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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Students, movements, and the threat to authoritarianism in Bangladesh9
The specter of hate and intolerance: sectarian-jihadi nexus and the persecution of Hazara Shia community in Pakistan8
‘New’ terrains of precarity – gig work in India7
Gendering the everyday state: Muslim women, claim-making & brokerage in India6
Women’s struggles over religion and citizenship in contemporary India6
‘This is all waste’: emptying, cleaning and clearing land for renewable energy dispossession in borderland India5
The caste question in West Bengal politics: continuing inconsequentiality or rising relevance?5
Marginal gains: borderland dynamics, political settlements, and shifting centre-periphery relations in post-war Nepal5
Transnational land and property disputes: the British-Bangladeshi experience4
After cyclone Aila: politics of climate change in Sundarbans4
The prospects of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC): the importance of understanding western China4
A permanent cordon sanitaire: intra-village spatial segregation and social distance in India4
The political life of Muslim caste: articulations and frictions within a Pasmanda identity4
Policy for cultural and creative industries in India: the issue of regulation through digital policy4
Muslim Woman/Muslim women: lived experiences beyond religion and gender in South Asia and its diasporas3
When pastoralists urbanize: Intersecting spatiotemporalities of small town Himalaya3
Living religions across transnational spaces: experiences of South Asian American Hindu and Muslim women3
Social mobility and politicisation of caste among the Rayeens of Uttar Pradesh3
The dynamic of stepwise migrations of Nepalese high-skilled migrants via the Middle East3
Ayodhya 2.0 in Banaras? Judicial discourses and rituals of place in the making of Hindu majoritarianism3
Women and South Asian Hinduism and Islam: in the subcontinent and the diaspora3
Caste politics, minority representation, and social mobility: the associational life of Muslim caste in India2
Hijras of Assam: undocumented ‘citizens’ in the National Register of Citizens2
Seeking certainty, security and spirituality: religious conditioning and everyday aspirations amongst female university students in Bangladesh2
‘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 Bangladesh2
Anjuman, jami‘at, and association: what Sayyid organizations tell us about associational forms among Muslim caste groups2
Dynastic dilemma in South Asia: influence, networks and shamefacedness2
Dirty politics and political care in local politics: gendered barriers to moral boundary crossing in Dehradun, India2
Rural decentralization and infant mortality among select Indian states: a preliminary analysis2
Old imaginaries in a new frame: the politics of Bollywood’s ‘social problem films’ on Kashmir2
Managing mobility: commuting domestic workers, mobile phones, and women’s ‘honour’ in Kolkata2
Of the (im)mobility regime in India: the post-COVID medicalisation of mobilities2
Bottom-up imaginaries: examining discursive construction of social media roles and affordances in India2
Role of anti-/pro-public sector bias in shaping perceived performance and fairness: an experimental exploration in South Asia2
India and maritime governance in the Indian ocean: the impact of geopolitics on India’s involvement in maritime governance2
Capsizing the gaze: gender non-conforming communities as monitorial citizens2
A study of risk perception of radiofrequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) exposure from mobile phones and base stations in India2
Migration, patriarchy and ‘modern’ Islam: views from left behind wives in rural northern Bangladesh2
Reimagining familial relationships: intimate networks and kinship practices in Odisha, India2
Securing health care within a ‘magical’ state: the construction of eligibility in India2
Kinship as fiction: exploring the dynamism of intimate relationships in South Asia1
The changing shape of the Indian recorded music industry in the age of platformisation1
Destroying one’s own home: resource frontiers and indigenous governance in Northeast India1
The shape of the Sangh: rethinking Hindu nationalist organisational ties1
India and Africa in the pandemic imagination1
Poetics and politics of post-partition cultural memories in Kamila Shamsie’sKartography1
The material and the moral: contradictory imperatives and the production of trafficking narratives in South India1
The National Register of Citizens (NRC) in India and the potential for statelessness in situ: a cautionary tale from Assam1
Youth, meritocracy and cultural hierarchy in the New Nepal1
Producing multiple ‘others’: spatial upheaval and Hindutva politics in urban India1
From ‘house of horrors’ to ‘sensitive’ governance: sex workers’ shelter detention in India1
The Ayodhya case, freedom of religion, and the making of modernist ‘Hinduism’1
Women, goddesses and tantric praxis: a liberatory antidote to ‘Hindutva' nationalist politics1
After compliance in India and beyond: a theory of implementation dilemmas and comparative institutional analysis1
Digitalization and Informality in media industries: beyond the platform-portal divide?1
Marketing affect: mapping the centredness of the election campaign through a comparison of party strategies in the Delhi assembly elections1
Asserting caste? Bhishti sanitation workers and Muslim caste associations in Jaipur1
The view from Mathura: nationalist projections in local perspective1
Identifying ‘authorized users’, identifying kin: negotiating relational worlds through Geographical Indications registration1
A song for Jains or a song for India: contesting narratives during the COVID-19 crisis1
Afterword: questions for the study of Muslim castes and anti-caste Islam1
Organising the Sheikh sanitation workers in Srinagar: from the politics of dignity to Pasmanda activism?1
The greater India experiment: Hindutva and the Northeast1
Thief plates: the mediation of extortion in the rickshaw business in Dhaka, Bangladesh1
Undignified names: caste, politics, and everyday life in North India1
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 rule1
Networks, space and belonging: the Marwaris in Manipur1
Kinship as a ‘public fiction’. Substance and emptiness in South Indian inter-caste and inter-religious families1
‘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 ragging1
Caste and two types of status. Comparing Dumont and Weber for studies of caste today1
Institutional trust paradox: understanding the dynamics of trust among different ethnic groups in Sri Lanka1
Taking the bull by its horns: the political economic logics of new farm laws and agrarian dissent in India1
Everyday violence and care: insights from fictive kin relations between madams and sex workers in India1
Courting agency: gender and divorce in an English sharia council1
Village ties: women, NGOs, and informal institutions in rural Bangladesh0
The ritual of parikramā, Hinduization of space and the case of Ayodhyā0
Poetry of belonging: Muslim Imaginings of India 1850-19500
Walking with pilgrims: the Kanwar pilgrimage of Bihar, Jharkhand and the Terai of Nepal0
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Whose city is it anyway? Place, community and the fractured urban0
Otherness at war: Poles and World War II British Indian Army0
Essays in celebrity culture: Stars and styles0
Imagined and unimagined relatedness: a child of ‘one’s own’ in third-party reproduction in India0
India and global governance across international regimes and time0
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, Cambri0
Critical analysis of debates on Tamil populism: perspectives from the field0
Politics of (dis)contentment. Restitching identities in rural Sri Lanka: gender, neoliberalism, and the politics of contentment0
Making the right choice: narratives of marriage in Sri Lanka0
Perspectives on work, home, and identity from artisans in Telangana0
A small car for a small family: building India’s first ‘people’s car’0
Intimacy and industry: the multiple heterosexual intimacies shaping cycle rickshaw men’s labor and migration in India0
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
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
Madrasas and the making of Islamic womanhood0
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Theatre of Nepal and the people who make it0
Delineating Dalit trauma: (re)contextualizing cultural trauma, survivor’s guilt and partial privilege in post millennial Dalit women’s memoirs0
Reordering Adivasi worlds: representation, resistance, memory Reordering Adivasi worlds: representation, resistance, memory , by Sangeeta Dasgupta, New Delhi, Oxford Uni0
Money, Culture, Class: Elite women as modern subjects0
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
Passionate politics: democracy, development and India’s 2019 general election0
Graphic diversity and ethnic identification in contemporary Manipur0
The university as a site of resistance: identity and student politics0
Police matters: the everyday state and caste politics in South India, 1900–19750
Enhancing environmental performance: evidence from SAARC Countries0
Crooked cats: beastly encounters in the Anthropocene0
‘Agency, voice and choice’: reflecting on assisted reproductive technologies through select Indian films0
A preliminary review of India’s rural economic crisis: stagnant wages, piling debt and waning demand0
Voting for security: evidence from a Maoist-affected region in India0
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Rohini Mohan's The Seasons of Trouble (2014): Sri Lanka's Tamil women in war and its aftermath0
Voices of dissent Voices of dissent , Romila Thapar, Kolkata, Seagull Books, 2020, viii + 164 pp., ₹304 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-85742-862-20
Chronotopes of sovereign power in In the Name of the Nation0
The politics of hope0
Devotional contextures: the māla songs and Muslim ethical formation in contemporary Kerala0
Lived reality of elite neighbourhoods: geographies of inequality in Delhi0
Political conflict in Pakistan Political conflict in Pakistan , by Mohammad Waseem, London, Hurst, 2021, 576 pp., £35.00 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-787-38400-20
Women entrepreneurship in the Indian middle class: interdisciplinary perspectives0
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
Defending Muhammad in Modernity, by0
South Asian regionalism: the limits of cooperation0
The caste of merit: engineering education in India0
Colonizing Kashmir: state-building under Indian occupation Colonizing Kashmir: state-building under Indian occupation , by Hafsa Kanjwal, Stanford, Stanford University P0
Bangladesh: Writings on 1971, Across Borders0
India’s Pakistan conundrum: managing a complex relationship0
Women, Gender and Religious Nationalism Women, Gender and Religious Nationalism , edited by Amrita Basu and Tanika Sarkar, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, x0
Prophet and statesmen in crafting democracy in India: political leadership, ideas, and compromises0
The dynamics of federal (in)stability and negotiated cooperation under single-party dominance: insights from Modi’s India0
Risk and the rupee in Pakistan’s new economy0
The final straw? Bhola cyclone, 1970 election, disaster politics, and the making of Bangladesh0
Indian Federalism (Oxford India Short Introductions)0
Correction0
Being single in India: stories of gender, exclusion, and possibility0
Moving beyond faith: Muslim Jogis and religious conversion in north India0
A Secular Need: Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India0
From family to police force: security and belonging on a South Asian border0
Shiptown: between rural and urban North India0
Remembering deceased kin through assisted conception in India0
Hailing the state: Indian democracy between elections Hailing the state: Indian democracy between elections , by Lisa Mitchell, Durham, Duke University Press, 2023, xvii0
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
Debates on agricultural loan waiver schemes in India: myths and realities0
Legalizing sex: sexual minorities, AIDS, and citizenship in India0
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The Ayodhya decision and Marwari mercantile patronage: materializing a devotional geography for Rāma through Hanumān0
Press charges: renegotiating free speech and citizenship in post-partition Delhi0
Culture, Context and Aging of Older Indians Narratives from India and Beyond0
Identity, nationhood and Bangladesh independent cinema0
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Kashmir at the crossroads: inside a 21st-century conflict0
Unravelling the constitutional settlement: devolution, democracy and patronage in eastern Sri Lanka0
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
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
Planning in the 20th century and beyond: India’s Planning Commission and the NITI Aayog0
Encountering the state: situated strategies and perspectives of Tanchangya villagers in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh0
Dust on the throne: the search for Buddhism in modern India0
Mobilisation of social movements and the local state in Independent India0
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Hindus in India, Bengalis in Bengal: the role of religious and regional identities in West Bengal politics0
Childlessness in Bangladesh: intersectionality, suffering and resilience Childlessness in Bangladesh: intersectionality, suffering and resilience , by Papreen Nahar, Lon0
In the name of the father? Northeast India and problems of national kinship0
Dharmaśāstra and the legal personality of deities in the Ayodhya verdicts (2010 & 2019)0
Introduction to the BASAS 2021 special section0
At the limits of cure0
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 and0
Why the digital classroom is a bad model for digital learning0
Energy cooperation in South Asia: utilising natural resources for peace and sustainable development0
Privileged minorities: Syrian Christianity, gender, and minority rights in postcolonial India0
Highways and hierarchies: ethnographies of mobility from the Himalaya to the Indian Ocean0
Karma and grace: religious difference in millennial Sri Lanka0
India's engagement with the International Monetary Fund: growing into an ownership role0
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 Holl0
Of histories (un)shared: India – Pakistan, postage stamps, and 18570
Climate coercion and resistance0
Beyond regimes: China and India compared0
Nightmarch: among India’s revolutionary guerrillas0
Intimate Connections: Love and Marriage in Pakistan’s high mountains0
Kashmir after 2019: completing the partition0
Muslim daughters and inheritance in India:Sharīcat, custom and practice0
Memories and Postmemories of the Partition of India0
Playing it the nation’s way: tradition, cosmopolitanism, and the native-masculine of Hindi sports films0
Life, labour, and dreams: one woman’s life in Old Delhi0
Provincial globalization in India: transregional mobilities and development politics0
Dynamics of Caste and Law: Dalits, Oppression and Constitutional Democracy in India0
Pour une autre idée du Pakistan: nationalisme et construction identitaire dans le Sindh0
The relationship between female labor force participation and violent conflicts in South Asia0
Un/common schooling: educational experiments in twentieth-century India Un/common schooling: educational experiments in twentieth-century India , edited by Janaki Nair, 0
Rethinking conflict at the margins: dalits and borderland Hindus in Jammu and Kashmir0
Emotions, identity and the entrepreneurial self: narratives of working Muslim women in rural India0
Political parties and initial COVID-19 policies: subnational trends in India0
Neoliberal city and exclusive communities: the politics of contemporary urbanisation in northern India0
I am the people: reflections on popular sovereignty today0
Reflections on Bangladesh at 500
Dreaming in the shadow of history: micro-mobilities and belonging in Lucknow0
Hindutva and communal polarization in Goa0
History, Memory and Memorabilia: Kamala Dasgupta and the Politics of Remembering Revolutionary Bengal0
In the shadow of a sword: the memoir of a woman leader in the LTTE0
‘Still disappeared’: reconstructing the 1990 ‘truth commission’ in Nepal0
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Beyond papers: understanding the making of citizenship in the Foreigners’ Tribunals of Assam0
Camp life of Sri Lankan refugees in India0
The university, student politics, and the ABVP0
Radiant infrastructures: media, environment and cultures of uncertainty0
Urban development and environmental history in Modern South Asia0
In a Pure Muslim Land: Shi’ism between Pakistan and the Middle East0
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
Gendered division of paid, unpaid, and total work in India: who bears more burden?0
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Markets, capitalism and urban space in India: right to sell0
The Indian Economy0
Subcontinental drift: domestic politics and India’s foreign policy0
Freedom Inc. gendered capitalism in new indian literature and culture0
Jurisprudence and geography of Hindu majoritarianism: thinking with the 2019 Ayodhya judgement0
Painting stories: lives and legacies from an Indian crafts village Painting stories: lives and legacies from an Indian crafts village , by Helle Bundgaard, Toronto, Univ0
Holy science: the biopolitics of Hindu nationalism0
Getting schools to work better: educational accountability and teacher support in India and China0
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 of the marginal: gender in a new education city0
Being seen: the political and bureaucratic entanglements of Muslim women in West Bengal0
Voluntarism in partition’s aftermath: the Faridabad story0
Threatening dystopias0
Surrender, rehabilitation and hybrid regimes: the making of the northeast frontier0
Linguistic landscaping in Kathmandu’s Thamel ‘Chinatown’: language as commodity in the construction of a cosmopolitan transnational space0
Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border0
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Building the state and conceiving the nation: the origins of separatist insurgency in the Mizo Hills, 1945-610
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 New0
Whither utopia?0
Bangladesh on a new journey: moving beyond the regional identity0
Reflections of Amma: Devotees in a Global Embrace0
The ethics of staying: social movements and land rights politics in Pakistan0
A strategic myth: ‘Underdevelopment’ in Jammu and Kashmir0
Identifying and regulating religion in India: law, history and the place of worship0
Women’s participation in the Central Superior Services of Pakistan 1973–20200
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
Multilingual education in south Asia: at the intersection of policy and practice Multilingual education in south Asia: at the intersection of policy and practice , edite0
Defining Girlhood in India: a transnational history of sexual maturity laws0
Musicoplia in Mumbai: performing subjects and the metropolitan unconscious0
Substantial relations: making global reproductive medicine in postcolonial India0
Muslim marriages, the South African state and the courts: between limbo, liberation, and the spaces for contestation in-between0
Himalayan histories: economy, polity, religious traditions0
Muslim New Womanhood in Bangladesh0
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India and the framework convention on tobacco control: the politics of rising power attitudes toward international rules0
Witch hunts: culture, patriarchy and structural transformation0
Pentecostalism and politics of conversion in India0
Christianity and politics in tribal India0
History and collective memory in South Asia, 1200–20000
Contested Capital: Rural Middle Classes in India0
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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