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	18
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	15
Childlessness in Bangladesh: intersectionality, suffering and resilience Childlessness in Bangladesh: intersectionality, suffering and resilience , by Papreen Nahar, Lon	13
Threatening dystopias	11
Uprooted when settled: Koonj and Kuku in the changing migrating identity of Gujjars and Bakerwals, the transhumant pastoralist of Jammu an	10
Foreign intervention, executive corruption, and economic growth in Afghanistan	9
Modi regime and the disempowerment of ‘Other Backward Classes’	9
Musicoplia in Mumbai: performing subjects and the metropolitan unconscious	7
Hindus in India, Bengalis in Bengal: the role of religious and regional identities in West Bengal politics	7
India and Africa in the pandemic imagination	7
Enhancing environmental performance: evidence from SAARC Countries	7
Resistance as negotiation: making states and tribes in the margins of modern India	6
Encountering the state: situated strategies and perspectives of Tanchangya villagers in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh	6
On becoming a demanding Community: Neelam and its March for Justice	6
Lives of circumcised and veiled women: a global-Indian interplay of discourses and narratives	6
Pakistan state practices in Gilgit-Baltistan: a paradox?	5
Neoliberal city and exclusive communities: the politics of contemporary urbanisation in northern India	5
Dharmaśāstra and the legal personality of deities in the Ayodhya verdicts (2010 & 2019)	5
Correction	5
On-going Shaheen Bagh: collective creation, newness and solidarity	5
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	5
The dynamic of stepwise migrations of Nepalese high-skilled migrants via the Middle East	5
Muslim New Womanhood in Bangladesh	5
Memory of landscapes: nostalgia, migration and the exilic memory of the East Bengali refugees in Dandakaranya	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	4

Performing sovereign aspirations: Tamil insurgency and postwar transition in Sri Lanka	4
Digitalization and Informality in media industries: beyond the platform-portal divide?	4
Reordering Adivasi worlds: representation, resistance, memory Reordering Adivasi worlds: representation, resistance, memory , by Sangeeta Dasgupta, New Delhi, Oxford Uni	4
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Language ideologies and the vernacular in colonial and postcolonial South Asia	3
Caste and politics in (West) Bengal: in conversation with Sekhar Bandyopadhyay	3
The epistemology and ontology of a bhakta: an analysis of pejorative and secularised meanings of bhakta	3
‘ Randua on the bench’: examining the colonial and post-colonial roots of contemporary forced bachelorhood and vigilantism in the Agrarian North	3
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	3
The Covid-19 pandemic and governance dimensions of crisis response in developing countries: evidence from Sri Lanka	3
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The Troubling State of India’s democracy	3
Sexuality reimagined: MSM in modern India	3
Bottom-up imaginaries: examining discursive construction of social media roles and affordances in India	3
Nongra Kaj / ‘dirty work’: caste, colonialism and entrapment in Bangladesh	3
Making bureaucracy work: norms, education and public service delivery in rural India Making bureaucracy work: norms, education and public service delivery in rural India	3
Thakawath as active waiting: using exhaustion to transform fruitless waiting into continuous activism and hope in Kashmir	2
The new experts: populist elites and technocratic promises in Modi’s India	2
History, Memory and Memorabilia: Kamala Dasgupta and the Politics of Remembering Revolutionary Bengal	2
Critical analysis of debates on Tamil populism: perspectives from the field	2
Political parties and initial COVID-19 policies: subnational trends in India	2
Hailing the state: Indian democracy between elections Hailing the state: Indian democracy between elections , by Lisa Mitchell, Durham, Duke University Press, 2023, xvii	2
Voices of dissent Voices of dissent , Romila Thapar, Kolkata, Seagull Books, 2020, viii + 164 pp., ₹304 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-85742-862-2	2
Networks, space and belonging: the Marwaris in Manipur	2
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	2
Intimacy and industry: the multiple heterosexual intimacies shaping cycle rickshaw men’s labor and migration in India	2
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	2
Subcontinental drift: domestic politics and India’s foreign policy	2
Healing at the periphery: ethnographies of Tibetan medicine in India	2
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Sama in the forest	2
Introduction – new forms of anti-Muslim violence in India: Hindu Xenophobia in the post-instrumental Era	2
Of histories (un)shared: India – Pakistan, postage stamps, and 1857	1
Caste, marginalisation, and resistance: the politics of identity of the Naths (Yogis) of Bengal and Assam	1
Mandir vs Mandal in 2024: are there limits to the BJP’s social engineering?	1
Whose city is it anyway? Place, community and the fractured urban	1
Unravelling the constitutional settlement: devolution, democracy and patronage in eastern Sri Lanka	1
Popular geopolitics of ‘nuclear India’: tracing the evolution of India’s ‘regional’ and ‘global’ identities in the English daily The Hindu from 2011–2020	1
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	1
The Indian economy: issues, policies and performance	1
Development, education and learning in Sri Lanka: an international research journey	1
Jurisprudence and geography of Hindu majoritarianism: thinking with the 2019 Ayodhya judgement	1
Contestations and contradictions: feminist research on structures and institutions governing sex work in India	1
Reflections on Kasia Paprocki's Threatening dystopias	1
Drone attacks and non-grievable lives: erasure of collateral damage in the Northwestern borderlands of Pakistan	1
The Karachi Jews and the history of Pakistani antisemitism	1
After cyclone Aila: politics of climate change in Sundarbans	1
An anthropological understanding of the sea, subalternity, and the Sundarbans	1
Tourism and hospitality in Asia: crisis, resilience and recovery	1

Dust on the throne: the search for Buddhism in modern India	1
Kashmir after 2019: completing the partition	1
Informing or campaigning? The narrative of the state of electoral politics in election posters in rural Pakistan	1
Dirty politics and political care in local politics: gendered barriers to moral boundary crossing in Dehradun, India	1
Asia after Europe: imagining a continent in the long twentieth century	1
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	1
The political life of Muslim caste: articulations and frictions within a Pasmanda identity	1
Policy for cultural and creative industries in India: the issue of regulation through digital policy	1
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The material and the moral: contradictory imperatives and the production of trafficking narratives in South India	1
Urban ecologies in the capitalocene: postcolonial environmental crisis and spatial inequality in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger	1
Undignified names: caste, politics, and everyday life in North India	1
Shifting political landscapes in post-370 abrogation Kashmir: an analysis of emerging dynamics and implications	1
Archive of tongues: an intimate history of brownness	1
Deformed bodies and the decolonial turn: unthinking and rethinking the colonial episteme in animal’s people	1
Social mobility and politicisation of caste among the Rayeens of Uttar Pradesh	0
Mobilisation of social movements and the local state in Independent India	0
India’s evasive balancing vis-a-vis China post-Galwan?	0
Risk and the rupee in Pakistan’s new economy	0
Colonial legacies and the British geological survey in cold war South Asia: 1960s–1980s	0
Masculinity beyond the warrior ‘savage’: (re)thinking warriors as elite indigenous masculinity in select Angami folktales	0
Gendered division of paid, unpaid, and total work in India: who bears more burden?	0
Voluntarism in partition’s aftermath: the Faridabad story	0
Politicking indigenous tribal festivals and the promise of development in Manipur, Northeast India	0
Special treatment: student doctors at the all India institute of medical sciences (South Asia in motion)	0
The Indian farmers’ protest of 2020-2021: agrarian crisis, dissent and identity	0
Identity, nationhood and Bangladesh independent cinema	0
Narratives of cultural violence in 1947 partition: ‘Environmental Upheaval’ and ethnic-linguistic shift	0
Making the right choice: narratives of marriage in Sri Lanka	0
Asserting caste? Bhishti sanitation workers and Muslim caste associations in Jaipur	0
The Indian science community: historical and sociological studies	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
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Beyond the rainbow: queer activism, colonial legacies, and violence in Bangladesh	0
Everyday life in the prohibited areas: a case of Idu-Mishmi borderscape of the Eastern Himalaya	0
Intimate Connections: Love and Marriage in Pakistan’s high mountains	0
Institutional trust paradox: understanding the dynamics of trust among different ethnic groups in Sri Lanka	0
Beyond papers: understanding the making of citizenship in the Foreigners’ Tribunals of Assam	0
Punitive domicide: bulldozer justice and punishment in India	0
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Afterword: questions for the study of Muslim castes and anti-caste Islam	0
The Ayodhya decision and Marwari mercantile patronage: materializing a devotional geography for Rāma through Hanumān	0
Audio-visual piracy on Telegram: a perspective on monetization models, pirate strategies and industrial pathways	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
Sheikh Abdullah: the caged Lion of Kashmir	0
To be upper caste/to be a victim	0
Passionate politics: democracy, development and India’s 2019 general election	0
Christianity and politics in tribal India	0
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Press charges: renegotiating free speech and citizenship in post-partition Delhi	0
Subalternity and everyday solidarity in contemporary Indian short stories	0
Himalayan histories: economy, polity, religious traditions	0
Decolonizing Kokborok: the politics of script in Tripura	0
Correction	0
Village ties: women, NGOs, and informal institutions in rural Bangladesh	0
Sirens of modernity: world cinema via Bombay	0
The 'undefined' in Malabar: tracing the statelessness in post-partition India	0
Hurt sentiments: secularism and belonging in South Asia	0
Political communication in contemporary India: locating democracy and government	0
‘Familiar but foreign at the same time’: hegemonic pull and push in first Indian Netflix original series Sacred Games	0
Sacralising the state: Hindu nationalism, populist imaginaries, and the politics of belonging in post-monarchy Nepal	0
Indian nurses in the Gulf: mobility capital, constraints and aspirations	0
Complex rivalry: the dynamics of India–Pakistan conflicts	0
Through the India–China Border: Kalimpong in the Himalayas	0
Playing it the nation’s way: tradition, cosmopolitanism, and the native-masculine of Hindi sports films	0
Clash of masculinities: corporate men, urban-village men and hypersexualised women in urban India	0
Climate coercion and resistance	0
Nepal’s Dalits in transition	0
Indigeneity, developmentalism, and sustainability: trajectories of the Jarawas of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in Pankaj Sekhsaria's The Last Wave and	0
Gospel or governance? The political metaphor of Christian conversion in Nepal’s Chepang community	0
Contesting the milad : Deobandis and Barelvis in British India and contemporary Pakistan	0
The Outsiders Within: A Dalit Feminist Standpoint in the Life Narratives of Dalit Women The Outsiders Within: A Dalit Feminist Standpoint in the Life Narratives of Dalit Women	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
Women’s participation in the Central Superior Services of Pakistan 1973–2020	0
Identity in Northeast Indian literature: rereading select writings from Meghalaya	0
Trust matters: Parsi endowments in Mumbai and the horoscope of a city	0
Freedom Inc. gendered capitalism in new indian literature and culture	0
Anti-Muslim violence in India’s religious ethnocracy	0
Theatre of Nepal and the people who make it	0
CAA-NRC-NPR, intra- and cross-movement solidarity, and trans and queer resistance in India	0

The contributions of Threatening Dystopias to critical adaptation studies	0
From ‘house of horrors’ to ‘sensitive’ governance: sex workers’ shelter detention in India	0
Role of anti-/pro-public sector bias in shaping perceived performance and fairness: an experimental exploration in South Asia	0
Composing Violence: The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities	0
Kathmandu: a reader	0
Karma and grace: religious difference in millennial Sri Lanka	0
Correction	0
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Memories and Postmemories of the Partition of India	0
Urban development and environmental history in Modern South Asia	0
Resurgent diversity: upland agriculture, indigenous crops and foodways in Eastern Himalayas	0
Introduction to the BASAS 2023 special section	0
Contesting Masculinities and Women’s Agency in Kashmir	0
Phantoms of the drains: imaginations of conflict in everyday infrastructures	0
Sustaining craft markets in urban India: a case study of Shilparamam, Hyderabad	0
Power of Bonding and Non-Western Soft Power Strategy in Iran: Comparing China and India's Engagement	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
Language as a site of identities, opportunities and conflicts: retracing the historical routes of the Bengali and Assamese languages conflict	0
Decolonisation without decoloniality: trends of statue politics in postcolonial India, 1947–2023	0
Pour une autre idée du Pakistan: nationalisme et construction identitaire dans le Sindh	0
Tamil Nadu’s heritage rice, lost and found	0
Lived reality of elite neighbourhoods: geographies of inequality in Delhi	0
Alien at birth: Chinese migrants in post-colonial Assam (1947-1962)	0
Re-negotiating ‘neoliberalised spaces’ in the Global South periphery: an ethnographic case study of post-pandemic Bangladesh	0
Introduction: Platform Challenges to Creative Industries in India	0
Negotiating the urban margins: ‘committees’ and in situ slum titling in Odisha’s Basti settlements	0
Delineating Dalit trauma: (re)contextualizing cultural trauma, survivor’s guilt and partial privilege in post millennial Dalit women’s memoirs	0
Women entrepreneurship in the Indian middle class: interdisciplinary perspectives	0
‘Agency, voice and choice’: reflecting on assisted reproductive technologies through select Indian films	0
When ‘the broken’ breaks through: politics of struggle and solidarity in Manchadikkari	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
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
The relationship between female labor force participation and violent conflicts in South Asia	0
The final straw? Bhola cyclone, 1970 election, disaster politics, and the making of Bangladesh	0
Reassessing China’s image in the China–Pakistan economic corridor discourse: a critical discourse analysis of Pakistani mainstream media reports	0
Ayodhya 2.0 in Banaras? Judicial discourses and rituals of place in the making of Hindu majoritarianism	0
Breathless: tuberculosis, inequality, and care in rural India (south Asia in motion)	0
A preliminary review of India’s rural economic crisis: stagnant wages, piling debt and waning demand	0
Talking post-truth: elite rhetoric on democracy in Pakistan	0
Marriage, caste, and involuntary bachelorhood in Vidarbha, Maharashtra	0
Sovereign atonement: citizenship, territory, and the state at the Bangladesh-India border	0
Fragile hope: seeking justice for hate crimes in India	0
Markets, capitalism and urban space in India: right to sell	0
Understanding agricultural transitions and sustainability: a study of farmers’ perspectives in rural North-West India	0
Visa flesh: postphenomenology, kafala infrastructures, and embodied precarity in Deepak Unnikrishnan’s Temporary People	0
Machiavellian and hobbesian foundations of democratic decline in Bangladesh	0
The (im-)possibilities of co-operatives in ‘free market’ conditions: a case study of neoliberal Sri Lanka	0
Freedom inc.: gendered capitalism in new Indian literature and culture Freedom inc.: gendered capitalism in new Indian literature and culture , by Mukti Lakhi Mangharam,	0
Being single in India: stories of gender, exclusion, and possibility	0
Caste and two types of status. Comparing Dumont and Weber for studies of caste today	0
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Flexible India: yoga’s cultural and political tensions	0
Shaping landscapes: transforming ethnic lands into state highways in Nagaland	0
Progressive laws in patriarchal societies: lessons from Pakistan	0
Getting schools to work better: educational accountability and teacher support in India and China	0
The politics of celebration: interrogating the secular heritage of the Phool Waalon Ki Sair festival in Delhi	0
Caste politics, minority representation, and social mobility: the associational life of Muslim caste in India	0
Essays in celebrity culture: Stars and styles	0
Unpacking securitisation in Sri Lanka: deontic modal competence and co-production analysis of speech acts	0
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Governance gaps and the cycle of instability: local narratives from Northern Balochistan’s four districts	0
A strategic myth: ‘Underdevelopment’ in Jammu and Kashmir	0
The making and unmaking of the Bhalswa landfill in Delhi	0
Substantial relations: making global reproductive medicine in postcolonial India	0
The political outsider: Indian democracy and the lineages of populism	0
Questioning migrants: ethnic nationalism at the limits of Pakistan	0
Everyday violence and care: insights from fictive kin relations between madams and sex workers in India	0
Otherness at war: Poles and World War II British Indian Army	0
Biometric health identity in India: controversial interoperability and data doubles	0
‘Marry me to a serviceman or a city dweller’: aspirations of young Bhumihar women in rural Bihar	0
Gods in the World: Placemaking and Healing in the Himalayas	0
Political conflict in Pakistan	0
Decoding communist narrative on federalism in India: ideology versus politics	0
Castescapes: Dalit bodies, heat and hazard in industrial India	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
Making of the marginal: gender in a new education city	0
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Objects and the shifts in the constitution of romantic love in Malayalam cine duet songs from the 1950s to the 1990s	0
Gurus and Media: Sound, Image, Machine, Text and the Digital	0
Do Islamic texts support caste stratification? Kafa’a and endogamy among Malabar Muslims	0
Watan , loss, and the Pashtun ethno-nationalism	0
A look beyond welfarism: analysing the Lok Sabha Elections 2024 in West Bengal, India	0
Whose property is this? Exploring dynamics between property relations, housing precarity, and working conditions in Pune's red-light district, India	0
Channelling compassion towards change: elite volunteerism, corporate philanthropy and education reform in urban India	0
Masculinity, consumerism and the post-national Indian city: streets, neighbourhoods, home Masculinity, consumerism and the post-national Indian city: streets, neighbourhoods, home	0
Bangladesh: Writings on 1971, Across Borders	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
Of saintly men and wanton girls: the social worker’s adventures in the refugee city	0
Old imaginaries in a new frame: the politics of Bollywood’s ‘social problem films’ on Kashmir	0
The dynamics of federal (in)stability and negotiated cooperation under single-party dominance: insights from Modi’s India	0
Mumbai on two wheels: cycling, urban space, and sustainable mobility	0
Practices of the State: Muslims, Law and Violence in India	0
Bangladesh on a new journey: moving beyond the regional identity	0
The Gulf migrant archives in Kerala: reading borders and belonging	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