Contributions to Indian Sociology

Papers
(The median citation count of Contributions to Indian Sociology is 0. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Themohol: The hidden power structure of Bangladesh local politics11
Rethinking the Bangladesh state6
Professional identities and servile realities: Aspirational labour in Delhi malls6
‘Firing cannons to kill mosquitoes’: Controlling ‘virtual streets’ and the ‘image of the state’ in Bangladesh5
I: COVID-19 pandemic and the politics of risk: Perspectives on science, state and society in India4
Labour power and bossing: Local leadership formation and the party-state in ‘middle’ Bangladesh4
Being Muslim the Chhipa way: Caste identity as Islamic identity in a low-caste Indian Muslim community4
Introduction: Ethnographic perspectives on the state in Bangladesh3
‘That was a good move’—Some remarks on the (ir)relevance of ‘narratives of secularism’ in everyday politics in Bangladesh3
‘At the point of confluence of sociology and Indology’: Louis Dumont’s postulate reconsidered3
Becoming Hindu: The cultural politics of writing religion in colonial Assam2
‘Why don’t they use the toilet built for them?’: Explaining toilet use in Chhattisgarh, Central India2
The chronopolitics of the Anthropocene: The pandemic and our sense of time2
II: Perspectives on the lockdown from Delhi’s night shelters2
Climate change, gender and rural development: Making sense of coping strategies in the Shivalik Hills2
The Mallah and Ram Charana in the United Provinces2
Book review: Max Liboiron. 2021. Pollution is Colonialism1
Contingent resistance: The politics of waste commons in neoliberal Delhi1
Discussant’s comment II: For and against an ‘Indian’ Sociology: A response to Marilyn Strathern’s ‘What’s in an argument?’1
Book review: Sasanka Perera. 2020. The Fear of the Visual? Photography, Anthropology, and Anxieties of Seeing1
Energy, climate and structural change1
The Mother’s children: The making of memory and intimacy at the Gurus’Samadhi1
‘May you live with us forever Father!’ Rethinking state and kinship among Bangladeshi long-distance nationalists in London1
Book review: Sunita Narain, Shazneen Cyrus Gazdar, Avantika Goswami, and Tarun Gopalakrishnan (edited by Souparno Banerjee). 2021. Climate Change: Science and Politics1
The logic of non-enforcement: Entanglements between state and non-state law in Bangladesh1
IV: Glimpses from villages in the Northeast: Traditional quarantine measures came alive during the COVID-19 pandemic1
Gold governance and goldsmithery: Economic sociology of an informal manufacturing sector in India1
Obituary: Yogendra Singh (1 November 1932–10 May 2020)0
Book review: Gita Chadha and M. T. Joseph, eds. 2018. Re-Imagining Sociology in India: Feminist Perspectives0
Book review: Sidharthan Maunaguru. 2019. Marrying for a Future: Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Marriages in the Shadow of War0
Seeing through the law: A debate on caste in medievalDharmasastra0
Book review: Sreedeep Bhattacharya. 2020. Consumerist Encounters: Flirting with Things and Images0
Book review: Amita Baviskar. 2020. Uncivil City: Ecology, Equity and the Commons in Delhi0
Book review: Nosheen Ali. 2019. Delusional States: Feeling Rule and Development in Pakistan’s Northern Frontier0
Response to Rita Brara0
Book review: Sangeeta Dasgupta. 2022. Reordering Adivasi Worlds: Representation, Resistance, Memory0
Book review: Ranjita Dawn. 2021. The Social Model of Disability in India: Politics of Identity and Power0
Book review: Aniket Aga. 2021. Genetically Modified Democracy: Transgenic Crops in Contemporary India0
Book review: Yogesh Snehi. 2019. Spatializing Popular Sufi Shrines in Punjab: Dreams, Memories, Territoriality0
The Jharkhand Andolan: A silencing of Muslim voice(s)0
Obituary: Paul Brass: A political life in India (08 November 1936–31 May 2022)0
Book review: Nilika Mehrotra, ed. 2020. Disability Studies in India: Interdisciplinary Perspectives0
Book review: Rahela Khorakiwala. 2020. From the Colonial to the Contemporary: Images, Iconography, Memories, and Performances of Law in India’s High Courts0
III: Three years into the pandemic: What changed in Delhi’s electronic bazaars0
Obituary (II): Gestures of generosity—Remembering A. M. Shah0
Book review: Saiba Varma. 2020. The Occupied Clinic: Militarism and Care in Kashmir0
Premchand’s shifting portrayals of womanhood in colonial North India: Between conformity and resistance0
Book review: James Staples. 2020. Sacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian: The Everyday Politics of Eating Meat in India0
Book review: Ester Gallo. 2017. The Fall of Gods: Memory, Kinship, and Middle Classes in South India0
What’s in an argument? Reflections on knowledge exchanges0
Book review: Brahma Prakash. 2019. Cultural Labour: Conceptualizing the ‘Folk Performance’ in India0
Obituary: The extraordinary life of a scholar-activist: Gail Omvedt (02 August 1941–25 August 2021)0
Book review: Sudha Sitharaman and Anindita Chakrabarti, eds. 2020. Religion and Secularities: Reconfiguring Islam in Contemporary India0
Obituary (II): A tribute to F. G. Bailey0
Beyond the Post Normal0
Book review: John Stratton Hawley. 2020. Krishna’s Playground: Vrindavan in the 21st Century0
Book review: Panchali Ray. 2019. Politics of Precarity: Gendered Subjects and the Health Care Industry in Contemporary Kolkata0
Book review: Lesley Green (with a foreword by Isabelle Stengers). 2020. Rock | Water | Life: Ecology and Humanities for a Decolonial South Africa0
Book review: Shannon Philip. 2022. Becoming Young Men in a New India: Masculinities, Gender Relations and Violence in the Postcolony0
Book review: Laura Dudley Jenkins. 2019. Religious Freedom and Mass Conversion in India0
Obituary (I): A tribute to A. M. Shah (22 August 1931–7 September 2020)0
Book review: Jayaseelan Raj. 2022. Plantation Crisis: Ruptures of Dalit life in the Indian Tea Belt0
Rethinking and transforming Area Studies and Indian Studies: A new cosmopolitanism and the challenges of planetary realisations0
Beyond contiguity: Space, caste, and statues in Tamil Nadu0
Book review: Salah Punathil. 2019. Interrogating Communalism: Violence, Citizenship and Minorities in South India0
V: A critical stock-taking of health services for the adivasis in western Odisha at the time of COVID-19 pandemic0
The theopolitics of protest: Martyrdom in the GujjarAndolan, the army and the epic0
Book review: Farhana Ibrahim and Tanuja Kothiyal, eds. 2021. South Asian Borderlands: Mobility, History, Affect0
Climate change in the courts: An environmental lawyer’s viewpoint0
Book review: Erik de Maaker. 2021. Reworking Culture: Relatedness, Rites, and Resources in Garo Hills, North East India0
Obituary (I): F. G. Bailey (24 February 1924–8 July 2020)0
Book review: Durba Mitra. 2020. Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought0
Book review: Rashmi Sadana. 2022. The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure0
Book review: Usha Sanyal. 2020. Scholars of Faith: South Asian Muslim Women and the Embodiment of Religious Knowledge0
Discussant’s comment I: Give-and-take of knowledge exchanges: Comments on ‘What’s in an argument?’0
Obituary: P. D. Khera (13 April 1928–23 September 2019)0
Book review: Aase J. Kvanneid. 2021. Perceptions of Climate Change from North India: An Ethnographic Account0
Book review: Manisha Rao, ed. 2021. Reframing the Environment: Resources, Risk and Resistance in Neoliberal India0
Book review: Ajantha Subramanian. 2019. The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India0
Domestic environments, urban air and climate change0
Book review: Dolly Kikon. 2019. Living with Coal and Oil: Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India0
Book review: Surinder S. Jodhka and Jules Naudet, eds. 2019. Mapping the Elite: Power, Privilege, and Inequality0
Comments: Axel Michaels’s article0
Book review: Jules Naudet (translated from French by Renuka George). 2018. Stepping into the Elite: Trajectories of Social Achievement in India, France, and the United States0
Book review: Haley Duschinski, Mona Bhan, Ather Zia, and Cynthia Mahmood, eds. 2018. Resisting Occupation in Kashmir0
Book review: Swargajyoti Gohain. 2020. Imagined Geographies in the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands: Culture, Politics, Place0
Book review: Sadan Jha. 2016. Reverence, Resistance and Politics of Seeing the Indian National Flag0
Land, development and the political class: In a translocal ‘Londoni’ village0
Book review: Mahuya Bandyopadhyay and Rimple Mehta, eds. 2022. Women, Incarcerated: Narratives from India0
Obituary: Vinay Kumar Srivastava: A memoir (3 December 1952–23 December 2020)0
Afterword0
Book review: Renny Thomas. 2022. Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment0
Book review: Gowri Vijayakumar. 2021. At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis0
Book review: Parul Bhandari. 2020. Matchmaking in Middle Class India: Beyond Arranged and Love Marriage0
Book review: David N. Gellner and Sondra L. Hausner, eds. 2018. Global Nepalis: Religion, Culture, and Community in a New and Old Diaspora0
Book review: Malvika Maheshwari. 2019. Art Attacks: Violence and Offence-Taking in India0
Whence karma?0
The making of the Malayalee public sphere and the exclusion of Mappila women: Language and communal politics in Colonial Malabar0
Editorial0
Book review: Bharat Jayram Venkat. 2021. At the Limits of Cure0
Book review: Sameena Dalwai. 2019. Bans & Bar Girls: Performing Caste in Mumbai’s Dance Bars0
Ethnicity and protective policies in Sikkim: Consolidation and reconfiguration0
Book review: Jinee Lokaneeta. 2020. The Truth Machines: Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogations in India0
Book review: Markus Schleiter and Erik de Maaker, eds. 2020. Media, Indigeneity and Nation in South Asia0
Introduction: What might we mean by the Anthropocene?0
Book review: Hannah Knox. 2020. Thinking Like a Climate: Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change0
Book review: Sujata Patel, ed. 2020. Exploring Sociabilities of Contemporary India: New Perspectives0
Book review: Dwaipayan Banerjee. 2020. Enduring Cancer: Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi0
Obituary and discussion: Harold Alton Gould Jr. (18 February 1926–2 July 2021)0
Discussant’s comment III: Skin in the game? Risk and responsibility in academic practice0
Obituary: Georg Pfeffer (17 January 1943–20 May 2020)0
Book review: Lucas Chancel. 2020. Unsustainable Inequalities: Social Justice and the Environment0
Afterword0
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