South Asia-Journal of South Asian Studies

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
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Hear #MeToo in India: News, Social Media, and Anti-Rape and Sexual Harassment Activism11
‘Nature’ in the Ṭhumrī Genre as Performed by Some Female Exponents of the Pūrab Aṅg: Liminality, Identity and Resistance10
‘The Best Timber in India’: Shipbuilding Supplies and the Dutch East India Company in Cochin, 1663–17958
Mourning a Queer Aunty: Kinship, Creative Resilience and World-Making8
Smart Cities, Surveillance and Speed in Imphal, Manipur8
Women Reading/Women Writing: Anxiety and Āzādī in Twentieth Century Urdu Pulp Fiction5
Picturing Development: Outdoor Campaign Materials during the 2019 General Election in India5
Forging Communal Space: Negotiating Streets and Practices in Delhi, 1922–655
Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil4
The Politics of the Post-Colonial Literary Archive: The Rushdie Papers at Emory University4
Introduction: Salt, Protest and Public Health in Modern India3
Delhi and Its Urban Peripheries: Associational Life of the Village3
State Spectacles of Yoga: Invisible India and India Everywhere3
A Precarious Trade: The English East India Company and Its Interventions in the Balasore Salt Trade3
Writing History in Deobandi-Barelvi Polemics: Conflicting Views of Shah Ismail and Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi3
Anti/Aunty as Critical Method: From Gendered Resistance to Soft Grace3
From Communist Internationalism to a ‘New Humanism’: On M.N. Roy’s Confrontation with Fascism3
Living in the Naga life-world: Indigeneity, masculinity and the consumption of pig testicles in Northeast India3
Embodying Sacred Pain: Practice of Austerities Among Hindu Ascetics2
The Hill and Forest Products of the Tamiḻakam: Communication and Exchange Between Southern India and the Roman World2
‘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
Rethinking the Role of Informality as a Barrier to Financial Inclusion: Insights from an Indian Urban Setting2
‘For the Farmers of the Country’: Indian Agricultural Universities at the Cusp of Nation-Building Plans and the Cold War, 1947–672
‘What else to do?’: Middle adult men, idleness and drinking at the margins in Nagaland, India2
Contemporary Ritual: Teyyam and the Creation of Its Epistemic World2
Transformation of the Deities: Temples, Caste and Identity in Goa2
Collaborative neoliberalism: Social mobility in rural North India2
The Possibility of Translation: Turning Ghosts into Psychosomatic Disorders in Nepal2
Religion and the Public Sphere: The Multifaceted Role of Sacred Sites in Political Mobilisation in the Kashmir Valley2
Shauqeen Viewing: Mingling with the Indian Courtesan2
Yes to Vedānta, No to Bhakti? Some Philosophical and Religious Novelties of Jasvant Siṃh I’s Brajbhāṣā Prabodha Nāṭaka2
Communal Geographies: An Introduction2
Rain of Life, Rain of Music: Music as Life Power in Indian Thought and Contemporary Musical Traditions2
Text and Tradition: The Dynasty of Villarvattom among Syrian Christians in Kerala, India2
‘Purify the Deval and Devi’: Dalits and Politics of Hindu Social Reform in Hyderabad, 1920–282
Spilling the Tea: Aunty Discipline and the Queer Diasporic Child in D’Lo’s To T, or Not To T?2
Himalayan masculinities2
The Object as Gift: Practices of Gift Exchange in Awadh in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century1
Afterword: Women Writing in Kashmir?1
‘Tell Them Our Story’: Memories of the Sumi Naga Labour Corps in World War I1
‘Songs of the Lake’: Understanding Cultural Expressions of Nature through Dwindling Folk-Songs and Mythologies in Bengaluru1
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
Inventive Indians: Technological Imaginaries and Patenting Activity in Late Colonial India (1911–48)1
Satrah Din, Satrah Saal: Media, Propaganda and Virtual Warfare in the India-Pakistan War of 19651
Subregional Memories of an Undivided Rural Punjab: Community, Culture and Identity among the Hindus of Bahawalpur1
‘Tippoo…Was Just Such a Man As I Am’: Protest, Rebellion and Military Labour in South India1
‘Development Has Gone Crazy’: The Gujarat Model of ‘Unequal’ Development through Neoliberalism and Hindutva1
The Many Labours of Leather: Artisans, Tree Bark and Chemical Knowledge in Industrial South India, 1914–341
The Home and the World: Queering Diaspora and Recasting the Nation in Ananda Devi’s Indian Tango1
Letter to the Editors1
Melancholia of the Past: Remembering Communal Violence in a Mumbai Slum1
Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene1
Caste as Process in Post-Liberalisation India1
Pakistan to Bangladesh, 1947–71: Introduction1
Riaz Hassan, AM FASSA (August 14, 1937–June 8, 2022)1
Violence as border governmentality: Myanmar military coup, Assam-Mizoram border dispute and beyond1
The Films Division of India and the Nehruvian Dream1
The Architecture of Laila’s World in Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column1
Magical India: Some Notes on Forest-Dwellers and Their Products in Ancient Greek and Roman Sources1
Framing ‘fear for the future’ as a concept to study the subjectification of youth and university students: An introduction1
Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh1
Muslim Household, Nation and Urdu in Television Dramas of Pakistan1
Neo-Liberal Pitfalls and the COVID-19 Pandemic Challenges in Bangladesh1
Reimagining Hindu Mythology for the Diasporic Queer Body: Discursive Materiality in Vivek Shraya’s She of the Mountains1
Dārā Šukōh’s Bhagavad Gītā ? The Attribution of the Āb-i Zindagī and Its Place Among the Persian Translations of Indic Philosophical Mater1
Between Ritual Doubt and Spiritual Striving: The Mediation of Adab at a Sufi Shrine in Contemporary India1
Business as Usual? Bazars and Communalism in Colonial Delhi, 1913–321
Leaving Comrades to Die: Shahadat , Soldiering and Accidental Death on the Siachen Glacier1
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
Perceptions and Products of the Forested Highlands: A View from the Malwa Sultan’s Book of Delicacies , c. 15001
Engaging with Ethnographic Museum Objects from Erstwhile Naga Hills: From Imperial, Colonial and Postcolonial Eras to Contemporary Reimagining1
Ambedkar in America: An Archive for Our Times1
Making Way for Ships: Displacement, Religion and Urban Space-Making in India’s Southwest Littoral1
Gardening the community: The Basel Mission, household economy, gardens and farms in Germany and India1
Unruly Children, Transgressive Gazes: Interpreting Childhood and Freedom in the Writings of Leela Majumdar1
Anthropological Developmentalism: Furer-Haimendorf and the Making of Social Policy in Hyderabad State 11
The Ecology of the Archive in Adil Jussawalla's ‘Date Book’ for a Missing Novel1
Introduction: Ecology, Music and Community—Exploring Performance in South Asia1
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
Introduction: Between the Field and the Gallery: Exploring Anthropological Knowledge in South Asia0
‘Why Can’t Our Bhuta Have a Mask?’ Caste Contestations and Ritual Practice in Tulunadu0
Patriarchy as an Assemblage: Qandeel Baloch, Male Domination and Feminist Publics in Pakistan0
Bad Brown Aunties, Fagony Aunts and Resistance Aunties: Centring Queer Desi Aunties in Diasporic Social Movement and Justice Work0
Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy and Saintly Affects in Pakistan0
Technologies of becoming-imperceptible in Ritwik Ghatak’s Ajantrik (1958)0
Historicising Housing Rights: Critical Events and Political Ruptures in Post-Partition Urban India0
Impartiality as a Quality of Government and Its Violation in the Governance of Sectarian Conflict in Pakistan0
Salt Workers in Contemporary South India: Change and Continuity0
Environmental Casteism and the Democratisation of Natural Resources: Reimagining Dalit Testimonies0
The Religious and Racial Geography of Late Nineteenth-Century Bombay0
From Discordance to Assemblages: Renegotiating French and Portuguese Colonial Identities through Indian Tourism and Heritage Sites0
Imaging ‘Slow Violence’ in the Jharia Coalfields of India: Disrupting Energy Modernity through Photography0
Introduction: Writing Muslim Women in South Asia0
Gender politics and nationalist imagination: The role of Bengali Muslim women educationists, 1947–710
The Changing Ecology of the Kolkata Tanpura0
The Ingredients of Casteism: Holy Week and Syrian Christian Food Practices in Kerala, India0
Reworking Culture: Relatedness, Rites, and Resources in Garo Hills, North-East India0
Salt: An Afterword0
Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi , by Sushmita Pati, Cam0
‘Do You Hear Voices, or Do You Think You Hear Voices?’: Malevolence and Modernity in the Psychiatric Clinic0
Refugee Cities: How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan0
The Sex Worker That She Is Not: Suggestion, Risk and Public Femininity in Contemporary Hindi Cinema0
Art, Resistance and Social Media: The Anti-CAA Protests in India0
The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India0
An impotent prince, a powerful begum and a servant queen: Lives of women servants in the Awadh Court (1814–37)0
Hindu Economicus0
Subaltern and Dalit-Bahujan Organisation in South Asia: The Historical Roots0
Enemy Property: Violence, Dispossession and Citizenship in South Asia0
Hysteria: A South Asian History of Global Medicine0
Special Section Preface: Engaging with Early Modern Indian Philosophy: Vedānta and Beyond0
Gendering Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Commercial Surrogacy and Constructions of Motherhood0
Mill, Market, Mandir, Masjid: The Geographies of Communal Conflict in Colonial Bombay, c. 1929–390
Smell as a Marker of Social Boundary: Exploring the Role of Fish ‘Stench’0
Famine in a Rice Economy: Natural Calamities, Grain Scarcity and the Company-State in Bengal, 1770–18030
Cleansing India: Gandhi, Hindutva and the Calypsology of Sanitation Reforms0
Authority Traversed: Police, Politics and the Urban Poor in Dhaka0
Self-Sacrifice, Suffrage and Socialism: Gandhi and the Mobilisation of Women, 1930–310
The Brahmanisation of Indian Sociology or the Birth of the Racial Theories of Untouchability0
Hysteria Narratives and Love-in-Separation (Viraha) in North India0
Tea & Solidarity: Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka0
Introduction: Transnational Figurations of the South Asian Aunty0
Negotiating Power and Constructing the Nation: Engineering in Sri Lanka Negotiating Power and Constructing the Nation: Engineering in Sri Lanka , by Bandura DileepaWitha0
‘Good Muslim girls’ with punchlines: Piety, agency and humour in Pakistani stand-up comedy0
Scripts of Power: Writing, Language Practices, and Cultural History in Western India0
Uncovering the Erasure: The Case for Babasaheb Ambedkar as a Pioneer of Indian Sociology0
Obituary: Jim Masselos0
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
Making Management Hindu: S.K. Chakraborty and the Indigenisation of Homo Economicus0
‘I Will Make a ṭīkā ’: Translation, Commentary and Tradition in Nājar Ānandrām’s Paramānanda Prabodha0
Neoliberal pedagogies of Pahari enterprise: Youth in provincial North India0
A Tiger for Theodosius II: Exotic Gift Giving and Diplomatic Contacts Between Eastern Rome and India in Late Antiquity0
‘To Kiss or Not to Kiss?’ Cinema, Vulgarity and Marathi Manus in 1950s and 1960s Maharashtra0
Television and Temples: Hindutva and OBC and Adivasi Self-Making in Borderland Gujarat0
Understanding Dakaiti (Banditry) in the Chambal Valley and Bundelkhand0
Corporate Brahminism and Tech Work: Caste in a Modern Indian Profession0
Ambiguous Identity and Uncertain Belonging: Assessing the Lives of Undocumented Brihannalas in the Backdrop of the COVID-19 Pandemic0
South Asian Forest-Dwellers and the Making of World Histories0
Sufis as Sacred Props: Hagiographical Transmutation of Shāh Ḥusayn (945/1538–1008/1599)0
Imperial exception: Judges, lawyers and the making of the law of evidence in post-1857 British India0
Documents, Digitisation and History0
Setting India on the Wrong Path: Robert McCarrison’s Goitre Research, 1906–350
Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891–19370
(Re)Imagining Anglo-American Relations: Natural History, Sport Hunting and Scientific Imperialism in the Vernay-Faunthorpe Indian Expeditions of 1922–290
The Houseness of the Naga House Museum: Towards a Narrative of the Postcolonial South Asian House Museum0
Saving Cows and Counting Ploughs: The Biopolitics of Cow Protection0
‘This is Caste Power’: Youth Politicians, Vernacular Notions of Caste-Based Supremacy and its Reproduction in Contemporary North India0
From Hearth to Print: Women Authors and the Cultural Politics of Food in Western India, 1875–19450
Obituary: Johannes Bronkhorst0
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
Suffering, Survival and Sustenance: Meos’ Post-Partition Experiences in Pakistan0
Bankimchandra and Rabindranath on the concepts of satya (truth) and morality: The dispute0
The Post-Colonial Magazine Archive0
Proximity or Sycophancy? The Relationship between Intelligence and Policy in the Nehruvian Era, 1947–640
Masculinity in Assamese films0
Border, Pastoralism and Affect: Memories, Interactions and Cultural Transformations of Pastoralists in Western Rajasthan Borderlands0
Laying the Foundation of the ‘Native’ Christian Community: The Church Missionary Society and Its Experiments with Famine Orphans and Orphanages, 1840s–1920s0
Drag Queen in the Beauty Salon: What Theorising Strange Bedfellows Can Tell Us about the Labour of Aunties0
The City Possessed: Ghost Stories and the Urban History of Late Colonial Calcutta0
Communal Geographies and Peasant Insurgency in Colonial Myanmar0
Being Young, Becoming Political: Subjectivity and Urban Space in Early Partition Novels0
Prayers, Not Protests: Christian Internationalism and Young Womanhood in South India0
Creating an Oral Map: ‘Living On’ after the Nellie Massacre, 19830
Iron, Honey and Wild Cinnamon: Forest Resource Extraction in Sri Lanka’s Historical Landscape0
Bikās as Pedagogy: The Concept of Development at an Elite Boarding School in Nepal0
A Forest of Ships: Malabar’s State Forests and Bombay’s Dockyards, 1795–18220
Singing the River in Punjab: Poetry, Performance and Folklore0
Supplying Affordable Beverages to GIs: Coca-Cola Production and Provision in the China-Burma-India Theatre0
Timber, Fibre, Resin and Cotton: South Asian Materials in Western Indian Ocean Watercraft0
Karva Chauth Travels: Fasting, Feasting and Everything in Between0
Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India0
Encountering the Postcolonial State: Development Bureaucracy and Social Transformation in Rural Pre-Independent Bangladesh, 1947–700
Progressive Laments and/on Partition: The Cost of Freedom in Khadija Mastur’s Aangan (1962)0
The Heritage of Hynñiew Trep in Desmond Kharmawphlang’s Poems0
Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India , by Akshya Saxena, Princeton Universit0
Salt, Sovereignty and Law in Colonial India: The Case of Rajputana Salt in the Late Nineteenth Century0
Mangalkavya s and the Acculturation of Medieval Bengal: Analysing the Integration of Puranic and Folk Goddesses in the Folk Epics0
Friendly Nations and Open Borders: Gender, Caste and Sacredness at the India-Nepal Border0
Film and Caste Anxieties in Early Twentieth-Century India0
The Duplicate Malady: Repositioning Hysteria in South Asia0
Miracle millets: Indigenous food sovereignty and the revival of ancient grains in Northeast India0
Anticipating Failure: Gurkha Recruitment and Brokerage in Nepal0
Weaving Pasts: Kashmiri Textile Artisans and Their Modes of Self-Identification0
Consider the Aunty: The Obfuscation of Desire in My Beautiful Laundrette0
Post-Colonial Disasters and Narratives of Erasure: Reimagining Testimonies of Toxic Encounter0
Muslim Communities and Trade along the Malabar Coast: A State of the Art0
Parables for Neoliberalism: Devdutt Pattanaik and the Mahabharata in Post-Liberalisation Indian English Literature0
The Ungrudging Indian: The Political Economy of Salt in India, c. 1878–19470
Scissors from Meerut, Locks from Aligarh: Locality and Production in North India, 1870–19500
Nehruvian Ghosts: Kamal Amrohi’s Film, Mahal (1949)0
Dhandha , Accumulation and the Making of Valuable Livelihoods in Contemporary Mumbai 10
Writing Rokeya: Muslim Women’s Life-Writing, Intergenerational Camaraderie and Activism in Twentieth Century Bengal0
Media discourse, alternative medicine and COVID-19 in India: A case of an Ayurvedic drug ‘Coronil’0
‘Speak True to the People’: 1 Radio Pakistan and the Making and Unmaking of a National Soundscape0
The ‘Migrant-Leper’ as the Undeserving Outsider: Historicising Leprosy Policy in Delhi, 1920–600
Figures of Menace: Militarisation in Post-War Sri Lanka0
Cartographic Anxiety on the Thar Desert: The Border Security Force and Jaisalmer’s Tanot Mata Mandir0
Homeland Insecurities: Autonomy, Conflict and Migration in Assam0
A for appearance: Aesthetic labour and the work of image consultants in a globalised Delhi0
Going Wild on Instagram: Tiger Safaris and India’s Protected Areas in the Age of Social Media0
Introduction: Postcolonial Archives0
The Elephant Crown: Wodeyar Kingship, Hunting and the Politics of Preservation Under British Colonialism0
Authors, Activists, Archivists: A Dialogue with Francesca Orsini on Dalit Literature across Languages, Genre, Media0
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
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
Editor’s Note0
Of Loss, Belonging and Remembrance: Indian Poetic Responses to World War I0
C.A. Bayly’s Unfinished Business: A History of Ideas in an Old Manuscript0
George Grierson’s map and the remaking of Orissa, 1917–360
Remembering Heterodox Pre/Colonial Oral Cultures in (Re)Organising Bengali Dalit Literary Histories0
Communal Geographies: Space, Identity and Electoral Constituency in Colonial North India0
Consuming Students: Advertisements and the Indian Youth Market, 1935–650
Connected History: Essays and Arguments0
David E.U. Baker (1932–2021): A Life Extraordinaire0
The Changing Landscape of Punjab in Bollywood Film Songs0
Bureaucratic Mediations for Biometric Governance in India’s Northeast—Aadhaar in Tripura0
Burdened Agency and Empowered Mothering: Domestic Workers Negotiating Care and Constraint in Kolkata0
The Organisation of Sex Work in Bangladesh0
Multani Shikarpuri Migration to Malabar: A Praxis on Homemaking0
Gender, Dissent and the Afterlives of the Pakistan Movement: Fatima Jinnah in the 1965 Elections0
Archives of Minority: ‘Little’ Publications and the Politics of Friendship in Post-Colonial Bombay0
Religious Nationalism, Christianisation and Institutionalisation of Indigenous Faiths in Contemporary Arunachal Pradesh, India0
Reordering Adivasi Worlds: Representation, Resistance, Memory Reordering Adivasi Worlds: Representation, Resistance, Memory , by Sangeeta Dasgupta, New Delhi, Oxford Uni0
Research Ethics and the Chimera of Postcolonial Policing: Reflections after Zoha Waseem’s Insecure Guardians (2023)0
When They Know Us: Do Dalit Lives Matter?0
Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor0
Mapping Histories: An Environmental Perspective for Writing Local History in Pakistan0
Inheritance, Marriage and Adoption: Changing Judicial Practices in Hyderabad State0
Population, Eugenics and Reproductive Rights: Legalising Abortion in India, 1966–710
Between Sādhū and Darwesh: Storytelling and Social Reform in S. uġhrā Humāyūñ Mirzā’s Mohinī (1929)0
Gendered Nationalism and Material Texts: An Urdu Women’s Periodical in 1960s Pakistan0
Preface0
The East Pakistan-West Pakistan Entanglement: Gender, Politics and Postcolonial Development in Shawkat Ali’s Dhakkhinayoner Din0
Centring the margins: Heteronormativity and sexual otherness in India0
Choirs on the Coast: Impact of COVID-19 on Musical Pedagogy and Festivals0
Imagined Geographies in the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands: Culture, Politics, Place0
The Lahure dream: Unpacking Nepali military aspirations and masculinity0
The Thrill of Emergency and the Chronic Crisis of Corruption0
Music and Intermediality in Trans-Border Performances: Ecological Responses in Patachitra and Manasamangal0
Digitising the Diaspora Temple: Diasporic Affordances of Devotional Objects at a Hindu Sindhi Temple in Hong Kong0
Ambedkar on Indian Christianity: Towards a Critique0
The Indo-Myanmar Borderlands: Border Trade, Urbanisation and Ethnic Politics in Mizoram, India0
Preserving the Bannuwal Identity: Post-Partition Bannu Refugees0
Thinking with Signs: Caste, Ethnicity and the Dual Body in Contemporary Eastern Nepal*0
Youth and Selfhood in Neoliberal India: Shifting Geographies of Higher Education, Coaching Centres and Religiosity in Patna0
Men and Masculine Identities in Life Narratives of Sri Lanka’s War0
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