Contemporary South Asia

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Colonizing Kashmir: state-building under Indian occupation Colonizing Kashmir: state-building under Indian occupation , by Hafsa Kanjwal, Stanford, Stanford University P	20
Political conflict in Pakistan Political conflict in Pakistan , by Mohammad Waseem, London, Hurst, 2021, 576 pp., £35.00 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-787-38400-2	16
Childlessness in Bangladesh: intersectionality, suffering and resilience Childlessness in Bangladesh: intersectionality, suffering and resilience , by Papreen Nahar, Lon	12
Threatening dystopias	12
Foreign intervention, executive corruption, and economic growth in Afghanistan	11
Uprooted when settled: Koonj and Kuku in the changing migrating identity of Gujjars and Bakerwals, the transhumant pastoralist of Jammu an	10
Enhancing environmental performance: evidence from SAARC Countries	8
The National Register of Citizens (NRC) in India and the potential for statelessness in situ: a cautionary tale from Assam	7
Migration, patriarchy and ‘modern’ Islam: views from left behind wives in rural northern Bangladesh	7
Hindus in India, Bengalis in Bengal: the role of religious and regional identities in West Bengal politics	6
Voting for security: evidence from a Maoist-affected region in India	6
Musicoplia in Mumbai: performing subjects and the metropolitan unconscious	6
A study of risk perception of radiofrequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) exposure from mobile phones and base stations in India	5
India and Africa in the pandemic imagination	5
Devotional contextures: the māla songs and Muslim ethical formation in contemporary Kerala	5
Pakistan state practices in Gilgit-Baltistan: a paradox?	4
Neoliberal city and exclusive communities: the politics of contemporary urbanisation in northern India	4
Encountering the state: situated strategies and perspectives of Tanchangya villagers in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh	4
On becoming a demanding Community: Neelam and its March for Justice	4
Digitalization and Informality in media industries: beyond the platform-portal divide?	4
The dynamic of stepwise migrations of Nepalese high-skilled migrants via the Middle East	4
On-going Shaheen Bagh: collective creation, newness and solidarity	4
Resistance as negotiation: making states and tribes in the margins of modern India	4
Painting stories: lives and legacies from an Indian crafts village Painting stories: lives and legacies from an Indian crafts village , by Helle Bundgaard, Toronto, Univ	3
Chronotopes of sovereign power in In the Name of the Nation	3

Reordering Adivasi worlds: representation, resistance, memory Reordering Adivasi worlds: representation, resistance, memory , by Sangeeta Dasgupta, New Delhi, Oxford Uni	3
In the name of the father? Northeast India and problems of national kinship	3
Muslim New Womanhood in Bangladesh	3
Dharmaśāstra and the legal personality of deities in the Ayodhya verdicts (2010 & 2019)	3
Multilingual education in south Asia: at the intersection of policy and practice Multilingual education in south Asia: at the intersection of policy and practice , edite	3
Bottom-up imaginaries: examining discursive construction of social media roles and affordances in India	2
‘Still disappeared’: reconstructing the 1990 ‘truth commission’ in Nepal	2
‘New’ terrains of precarity – gig work in India	2
Performing sovereign aspirations: Tamil insurgency and postwar transition in Sri Lanka	2
Language ideologies and the vernacular in colonial and postcolonial South Asia	2
The epistemology and ontology of a bhakta: an analysis of pejorative and secularised meanings of bhakta	2
Making bureaucracy work: norms, education and public service delivery in rural India Making bureaucracy work: norms, education and public service delivery in rural India	2
Under the gun: political parties and violence in Pakistan Under the gun: political parties and violence in Pakistan , by Niloufer A. Siddiqui, Cambridge, Cambridge Unive	2
Identifying and regulating religion in India: law, history and the place of worship	2
Thief plates: the mediation of extortion in the rickshaw business in Dhaka, Bangladesh	2
‘ Randua on the bench’: examining the colonial and post-colonial roots of contemporary forced bachelorhood and vigilantism in the Agrarian North	2
Crooked cats: beastly encounters in the Anthropocene	2
Caste and politics in (West) Bengal: in conversation with Sekhar Bandyopadhyay	2
Sexuality reimagined: MSM in modern India	2
The Politics of love in Myanmar: LGBT mobilization and human rights as a way of life	2
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Surrender, rehabilitation and hybrid regimes: the making of the northeast frontier	2
Memory of landscapes: nostalgia, migration and the exilic memory of the East Bengali refugees in Dandakaranya	2
Divorcing Traditions: Islamic marriage law and the making of Indian secularism	2
The Covid-19 pandemic and governance dimensions of crisis response in developing countries: evidence from Sri Lanka	2
Gendering the everyday state: Muslim women, claim-making & brokerage in India	1
Creating the Universe: Depictions of the Cosmos in Himalayan Buddhism	1
Jurisprudence and geography of Hindu majoritarianism: thinking with the 2019 Ayodhya judgement	1
Dirty politics and political care in local politics: gendered barriers to moral boundary crossing in Dehradun, India	1
Undignified names: caste, politics, and everyday life in North India	1
Networks, space and belonging: the Marwaris in Manipur	1
Marketing affect: mapping the centredness of the election campaign through a comparison of party strategies in the Delhi assembly elections	1
Intimacy and industry: the multiple heterosexual intimacies shaping cycle rickshaw men’s labor and migration in India	1
Bridging neoliberalism and Hindu nationalism: the role of education in bringing about contemporary India Bridging neoliberalism and Hindu nationalism: the role of education in bringing	1
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Introduction to the BASAS 2021 special section	1
Voices of dissent Voices of dissent , Romila Thapar, Kolkata, Seagull Books, 2020, viii + 164 pp., ₹304 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-85742-862-2	1
Contestations and contradictions: feminist research on structures and institutions governing sex work in India	1
Shifting political landscapes in post-370 abrogation Kashmir: an analysis of emerging dynamics and implications	1
Kashmir after 2019: completing the partition	1
Of histories (un)shared: India – Pakistan, postage stamps, and 1857	1
Political parties and initial COVID-19 policies: subnational trends in India	1
Caste, marginalisation, and resistance: the politics of identity of the Naths (Yogis) of Bengal and Assam	1
House of the people: parliament and the making of Indian democracy House of the people: parliament and the making of Indian democracy , by Ronojoy Sen, Cambridge, Cambri	1
Poetics and politics of post-partition cultural memories in Kamila Shamsie’sKartography	1
Critical analysis of debates on Tamil populism: perspectives from the field	1
Nongra Kaj / ‘dirty work’: caste, colonialism and entrapment in Bangladesh	1
The politics of hope	1
Subcontinental drift: domestic politics and India’s foreign policy	1
A small car for a small family: building India’s first ‘people’s car’	1

Courting agency: gender and divorce in an English sharia council	1
Archive of tongues: an intimate history of brownness	1
Informing or campaigning? The narrative of the state of electoral politics in election posters in rural Pakistan	1
Why the digital classroom is a bad model for digital learning	1
Police matters: the everyday state and caste politics in South India, 1900–1975	1
Reflections on Kasia Paprocki's Threatening dystopias	1
History, Memory and Memorabilia: Kamala Dasgupta and the Politics of Remembering Revolutionary Bengal	1
Muslim marriages, the South African state and the courts: between limbo, liberation, and the spaces for contestation in-between	1
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Being seen: the political and bureaucratic entanglements of Muslim women in West Bengal	1
Hailing the state: Indian democracy between elections Hailing the state: Indian democracy between elections , by Lisa Mitchell, Durham, Duke University Press, 2023, xvii	1
Healing at the periphery: ethnographies of Tibetan medicine in India	1
Culture, Context and Aging of Older Indians Narratives from India and Beyond	0
The view from Mathura: nationalist projections in local perspective	0
India and maritime governance in the Indian ocean: the impact of geopolitics on India’s involvement in maritime governance	0
Muslim Woman/Muslim women: lived experiences beyond religion and gender in South Asia and its diasporas	0
Markets, capitalism and urban space in India: right to sell	0
Caste and two types of status. Comparing Dumont and Weber for studies of caste today	0
Press charges: renegotiating free speech and citizenship in post-partition Delhi	0
Political conflict in Pakistan	0
‘Familiar but foreign at the same time’: hegemonic pull and push in first Indian Netflix original series Sacred Games	0
Women’s participation in the Central Superior Services of Pakistan 1973–2020	0
‘Marry me to a serviceman or a city dweller’: aspirations of young Bhumihar women in rural Bihar	0
Getting schools to work better: educational accountability and teacher support in India and China	0
Urban development and environmental history in Modern South Asia	0
Forging new partnerships, breaching new frontiers: India's diplomacy during the UPA rule 2004–14 Forging new partnerships, breaching new frontiers: India's diplomacy during the UPA rule	0
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Pour une autre idée du Pakistan: nationalisme et construction identitaire dans le Sindh	0
Afterword: questions for the study of Muslim castes and anti-caste Islam	0
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Ayodhya 2.0 in Banaras? Judicial discourses and rituals of place in the making of Hindu majoritarianism	0
Political communication in contemporary India: locating democracy and government	0
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Beyond papers: understanding the making of citizenship in the Foreigners’ Tribunals of Assam	0
Pakistan’s foreign policy: contemporary developments and dynamics Pakistan’s foreign policy: contemporary developments and dynamics , edited by Ghulam Ali, New York, Rou	0
Masculinity, consumerism and the post-national Indian city: streets, neighbourhoods, home Masculinity, consumerism and the post-national Indian city: streets, neighbourhoods, home	0
Asserting caste? Bhishti sanitation workers and Muslim caste associations in Jaipur	0
Audio-visual piracy on Telegram: a perspective on monetization models, pirate strategies and industrial pathways	0
Women entrepreneurship in the Indian middle class: interdisciplinary perspectives	0
Everyday violence and care: insights from fictive kin relations between madams and sex workers in India	0
Correction	0
Bangladesh: Writings on 1971, Across Borders	0
To be upper caste/to be a victim	0
Unravelling the constitutional settlement: devolution, democracy and patronage in eastern Sri Lanka	0
Substantial relations: making global reproductive medicine in postcolonial India	0
Sustaining craft markets in urban India: a case study of Shilparamam, Hyderabad	0
Shadows at noon: the South Asian twentieth century Shadows at noon: the South Asian twentieth century , by Joya Chatterji, London, Bodley Head, Vintage, 2023, 864 pp., £	0
Building the state and conceiving the nation: the origins of separatist insurgency in the Mizo Hills, 1945-61	0
A preliminary review of India’s rural economic crisis: stagnant wages, piling debt and waning demand	0
Shaligram pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas Shaligram pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas , by Holly Walters, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2020, 293 pp., € 124,	0
Alien at birth: Chinese migrants in post-colonial Assam (1947-1962)	0
A strategic myth: ‘Underdevelopment’ in Jammu and Kashmir	0
Renunciation and longing: the life of a twentieth-century Himalayan Buddhist saint Renunciation and longing: the life of a twentieth-century Himalayan Buddhist saint , b	0
Making of the marginal: gender in a new education city	0
Graphic diversity and ethnic identification in contemporary Manipur	0
Decolonial praxis/es of solidarity in Indian literary and cultural discourses on social movements	0
Composing Violence: The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities	0
Otherness at war: Poles and World War II British Indian Army	0
Maritime security complexes of the Indo-Pacific region Maritime security complexes of the Indo-Pacific region , by Vijay Sakhuja and Lawrence S. Prabhakar, New Delhi, In	0
Dust on the throne: the search for Buddhism in modern India	0
Village ties: women, NGOs, and informal institutions in rural Bangladesh	0
Hindutva and communal polarization in Goa	0
Correction	0
The Karachi Jews and the history of Pakistani antisemitism	0
The contributions of Threatening Dystopias to critical adaptation studies	0
India and global governance across international regimes and time	0
Social mobility and politicisation of caste among the Rayeens of Uttar Pradesh	0
Media discourse in contemporary India: a study of television news Media discourse in contemporary India: a study of television news , by Sudeshna Devi, London, Routledge	0
India’s Pakistan conundrum: managing a complex relationship	0
Being single in India: stories of gender, exclusion, and possibility	0
Deformed bodies and the decolonial turn: unthinking and rethinking the colonial episteme in animal’s people	0
Whither utopia?	0
Identity, nationhood and Bangladesh independent cinema	0
Lived reality of elite neighbourhoods: geographies of inequality in Delhi	0
‘This is all waste’: emptying, cleaning and clearing land for renewable energy dispossession in borderland India	0
Narratives of cultural violence in 1947 partition: ‘Environmental Upheaval’ and ethnic-linguistic shift	0
Mumbai on two wheels: cycling, urban space, and sustainable mobility	0
Delineating Dalit trauma: (re)contextualizing cultural trauma, survivor’s guilt and partial privilege in post millennial Dalit women’s memoirs	0
The (im-)possibilities of co-operatives in ‘free market’ conditions: a case study of neoliberal Sri Lanka	0
Gendered division of paid, unpaid, and total work in India: who bears more burden?	0

From family to police force: security and belonging on a South Asian border	0
Playing it the nation’s way: tradition, cosmopolitanism, and the native-masculine of Hindi sports films	0
The making and unmaking of the Bhalswa landfill in Delhi	0
Migration, regional autonomy, and conflicts in Eastern South Asia: searching for a home(land) Migration, regional autonomy, and conflicts in Eastern South Asia: searching for a home(lan	0
Hurt sentiments: secularism and belonging in South Asia	0
Power of Bonding and Non-Western Soft Power Strategy in Iran: Comparing China and India's Engagement	0
Reflections of Amma: Devotees in a Global Embrace	0
Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border	0
Mobilisation of social movements and the local state in Independent India	0
Culture, context and aging of older Indians: narratives from India and beyond	0
Contesting resources, contesting the nation?	0
CAA-NRC-NPR, intra- and cross-movement solidarity, and trans and queer resistance in India	0
Subalternity and everyday solidarity in contemporary Indian short stories	0
Of saintly men and wanton girls: the social worker’s adventures in the refugee city	0
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The Indian farmers’ protest of 2020-2021: agrarian crisis, dissent and identity	0
Shaping landscapes: transforming ethnic lands into state highways in Nagaland	0
Highways and hierarchies: ethnographies of mobility from the Himalaya to the Indian Ocean	0
Indian nurses in the Gulf: mobility capital, constraints and aspirations	0
Channelling compassion towards change: elite volunteerism, corporate philanthropy and education reform in urban India	0
Essays in celebrity culture: Stars and styles	0
Voluntarism in partition’s aftermath: the Faridabad story	0
Bangladesh on a new journey: moving beyond the regional identity	0
Evacuee Cinema: Bombay and Lahore in Partition Transit (1940-1960) Evacuee Cinema: Bombay and Lahore in Partition Transit (1940-1960) , by Salma Siddique, Cambridge, Cam	0
Contesting the milad : Deobandis and Barelvis in British India and contemporary Pakistan	0
Intimate Connections: Love and Marriage in Pakistan’s high mountains	0
Sirens of modernity: world cinema via Bombay	0
The material and the moral: contradictory imperatives and the production of trafficking narratives in South India	0
Defining Girlhood in India: a transnational history of sexual maturity laws	0
The changing shape of the Indian recorded music industry in the age of platformisation	0
Radiant infrastructures: media, environment and cultures of uncertainty	0
The Ayodhya decision and Marwari mercantile patronage: materializing a devotional geography for Rāma through Hanumān	0
Agency in a quake in time: a study of jokes about the future among Pakistani migrant youth	0
Correction	0
Can there be a decolonial praxis of solidarity? Structural violence and mobilisation in social movements	0
Role of anti-/pro-public sector bias in shaping perceived performance and fairness: an experimental exploration in South Asia	0
Breathless: tuberculosis, inequality, and care in rural India (south Asia in motion)	0
Asia after Europe: imagining a continent in the long twentieth century	0
Destroying one’s own home: resource frontiers and indigenous governance in Northeast India	0
Unpacking securitisation in Sri Lanka: deontic modal competence and co-production analysis of speech acts	0
Caste politics, minority representation, and social mobility: the associational life of Muslim caste in India	0
The Indian economy: issues, policies and performance	0
The ritual of parikramā, Hinduization of space and the case of Ayodhyā	0
Caste and partition in Bengal: the story of Dalit refugees, 1946–1961 Caste and partition in Bengal: the story of Dalit refugees, 1946–1961 , by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay and	0
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A look beyond welfarism: analysing the Lok Sabha Elections 2024 in West Bengal, India	0
Trust matters: Parsi endowments in Mumbai and the horoscope of a city	0
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Muslim daughters and inheritance in India:Sharīcat, custom and practice	0
Energy cooperation in South Asia: utilising natural resources for peace and sustainable development	0
Rohini Mohan's The Seasons of Trouble (2014): Sri Lanka's Tamil women in war and its aftermath	0
Body on the barricades: life, art and resistance in contemporary India Body on the barricades: life, art and resistance in contemporary India , by Brahma Prakash, Delhi,	0
Making the right choice: narratives of marriage in Sri Lanka	0
Introduction: Platform Challenges to Creative Industries in India	0
Risk and the rupee in Pakistan’s new economy	0
Institutional trust paradox: understanding the dynamics of trust among different ethnic groups in Sri Lanka	0
Passionate politics: democracy, development and India’s 2019 general election	0
Decoding communist narrative on federalism in India: ideology versus politics	0
Marriage, caste, and involuntary bachelorhood in Vidarbha, Maharashtra	0
Mother cow, mother India, a multispecies politics of dairy in India Mother cow, mother India, a multispecies politics of dairy in India , by Yamini Narayanan, Stanford,	0
Contesting Masculinities and Women’s Agency in Kashmir	0
Himalayan histories: economy, polity, religious traditions	0
Resurgent diversity: upland agriculture, indigenous crops and foodways in Eastern Himalayas	0
When ‘the broken’ breaks through: politics of struggle and solidarity in Manchadikkari	0
The politics of celebration: interrogating the secular heritage of the Phool Waalon Ki Sair festival in Delhi	0
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Tourism and hospitality in Asia: crisis, resilience and recovery	0
Whose property is this? Exploring dynamics between property relations, housing precarity, and working conditions in Pune's red-light district, India	0
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Masculinity beyond the warrior ‘savage’: (re)thinking warriors as elite indigenous masculinity in select Angami folktales	0
Flexible India: yoga’s cultural and political tensions	0
After cyclone Aila: politics of climate change in Sundarbans	0
The relationship between female labor force participation and violent conflicts in South Asia	0
Climate justice in and beyond South Asia	0
From ‘house of horrors’ to ‘sensitive’ governance: sex workers’ shelter detention in India	0
Karma and grace: religious difference in millennial Sri Lanka	0
Colonial legacies and the British geological survey in cold war South Asia: 1960s–1980s	0
Climate coercion and resistance	0
The missing marriage: gender, caste, and agrarian crisis in South Asia	0
India's engagement with the International Monetary Fund: growing into an ownership role	0
Introduction to the BASAS 2023 special section	0
Home in the world: a memoir Home in the world: a memoir , by Amartya Sen, London, Allen Lane, 2021, xv + 463 pp, ISBN 978-1-846-14486-8	0
Policy for cultural and creative industries in India: the issue of regulation through digital policy	0
Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border	0
Unhoming home: UP Muslims’ trauma of partition in Masoom Reza’s Aadha Gaon and Os ki Boond	0
The dynamics of federal (in)stability and negotiated cooperation under single-party dominance: insights from Modi’s India	0
Freedom Inc. gendered capitalism in new indian literature and culture	0
Emotions, identity and the entrepreneurial self: narratives of working Muslim women in rural India	0
Motivations for Christian conversion among rural to urban migrants in the Kathmandu Valley	0
Romantic nationalism in India: cultivation of culture and the global circulation of ideas	0
Memories and Postmemories of the Partition of India	0
Practices of the State: Muslims, Law and Violence in India	0
Drone attacks and non-grievable lives: erasure of collateral damage in the Northwestern borderlands of Pakistan	0