Contemporary South Asia

Papers
(The median citation count of Contemporary South Asia 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Colonizing Kashmir: state-building under Indian occupation Colonizing Kashmir: state-building under Indian occupation , by Hafsa Kanjwal, Stanford, Stanford University P27
Political conflict in Pakistan Political conflict in Pakistan , by Mohammad Waseem, London, Hurst, 2021, 576 pp., £35.00 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-787-38400-221
Childlessness in Bangladesh: intersectionality, suffering and resilience Childlessness in Bangladesh: intersectionality, suffering and resilience , by Papreen Nahar, Lon17
Threatening dystopias13
Voting for security: evidence from a Maoist-affected region in India12
Uprooted when settled: Koonj and Kuku in the changing migrating identity of Gujjars and Bakerwals, the transhumant pastoralist of Jammu an11
Foreign intervention, executive corruption, and economic growth in Afghanistan9
Hindus in India, Bengalis in Bengal: the role of religious and regional identities in West Bengal politics8
Enhancing environmental performance: evidence from SAARC Countries8
Devotional contextures: the māla songs and Muslim ethical formation in contemporary Kerala7
Musicoplia in Mumbai: performing subjects and the metropolitan unconscious7
Encountering the state: situated strategies and perspectives of Tanchangya villagers in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh6
The dynamic of stepwise migrations of Nepalese high-skilled migrants via the Middle East6
India and Africa in the pandemic imagination6
Multilingual education in south Asia: at the intersection of policy and practice Multilingual education in south Asia: at the intersection of policy and practice , edite5
On-going Shaheen Bagh: collective creation, newness and solidarity5
On becoming a demanding Community: Neelam and its March for Justice5
Muslim New Womanhood in Bangladesh5
Resistance as negotiation: making states and tribes in the margins of modern India5
Neoliberal city and exclusive communities: the politics of contemporary urbanisation in northern India5
Correction5
Lives of circumcised and veiled women: a global-Indian interplay of discourses and narratives5
Pakistan state practices in Gilgit-Baltistan: a paradox?5
Reordering Adivasi worlds: representation, resistance, memory Reordering Adivasi worlds: representation, resistance, memory , by Sangeeta Dasgupta, New Delhi, Oxford Uni4
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Painting stories: lives and legacies from an Indian crafts village Painting stories: lives and legacies from an Indian crafts village , by Helle Bundgaard, Toronto, Univ4
Dharmaśāstra and the legal personality of deities in the Ayodhya verdicts (2010 & 2019)4
Digitalization and Informality in media industries: beyond the platform-portal divide?4
Memory of landscapes: nostalgia, migration and the exilic memory of the East Bengali refugees in Dandakaranya3
Crooked cats: beastly encounters in the Anthropocene3
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Performing sovereign aspirations: Tamil insurgency and postwar transition in Sri Lanka3
‘New’ terrains of precarity – gig work in India3
‘Still disappeared’: reconstructing the 1990 ‘truth commission’ in Nepal3
Thief plates: the mediation of extortion in the rickshaw business in Dhaka, Bangladesh3
Randua on the bench’: examining the colonial and post-colonial roots of contemporary forced bachelorhood and vigilantism in the Agrarian North3
The Troubling State of India’s democracy3
Bottom-up imaginaries: examining discursive construction of social media roles and affordances in India2
Introduction to the BASAS 2021 special section2
Political parties and initial COVID-19 policies: subnational trends in India2
Networks, space and belonging: the Marwaris in Manipur2
The epistemology and ontology of a bhakta: an analysis of pejorative and secularised meanings of bhakta2
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
Sexuality reimagined: MSM in modern India2
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
Critical analysis of debates on Tamil populism: perspectives from the field2
History, Memory and Memorabilia: Kamala Dasgupta and the Politics of Remembering Revolutionary Bengal2
Police matters: the everyday state and caste politics in South India, 1900–19752
Nongra Kaj / ‘dirty work’: caste, colonialism and entrapment in Bangladesh2
Under the gun: political parties and violence in Pakistan Under the gun: political parties and violence in Pakistan , by Niloufer A. Siddiqui, Cambridge, Cambridge Unive2
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Sama in the forest2
Intimacy and industry: the multiple heterosexual intimacies shaping cycle rickshaw men’s labor and migration in India2
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, Cambri2
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Caste and politics in (West) Bengal: in conversation with Sekhar Bandyopadhyay2
The Covid-19 pandemic and governance dimensions of crisis response in developing countries: evidence from Sri Lanka2
Language ideologies and the vernacular in colonial and postcolonial South Asia2
A small car for a small family: building India’s first ‘people’s car’1
Thakawath as active waiting: using exhaustion to transform fruitless waiting into continuous activism and hope in Kashmir1
Healing at the periphery: ethnographies of Tibetan medicine in India1
Kashmir after 2019: completing the partition1
Dust on the throne: the search for Buddhism in modern India1
The Karachi Jews and the history of Pakistani antisemitism1
The Indian economy: issues, policies and performance1
Deformed bodies and the decolonial turn: unthinking and rethinking the colonial episteme in animal’s people1
Archive of tongues: an intimate history of brownness1
Undignified names: caste, politics, and everyday life in North India1
Voices of dissent Voices of dissent , Romila Thapar, Kolkata, Seagull Books, 2020, viii + 164 pp., ₹304 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-85742-862-21
Hailing the state: Indian democracy between elections Hailing the state: Indian democracy between elections , by Lisa Mitchell, Durham, Duke University Press, 2023, xvii1
Jurisprudence and geography of Hindu majoritarianism: thinking with the 2019 Ayodhya judgement1
Dirty politics and political care in local politics: gendered barriers to moral boundary crossing in Dehradun, India1
Mandir vs Mandal in 2024: are there limits to the BJP’s social engineering?1
The material and the moral: contradictory imperatives and the production of trafficking narratives in South India1
Shifting political landscapes in post-370 abrogation Kashmir: an analysis of emerging dynamics and implications1
Asia after Europe: imagining a continent in the long twentieth century1
Informing or campaigning? The narrative of the state of electoral politics in election posters in rural Pakistan1
Reflections on Kasia Paprocki's Threatening dystopias1
Introduction – new forms of anti-Muslim violence in India: Hindu Xenophobia in the post-instrumental Era1
Subcontinental drift: domestic politics and India’s foreign policy1
Caste, marginalisation, and resistance: the politics of identity of the Naths (Yogis) of Bengal and Assam1
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 and1
Drone attacks and non-grievable lives: erasure of collateral damage in the Northwestern borderlands of Pakistan1
Media discourse in contemporary India: a study of television news Media discourse in contemporary India: a study of television news , by Sudeshna Devi, London, Routledge1
Contestations and contradictions: feminist research on structures and institutions governing sex work in India1
The new experts: populist elites and technocratic promises in Modi’s India1
Of histories (un)shared: India – Pakistan, postage stamps, and 18571
Bangladesh on a new journey: moving beyond the regional identity0
When ‘the broken’ breaks through: politics of struggle and solidarity in Manchadikkari0
Identity in Northeast Indian literature: rereading select writings from Meghalaya0
Risk and the rupee in Pakistan’s new economy0
Social mobility and politicisation of caste among the Rayeens of Uttar Pradesh0
Village ties: women, NGOs, and informal institutions in rural Bangladesh0
Theatre of Nepal and the people who make it0
Trust matters: Parsi endowments in Mumbai and the horoscope of a city0
The Indian science community: historical and sociological studies0
Everyday violence and care: insights from fictive kin relations between madams and sex workers in India0
The Indian farmers’ protest of 2020-2021: agrarian crisis, dissent and identity0
Caste politics, minority representation, and social mobility: the associational life of Muslim caste in India0
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
Afterword: questions for the study of Muslim castes and anti-caste Islam0
CAA-NRC-NPR, intra- and cross-movement solidarity, and trans and queer resistance in India0
Voluntarism in partition’s aftermath: the Faridabad story0
Sirens of modernity: world cinema via Bombay0
Caste and two types of status. Comparing Dumont and Weber for studies of caste today0
Making of the marginal: gender in a new education city0
Hurt sentiments: secularism and belonging in South Asia0
Being single in India: stories of gender, exclusion, and possibility0
Intimate Connections: Love and Marriage in Pakistan’s high mountains0
Substantial relations: making global reproductive medicine in postcolonial India0
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The political life of Muslim caste: articulations and frictions within a Pasmanda identity0
Channelling compassion towards change: elite volunteerism, corporate philanthropy and education reform in urban India0
Correction0
The Ayodhya decision and Marwari mercantile patronage: materializing a devotional geography for Rāma through Hanumān0
Identity, nationhood and Bangladesh independent cinema0
Essays in celebrity culture: Stars and styles0
At the limits of cure0
Indian General Elections 2024: film star delivers BJP’s first win in Kerala0
To be upper caste/to be a victim0
Politicking indigenous tribal festivals and the promise of development in Manipur, Northeast India0
Passionate politics: democracy, development and India’s 2019 general election0
Marriage, caste, and involuntary bachelorhood in Vidarbha, Maharashtra0
Unravelling the constitutional settlement: devolution, democracy and patronage in eastern Sri Lanka0
Pakistan’s foreign policy: contemporary developments and dynamics Pakistan’s foreign policy: contemporary developments and dynamics , edited by Ghulam Ali, New York, Rou0
Decolonisation without decoloniality: trends of statue politics in postcolonial India, 1947–20230
Himalayan histories: economy, polity, religious traditions0
Correction0
Popular geopolitics of ‘nuclear India’: tracing the evolution of India’s ‘regional’ and ‘global’ identities in the English daily The Hindu from 2011–20200
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Objects and the shifts in the constitution of romantic love in Malayalam cine duet songs from the 1950s to the 1990s0
Alien at birth: Chinese migrants in post-colonial Assam (1947-1962)0
Gurus and Media: Sound, Image, Machine, Text and the Digital0
A look beyond welfarism: analysing the Lok Sabha Elections 2024 in West Bengal, India0
The 'undefined' in Malabar: tracing the statelessness in post-partition India0
Political communication in contemporary India: locating democracy and government0
Evacuee Cinema: Bombay and Lahore in Partition Transit (1940-1960) Evacuee Cinema: Bombay and Lahore in Partition Transit (1940-1960) , by Salma Siddique, Cambridge, Cam0
Indigeneity, developmentalism, and sustainability: trajectories of the Jarawas of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in Pankaj Sekhsaria's The Last Wave and0
Moving beyond faith: Muslim Jogis and religious conversion in north India0
Indian nurses in the Gulf: mobility capital, constraints and aspirations0
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Understanding agricultural transitions and sustainability: a study of farmers’ perspectives in rural North-West India0
Sovereign atonement: citizenship, territory, and the state at the Bangladesh-India border0
Breathless: tuberculosis, inequality, and care in rural India (south Asia in motion)0
Climate coercion and resistance0
Special treatment: student doctors at the all India institute of medical sciences (South Asia in motion)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
Gospel or governance? The political metaphor of Christian conversion in Nepal’s Chepang community0
The ritual of parikramā, Hinduization of space and the case of Ayodhyā0
Getting schools to work better: educational accountability and teacher support in India and China0
Flexible India: yoga’s cultural and political tensions0
Delineating Dalit trauma: (re)contextualizing cultural trauma, survivor’s guilt and partial privilege in post millennial Dalit women’s memoirs0
Governance gaps and the cycle of instability: local narratives from Northern Balochistan’s four districts0
The politics of celebration: interrogating the secular heritage of the Phool Waalon Ki Sair festival in Delhi0
Colonial legacies and the British geological survey in cold war South Asia: 1960s–1980s0
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
Culture, context and aging of older Indians: narratives from India and beyond0
Freedom Inc. gendered capitalism in new indian literature and culture0
Karma and grace: religious difference in millennial Sri Lanka0
Women’s participation in the Central Superior Services of Pakistan 1973–20200
Narratives of cultural violence in 1947 partition: ‘Environmental Upheaval’ and ethnic-linguistic shift0
Decolonizing Kokborok: the politics of script in Tripura0
Resurgent diversity: upland agriculture, indigenous crops and foodways in Eastern Himalayas0
The making and unmaking of the Bhalswa landfill in Delhi0
Introduction to the BASAS 2023 special section0
‘Marry me to a serviceman or a city dweller’: aspirations of young Bhumihar women in rural Bihar0
Urban development and environmental history in Modern South Asia0
Whose city is it anyway? Place, community and the fractured urban0
Unpacking securitisation in Sri Lanka: deontic modal competence and co-production analysis of speech acts0
Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border0
The contributions of Threatening Dystopias to critical adaptation studies0
Pour une autre idée du Pakistan: nationalisme et construction identitaire dans le Sindh0
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An anthropological understanding of the sea, subalternity, and the Sundarbans0
Climate justice in and beyond South Asia0
Lived reality of elite neighbourhoods: geographies of inequality in Delhi0
Whither utopia?0
Introduction: Platform Challenges to Creative Industries in India0
After cyclone Aila: politics of climate change in Sundarbans0
Audio-visual piracy on Telegram: a perspective on monetization models, pirate strategies and industrial pathways0
Women entrepreneurship in the Indian middle class: interdisciplinary perspectives0
Questioning migrants: ethnic nationalism at the limits of Pakistan0
Tourism and hospitality in Asia: crisis, resilience and recovery0
Role conflict and ‘regionness’: the effects of the belt and road initiative on South Asia0
Phantoms of the drains: imaginations of conflict in everyday infrastructures0
The dynamics of federal (in)stability and negotiated cooperation under single-party dominance: insights from Modi’s India0
Contesting the milad : Deobandis and Barelvis in British India and contemporary Pakistan0
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
‘Familiar but foreign at the same time’: hegemonic pull and push in first Indian Netflix original series Sacred Games0
Rohini Mohan's The Seasons of Trouble (2014): Sri Lanka's Tamil women in war and its aftermath0
The relationship between female labor force participation and violent conflicts in South Asia0
Through the India–China Border: Kalimpong in the Himalayas0
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
Mumbai on two wheels: cycling, urban space, and sustainable mobility0
Home in the world: a memoir Home in the world: a memoir , by Amartya Sen, London, Allen Lane, 2021, xv + 463 pp, ISBN 978-1-846-14486-80
A preliminary review of India’s rural economic crisis: stagnant wages, piling debt and waning demand0
Reassessing China’s image in the China–Pakistan economic corridor discourse: a critical discourse analysis of Pakistani mainstream media reports0
Gendered division of paid, unpaid, and total work in India: who bears more burden?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 rule0
Practices of the State: Muslims, Law and Violence in India0
Graphic diversity and ethnic identification in contemporary Manipur0
Press charges: renegotiating free speech and citizenship in post-partition Delhi0
Language as a site of identities, opportunities and conflicts: retracing the historical routes of the Bengali and Assamese languages conflict0
Clash of masculinities: corporate men, urban-village men and hypersexualised women in urban India0
Beyond papers: understanding the making of citizenship in the Foreigners’ Tribunals of Assam0
Making the right choice: narratives of marriage in Sri Lanka0
Bangladesh: Writings on 1971, Across Borders0
Sacralising the state: Hindu nationalism, populist imaginaries, and the politics of belonging in post-monarchy Nepal0
Role of anti-/pro-public sector bias in shaping perceived performance and fairness: an experimental exploration in South Asia0
Asserting caste? Bhishti sanitation workers and Muslim caste associations in Jaipur0
Markets, capitalism and urban space in India: right to sell0
From ‘house of horrors’ to ‘sensitive’ governance: sex workers’ shelter detention in India0
Decoding communist narrative on federalism in India: ideology versus politics0
Renunciation and longing: the life of a twentieth-century Himalayan Buddhist saint Renunciation and longing: the life of a twentieth-century Himalayan Buddhist saint , b0
A strategic myth: ‘Underdevelopment’ in Jammu and Kashmir0
From family to police force: security and belonging on a South Asian border0
Political conflict in Pakistan0
Christianity and politics in tribal India0
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Institutional trust paradox: understanding the dynamics of trust among different ethnic groups in Sri Lanka0
Otherness at war: Poles and World War II British Indian Army0
The (im-)possibilities of co-operatives in ‘free market’ conditions: a case study of neoliberal Sri Lanka0
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Public mourning of Zubeen Garg as a political statement in India’s Assam0
Contesting Masculinities and Women’s Agency in Kashmir0
Anti-Muslim violence in India’s religious ethnocracy0
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(lan0
Power of Bonding and Non-Western Soft Power Strategy in Iran: Comparing China and India's Engagement0
Urban ecologies in the capitalocene: postcolonial environmental crisis and spatial inequality in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger0
Shaligram pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas Shaligram pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas , by Holly Walters, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2020, 293 pp., € 124, 0
Castescapes: Dalit bodies, heat and hazard in industrial India0
Mobilisation of social movements and the local state in Independent India0
Do Islamic texts support caste stratification? Kafa’a and endogamy among Malabar Muslims0
Policy for cultural and creative industries in India: the issue of regulation through digital policy0
Subalternity and everyday solidarity in contemporary Indian short stories0
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Masculinity, consumerism and the post-national Indian city: streets, neighbourhoods, home Masculinity, consumerism and the post-national Indian city: streets, neighbourhoods, home 0
Highways and hierarchies: ethnographies of mobility from the Himalaya to the Indian Ocean0
Pentecostalism and politics of conversion in India0
Whose property is this? Exploring dynamics between property relations, housing precarity, and working conditions in Pune's red-light district, India0
Masculinity beyond the warrior ‘savage’: (re)thinking warriors as elite indigenous masculinity in select Angami folktales0
Hindutva and communal polarization in Goa0
Ayodhya 2.0 in Banaras? Judicial discourses and rituals of place in the making of Hindu majoritarianism0
Shaping landscapes: transforming ethnic lands into state highways in Nagaland0
Of saintly men and wanton girls: the social worker’s adventures in the refugee city0
Composing Violence: The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities0
Nepal’s Dalits in transition0
Playing it the nation’s way: tradition, cosmopolitanism, and the native-masculine of Hindi sports films0
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, In0
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