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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Divisive Politics of the Inner Line Permit in Three Stories from Manipur in India’s Northeast10
Uncivil City: Ecology, Equity and the Commons in Delhi9
Hear #MeToo in India: News, Social Media, and Anti-Rape and Sexual Harassment Activism7
‘Nature’ in the Ṭhumrī Genre as Performed by Some Female Exponents of the Pūrab Aṅg: Liminality, Identity and Resistance6
Mourning a Queer Aunty: Kinship, Creative Resilience and World-Making6
Smart Cities, Surveillance and Speed in Imphal, Manipur5
Picturing Development: Outdoor Campaign Materials during the 2019 General Election in India5
Women Reading/Women Writing: Anxiety and Āzādī in Twentieth Century Urdu Pulp Fiction5
The Possibility of Translation: Turning Ghosts into Psychosomatic Disorders in Nepal4
A Precarious Trade: The English East India Company and Its Interventions in the Balasore Salt Trade4
Forging Communal Space: Negotiating Streets and Practices in Delhi, 1922–654
Introduction: Salt, Protest and Public Health in Modern India4
Ontologies of a Pandemic: Polarisations Exposed by COVID-19 in Bangladesh3
Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil3
Anti/Aunty as Critical Method: From Gendered Resistance to Soft Grace3
Delhi and Its Urban Peripheries: Associational Life of the Village3
The Politics of the Post-Colonial Literary Archive: The Rushdie Papers at Emory University3
State Spectacles of Yoga: Invisible India and India Everywhere3
From Communist Internationalism to a ‘New Humanism’: On M.N. Roy’s Confrontation with Fascism3
Writing Industrial Change in Urdu: Artisanship, Islam and Technology in Colonial India3
Writing History in Deobandi-Barelvi Polemics: Conflicting Views of Shah Ismail and Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi3
Internal colonisation, national liberation and cultural resistance: A postcolonial reading of pre-Bangladesh Bangla poetry of resistance2
‘Purify the Deval and Devi’: Dalits and Politics of Hindu Social Reform in Hyderabad, 1920–282
Communal Geographies: An Introduction2
‘We Look at Our Feet and Work’: Women Construction Workers Negotiating Patriarchies in Kolkata, India2
‘For the Farmers of the Country’: Indian Agricultural Universities at the Cusp of Nation-Building Plans and the Cold War, 1947–672
‘Development Has Gone Crazy’: The Gujarat Model of ‘Unequal’ Development through Neoliberalism and Hindutva2
Subregional Memories of an Undivided Rural Punjab: Community, Culture and Identity among the Hindus of Bahawalpur2
Rain of Life, Rain of Music: Music as Life Power in Indian Thought and Contemporary Musical Traditions2
The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India2
Religion and the Public Sphere: The Multifaceted Role of Sacred Sites in Political Mobilisation in the Kashmir Valley2
Combining Global Expertise with Local Knowledge in Colonial India: Selling Ideals of Beauty and Health in Commodity Advertising (c. 1900–1949)2
Shauqeen Viewing: Mingling with the Indian Courtesan2
Vernacular Apocalypse in Medieval Kashmir: The Mystical Poetry of Nund Rishi (1378–1440)2
Towards the Publication of The Transfer of Power Documents, 1961–692
Text and Tradition: The Dynasty of Villarvattom among Syrian Christians in Kerala, India2
Transformation of the Deities: Temples, Caste and Identity in Goa2
Introduction: Making Sense of Empire2
No Offence: Communal Vulnerability, Law and Versatility in a Vernacular Indo-Islamic Context2
Contemporary Ritual: Teyyam and the Creation of Its Epistemic World2
Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh2
Spilling the Tea: Aunty Discipline and the Queer Diasporic Child in D’Lo’s To T, or Not To T?2
Perceptions and products of the forested highlands: A view from the Malwa Sultan’s Book of Delicacies , c. 15001
Between Ritual Doubt and Spiritual Striving: The Mediation of Adab at a Sufi Shrine in Contemporary India1
After TRIPS: Can India Remain ‘the Pharmacy of the Developing World’?1
‘Songs of the Lake’: Understanding Cultural Expressions of Nature through Dwindling Folk-Songs and Mythologies in Bengaluru1
Inventive Indians: Technological Imaginaries and Patenting Activity in Late Colonial India (1911–48)1
Salt and the National Imaginary: The Photojournalism of the Dandi Satyagraha1
The Object as Gift: Practices of Gift Exchange in Awadh in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century1
Letter to the Editors1
The Home and the World: Queering Diaspora and Recasting the Nation in Ananda Devi’s Indian Tango1
From Worse than Dogs to Heroic Tigers: Situating the Animal in Dalit Autobiographies1
Leaving Comrades to Die: Shahadat , Soldiering and Accidental Death on the Siachen Glacier1
‘Tell Them Our Story’: Memories of the Sumi Naga Labour Corps in World War I1
Riaz Hassan, AM FASSA (August 14, 1937–June 8, 2022)1
Ambedkar in America: An Archive for Our Times1
Caste as Process in Post-Liberalisation India1
Men and Masculine Identities in Life Narratives of Sri Lanka’s War1
Violence as border governmentality: Myanmar military coup, Assam-Mizoram border dispute and beyond1
Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene1
Making Way for Ships: Displacement, Religion and Urban Space-Making in India’s Southwest Littoral1
Neo-Liberal Pitfalls and the COVID-19 Pandemic Challenges in Bangladesh1
Banishment and Belonging: Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka and Ceylon1
Ambiguous Identity and Uncertain Belonging: Assessing the Lives of Undocumented Brihannalas in the Backdrop of the COVID-19 Pandemic1
Introduction: Ecology, Music and Community—Exploring Performance in South Asia1
The Ecology of the Archive in Adil Jussawalla's ‘Date Book’ for a Missing Novel1
Summoning the Dead: Psychic Happenings and Gendered Spiritualist Practices in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Calcutta1
Satrah Din, Satrah Saal: Media, Propaganda and Virtual Warfare in the India-Pakistan War of 19651
Senses and Sensibilities in Sarojini Naidu’s Poetry1
Language and Cinema: Schisms in the Representation of Hyderabad1
Introduction: Containing Religious Offence beyond the Courts1
Engaging with Ethnographic Museum Objects from Erstwhile Naga Hills: From Imperial, Colonial and Postcolonial Eras to Contemporary Reimagining1
Reconciling Religion, Reform and Modernity: A Study of Early Muslim Women’s Periodicals from South India1
Surveillance, Censure and Support: Gender Counting in South Asia1
Muslim Household, Nation and Urdu in Television Dramas of Pakistan1
Pakistan to Bangladesh, 1947–71: Introduction1
Anthropological Developmentalism: Furer-Haimendorf and the Making of Social Policy in Hyderabad State 11
Afterword: Women Writing in Kashmir?1
Designing a Modern Self: The English Travels of Pandita Ramabai and Krishnabhabini Das1
The ‘Migrant-Leper’ as the Undeserving Outsider: Historicising Leprosy Policy in Delhi, 1920–601
Reimagining Hindu Mythology for the Diasporic Queer Body: Discursive Materiality in Vivek Shraya’s She of the Mountains1
The Architecture of Laila’s World in Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column1
Melancholia of the Past: Remembering Communal Violence in a Mumbai Slum1
Business as Usual? Bazars and Communalism in Colonial Delhi, 1913–321
Research as Development: Biomedical Research, Ethics and Collaboration in Sri Lanka1
The Films Division of India and the Nehruvian Dream1
A Guide for Poets: Debating the First Poet of Classical Telugu Literature1
India’s Rural Medical Revolution: The Attitudes of Villagers to Village-Level Blood Testing in Maharashtra0
Miracle millets: Indigenous food sovereignty and the revival of ancient grains in Northeast India0
The Post-Colonial Magazine Archive0
The East Pakistan-West Pakistan Entanglement: Gender, Politics and Postcolonial Development in Shawkat Ali’s Dhakkhinayoner Din0
Hysteria: A South Asian History of Global Medicine0
Dhandha, Accumulation and the Making of Valuable Livelihoods in Contemporary Mumbai10
Inheritance, Marriage and Adoption: Changing Judicial Practices in Hyderabad State0
Smell as a marker of social boundary: exploring the role of fish ‘stench’0
Who is a Muslim? Orientalism and Literary Populisms0
Historicising Housing Rights: Critical Events and Political Ruptures in Post-Partition Urban India0
Salt Workers in Contemporary South India: Change and Continuity0
A Forest of Ships: Malabar’s State Forests and Bombay’s Dockyards, 1795–18220
Hysteria Narratives and Love-in-Separation (Viraha) in North India0
Sociology and the Vagrant: Beggars, Welfare and Tradition in Writing about the New Citizen in 1950s India0
Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India0
Virtual Ethnicity? The Visual Construction of ‘Sinhalaness’ on Social Media in Sri Lanka0
Authors, Activists, Archivists: A Dialogue with Francesca Orsini on Dalit Literature across Languages, Genre, Media0
Karva Chauth Travels: Fasting, Feasting and Everything in Between0
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
The Thrill of Emergency and the Chronic Crisis of Corruption0
Of Loss, Belonging and Remembrance: Indian Poetic Responses to World War I0
Architecture of East Pakistan: International experts, regional tropical architecture and the search for architectural identity, 1947–710
Preface0
Bad Brown Aunties, Fagony Aunts and Resistance Aunties: Centring Queer Desi Aunties in Diasporic Social Movement and Justice Work0
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
The Houseness of the Naga House Museum: Towards a Narrative of the Postcolonial South Asian House Museum0
Cleansing India: Gandhi, Hindutva and the calypsology of sanitation reforms0
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
Rituals as a Means of Mitigation and Prevention: Containing Sectarian Rivalry in Kanchipuram0
Impartiality as a quality of government and its violation in the governance of sectarian conflict in Pakistan0
Consuming Students: Advertisements and the Indian Youth Market, 1935–650
Gendered Nationalism and Material Texts: An Urdu Women’s Periodical in 1960s Pakistan0
David E.U. Baker (1932–2021): A Life Extraordinaire0
Religious Nationalism, Christianisation and Institutionalisation of Indigenous Faiths in Contemporary Arunachal Pradesh, India0
The City Possessed: Ghost Stories and the Urban History of Late Colonial Calcutta0
Cartographic Anxiety on the Thar Desert: The Border Security Force and Jaisalmer’s Tanot Mata Mandir0
Sufis as Sacred Props: Hagiographical Transmutation of Shāh Ḥusayn (945/1538–1008/1599)0
Empress: Queen Victoria and India0
Salt: An Afterword0
Whatever Happened to Chand Bibi Sultan? Narratives of a Deccan Warrior Queen0
‘Do You Hear Voices, or Do You Think You Hear Voices?’: Malevolence and Modernity in the Psychiatric Clinic0
Authority Traversed: Police, Politics and the Urban Poor in Dhaka0
Christianity in India: The Anti-Colonial Turn0
Television and Temples: Hindutva and OBC and Adivasi Self-Making in Borderland Gujarat0
A Poet’s Ocean: Merchants and Imagination across Indian Ocean Gujarat0
Between Sādhū and Darwesh: Storytelling and Social Reform in S. uġhrā Humāyūñ Mirzā’s Mohinī (1929)0
From Discordance to Assemblages: Renegotiating French and Portuguese Colonial Identities through Indian Tourism and Heritage Sites0
Suffering, Survival and Sustenance: Meos’ Post-Partition Experiences in Pakistan0
Gender politics and nationalist imagination: The role of Bengali Muslim women educationists, 1947–710
Creating an Oral Map: ‘Living On’ after the Nellie Massacre, 19830
Uncovering the Erasure: The Case for Babasaheb Ambedkar as a Pioneer of Indian Sociology0
Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor0
Border, Pastoralism and Affect: Memories, Interactions and Cultural Transformations of Pastoralists in Western Rajasthan Borderlands0
National Romances: Singleton Desire and the Discovery of India in Chick Lit Narratives0
Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi , by Sushmita Pati, Cam0
When They Know Us: Do Dalit Lives Matter?0
Gendering Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Commercial Surrogacy and Constructions of Motherhood0
The Brahmanisation of Indian Sociology or the Birth of the Racial Theories of Untouchability0
The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India0
Music and Intermediality in Trans-Border Performances: Ecological Responses in Patachitra and Manasamangal0
‘Speak True to the People’: 1 Radio Pakistan and the Making and Unmaking of a National Soundscape0
Hindu economicus0
Containing Murder in a South Indian Temple0
Population, Eugenics and Reproductive Rights: Legalising Abortion in India, 1966–710
The Ungrudging Indian: The Political Economy of Salt in India, c. 1878–19470
Homeland Insecurities: Autonomy, Conflict and Migration in Assam0
Coca-Cola and the Moral Economy of Rural Development in India0
Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891–19370
Nehruvian Ghosts: Kamal Amrohi’s Film, Mahal (1949)0
A Majoritarian View of ‘Gender Justice’ in Contemporary India: Examining Media Coverage of ‘Triple Talaq’ and ‘Love Jihad’0
Saving cows and counting ploughs: The biopolitics of cow protection0
Thinking with Signs: Caste, Ethnicity and the Dual Body in Contemporary Eastern Nepal*0
Famine in a Rice Economy: Natural Calamities, Grain Scarcity and the Company-State in Bengal, 1770–18030
Self-Sacrifice, Suffrage and Socialism: Gandhi and the Mobilisation of Women, 1930–310
The Religious and Racial Geography of Late Nineteenth-Century Bombay0
Understanding Dakaiti (Banditry) in the Chambal Valley and Bundelkhand0
The Ingredients of Casteism: Holy Week and Syrian Christian Food Practices in Kerala, India0
Bengali Dalit Literature and the Politics of Recognition0
Singing the River in Punjab: Poetry, Performance and Folklore0
Negotiating Power and Constructing the Nation: Engineering in Sri Lanka Negotiating Power and Constructing the Nation: Engineering in Sri Lanka , by Bandura DileepaWitha0
Proximity or Sycophancy? The Relationship between Intelligence and Policy in the Nehruvian Era, 1947–640
Making management Hindu: S.K. Chakraborty and the indigenisation of homo economicus0
Communal Geographies and Peasant Insurgency in Colonial Myanmar0
The Many Bismils of Today: Ram Prasad ‘Bismil’, ‘Bismil’ Azimabadi and Recovering the Legacy of a Muslim Intellectual0
Introduction: Writing Muslim Women in South Asia0
Imagined Geographies in the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands: Culture, Politics, Place0
Looting in the NWFP and Punjab: Property and Violence in the Partition of 19470
Bureaucratic Mediations for Biometric Governance in India’s Northeast—Aadhaar in Tripura0
Consider the Aunty: The Obfuscation of Desire in My Beautiful Laundrette0
George Grierson’s map and the remaking of Orissa, 1917–360
The Observant Owl: Sensory Worlds of Colonial Calcutta in Hutom’s Vignettes0
Amritsar’s Heritage Street: Mapping Heritage, Eclipsing Offence0
The Indo-Myanmar Borderlands: Border Trade, Urbanisation and Ethnic Politics in Mizoram, 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
The Census amid Language Politics: The Production of Language Data and the Politics of Mother Tongue in the Census of India, Punjab, 1941–710
Shame and Safety Pins: Dress Controversy and ‘Moral Technologies’ in 1900s Urdu Magazines for Women0
Film and Caste Anxieties in Early Twentieth-Century India0
‘To Kiss or Not to Kiss?’ Cinema, Vulgarity and Marathi Manus in 1950s and 1960s Maharashtra0
Post-Colonial Disasters and Narratives of Erasure: Reimagining Testimonies of Toxic Encounter0
Mill, Market, Mandir, Masjid: The Geographies of Communal Conflict in Colonial Bombay, c. 1929–390
The Changing Landscape of Punjab in Bollywood Film Songs0
Corporate Brahminism and Tech Work: Caste in a Modern Indian Profession0
Archives of Minority: ‘Little’ Publications and the Politics of Friendship in Post-Colonial Bombay0
Reworking Culture: Relatedness, Rites, and Resources in Garo Hills, North-East India0
Reordering Adivasi Worlds: Representation, Resistance, Memory Reordering Adivasi Worlds: Representation, Resistance, Memory , by Sangeeta Dasgupta, New Delhi, Oxford Uni0
Multani Shikarpuri Migration to Malabar: A Praxis on Homemaking0
Tea & Solidarity: Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka0
Connected History: Essays and Arguments0
Patterns of Power in Constitutional Design: East-West Symbiosis in United Pakistan0
Remembering Heterodox Pre/Colonial Oral Cultures in (Re)Organising Bengali Dalit Literary Histories0
Figures of Menace: Militarisation in Post-War Sri Lanka0
The Making of a Modern Slum: The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay0
Mapping Histories: An Environmental Perspective for Writing Local History in Pakistan0
Preserving the Bannuwal Identity: Post-Partition Bannu Refugees0
Encountering the Postcolonial State: Development Bureaucracy and Social Transformation in Rural Pre-Independent Bangladesh, 1947–700
Christian Women’s Journals and Vernacular Christianity: A Case Study of Vivekavathi in Telugu-Speaking Regions0
Documents, Digitisation and History0
Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh and the Passing of Soviet India0
Introduction: Postcolonial Archives0
(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
Patriarchy as an Assemblage: Qandeel Baloch, Male Domination and Feminist Publics in Pakistan0
Friendly Nations and Open Borders: Gender, Caste and Sacredness at the India-Nepal Border0
Choirs on the Coast: Impact of COVID-19 on Musical Pedagogy and Festivals0
Bikās as Pedagogy: The Concept of Development at an Elite Boarding School in Nepal0
Cosmopolitan, Bridge-Builder and Missionary: Prof. Dietmar Rothermund, 1933–20200
Parables for Neoliberalism: Devdutt Pattanaik and the Mahabharata in Post-Liberalisation Indian English Literature0
Pakistan’s Health-Care System: A Case of Elite Capture0
The Smell of Caste: Leatherwork and Scientific Knowledge in Colonial India0
Salt, Sovereignty and Law in Colonial India: The Case of Rajputana Salt in the Late Nineteenth Century0
The Changing Ecology of the Kolkata Tanpura0
Scripts of Power: Writing, Language Practices, and Cultural History in Western India0
Regulating Hooligans and Mawaalis: Collective Action and the Politics of Public Order in Late Colonial India0
The heritage of Hynñiew Trep in Desmond Kharmawphlang’s poems0
Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism0
Elusive Lives: Gender, Autobiography and the Self in Muslim South Asia0
Communal Geographies: Space, Identity and Electoral Constituency in Colonial North India0
Bhutanese or Nepali? The Politics of Ethnonym Ambiguity0
Refugee Cities: How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan0
Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy and Saintly Affects in Pakistan0
Dispersal and Development: Two Key Moments in the Growth of Thane City0
The Duplicate Malady: Repositioning Hysteria in South Asia0
Measuring Race, Space and the Citizen: Anthropology and Statistics in Early Post-Independence India0
Writing Rokeya: Muslim Women’s Life-Writing, Intergenerational Camaraderie and Activism in Twentieth Century Bengal0
Introduction: Transnational Figurations of the South Asian Aunty0
Laying the Foundation of the ‘Native’ Christian Community: The Church Missionary Society and Its Experiments with Famine Orphans and Orphanages, 1840s–1920s0
Animosity at Bay: An Alternative History of the India–Pakistan Relationship, 1947–19520
The Return of Chen Ching Lin: Chinese Deserters and Chinatowns in the British Raj, 1943–460
Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India , by Akshya Saxena, Princeton Universit0
From Colonial India to Semi-Colonial Republican China: Imaginaries and Realities of Civil Service and State-Building in Salt Administration, 1912–450
The Organisation of Sex Work in Bangladesh0
Spaces of Indian Anti-Colonialism in Early Twentieth-Century London and Paris0
Progressive Laments and/on Partition: The Cost of Freedom in Khadija Mastur’s Aangan (1962)0
‘No Afghan Refugees in India’: Refugees and Cold War Politics in the 1980s0
Imaging ‘Slow Violence’ in the Jharia Coalfields of India: Disrupting Energy Modernity through Photography0
Prayers, Not Protests: Christian Internationalism and Young Womanhood in South India0
Women’s ‘Retrieval’ from Pakistan: ‘India’s Daughters’ and the Emotional History of Partition0
Constructing Religious Authority: Creating Exclusion along the Matrix of Knowledge and Power in Pakistan0
‘Why Can’t Our Bhuta Have a Mask?’ Caste Contestations and Ritual Practice in Tulunadu0
C.A. Bayly’s Unfinished Business: A History of Ideas in an Old Manuscript0
Subaltern and Dalit-Bahujan Organisation in South Asia: The Historical Roots0
Drag Queen in the Beauty Salon: What Theorising Strange Bedfellows Can Tell Us about the Labour of Aunties0
Gender, Dissent and the Afterlives of the Pakistan Movement: Fatima Jinnah in the 1965 Elections0
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