South Asia-Journal of South Asian Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of South Asia-Journal of South 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Uncivil City: Ecology, Equity and the Commons in Delhi10
Hear #MeToo in India: News, Social Media, and Anti-Rape and Sexual Harassment Activism10
‘Nature’ in the Ṭhumrī Genre as Performed by Some Female Exponents of the Pūrab Aṅg: Liminality, Identity and Resistance8
Mourning a Queer Aunty: Kinship, Creative Resilience and World-Making7
Women Reading/Women Writing: Anxiety and Āzādī in Twentieth Century Urdu Pulp Fiction7
Smart Cities, Surveillance and Speed in Imphal, Manipur7
Forging Communal Space: Negotiating Streets and Practices in Delhi, 1922–656
‘The best timber in India’: Shipbuilding supplies and the Dutch East India Company in Cochin, 1663–17955
Introduction: Salt, Protest and Public Health in Modern India4
Picturing Development: Outdoor Campaign Materials during the 2019 General Election in India4
A Precarious Trade: The English East India Company and Its Interventions in the Balasore Salt Trade4
State Spectacles of Yoga: Invisible India and India Everywhere3
Delhi and Its Urban Peripheries: Associational Life of the Village3
The Possibility of Translation: Turning Ghosts into Psychosomatic Disorders in Nepal3
Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil3
From Communist Internationalism to a ‘New Humanism’: On M.N. Roy’s Confrontation with Fascism3
Ontologies of a Pandemic: Polarisations Exposed by COVID-19 in Bangladesh3
Writing History in Deobandi-Barelvi Polemics: Conflicting Views of Shah Ismail and Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi3
The Politics of the Post-Colonial Literary Archive: The Rushdie Papers at Emory University3
Anti/Aunty as Critical Method: From Gendered Resistance to Soft Grace3
Living in the Naga life-world: Indigeneity, masculinity and the consumption of pig testicles in Northeast India3
Anthropological Developmentalism: Furer-Haimendorf and the Making of Social Policy in Hyderabad State 12
Subregional Memories of an Undivided Rural Punjab: Community, Culture and Identity among the Hindus of Bahawalpur2
Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh2
Magical India: Some notes on forest-dwellers and their products in ancient Greek and Roman sources2
‘Development Has Gone Crazy’: The Gujarat Model of ‘Unequal’ Development through Neoliberalism and Hindutva2
Spilling the Tea: Aunty Discipline and the Queer Diasporic Child in D’Lo’s To T, or Not To T?2
Communal Geographies: An Introduction2
Rain of Life, Rain of Music: Music as Life Power in Indian Thought and Contemporary Musical Traditions2
Text and Tradition: The Dynasty of Villarvattom among Syrian Christians in Kerala, India2
‘Songs of the Lake’: Understanding Cultural Expressions of Nature through Dwindling Folk-Songs and Mythologies in Bengaluru2
Contemporary Ritual: Teyyam and the Creation of Its Epistemic World2
Inventive Indians: Technological Imaginaries and Patenting Activity in Late Colonial India (1911–48)2
Embodying sacred pain: Practice of austerities among Hindu ascetics2
Shauqeen Viewing: Mingling with the Indian Courtesan2
Religion and the Public Sphere: The Multifaceted Role of Sacred Sites in Political Mobilisation in the Kashmir Valley2
‘We Look at Our Feet and Work’: Women Construction Workers Negotiating Patriarchies in Kolkata, India2
Internal colonisation, national liberation and cultural resistance: A postcolonial reading of pre-Bangladesh Bangla poetry of resistance2
Introduction: Making Sense of Empire2
Making Way for Ships: Displacement, Religion and Urban Space-Making in India’s Southwest Littoral2
Towards the Publication of The Transfer of Power Documents, 1961–692
Framing ‘fear for the future’ as a concept to study the subjectification of youth and university students: An introduction2
Himalayan masculinities2
‘What else to do?’: Middle adult men, idleness and drinking at the margins in Nagaland, India2
‘For the Farmers of the Country’: Indian Agricultural Universities at the Cusp of Nation-Building Plans and the Cold War, 1947–672
The hill and forest products of the Tamiḻakam: Communication and exchange between Southern India and the Roman World2
‘Purify the Deval and Devi’: Dalits and Politics of Hindu Social Reform in Hyderabad, 1920–282
Transformation of the Deities: Temples, Caste and Identity in Goa2
Combining Global Expertise with Local Knowledge in Colonial India: Selling Ideals of Beauty and Health in Commodity Advertising (c. 1900–1949)2
Men and Masculine Identities in Life Narratives of Sri Lanka’s War1
Gendered Nationalism and Material Texts: An Urdu Women’s Periodical in 1960s Pakistan1
Melancholia of the Past: Remembering Communal Violence in a Mumbai Slum1
The Films Division of India and the Nehruvian Dream1
Ambedkar in America: An Archive for Our Times1
The Ecology of the Archive in Adil Jussawalla's ‘Date Book’ for a Missing Novel1
Senses and Sensibilities in Sarojini Naidu’s Poetry1
Afterword: Women Writing in Kashmir?1
Business as Usual? Bazars and Communalism in Colonial Delhi, 1913–321
Pakistan to Bangladesh, 1947–71: Introduction1
Research as Development: Biomedical Research, Ethics and Collaboration in Sri Lanka1
Caste as Process in Post-Liberalisation India1
Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy and Saintly Affects in Pakistan1
Designing a Modern Self: The English Travels of Pandita Ramabai and Krishnabhabini Das1
Empress: Queen Victoria and India1
Ambiguous Identity and Uncertain Belonging: Assessing the Lives of Undocumented Brihannalas in the Backdrop of the COVID-19 Pandemic1
Reimagining Hindu Mythology for the Diasporic Queer Body: Discursive Materiality in Vivek Shraya’s She of the Mountains1
Reconciling Religion, Reform and Modernity: A Study of Early Muslim Women’s Periodicals from South India1
Leaving Comrades to Die: Shahadat , Soldiering and Accidental Death on the Siachen Glacier1
Satrah Din, Satrah Saal: Media, Propaganda and Virtual Warfare in the India-Pakistan War of 19651
The Object as Gift: Practices of Gift Exchange in Awadh in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century1
Muslim Household, Nation and Urdu in Television Dramas of Pakistan1
Surveillance, Censure and Support: Gender Counting in South Asia1
Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene1
Violence as border governmentality: Myanmar military coup, Assam-Mizoram border dispute and beyond1
The Architecture of Laila’s World in Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column1
Language and Cinema: Schisms in the Representation of Hyderabad1
Banishment and Belonging: Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka and Ceylon1
Neo-Liberal Pitfalls and the COVID-19 Pandemic Challenges in Bangladesh1
Consider the Aunty: The Obfuscation of Desire in My Beautiful Laundrette1
Neoliberal pedagogies of Pahari enterprise: Youth in provincial North India1
The ‘Migrant-Leper’ as the Undeserving Outsider: Historicising Leprosy Policy in Delhi, 1920–601
The Home and the World: Queering Diaspora and Recasting the Nation in Ananda Devi’s Indian Tango1
Salt and the National Imaginary: The Photojournalism of the Dandi Satyagraha1
Letter to the Editors1
After TRIPS: Can India Remain ‘the Pharmacy of the Developing World’?1
Introduction: Ecology, Music and Community—Exploring Performance in South Asia1
Perceptions and products of the forested highlands: A view from the Malwa Sultan’s Book of Delicacies , c. 15001
Navigating patriarchy: Aspects of working-class Nepali masculinity through a visual frame1
‘Tell Them Our Story’: Memories of the Sumi Naga Labour Corps in World War I1
Between Ritual Doubt and Spiritual Striving: The Mediation of Adab at a Sufi Shrine in Contemporary India1
Engaging with Ethnographic Museum Objects from Erstwhile Naga Hills: From Imperial, Colonial and Postcolonial Eras to Contemporary Reimagining1
The Many Bismils of Today: Ram Prasad ‘Bismil’, ‘Bismil’ Azimabadi and Recovering the Legacy of a Muslim Intellectual1
Riaz Hassan, AM FASSA (August 14, 1937–June 8, 2022)1
Introduction: Transnational Figurations of the South Asian Aunty1
The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India0
Media discourse, alternative medicine and COVID-19 in India: A case of an Ayurvedic drug ‘Coronil’0
Being Young, Becoming Political: Subjectivity and Urban Space in Early Partition Novels0
Iron, honey and wild cinnamon: Forest resource extraction in Sri Lanka’s historical landscape0
Singing the River in Punjab: Poetry, Performance and Folklore0
Homeland Insecurities: Autonomy, Conflict and Migration in Assam0
C.A. Bayly’s Unfinished Business: A History of Ideas in an Old Manuscript0
Measuring Race, Space and the Citizen: Anthropology and Statistics in Early Post-Independence India0
Looting in the NWFP and Punjab: Property and Violence in the Partition of 19470
The Houseness of the Naga House Museum: Towards a Narrative of the Postcolonial South Asian House Museum0
The Duplicate Malady: Repositioning Hysteria in South Asia0
Masculinity in Assamese films0
Introduction: Writing Muslim Women in South Asia0
The City Possessed: Ghost Stories and the Urban History of Late Colonial Calcutta0
Karva Chauth Travels: Fasting, Feasting and Everything in Between0
Refugee Cities: How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan0
The Thrill of Emergency and the Chronic Crisis of Corruption0
Laying the Foundation of the ‘Native’ Christian Community: The Church Missionary Society and Its Experiments with Famine Orphans and Orphanages, 1840s–1920s0
Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka0
Communal Geographies: Space, Identity and Electoral Constituency in Colonial North India0
Hindu Economicus0
Archives of Minority: ‘Little’ Publications and the Politics of Friendship in Post-Colonial Bombay0
Parables for Neoliberalism: Devdutt Pattanaik and the Mahabharata in Post-Liberalisation Indian English Literature0
Sociology and the Vagrant: Beggars, Welfare and Tradition in Writing about the New Citizen in 1950s India0
Siraiki Language Speakers in London: A Case Study0
Historicising Housing Rights: Critical Events and Political Ruptures in Post-Partition Urban India0
Self-Sacrifice, Suffrage and Socialism: Gandhi and the Mobilisation of Women, 1930–310
Timber, fibre, resin and cotton: South Asian materials in western Indian Ocean watercraft0
Understanding Dakaiti (Banditry) in the Chambal Valley and Bundelkhand0
The Smell of Caste: Leatherwork and Scientific Knowledge in Colonial India0
When They Know Us: Do Dalit Lives Matter?0
Negotiating Power and Constructing the Nation: Engineering in Sri Lanka Negotiating Power and Constructing the Nation: Engineering in Sri Lanka , by Bandura DileepaWitha0
Authority Traversed: Police, Politics and the Urban Poor in Dhaka0
Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891–19370
A Forest of Ships: Malabar’s State Forests and Bombay’s Dockyards, 1795–18220
The Heritage of Hynñiew Trep in Desmond Kharmawphlang’s Poems0
Uncovering the Erasure: The Case for Babasaheb Ambedkar as a Pioneer of Indian Sociology0
Un/veiling the Maharani: Autobiography as Medium and Metaphor for Royal Women’s Self-Fashioning in the Indian Princely States0
Writing Rokeya: Muslim Women’s Life-Writing, Intergenerational Camaraderie and Activism in Twentieth Century Bengal0
National Romances: Singleton Desire and the Discovery of India in Chick Lit Narratives0
Afghan Muslim Aunties and Their Queer Gifts0
Between Sādhū and Darwesh: Storytelling and Social Reform in S. uġhrā Humāyūñ Mirzā’s Mohinī (1929)0
Gender politics and nationalist imagination: The role of Bengali Muslim women educationists, 1947–710
The Indo-Myanmar Borderlands: Border Trade, Urbanisation and Ethnic Politics in Mizoram, India0
Black Land, May Your Trees Be Great Trees! The Forest Goods Trade from Meluhha to Mesopotamia in the Third Millennium BCE: A Multi-Perspective Approach0
Of Loss, Belonging and Remembrance: Indian Poetic Responses to World War I0
The Changing Landscape of Punjab in Bollywood Film Songs0
Patriarchy as an Assemblage: Qandeel Baloch, Male Domination and Feminist Publics in Pakistan0
Imaging ‘Slow Violence’ in the Jharia Coalfields of India: Disrupting Energy Modernity through Photography0
Drag Queen in the Beauty Salon: What Theorising Strange Bedfellows Can Tell Us about the Labour of Aunties0
Inheritance, Marriage and Adoption: Changing Judicial Practices in Hyderabad State0
The Modernisation of South Asia’s Disease Burden: 1950 to 20210
The Changing Ecology of the Kolkata Tanpura0
Smell as a Marker of Social Boundary: Exploring the Role of Fish ‘Stench’0
Subaltern and Dalit-Bahujan Organisation in South Asia: The Historical Roots0
Suffering, Survival and Sustenance: Meos’ Post-Partition Experiences in Pakistan0
Impartiality as a Quality of Government and Its Violation in the Governance of Sectarian Conflict in Pakistan0
Encountering the Postcolonial State: Development Bureaucracy and Social Transformation in Rural Pre-Independent Bangladesh, 1947–700
Constructing Religious Authority: Creating Exclusion along the Matrix of Knowledge and Power in Pakistan0
Border, Pastoralism and Affect: Memories, Interactions and Cultural Transformations of Pastoralists in Western Rajasthan Borderlands0
Lifelines: The Traffic of Trauma Lifelines: The Traffic of Trauma , by Harris Solomon, Duke University Press, 2022, 304 pp., US$27.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-4780-1885-80
Bankimchandra and Rabindranath on the concepts of satya (truth) and morality: The dispute0
Authors, Activists, Archivists: A Dialogue with Francesca Orsini on Dalit Literature across Languages, Genre, Media0
Gendering Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Commercial Surrogacy and Constructions of Motherhood0
‘No Afghan Refugees in India’: Refugees and Cold War Politics in the 1980s0
Friendly Nations and Open Borders: Gender, Caste and Sacredness at the India-Nepal Border0
David E.U. Baker (1932–2021): A Life Extraordinaire0
Proximity or Sycophancy? The Relationship between Intelligence and Policy in the Nehruvian Era, 1947–640
Animosity at Bay: An Alternative History of the India–Pakistan Relationship, 1947–19520
Consuming Students: Advertisements and the Indian Youth Market, 1935–650
Scripts of Power: Writing, Language Practices, and Cultural History in Western India0
Salt: An Afterword0
Rewriting Hindustan: Shiblī Nomānī and the Histories of Mughal India, 1895–19120
The Return of Chen Ching Lin: Chinese Deserters and Chinatowns in the British Raj, 1943–460
India’s Rural Medical Revolution: The Attitudes of Villagers to Village-Level Blood Testing in Maharashtra0
Saving Cows and Counting Ploughs: The Biopolitics of Cow Protection0
Anticipating Failure: Gurkha Recruitment and Brokerage in Nepal0
Castoffs of Capital: Work and Love Among Garment Workers in Bangladesh Castoffs of Capital: Work and Love among Garment Workers in Bangladesh , by Lamia Karim, Minneapol0
Supplying affordable beverages to GIs: Coca-Cola production and provision in the China-Burma-India theatre0
Salt, Sovereignty and Law in Colonial India: The Case of Rajputana Salt in the Late Nineteenth Century0
‘Why Can’t Our Bhuta Have a Mask?’ Caste Contestations and Ritual Practice in Tulunadu0
Nehruvian Ghosts: Kamal Amrohi’s Film, Mahal (1949)0
Television and Temples: Hindutva and OBC and Adivasi Self-Making in Borderland Gujarat0
Bengali Dalit Literature and the Politics of Recognition0
Film and Caste Anxieties in Early Twentieth-Century India0
Dhandha , Accumulation and the Making of Valuable Livelihoods in Contemporary Mumbai 10
Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India , by Akshya Saxena, Princeton Universit0
Introduction: Postcolonial Archives0
Prayers, Not Protests: Christian Internationalism and Young Womanhood in South India0
Architecture of East Pakistan: International experts, regional tropical architecture and the search for architectural identity, 1947–710
Famine in a Rice Economy: Natural Calamities, Grain Scarcity and the Company-State in Bengal, 1770–18030
Introduction: Between the Field and the Gallery: Exploring Anthropological Knowledge in South Asia0
From Discordance to Assemblages: Renegotiating French and Portuguese Colonial Identities through Indian Tourism and Heritage Sites0
Mangalkavya s and the acculturation of medieval Bengal: Analysing the integration of Puranic and folk goddesses in the folk epics0
Corporate Brahminism and Tech Work: Caste in a Modern Indian Profession0
Remembering Heterodox Pre/Colonial Oral Cultures in (Re)Organising Bengali Dalit Literary Histories0
The Lahure dream: Unpacking Nepali military aspirations and masculinity0
A tiger for Theodosius II: Exotic gift giving and diplomatic contacts between Eastern Rome and India in Late Antiquity0
Gender, Dissent and the Afterlives of the Pakistan Movement: Fatima Jinnah in the 1965 Elections0
Creating an Oral Map: ‘Living On’ after the Nellie Massacre, 19830
Miracle millets: Indigenous food sovereignty and the revival of ancient grains in Northeast India0
Muslim Belonging in Assam: History, Politics and the Future0
The Post-Colonial Magazine Archive0
Reordering Adivasi Worlds: Representation, Resistance, Memory Reordering Adivasi Worlds: Representation, Resistance, Memory , by Sangeeta Dasgupta, New Delhi, Oxford Uni0
The Sex Worker That She Is Not: Suggestion, Risk and Public Femininity in Contemporary Hindi Cinema0
Hysteria: A South Asian History of Global Medicine0
Population, Eugenics and Reproductive Rights: Legalising Abortion in India, 1966–710
Regulating Hooligans and Mawaalis: Collective Action and the Politics of Public Order in Late Colonial India0
Reworking Culture: Relatedness, Rites, and Resources in Garo Hills, North-East India0
‘Speak True to the People’: 1 Radio Pakistan and the Making and Unmaking of a National Soundscape0
Hysteria Narratives and Love-in-Separation (Viraha) in North India0
Pakistan’s Health-Care System: A Case of Elite Capture0
Connected History: Essays and Arguments0
The Ingredients of Casteism: Holy Week and Syrian Christian Food Practices in Kerala, India0
New Lives in Anand: Building a Muslim Hub in Western India New Lives in Anand: Building a Muslim Hub in Western India , by Sanderien Verstappen, Global South Asia series0
The Religious and Racial Geography of Late Nineteenth-Century Bombay0
Bikās as Pedagogy: The Concept of Development at an Elite Boarding School in Nepal0
Communal Geographies and Peasant Insurgency in Colonial Myanmar0
Virtual Ethnicity? The Visual Construction of ‘Sinhalaness’ on Social Media in Sri Lanka0
George Grierson’s map and the remaking of Orissa, 1917–360
Language and the Making of Modern India: Nationalism and the Vernacular in Colonial Odisha, 1803–19560
Bad Brown Aunties, Fagony Aunts and Resistance Aunties: Centring Queer Desi Aunties in Diasporic Social Movement and Justice Work0
Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh and the Passing of Soviet India0
Bureaucratic Mediations for Biometric Governance in India’s Northeast—Aadhaar in Tripura0
Making Management Hindu: S.K. Chakraborty and the Indigenisation of Homo Economicus0
The Organisation of Sex Work in Bangladesh0
Reformation and Modernity: Catholic Printing in Kerala in the Nineteenth Century0
‘Do You Hear Voices, or Do You Think You Hear Voices?’: Malevolence and Modernity in the Psychiatric Clinic0
Mapping Histories: An Environmental Perspective for Writing Local History in Pakistan0
Cartographic Anxiety on the Thar Desert: The Border Security Force and Jaisalmer’s Tanot Mata Mandir0
Thinking with Signs: Caste, Ethnicity and the Dual Body in Contemporary Eastern Nepal*0
Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife0
Tea & Solidarity: Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka0
Preface0
‘To Kiss or Not to Kiss?’ Cinema, Vulgarity and Marathi Manus in 1950s and 1960s Maharashtra0
Lahore Cinema: Between Realism and Fable Lahore Cinema: Between Realism and Fable , by Iftikhar Dadi, Global South Asia Series, University of Washington Press, 2022, 2640
Mill, Market, Mandir, Masjid: The Geographies of Communal Conflict in Colonial Bombay, c. 1929–390
Cleansing India: Gandhi, Hindutva and the Calypsology of Sanitation Reforms0
Choirs on the Coast: Impact of COVID-19 on Musical Pedagogy and Festivals0
Christian Women’s Journals and Vernacular Christianity: A Case Study of Vivekavathi in Telugu-Speaking Regions0
Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor0
The Census amid Language Politics: The Production of Language Data and the Politics of Mother Tongue in the Census of India, Punjab, 1941–710
Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India0
Between forests and oceans: The role of Jain merchants from Kerala in the Indian Ocean exchange network, ninth–fourteenth centuries0
Progressive Laments and/on Partition: The Cost of Freedom in Khadija Mastur’s Aangan (1962)0
(Re)Imagining Anglo-American Relations: Natural History, Sport Hunting and Scientific Imperialism in the Vernay-Faunthorpe Indian Expeditions of 1922–290
Sufis as Sacred Props: Hagiographical Transmutation of Shāh Ḥusayn (945/1538–1008/1599)0
Muslim communities and trade along the Malabar Coast: A state of the art0
The Ungrudging Indian: The Political Economy of Salt in India, c. 1878–19470
Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi , by Sushmita Pati, Cam0
The Brahmanisation of Indian Sociology or the Birth of the Racial Theories of Untouchability0
Imagined Geographies in the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands: Culture, Politics, Place0
Documents, Digitisation and History0
Multani Shikarpuri Migration to Malabar: A Praxis on Homemaking0
Preserving the Bannuwal Identity: Post-Partition Bannu Refugees0
From Colonial India to Semi-Colonial Republican China: Imaginaries and Realities of Civil Service and State-Building in Salt Administration, 1912–450
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