Modern Asian Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Modern Asian Studies 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
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Abortion in South Asia, 1860–1947: A medico-legal history16
‘Cyclone Not Above Politics’ : East Pakistan, disaster politics, and the 1970 Bhola Cyclone11
Constructing a caste in the past: Revisionist histories and competitive authority in South India7
Who Is (Not) a Servant, Anyway? Domestic servants and service in early colonial India*6
‘Our Grandmother Used to Sing Whilst Weeding’: Oral histories, millet food culture, and farming rituals among women smallholders in Ramanagara district, Karnataka6
Caravan Trade to Neoliberal Spaces: Fifty years of Pakistan-China connectivity across the Karakoram Mountains5
Caught between Two Nationalisms: The Iran League of Bombay and the political anxieties of an Indian minority5
Within and Beyond Modernity: Lived experiences and ethical interruptions of the Tablighi Jamaat in West Bengal5
The Politics of Our Selves: Left self-fashioning and the production of representative claims in everyday Indian campus politics4
The Fractured Centre: ‘Two-headed government’ and threats to the peace process in Myanmar4
Compradors, Neo-colonialism, and Transnational Class Struggle: PRC relations with Algeria and India, 1953–19653
Enacting Border Governance through Multi-scalar Violence: Exclusion and discrimination of Rohingya people in Rakhine state3
Boundary Making in Myanmar's Electoral Process: Where elections do not take place3
Myanmar Traditional Medicine: The making of a national heritage3
The privilege of the Indian passport (1947–1967): Caste, class, and the afterlives of indenture in Indian diplomacy3
Reform in fragments: Sovereignty, colonialism, and the Sikh tradition3
Rediscovering Afghan Fine Arts: The life of an Afghan student in Germany, Abdul Ghafur Brechna3
The Ahl-e-Hadith: From British India to Britain3
Inventing the ‘Maritime Silk Road’3
Islamic Traditionalism in a Globalizing World: Sunni Muslim identity in Kerala, South India3
Rapsodia Ibero-Indiana: Transoceanic creolization and the mando of Goa3
Allies among Enemies: Political authority and party (dis)loyalty in Bangladesh3
India and overseas Indians in Ceylon and Burma, 1946–1965: Experiments in post-imperial sovereignty3
Sanskrit and the labour of gender in early modern South India3
Framing the Fifth Schedule: Tribal agency and the making of the Indian Constitution (1937–1950)2
A Diplomatic Counter-revolution: Indonesian diplomacy and the invasion of East Timor2
Sulh-i kull as an oath of peace: Mughal political theology in history, theory, and comparison2
Earth's Amphibious Transformation: Tange Kenzo, Buckminster Fuller, and marine urbanization in global environmental thought (1950s–present)2
Exercises in peace: Āẕar Kayvānī universalism and comparison in the School of Doctrines2
The Unbearable Lightness of Trust: Trade, conviviality, and the life-world of Indian export agents in Yiwu, China2
‘Acting upon our Religion’: Muslim women's movements and the remodelling of Islamic practice in India2
‘Enemy Agents at Work’: A microhistory of the 1954 Adamjee and Karnaphuli riots in East Pakistan2
The Indian City and its ‘Restive Publics’2
Informality, Temporariness, and the Production of Illegitimate Geographies: The rise of a Muslim sub-city in Ahmedabad, India (1970s–2000s)2
Cosmopolitan Visions and Intellectual Passions: Macanese publics in British Hong Kong2
Stolen Skin and Children Thrown: Governing sex and abortion in early modern South Asia2
Fendou:A keyword of Chinese modernity2
Ritual cursing as an oath of submission: The problem of religious difference across Safavid Iran and modern Pakistan2
Perceptions and purpose of the bomb: Explaining India's nuclear restraint against China2
‘A Blot on English Justice’: India reformism and the rhetoric of virtual slavery2
Frontier Governance: Contested and plural authorities in a Karen village after the ceasefire2
Language Shift and Identity Reproduction among Diaspora Sindhis in India and Southeast Asia2
Refugee Policy as Border Governance: Refugee return, peacebuilding, and Myanmar's politics of transition2
Implementing Partition: Proceedings of the Punjab Partition Committee, July–August, 19472
Mehmed the Conqueror between Sulh-i Kull and Prisca Theologia1
Muslim pasts and presents: Displacement and city-making in a Delhi neighbourhood1
A Mongol-Mughal lens on religion and empire in Eurasian history: An introduction1
Product, equipment, uniform: Material environment and the consumption of work in New Delhi, India1
Trans-Imperial Anarchism: Cooperatist communalist theory and practice in imperial Japan1
Peasants, Colonialism, and Sovereignty: The Garo rebellions in eastern India1
Chinggisid pluralism and religious competition: Buddhists, Muslims, and the question of violence and sovereignty in Ilkhanid Iran1
Everyday rehearsal of death and the dilemmas of dying in super-ageing Japan1
Find the river: Discovering the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra in the age of empire1
Anger and Atonement in Mughal India: An alternative account of Akbar's 1578 hunt1
Mediating Sovereignty: The Qing legation in London and its diplomatic representation of China, 1876–19011
Cosmopolitan Capitalists and Colonial Rule. The business structure and corporate culture of the Swiss merchant house Volkart Bros., 1850s–1960s1
Communities of skill in the age of capitalism: Handloom weavers in twentieth-century United Provinces, India1
Glorious pasts of forest dwellers: Memories of land in the ex-zamindari of Borasambar, Central Provinces, 1861–19051
A political sociology of empire: Mughal historians on the making of Mughal paramountcy1
Commemorative contention: The Taipei National Revolutionary Martyrs’ Shrine and the politics of death1
Mobilizing Bodies and Body Parts, from Myanmar to Manipur: Medical connections through borderlands in ‘transition’1
‘Buddhism Has Been Insulted. Take Immediate Steps’: Burmese fascism and the origins of Burmese Islamophobia, 1936–381
The modernity of tradition: Women and ‘healthy progress’ in late colonial Java and Sumatra1
Neoplatonism and the Pax Mongolica in the making of ṣulḥ-i kull. A view from Akbar's millennial history1
Homeland, magnet, and refuge: Mecca in the travels and imaginaries of Chinese Muslims1
A Roundtable on Rupa Viswanath'sThe Pariah Problem: Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern Indiaand the Study of Caste1
The Modernity of Caste and the Market Economy—ERRATUM1
Representations of disaster victimhood: Framing suffering and loss after the 1934 Bihar-Nepal earthquake1
Towards a Burma-inclusive South Asian Studies: A Roundtable1
Dam(n)ing the hills: Indigeneity, American aid, and Cold War politics in the Kaptai Dam, East Pakistan, 1957–19641
Material States: China, Russia, and the incorporation of a cross-border indigenous people1
Thailand's First Revolution? The role of religious mobilization and ‘the people’ in the Ayutthaya rebellion of 16881
The prison-handicraft complex: Convict labour in colonial India1
Was Aśoka really a secularist avant-la-lettre? Ancient Indian pluralism and toleration in historical perspective1
The Sedan Chair vs the Steamboat: The Sichuan Route and the Maritime Route in the making of modern Sino-Tibetan relations1
What was ‘Indian’ Political Economy? On the separation of the ‘social’, the ‘economic’, and the ‘ethical’ in Indian nationalist thought, 1892–19481
Doing ‘coolie’ work in a ‘gentlemanly’ way: Gender and caste on the famine public works in colonial North India1
Entanglements in the colony: Jewish–Muslim connected histories in colonial India1
Pashtun homelands in an Indo-Afghan hagiographical collection1
Pahalwan Baba Ramdev: Wrestling with yoga and middle-class masculinity in India1
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Of Music and the Maharaja: Gender, affect, and power in Ranjit Singh's Lahore – CORRIGENDUM1
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Brahman wives and pedagogies of conscience in mid-nineteenth century British India0
An anti-secularist pan-Asianist from Europe: Paul Richard in Japan, 1916–19200
Real abstractions: Markets, moralities, and social segmentation in modern India0
A Song of Fallen Flowers: Miyazaki Tōten and the making of naniwabushi as a mode of popular dissent in transwar Japan, 1902–19090
Poetics of the People: The politics of debating local identity in Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement and its literature (2014–16)0
Imperial inheritance: The transnational lives of Gurkha families in Asian contexts, 1948–1971 – ERRATUM0
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The secret of September: The 1949 oil agreements between the United States and South Korea0
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‘The Jews of Ceylon’: Antisemitism, prejudice, and the Moors of Ceylon0
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Measuring the Tibetan nation: Anthropometry in 1950s Kalimpong0
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‘Winning the Peace’: The Chinese Maritime Customs Service, foreign technocrats, and planning the rehabilitation of post-war China, 1943–19450
Bulldozing the dead: Chinese, citizenry, and cemetery in post-colonial South Korea0
Crafting literary Urdu: Mirza Hatim’s engagement with Vali Dakhani0
The decline of multilingualism in a divided public sphere: The Indian Press and cultural politics in colonial Allahabad (1890–1920)0
Chen Mengzhao's storeroom in Park Street, Calcutta. Wartime India-China smuggling, 1942–19450
Rethinking markets to rethink economics0
Trishul vs Cross’: Hindutva, Church, and the politics of secularism in Christian-majority states of North-east India0
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No ‘Signs of Weakness’: Gendered violence and masculine authority on the North-West Frontier of British India0
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‘Willing’ ethnic-nationalists, diffusion, and resentment in India: A micro-foundational account0
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Tribal land alienation and Adivasis’ struggle for autonomy: The case of Bhadrachalam Scheduled Area, Telangana, India0
Rewriting the hills: Youth sociality as a mode of navigating unemployment in a context of outmigration in North India0
Sulh-i kull to Vedānta: The Dādū Panth and the Mughal-Rajput imperial paradigm0
The transnational historiography of a dynastic transition: Writing the Ming-Qing transition in seventeenth-century China, Korea, and Japan0
Strategic forgetting: Britain, China, and the South China Sea, 1894–19380
The Politics of Pleasure: Wajid ‘Ali Shah and his manuscript,‘Ishqnama0
‘East Punjab must not lag behind’: Partition, museums, and identity in independent India0
To Be or Not To Be … a Global Citizen: Three doctors, three empires, and one subcontinent0
A region in dispute: Racialized anticommunism and Manila’s role in the origins of Konfrontasi, 1961–630
‘Rahman’ before Muhammad: A pre-history of the First Peace (Sulh) in Islam0
The Roots of Comparative Alterity in Siam: Depicting, describing, and defining the peoples of the world, 1830s–1850s0
Santal indigenous knowledge, cultural heritage, and the politics of representation0
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How the first revolution affected the second: The setback of 1927 for the Chinese Communist Party Revolution in the 1920s0
An Inheritance of Loss: The king's debt, women's wills, and public charity in princely Mysore0
Border Governance: Reframing political transition in Myanmar0
Everywhere a market: Rethinking embedded exchange in modern India0
Cleansing Macau's Image as the ‘Wickedest City in the World’: Eurasia,Long Way, and Luso-tropical film production in Macau in the 1950s0
‘Elections can wait!’ The politics of constructing a ‘Hindu atmosphere’ in Kerala, South India0
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Facsimiles of yore: printing technology and the page image in the Japanese Government General of Korea’s reproduction of historical sources0
China’s and Japan’s winding path to the Refugee Convention: State identity transformations and the evolving international refugee regime0
Torn between the nation and the world: D. F. Karaka and Indian journalism in the Second World War0
Imprimatur as Adversary: Press freedom and colonial governance in India, 1780–18230
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Caldwell's Dravidians: Knowledge production and the representational strategies of missionary scholars in colonial South India0
‘Enjoying life’: Consumption, changing meanings, and social differentiation in Kerala, India0
Translating transactions: Markets as epistemic and moral spheres0
Between Bodies and Borders: The place of the natural in the thought of M. K. Gandhi and V. D. Savarkar0
Epistemological Exercises: Encyclopedias of world cultural history in twentieth-century Japan0
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Media wars: Remaking the logics of propaganda in India’s wartime cine-ecologies0
The fetish in the market0
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Building a ‘Lofty, Beloved People's Amusement Centre’: The socialist transformation of Shanghai's Great World (Dashijie) (1950–58)0
Irrigation pumps in late colonial Taiwan: Farmers’ utilization of technology and the transition to rice cultivation0
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Empires of Opportunity: German naturalists in British India and the frictions of transnational science0
Parallel lives or interconnected histories? Anagarika Dharmapala and Muhammad Barkatullah's ‘world religioning’ in Japan0
Possessing Christianity in Northeast India: Kelkang, 19370
From ‘mystic synthesis’ to ‘Jesuit plot’: The Society of Jesus and the making of religious policy in Indonesia0
And red flows the Koina river: Adivasi resistance to the ‘loot’ of their land and resources in eastern India, 1980–20200
Poetry for linguistic description: The Maldives inside and outside the Arabic cosmopolis in 18900
Sanskrit and the labour of gender in early modern South India – CORRIGENDUM0
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Translating and Transliterating Marxism in Indonesia0
Broadcasting the ‘(anti)colonial sublime’: Radio SEAC, Congress Radio, and the Second World War in South Asia0
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Contested Colonial Metrological Sovereignty: The daching riot and the regulation of weights and measures in British Malaya0
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Art diplomacy: Drawing China-Indonesia relations in the early Cold War, 1949–19560
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Free sea or territorial waters? The Sino-Japanese Xiongyue fishing dispute, 1906–19120
The grey zones of antiquarian pursuits: The 1938 Barger expedition to the princely state of Swat0
Crafting a nation, fishing for power: The Universal Exposition of 1906 and fisheries governance in Late Qing China0
Insurgent law: Bengal Regulation III and the Chin-Lushai expeditions (1872–1898)0
The Oraons of Chhotanagpur: A journey through colonial ethnography0
The Trans-Asian Pathways of ‘Oriental Products’: Navigating the prohibition of narcotics between Turkey, China, and Japan, 1918–19380
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Between Industry and Islam: Stonework and tomb construction in colonial-era India0
Cohabiting a textualized world: Elbow room and Adivasi resurgence0
Wearing fire and chewing iron: Oaths of peace and the suspension of monotheism in contemporary Alevism0
Hearts and minds in Hong Kong’s New Territories: Agriculture and vegetable marketing in a Cold War borderland,circa1946–19670
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The point of death: Religious conversion and the self in South India0
The paradox of authenticity: The Korean Product Showroom of Mitsukoshi department store in colonial Seoul0
City of lights, city of pylons: Infrastructures of illumination in colonial Hanoi, 1880s–1920s0
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‘Great Northern Wilderness’-style environmentalism: Nature preservation and the legacies of Mao-era land reclamation in China’s northeast borderland0
Wormwood, nomads’ rights, and capitalism: the birth of a chemical industry in Russian Turkestan (1870s–1914)0
A tale of a tyre: National space, infrastructure, and narration in S. H. Vatsyayan’s ‘Parśurām se tūrxam’0
Reshaping the figure of the Shudra: Tukaram Padwal’s Jatibhed Viveksar (Reflections on the Institution of Caste)0
‘It all comes from me’: Bahu Begam and the making of the Awadhnawabi, circa1765–18150
Afforestation, Propaganda, and Agency: The case of Hangzhou in Mao's China0
Imperial inheritance: The transnational lives of Gurkha families in Asian contexts, 1948–19710
The entanglements of exchange in India0
Centralized Regionalism: The rise of regional fiscal-military states in China, 1916–280
Whom can a Muslim Woman Represent? Begum Jahanara Shah Nawaz and the politics of party building in late colonial India0
The Last Hump: The Lahore Elementary Flying Training School, the Chinese Civil War, and the final days of the British Raj0
A forgotten famine of ’43? Travancore’s muffled ‘cry of distress’0
Justifying the use of excessive force: A critical discourse analysis of Chinese police individual WeChat Subscription Accounts0
Informal diplomacy in Chosŏn Korea and new engagement with the West and Westernized Japan, 1873–18760
‘Farewell, My Uyghur Language’: Linguistic anxiety and resistance in Uyghur poetry and songs, 1990s–2010s0
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Saving Homeless Children of War, Making Citizens for ‘Peace’: The politics of post-war rehabilitation in US-occupied Japan and beyond0
‘In the interest of your bank and our country’: Two encounters between China and the International Chamber of Commerce0
Struggles about class and Adivasi-ness in an eastern Indian steel plant0
The ‘theory of the unity of all classes and races against foreign capital’ in Malaya: Socialism, communalism, and uneven development in the thought of James Puthucheary0
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An Eastern hero: Biographies of Muhammad in imperial Japan0
The making of ‘public opinion’: Media and open diplomacy in China’s strategy at Versailles and the May Fourth Movement0
The Ethnic Ecocritical Animal: Animal protagonists and ethnic environmentalism in contemporary Sino-Mongolian literature and art0
Know Your Rights: The (un)making of the colonial legal subjects in rural North India, circa 1770–18570
Religion, political parties, and Thailand’s 2019 election: Cosmopolitan royalism and its rivals0
Flagstone empire: Materiality and technical expertise in Japanese road construction in northeast China (1905–1945)0
Beyond Repression and Resistance: Worker agency and corporatism in occupied Nanjing0
The Sufi method behind the Mughal ‘Peace with All’ religions: A study of Ibn ‘Arabi's ‘taḥqīq’ in Abu al-Fazl's preface to the Razmnāma0
The point of death: Religious conversion and the self in South India – CORRIGENDUM0
‘Made in Hong Kong’: Deriving value from the place-of-origin label, 1950s and now0
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Special issue: Multiple worlds of the Adivasi. An introduction0
Jainism in Danger? Temple entry and the rhetoric of religion and reform in post-colonial India0
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Relocated tigers and relocated villagers: Ferality and human–animal entanglement in Indian conservation0
Minakata Kumagusu and the emergence of queer nature: Civilization theory, Buddhist science, and microbes, 1887–18920
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The lure of land: Peasant politics, frontier colonization and the cunning state in Sri Lanka0
Border Governance in Kachin State, Myanmar: Un/caring states and aspirant state building during humanitarian crises0
Revisiting Rabindranath Tagore’s critique of nationalism0
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Taiwanese DNA versus Chinese DNA: Genetic science and identity politics across the Taiwan Straits0
Adivasi images, Adivasi voices. The resonance of the Eickstedt collection0
Can migrants be indigenous? Affirmative action, space, and belonging in the Andaman Islands0
Dilemmas of Democratic Deepening in India: Notes from two North Indian states0
Delinking ‘the two rupees’: The devaluation dilemma and economic divergence in the decolonized subcontinent, September 1949–February 19510
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A secular empire? Estates,nom, and religions in the Mongol empire0
Ethnic politics, the Cold War and sub-national dynamics: the Indonesian Communist Party, the ethnic Chinese minority and anti-Chinese activities in West Java, 1949–670
Afro-Asian resonances: Staging the Congo Crisis in 1960s’ Chinese theatre0
Placement agencies for care-domestic labour: Everyday mediation, regimes of punishment, civilizing missions, and training in globalized India0
Life of a Dalit magistrate: Ideologies and politics in Dalit life in North India, 1920–19540
Rethinking the Second World War in South Asia: Between theatres and beyond battles0
Looking out from Goa, 1648: Perspectives on a crisis of the Estado da Índia0
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Beyond conservation: Royal picnics at Elephanta and the legitimization of empire0
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From fascism to famine: Complicity, conscience, and the narrative of ‘peasant passivity’ in Bengal, 1941–19450
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