Contemporary South Asia

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Digital inclusion challenges in Bangladesh: the case of the National ICT Policy	38
Students, movements, and the threat to authoritarianism in Bangladesh	9
Buddha and Nilima: the city after communism	9
Public sector employment, class mobility, and differentiation in a tribal coal mining village in India	8
The specter of hate and intolerance: sectarian-jihadi nexus and the persecution of Hazara Shia community in Pakistan	8
‘New’ terrains of precarity – gig work in India	7
Gendering the everyday state: Muslim women, claim-making & brokerage in India	6
Marginal gains: borderland dynamics, political settlements, and shifting centre-periphery relations in post-war Nepal	5
Claiming crisis: narratives of tension and insurance in rural India	5
The caste question in West Bengal politics: continuing inconsequentiality or rising relevance?	4
The political life of Muslim caste: articulations and frictions within a Pasmanda identity	4
‘Give me the space to live’: trauma, casted land and the search for restitution among the Meghwal survivors of the Dangawas massacre	4
Transnational land and property disputes: the British-Bangladeshi experience	4
Women’s struggles over religion and citizenship in contemporary India	4
A permanent cordon sanitaire: intra-village spatial segregation and social distance in India	4
Introduction: Calcutta characters	3
Women and South Asian Hinduism and Islam: in the subcontinent and the diaspora	3
Muslim Woman/Muslim women: lived experiences beyond religion and gender in South Asia and its diasporas	3
‘This is all waste’: emptying, cleaning and clearing land for renewable energy dispossession in borderland India	3
Living religions across transnational spaces: experiences of South Asian American Hindu and Muslim women	3
Social mobility and politicisation of caste among the Rayeens of Uttar Pradesh	3
Social media as online archives: inserting religious identities within educational spaces in India	3
After cyclone Aila: politics of climate change in Sundarbans	3
The prospects of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC): the importance of understanding western China	3
Joyraj and Debanuj: queer(y)ing the city	2

India and maritime governance in the Indian ocean: the impact of geopolitics on India’s involvement in maritime governance	2
Rural decentralization and infant mortality among select Indian states: a preliminary analysis	2
Hijras of Assam: undocumented ‘citizens’ in the National Register of Citizens	2
‘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	2
Migration, patriarchy and ‘modern’ Islam: views from left behind wives in rural northern Bangladesh	2
Dynastic dilemma in South Asia: influence, networks and shamefacedness	2
Relational approaches to poverty in rural India: social, ecological and technical dynamics	2
Ayodhya 2.0 in Banaras? Judicial discourses and rituals of place in the making of Hindu majoritarianism	2
Old imaginaries in a new frame: the politics of Bollywood’s ‘social problem films’ on Kashmir	2
Policy for cultural and creative industries in India: the issue of regulation through digital policy	2
Managing mobility: commuting domestic workers, mobile phones, and women’s ‘honour’ in Kolkata	2
Anjuman, jami‘at, and association: what Sayyid organizations tell us about associational forms among Muslim caste groups	2
Securing health care within a ‘magical’ state: the construction of eligibility in India	2
When pastoralists urbanize: Intersecting spatiotemporalities of small town Himalaya	2
Seeking certainty, security and spirituality: religious conditioning and everyday aspirations amongst female university students in Bangladesh	2
The dynamic of stepwise migrations of Nepalese high-skilled migrants via the Middle East	2
Gift of a temple: socio-economic and cultural changes around diasporic engagement in Jaffna Peninsula, Sri Lanka	2
Kinship as a ‘public fiction’. Substance and emptiness in South Indian inter-caste and inter-religious families	1
Networks, space and belonging: the Marwaris in Manipur	1
Youth, meritocracy and cultural hierarchy in the New Nepal	1
Reimagining familial relationships: intimate networks and kinship practices in Odisha, India	1
Producing multiple ‘others’: spatial upheaval and Hindutva politics in urban India	1
Of the (im)mobility regime in India: the post-COVID medicalisation of mobilities	1
Identifying ‘authorized users’, identifying kin: negotiating relational worlds through Geographical Indications registration	1
Organising the Sheikh sanitation workers in Srinagar: from the politics of dignity to Pasmanda activism?	1
The changing shape of the Indian recorded music industry in the age of platformisation	1
The greater India experiment: Hindutva and the Northeast	1
Women, goddesses and tantric praxis: a liberatory antidote to ‘Hindutva' nationalist politics	1
Digitalization and Informality in media industries: beyond the platform-portal divide?	1
The shape of the Sangh: rethinking Hindu nationalist organisational ties	1
Asserting caste? Bhishti sanitation workers and Muslim caste associations in Jaipur	1
Poetics and politics of post-partition cultural memories in Kamila Shamsie’sKartography	1
Everyday violence and care: insights from fictive kin relations between madams and sex workers in India	1
The material and the moral: contradictory imperatives and the production of trafficking narratives in South India	1
Institutional trust paradox: understanding the dynamics of trust among different ethnic groups in Sri Lanka	1
Caste and two types of status. Comparing Dumont and Weber for studies of caste today	1
Courting agency: gender and divorce in an English sharia council	1
The National Register of Citizens (NRC) in India and the potential for statelessness in situ: a cautionary tale from Assam	1
Shyamoli and the unknown male: the city’s violent margins	1
Dirty politics and political care in local politics: gendered barriers to moral boundary crossing in Dehradun, India	1
Thief plates: the mediation of extortion in the rickshaw business in Dhaka, Bangladesh	1
Role of anti-/pro-public sector bias in shaping perceived performance and fairness: an experimental exploration in South Asia	1
Destroying one’s own home: resource frontiers and indigenous governance in Northeast India	1
India and Africa in the pandemic imagination	1
Marketing affect: mapping the centredness of the election campaign through a comparison of party strategies in the Delhi assembly elections	1
A study of risk perception of radiofrequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) exposure from mobile phones and base stations in India	1
Bottom-up imaginaries: examining discursive construction of social media roles and affordances in India	1
A song for Jains or a song for India: contesting narratives during the COVID-19 crisis	1
Afterword: questions for the study of Muslim castes and anti-caste Islam	1
Taking the bull by its horns: the political economic logics of new farm laws and agrarian dissent in India	1

From ‘house of horrors’ to ‘sensitive’ governance: sex workers’ shelter detention in India	1
The Ayodhya case, freedom of religion, and the making of modernist ‘Hinduism’	1
Caste politics, minority representation, and social mobility: the associational life of Muslim caste in India	1
Kinship as fiction: exploring the dynamism of intimate relationships in South Asia	1
After compliance in India and beyond: a theory of implementation dilemmas and comparative institutional analysis	1
Capsizing the gaze: gender non-conforming communities as monitorial citizens	1
The view from Mathura: nationalist projections in local perspective	1
The next billion users: Digital life beyond the West	0
Women’s participation in the Central Superior Services of Pakistan 1973–2020	0
Independence & accountability of the Indian higher judiciary	0
Nightmarch: among India’s revolutionary guerrillas	0
At the limits of cure	0
Urban development and environmental history in Modern South Asia	0
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I am the people: reflections on popular sovereignty today	0
Culture, Context and Aging of Older Indians Narratives from India and Beyond	0
Political parties and initial COVID-19 policies: subnational trends in India	0
Reordering Adivasi worlds: representation, resistance, memory Reordering Adivasi worlds: representation, resistance, memory , by Sangeeta Dasgupta, New Delhi, Oxford Uni	0
A strategic myth: ‘Underdevelopment’ in Jammu and Kashmir	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
Walking with pilgrims: the Kanwar pilgrimage of Bihar, Jharkhand and the Terai of Nepal	0
Dharmaśāstra and the legal personality of deities in the Ayodhya verdicts (2010 & 2019)	0
Nirmala and Sonia: the city through embodiment	0
Moving beyond faith: Muslim Jogis and religious conversion in north India	0
In the name of the father? Northeast India and problems of national kinship	0
Holy science: the biopolitics of Hindu nationalism	0
Un/common schooling: educational experiments in twentieth-century India Un/common schooling: educational experiments in twentieth-century India , edited by Janaki Nair,	0
How India became territorial: foreign policy, diaspora, geopolitics	0
Provincial globalization in India: transregional mobilities and development politics	0
Why the digital classroom is a bad model for digital learning	0
Risk and the rupee in Pakistan’s new economy	0
Prophet and statesmen in crafting democracy in India: political leadership, ideas, and compromises	0
Passionate politics: democracy, development and India’s 2019 general election	0
Legalizing sex: sexual minorities, AIDS, and citizenship in India	0
Playing it the nation’s way: tradition, cosmopolitanism, and the native-masculine of Hindi sports films	0
Village ties: women, NGOs, and informal institutions in rural Bangladesh	0
A Secular Need: Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India	0
Limits of bargaining: capital, labour and the state in contemporary India	0
The politics of hope	0
India’s Pakistan conundrum: managing a complex relationship	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
Emotions, identity and the entrepreneurial self: narratives of working Muslim women in rural India	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
Himalayan histories: economy, polity, religious traditions	0
Madrasas and the making of Islamic womanhood	0
Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border	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
Reflections on Bangladesh at 50	0
Intimacy and industry: the multiple heterosexual intimacies shaping cycle rickshaw men’s labor and migration in India	0
Pentecostalism and politics of conversion in India	0
Jugaad time: ecologies of everyday hacking in India	0
A preliminary review of India’s rural economic crisis: stagnant wages, piling debt and waning demand	0
Subcontinental drift: domestic politics and India’s foreign policy	0
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
India and global governance across international regimes and time	0
The university as a site of resistance: identity and student politics	0
Chronotopes of sovereign power in In the Name of the Nation	0
Voluntarism in partition’s aftermath: the Faridabad story	0
Debates on agricultural loan waiver schemes in India: myths and realities	0
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Defining Girlhood in India: a transnational history of sexual maturity laws	0
Highways and hierarchies: ethnographies of mobility from the Himalaya to the Indian Ocean	0
Markets, capitalism and urban space in India: right to sell	0
In a Pure Muslim Land: Shi’ism between Pakistan and the Middle East	0
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	0
Building the state and conceiving the nation: the origins of separatist insurgency in the Mizo Hills, 1945-61	0
Politics of (dis)contentment. Restitching identities in rural Sri Lanka: gender, neoliberalism, and the politics of contentment	0
Identity, nationhood and Bangladesh independent cinema	0
The Indian Economy	0
Books Available for Review	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
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
Voices of dissent Voices of dissent , Romila Thapar, Kolkata, Seagull Books, 2020, viii + 164 pp., ₹304 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-85742-862-2	0
Energy cooperation in South Asia: utilising natural resources for peace and sustainable development	0
Devotional contextures: the māla songs and Muslim ethical formation in contemporary Kerala	0
Jurisprudence and geography of Hindu majoritarianism: thinking with the 2019 Ayodhya judgement	0
Depression in Kerala: Ayurveda and mental health care in 21st century India	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
Defending Muhammad in Modernity, by	0
Musicoplia in Mumbai: performing subjects and the metropolitan unconscious	0
Surrender, rehabilitation and hybrid regimes: the making of the northeast frontier	0
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	0
Graphic diversity and ethnic identification in contemporary Manipur	0
India and the framework convention on tobacco control: the politics of rising power attitudes toward international rules	0
Whither utopia?	0
Money, Culture, Class: Elite women as modern subjects	0
The gender of caste: representing Dalits in print	0
Rethinking conflict at the margins: dalits and borderland Hindus in Jammu and Kashmir	0
Being single in India: stories of gender, exclusion, and possibility	0
Muslim daughters and inheritance in India:Sharīcat, custom and practice	0
South Asian governmentalities: Michel Foucault and the question of postcolonial orderings	0
Sensitive space: fragmented territory at the India–Bangladesh border	0
In the shadow of a sword: the memoir of a woman leader in the LTTE	0
Women entrepreneurship in the Indian middle class: interdisciplinary perspectives	0
Hindus in India, Bengalis in Bengal: the role of religious and regional identities in West Bengal politics	0
The relationship between female labor force participation and violent conflicts in South Asia	0
The ritual of parikramā, Hinduization of space and the case of Ayodhyā	0
Contested Capital: Rural Middle Classes in India	0
Colonizing Kashmir: state-building under Indian occupation Colonizing Kashmir: state-building under Indian occupation , by Hafsa Kanjwal, Stanford, Stanford University P	0
Bangladesh: Writings on 1971, Across Borders	0
Planning in the 20th century and beyond: India’s Planning Commission and the NITI Aayog	0
Neoliberalism and the transforming left in India: a contradictory manifesto	0
A small car for a small family: building India’s first ‘people’s car’	0
Poetry of belonging: Muslim Imaginings of India 1850-1950	0
Press charges: renegotiating free speech and citizenship in post-partition Delhi	0
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Privileged minorities: Syrian Christianity, gender, and minority rights in postcolonial India	0
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‘Still disappeared’: reconstructing the 1990 ‘truth commission’ in Nepal	0
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	0
Afterword: a forgotten individual, a forgotten milieu	0
Introduction to the BASAS 2021 special section	0
Beyond regimes: China and India compared	0
Police matters: the everyday state and caste politics in South India, 1900–1975	0
Radiant infrastructures: media, environment and cultures of uncertainty	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
Violent conjunctures in democratic India	0
The ethics of staying: social movements and land rights politics in Pakistan	0
Making the right choice: narratives of marriage in Sri Lanka	0
Perspectives on work, home, and identity from artisans in Telangana	0
Childlessness in Bangladesh: intersectionality, suffering and resilience Childlessness in Bangladesh: intersectionality, suffering and resilience , by Papreen Nahar, Lon	0
The final straw? Bhola cyclone, 1970 election, disaster politics, and the making of Bangladesh	0
The South Asia Gallery, Manchester Museum	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
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	0
The archive of loss: lively ruination in mill land Mumbai	0
The voices of war heroines: sexual violence, testimony, and the Bangladesh Liberation War The voices of war heroines: sexual violence, testimony, and the Bangladesh Liberation War	0
Dreaming in the shadow of history: micro-mobilities and belonging in Lucknow	0
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The return of the 1990s in Kashmir	0
Intimate Connections: Love and Marriage in Pakistan’s high mountains	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
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Women, Gender and Religious Nationalism Women, Gender and Religious Nationalism , edited by Amrita Basu and Tanika Sarkar, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, x	0
Life, labour, and dreams: one woman’s life in Old Delhi	0
South Asian regionalism: the limits of cooperation	0
Crooked cats: beastly encounters in the Anthropocene	0
Christianity and politics in tribal India	0
Misters Mukharji and Kathotia: the economies of the city	0
Rohini Mohan's The Seasons of Trouble (2014): Sri Lanka's Tamil women in war and its aftermath	0
Imagined and unimagined relatedness: a child of ‘one’s own’ in third-party reproduction 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
Neoliberal city and exclusive communities: the politics of contemporary urbanisation in northern India	0
History and collective memory in South Asia, 1200–2000	0
Hindutva and communal polarization in Goa	0
Muslim marriages, the South African state and the courts: between limbo, liberation, and the spaces for contestation in-between	0
Muslim New Womanhood in Bangladesh	0
Hailing the state: Indian democracy between elections Hailing the state: Indian democracy between elections , by Lisa Mitchell, Durham, Duke University Press, 2023, xvii	0
The quotidian revolution: vernacularization, religion, and the premodern public sphere in India	0
Memories and Postmemories of the Partition of India	0
Introduction to the BASAS 2019 special section	0
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The Ayodhya decision and Marwari mercantile patronage: materializing a devotional geography for Rāma through Hanumān	0
Indian Federalism (Oxford India Short Introductions)	0
Gendered division of paid, unpaid, and total work in India: who bears more burden?	0
Pour une autre idée du Pakistan: nationalisme et construction identitaire dans le Sindh	0
Shiptown: between rural and urban North India	0
Undignified names: caste, politics, and everyday life in North India	0
Kashmir at the crossroads: inside a 21st-century conflict	0
From family to police force: security and belonging on a South Asian border	0
Unravelling the constitutional settlement: devolution, democracy and patronage in eastern Sri Lanka	0
Remembering deceased kin through assisted conception in India	0
Being seen: the political and bureaucratic entanglements of Muslim women in West Bengal	0
Reflections of Amma: Devotees in a Global Embrace	0
Encountering the state: situated strategies and perspectives of Tanchangya villagers in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh	0
Essays in celebrity culture: Stars and styles	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
Of histories (un)shared: India – Pakistan, postage stamps, and 1857	0
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Voting for security: evidence from a Maoist-affected region in India	0