Contributions to Indian Sociology

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Themohol: The hidden power structure of Bangladesh local politics11
Professional identities and servile realities: Aspirational labour in Delhi malls6
Rethinking the Bangladesh state6
The chronopolitics of the Anthropocene: The pandemic and our sense of time5
‘Firing cannons to kill mosquitoes’: Controlling ‘virtual streets’ and the ‘image of the state’ in Bangladesh5
Being Muslim the Chhipa way: Caste identity as Islamic identity in a low-caste Indian Muslim community4
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
‘At the point of confluence of sociology and Indology’: Louis Dumont’s postulate reconsidered3
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
The Mallah and Ram Charana in the United Provinces2
Climate change, gender and rural development: Making sense of coping strategies in the Shivalik Hills2
‘Why don’t they use the toilet built for them?’: Explaining toilet use in Chhattisgarh, Central India2
Becoming Hindu: The cultural politics of writing religion in colonial Assam2
II: Perspectives on the lockdown from Delhi’s night shelters2
Energy, climate and structural change1
Contingent resistance: The politics of waste commons in neoliberal Delhi1
‘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
Book review: Sasanka Perera. 2020. The Fear of the Visual? Photography, Anthropology, and Anxieties of Seeing1
Book review: Max Liboiron. 2021. Pollution is Colonialism1
The Mother’s children: The making of memory and intimacy at the Gurus’Samadhi1
Discussant’s comment II: For and against an ‘Indian’ Sociology: A response to Marilyn Strathern’s ‘What’s in an argument?’1
Gold governance and goldsmithery: Economic sociology of an informal manufacturing sector in India1
Beyond the Post Normal0
Afterword0
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: Parul Bhandari. 2020. Matchmaking in Middle Class India: Beyond Arranged and Love Marriage0
Book review: Lesley Green (with a foreword by Isabelle Stengers). 2020. Rock | Water | Life: Ecology and Humanities for a Decolonial South Africa0
Editorial0
Book review: Amita Baviskar. 2020. Uncivil City: Ecology, Equity and the Commons in Delhi0
Rethinking and transforming Area Studies and Indian Studies: A new cosmopolitanism and the challenges of planetary realisations0
Ethnicity and protective policies in Sikkim: Consolidation and reconfiguration0
Book review: Jayaseelan Raj. 2022. Plantation Crisis: Ruptures of Dalit life in the Indian Tea Belt0
V: A critical stock-taking of health services for the adivasis in western Odisha at the time of COVID-19 pandemic0
Introduction: What might we mean by the Anthropocene?0
Book review: Salah Punathil. 2019. Interrogating Communalism: Violence, Citizenship and Minorities in South India0
Afterword0
Book review: Dwaipayan Banerjee. 2020. Enduring Cancer: Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi0
The theopolitics of protest: Martyrdom in the GujjarAndolan, the army and the epic0
Book review: Erik de Maaker. 2021. Reworking Culture: Relatedness, Rites, and Resources in Garo Hills, North East India0
III: Three years into the pandemic: What changed in Delhi’s electronic bazaars0
Obituary: Georg Pfeffer (17 January 1943–20 May 2020)0
Book review: Rashmi Sadana. 2022. The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure0
Book review: Farhana Ibrahim and Tanuja Kothiyal, eds. 2021. South Asian Borderlands: Mobility, History, Affect0
Obituary: P. D. Khera (13 April 1928–23 September 2019)0
Premchand’s shifting portrayals of womanhood in colonial North India: Between conformity and resistance0
Book review: Ajantha Subramanian. 2019. The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India0
What’s in an argument? Reflections on knowledge exchanges0
Book review: Surinder S. Jodhka and Jules Naudet, eds. 2019. Mapping the Elite: Power, Privilege, and Inequality0
Book review: Sreedeep Bhattacharya. 2020. Consumerist Encounters: Flirting with Things and Images0
Obituary (I): F. G. Bailey (24 February 1924–8 July 2020)0
Book review: Haley Duschinski, Mona Bhan, Ather Zia, and Cynthia Mahmood, eds. 2018. Resisting Occupation in Kashmir0
Book review: Nosheen Ali. 2019. Delusional States: Feeling Rule and Development in Pakistan’s Northern Frontier0
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
Book review: Yogesh Snehi. 2019. Spatializing Popular Sufi Shrines in Punjab: Dreams, Memories, Territoriality0
Land, development and the political class: In a translocal ‘Londoni’ village0
Book review: Nilika Mehrotra, ed. 2020. Disability Studies in India: Interdisciplinary Perspectives0
Book review: Sidharthan Maunaguru. 2019. Marrying for a Future: Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Marriages in the Shadow of War0
Book review: Gowri Vijayakumar. 2021. At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis0
Obituary (II): Gestures of generosity—Remembering A. M. Shah0
Book review: Renny Thomas. 2022. Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment0
Book review: Malvika Maheshwari. 2019. Art Attacks: Violence and Offence-Taking in India0
Book review: James Staples. 2020. Sacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian: The Everyday Politics of Eating Meat in India0
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: Brahma Prakash. 2019. Cultural Labour: Conceptualizing the ‘Folk Performance’ in India0
Whence karma?0
Book review: Aniket Aga. 2021. Genetically Modified Democracy: Transgenic Crops in Contemporary India0
Book review: Bharat Jayram Venkat. 2021. At the Limits of Cure0
Book review: Usha Sanyal. 2020. Scholars of Faith: South Asian Muslim Women and the Embodiment of Religious Knowledge0
Obituary (II): A tribute to F. G. Bailey0
Book review: Jinee Lokaneeta. 2020. The Truth Machines: Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogations in India0
The making of the Malayalee public sphere and the exclusion of Mappila women: Language and communal politics in Colonial Malabar0
Book review: Hannah Knox. 2020. Thinking Like a Climate: Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change0
Book review: Aase J. Kvanneid. 2021. Perceptions of Climate Change from North India: An Ethnographic Account0
Obituary and discussion: Harold Alton Gould Jr. (18 February 1926–2 July 2021)0
Book review: Shannon Philip. 2022. Becoming Young Men in a New India: Masculinities, Gender Relations and Violence in the Postcolony0
Domestic environments, urban air and climate change0
Book review: Lucas Chancel. 2020. Unsustainable Inequalities: Social Justice and the Environment0
Obituary (I): A tribute to A. M. Shah (22 August 1931–7 September 2020)0
Book review: Sameena Dalwai. 2019. Bans & Bar Girls: Performing Caste in Mumbai’s Dance Bars0
Obituary: Yogendra Singh (1 November 1932–10 May 2020)0
Beyond contiguity: Space, caste, and statues in Tamil Nadu0
Book review: Gita Chadha and M. T. Joseph, eds. 2018. Re-Imagining Sociology in India: Feminist Perspectives0
Climate change in the courts: An environmental lawyer’s viewpoint0
Obituary: Vinay Kumar Srivastava: A memoir (3 December 1952–23 December 2020)0
Seeing through the law: A debate on caste in medievalDharmasastra0
Book review: Durba Mitra. 2020. Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought0
Book review: Laura Dudley Jenkins. 2019. Religious Freedom and Mass Conversion in India0
Book review: Sangeeta Dasgupta. 2022. Reordering Adivasi Worlds: Representation, Resistance, Memory0
Discussant’s comment I: Give-and-take of knowledge exchanges: Comments on ‘What’s in an argument?’0
Response to Rita Brara0
Comments: Axel Michaels’s article0
Book review: Manisha Rao, ed. 2021. Reframing the Environment: Resources, Risk and Resistance in Neoliberal India0
Book review: Ranjita Dawn. 2021. The Social Model of Disability in India: Politics of Identity and Power0
The Jharkhand Andolan: A silencing of Muslim voice(s)0
Book review: Sudha Sitharaman and Anindita Chakrabarti, eds. 2020. Religion and Secularities: Reconfiguring Islam in Contemporary India0
Book review: Dolly Kikon. 2019. Living with Coal and Oil: Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India0
Book review: Rahela Khorakiwala. 2020. From the Colonial to the Contemporary: Images, Iconography, Memories, and Performances of Law in India’s High Courts0
Book review: Markus Schleiter and Erik de Maaker, eds. 2020. Media, Indigeneity and Nation in South Asia0
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: Saiba Varma. 2020. The Occupied Clinic: Militarism and Care in Kashmir0
Obituary: Paul Brass: A political life in India (08 November 1936–31 May 2022)0
Book review: Ester Gallo. 2017. The Fall of Gods: Memory, Kinship, and Middle Classes in South India0
Book review: Sujata Patel, ed. 2020. Exploring Sociabilities of Contemporary India: New Perspectives0
Obituary: The extraordinary life of a scholar-activist: Gail Omvedt (02 August 1941–25 August 2021)0
Book review: Mahuya Bandyopadhyay and Rimple Mehta, eds. 2022. Women, Incarcerated: Narratives from India0
Discussant’s comment III: Skin in the game? Risk and responsibility in academic practice0
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