Contemporary South Asia

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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
Voting for security: evidence from a Maoist-affected region in India	9
Hindus in India, Bengalis in Bengal: the role of religious and regional identities in West Bengal politics	9
Madrasas and the making of Islamic womanhood	9
Colonizing Kashmir: state-building under Indian occupation Colonizing Kashmir: state-building under Indian occupation , by Hafsa Kanjwal, Stanford, Stanford University P	8
Enhancing environmental performance: evidence from SAARC Countries	7
The National Register of Citizens (NRC) in India and the potential for statelessness in situ: a cautionary tale from Assam	5
Childlessness in Bangladesh: intersectionality, suffering and resilience Childlessness in Bangladesh: intersectionality, suffering and resilience , by Papreen Nahar, Lon	4
Threatening dystopias	4
Migration, patriarchy and ‘modern’ Islam: views from left behind wives in rural northern Bangladesh	4
Foreign intervention, executive corruption, and economic growth in Afghanistan	4
Devotional contextures: the māla songs and Muslim ethical formation in contemporary Kerala	3
Musicoplia in Mumbai: performing subjects and the metropolitan unconscious	3
The dynamic of stepwise migrations of Nepalese high-skilled migrants via the Middle East	3
Provincial globalization in India: transregional mobilities and development politics	3
Encountering the state: situated strategies and perspectives of Tanchangya villagers in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh	3
Uprooted when settled: Koonj and Kuku in the changing migrating identity of Gujjars and Bakerwals, the transhumant pastoralist of Jammu an	3
India and Africa in the pandemic imagination	3
A study of risk perception of radiofrequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) exposure from mobile phones and base stations in India	3
Thief plates: the mediation of extortion in the rickshaw business in Dhaka, Bangladesh	2
On-going Shaheen Bagh: collective creation, newness and solidarity	2
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	2
Dharmaśāstra and the legal personality of deities in the Ayodhya verdicts (2010 & 2019)	2
Crooked cats: beastly encounters in the Anthropocene	2
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	2

In the name of the father? Northeast India and problems of national kinship	2
Beyond regimes: China and India compared	2
Chronotopes of sovereign power in In the Name of the Nation	2
Digitalization and Informality in media industries: beyond the platform-portal divide?	2
In a Pure Muslim Land: Shi’ism between Pakistan and the Middle East	2
Reordering Adivasi worlds: representation, resistance, memory Reordering Adivasi worlds: representation, resistance, memory , by Sangeeta Dasgupta, New Delhi, Oxford Uni	2
Capsizing the gaze: gender non-conforming communities as monitorial citizens	2
Neoliberal city and exclusive communities: the politics of contemporary urbanisation in northern India	2
Muslim New Womanhood in Bangladesh	2
The Indian Economy	2
Surrender, rehabilitation and hybrid regimes: the making of the northeast frontier	2
Taking the bull by its horns: the political economic logics of new farm laws and agrarian dissent in India	1
Intimacy and industry: the multiple heterosexual intimacies shaping cycle rickshaw men’s labor and migration in India	1
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Political parties and initial COVID-19 policies: subnational trends in India	1
Introduction to the BASAS 2021 special section	1
Dreaming in the shadow of history: micro-mobilities and belonging in Lucknow	1
Making bureaucracy work: norms, education and public service delivery in rural India Making bureaucracy work: norms, education and public service delivery in rural India	1
The Politics of love in Myanmar: LGBT mobilization and human rights as a way of life	1
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‘Still disappeared’: reconstructing the 1990 ‘truth commission’ in Nepal	1
Bottom-up imaginaries: examining discursive construction of social media roles and affordances in India	1
Muslim marriages, the South African state and the courts: between limbo, liberation, and the spaces for contestation in-between	1
Subcontinental drift: domestic politics and India’s foreign policy	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
Critical analysis of debates on Tamil populism: perspectives from the field	1
Holy science: the biopolitics of Hindu nationalism	1
Shiptown: between rural and urban North India	1
Divorcing Traditions: Islamic marriage law and the making of Indian secularism	1
Caste and politics in (West) Bengal: in conversation with Sekhar Bandyopadhyay	1
‘ Randua on the bench’: examining the colonial and post-colonial roots of contemporary forced bachelorhood and vigilantism in the Agrarian North	1
‘New’ terrains of precarity – gig work in India	1
Political Kinship in Pakistan: Descent, Marriage and Government Stability	1
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Police matters: the everyday state and caste politics in South India, 1900–1975	1
Being seen: the political and bureaucratic entanglements of Muslim women in West Bengal	1
The politics of hope	1
Walking with pilgrims: the Kanwar pilgrimage of Bihar, Jharkhand and the Terai of Nepal	1
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	1
Beyond religion in India and Pakistan: gender and caste, borders and boundaries	1
The Covid-19 pandemic and governance dimensions of crisis response in developing countries: evidence from Sri Lanka	1
Identifying and regulating religion in India: law, history and the place of worship	1
Performing sovereign aspirations: Tamil insurgency and postwar transition in Sri Lanka	1
Defining Girlhood in India: a transnational history of sexual maturity laws	0
Reflections on Bangladesh at 50	0
Marginal gains: borderland dynamics, political settlements, and shifting centre-periphery relations in post-war Nepal	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
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Can there be a decolonial praxis of solidarity? Structural violence and mobilisation in social movements	0
Jurisprudence and geography of Hindu majoritarianism: thinking with the 2019 Ayodhya judgement	0

From family to police force: security and belonging on a South Asian border	0
Shaping landscapes: transforming ethnic lands into state highways in Nagaland	0
Unravelling the constitutional settlement: devolution, democracy and patronage in eastern Sri Lanka	0
The view from Mathura: nationalist projections in local perspective	0
Introduction to the BASAS 2023 special section	0
Deformed bodies and the decolonial turn: unthinking and rethinking the colonial episteme in animal’s people	0
Culture, Context and Aging of Older Indians Narratives from India and Beyond	0
Sirens of modernity: world cinema via Bombay	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
‘A mobile phone is like a friendship. It depends from person to person how it is used': mobile phone relationships among low-income women in urban Bangladesh	0
Energy cooperation in South Asia: utilising natural resources for peace and sustainable development	0
Healing at the periphery: ethnographies of Tibetan medicine in India	0
Himalayan histories: economy, polity, religious traditions	0
To be upper caste/to be a victim	0
Correction	0
Voluntarism in partition’s aftermath: the Faridabad story	0
A small car for a small family: building India’s first ‘people’s car’	0
Pour une autre idée du Pakistan: nationalisme et construction identitaire dans le Sindh	0
Lived reality of elite neighbourhoods: geographies of inequality in Delhi	0
Motivations for Christian conversion among rural to urban migrants in the Kathmandu Valley	0
Cancer and the Kali Yuga: gender, inequality and health in South India Cancer and the Kali Yuga: gender, inequality and health in South India , by Cecilia Coale Van Holl	0
Narratives of cultural violence in 1947 partition: ‘Environmental Upheaval’ and ethnic-linguistic shift	0
History, Memory and Memorabilia: Kamala Dasgupta and the Politics of Remembering Revolutionary Bengal	0
Substantial relations: making global reproductive medicine in postcolonial India	0
Delineating Dalit trauma: (re)contextualizing cultural trauma, survivor’s guilt and partial privilege in post millennial Dalit women’s memoirs	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
Spatial justice, contested governance and livelihood challenges in Bangladesh the production of counter space Spatial justice, contested governance and livelihood challenges in Banglade	0
Identity, nationhood and Bangladesh independent cinema	0
In the shadow of a sword: the memoir of a woman leader in the LTTE	0
Bangladesh: Writings on 1971, Across Borders	0
Tourism and hospitality in Asia: crisis, resilience and recovery	0
Contesting resources, contesting the nation?	0
Freedom Inc. gendered capitalism in new indian literature and culture	0
India and global governance across international regimes and time	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
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The relationship between female labor force participation and violent conflicts in South Asia	0
The shape of the Sangh: rethinking Hindu nationalist organisational ties	0
Masculinity, consumerism and the post-national Indian city: streets, neighbourhoods, home Masculinity, consumerism and the post-national Indian city: streets, neighbourhoods, home	0
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Correction	0
Mumbai on two wheels: cycling, urban space, and sustainable mobility	0
When ‘the broken’ breaks through: politics of struggle and solidarity in Manchadikkari	0
Hindutva and communal polarization in Goa	0
Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border	0
Rural decentralization and infant mortality among select Indian states: a preliminary analysis	0
Bangladesh on a new journey: moving beyond the regional identity	0
Building the state and conceiving the nation: the origins of separatist insurgency in the Mizo Hills, 1945-61	0
Composing Violence: The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities	0
Shifting political landscapes in post-370 abrogation Kashmir: an analysis of emerging dynamics and implications	0
Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border	0
The Ayodhya decision and Marwari mercantile patronage: materializing a devotional geography for Rāma through Hanumān	0
Courting agency: gender and divorce in an English sharia council	0
Alien at birth: Chinese migrants in post-colonial Assam (1947-1962)	0
Contesting Masculinities and Women’s Agency in Kashmir	0
The political life of Muslim caste: articulations and frictions within a Pasmanda identity	0
Moving beyond faith: Muslim Jogis and religious conversion in north India	0
Dynamics of Caste and Law: Dalits, Oppression and Constitutional Democracy in India	0
India's engagement with the International Monetary Fund: growing into an ownership role	0
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At the limits of cure	0
The ritual of parikramā, Hinduization of space and the case of Ayodhyā	0
Dirty politics and political care in local politics: gendered barriers to moral boundary crossing in Dehradun, India	0
Bhakti and embodiment: fashioning divine bodies and devotional bodies in Kṛṣṇa Bhakti	0
Colonial legacies and the British geological survey in cold war South Asia: 1960s–1980s	0
Muslim Woman/Muslim women: lived experiences beyond religion and gender in South Asia and its diasporas	0
‘I don’t know how we can stop ragging’: a qualitative study on the perceptions of staff and work-affiliated individuals at a Sri Lankan University, on the phenomena of ragging	0
Otherness at war: Poles and World War II British Indian Army	0
Why the digital classroom is a bad model for digital learning	0
Essays in celebrity culture: Stars and styles	0
Ayodhya 2.0 in Banaras? Judicial discourses and rituals of place in the making of Hindu majoritarianism	0
The material and the moral: contradictory imperatives and the production of trafficking narratives in South India	0
A strategic myth: ‘Underdevelopment’ in Jammu and Kashmir	0
Voices of dissent Voices of dissent , Romila Thapar, Kolkata, Seagull Books, 2020, viii + 164 pp., ₹304 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-85742-862-2	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
Emotions, identity and the entrepreneurial self: narratives of working Muslim women in rural India	0
Policy for cultural and creative industries in India: the issue of regulation through digital policy	0
Master Plans and Encroachments: The architecture of informality in Islamabad	0
Caste and two types of status. Comparing Dumont and Weber for studies of caste today	0
Networks, space and belonging: the Marwaris in Manipur	0

Mobilisation of social movements and the local state in Independent India	0
India and maritime governance in the Indian ocean: the impact of geopolitics on India’s involvement in maritime governance	0
The Indian economy: issues, policies and performance	0
Till kingdom come: medieval Hinduism in the modern Himalaya Till kingdom come: medieval Hinduism in the modern Himalaya , by Lokesh Ohri, Albany, State University of New	0
Markets, capitalism and urban space in India: right to sell	0
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	0
The dynamics of federal (in)stability and negotiated cooperation under single-party dominance: insights from Modi’s India	0
Social mobility and politicisation of caste among the Rayeens of Uttar Pradesh	0
Simultaneous identities: language, education and the Nepali nation	0
Youth, meritocracy and cultural hierarchy in the New Nepal	0
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Hailing the state: Indian democracy between elections Hailing the state: Indian democracy between elections , by Lisa Mitchell, Durham, Duke University Press, 2023, xvii	0
Being single in India: stories of gender, exclusion, and possibility	0
Consolidating a political dynasty: Abhishek Banerjee, the Trinamool Congress, and the 2023 panchayat elections in West Bengal	0
Kashmir at the crossroads: inside a 21st-century conflict	0
Muslim daughters and inheritance in India:Sharīcat, custom and practice	0
Gendering the everyday state: Muslim women, claim-making & brokerage in India	0
Introduction: Platform Challenges to Creative Industries in India	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
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
After compliance in India and beyond: a theory of implementation dilemmas and comparative institutional analysis	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
‘This is all waste’: emptying, cleaning and clearing land for renewable energy dispossession in borderland India	0
A preliminary review of India’s rural economic crisis: stagnant wages, piling debt and waning demand	0
Playing it the nation’s way: tradition, cosmopolitanism, and the native-masculine of Hindi sports films	0
Masculinity beyond the warrior ‘savage’: (re)thinking warriors as elite indigenous masculinity in select Angami folktales	0
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Christianity and politics in tribal India	0
Of saintly men and wanton girls: the social worker’s adventures in the refugee city	0
Karma and grace: religious difference in millennial Sri Lanka	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
Creating the Universe: Depictions of the Cosmos in Himalayan Buddhism	0
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Village ties: women, NGOs, and informal institutions in rural Bangladesh	0
Debates on agricultural loan waiver schemes in India: myths and realities	0
From ‘house of horrors’ to ‘sensitive’ governance: sex workers’ shelter detention in India	0
Weaver to precarity capitalism: ethnographic understanding of contemporary Surat through the experiences of Odia labour migrants	0
Whose city is it anyway? Place, community and the fractured urban	0
Camp life of Sri Lankan refugees in India	0
Kashmir after 2019: completing the partition	0
Contesting the milad : Deobandis and Barelvis in British India and contemporary Pakistan	0
Subalternity and everyday solidarity in contemporary Indian short stories	0
After cyclone Aila: politics of climate change in Sundarbans	0
Destroying one’s own home: resource frontiers and indigenous governance in Northeast India	0
CAA-NRC-NPR, intra- and cross-movement solidarity, and trans and queer resistance in India	0
Of histories (un)shared: India – Pakistan, postage stamps, and 1857	0
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Correction	0
Popular geopolitics of ‘nuclear India’: tracing the evolution of India’s ‘regional’ and ‘global’ identities in the English daily The Hindu from 2011–2020	0
Producing multiple ‘others’: spatial upheaval and Hindutva politics in urban India	0
Intimate Connections: Love and Marriage in Pakistan’s high mountains	0
Reflections on Kasia Paprocki's Threatening dystopias	0
Women entrepreneurship in the Indian middle class: interdisciplinary perspectives	0
Agency in a quake in time: a study of jokes about the future among Pakistani migrant youth	0
Dust on the throne: the search for Buddhism in modern India	0
South Asian regionalism: the limits of cooperation	0
Undignified names: caste, politics, and everyday life in North India	0
The (im-)possibilities of co-operatives in ‘free market’ conditions: a case study of neoliberal Sri Lanka	0
Audio-visual piracy on Telegram: a perspective on monetization models, pirate strategies and industrial pathways	0
Highways and hierarchies: ethnographies of mobility from the Himalaya to the Indian Ocean	0
The university, student politics, and the ABVP	0
The contributions of Threatening Dystopias to critical adaptation studies	0
Marketing affect: mapping the centredness of the election campaign through a comparison of party strategies in the Delhi assembly elections	0
Beyond papers: understanding the making of citizenship in the Foreigners’ Tribunals of Assam	0
Practices of the State: Muslims, Law and Violence in India	0
Masculinity and modern slavery in Nepal	0
Anjuman, jami‘at, and association: what Sayyid organizations tell us about associational forms among Muslim caste groups	0
Urban development and environmental history in Modern South Asia	0
Poetics and politics of post-partition cultural memories in Kamila Shamsie’sKartography	0
Caste politics, minority representation, and social mobility: the associational life of Muslim caste in India	0
The Karachi Jews and the history of Pakistani antisemitism	0
Reordering Adivasi worlds: representation, resistance, memory Reordering Adivasi worlds: representation, resistance, memory , by Sangeeta Dasgupta, New Delhi, Oxford Uni	0
Women’s participation in the Central Superior Services of Pakistan 1973–2020	0
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Development, Neoliberalism, and Islamism in South Asia: The Case of Bangladesh	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
Whither utopia?	0
Asserting caste? Bhishti sanitation workers and Muslim caste associations in Jaipur	0
Asia after Europe: imagining a continent in the long twentieth century	0
Rohini Mohan's The Seasons of Trouble (2014): Sri Lanka's Tamil women in war and its aftermath	0
Reflections of Amma: Devotees in a Global Embrace	0
Power of Bonding and Non-Western Soft Power Strategy in Iran: Comparing China and India's Engagement	0
India’s democratic political system, economic growth and domestic security challenges, and China’s dismissiveness of India’s great power ambitions	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
Climate coercion and resistance	0
Risk and the rupee in Pakistan’s new economy	0
Radiant infrastructures: media, environment and cultures of uncertainty	0
Contestations and contradictions: feminist research on structures and institutions governing sex work in India	0
Graphic diversity and ethnic identification in contemporary Manipur	0
The politics of celebration: interrogating the secular heritage of the Phool Waalon Ki Sair festival in Delhi	0
Gender and neoliberalism: the All India Democratic Women’s Association and its strategies of resistance	0
Passionate politics: democracy, development and India’s 2019 general election	0
Warlord Survival: The Delusion of State Building in Afghanistan	0
Gurus and Media: Sound, Image, Machine, Text and the Digital	0