OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Divisive Politics of the Inner Line Permit in Three Stories from Manipur in India’s Northeast	10
Uncivil City: Ecology, Equity and the Commons in Delhi	10
Hear #MeToo in India: News, Social Media, and Anti-Rape and Sexual Harassment Activism	8
‘Nature’ in the Ṭhumrī Genre as Performed by Some Female Exponents of the Pūrab Aṅg: Liminality, Identity and Resistance	7
Mourning a Queer Aunty: Kinship, Creative Resilience and World-Making	7
Women Reading/Women Writing: Anxiety and Āzādī in Twentieth Century Urdu Pulp Fiction	6
Smart Cities, Surveillance and Speed in Imphal, Manipur	6
‘The best timber in India’: Shipbuilding supplies and the Dutch East India Company in Cochin, 1663–1795	4
Picturing Development: Outdoor Campaign Materials during the 2019 General Election in India	4
Introduction: Salt, Protest and Public Health in Modern India	4
Forging Communal Space: Negotiating Streets and Practices in Delhi, 1922–65	4
From Communist Internationalism to a ‘New Humanism’: On M.N. Roy’s Confrontation with Fascism	3
Writing History in Deobandi-Barelvi Polemics: Conflicting Views of Shah Ismail and Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi	3
Living in the Naga life-world: Indigeneity, masculinity and the consumption of pig testicles in Northeast India	3
The Politics of the Post-Colonial Literary Archive: The Rushdie Papers at Emory University	3
The Possibility of Translation: Turning Ghosts into Psychosomatic Disorders in Nepal	3
Delhi and Its Urban Peripheries: Associational Life of the Village	3
Writing Industrial Change in Urdu: Artisanship, Islam and Technology in Colonial India	3
A Precarious Trade: The English East India Company and Its Interventions in the Balasore Salt Trade	3
State Spectacles of Yoga: Invisible India and India Everywhere	3
Anti/Aunty as Critical Method: From Gendered Resistance to Soft Grace	3
Ontologies of a Pandemic: Polarisations Exposed by COVID-19 in Bangladesh	3
Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil	3
‘For the Farmers of the Country’: Indian Agricultural Universities at the Cusp of Nation-Building Plans and the Cold War, 1947–67	2
Religion and the Public Sphere: The Multifaceted Role of Sacred Sites in Political Mobilisation in the Kashmir Valley	2

‘Purify the Deval and Devi’: Dalits and Politics of Hindu Social Reform in Hyderabad, 1920–28	2
Internal colonisation, national liberation and cultural resistance: A postcolonial reading of pre-Bangladesh Bangla poetry of resistance	2
Contemporary Ritual: Teyyam and the Creation of Its Epistemic World	2
Violence as border governmentality: Myanmar military coup, Assam-Mizoram border dispute and beyond	2
‘Development Has Gone Crazy’: The Gujarat Model of ‘Unequal’ Development through Neoliberalism and Hindutva	2
Making Way for Ships: Displacement, Religion and Urban Space-Making in India’s Southwest Littoral	2
Magical India: Some notes on forest-dwellers and their products in ancient Greek and Roman sources	2
Towards the Publication of The Transfer of Power Documents, 1961–69	2
The hill and forest products of the Tamiḻakam: Communication and exchange between Southern India and the Roman World	2
Spilling the Tea: Aunty Discipline and the Queer Diasporic Child in D’Lo’s To T, or Not To T?	2
Transformation of the Deities: Temples, Caste and Identity in Goa	2
Text and Tradition: The Dynasty of Villarvattom among Syrian Christians in Kerala, India	2
Communal Geographies: An Introduction	2
Introduction: Making Sense of Empire	2
Pakistan to Bangladesh, 1947–71: Introduction	2
Anthropological Developmentalism: Furer-Haimendorf and the Making of Social Policy in Hyderabad State ¹	2
Framing ‘fear for the future’ as a concept to study the subjectification of youth and university students: An introduction	2
Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh	2
Shauqeen Viewing: Mingling with the Indian Courtesan	2
Combining Global Expertise with Local Knowledge in Colonial India: Selling Ideals of Beauty and Health in Commodity Advertising (c. 1900–1949)	2
The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India	2
Rain of Life, Rain of Music: Music as Life Power in Indian Thought and Contemporary Musical Traditions	2
‘We Look at Our Feet and Work’: Women Construction Workers Negotiating Patriarchies in Kolkata, India	2
‘What else to do?’: Middle adult men, idleness and drinking at the margins in Nagaland, India	2
‘Songs of the Lake’: Understanding Cultural Expressions of Nature through Dwindling Folk-Songs and Mythologies in Bengaluru	2
Inventive Indians: Technological Imaginaries and Patenting Activity in Late Colonial India (1911–48)	2
Subregional Memories of an Undivided Rural Punjab: Community, Culture and Identity among the Hindus of Bahawalpur	2
Vernacular Apocalypse in Medieval Kashmir: The Mystical Poetry of Nund Rishi (1378–1440)	2
Perceptions and products of the forested highlands: A view from the Malwa Sultan’s Book of Delicacies , c. 1500	1
Muslim Household, Nation and Urdu in Television Dramas of Pakistan	1
The Ecology of the Archive in Adil Jussawalla's ‘Date Book’ for a Missing Novel	1
Cleansing India: Gandhi, Hindutva and the Calypsology of Sanitation Reforms	1
Architecture of East Pakistan: International experts, regional tropical architecture and the search for architectural identity, 1947–71	1
Gendered Nationalism and Material Texts: An Urdu Women’s Periodical in 1960s Pakistan	1
Empress: Queen Victoria and India	1
Ambedkar in America: An Archive for Our Times	1
Men and Masculine Identities in Life Narratives of Sri Lanka’s War	1
Language and Cinema: Schisms in the Representation of Hyderabad	1
Introduction: Ecology, Music and Community—Exploring Performance in South Asia	1
The Home and the World: Queering Diaspora and Recasting the Nation in Ananda Devi’s Indian Tango	1
Engaging with Ethnographic Museum Objects from Erstwhile Naga Hills: From Imperial, Colonial and Postcolonial Eras to Contemporary Reimagining	1
Riaz Hassan, AM FASSA (August 14, 1937–June 8, 2022)	1
The Architecture of Laila’s World in Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column	1
Salt and the National Imaginary: The Photojournalism of the Dandi Satyagraha	1
After TRIPS: Can India Remain ‘the Pharmacy of the Developing World’?	1
Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene	1
Research as Development: Biomedical Research, Ethics and Collaboration in Sri Lanka	1
The Heritage of Hynñiew Trep in Desmond Kharmawphlang’s Poems	1
The Many Bismils of Today: Ram Prasad ‘Bismil’, ‘Bismil’ Azimabadi and Recovering the Legacy of a Muslim Intellectual	1
Consider the Aunty: The Obfuscation of Desire in My Beautiful Laundrette	1

The Smell of Caste: Leatherwork and Scientific Knowledge in Colonial India	1
Between Ritual Doubt and Spiritual Striving: The Mediation of Adab at a Sufi Shrine in Contemporary India	1
Surveillance, Censure and Support: Gender Counting in South Asia	1
Caste as Process in Post-Liberalisation India	1
Letter to the Editors	1
The ‘Migrant-Leper’ as the Undeserving Outsider: Historicising Leprosy Policy in Delhi, 1920–60	1
‘ Satrah Din, Satrah Saal ’ : Media, Propaganda and Virtual Warfare in the India-Pakistan War of 1965	1
Designing a Modern Self: The English Travels of Pandita Ramabai and Krishnabhabini Das	1
Banishment and Belonging: Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka and Ceylon	1
Afterword: Women Writing in Kashmir?	1
The Films Division of India and the Nehruvian Dream	1
Leaving Comrades to Die: Shahadat , Soldiering and Accidental Death on the Siachen Glacier	1
Melancholia of the Past: Remembering Communal Violence in a Mumbai Slum	1
Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy and Saintly Affects in Pakistan	1
Introduction: Transnational Figurations of the South Asian Aunty	1
Business as Usual? Bazars and Communalism in Colonial Delhi, 1913–32	1
Ambiguous Identity and Uncertain Belonging: Assessing the Lives of Undocumented Brihannalas in the Backdrop of the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
‘Tell Them Our Story’: Memories of the Sumi Naga Labour Corps in World War I	1
The Object as Gift: Practices of Gift Exchange in Awadh in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century	1
Reimagining Hindu Mythology for the Diasporic Queer Body: Discursive Materiality in Vivek Shraya’s She of the Mountains	1
Neo-Liberal Pitfalls and the COVID-19 Pandemic Challenges in Bangladesh	1
Senses and Sensibilities in Sarojini Naidu’s Poetry	1
From Worse than Dogs to Heroic Tigers: Situating the Animal in Dalit Autobiographies	1
Reconciling Religion, Reform and Modernity: A Study of Early Muslim Women’s Periodicals from South India	1