Rohingya people in Rakhine state	3
Boundary Making in Myanmar's Electoral Process: Where elections do not take place	3
Informality, Temporariness, and the Production of Illegitimate Geographies: The rise of a Muslim sub-city in Ahmedabad, India (1970s–2000s)	3
Stolen Skin and Children Thrown: Governing sex and abortion in early modern South Asia	3
Rediscovering Afghan Fine Arts: The life of an Afghan student in Germany, Abdul Ghafur Brechna	3
Earth's Amphibious Transformation: Tange Kenzo, Buckminster Fuller, and marine urbanization in global environmental thought (1950s–present)	3
India and overseas Indians in Ceylon and Burma, 1946–1965: Experiments in post-imperial sovereignty	3
Islamic Traditionalism in a Globalizing World: Sunni Muslim identity in Kerala, South India	3
Exercises in peace: Āẕar Kayvānī universalism and comparison in the School of Doctrines	2
Towards a Burma-inclusive South Asian Studies: A Roundtable	2
Ritual cursing as an oath of submission: The problem of religious difference across Safavid Iran and modern Pakistan	2
Cosmopolitan Visions and Intellectual Passions: Macanese publics in British Hong Kong	2

Homeland, magnet, and refuge: Mecca in the travels and imaginaries of Chinese Muslims	2
Implementing Partition: Proceedings of the Punjab Partition Committee, July–August, 1947	2
Cohabiting a textualized world: Elbow room and Adivasi resurgence	2
Frontier Governance: Contested and plural authorities in a Karen village after the ceasefire	2
The Unbearable Lightness of Trust: Trade, conviviality, and the life-world of Indian export agents in Yiwu, China	2
Communities of skill in the age of capitalism: Handloom weavers in twentieth-century United Provinces, India	2
Representations of disaster victimhood: Framing suffering and loss after the 1934 Bihar-Nepal earthquake	2
Framing the Fifth Schedule: Tribal agency and the making of the Indian Constitution (1937–1950)	2
A Mongol-Mughal lens on religion and empire in Eurasian history: An introduction	1
Product, equipment, uniform: Material environment and the consumption of work in New Delhi, India	1
Was Aśoka really a secularist avant-la-lettre? Ancient Indian pluralism and toleration in historical perspective	1
The Sedan Chair vs the Steamboat: The Sichuan Route and the Maritime Route in the making of modern Sino-Tibetan relations	1
The modernity of tradition: Women and ‘healthy progress’ in late colonial Java and Sumatra	1
Relocated tigers and relocated villagers: Ferality and human–animal entanglement in Indian conservation	1
The Trans-Asian Pathways of ‘Oriental Products’: Navigating the prohibition of narcotics between Turkey, China, and Japan, 1918–1938	1
A Roundtable on Rupa Viswanath'sThe Pariah Problem: Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern Indiaand the Study of Caste	1
China’s and Japan’s winding path to the Refugee Convention: State identity transformations and the evolving international refugee regime	1
Santal indigenous knowledge, cultural heritage, and the politics of representation	1
A forgotten famine of ’43? Travancore’s muffled ‘cry of distress’	1
Dam(n)ing the hills: Indigeneity, American aid, and Cold War politics in the Kaptai Dam, East Pakistan, 1957–1964	1
And red flows the Koina river: Adivasi resistance to the ‘loot’ of their land and resources in eastern India, 1980–2020	1
‘The Jews of Ceylon’: Antisemitism, prejudice, and the Moors of Ceylon	1
A political sociology of empire: Mughal historians on the making of Mughal paramountcy	1
The point of death: Religious conversion and the self in South India	1
The prison-handicraft complex: Convict labour in colonial India	1
‘Great Northern Wilderness’-style environmentalism: Nature preservation and the legacies of Mao-era land reclamation in China’s northeast borderland	1
Flagstone empire: Materiality and technical expertise in Japanese road construction in northeast China (1905–1945)	1
Special issue: Multiple worlds of the Adivasi. An introduction	1
Peasants, Colonialism, and Sovereignty: The Garo rebellions in eastern India	1
Pashtun homelands in an Indo-Afghan hagiographical collection	1
Doing ‘coolie’ work in a ‘gentlemanly’ way: Gender and caste on the famine public works in colonial North India	1
Missing millions: Java’s 1944–45 famine in Indonesia’s historiography	1
Everyday rehearsal of death and the dilemmas of dying in super-ageing Japan	1
‘Farewell, My Uyghur Language’: Linguistic anxiety and resistance in Uyghur poetry and songs, 1990s–2010s	1
City of lights, city of pylons: Infrastructures of illumination in colonial Hanoi, 1880s–1920s	1
‘Winning the Peace’: The Chinese Maritime Customs Service, foreign technocrats, and planning the rehabilitation of post-war China, 1943–1945	1
Find the river: Discovering the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra in the age of empire	1
Insurgent law: Bengal Regulation III and the Chin-Lushai expeditions (1872–1898)	1
Thailand's First Revolution? The role of religious mobilization and ‘the people’ in the Ayutthaya rebellion of 1688	1
Commemorative contention: The Taipei National Revolutionary Martyrs’ Shrine and the politics of death	1
Mobilizing Bodies and Body Parts, from Myanmar to Manipur: Medical connections through borderlands in ‘transition’	1
Siblings, comrades, friends: Kin(g)ship, hierarchy, and equality in Thailand’s youth struggle for democracy	1
Bulldozing the dead: Chinese, citizenry, and cemetery in post-colonial South Korea	1
Irrigation pumps in late colonial Taiwan: Farmers’ utilization of technology and the transition to rice cultivation	1
Chinggisid pluralism and religious competition: Buddhists, Muslims, and the question of violence and sovereignty in Ilkhanid Iran	1
Anger and Atonement in Mughal India: An alternative account of Akbar's 1578 hunt	1
Beyond Repression and Resistance: Worker agency and corporatism in occupied Nanjing	1
Glorious pasts of forest dwellers: Memories of land in the ex-zamindari of Borasambar, Central Provinces, 1861–1905	1
Neoplatonism and the Pax Mongolica in the making of ṣulḥ-i kull. A view from Akbar's millennial history	1
Muslim pasts and presents: Displacement and city-making in a Delhi neighbourhood	1

Entanglements in the colony: Jewish–Muslim connected histories in colonial India	1
Mehmed the Conqueror between Sulh-i Kull and Prisca Theologia	1
Cosmopolitan Capitalists and Colonial Rule. The business structure and corporate culture of the Swiss merchant house Volkart Bros., 1850s–1960s	1