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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)
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Pedagogies of Aspiration: Anthropological Perspectives on Education in Liberalising India34
Life Skills as Affective Labour: Skilling Girls with Gendered Enterprise12
Body, Boundaries and Sindoor Feminism in India11
Masculine Vernacular Histories of Travel in Colonial India: The Writings of Satyadev ‘Parivrajak’9
Documents, Digitisation and History7
Mothers and Godmothers of Crafts: Female Leadership and the Imagination of India as a Crafts Nation, 1947–676
Radical Right Islamists in Bangladesh: A Counter-Intuitive Argument5
English-Educated as ‘Ready-Made’ Leaders: Re-Inscribing Distinction through the Student Police Cadet Project in Kerala, India5
Sexuality and the History of Disciplinary Transgression5
Female Mobility and Bengali Women’s Travelogues in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries5
Packing a Punch at the Bengali Babu5
Nation and Its ‘Other’ Women: Muslim Subjectivity and Gendered Agency in Delhi4
Combining Global Expertise with Local Knowledge in Colonial India: Selling Ideals of Beauty and Health in Commodity Advertising (c. 1900–1949)4
A Majoritarian View of ‘Gender Justice’ in Contemporary India: Examining Media Coverage of ‘Triple Talaq’ and ‘Love Jihad’4
Muslim Belonging in Assam: History, Politics and the Future4
Breath of Revolution: Ghadar Anti-Colonial Radicalism in North America and the Mexican Revolution4
Our Libraries Are Colonial Archives: South Asian Collections in Western and Global North Libraries4
Religious Offence Policed: Paradoxical Outcomes of Containment at the Centre of Banaras, and the ‘Know-How’ of Local Muslims3
Women’s ‘Retrieval’ from Pakistan: ‘India’s Daughters’ and the Emotional History of Partition3
Tipu Sultan, the Power of the Past and the Possibility of a ‘Historical Temper’3
Education for Confidence: Political Education for Recasting Bahujan Student Selves3
Feminism, Family Planning and National Planning3
Coca-Cola and the Moral Economy of Rural Development in India3
Introduction to ‘Translating Sex: Locating Sexology in Indian History’3
Not Part of the Plan? Women, State Feminism and Indian Socialism in the Nehru Years3
Senses and Sensibilities in Sarojini Naidu’s Poetry3
The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India3
The Post-Colonial Magazine Archive3
Malika Begum’s Mehfil: The Lost Legacy of Women’s Travel Writing in Urdu3
Bhutanese or Nepali? The Politics of Ethnonym Ambiguity3
Populism in Pakistan: The Exclusionary-Inclusionary Divide in the Politics of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Imran Khan3
Thinking with Signs: Caste, Ethnicity and the Dual Body in Contemporary Eastern Nepal*2
Consider the Aunty: The Obfuscation of Desire in My Beautiful Laundrette2
Re-Examining the Nexus between Madrasa Education and Politics in Bangladesh2
Bureaucratic Mediations for Biometric Governance in India’s Northeast—Aadhaar in Tripura2
Archives of Minority: ‘Little’ Publications and the Politics of Friendship in Post-Colonial Bombay2
Epidemiology in Motion: Traumatic Brain Injuries in Mumbai2
Ontologies of a Pandemic: Polarisations Exposed by COVID-19 in Bangladesh2
The Observant Owl: Sensory Worlds of Colonial Calcutta in Hutom’s Vignettes2
Environmental Casteism and the Democratisation of Natural Resources: Reimagining Dalit Testimonies2
Dispersal and Development: Two Key Moments in the Growth of Thane City2
Introduction: Transnational Figurations of the South Asian Aunty2
Writing the Imperial Experience of Hunting: Assam Planter and the Sensory World of a British Tea Frontier2
Afghan Muslim Aunties and Their Queer Gifts2
The Modernisation of South Asia’s Disease Burden: 1950 to 20212
Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh and the Passing of Soviet India2
Vernacular Sexology from the Margins: A Woman and a Shudra2
Gandhi, Brahmacharya and Global Sexual Science, 1919–382
Making Way for Ships: Displacement, Religion and Urban Space-Making in India’s Southwest Littoral2
‘Songs of the Lake’: Understanding Cultural Expressions of Nature through Dwindling Folk-Songs and Mythologies in Bengaluru2
Bengali Dalit Literature and the Politics of Recognition2
Introduction: Postcolonial Archives2
Introduction: Ecology, Music and Community—Exploring Performance in South Asia2
Introduction: Feeding Bodies, Nurturing Identities: The Politics of Diet in Late Colonial and Early Post-Colonial India2
Theatres of Empowerment: Elite, All-Girls’ Indian ‘Public Schools’ and the Production of Performative Altruism2
Aspiration as Labour: Muslim Women at a Basic Computer-Training Centre in Hyderabad2
Introduction: A Country of Her Making2
No Offence: Communal Vulnerability, Law and Versatility in a Vernacular Indo-Islamic Context1
Post-Millennial Indian Dystopian Fiction: A Developing Canon of Precarity, (Im)purity and Ideas of India(nness)1
Letter-Writing and Emotional Communities in Early Mughal India: A Note on the Badāyi' al-Inshā1
A Guide for Poets: Debating the First Poet of Classical Telugu Literature1
Search for ‘Context’: Commodities, Consumption and Abul Hasanat’s Material Sexscape1
State Spectacles of Yoga: Invisible India and India Everywhere1
Gendering Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Commercial Surrogacy and Constructions of Motherhood1
A Journey to Justice: Transnational Civil Rights and Ramnath Biswas, an Indian Globetrotter from Bengal, 1938–401
The Ecology of the Archive in Adil Jussawalla's ‘Date Book’ for a Missing Novel1
Corporate Brahminism and Tech Work: Caste in a Modern Indian Profession1
The Possibility of Translation: Turning Ghosts into Psychosomatic Disorders in Nepal1
Prayers, Not Protests: Christian Internationalism and Young Womanhood in South India1
India’s Rural Medical Revolution: The Attitudes of Villagers to Village-Level Blood Testing in Maharashtra1
Figures of Menace: Militarisation in Post-War Sri Lanka1
The Smell of Caste: Leatherwork and Scientific Knowledge in Colonial India1
Post-Colonial Disasters and Narratives of Erasure: Reimagining Testimonies of Toxic Encounter1
India’s Foreign Fighter Puzzle1
Surveillance, Censure and Support: Gender Counting in South Asia1
A Phenomenological Exploration into Lived Experiences of Violence in Northeast India1
Neo-Liberal Pitfalls and the COVID-19 Pandemic Challenges in Bangladesh1
Singing the River in Punjab: Poetry, Performance and Folklore1
A Poet’s Ocean: Merchants and Imagination across Indian Ocean Gujarat1
The Changing Landscape of Punjab in Bollywood Film Songs1
From Worse than Dogs to Heroic Tigers: Situating the Animal in Dalit Autobiographies1
Towards the Publication of The Transfer of Power Documents, 1961–691
Writing History in Deobandi-Barelvi Polemics: Conflicting Views of Shah Ismail and Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi1
Literary Sentiments in the Vernacular: Gender and Genre in Modern South Asia1
The Politics of the Post-Colonial Literary Archive: The Rushdie Papers at Emory University1
Gendered Nationalism and Material Texts: An Urdu Women’s Periodical in 1960s Pakistan1
Music and Intermediality in Trans-Border Performances: Ecological Responses in Patachitra and Manasamangal1
Religious Nationalism, Christianisation and Institutionalisation of Indigenous Faiths in Contemporary Arunachal Pradesh, India1
Regulating Hooligans and Mawaalis: Collective Action and the Politics of Public Order in Late Colonial India1
Looting in the NWFP and Punjab: Property and Violence in the Partition of 19471
‘No Afghan Refugees in India’: Refugees and Cold War Politics in the 1980s1
Introduction: Making Sense of Empire1
Patriarchy as an Assemblage: Qandeel Baloch, Male Domination and Feminist Publics in Pakistan1
Women in the State: Elected Women and the Challenge of Indian Politics (1957–62)1
Language and Cinema: Schisms in the Representation of Hyderabad1
Cutting Edge Research in the Contact Zone? The Establishment of the Nutritional Research Laboratories in Coonoor (1925–27)1
Internationalism and Nationalism: Indian Protagonists and Their Political Agendas at the 15th World Vegetarian Congress in India (1957)1
Constructing Religious Authority: Creating Exclusion along the Matrix of Knowledge and Power in Pakistan1
Choirs on the Coast: Impact of COVID-19 on Musical Pedagogy and Festivals1
Dhandha, Accumulation and the Making of Valuable Livelihoods in Contemporary Mumbai11
Ford Foundation–India Relations in the 1950s: A Recipient Country Perspective1
Writing Industrial Change in Urdu: Artisanship, Islam and Technology in Colonial India1
‘Social Media Is the Second Ambedkar’: Bhim Army and Social Media Mobilisation in North India1
Social Work, Refugees and National Belonging: Evaluating the ‘Lady Social Workers’ of West Bengal1
Of Loss, Belonging and Remembrance: Indian Poetic Responses to World War I1
Negotiated Spaces, Shared Place Identities: Roadside Settlements and Culture of Belonging in a Himalayan Town1
The City Possessed: Ghost Stories and the Urban History of Late Colonial Calcutta1
Women and the Vote: Registration, Representation and Participation in the Run-Up to India’s First Elections, 1951–521
Mourning a Queer Aunty: Kinship, Creative Resilience and World-Making1
‘We Look at Our Feet and Work’: Women Construction Workers Negotiating Patriarchies in Kolkata, India0
‘Nature’ in the Ṭhumrī Genre as Performed by Some Female Exponents of the Pūrab Aṅg: Liminality, Identity and Resistance0
Text and Tradition: The Dynasty of Villarvattom among Syrian Christians in Kerala, India0
Animosity at Bay: An Alternative History of the India–Pakistan Relationship, 1947–19520
(Re)Imagining Anglo-American Relations: Natural History, Sport Hunting and Scientific Imperialism in the Vernay-Faunthorpe Indian Expeditions of 1922–290
After TRIPS: Can India Remain ‘the Pharmacy of the Developing World’?0
Theorising Marginality: Discourses on the Making of Modern Adivasi Communities in Kerala0
‘If You Cannot Feed the Body of a Child You Cannot Feed the Brain’: Education and Nutrition in Late Colonial Madras0
India, China, and the World: A Connected History0
Transformation of the Deities: Temples, Caste and Identity in Goa0
Inspectors of the Raj: A Pedagogy of Critical Conservatism in Odisha0
From Communist Internationalism to a ‘New Humanism’: On M.N. Roy’s Confrontation with Fascism0
Review Essay: Blasphemy Laws, Sectarianism and Religious Minorities in Pakistan0
Sufis as Sacred Props: Hagiographical Transmutation of Shāh Ḥusayn (945/1538–1008/1599)0
Going Wild on Instagram: Tiger Safaris and India’s Protected Areas in the Age of Social Media0
Negotiating Power and Constructing the Nation: Engineering in Sri Lanka Negotiating Power and Constructing the Nation: Engineering in Sri Lanka , by Bandura DileepaWitha0
(Enforced) Migration, (Up)rootedeness, (In)separability and (Post)memory in The Garden of Solitude and The Infidel Next Door0
Messengers of Hindu Nationalism: How the RSS Reshaped India0
‘To Kiss or Not to Kiss?’ Cinema, Vulgarity and Marathi Manus in 1950s and 1960s Maharashtra0
Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene0
Preface0
Accessing Affordable Medicines in a Post-TRIPS Environment: The Case of Bangladesh0
Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor0
Christianity in India: The Anti-Colonial Turn0
A Precarious Trade: The English East India Company and Its Interventions in the Balasore Salt Trade0
The Evacuation and Repatriation of ‘British Indians’ Resident in Japan, 1940–420
Introduction: Containing Religious Offence beyond the Courts0
Amritsar’s Heritage Street: Mapping Heritage, Eclipsing Offence0
Homeland Insecurities: Autonomy, Conflict and Migration in Assam0
A Forest of Ships: Malabar’s State Forests and Bombay’s Dockyards, 1795–18220
Satrah Din, Satrah Saal: Media, Propaganda and Virtual Warfare in the India-Pakistan War of 19650
Riaz Hassan, AM FASSA (August 14, 1937–June 8, 2022)0
Muslim Household, Nation and Urdu in Television Dramas of Pakistan0
Anti/Aunty as Critical Method: From Gendered Resistance to Soft Grace0
The LCD (Lowest Common Denominator) of Language: The Materialist Poetry of Arun Kolatkar and R.K. Joshi0
‘Village Communities’ vs ‘Business Corporations’: The Multilayered Articulation of Local Conflicts with Contention Surrounding Industrial Development in India0
Review Essay: Criminality, Sexuality and Gender in British India Special Focus: Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India: The Hijra, c. 1850–19000
Authors, Activists, Archivists: A Dialogue with Francesca Orsini on Dalit Literature across Languages, Genre, Media0
Preserving the Bannuwal Identity: Post-Partition Bannu Refugees0
Rituals as a Means of Mitigation and Prevention: Containing Sectarian Rivalry in Kanchipuram0
Ambedkar in America: An Archive for Our Times0
The Return of Chen Ching Lin: Chinese Deserters and Chinatowns in the British Raj, 1943–460
Karva Chauth Travels: Fasting, Feasting and Everything in Between0
Refugee Cities: How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan Refugee Cities: How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan , by Sanaa Alimia, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 0
Social Work and Political Visibility: Activism, Education and the Disciplining of Social Service0
Connected History: Essays and Arguments0
Forging Communal Space: Negotiating Streets and Practices in Delhi, 1922–650
The Ethics of Staying: Social Movements and Land Rights Politics in Pakistan0
Auntyness in a Beauty Parlour: Relaxation, Conversation, Labour and Care0
The Changing Ecology of the Kolkata Tanpura0
The Indo-Myanmar Borderlands: Border Trade, Urbanisation and Ethnic Politics in Mizoram, India0
Resisting Disappearance: Military Occupation and Women’s Activism in Kashmir0
Za Nur Jahan Begum ain Sara Abad : Viewing Inscription and Reading Architecture in the Caravanserai of a Mughal Empress0
Uncivil City: Ecology, Equity and the Commons in Delhi0
Imaging ‘Slow Violence’ in the Jharia Coalfields of India: Disrupting Energy Modernity through Photography0
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought0
Adoption in Hindi Fiction: Contesting Normative Understandings of Parenting and Parenthood in Late Colonial India0
Cartographic Anxiety on the Thar Desert: The Border Security Force and Jaisalmer’s Tanot Mata Mandir0
Nehruvian Ghosts: Kamal Amrohi’s Film, Mahal (1949)0
The Houseness of the Naga House Museum: Towards a Narrative of the Postcolonial South Asian House Museum0
Gender and Caste: The Politics of Embodied Spatial Negotiations in Rural Odisha, India0
Being Young, Becoming Political: Subjectivity and Urban Space in Early Partition Novels0
Friendly Nations and Open Borders: Gender, Caste and Sacredness at the India-Nepal Border0
Introduction: Salt, Protest and Public Health in Modern India0
Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil0
Salt and the National Imaginary: The Photojournalism of the Dandi Satyagraha0
Hysteria Narratives and Love-in-Separation (Viraha) in North India0
Remembering Heterodox Pre/Colonial Oral Cultures in (Re)Organising Bengali Dalit Literary Histories0
Hear #MeToo in India: News, Social Media, and Anti-Rape and Sexual Harassment Activism0
The Religious and Racial Geography of Late Nineteenth-Century Bombay0
Caste as Process in Post-Liberalisation India0
Proximity or Sycophancy? The Relationship between Intelligence and Policy in the Nehruvian Era, 1947–640
Delhi and Its Urban Peripheries: Associational Life of the Village0
Melancholia of the Past: Remembering Communal Violence in a Mumbai Slum0
Hysteria: A South Asian History of Global Medicine0
India’s Spatial Imaginations of South Asia: Power, Commerce, and Community0
Mountain, Water, Rock, God: Understanding Kedarnath in the Twenty-First Century0
Drag Queen in the Beauty Salon: What Theorising Strange Bedfellows Can Tell Us about the Labour of Aunties0
Setting India on the Wrong Path: Robert McCarrison’s Goitre Research, 1906–350
Advertising Medical Technologies in Urdu Print c. 1930: Prosthesis and Possibility0
Reworking Culture: Relatedness, Rites, and Resources in Garo Hills, North-East India0
Salt Workers in Contemporary South India: Change and Continuity0
Salt, Sovereignty and Law in Colonial India: The Case of Rajputana Salt in the Late Nineteenth Century0
Demanding Development: The Politics of Public Goods Provision in India’s Urban Slums0
From Colonial India to Semi-Colonial Republican China: Imaginaries and Realities of Civil Service and State-Building in Salt Administration, 1912–450
Between Globalising Religions and Embodying Asia: Imagining Japan in Bengal0
Animal Enthusiasms: Life beyond Cage and Leash in Rural Pakistan0
Reimagining Hindu Mythology for the Diasporic Queer Body: Discursive Materiality in Vivek Shraya’s She of the Mountains0
Violence, Urban Anxieties and Masculinities: The ‘Foot Soldiers’ of 2002, Ahmedabad0
South Asia Book Forum0
Communal Geographies: Space, Identity and Electoral Constituency in Colonial North India0
Historicising Housing Rights: Critical Events and Political Ruptures in Post-Partition Urban India0
Banishment and Belonging: Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka and Ceylon0
The Gastropoetics of Sex: Gluttony, Lust and Excess in Late Nationalist India0
‘Tell Them Our Story’: Memories of the Sumi Naga Labour Corps in World War I0
Divisive Politics of the Inner Line Permit in Three Stories from Manipur in India’s Northeast0
Reforms via Katikāvat: Dissension among Buddhist Monks in Sri Lanka over the Code of Conduct Bill0
C.A. Bayly’s Unfinished Business: A History of Ideas in an Old Manuscript0
Instrumental Lives: An Intimate Biography of an Indian Laboratory,0
‘Why Can’t Our Bhuta Have a Mask?’ Caste Contestations and Ritual Practice in Tulunadu0
Self-Sacrifice, Suffrage and Socialism: Gandhi and the Mobilisation of Women, 1930–310
Mother Tongues—the Disruptive Possibilities of Feminist Vernaculars0
‘Purify the Deval and Devi’: Dalits and Politics of Hindu Social Reform in Hyderabad, 1920–280
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. Venkata0
The Architecture of Laila’s World in Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column0
In the Name of the Nation: India and Its Northeast0
Communal Geographies: An Introduction0
Bad Brown Aunties, Fagony Aunts and Resistance Aunties: Centring Queer Desi Aunties in Diasporic Social Movement and Justice Work0
Creating an Oral Map: ‘Living On’ after the Nellie Massacre, 19830
Virtual Ethnicity? The Visual Construction of ‘Sinhalaness’ on Social Media in Sri Lanka0
Bikās as Pedagogy: The Concept of Development at an Elite Boarding School in Nepal0
Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India , by Akshya Saxena, Princeton Universit0
The Racialisation of Citizenship in Post-Colonial India0
Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi , by Sushmita Pati, Cam0
Pakistan’s Health-Care System: A Case of Elite Capture0
Rain of Life, Rain of Music: Music as Life Power in Indian Thought and Contemporary Musical Traditions0
‘Do You Hear Voices, or Do You Think You Hear Voices?’: Malevolence and Modernity in the Psychiatric Clinic0
From Discordance to Assemblages: Renegotiating French and Portuguese Colonial Identities through Indian Tourism and Heritage Sites0
The Duplicate Malady: Repositioning Hysteria in South Asia0
Suffering, Survival and Sustenance: Meos’ Post-Partition Experiences in Pakistan0
Picturing Development: Outdoor Campaign Materials during the 2019 General Election in India0
Multani Shikarpuri Migration to Malabar: A Praxis on Homemaking0
Imagining India in Modern China: Literary Decolonization and the Imperial Unconscious, 1895–1962 Imagining India in Modern China: Literary Decolonization and the Imperial Unconscious, 10
The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India0
The Making of a Modern Slum: The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay0
American Modernisers and the Cow Question in Colonial and Nationalist India0
Why Do Rich Sindhi Women Need a Kitty Group? Space, Sociality and Status Production among Upper-Class Housewives in Singapore0
The Home and the World: Queering Diaspora and Recasting the Nation in Ananda Devi’s Indian Tango0
An Aesthetics of Isolation: How Pudumaippittan Gave Pre-Eminence to the Tamil Short Story0
World War II and the Prospect of ‘Quit India’ in Bengal: Perceptions, Rumours and Revolutionary Parties0
The Rise and Demise of Multi-Purpose Food in India: Food Technology, Population Control and Nutritional Development in the Post-War Era, c. 1944–660
Imagined Geographies in the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands: Culture, Politics, Place0
Elusive Lives: Gender, Autobiography and the Self in Muslim South Asia0
Authority Traversed: Police, Politics and the Urban Poor in Dhaka0
Language and the Making of Modern India: Nationalism and the Vernacular in Colonial Odisha, 1803–19560
The Films Division of India and the Nehruvian Dream0
Decolonising the Orgasm: Caste, Whiteness and Knowledge Production at the ‘End of Empire’0
Engaging with Ethnographic Museum Objects from Erstwhile Naga Hills: From Imperial, Colonial and Postcolonial Eras to Contemporary Reimagining0
Border, Pastoralism and Affect: Memories, Interactions and Cultural Transformations of Pastoralists in Western Rajasthan Borderlands0
Persian Literati, Islam and Politics in Early Modern South Asia: Being a Muslim in ‘Abd al-Haqq Dehlawi’s Texts0
Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891–19370
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