South Asia-Journal of South Asian Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of South Asia-Journal of South Asian Studies 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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‘Nature’ in the Ṭhumrī Genre as Performed by Some Female Exponents of the Pūrab Aṅg: Liminality, Identity and Resistance12
‘The Best Timber in India’: Shipbuilding Supplies and the Dutch East India Company in Cochin, 1663–179510
Smart Cities, Surveillance and Speed in Imphal, Manipur6
Women Reading/Women Writing: Anxiety and Āzādī in Twentieth Century Urdu Pulp Fiction5
Mourning a Queer Aunty: Kinship, Creative Resilience and World-Making4
Forging Communal Space: Negotiating Streets and Practices in Delhi, 1922–654
Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil4
Picturing Development: Outdoor Campaign Materials during the 2019 General Election in India4
Introduction: Salt, Protest and Public Health in Modern India3
Delhi and Its Urban Peripheries: Associational Life of the Village3
Collaborative neoliberalism: Social mobility in rural North India3
A Precarious Trade: The English East India Company and Its Interventions in the Balasore Salt Trade3
State Spectacles of Yoga: Invisible India and India Everywhere3
Anti/Aunty as Critical Method: From Gendered Resistance to Soft Grace3
Writing History in Deobandi-Barelvi Polemics: Conflicting Views of Shah Ismail and Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi3
Living in the Naga life-world: Indigeneity, masculinity and the consumption of pig testicles in Northeast India3
Subregional Memories of an Undivided Rural Punjab: Community, Culture and Identity among the Hindus of Bahawalpur2
Communal Geographies: An Introduction2
New Genealogies of the Contemporary Indian Political Moment2
Rain of Life, Rain of Music: Music as Life Power in Indian Thought and Contemporary Musical Traditions2
From Communist Internationalism to a ‘New Humanism’: On M.N. Roy’s Confrontation with Fascism2
Spilling the Tea: Aunty Discipline and the Queer Diasporic Child in D’Lo’s To T, or Not To T?2
‘What else to do?’: Middle adult men, idleness and drinking at the margins in Nagaland, India2
Embodying Sacred Pain: Practice of Austerities Among Hindu Ascetics2
Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh2
Magical India: Some Notes on Forest-Dwellers and Their Products in Ancient Greek and Roman Sources2
Text and Tradition: The Dynasty of Villarvattom among Syrian Christians in Kerala, India2
The Hill and Forest Products of the Tamiḻakam: Communication and Exchange Between Southern India and the Roman World2
‘Purify the Deval and Devi’: Dalits and Politics of Hindu Social Reform in Hyderabad, 1920–282
Religion and the Public Sphere: The Multifaceted Role of Sacred Sites in Political Mobilisation in the Kashmir Valley2
Himalayan masculinities2
Contemporary Ritual: Teyyam and the Creation of Its Epistemic World2
Yes to Vedānta, No to Bhakti? Some Philosophical and Religious Novelties of Jasvant Siṃh I’s Brajbhāṣā Prabodha Nāṭaka2
Gardening the community: The Basel Mission, household economy, gardens and farms in Germany and India2
‘For the Farmers of the Country’: Indian Agricultural Universities at the Cusp of Nation-Building Plans and the Cold War, 1947–672
Rethinking the Role of Informality as a Barrier to Financial Inclusion: Insights from an Indian Urban Setting2
The Caste of the City: Puneri and the Caste-Marked Appropriation of a Western Indian City’s Identity2
‘We Look at Our Feet and Work’: Women Construction Workers Negotiating Patriarchies in Kolkata, India2
Internal colonisation, national liberation and cultural resistance: A postcolonial reading of pre-Bangladesh Bangla poetry of resistance2
Transformation of the Deities: Temples, Caste and Identity in Goa2
Shauqeen Viewing: Mingling with the Indian Courtesan2
Unruly Children, Transgressive Gazes: Interpreting Childhood and Freedom in the Writings of Leela Majumdar2
‘Development Has Gone Crazy’: The Gujarat Model of ‘Unequal’ Development through Neoliberalism and Hindutva2
Muslim Household, Nation and Urdu in Television Dramas of Pakistan1
Neo-Liberal Pitfalls and the COVID-19 Pandemic Challenges in Bangladesh1
Dārā Šukōh’s Bhagavad Gītā ? The Attribution of the Āb-i Zindagī and Its Place Among the Persian Translati1
Reconciling Religion, Reform and Modernity: A Study of Early Muslim Women’s Periodicals from South India1
Navigating patriarchy: Aspects of working-class Nepali masculinity through a visual frame1
Salt and the National Imaginary: The Photojournalism of the Dandi Satyagraha1
Pakistan to Bangladesh, 1947–71: Introduction1
Making Way for Ships: Displacement, Religion and Urban Space-Making in India’s Southwest Littoral1
The Many Labours of Leather: Artisans, Tree Bark and Chemical Knowledge in Industrial South India, 1914–341
‘Tell Them Our Story’: Memories of the Sumi Naga Labour Corps in World War I1
Scissors from Meerut, Locks from Aligarh: Locality and Production in North India, 1870–19501
Men and Masculine Identities in Life Narratives of Sri Lanka’s War1
Reimagining Hindu Mythology for the Diasporic Queer Body: Discursive Materiality in Vivek Shraya’s She of the Mountains1
Afterword: Women Writing in Kashmir?1
Digitising the Diaspora Temple: Diasporic Affordances of Devotional Objects at a Hindu Sindhi Temple in Hong Kong1
Stabilisation, Professionalisation and the Good Life: Shared Aspirations Among Psychiatrists and Others in Northern India1
Between Ritual Doubt and Spiritual Striving: The Mediation of Adab at a Sufi Shrine in Contemporary India1
Anger at the Hospital: Emotional Responses and Affective Citizenship in a North Indian Medical Institution1
Riaz Hassan, AM FASSA (August 14, 1937–June 8, 2022)1
Business as Usual? Bazars and Communalism in Colonial Delhi, 1913–321
Leaving Comrades to Die: Shahadat , Soldiering and Accidental Death on the Siachen Glacier1
Inventive Indians: Technological Imaginaries and Patenting Activity in Late Colonial India (1911–48)1
‘Tippoo…Was Just Such a Man As I Am’: Protest, Rebellion and Military Labour in South India1
Violence as border governmentality: Myanmar military coup, Assam-Mizoram border dispute and beyond1
Engaging with Ethnographic Museum Objects from Erstwhile Naga Hills: From Imperial, Colonial and Postcolonial Eras to Contemporary Reimagining1
The Object as Gift: Practices of Gift Exchange in Awadh in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century1
The ‘Migrant-Leper’ as the Undeserving Outsider: Historicising Leprosy Policy in Delhi, 1920–601
Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene1
Introduction: Ecology, Music and Community—Exploring Performance in South Asia1
Framing ‘fear for the future’ as a concept to study the subjectification of youth and university students: An introduction1
Heritage Preservation and Political Legitimisation: Creating a Usable Past in Gwalior State1
Clinical Suspicion: The Affective Politics of Institutional Growth in a Rajasthani Clinic1
Caste as Process in Post-Liberalisation India1
Digging Up the Dirt: Democracy, Visibility and the ‘Crisis of Corruption’ in Nepal1
Designing a Modern Self: The English Travels of Pandita Ramabai and Krishnabhabini Das1
‘Songs of the Lake’: Understanding Cultural Expressions of Nature through Dwindling Folk-Songs and Mythologies in Bengaluru1
Anthropological Developmentalism: Furer-Haimendorf and the Making of Social Policy in Hyderabad State 11
The Concert for Bangladesh: The Global Circulation of Celebrity Capital in a Time of National Disaster1
The Architecture of Laila’s World in Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column1
Satrah Din, Satrah Saal: Media, Propaganda and Virtual Warfare in the India-Pakistan War of 19651
Neoliberal pedagogies of Pahari enterprise: Youth in provincial North India1
The Home and the World: Queering Diaspora and Recasting the Nation in Ananda Devi’s Indian Tango1
Perceptions and Products of the Forested Highlands: A View from the Malwa Sultan’s Book of Delicacies , c. 15001
Letter to the Editors1
Contemporary Anti-Caste Cinema: Pa. Ranjith, Dalit Movements, Cultural Assertion and the Politics of Representation in Mainstream Tamil Cinema0
Black Land, May Your Trees Be Great Trees! The Forest Goods Trade from Meluhha to Mesopotamia in the Third Millennium BCE: A Multi-Perspective Approach0
Supplying Affordable Beverages to GIs: Coca-Cola Production and Provision in the China-Burma-India Theatre0
Suffering, Survival and Sustenance: Meos’ Post-Partition Experiences in Pakistan0
Encountering the Postcolonial State: Development Bureaucracy and Social Transformation in Rural Pre-Independent Bangladesh, 1947–700
Reordering Adivasi Worlds: Representation, Resistance, Memory Reordering Adivasi Worlds: Representation, Resistance, Memory , by Sangeeta Dasgupta, New Delhi, Oxford Uni0
Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor0
Connected History: Essays and Arguments0
Connecting South Asia: Mobility, Exchange and Local Transformation Beyond Empire and Nation0
Smuggling Nostalgia: Reminiscing on the (Demise of the) Cattle Trade in the Borderlands of Bangladesh0
‘Speak True to the People’: 1 Radio Pakistan and the Making and Unmaking of a National Soundscape0
Imperial exception: Judges, lawyers and the making of the law of evidence in post-1857 British India0
Riding a Tiger: The Affective Governmentality of Delhi’s Health Bureaucracy0
Designing an Insanitary City: Industrialists, Corporate Greed and the Public Interest in Kanpur, India, 1890–19300
Scripts of Power: Writing, Language Practices, and Cultural History in Western India0
The Houseness of the Naga House Museum: Towards a Narrative of the Postcolonial South Asian House Museum0
The Many Bismils of Today: Ram Prasad ‘Bismil’, ‘Bismil’ Azimabadi and Recovering the Legacy of a Muslim Intellectual0
Saving Cows and Counting Ploughs: The Biopolitics of Cow Protection0
Gendering Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Commercial Surrogacy and Constructions of Motherhood0
Making Management Hindu: S.K. Chakraborty and the Indigenisation of Homo Economicus0
The Changing Ecology of the Kolkata Tanpura0
Architecture of East Pakistan: International experts, regional tropical architecture and the search for architectural identity, 1947–710
Of Loss, Belonging and Remembrance: Indian Poetic Responses to World War I0
Mapping Histories: An Environmental Perspective for Writing Local History in Pakistan0
Introduction: Writing Muslim Women in South Asia0
Eco-Local and Eco-Global: Some Literary Interventions in Adivasi Hindi Short Stories0
Consider the Aunty: The Obfuscation of Desire in My Beautiful Laundrette0
Refugee Cities: How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan0
Border, Pastoralism and Affect: Memories, Interactions and Cultural Transformations of Pastoralists in Western Rajasthan Borderlands0
Salt: An Afterword0
Understanding Dakaiti (Banditry) in the Chambal Valley and Bundelkhand0
Producing Artisans: Apprenticeship and Skill Training in Colonial India0
Afghan Muslim Aunties and Their Queer Gifts0
A for appearance: Aesthetic labour and the work of image consultants in a globalised Delhi0
‘I Will Make a ṭīkā ’: Translation, Commentary and Tradition in Nājar Ānandrām’s Paramānanda Prabodha0
The Organisation of Sex Work in Bangladesh0
Corporate Brahminism and Tech Work: Caste in a Modern Indian Profession0
‘Doha days’ twenty years on: Memories, identities and everyday ‘Gulf’ objects0
Cartographic Anxiety on the Thar Desert: The Border Security Force and Jaisalmer’s Tanot Mata Mandir0
The Elephant Crown: Wodeyar Kingship, Hunting and the Politics of Preservation Under British Colonialism0
Prayers, Not Protests: Christian Internationalism and Young Womanhood in South India0
Hidden Histories of Pakistan: Censorship, Literature, and Secular Nationalism in Late Colonial India0
‘Why Can’t Our Bhuta Have a Mask?’ Caste Contestations and Ritual Practice in Tulunadu0
Remembering Heterodox Pre/Colonial Oral Cultures in (Re)Organising Bengali Dalit Literary Histories0
Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India0
Progressive Laments and/on Partition: The Cost of Freedom in Khadija Mastur’s Aangan (1962)0
Articulating Kashmir: State Formation and Kashmir’s Shawl Economy c. 1770–18700
Authority Traversed: Police, Politics and the Urban Poor in Dhaka0
The Changing Landscape of Punjab in Bollywood Film Songs0
Timber, Fibre, Resin and Cotton: South Asian Materials in Western Indian Ocean Watercraft0
The Brahmanisation of Indian Sociology or the Birth of the Racial Theories of Untouchability0
Film and Caste Anxieties in Early Twentieth-Century India0
Imaging ‘Slow Violence’ in the Jharia Coalfields of India: Disrupting Energy Modernity through Photography0
Enemy Property: Violence, Dispossession and Citizenship in South Asia0
Miracle millets: Indigenous food sovereignty and the revival of ancient grains in Northeast India0
Weaving Pasts: Kashmiri Textile Artisans and Their Modes of Self-Identification0
Feeling at Home? Love, Loss and Longing in Post-Partition Pakistan0
Subaltern and Dalit-Bahujan Organisation in South Asia: The Historical Roots0
Caste Tests and Love Feasts: Protestant Experiments of Social Integration in South India (1826–79)0
Negotiating Power and Constructing the Nation: Engineering in Sri Lanka Negotiating Power and Constructing the Nation: Engineering in Sri Lanka , by Bandura DileepaWitha0
Friendly Nations and Open Borders: Gender, Caste and Sacredness at the India-Nepal Border0
Debt Is My Companion: Everyday Experiences of Gendered Debt in Post-Conflict Zones in Sri Lanka0
Media discourse, alternative medicine and COVID-19 in India: A case of an Ayurvedic drug ‘Coronil’0
Being Young, Becoming Political: Subjectivity and Urban Space in Early Partition Novels0
Negotiating Acceptance: Autism, Motherhood and the Emotional Politics of Care in Bengaluru0
The Affective Resonances of Speech: Translating Embodied Textures in Gunamukha0
Homeland Insecurities: Autonomy, Conflict and Migration in Assam0
Between Forests and Oceans: The Role of Jain Merchants from Kerala in the Indian Ocean Exchange Network, Ninth–Fourteenth Centuries0
The Death Donation Association: Reconfiguring Kinship and Solidarity in a Sinhala Buddhist Village0
Hindu Economicus0
Anticipating Failure: Gurkha Recruitment and Brokerage in Nepal0
Baby Politics: Reproductive Governance in India0
The Heritage of Hynñiew Trep in Desmond Kharmawphlang’s Poems0
Iron, Honey and Wild Cinnamon: Forest Resource Extraction in Sri Lanka’s Historical Landscape0
Dhandha , Accumulation and the Making of Valuable Livelihoods in Contemporary Mumbai 10
The Census amid Language Politics: The Production of Language Data and the Politics of Mother Tongue in the Census of India, Punjab, 1941–710
Bad Brown Aunties, Fagony Aunts and Resistance Aunties: Centring Queer Desi Aunties in Diasporic Social Movement and Justice Work0
Cleansing India: Gandhi, Hindutva and the Calypsology of Sanitation Reforms0
Famine Relief and Popular Action During Late Nineteenth Century in the North-Western Provinces of Colonial India0
Self-Sacrifice, Suffrage and Socialism: Gandhi and the Mobilisation of Women, 1930–310
Bankimchandra and Rabindranath on the concepts of satya (truth) and morality: The dispute0
Parables for Neoliberalism: Devdutt Pattanaik and the Mahabharata in Post-Liberalisation Indian English Literature0
Beyond Photographs: Sensibilities of Ḥaḍramī-Arab Everyday Visualities in Hyderabad, India0
Ambiguous Identity and Uncertain Belonging: Assessing the Lives of Undocumented Brihannalas in the Backdrop of the COVID-19 Pandemic0
Communal Geographies and Peasant Insurgency in Colonial Myanmar0
The Ungrudging Indian: The Political Economy of Salt in India, c. 1878–19470
Television and Temples: Hindutva and OBC and Adivasi Self-Making in Borderland Gujarat0
A Forest of Ships: Malabar’s State Forests and Bombay’s Dockyards, 1795–18220
Communal Geographies: Space, Identity and Electoral Constituency in Colonial North India0
Conviviality in the Clinic: Exploring the Affective Dynamics of Daktar s’ Healthcare Provision in Delhi0
‘To Kiss or Not to Kiss?’ Cinema, Vulgarity and Marathi Manus in 1950s and 1960s Maharashtra0
Singing the River in Punjab: Poetry, Performance and Folklore0
Preserving the Bannuwal Identity: Post-Partition Bannu Refugees0
When They Know Us: Do Dalit Lives Matter?0
The long migration: Revisiting the postcolonial minority/refugee crisis and governance in East Pakistan0
Sufis as Sacred Props: Hagiographical Transmutation of Shāh Ḥusayn (945/1538–1008/1599)0
Gender politics and nationalist imagination: The role of Bengali Muslim women educationists, 1947–710
The Renouncer-King: Narendra Modi’s Poetry and the Hindu Leadership Style0
Setting India on the Wrong Path: Robert McCarrison’s Goitre Research, 1906–350
Writing Rokeya: Muslim Women’s Life-Writing, Intergenerational Camaraderie and Activism in Twentieth Century Bengal0
Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi , by Sushmita Pati, Cam0
‘Good Muslim Girls’ with Punchlines: Piety, Agency and Humour in Pakistani Stand-Up Comedy0
Between Sādhū and Darwesh: Storytelling and Social Reform in S. uġhrā Humāyūñ Mirzā’s Mohinī (1929)0
The Sex Worker That She Is Not: Suggestion, Risk and Public Femininity in Contemporary Hindi Cinema0
The Indo-Myanmar Borderlands: Border Trade, Urbanisation and Ethnic Politics in Mizoram, India0
Multani Shikarpuri Migration to Malabar: A Praxis on Homemaking0
Mangalkavya s and the Acculturation of Medieval Bengal: Analysing the Integration of Puranic and Folk Goddesses in the Folk Epics0
Choirs on the Coast: Impact of COVID-19 on Musical Pedagogy and Festivals0
Population, Eugenics and Reproductive Rights: Legalising Abortion in India, 1966–710
Inheritance, Marriage and Adoption: Changing Judicial Practices in Hyderabad State0
Measuring Race, Space and the Citizen: Anthropology and Statistics in Early Post-Independence India0
From Colonial India to Semi-Colonial Republican China: Imaginaries and Realities of Civil Service and State-Building in Salt Administration, 1912–450
Nehruvian Ghosts: Kamal Amrohi’s Film, Mahal (1949)0
Lahore Cinema: Between Realism and Fable Lahore Cinema: Between Realism and Fable , by Iftikhar Dadi, Global South Asia Series, University of Washington Press, 2022, 2640
Editor’s Note0
Reworking Culture: Relatedness, Rites, and Resources in Garo Hills, North-East India0
Muslim Communities and Trade along the Malabar Coast: A State of the Art0
Articulating the Woman ‘Lay’ Historian: The Twentieth Century Archive of Begum Noor-us-Sabah0
From Discordance to Assemblages: Renegotiating French and Portuguese Colonial Identities through Indian Tourism and Heritage Sites0
Youth and Selfhood in Neoliberal India: Shifting Geographies of Higher Education, Coaching Centres and Religiosity in Patna0
Burdened Agency and Empowered Mothering: Domestic Workers Negotiating Care and Constraint in Kolkata0
From Hearth to Print: Women Authors and the Cultural Politics of Food in Western India, 1875–19450
Centring the margins: Heteronormativity and sexual otherness in India0
Historicising Housing Rights: Critical Events and Political Ruptures in Post-Partition Urban India0
Castoffs of Capital: Work and Love Among Garment Workers in Bangladesh Castoffs of Capital: Work and Love among Garment Workers in Bangladesh , by Lamia Karim, Minneapol0
Impartiality as a Quality of Government and Its Violation in the Governance of Sectarian Conflict in Pakistan0
Bikās as Pedagogy: The Concept of Development at an Elite Boarding School in Nepal0
The Thrill of Emergency and the Chronic Crisis of Corruption0
Obituary: Johannes Bronkhorst0
Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy and Saintly Affects in Pakistan0
Lifelines: The Traffic of Trauma Lifelines: The Traffic of Trauma , by Harris Solomon, Duke University Press, 2022, 304 pp., US$27.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-4780-1885-80
Karva Chauth Travels: Fasting, Feasting and Everything in Between0
New Lives in Anand: Building a Muslim Hub in Western India New Lives in Anand: Building a Muslim Hub in Western India , by Sanderien Verstappen, Global South Asia series0
The City Possessed: Ghost Stories and the Urban History of Late Colonial Calcutta0
Introduction: Transnational Figurations of the South Asian Aunty0
Consuming Students: Advertisements and the Indian Youth Market, 1935–650
Salt, Sovereignty and Law in Colonial India: The Case of Rajputana Salt in the Late Nineteenth Century0
George Grierson’s map and the remaking of Orissa, 1917–360
Research Ethics and the Chimera of Postcolonial Policing: Reflections after Zoha Waseem’s Insecure Guardians (2023)0
Proximity or Sycophancy? The Relationship between Intelligence and Policy in the Nehruvian Era, 1947–640
Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka0
Masculinity in Assamese films0
The Anagarika’s Lists: Time, Space and Emotions in the ‘Sarnath Notebooks’0
Art, Resistance and Social Media: The Anti-CAA Protests in India0
Gender, Dissent and the Afterlives of the Pakistan Movement: Fatima Jinnah in the 1965 Elections0
Preface0
Special Section Preface: Engaging with Early Modern Indian Philosophy: Vedānta and Beyond0
Technologies of becoming-imperceptible in Ritwik Ghatak’s Ajantrik (1958)0
Contested Glories of Selective Renovation in West Bengal0
Leaving the Hindu Far Right0
An impotent prince, a powerful begum and a servant queen: Lives of women servants in the Awadh Court (1814–37)0
Creating an Oral Map: ‘Living On’ after the Nellie Massacre, 19830
Mill, Market, Mandir, Masjid: The Geographies of Communal Conflict in Colonial Bombay, c. 1929–390
Famine in a Rice Economy: Natural Calamities, Grain Scarcity and the Company-State in Bengal, 1770–18030
When a Fierce God Dances: An Exploration of Manalmagudi’s Theatre from Kaṟisial Kādu as Indigenous Tragedy 10
Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India , by Akshya Saxena, Princeton Universit0
Drag Queen in the Beauty Salon: What Theorising Strange Bedfellows Can Tell Us about the Labour of Aunties0
Expressed Emotion and Kin Affects in Mental Health Rehabilitation0
Tea & Solidarity: Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka0
‘This is Caste Power’: Youth Politicians, Vernacular Notions of Caste-Based Supremacy and its Reproduction in Contemporary North India0
Smell as a Marker of Social Boundary: Exploring the Role of Fish ‘Stench’0
The Lahure dream: Unpacking Nepali military aspirations and masculinity0
Uncovering the Erasure: The Case for Babasaheb Ambedkar as a Pioneer of Indian Sociology0
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