Contemporary South Asia

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The politics of hope	7
The ethics of staying: social movements and land rights politics in Pakistan	6
Highways and hierarchies: ethnographies of mobility from the Himalaya to the Indian Ocean	6
Books available for review	5
Voting for security: evidence from a Maoist-affected region in India	5
Introduction to the BASAS 2021 special section	5
Being seen: the political and bureaucratic entanglements of Muslim women in West Bengal	4
Money, Culture, Class: Elite women as modern subjects	4
The university as a site of resistance: identity and student politics	4
Hindus in India, Bengalis in Bengal: the role of religious and regional identities in West Bengal politics	4
Madrasas and the making of Islamic womanhood	3
Identity, nationhood and Bangladesh independent cinema	3
Urban development and environmental history in Modern South Asia	3
Markets, capitalism and urban space in India: right to sell	3
Producing multiple ‘others’: spatial upheaval and Hindutva politics in urban India	3
Holy science: the biopolitics of Hindu nationalism	3
Making the right choice: narratives of marriage in Sri Lanka	3
Migration, patriarchy and ‘modern’ Islam: views from left behind wives in rural northern Bangladesh	3
Shiptown: between rural and urban North India	2
Popular geopolitics of ‘nuclear India’: tracing the evolution of India’s ‘regional’ and ‘global’ identities in the English daily The Hindu from 2011–2020	2
Muslim daughters and inheritance in India:Sharīcat, custom and practice	2
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	2
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	2
Managing mobility: commuting domestic workers, mobile phones, and women’s ‘honour’ in Kolkata	2
Muslim marriages, the South African state and the courts: between limbo, liberation, and the spaces for contestation in-between	2

Walking with pilgrims: the Kanwar pilgrimage of Bihar, Jharkhand and the Terai of Nepal	2
A song for Jains or a song for India: contesting narratives during the COVID-19 crisis	2
Colonizing Kashmir: state-building under Indian occupation Colonizing Kashmir: state-building under Indian occupation , by Hafsa Kanjwal, Stanford, Stanford University P	2
Books Available for Review	2
Enhancing environmental performance: evidence from SAARC Countries	2
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	2
Taking the bull by its horns: the political economic logics of new farm laws and agrarian dissent in India	2
Dreaming in the shadow of history: micro-mobilities and belonging in Lucknow	2
Political parties and initial COVID-19 policies: subnational trends in India	2
Women’s participation in the Central Superior Services of Pakistan 1973–2020	2
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	2
Caste and two types of status. Comparing Dumont and Weber for studies of caste today	2
Gendered division of paid, unpaid, and total work in India: who bears more burden?	1
Intimacy and industry: the multiple heterosexual intimacies shaping cycle rickshaw men’s labor and migration in India	1
Freedom Inc. gendered capitalism in new indian literature and culture	1
Getting schools to work better: educational accountability and teacher support in India and China	1
Childlessness in Bangladesh: intersectionality, suffering and resilience Childlessness in Bangladesh: intersectionality, suffering and resilience , by Papreen Nahar, Lon	1
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	1
A Secular Need: Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India	1
Foreign intervention, executive corruption, and economic growth in Afghanistan	1
The contributions of Threatening Dystopias to critical adaptation studies	1
Correction	1
After cyclone Aila: politics of climate change in Sundarbans	1
Unravelling the constitutional settlement: devolution, democracy and patronage in eastern Sri Lanka	1
‘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	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
Theatre of Nepal and the people who make it	1
‘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	1
Living religions across transnational spaces: experiences of South Asian American Hindu and Muslim women	1
Uprooted when settled: Koonj and Kuku in the changing migrating identity of Gujjars and Bakerwals, the transhumant pastoralist of Jammu an	1
Books Available for Review	1
The National Register of Citizens (NRC) in India and the potential for statelessness in situ: a cautionary tale from Assam	1
The material and the moral: contradictory imperatives and the production of trafficking narratives in South India	1
Press charges: renegotiating free speech and citizenship in post-partition Delhi	1
Dust on the throne: the search for Buddhism in modern India	1
Critical analysis of debates on Tamil populism: perspectives from the field	1
The university, student politics, and the ABVP	1
Policy for cultural and creative industries in India: the issue of regulation through digital policy	1
Transnational land and property disputes: the British-Bangladeshi experience	1
In the shadow of a sword: the memoir of a woman leader in the LTTE	1
Special treatment: student doctors at the all India institute of medical sciences (South Asia in motion)	1
Threatening dystopias	1
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
The caste question in West Bengal politics: continuing inconsequentiality or rising relevance?	0
Securing health care within a ‘magical’ state: the construction of eligibility in India	0
Intimate Connections: Love and Marriage in Pakistan’s high mountains	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
Masculinity and modern slavery in Nepal	0
Contested Capital: Rural Middle Classes in India	0
Books Available for Review	0

A small car for a small family: building India’s first ‘people’s car’	0
Institutional trust paradox: understanding the dynamics of trust among different ethnic groups in Sri Lanka	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
‘Still disappeared’: reconstructing the 1990 ‘truth commission’ in Nepal	0
Gendering the everyday state: Muslim women, claim-making & brokerage in India	0
Beyond regimes: China and India compared	0
Everyday violence and care: insights from fictive kin relations between madams and sex workers in India	0
Contesting resources, contesting the nation?	0
Marginal gains: borderland dynamics, political settlements, and shifting centre-periphery relations in post-war Nepal	0
At the limits of cure	0
Books Available for Review	0
Reordering Adivasi worlds: representation, resistance, memory Reordering Adivasi worlds: representation, resistance, memory , by Sangeeta Dasgupta, New Delhi, Oxford Uni	0
Encountering the state: situated strategies and perspectives of Tanchangya villagers in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh	0
Contesting the milad : Deobandis and Barelvis in British India and contemporary Pakistan	0
The relationship between female labor force participation and violent conflicts in South Asia	0
Making bureaucracy work: norms, education and public service delivery in rural India Making bureaucracy work: norms, education and public service delivery in rural India	0
Energy cooperation in South Asia: utilising natural resources for peace and sustainable development	0
Politics of (dis)contentment. Restitching identities in rural Sri Lanka: gender, neoliberalism, and the politics of contentment	0
Books Available for Review	0
Bottom-up imaginaries: examining discursive construction of social media roles and affordances in India	0
Books Available for Review	0
Christianity and politics in tribal India	0
Books available for review	0
Beyond religion in India and Pakistan: gender and caste, borders and boundaries	0
Culture, Context and Aging of Older Indians Narratives from India and Beyond	0
Devotional contextures: the māla songs and Muslim ethical formation in contemporary Kerala	0
Colonial legacies and the British geological survey in cold war South Asia: 1960s–1980s	0
House ablaze: a case study of marital conflict in rural Sri Lanka	0
Networks, space and belonging: the Marwaris in Manipur	0
Culture, context and aging of older Indians: narratives from India and beyond	0
Performing sovereign aspirations: Tamil insurgency and postwar transition in Sri Lanka	0
CAA-NRC-NPR, intra- and cross-movement solidarity, and trans and queer resistance in India	0
Climate justice in and beyond South Asia	0
Courting agency: gender and divorce in an English sharia council	0
The view from Mathura: nationalist projections in local perspective	0
Channelling compassion towards change: elite volunteerism, corporate philanthropy and education reform in urban India	0
Delineating Dalit trauma: (re)contextualizing cultural trauma, survivor’s guilt and partial privilege in post millennial Dalit women’s memoirs	0
Whose city is it anyway? Place, community and the fractured urban	0
Subalternity and everyday solidarity in contemporary Indian short stories	0
Dynamics of Caste and Law: Dalits, Oppression and Constitutional Democracy in India	0
Camp life of Sri Lankan refugees in India	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
‘New’ terrains of precarity – gig work in India	0
Poetics and politics of post-partition cultural memories in Kamila Shamsie’sKartography	0
From ‘house of horrors’ to ‘sensitive’ governance: sex workers’ shelter detention in India	0
Substantial relations: making global reproductive medicine in postcolonial India	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
Afterword: questions for the study of Muslim castes and anti-caste Islam	0
Social mobility and politicisation of caste among the Rayeens of Uttar Pradesh	0
Shaping landscapes: transforming ethnic lands into state highways in Nagaland	0
Creating the Universe: Depictions of the Cosmos in Himalayan Buddhism	0
Can there be a decolonial praxis of solidarity? Structural violence and mobilisation in social movements	0
The BJP’s expansionist strategies in Tamil Nadu (2014 – present)	0
Education, teaching, and learning: discourses, cultures, conversations	0
Women and South Asian Hinduism and Islam: in the subcontinent and the diaspora	0
Of saintly men and wanton girls: the social worker’s adventures in the refugee city	0
The dynamics of federal (in)stability and negotiated cooperation under single-party dominance: insights from Modi’s India	0
Muslim Woman/Muslim women: lived experiences beyond religion and gender in South Asia and its diasporas	0
Women, Gender and Religious Nationalism Women, Gender and Religious Nationalism , edited by Amrita Basu and Tanika Sarkar, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, x	0
Anjuman, jami‘at, and association: what Sayyid organizations tell us about associational forms among Muslim caste groups	0
Where does hybridity originate? Interfacing between local and international actors in Sri Lankan postconflict peacebuilding	0
Reflections on Bangladesh at 50	0
Evacuee Cinema: Bombay and Lahore in Partition Transit (1940-1960) Evacuee Cinema: Bombay and Lahore in Partition Transit (1940-1960) , by Salma Siddique, Cambridge, Cam	0
Reflections of Amma: Devotees in a Global Embrace	0
Introduction: Platform Challenges to Creative Industries in India	0
Simultaneous identities: language, education and the Nepali nation	0
Essays in celebrity culture: Stars and styles	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
Defining Girlhood in India: a transnational history of sexual maturity laws	0
When ‘the broken’ breaks through: politics of struggle and solidarity in Manchadikkari	0
The regulation of religion and the making of Hinduism in colonial Trinidad	0
Dynastic dilemma in South Asia: influence, networks and shamefacedness	0
Building the state and conceiving the nation: the origins of separatist insurgency in the Mizo Hills, 1945-61	0
Defending Muhammad in Modernity, by	0
Masculinity, consumerism and the post-national Indian city: streets, neighbourhoods, home Masculinity, consumerism and the post-national Indian city: streets, neighbourhoods, home	0
Voluntarism in partition’s aftermath: the Faridabad story	0
Audio-visual piracy on Telegram: a perspective on monetization models, pirate strategies and industrial pathways	0
Muslim New Womanhood in Bangladesh	0
Contesting Masculinities and Women’s Agency in Kashmir	0
The politics of love in Myanmar: LGBT mobilization and human rights as a way of life	0

The Ayodhya case, freedom of religion, and the making of modernist ‘Hinduism’	0
A strategic myth: ‘Underdevelopment’ in Jammu and Kashmir	0
Radiant infrastructures: media, environment and cultures of uncertainty	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
Risk and the rupee in Pakistan’s new economy	0
Reverse migrations and women’s role in shaping religious identities in Hyderabad	0
Correction	0
Beyond papers: understanding the making of citizenship in the Foreigners’ Tribunals of Assam	0
Musicoplia in Mumbai: performing subjects and the metropolitan unconscious	0
Civil society, local government and rural health in an eastern Indian state	0
Alien at birth: Chinese migrants in post-colonial Assam (1947-1962)	0
Moving beyond faith: Muslim Jogis and religious conversion in north India	0
Development, Neoliberalism, and Islamism in South Asia: The Case of Bangladesh	0
Dirty politics and political care in local politics: gendered barriers to moral boundary crossing in Dehradun, India	0
Introduction to the BASAS 2023 special section	0
Shifting political landscapes in post-370 abrogation Kashmir: an analysis of emerging dynamics and implications	0
Gender and neoliberalism: the All India Democratic Women’s Association and its strategies of resistance	0
The ritual of parikramā, Hinduization of space and the case of Ayodhyā	0
Political Kinship in Pakistan: Descent, Marriage and Government Stability	0
Books Available for Review	0
History, Memory and Memorabilia: Kamala Dasgupta and the Politics of Remembering Revolutionary Bengal	0
The South Asia Gallery, Manchester Museum	0
Kashmir after 2019: completing the partition	0
Karma and grace: religious difference in millennial Sri Lanka	0
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	0
Surrender, rehabilitation and hybrid regimes: the making of the northeast frontier	0
Provincial globalization in India: transregional mobilities and development politics	0
To be upper caste/to be a victim	0
Identifying and regulating religion in India: law, history and the place of worship	0
India and Africa in the pandemic imagination	0
The Politics of love in Myanmar: LGBT mobilization and human rights as a way of life	0
Eco-spatial rethinking of two Malayalam movies Kumbalangi Nights and Malik : spatial imagination, solastalgia, and environmental in/justic	0
Agency in a quake in time: a study of jokes about the future among Pakistani migrant youth	0
The dynamic of stepwise migrations of Nepalese high-skilled migrants via the Middle East	0
Resurgent diversity: upland agriculture, indigenous crops and foodways in Eastern Himalayas	0
From family to police force: security and belonging on a South Asian border	0
Prophet and statesmen in crafting democracy in India: political leadership, ideas, and compromises	0
Weaver to precarity capitalism: ethnographic understanding of contemporary Surat through the experiences of Odia labour migrants	0
Thief plates: the mediation of extortion in the rickshaw business in Dhaka, Bangladesh	0
Emotions, identity and the entrepreneurial self: narratives of working Muslim women in rural India	0
Deformed bodies and the decolonial turn: unthinking and rethinking the colonial episteme in animal’s people	0
Subcontinental drift: domestic politics and India’s foreign policy	0
Youth, meritocracy and cultural hierarchy in the New Nepal	0
Embodied spatial practices in the field: critical ethnographies in village studies from India	0
Poetry of belonging: Muslim Imaginings of India 1850-1950	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
Chronotopes of sovereign power in In the Name of the Nation	0
Consolidating a political dynasty: Abhishek Banerjee, the Trinamool Congress, and the 2023 panchayat elections in West Bengal	0
Books available for review	0
Debates on agricultural loan waiver schemes in India: myths and realities	0
Police matters: the everyday state and caste politics in South India, 1900–1975	0
A preliminary review of India’s rural economic crisis: stagnant wages, piling debt and waning demand	0
The Karachi Jews and the history of Pakistani antisemitism	0
Radiant infrastructures: media, environment and cultures of uncertainty	0
Old imaginaries in a new frame: the politics of Bollywood’s ‘social problem films’ on Kashmir	0
Shaligram pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas Shaligram pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas , by Holly Walters, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2020, 293 pp., € 124,	0
Life, labour, and dreams: one woman’s life in Old Delhi	0
Pakistan’s foreign policy: contemporary developments and dynamics Pakistan’s foreign policy: contemporary developments and dynamics , edited by Ghulam Ali, New York, Rou	0
Singing across divides: music and intimate politics in Nepal	0
The final straw? Bhola cyclone, 1970 election, disaster politics, and the making of Bangladesh	0
Organising the Sheikh sanitation workers in Srinagar: from the politics of dignity to Pasmanda activism?	0
India’s Pakistan conundrum: managing a complex relationship	0
The Indian economy: issues, policies and performance	0
Divorcing Traditions: Islamic marriage law and the making of Indian secularism	0
Sirens of modernity: world cinema via Bombay	0
Books Available for Review	0
Correction	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
Kashmir at the crossroads: inside a 21st-century conflict	0
Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border	0
Mobilisation of social movements and the local state in Independent India	0
The politics of celebration: interrogating the secular heritage of the Phool Waalon Ki Sair festival in Delhi	0
Composing Violence: The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities	0
Bhakti and embodiment: fashioning divine bodies and devotional bodies in Kṛṣṇa Bhakti	0
Marketing affect: mapping the centredness of the election campaign through a comparison of party strategies in the Delhi assembly elections	0
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Jurisprudence and geography of Hindu majoritarianism: thinking with the 2019 Ayodhya judgement	0
Otherness at war: Poles and World War II British Indian Army	0
Indian Federalism (Oxford India Short Introductions)	0
Witch hunts: culture, patriarchy and structural transformation	0
A study of risk perception of radiofrequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) exposure from mobile phones and base stations in India	0
Warlord Survival: The Delusion of State Building in Afghanistan	0
The (im-)possibilities of co-operatives in ‘free market’ conditions: a case study of neoliberal Sri Lanka	0
South Asian regionalism: the limits of cooperation	0
Contestations and contradictions: feminist research on structures and institutions governing sex work in India	0
Lived reality of elite neighbourhoods: geographies of inequality in Delhi	0
The political life of Muslim caste: articulations and frictions within a Pasmanda identity	0
Caste and politics in (West) Bengal: in conversation with Sekhar Bandyopadhyay	0
The greater India experiment: Hindutva and the Northeast	0
India and the framework convention on tobacco control: the politics of rising power attitudes toward international rules	0
Spatializing popular Sufi shrines in Punjab: dreams, memories, territoriality	0
India's engagement with the International Monetary Fund: growing into an ownership role	0
On-going Shaheen Bagh: collective creation, newness and solidarity	0
Motivations for Christian conversion among rural to urban migrants in the Kathmandu Valley	0
Decolonial praxis/es of solidarity in Indian literary and cultural discourses on social movements	0