Contemporary South Asia

Papers
(The TQCC of Contemporary South Asia is 1. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Political conflict in Pakistan Political conflict in Pakistan , by Mohammad Waseem, London, Hurst, 2021, 576 pp., £35.00 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-787-38400-219
Hindus in India, Bengalis in Bengal: the role of religious and regional identities in West Bengal politics12
Colonizing Kashmir: state-building under Indian occupation Colonizing Kashmir: state-building under Indian occupation , by Hafsa Kanjwal, Stanford, Stanford University P11
Threatening dystopias11
Childlessness in Bangladesh: intersectionality, suffering and resilience Childlessness in Bangladesh: intersectionality, suffering and resilience , by Papreen Nahar, Lon11
Foreign intervention, executive corruption, and economic growth in Afghanistan7
Madrasas and the making of Islamic womanhood7
The National Register of Citizens (NRC) in India and the potential for statelessness in situ: a cautionary tale from Assam6
Uprooted when settled: Koonj and Kuku in the changing migrating identity of Gujjars and Bakerwals, the transhumant pastoralist of Jammu an6
Voting for security: evidence from a Maoist-affected region in India6
Migration, patriarchy and ‘modern’ Islam: views from left behind wives in rural northern Bangladesh6
Enhancing environmental performance: evidence from SAARC Countries5
Provincial globalization in India: transregional mobilities and development politics5
Musicoplia in Mumbai: performing subjects and the metropolitan unconscious5
On-going Shaheen Bagh: collective creation, newness and solidarity4
Pakistan state practices in Gilgit-Baltistan: a paradox?4
On becoming a demanding Community: Neelam and its March for Justice4
A study of risk perception of radiofrequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) exposure from mobile phones and base stations in India4
Resistance as negotiation: making states and tribes in the margins of modern India4
Encountering the state: situated strategies and perspectives of Tanchangya villagers in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh4
Devotional contextures: the māla songs and Muslim ethical formation in contemporary Kerala3
Capsizing the gaze: gender non-conforming communities as monitorial citizens3
Chronotopes of sovereign power in In the Name of the Nation3
India and Africa in the pandemic imagination3
Muslim New Womanhood in Bangladesh3
Dharmaśāstra and the legal personality of deities in the Ayodhya verdicts (2010 & 2019)3
The dynamic of stepwise migrations of Nepalese high-skilled migrants via the Middle East3
Neoliberal city and exclusive communities: the politics of contemporary urbanisation in northern India3
Multilingual education in south Asia: at the intersection of policy and practice Multilingual education in south Asia: at the intersection of policy and practice , edite3
Digitalization and Informality in media industries: beyond the platform-portal divide?3
Surrender, rehabilitation and hybrid regimes: the making of the northeast frontier2
‘New’ terrains of precarity – gig work in India2
Painting stories: lives and legacies from an Indian crafts village Painting stories: lives and legacies from an Indian crafts village , by Helle Bundgaard, Toronto, Univ2
Sexuality reimagined: MSM in modern India2
Divorcing Traditions: Islamic marriage law and the making of Indian secularism2
Crooked cats: beastly encounters in the Anthropocene2
Reordering Adivasi worlds: representation, resistance, memory Reordering Adivasi worlds: representation, resistance, memory , by Sangeeta Dasgupta, New Delhi, Oxford Uni2
Thief plates: the mediation of extortion in the rickshaw business in Dhaka, Bangladesh2
Identifying and regulating religion in India: law, history and the place of worship2
‘ Randua on the bench’: examining the colonial and post-colonial roots of contemporary forced bachelorhood and vigilantism in the Agrarian North2
Books Available for Review2
In the name of the father? Northeast India and problems of national kinship2
Performing sovereign aspirations: Tamil insurgency and postwar transition in Sri Lanka2
Memory of landscapes: nostalgia, migration and the exilic memory of the East Bengali refugees in Dandakaranya2
‘Still disappeared’: reconstructing the 1990 ‘truth commission’ in Nepal2
Beyond religion in India and Pakistan: gender and caste, borders and boundaries2
Voices of dissent Voices of dissent , Romila Thapar, Kolkata, Seagull Books, 2020, viii + 164 pp., ₹304 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-85742-862-21
Books Available for Review1
The Politics of love in Myanmar: LGBT mobilization and human rights as a way of life1
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
Bottom-up imaginaries: examining discursive construction of social media roles and affordances in India1
The politics of hope1
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, Cambri1
Caste, marginalisation, and resistance: the politics of identity of the Naths (Yogis) of Bengal and Assam1
Undignified names: caste, politics, and everyday life in North India1
Why the digital classroom is a bad model for digital learning1
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
Hailing the state: Indian democracy between elections Hailing the state: Indian democracy between elections , by Lisa Mitchell, Durham, Duke University Press, 2023, xvii1
Marketing affect: mapping the centredness of the election campaign through a comparison of party strategies in the Delhi assembly elections1
Political parties and initial COVID-19 policies: subnational trends in India1
Muslim marriages, the South African state and the courts: between limbo, liberation, and the spaces for contestation in-between1
Books Available for Review1
Caste and politics in (West) Bengal: in conversation with Sekhar Bandyopadhyay1
Critical analysis of debates on Tamil populism: perspectives from the field1
Dreaming in the shadow of history: micro-mobilities and belonging in Lucknow1
In the shadow of a sword: the memoir of a woman leader in the LTTE1
Of histories (un)shared: India – Pakistan, postage stamps, and 18571
Reflections on Kasia Paprocki's Threatening dystopias1
A small car for a small family: building India’s first ‘people’s car’1
Taking the bull by its horns: the political economic logics of new farm laws and agrarian dissent in India1
Poetics and politics of post-partition cultural memories in Kamila Shamsie’sKartography1
History, Memory and Memorabilia: Kamala Dasgupta and the Politics of Remembering Revolutionary Bengal1
Introduction to the BASAS 2021 special section1
Being seen: the political and bureaucratic entanglements of Muslim women in West Bengal1
Intimacy and industry: the multiple heterosexual intimacies shaping cycle rickshaw men’s labor and migration in India1
The Covid-19 pandemic and governance dimensions of crisis response in developing countries: evidence from Sri Lanka1
Under the gun: political parties and violence in Pakistan Under the gun: political parties and violence in Pakistan , by Niloufer A. Siddiqui, Cambridge, Cambridge Unive1
Police matters: the everyday state and caste politics in South India, 1900–19751
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
Healing at the periphery: ethnographies of Tibetan medicine in India1
Subcontinental drift: domestic politics and India’s foreign policy1
Networks, space and belonging: the Marwaris in Manipur1
Shiptown: between rural and urban North India1
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