Modern Asian Studies

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The power to disempower: The government of caste and the career of Dr Sathiavani Muthu in Tamil Nadu, circa 1960–1979	14
Kitchen Hinduism: Food politics and Hindi cookbooks in colonial North India	11
Homeland, magnet, and refuge: Mecca in the travels and imaginaries of Chinese Muslims	10
A tale of a tyre: National space, infrastructure, and narration in S. H. Vatsyayan’s ‘Parśurām se tūrxam’	7
Religious entanglements with the politics of infrastructure in the Maldives	6
City of lights, city of pylons: Infrastructures of illumination in colonial Hanoi, 1880s–1920s	6
Banal revolutionary objects: Counter-memory and the materialization of Khana Ratsadon in Thailand	6
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From home production to modern mills: Labour allocation, gender, and living strategies of Chinese peasant households, circa 1910s–1930s	5
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Constructing a caste in the past: Revisionist histories and competitive authority in South India	4
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An Eastern hero: Biographies of Muhammad in imperial Japan	3
Product, equipment, uniform: Material environment and the consumption of work in New Delhi, India	3
Material modernities: Tracing Janbai’s gendered mobilities across the Indian Ocean	3
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Strategic forgetting: Britain, China, and the South China Sea, 1894–1938	3
Infrastructural splintering along the BRI: Catholic political ecologies and the fractious futures of Sri Lanka’s littoral spaces	3
The translation of foreign films and cosmopolitan Shanghai (1896–1949)	3
Minakata Kumagusu and the emergence of queer nature: Civilization theory, Buddhist science, and microbes, 1887–1892	3
Rewriting the hills: Youth sociality as a mode of navigating unemployment in a context of outmigration in North India	2
From collaboration to commemoration: Zhang Wojun and the ambiguities of identity for intellectuals from Taiwan	2
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Real abstractions: Markets, moralities, and social segmentation in modern India	2
Arms of ethnocracy: Hui Muslims and modern China’s gun control	2
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A region in dispute: Racialized anticommunism and Manila’s role in the origins of Konfrontasi, 1961–63	2
Santal indigenous knowledge, cultural heritage, and the politics of representation	2
Rethinking markets to rethink economics	2
Silk Road orientations in Xinjiang archaeology and shifting implications for Eurasian studies	2
Broadcasting the ‘(anti)colonial sublime’: Radio SEAC, Congress Radio, and the Second World War in South Asia	2
Simultaneously ‘national medicine’ and ‘East Asian medicine’: A cross-boundary network of medical exchange in wartime East Asia	2
The fetish in the market	2
Japan’s local imperialists: Expansive ideas of hometown and empire within the Asia-Pacific world	2
The cheese, the worm, and the law: Grassroots legal cosmopolitanism in the Manchurian borderland, 1906–1927	2
Religion, political parties, and Thailand’s 2019 election: Cosmopolitan royalism and its rivals	2
Jogendra’s properties in Noakhali: Displacement and the death of hope	2
Placement agencies for care-domestic labour: Everyday mediation, regimes of punishment, civilizing missions, and training in globalized India	2
Tang ‘cosmopolitanism’: Towards a critical and holistic approach — CORRIGENDUM	2
Revisiting Rabindranath Tagore’s critique of nationalism	2
Cosmopolitan collaboration and wartime collaborationism: The Chinese Maritime Customs Service and its staff, 1932–1941	2
Tunnels of power: The cultural politics of the Beijing subway	2
Serving All-under-Heaven: Cosmopolitan intellectuals of the Warring States period	2
Negotiating extra-settlement roads: Boundary making, administrative disputes, and power shifts in treaty-port Shanghai, 1860–1937	2
Insurgent law: Bengal Regulation III and the Chin-Lushai expeditions (1872–1898)	2
Entanglements in the colony: Jewish–Muslim connected histories in colonial India	1
A secular empire? Estates,nom, and religions in the Mongol empire	1
Refuelling the Cold War: The China factor in the United States and Japan’s pursuit of economic détente with the USSR, 1972–1980	1
Translating transactions: Markets as epistemic and moral spheres	1
‘In the interest of your bank and our country’: Two encounters between China and the International Chamber of Commerce	1
Relocated tigers and relocated villagers: Ferality and human–animal entanglement in Indian conservation	1
Flagstone empire: Materiality and technical expertise in Japanese road construction in northeast China (1905–1945)	1
Framing the Fifth Schedule: Tribal agency and the making of the Indian Constitution (1937–1950)	1
Beyond the masculinity of kingship: The making of a modern queen in early second millennium Sri Lanka	1
Afro-Asian resonances: Staging the Congo Crisis in 1960s’ Chinese theatre	1
Art diplomacy: Drawing China-Indonesia relations in the early Cold War, 1949–1956	1
The cosmopolitanism of Karakorum, capital of the Mongol empire in Mongolia	1
Exercises in peace: Āẕar Kayvānī universalism and comparison in the School of Doctrines	1
Symposium on Mitra Sharafi, ‘Abortion in South Asia, 1860–1947: A medico-legal history’, Modern Asian Studies , vol. 55, no. 2, 2021, pp. 371–428.	1
Find the river: Discovering the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra in the age of empire	1
Informal diplomacy in Chosŏn Korea and new engagement with the West and Westernized Japan, 1873–1876	1
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Christian diplomacy in peace and war: Protestant internationalism, (anti-)imperialism, and the future of Asia, 1920–1950s	1
Imperial inheritance: The transnational lives of Gurkha families in Asian contexts, 1948–1971 – ERRATUM	1
The secret of September: The 1949 oil agreements between the United States and South Korea	1
Towards a Burma-inclusive South Asian Studies: A Roundtable	1
Forum introduction. The chrysanthemum, the sword, and the dharmacakra: Buddhist entanglements in Japan’s wartime empire (1931–1945)	1
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 Puthucheary	1
Accommodating cosmopolitan experiences: Jiang Dunfu’s 蔣敦復 and Wang Tao’s 王韜 autobiographical processing of their treaty port years	1
Commemorative contention: The Taipei National Revolutionary Martyrs’ Shrine and the politics of death	1
The transnational historiography of a dynastic transition: Writing the Ming-Qing transition in seventeenth-century China, Korea, and Japan	1
Wormwood, nomads’ rights, and capitalism: the birth of a chemical industry in Russian Turkestan (1870s–1914)	1
Prisoners of Pakistan: Bengali military personnel and civil servants in Pakistan, 1971–1974	1

Evading and inviting states in ‘No-Man’s-Lands’: Headhunters in Zomia’s blank spaces (1944–1964)	1
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Special issue: Multiple worlds of the Adivasi. An introduction	1
Ethnic politics, the Cold War and sub-national dynamics: the Indonesian Communist Party, the ethnic Chinese minority and anti-Chinese activities in West Java, 1949–67	1
The spectre of Ma Phyu? Loyalty, competence, and the spatial dynamics of imperial administration in colonial Burma	1
Pashtun homelands in an Indo-Afghan hagiographical collection	1
Bulldozing the dead: Chinese, citizenry, and cemetery in post-colonial South Korea	1
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Buddhist friendship under occupation: Daxing, Kanda Eun, and Fujii Sōsen during the Sino-Japanese War	1
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Everywhere a market: Rethinking embedded exchange in modern India	1
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The sacred dimensions of the BRI’s infrastructural commons	1
Sacred book, profane print: Print-as-commodity and patronage in colonial western India	1
Irrigation pumps in late colonial Taiwan: Farmers’ utilization of technology and the transition to rice cultivation	0
Vietnamese Buddhist encounters with South Asia in the 1950s	0
Reshaping the figure of the Shudra: Tukaram Padwal’s Jatibhed Viveksar (Reflections on the Institution of Caste)	0
An anti-secularist pan-Asianist from Europe: Paul Richard in Japan, 1916–1920	0
Can migrants be indigenous? Affirmative action, space, and belonging in the Andaman Islands	0
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How the first revolution affected the second: The setback of 1927 for the Chinese Communist Party Revolution in the 1920s	0
Free sea or territorial waters? The Sino-Japanese Xiongyue fishing dispute, 1906–1912	0
The lure of land: Peasant politics, frontier colonization and the cunning state in Sri Lanka	0
Cosmopolitan dramaturgies from contemporary China: Li Jing’s Daxiansheng	0
Rajaratnam in London: Writing, race, and capital in Singapore’s intellectual history	0
The making of ‘public opinion’: Media and open diplomacy in China’s strategy at Versailles and the May Fourth Movement	0
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From ‘mystic synthesis’ to ‘Jesuit plot’: The Society of Jesus and the making of religious policy in Indonesia	0
Nudity, obscenity, and the rule of colonial difference in Singapore, 1900s–1930s	0
Poetry for linguistic description: The Maldives inside and outside the Arabic cosmopolis in 1890	0
Cosmopolitanisms in China’s Eurasian history: A critical approach	0
Sanskrit and the labour of gender in early modern South India – CORRIGENDUM	0
Songs of Tamil plantation women of Malaya: Contesting memories and histories	0
Torn between the nation and the world: D. F. Karaka and Indian journalism in the Second World War	0
‘Great Northern Wilderness’-style environmentalism: Nature preservation and the legacies of Mao-era land reclamation in China’s northeast borderland	0
The moment of marriage: Towards a history of temporality in South Asia, circa 1650–1850	0
Tiger shikars: The Wodeyars’ construction of a Rajput identity through sport	0
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‘The first step towards racial equality’: The Kuroda-Araya engagement and the dream of a transnational non-white alliance	0
What are the limits of political violence? Ebihara Toshio’s murder and the Umemoto-Kuroda controversy in 1970s Japan	0
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Imperial inheritance: The transnational lives of Gurkha families in Asian contexts, 1948–1971	0
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Bonded citizenship: Caste, Partition, and the prevention of exit	0
Cohabiting a textualized world: Elbow room and Adivasi resurgence	0
The prison-handicraft complex: Convict labour in colonial India	0
Media wars: Remaking the logics of propaganda in India’s wartime cine-ecologies	0
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Brahman wives and pedagogies of conscience in mid-nineteenth century British India	0
Facsimiles of yore: printing technology and the page image in the Japanese Government General of Korea’s reproduction of historical sources	0
Sacred politics of Chinese infrastructure: Christians, Buddha’s tooth, dragons, and conflict at Myitsone, Kachin, Burma	0
The paradox of authenticity: The Korean Product Showroom of Mitsukoshi department store in colonial Seoul	0
‘Enjoying life’: Consumption, changing meanings, and social differentiation in Kerala, India	0
Sanskrit and the labour of gender in early modern South India	0
Hindutva in the shadow of the Mahatma: M. S. Golwalkar, M. K. Gandhi, and the RSS in post-colonial India	0
Muslim feminism as Islamic modernism: Women’s activism in India between the Quran and the Constitution	0
Struggles about class and Adivasi-ness in an eastern Indian steel plant	0
The Oraons of Chhotanagpur: A journey through colonial ethnography	0
From fascism to famine: Complicity, conscience, and the narrative of ‘peasant passivity’ in Bengal, 1941–1945	0
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‘Jostling for right of way’: Hawker discourse, legitimation, and politics in post-independence Malay(si)a, 1957–1969	0
The missionary works of a Taiwanese Buddhist monk in mainland China during the Japanese colonial period (1911–1939): The case of Venerable Shanhui of Keelung Yuemei Mountain	0
Delinking ‘the two rupees’: The devaluation dilemma and economic divergence in the decolonized subcontinent, September 1949–February 1951	0
(Re)imagining ‘Tears of Mokp’o’: From a Korean resistance anthem to a baseball fight song	0
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Negotiating power: Disputes over electrification in rural India	0
The fly-by-night ustad: Problems of music education in North India, 1863–1915	0
Introduction to the Forum: Muslim modernity in South Asia	0
The ‘sero-rationalization’ of the Imperial Japanese military, 1926‒1945	0
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Neoplatonism and the Pax Mongolica in the making of ṣulḥ-i kull. A view from Akbar's millennial history	0
Inventing the ‘Maritime Silk Road’	0
Crafting a nation, fishing for power: The Universal Exposition of 1906 and fisheries governance in Late Qing China	0
Chen Mengzhao's storeroom in Park Street, Calcutta. Wartime India-China smuggling, 1942–1945	0
The privilege of the Indian passport (1947–1967): Caste, class, and the afterlives of indenture in Indian diplomacy	0
The entanglements of exchange in India	0
Adivasi images, Adivasi voices. The resonance of the Eickstedt collection	0
Justifying the use of excessive force: A critical discourse analysis of Chinese police individual WeChat Subscription Accounts	0

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Caldwell's Dravidians: Knowledge production and the representational strategies of missionary scholars in colonial South India	0
To revive India’s industries: The global and imperial roots of swadeshi in the nineteenth century	0
The Belt and Road Initiative and spirit mediums: The Lower Sesan 2 Dam and sacred space in northeastern Cambodia	0
‘East Punjab must not lag behind’: Partition, museums, and identity in independent India	0
‘The Jews of Ceylon’: Antisemitism, prejudice, and the Moors of Ceylon	0
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‘It all comes from me’: Bahu Begam and the making of the Awadhnawabi, circa1765–1815	0
Mehmed the Conqueror between Sulh-i Kull and Prisca Theologia	0
‘Elections can wait!’ The politics of constructing a ‘Hindu atmosphere’ in Kerala, South India	0
Berita Filem, Malay fan magazines, and modernity in the early 1960s	0
A Mongol-Mughal lens on religion and empire in Eurasian history: An introduction	0
Atrocity and reciprocity during the Boxer War (1900–1901): Socio-legal perspectives	0
Law and Sufism in modern South Asia: A changing relationship	0
‘Trishul vs Cross’: Hindutva, Church, and the politics of secularism in Christian-majority states of North-east India	0
Singing songs for a secular society? The elusive politics of cultural activism in contemporary Bangladesh	0
The point of death: Religious conversion and the self in South India – CORRIGENDUM	0
Wearing fire and chewing iron: Oaths of peace and the suspension of monotheism in contemporary Alevism	0
Everyday rehearsal of death and the dilemmas of dying in super-ageing Japan	0
The Radheshyam Ramayan and the Sanskritization of Khari Boli Hindi- ERRATUM	0
‘A sea of blood and hate’: Mass mobilization of emotion in China’s Anti-narcotics Campaign, 1949–1952	0
The point of death: Religious conversion and the self in South India	0
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A forgotten famine of ’43? Travancore’s muffled ‘cry of distress’	0
Tang ‘cosmopolitanism': Towards a critical and holistic approach	0
The grey zones of antiquarian pursuits: The 1938 Barger expedition to the princely state of Swat	0
Satellite as method: China’s Great Leap Forward revisited	0
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Taiwanese DNA versus Chinese DNA: Genetic science and identity politics across the Taiwan Straits	0
Siblings, comrades, friends: Kin(g)ship, hierarchy, and equality in Thailand’s youth struggle for democracy	0
‘Rahman’ before Muhammad: A pre-history of the First Peace (Sulh) in Islam	0
‘Jostling for right of way’: Hawker discourse, legitimation, and politics in post-independence Malay(si)a, 1957–1969 — CORRIGENDUM	0
The many swords of Shivaji: Searching for a weapon, finding a nation	0
Overcoming a stigmatic past: National Central University students in Nanjing, China, and the politics of wartime history	0
Japanese imperialism and the Chinese delegation to the Second General Conference of Pan-Pacific Young Buddhists’ Associations (1934)	0
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Ritual cursing as an oath of submission: The problem of religious difference across Safavid Iran and modern Pakistan	0
Between idealism and geopolitics: Yoshii Hōjun and the Sino-Japanese Society for the Study of Esoteric Buddhism in 1930s North China	0
Representations of disaster victimhood: Framing suffering and loss after the 1934 Bihar-Nepal earthquake	0
Chinggisid pluralism and religious competition: Buddhists, Muslims, and the question of violence and sovereignty in Ilkhanid Iran	0
Border Governance: Reframing political transition in Myanmar	0
The decline of multilingualism in a divided public sphere: The Indian Press and cultural politics in colonial Allahabad (1890–1920)	0
Crafting literary Urdu: Mirza Hatim’s engagement with Vali Dakhani	0
Act XI of 1857: The life and afterlife of an emergency statute in colonial and post-colonial India	0
Sulh-i kull as an oath of peace: Mughal political theology in history, theory, and comparison	0
What keeps the Kitans enigmatic: Roots of the ethnic narrative in Liao historiography	0
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In the shadow of the BRI: The figurative infrastructures of Chinese religion along the Maritime Silk Road	0
The uncertain world: The gift of development on the Mekong	0
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Mapping tianxia and mapping the world: Cosmopolitan ideas in geographic sources of fifteenth- to eighteenth-century China	0
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Tribal land alienation and Adivasis’ struggle for autonomy: The case of Bhadrachalam Scheduled Area, Telangana, India	0
Ritual, war, and opium: Infrastructural sedimentations in the ethnohistory of the Mun (Lanten Yao) of Laos	0
‘Farewell, My Uyghur Language’: Linguistic anxiety and resistance in Uyghur poetry and songs, 1990s–2010s	0
Is Bathou Hindu? Consolidated Hinduism and assertions of a traditional religion among the Boros of Assam	0
‘Willing’ ethnic-nationalists, diffusion, and resentment in India: A micro-foundational account	0
Wireless nation: Infrastructural politics of Tibetan and Mongolian Morse codes in China	0
Hearts and minds in Hong Kong’s New Territories: Agriculture and vegetable marketing in a Cold War borderland,circa1946–1967	0
Glorious pasts of forest dwellers: Memories of land in the ex-zamindari of Borasambar, Central Provinces, 1861–1905	0
Demographic engineering: Population resettlement in the ethnoterritory of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh	0
Muslim pasts and presents: Displacement and city-making in a Delhi neighbourhood	0
Cosmopolitanism and imperial women in the Sixteen Kingdoms and the Northern Dynasties (304–581)	0
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 Razmnāma	0
‘I am safer in Hong Kong’: Transimperial entanglements in Filipino nationalist explorations	0
Logistics behind revolution: Mengla and the Laos-Thailand connection in the Cold War	0
Dam(n)ing the hills: Indigeneity, American aid, and Cold War politics in the Kaptai Dam, East Pakistan, 1957–1964	0
Agents of capital: Matriarchs, law, and agrarian transactions in the Eastern Gangetic plains of eighteenth-century India	0
A Song of Fallen Flowers: Miyazaki Tōten and the making of naniwabushi as a mode of popular dissent in transwar Japan, 1902–1909	0
Sulh-i kull to Vedānta: The Dādū Panth and the Mughal-Rajput imperial paradigm	0
China’s and Japan’s winding path to the Refugee Convention: State identity transformations and the evolving international refugee regime	0
Was Aśoka really a secularist avant-la-lettre? Ancient Indian pluralism and toleration in historical perspective	0
Doing ‘coolie’ work in a ‘gentlemanly’ way: Gender and caste on the famine public works in colonial North India	0
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‘Made in Hong Kong’: Deriving value from the place-of-origin label, 1950s and now	0
Saving China and admiring Japan: Cultural traitor Qian Daosun	0
The theological foundations of Muslim modernism and traditionalism in South Asia	0
The Manchurian saviour? Re-examining the ‘Otpor Incident’ in imperial and contemporary Japan	0
Cotton, capital, and colonialism in southern Korea, 1910–1945: Semi-governmental organizations in the construction of imperial agriculture	0
Introduction to the Forum: Mediating collaborationism: Cosmopolitism, Asianism, and the recounting of history	0
Abolitionist parallels: International law and domestic servitude in South China (1900–1940)	0
Life of a Dalit magistrate: Ideologies and politics in Dalit life in North India, 1920–1954	0
And red flows the Koina river: Adivasi resistance to the ‘loot’ of their land and resources in eastern India, 1980–2020	0
The modernity of tradition: Women and ‘healthy progress’ in late colonial Java and Sumatra	0
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In-between two Buddhisms: Ueda Tenzui’s Theravada ordination and activities to recover the remains of the war dead in wartime Burma	0
Rethinking the Second World War in South Asia: Between theatres and beyond battles	0
Missing millions: Java’s 1944–45 famine in Indonesia’s historiography	0
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Beyond conservation: Royal picnics at Elephanta and the legitimization of empire	0
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