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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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The Changing Ecology of the Kolkata Tanpura7
Hear #MeToo in India: News, Social Media, and Anti-Rape and Sexual Harassment Activism6
(Enforced) Migration, (Up)rootedeness, (In)separability and (Post)memory in The Garden of Solitude and The Infidel Next Door6
Virtual Ethnicity? The Visual Construction of ‘Sinhalaness’ on Social Media in Sri Lanka5
Review Essay: Blasphemy Laws, Sectarianism and Religious Minorities in Pakistan5
Gender and Caste: The Politics of Embodied Spatial Negotiations in Rural Odisha, India5
India, China, and the World: A Connected History4
Instrumental Lives: An Intimate Biography of an Indian Laboratory,4
Smart Cities, Surveillance and Speed in Imphal, Manipur4
After TRIPS: Can India Remain ‘the Pharmacy of the Developing World’?4
Smell as a marker of social boundary: exploring the role of fish ‘stench’4
Uncivil City: Ecology, Equity and the Commons in Delhi4
Divisive Politics of the Inner Line Permit in Three Stories from Manipur in India’s Northeast3
Language and the Making of Modern India: Nationalism and the Vernacular in Colonial Odisha, 1803–19563
Muslim Household, Nation and Urdu in Television Dramas of Pakistan3
Introduction: A Country of Her Making3
Bad Brown Aunties, Fagony Aunts and Resistance Aunties: Centring Queer Desi Aunties in Diasporic Social Movement and Justice Work3
Inspectors of the Raj: A Pedagogy of Critical Conservatism in Odisha3
‘Nature’ in the Ṭhumrī Genre as Performed by Some Female Exponents of the Pūrab Aṅg: Liminality, Identity and Resistance3
The Return of Chen Ching Lin: Chinese Deserters and Chinatowns in the British Raj, 1943–463
Salt Workers in Contemporary South India: Change and Continuity3
Between Globalising Religions and Embodying Asia: Imagining Japan in Bengal3
Going Wild on Instagram: Tiger Safaris and India’s Protected Areas in the Age of Social Media2
The Brief History of a Very Big Book: The Making of the Tamil Encyclopaedia The Brief History of a Very Big Book: The Making of the Tamil Encyclopaedia , by A.R. Venkata2
Hysteria Narratives and Love-in-Separation (Viraha) in North India2
The City Possessed: Ghost Stories and the Urban History of Late Colonial Calcutta2
Religious Nationalism, Christianisation and Institutionalisation of Indigenous Faiths in Contemporary Arunachal Pradesh, India2
Persian Literati, Islam and Politics in Early Modern South Asia: Being a Muslim in ‘Abd al-Haqq Dehlawi’s Texts2
‘Do You Hear Voices, or Do You Think You Hear Voices?’: Malevolence and Modernity in the Psychiatric Clinic2
Picturing Development: Outdoor Campaign Materials during the 2019 General Election in India2
Nehruvian Ghosts: Kamal Amrohi’s Film, Mahal (1949)2
Looting in the NWFP and Punjab: Property and Violence in the Partition of 19472
The Racialisation of Citizenship in Post-Colonial India2
The Observant Owl: Sensory Worlds of Colonial Calcutta in Hutom’s Vignettes2
Population, Eugenics and Reproductive Rights: Legalising Abortion in India, 1966–712
Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene2
Christianity in India: The Anti-Colonial Turn2
Amritsar’s Heritage Street: Mapping Heritage, Eclipsing Offence2
Friendly Nations and Open Borders: Gender, Caste and Sacredness at the India-Nepal Border2
Mourning a Queer Aunty: Kinship, Creative Resilience and World-Making2
Our Libraries Are Colonial Archives: South Asian Collections in Western and Global North Libraries2
Post-Colonial Disasters and Narratives of Erasure: Reimagining Testimonies of Toxic Encounter2
Communal Geographies: Space, Identity and Electoral Constituency in Colonial North India2
Proximity or Sycophancy? The Relationship between Intelligence and Policy in the Nehruvian Era, 1947–642
The Representations of Faith and Belonging: Locating Sri Lankan Muslim Women in Ameena Hussein’s The Moon in the Water1
Imagined Geographies in the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands: Culture, Politics, Place1
Introduction: Salt, Protest and Public Health in Modern India1
The Evacuation and Repatriation of ‘British Indians’ Resident in Japan, 1940–421
Gendering Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Commercial Surrogacy and Constructions of Motherhood1
Demanding Development: The Politics of Public Goods Provision in India’s Urban Slums1
Writing History in Deobandi-Barelvi Polemics: Conflicting Views of Shah Ismail and Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi1
Multani Shikarpuri Migration to Malabar: A Praxis on Homemaking1
Social Work and Political Visibility: Activism, Education and the Disciplining of Social Service1
The Films Division of India and the Nehruvian Dream1
Remembering Heterodox Pre/Colonial Oral Cultures in (Re)Organising Bengali Dalit Literary Histories1
Authors, Activists, Archivists: A Dialogue with Francesca Orsini on Dalit Literature across Languages, Genre, Media1
Encountering the Postcolonial State: Development Bureaucracy and Social Transformation in Rural Pre-Independent Bangladesh, 1947–701
Ambedkar on Indian Christianity: towards a critique1
Afterword: Women Writing in Kashmir?1
Creating an Oral Map: ‘Living On’ after the Nellie Massacre, 19831
A Precarious Trade: The English East India Company and Its Interventions in the Balasore Salt Trade1
The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India1
India’s Rural Medical Revolution: The Attitudes of Villagers to Village-Level Blood Testing in Maharashtra1
Elusive Lives: Gender, Autobiography and the Self in Muslim South Asia1
Salt, Sovereignty and Law in Colonial India: The Case of Rajputana Salt in the Late Nineteenth Century1
Satrah Din, Satrah Saal: Media, Propaganda and Virtual Warfare in the India-Pakistan War of 19651
Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi , by Sushmita Pati, Cam1
Animal Enthusiasms: Life beyond Cage and Leash in Rural Pakistan1
The Houseness of the Naga House Museum: Towards a Narrative of the Postcolonial South Asian House Museum1
From Discordance to Assemblages: Renegotiating French and Portuguese Colonial Identities through Indian Tourism and Heritage Sites1
Negotiating Power and Constructing the Nation: Engineering in Sri Lanka Negotiating Power and Constructing the Nation: Engineering in Sri Lanka , by Bandura DileepaWitha1
Language, Script and Enemies of the State: Bengali Language and Nation-Building in Pakistan, 1947–531
Women Reading/Women Writing: Anxiety and Āzādī in Twentieth Century Urdu Pulp Fiction1
Animosity at Bay: An Alternative History of the India–Pakistan Relationship, 1947–19521
The Duplicate Malady: Repositioning Hysteria in South Asia1
Delhi and Its Urban Peripheries: Associational Life of the Village1
Hysteria: A South Asian History of Global Medicine1
Dhandha, Accumulation and the Making of Valuable Livelihoods in Contemporary Mumbai11
Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh and the Passing of Soviet India1
The Changing Landscape of Punjab in Bollywood Film Songs1
Forging Communal Space: Negotiating Streets and Practices in Delhi, 1922–651
Preface1
Social Work, Refugees and National Belonging: Evaluating the ‘Lady Social Workers’ of West Bengal1
Self-Sacrifice, Suffrage and Socialism: Gandhi and the Mobilisation of Women, 1930–311
Rituals as a Means of Mitigation and Prevention: Containing Sectarian Rivalry in Kanchipuram1
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought1
Inventive Indians: Technological Imaginaries and Patenting Activity in Late Colonial India (1911–48)0
Choirs on the Coast: Impact of COVID-19 on Musical Pedagogy and Festivals0
The Object as Gift: Practices of Gift Exchange in Awadh in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century0
Sufis as Sacred Props: Hagiographical Transmutation of Shāh Ḥusayn (945/1538–1008/1599)0
‘Social Media Is the Second Ambedkar’: Bhim Army and Social Media Mobilisation in North India0
Populism in Pakistan: The Exclusionary-Inclusionary Divide in the Politics of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Imran Khan0
‘To Kiss or Not to Kiss?’ Cinema, Vulgarity and Marathi Manus in 1950s and 1960s Maharashtra0
‘The Bad Stock’: Nazi Eugenics and the Growth of Anthropology in Delhi0
Subregional Memories of an Undivided Rural Punjab: Community, Culture and Identity among the Hindus of Bahawalpur0
Women and the Vote: Registration, Representation and Participation in the Run-Up to India’s First Elections, 1951–520
Anti/Aunty as Critical Method: From Gendered Resistance to Soft Grace0
Anthropological Developmentalism: Furer-Haimendorf and the Making of Social Policy in Hyderabad State 10
Political Representation in India: Ideas and Contestation 1908–510
Documents, Digitisation and History0
A Majoritarian View of ‘Gender Justice’ in Contemporary India: Examining Media Coverage of ‘Triple Talaq’ and ‘Love Jihad’0
Religious Offence Policed: Paradoxical Outcomes of Containment at the Centre of Banaras, and the ‘Know-How’ of Local Muslims0
Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka0
A Journey to Justice: Transnational Civil Rights and Ramnath Biswas, an Indian Globetrotter from Bengal, 1938–400
Empress: Queen Victoria and India0
Karva Chauth Travels: Fasting, Feasting and Everything in Between0
Prayers, Not Protests: Christian Internationalism and Young Womanhood in South India0
A Poet’s Ocean: Merchants and Imagination across Indian Ocean Gujarat0
The East Pakistan-West Pakistan Entanglement: Gender, Politics and Postcolonial Development in Shawkat Ali’s Dhakkhinayoner Din0
Parables for Neoliberalism: Devdutt Pattanaik and the Mahabharata in Post-Liberalisation Indian English Literature0
Reordering Adivasi Worlds: Representation, Resistance, Memory Reordering Adivasi Worlds: Representation, Resistance, Memory , by Sangeeta Dasgupta, New Delhi, Oxford Uni0
Messengers of Hindu Nationalism: How the RSS Reshaped India0
Figures of Menace: Militarisation in Post-War Sri Lanka0
C.A. Bayly’s Unfinished Business: A History of Ideas in an Old Manuscript0
Shame and Safety Pins: Dress Controversy and ‘Moral Technologies’ in 1900s Urdu Magazines for Women0
Not Part of the Plan? Women, State Feminism and Indian Socialism in the Nehru Years0
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
‘For the Farmers of the Country’: Indian Agricultural Universities at the Cusp of Nation-Building Plans and the Cold War, 1947–670
From Worse than Dogs to Heroic Tigers: Situating the Animal in Dalit Autobiographies0
The Smell of Caste: Leatherwork and Scientific Knowledge in Colonial India0
Catalysing Social Work Expertise: Connecting Science and Sarvodaya in Post-Independence India0
The Ungrudging Indian: The Political Economy of Salt in India, c. 1878–19470
‘Modi’-fied Beliefs: Assessing Cognitive Dissonance in Populist Voting Behaviour in India0
The Organisation of Sex Work in Bangladesh0
The Religious and Racial Geography of Late Nineteenth-Century Bombay0
Measuring Race, Space and the Citizen: Anthropology and Statistics in Early Post-Independence India0
Communal Geographies and Peasant Insurgency in Colonial Myanmar0
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
Bhutanese or Nepali? The Politics of Ethnonym Ambiguity0
Dispersal and Development: Two Key Moments in the Growth of Thane City0
‘Songs of the Lake’: Understanding Cultural Expressions of Nature through Dwindling Folk-Songs and Mythologies in Bengaluru0
Leaving Comrades to Die: Shahadat , Soldiering and Accidental Death on the Siachen Glacier0
The Architecture of Laila’s World in Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column0
Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India0
The Anagarika’s Lists: Time, Space and Emotions in the ‘Sarnath Notebooks’0
Hidden Histories of Pakistan: Censorship, Literature, and Secular Nationalism in Late Colonial India0
Refugee Cities: How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan0
Neo-Liberal Pitfalls and the COVID-19 Pandemic Challenges in Bangladesh0
The Anglo-Indian Household: Paradoxes of Hierarchy and Intimacy in Imperial Domestic Space0
The 2022 State Elections in Uttar Pradesh and the RSS-isation of the BJP0
Angel Undone: Interrogating Hyderabadi Muslim Femininity, Colonial Modernity and Sharafat in Zohra0
Whatever Happened to Chand Bibi Sultan? Narratives of a Deccan Warrior Queen0
From Colonial India to Semi-Colonial Republican China: Imaginaries and Realities of Civil Service and State-Building in Salt Administration, 1912–450
The Census amid Language Politics: The Production of Language Data and the Politics of Mother Tongue in the Census of India, Punjab, 1941–710
Swallowing Hurt: Conversion, Broken Deity Tiles and Reluctant Forgiveness in Kanpur0
Contemporary Ritual: Teyyam and the Creation of Its Epistemic World0
Being Young, Becoming Political: Subjectivity and Urban Space in Early Partition Novels0
Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife0
Subaltern and Dalit-Bahujan Organisation in South Asia: The Historical Roots0
South Asia Book Forum0
When They Know Us: Do Dalit Lives Matter?0
David E.U. Baker (1932–2021): A Life Extraordinaire0
Monopoly, Excise and the Salt Supply Conundrum in British India0
The Slow Death of the Diorama: Tribal and Ethnographic Museums in India since Independence0
India’s Spatial Imaginations of South Asia: Power, Commerce, and Community0
Talking Crime and Aggression: Tourism and Governance in Agra, India0
Cosmopolitan, Bridge-Builder and Missionary: Prof. Dietmar Rothermund, 1933–20200
The Possibility of Translation: Turning Ghosts into Psychosomatic Disorders in Nepal0
Mill, Market, Mandir, Masjid: The Geographies of Communal Conflict in Colonial Bombay, c. 1929–390
Imaging ‘Slow Violence’ in the Jharia Coalfields of India: Disrupting Energy Modernity through Photography0
The Thrill of Emergency and the Chronic Crisis of Corruption0
Understanding Dakaiti (Banditry) in the Chambal Valley and Bundelkhand0
The Ingredients of Casteism: Holy Week and Syrian Christian Food Practices in Kerala, India0
Historicising Housing Rights: Critical Events and Political Ruptures in Post-Partition Urban India0
Introduction: Transnational Figurations of the South Asian Aunty0
A Guide for Poets: Debating the First Poet of Classical Telugu Literature0
Correction0
Corporate Brahminism and Tech Work: Caste in a Modern Indian Profession0
Shauqeen Viewing: Mingling with the Indian Courtesan0
Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil0
Nation and Its ‘Other’ Women: Muslim Subjectivity and Gendered Agency in Delhi0
(Re)Imagining Anglo-American Relations: Natural History, Sport Hunting and Scientific Imperialism in the Vernay-Faunthorpe Indian Expeditions of 1922–290
Introduction: Between the Field and the Gallery: Exploring Anthropological Knowledge in South Asia0
Thinking with Signs: Caste, Ethnicity and the Dual Body in Contemporary Eastern Nepal*0
Gendered Nationalism and Material Texts: An Urdu Women’s Periodical in 1960s Pakistan0
The Imagination of the Forest and the Fear of the Land: The Idea of Nature in Recent Hindi Fiction0
Accessing Affordable Medicines in a Post-TRIPS Environment: The Case of Bangladesh0
Regulating Hooligans and Mawaalis: Collective Action and the Politics of Public Order in Late Colonial India0
Mapping Histories: An Environmental Perspective for Writing Local History in Pakistan0
Business as Usual? Bazars and Communalism in Colonial Delhi, 1913–320
National Romances: Singleton Desire and the Discovery of India in Chick Lit Narratives0
The Modernisation of South Asia’s Disease Burden: 1950 to 20210
Famine in a Rice Economy: Natural Calamities, Grain Scarcity and the Company-State in Bengal, 1770–18030
‘No Afghan Refugees in India’: Refugees and Cold War Politics in the 1980s0
Writing Industrial Change in Urdu: Artisanship, Islam and Technology in Colonial India0
The Life and Times of Begum Qudsia Aizaz Rasul: An Exploration of Muslim Women’s Self-Fashioning in Post-Colonial India0
Tea & Solidarity: Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka0
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
Consuming Students: Advertisements and the Indian Youth Market, 1935–650
New Linguistic Hierarchy in Nineteenth Century Bengal and Education for Muslims0
Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh0
Gender, Dissent and the Afterlives of the Pakistan Movement: Fatima Jinnah in the 1965 Elections0
Between Sādhū and Darwesh: Storytelling and Social Reform in S. uġhrā Humāyūñ Mirzā’s Mohinī (1929)0
Preserving the Bannuwal Identity: Post-Partition Bannu Refugees0
Muslim Belonging in Assam: History, Politics and the Future0
Museums and the Fashioning of National History in Postcolonial Pakistan0
Introduction: Writing Muslim Women in South Asia0
Ambiguous Identity and Uncertain Belonging: Assessing the Lives of Undocumented Brihannalas in the Backdrop of the COVID-19 Pandemic0
Authority Traversed: Police, Politics and the Urban Poor in Dhaka0
Scripts of Power: Writing, Language Practices, and Cultural History in Western India0
Review Essay: Forgotten Pasts, Uncertain Futures: Land and Water in Colonial and Post-Colonial Calcutta0
Television and Temples: Hindutva and OBC and Adivasi Self-Making in Borderland Gujarat0
Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India , by Akshya Saxena, Princeton Universit0
Film and Caste Anxieties in Early Twentieth-Century India0
Inheritance, Marriage and Adoption: Changing Judicial Practices in Hyderabad State0
Introduction: Containing Religious Offence beyond the Courts0
Towards the Publication of The Transfer of Power Documents, 1961–690
Micro Partitions: Interrogating ‘Punjabi Refugee’ Identities0
Sociology and the Vagrant: Beggars, Welfare and Tradition in Writing about the New Citizen in 1950s India0
The Many Bismils of Today: Ram Prasad ‘Bismil’, ‘Bismil’ Azimabadi and Recovering the Legacy of a Muslim Intellectual0
Reworking Culture: Relatedness, Rites, and Resources in Garo Hills, North-East 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
Music and Intermediality in Trans-Border Performances: Ecological Responses in Patachitra and Manasamangal0
Ontologies of a Pandemic: Polarisations Exposed by COVID-19 in Bangladesh0
Bengali Dalit Literature and the Politics of Recognition0
‘Purify the Deval and Devi’: Dalits and Politics of Hindu Social Reform in Hyderabad, 1920–280
Un/veiling the Maharani: Autobiography as Medium and Metaphor for Royal Women’s Self-Fashioning in the Indian Princely States0
Uncovering the Erasure: The Case for Babasaheb Ambedkar as a Pioneer of Indian Sociology0
Of Loss, Belonging and Remembrance: Indian Poetic Responses to World War I0
Bikās as Pedagogy: The Concept of Development at an Elite Boarding School in Nepal0
Consider the Aunty: The Obfuscation of Desire in My Beautiful Laundrette0
Epidemiology in Motion: Traumatic Brain Injuries in Mumbai0
Correction0
Environmental Casteism and the Democratisation of Natural Resources: Reimagining Dalit Testimonies0
Bazaar Lives: Calcutta, New Urban Form and Spatial Experience: 1890–19400
Pakistan’s Health-Care System: A Case of Elite Capture0
Between Myth, Memory and History: Persian Texts and the Making of the ‘Tomb of Jesus’ in Kashmir0
The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India0
Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy and Saintly Affects in Pakistan0
Making Way for Ships: Displacement, Religion and Urban Space-Making in India’s Southwest Littoral0
Patterns of Power in Constitutional Design: East-West Symbiosis in United Pakistan0
The Politics of the Post-Colonial Literary Archive: The Rushdie Papers at Emory University0
Christian Women’s Journals and Vernacular Christianity: A Case Study of Vivekavathi in Telugu-Speaking Regions0
Riaz Hassan, AM FASSA (August 14, 1937–June 8, 2022)0
Waiting for Dignity: Legitimacy and Authority in Afghanistan Waiting for Dignity: Legitimacy and Authority in Afghanistan , by Florian Weigand, New York, Columbia Univer0
Vernacular Apocalypse in Medieval Kashmir: The Mystical Poetry of Nund Rishi (1378–1440)0
The Brahmanisation of Indian Sociology or the Birth of the Racial Theories of Untouchability0
Laying the Foundation of the ‘Native’ Christian Community: The Church Missionary Society and Its Experiments with Famine Orphans and Orphanages, 1840s–1920s0
Leaving the Hindu Far Right0
Auntyness in a Beauty Parlour: Relaxation, Conversation, Labour and Care0
Spaces of Indian Anti-Colonialism in Early Twentieth-Century London and Paris0
Gender and the Politics of Class: Women in Trade Unions in Bengal0
Salt: An Afterword0
Bureaucratic Mediations for Biometric Governance in India’s Northeast—Aadhaar in Tripura0
The Making of a Modern Slum: The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay0
Who is a Muslim? Orientalism and Literary Populisms0
Siraiki Language Speakers in London: A Case Study0
Progressive Laments and/on Partition: The Cost of Freedom in Khadija Mastur’s Aangan (1962)0
‘Development Has Gone Crazy’: The Gujarat Model of ‘Unequal’ Development through Neoliberalism and Hindutva0
Salt and the National Imaginary: The Photojournalism of the Dandi Satyagraha0
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