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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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Hear #MeToo in India: News, Social Media, and Anti-Rape and Sexual Harassment Activism11
‘Nature’ in the Ṭhumrī Genre as Performed by Some Female Exponents of the Pūrab Aṅg: Liminality, Identity and Resistance10
‘The Best Timber in India’: Shipbuilding Supplies and the Dutch East India Company in Cochin, 1663–17959
Mourning a Queer Aunty: Kinship, Creative Resilience and World-Making8
Smart Cities, Surveillance and Speed in Imphal, Manipur8
Picturing Development: Outdoor Campaign Materials during the 2019 General Election in India5
Forging Communal Space: Negotiating Streets and Practices in Delhi, 1922–655
Women Reading/Women Writing: Anxiety and Āzādī in Twentieth Century Urdu Pulp Fiction5
Introduction: Salt, Protest and Public Health in Modern India4
The Politics of the Post-Colonial Literary Archive: The Rushdie Papers at Emory University4
Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil4
From Communist Internationalism to a ‘New Humanism’: On M.N. Roy’s Confrontation with Fascism3
Living in the Naga life-world: Indigeneity, masculinity and the consumption of pig testicles in Northeast India3
Delhi and Its Urban Peripheries: Associational Life of the Village3
State Spectacles of Yoga: Invisible India and India Everywhere3
A Precarious Trade: The English East India Company and Its Interventions in the Balasore Salt Trade3
Writing History in Deobandi-Barelvi Polemics: Conflicting Views of Shah Ismail and Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi3
Anti/Aunty as Critical Method: From Gendered Resistance to Soft Grace3
The Possibility of Translation: Turning Ghosts into Psychosomatic Disorders in Nepal2
Collaborative neoliberalism: Social mobility in rural North India2
Communal Geographies: An Introduction2
Shauqeen Viewing: Mingling with the Indian Courtesan2
Yes to Vedānta, No to Bhakti? Some Philosophical and Religious Novelties of Jasvant Siṃh I’s Brajbhāṣā Prabodha Nāṭaka2
Contemporary Ritual: Teyyam and the Creation of Its Epistemic World2
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
Rethinking the Role of Informality as a Barrier to Financial Inclusion: Insights from an Indian Urban Setting2
Spilling the Tea: Aunty Discipline and the Queer Diasporic Child in D’Lo’s To T, or Not To T?2
Unruly Children, Transgressive Gazes: Interpreting Childhood and Freedom in the Writings of Leela Majumdar2
Himalayan masculinities2
Religion and the Public Sphere: The Multifaceted Role of Sacred Sites in Political Mobilisation in the Kashmir Valley2
The Hill and Forest Products of the Tamiḻakam: Communication and Exchange Between Southern India and the Roman World2
‘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
‘Purify the Deval and Devi’: Dalits and Politics of Hindu Social Reform in Hyderabad, 1920–282
‘For the Farmers of the Country’: Indian Agricultural Universities at the Cusp of Nation-Building Plans and the Cold War, 1947–672
Embodying Sacred Pain: Practice of Austerities Among Hindu Ascetics2
‘What else to do?’: Middle adult men, idleness and drinking at the margins in Nagaland, India2
Transformation of the Deities: Temples, Caste and Identity in Goa2
Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh1
Violence as border governmentality: Myanmar military coup, Assam-Mizoram border dispute and beyond1
Satrah Din, Satrah Saal: Media, Propaganda and Virtual Warfare in the India-Pakistan War of 19651
Ambiguous Identity and Uncertain Belonging: Assessing the Lives of Undocumented Brihannalas in the Backdrop of the COVID-19 Pandemic1
Introduction: Ecology, Music and Community—Exploring Performance in South Asia1
The Many Labours of Leather: Artisans, Tree Bark and Chemical Knowledge in Industrial South India, 1914–341
The Object as Gift: Practices of Gift Exchange in Awadh in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century1
Perceptions and Products of the Forested Highlands: A View from the Malwa Sultan’s Book of Delicacies , c. 15001
Between Ritual Doubt and Spiritual Striving: The Mediation of Adab at a Sufi Shrine in Contemporary India1
Business as Usual? Bazars and Communalism in Colonial Delhi, 1913–321
Reconciling Religion, Reform and Modernity: A Study of Early Muslim Women’s Periodicals from South India1
Subregional Memories of an Undivided Rural Punjab: Community, Culture and Identity among the Hindus of Bahawalpur1
Designing a Modern Self: The English Travels of Pandita Ramabai and Krishnabhabini Das1
Making Way for Ships: Displacement, Religion and Urban Space-Making in India’s Southwest Littoral1
Caste as Process in Post-Liberalisation India1
Gardening the community: The Basel Mission, household economy, gardens and farms in Germany and India1
‘Development Has Gone Crazy’: The Gujarat Model of ‘Unequal’ Development through Neoliberalism and Hindutva1
The Ecology of the Archive in Adil Jussawalla's ‘Date Book’ for a Missing Novel1
The Architecture of Laila’s World in Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column1
The ‘Migrant-Leper’ as the Undeserving Outsider: Historicising Leprosy Policy in Delhi, 1920–601
Letter to the Editors1
Pakistan to Bangladesh, 1947–71: Introduction1
Melancholia of the Past: Remembering Communal Violence in a Mumbai Slum1
Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene1
Neo-Liberal Pitfalls and the COVID-19 Pandemic Challenges in Bangladesh1
‘Songs of the Lake’: Understanding Cultural Expressions of Nature through Dwindling Folk-Songs and Mythologies in Bengaluru1
Engaging with Ethnographic Museum Objects from Erstwhile Naga Hills: From Imperial, Colonial and Postcolonial Eras to Contemporary Reimagining1
Inventive Indians: Technological Imaginaries and Patenting Activity in Late Colonial India (1911–48)1
Salt and the National Imaginary: The Photojournalism of the Dandi Satyagraha1
Framing ‘fear for the future’ as a concept to study the subjectification of youth and university students: An introduction1
‘Tippoo…Was Just Such a Man As I Am’: Protest, Rebellion and Military Labour in South India1
Dārā Šukōh’s Bhagavad Gītā ? The Attribution of the Āb-i Zindagī and Its Place Among the Persian Translations of Indic Philosophical Mater1
‘Tell Them Our Story’: Memories of the Sumi Naga Labour Corps in World War I1
Men and Masculine Identities in Life Narratives of Sri Lanka’s War1
The Home and the World: Queering Diaspora and Recasting the Nation in Ananda Devi’s Indian Tango1
Muslim Household, Nation and Urdu in Television Dramas of Pakistan1
Leaving Comrades to Die: Shahadat , Soldiering and Accidental Death on the Siachen Glacier1
Afterword: Women Writing in Kashmir?1
Reimagining Hindu Mythology for the Diasporic Queer Body: Discursive Materiality in Vivek Shraya’s She of the Mountains1
Digging Up the Dirt: Democracy, Visibility and the ‘Crisis of Corruption’ in Nepal1
Ambedkar in America: An Archive for Our Times1
Navigating patriarchy: Aspects of working-class Nepali masculinity through a visual frame1
Riaz Hassan, AM FASSA (August 14, 1937–June 8, 2022)1
Anthropological Developmentalism: Furer-Haimendorf and the Making of Social Policy in Hyderabad State 11
The Films Division of India and the Nehruvian Dream1
Magical India: Some Notes on Forest-Dwellers and Their Products in Ancient Greek and Roman Sources1
Consuming Students: Advertisements and the Indian Youth Market, 1935–650
Gendered Nationalism and Material Texts: An Urdu Women’s Periodical in 1960s Pakistan0
Art, Resistance and Social Media: The Anti-CAA Protests in India0
Salt, Sovereignty and Law in Colonial India: The Case of Rajputana Salt in the Late Nineteenth Century0
Obituary: Johannes Bronkhorst0
The Thrill of Emergency and the Chronic Crisis of Corruption0
Scissors from Meerut, Locks from Aligarh: Locality and Production in North India, 1870–19500
Subaltern and Dalit-Bahujan Organisation in South Asia: The Historical Roots0
The Duplicate Malady: Repositioning Hysteria in South Asia0
Communal Geographies: Space, Identity and Electoral Constituency in Colonial North India0
Thinking with Signs: Caste, Ethnicity and the Dual Body in Contemporary Eastern Nepal*0
Bureaucratic Mediations for Biometric Governance in India’s Northeast—Aadhaar in Tripura0
Between Forests and Oceans: The Role of Jain Merchants from Kerala in the Indian Ocean Exchange Network, Ninth–Fourteenth Centuries0
Mill, Market, Mandir, Masjid: The Geographies of Communal Conflict in Colonial Bombay, c. 1929–390
‘I Will Make a ṭīkā ’: Translation, Commentary and Tradition in Nājar Ānandrām’s Paramānanda Prabodha0
Famine in a Rice Economy: Natural Calamities, Grain Scarcity and the Company-State in Bengal, 1770–18030
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
Archives of Minority: ‘Little’ Publications and the Politics of Friendship in Post-Colonial Bombay0
Ambedkar on Indian Christianity: Towards a Critique0
Mangalkavya s and the Acculturation of Medieval Bengal: Analysing the Integration of Puranic and Folk Goddesses in the Folk Epics0
(Re)Imagining Anglo-American Relations: Natural History, Sport Hunting and Scientific Imperialism in the Vernay-Faunthorpe Indian Expeditions of 1922–290
Corporate Brahminism and Tech Work: Caste in a Modern Indian Profession0
Timber, Fibre, Resin and Cotton: South Asian Materials in Western Indian Ocean Watercraft0
The Lahure dream: Unpacking Nepali military aspirations and masculinity0
Creating an Oral Map: ‘Living On’ after the Nellie Massacre, 19830
Between Sādhū and Darwesh: Storytelling and Social Reform in S. uġhrā Humāyūñ Mirzā’s Mohinī (1929)0
Cartographic Anxiety on the Thar Desert: The Border Security Force and Jaisalmer’s Tanot Mata Mandir0
The Indo-Myanmar Borderlands: Border Trade, Urbanisation and Ethnic Politics in Mizoram, India0
Articulating Kashmir: State Formation and Kashmir’s Shawl Economy c. 1770–18700
Inheritance, Marriage and Adoption: Changing Judicial Practices in Hyderabad State0
Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi , by Sushmita Pati, Cam0
Choirs on the Coast: Impact of COVID-19 on Musical Pedagogy and Festivals0
From Colonial India to Semi-Colonial Republican China: Imaginaries and Realities of Civil Service and State-Building in Salt Administration, 1912–450
Introduction: Postcolonial Archives0
The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India0
Imperial exception: Judges, lawyers and the making of the law of evidence in post-1857 British India0
C.A. Bayly’s Unfinished Business: A History of Ideas in an Old Manuscript0
Research Ethics and the Chimera of Postcolonial Policing: Reflections after Zoha Waseem’s Insecure Guardians (2023)0
Baby Politics: Reproductive Governance in India0
Connected History: Essays and Arguments0
‘Good Muslim girls’ with punchlines: Piety, agency and humour in Pakistani stand-up comedy0
Encountering the Postcolonial State: Development Bureaucracy and Social Transformation in Rural Pre-Independent Bangladesh, 1947–700
Media discourse, alternative medicine and COVID-19 in India: A case of an Ayurvedic drug ‘Coronil’0
From Hearth to Print: Women Authors and the Cultural Politics of Food in Western India, 1875–19450
Being Young, Becoming Political: Subjectivity and Urban Space in Early Partition Novels0
Hysteria: A South Asian History of Global Medicine0
Iron, Honey and Wild Cinnamon: Forest Resource Extraction in Sri Lanka’s Historical Landscape0
Bankimchandra and Rabindranath on the concepts of satya (truth) and morality: The dispute0
Gendering Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Commercial Surrogacy and Constructions of Motherhood0
The Houseness of the Naga House Museum: Towards a Narrative of the Postcolonial South Asian House Museum0
Friendly Nations and Open Borders: Gender, Caste and Sacredness at the India-Nepal Border0
The Ingredients of Casteism: Holy Week and Syrian Christian Food Practices in Kerala, India0
Laying the Foundation of the ‘Native’ Christian Community: The Church Missionary Society and Its Experiments with Famine Orphans and Orphanages, 1840s–1920s0
Mapping Histories: An Environmental Perspective for Writing Local History in Pakistan0
The Changing Ecology of the Kolkata Tanpura0
Scripts of Power: Writing, Language Practices, and Cultural History in Western India0
Refugee Cities: How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan0
Introduction: Transnational Figurations of the South Asian Aunty0
The Organisation of Sex Work in Bangladesh0
Preface0
Bad Brown Aunties, Fagony Aunts and Resistance Aunties: Centring Queer Desi Aunties in Diasporic Social Movement and Justice Work0
Making Management Hindu: S.K. Chakraborty and the Indigenisation of Homo Economicus0
Digitising the Diaspora Temple: Diasporic Affordances of Devotional Objects at a Hindu Sindhi Temple in Hong Kong0
Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891–19370
Imagined Geographies in the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands: Culture, Politics, Place0
From Discordance to Assemblages: Renegotiating French and Portuguese Colonial Identities through Indian Tourism and Heritage Sites0
Understanding Dakaiti (Banditry) in the Chambal Valley and Bundelkhand0
Special Section Preface: Engaging with Early Modern Indian Philosophy: Vedānta and Beyond0
The long migration: Revisiting the postcolonial minority/refugee crisis and governance in East Pakistan0
Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India0
‘Modi’-fied Beliefs: Assessing Cognitive Dissonance in Populist Voting Behaviour in India0
Gender, Dissent and the Afterlives of the Pakistan Movement: Fatima Jinnah in the 1965 Elections0
Singing the River in Punjab: Poetry, Performance and Folklore0
Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor0
Hidden Histories of Pakistan: Censorship, Literature, and Secular Nationalism in Late Colonial India0
The Renouncer-King: Narendra Modi’s Poetry and the Hindu Leadership Style0
The Elephant Crown: Wodeyar Kingship, Hunting and the Politics of Preservation Under British Colonialism0
When They Know Us: Do Dalit Lives Matter?0
Authority Traversed: Police, Politics and the Urban Poor in Dhaka0
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
The Post-Colonial Magazine Archive0
Tea & Solidarity: Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka0
Writing Rokeya: Muslim Women’s Life-Writing, Intergenerational Camaraderie and Activism in Twentieth Century Bengal0
‘To Kiss or Not to Kiss?’ Cinema, Vulgarity and Marathi Manus in 1950s and 1960s Maharashtra0
When a Fierce God Dances: An Exploration of Manalmagudi’s Theatre from Kaṟisial Kādu as Indigenous Tragedy 10
The Brahmanisation of Indian Sociology or the Birth of the Racial Theories of Untouchability0
Drag Queen in the Beauty Salon: What Theorising Strange Bedfellows Can Tell Us about the Labour of Aunties0
Uncovering the Erasure: The Case for Babasaheb Ambedkar as a Pioneer of Indian Sociology0
Imaging ‘Slow Violence’ in the Jharia Coalfields of India: Disrupting Energy Modernity through Photography0
Television and Temples: Hindutva and OBC and Adivasi Self-Making in Borderland Gujarat0
Multani Shikarpuri Migration to Malabar: A Praxis on Homemaking0
The City Possessed: Ghost Stories and the Urban History of Late Colonial Calcutta0
Reworking Culture: Relatedness, Rites, and Resources in Garo Hills, North-East India0
Technologies of becoming-imperceptible in Ritwik Ghatak’s Ajantrik (1958)0
Documents, Digitisation and History0
The Sex Worker That She Is Not: Suggestion, Risk and Public Femininity in Contemporary Hindi Cinema0
A for appearance: Aesthetic labour and the work of image consultants in a globalised Delhi0
Saving Cows and Counting Ploughs: The Biopolitics of Cow Protection0
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
Hindu Economicus0
Homeland Insecurities: Autonomy, Conflict and Migration in Assam0
Population, Eugenics and Reproductive Rights: Legalising Abortion in India, 1966–710
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
George Grierson’s map and the remaking of Orissa, 1917–360
Dhandha , Accumulation and the Making of Valuable Livelihoods in Contemporary Mumbai 10
Authors, Activists, Archivists: A Dialogue with Francesca Orsini on Dalit Literature across Languages, Genre, Media0
Centring the margins: Heteronormativity and sexual otherness in India0
Masculinity in Assamese films0
The Heritage of Hynñiew Trep in Desmond Kharmawphlang’s Poems0
David E.U. Baker (1932–2021): A Life Extraordinaire0
Self-Sacrifice, Suffrage and Socialism: Gandhi and the Mobilisation of Women, 1930–310
Editor’s Note0
Anticipating Failure: Gurkha Recruitment and Brokerage in Nepal0
Consider the Aunty: The Obfuscation of Desire in My Beautiful Laundrette0
Prayers, Not Protests: Christian Internationalism and Young Womanhood in South India0
Negotiating Power and Constructing the Nation: Engineering in Sri Lanka Negotiating Power and Constructing the Nation: Engineering in Sri Lanka , by Bandura DileepaWitha0
Proximity or Sycophancy? The Relationship between Intelligence and Policy in the Nehruvian Era, 1947–640
Parables for Neoliberalism: Devdutt Pattanaik and the Mahabharata in Post-Liberalisation Indian English Literature0
Communal Geographies and Peasant Insurgency in Colonial Myanmar0
Neoliberal pedagogies of Pahari enterprise: Youth in provincial North India0
Reordering Adivasi Worlds: Representation, Resistance, Memory Reordering Adivasi Worlds: Representation, Resistance, Memory , by Sangeeta Dasgupta, New Delhi, Oxford Uni0
Burdened Agency and Empowered Mothering: Domestic Workers Negotiating Care and Constraint in Kolkata0
‘Do You Hear Voices, or Do You Think You Hear Voices?’: Malevolence and Modernity in the Psychiatric Clinic0
Smell as a Marker of Social Boundary: Exploring the Role of Fish ‘Stench’0
Measuring Race, Space and the Citizen: Anthropology and Statistics in Early Post-Independence India0
Post-Colonial Disasters and Narratives of Erasure: Reimagining Testimonies of Toxic Encounter0
Patriarchy as an Assemblage: Qandeel Baloch, Male Domination and Feminist Publics in Pakistan0
Music and Intermediality in Trans-Border Performances: Ecological Responses in Patachitra and Manasamangal0
Supplying Affordable Beverages to GIs: Coca-Cola Production and Provision in the China-Burma-India Theatre0
A Forest of Ships: Malabar’s State Forests and Bombay’s Dockyards, 1795–18220
An impotent prince, a powerful begum and a servant queen: Lives of women servants in the Awadh Court (1814–37)0
Setting India on the Wrong Path: Robert McCarrison’s Goitre Research, 1906–350
Miracle millets: Indigenous food sovereignty and the revival of ancient grains in Northeast India0
Gender politics and nationalist imagination: The role of Bengali Muslim women educationists, 1947–710
Progressive Laments and/on Partition: The Cost of Freedom in Khadija Mastur’s Aangan (1962)0
Sufis as Sacred Props: Hagiographical Transmutation of Shāh Ḥusayn (945/1538–1008/1599)0
Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India , by Akshya Saxena, Princeton Universit0
Muslim Communities and Trade along the Malabar Coast: A State of the Art0
Remembering Heterodox Pre/Colonial Oral Cultures in (Re)Organising Bengali Dalit Literary Histories0
Film and Caste Anxieties in Early Twentieth-Century India0
‘Why Can’t Our Bhuta Have a Mask?’ Caste Contestations and Ritual Practice in Tulunadu0
‘This is Caste Power’: Youth Politicians, Vernacular Notions of Caste-Based Supremacy and its Reproduction in Contemporary North India0
Preserving the Bannuwal Identity: Post-Partition Bannu Refugees0
The Changing Landscape of Punjab in Bollywood Film Songs0
Weaving Pasts: Kashmiri Textile Artisans and Their Modes of Self-Identification0
Suffering, Survival and Sustenance: Meos’ Post-Partition Experiences in Pakistan0
Enemy Property: Violence, Dispossession and Citizenship in South Asia0
Caste Tests and Love Feasts: Protestant Experiments of Social Integration in South India (1826–79)0
Border, Pastoralism and Affect: Memories, Interactions and Cultural Transformations of Pastoralists in Western Rajasthan Borderlands0
Youth and Selfhood in Neoliberal India: Shifting Geographies of Higher Education, Coaching Centres and Religiosity in Patna0
Nehruvian Ghosts: Kamal Amrohi’s Film, Mahal (1949)0
Impartiality as a Quality of Government and Its Violation in the Governance of Sectarian Conflict in Pakistan0
The Census amid Language Politics: The Production of Language Data and the Politics of Mother Tongue in the Census of India, Punjab, 1941–710
Obituary: Jim Masselos0
‘Speak True to the People’: 1 Radio Pakistan and the Making and Unmaking of a National Soundscape0
Producing Artisans: Apprenticeship and Skill Training in Colonial India0
Introduction: Writing Muslim Women in South Asia0
Bikās as Pedagogy: The Concept of Development at an Elite Boarding School in Nepal0
Historicising Housing Rights: Critical Events and Political Ruptures in Post-Partition Urban India0
Hysteria Narratives and Love-in-Separation (Viraha) in North India0
Of Loss, Belonging and Remembrance: Indian Poetic Responses to World War I0
Salt: An Afterword0
Karva Chauth Travels: Fasting, Feasting and Everything in Between0
The Religious and Racial Geography of Late Nineteenth-Century Bombay0
Smuggling Nostalgia: Reminiscing on the (Demise of the) Cattle Trade in the Borderlands of Bangladesh0
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