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Papers

(The TQCC of South Asia-Journal of South Asian Studies is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-09-01 to 2023-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Chor, Police and Cattle: The Political Economies of Bovine Value in the India–Bangladesh Borderlands	34
Pedagogies of Aspiration: Anthropological Perspectives on Education in Liberalising India	32
Disgust as Embodied Critique: Being Middle Class and Muslim in Mumbai	24
Can Fun Be Feminist? Gender, Space and Mobility in Lyari, Karachi	21
Mazaa: Rethinking Fun, Pleasure and Play in South Asia	20
Religious Minorities in Pakistan: Identities, Citizenship and Social Belonging	20
Blurring Bovine Boundaries: Cow Politics and the Everyday in South India	19
Defending Frivolous Fun: Feminist Acts of Claiming Public Spaces in South Asia	18
Bovine Politics in South Asia: Rethinking Religion, Law and Ethics	16
Reading Aspiration in Kerala’s Migrant Photography	15
‘Preserving and Improving the Breeds’: Cow Protection’s Animal-Husbandry Connection	14
The Problem Without a Name: Comments on Cultural Difference (Racism) in India	10
Provincialising the Cow: Buffalo–Human Relationships	10
Body, Boundaries and Sindoor Feminism in India	10
Masculine Vernacular Histories of Travel in Colonial India: The Writings of Satyadev ‘Parivrajak’	9
Life Skills as Affective Labour: Skilling Girls with Gendered Enterprise	9
Theatrics of a ‘Violent State’ or ‘State of Violence’: Mapping Histories and Memories of Partition in Jammu and Kashmir	9
Documents, Digitisation and History	7
From Romance to Reproduction: Pre- and Post-Independence Covers in a Marathi Women’s Magazine	7
Posters, Politics and Power: Mediated Materialisation of Public Authority in Bangladesh Party Politics	6
Sexuality and the History of Disciplinary Transgression	5
Jogendranath Mandal and the Politics of Dalit Recognition in Pakistan	5
Plunder and Prestige: Tipu Sultan’s Library and the Making of British India	5
The ‘Untouchable School’: American Missionaries, Hindu Social Reformers and the Educational Dreams of Labouring Dalits in Colonial North India	5
Mothers and Godmothers of Crafts: Female Leadership and the Imagination of India as a Crafts Nation, 1947–67	4

‘My World Is a Different World’: Caste and Dalit Eco-Literary Traditions	4
‘Pravasi Really Means Absence’: Gulf-Pravasis as Spectral Figures in Deepak Unnikrishnan’s Temporary People	4
The Post-Colonial Magazine Archive	4
Breath of Revolution: Ghadar Anti-Colonial Radicalism in North America and the Mexican Revolution	4
Female Mobility and Bengali Women’s Travelogues in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries	4
Tipu Sultan, the Power of the Past and the Possibility of a ‘Historical Temper’	3
Class Analysis of the Experience of Migration during the Partition of India	3
Internally Displaced Kashmiri Pandits: Negotiation and Access to Cultural Capital	3
Malika Begum’s Mehfil: The Lost Legacy of Women’s Travel Writing in Urdu	3
Our Libraries Are Colonial Archives: South Asian Collections in Western and Global North Libraries	3
From Untouchables to Vyasa’s Clan: Fishermen’s Reform Movement in Kerala	3
Provincialising Bengal: The View from Darjeeling	3
Combining Global Expertise with Local Knowledge in Colonial India: Selling Ideals of Beauty and Health in Commodity Advertising (c. 1900–1949)	3
Women’s ‘Retrieval’ from Pakistan: ‘India’s Daughters’ and the Emotional History of Partition	3
Coca-Cola and the Moral Economy of Rural Development in India	3
Radical Right Islamists in Bangladesh: A Counter-Intuitive Argument	3
A Majoritarian View of ‘Gender Justice’ in Contemporary India: Examining Media Coverage of ‘Triple Talaq’ and ‘Love Jihad’	3
Fashioning Fabulation: Dress, Gesture and the Queer Aesthetics of Mumbai Pride	3
English-Educated as ‘Ready-Made’ Leaders: Re-Inscribing Distinction through the Student Police Cadet Project in Kerala, India	3
Introduction to ‘Translating Sex: Locating Sexology in Indian History’	3
Dispersal and Development: Two Key Moments in the Growth of Thane City	2
The Fleeting Taste of Mazaa: From Embodied Philology to an Alegropolitics for South Asia	2
Bengali Dalit Literature and the Politics of Recognition	2
Bhutanese or Nepali? The Politics of Ethnonym Ambiguity	2
Senses and Sensibilities in Sarojini Naidu’s Poetry	2
Packing a Punch at the Bengali Babu	2
Epidemiology in Motion: Traumatic Brain Injuries in Mumbai	2
Vernacular Sexology from the Margins: A Woman and a Shudra	2
Gendered Nationalism and Material Texts: An Urdu Women’s Periodical in 1960s Pakistan	2
Education for Confidence: Political Education for Recasting Bahujan Student Selves	2
Introduction: Transnational Figurations of the South Asian Aunty	2
Surface Pleasures: Bicycling and the Limits of Infrastructural Thinking	2
Democracy and Discrimination: Comparing Caste-Based Politics in Indian and Pakistani Punjab	2
Religious Offence Policed: Paradoxical Outcomes of Containment at the Centre of Banaras, and the ‘Know-How’ of Local Muslims	2
Ontologies of a Pandemic: Polarisations Exposed by COVID-19 in Bangladesh	2
Dance Floor Divas: Fieldwork, Fabulating and Fathoming in Queer Bangalore	2
Thinking with Signs: Caste, Ethnicity and the Dual Body in Contemporary Eastern Nepal*	2
Re-Examining the Nexus between Madrasa Education and Politics in Bangladesh	2
A Partitioned Library: Changing Collecting Priorities and Imagined Futures in a Divided Urdu Library, 1947–49	2
Betwixt and Between: Hindu Identity in Pakistan and ‘Wary and Aware’ Public Performances	2
Malls versus Streets: North-Eastern Women between Modernity and Marginality	2
The Modernisation of South Asia’s Disease Burden: 1950 to 2021	2
Feminism, Family Planning and National Planning	2
Theatres of Empowerment: Elite, All-Girls’ Indian ‘Public Schools’ and the Production of Performative Altruism	2
Introduction: A Country of Her Making	2
Introduction: Feeding Bodies, Nurturing Identities: The Politics of Diet in Late Colonial and Early Post-Colonial India	1
Unpacking the Library	1
Gandhi, Brahmacharya and Global Sexual Science, 1919–38	1
Towards the Publication of The Transfer of Power Documents, 1961–69	1
Singing the River in Punjab: Poetry, Performance and Folklore	1

Changing Places: Religion and Minority in Pakistan	1
‘Songs of the Lake’: Understanding Cultural Expressions of Nature through Dwindling Folk-Songs and Mythologies in Bengaluru	1
Nation and Its ‘Other’ Women: Muslim Subjectivity and Gendered Agency in Delhi	1
Negotiated Spaces, Shared Place Identities: Roadside Settlements and Culture of Belonging in a Himalayan Town	1
Letter-Writing and Emotional Communities in Early Mughal India: A Note on the Badāyi' al-Inshā	1
Populism in Pakistan: The Exclusionary-Inclusionary Divide in the Politics of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Imran Khan	1
Mahadev’s Gift: Men, Bullocks and the Community of Cultivation in Central India	1
Post-Millennial Indian Dystopian Fiction: A Developing Canon of Precarity, (Im)purity and Ideas of India(nness)	1
The Possibility of Translation: Turning Ghosts into Psychosomatic Disorders in Nepal	1
Surveillance, Censure and Support: Gender Counting in South Asia	1
Reclaiming the Citizen: Christian and Shi‘i Engagements with the Pakistani State	1
A Poet’s Ocean: Merchants and Imagination across Indian Ocean Gujarat	1
A Hydrologically Fractured State? Nation-Building, the Hirakud Dam and Societal Divisions in Eastern India	1
A Guide for Poets: Debating the First Poet of Classical Telugu Literature	1
The Observant Owl: Sensory Worlds of Colonial Calcutta in Hutom’s Vignettes	1
Vernacular Taste and Urban Transformation: Towards an Analytics of Fun and a New Kind of Critique	1
Mourning a Queer Aunty: Kinship, Creative Resilience and World-Making	1
The Indian Onion Crisis: Agricultural Pricing Policy and State Legitimacy	1
Cutting Edge Research in the Contact Zone? The Establishment of the Nutritional Research Laboratories in Coonoor (1925–27)	1
Not Part of the Plan? Women, State Feminism and Indian Socialism in the Nehru Years	1
Women and the Vote: Registration, Representation and Participation in the Run-Up to India’s First Elections, 1951–52	1
B-School Religion: Hindu Theology in the Neo-Liberal Cityscape	1
Regulating Hooligans and Mawaalis: Collective Action and the Politics of Public Order in Late Colonial India	1
No Offence: Communal Vulnerability, Law and Versatility in a Vernacular Indo-Islamic Context	1
Muslim Belonging in Assam: History, Politics and the Future	1
Introduction: Postcolonial Archives	1
Writing Industrial Change in Urdu: Artisanship, Islam and Technology in Colonial India	1
Patriarchy as an Assemblage: Qandeel Baloch, Male Domination and Feminist Publics in Pakistan	1
The Politics of the Post-Colonial Literary Archive: The Rushdie Papers at Emory University	1
Women in the State: Elected Women and the Challenge of Indian Politics (1957–62)	1
Social Work, Refugees and National Belonging: Evaluating the ‘Lady Social Workers’ of West Bengal	1
What Can a Song Do to You? A Life Story of a Gurkha Prisoner in World War I	1
Aspiration as Labour: Muslim Women at a Basic Computer-Training Centre in Hyderabad	1
Towards a Relational Approach to the State: Understanding Social and Political Transformation in Nepal	1
Review Essay: Liquidity of the Sundarbans: If the Tigers and Cyclones Don’t Get You, the Law Will	1
Environmental Casteism and the Democratisation of Natural Resources: Reimagining Dalit Testimonies	1
Making Way for Ships: Displacement, Religion and Urban Space-Making in India’s Southwest Littoral	1
Literary Sentiments in the Vernacular: Gender and Genre in Modern South Asia	1
India’s Foreign Fighter Puzzle	1
Consider the Aunty: The Obfuscation of Desire in My Beautiful Laundrette	1
Corruption as a Diagnostic of Power: Navigating the Blurred Boundaries of the Relational State	1
Making ‘Green Citizens’ in Ilam: Development and Transformation in East Nepal	1
Search for ‘Context’: Commodities, Consumption and Abul Hasanat’s Material Sexscape	1
A Phenomenological Exploration into Lived Experiences of Violence in Northeast India	1
Gendering Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Commercial Surrogacy and Constructions of Motherhood	1
‘No Afghan Refugees in India’: Refugees and Cold War Politics in the 1980s	1
Narrating Christians in Pakistan through Times of War and Conflict	1
Where Interests Collided: Examining the Conflictual Relationship between the Nepali State and Its Citizens through the History of Public Libraries	1
India’s Rural Medical Revolution: The Attitudes of Villagers to Village-Level Blood Testing in Maharashtra	1