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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Hear #MeToo in India: News, Social Media, and Anti-Rape and Sexual Harassment Activism7
The Changing Ecology of the Kolkata Tanpura7
Virtual Ethnicity? The Visual Construction of ‘Sinhalaness’ on Social Media in Sri Lanka5
(Enforced) Migration, (Up)rootedeness, (In)separability and (Post)memory in The Garden of Solitude and The Infidel Next Door5
India, China, and the World: A Connected History4
Review Essay: Blasphemy Laws, Sectarianism and Religious Minorities in Pakistan4
Smell as a marker of social boundary: exploring the role of fish ‘stench’4
Gender and Caste: The Politics of Embodied Spatial Negotiations in Rural Odisha, India4
Smart Cities, Surveillance and Speed in Imphal, Manipur3
Instrumental Lives: An Intimate Biography of an Indian Laboratory,3
Salt Workers in Contemporary South India: Change and Continuity3
Language and the Making of Modern India: Nationalism and the Vernacular in Colonial Odisha, 1803–19563
Uncivil City: Ecology, Equity and the Commons in Delhi3
‘Nature’ in the Ṭhumrī Genre as Performed by Some Female Exponents of the Pūrab Aṅg: Liminality, Identity and Resistance3
Ambedkar on Indian Christianity: towards a critique3
Muslim Household, Nation and Urdu in Television Dramas of Pakistan3
After TRIPS: Can India Remain ‘the Pharmacy of the Developing World’?3
Divisive Politics of the Inner Line Permit in Three Stories from Manipur in India’s Northeast3
Bad Brown Aunties, Fagony Aunts and Resistance Aunties: Centring Queer Desi Aunties in Diasporic Social Movement and Justice Work3
Friendly Nations and Open Borders: Gender, Caste and Sacredness at the India-Nepal Border2
Our Libraries Are Colonial Archives: South Asian Collections in Western and Global North Libraries2
Post-Colonial Disasters and Narratives of Erasure: Reimagining Testimonies of Toxic Encounter2
Communal Geographies: Space, Identity and Electoral Constituency in Colonial North India2
Christianity in India: The Anti-Colonial Turn2
Nehruvian Ghosts: Kamal Amrohi’s Film, Mahal (1949)2
The Brief History of a Very Big Book: The Making of the Tamil Encyclopaedia The Brief History of a Very Big Book: The Making of the Tamil Encyclopaedia , by A.R. Venkata2
Hysteria Narratives and Love-in-Separation (Viraha) in North India2
The Racialisation of Citizenship in Post-Colonial India2
Religious Nationalism, Christianisation and Institutionalisation of Indigenous Faiths in Contemporary Arunachal Pradesh, India2
Persian Literati, Islam and Politics in Early Modern South Asia: Being a Muslim in ‘Abd al-Haqq Dehlawi’s Texts2
Proximity or Sycophancy? The Relationship between Intelligence and Policy in the Nehruvian Era, 1947–642
Between Globalising Religions and Embodying Asia: Imagining Japan in Bengal2
Inspectors of the Raj: A Pedagogy of Critical Conservatism in Odisha2
Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene2
The Observant Owl: Sensory Worlds of Colonial Calcutta in Hutom’s Vignettes2
Population, Eugenics and Reproductive Rights: Legalising Abortion in India, 1966–712
Mourning a Queer Aunty: Kinship, Creative Resilience and World-Making2
The City Possessed: Ghost Stories and the Urban History of Late Colonial Calcutta2
Going Wild on Instagram: Tiger Safaris and India’s Protected Areas in the Age of Social Media2
The Changing Landscape of Punjab in Bollywood Film Songs1
From Worse than Dogs to Heroic Tigers: Situating the Animal in Dalit Autobiographies1
Hysteria: A South Asian History of Global Medicine1
Writing History in Deobandi-Barelvi Polemics: Conflicting Views of Shah Ismail and Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi1
The Duplicate Malady: Repositioning Hysteria in South Asia1
Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi , by Sushmita Pati, Cam1
Self-Sacrifice, Suffrage and Socialism: Gandhi and the Mobilisation of Women, 1930–311
From Discordance to Assemblages: Renegotiating French and Portuguese Colonial Identities through Indian Tourism and Heritage Sites1
‘Speak True to the People’: 1 Radio Pakistan and the Making and Unmaking of a National Soundscape1
Authors, Activists, Archivists: A Dialogue with Francesca Orsini on Dalit Literature across Languages, Genre, Media1
Language, Script and Enemies of the State: Bengali Language and Nation-Building in Pakistan, 1947–531
The Houseness of the Naga House Museum: Towards a Narrative of the Postcolonial South Asian House Museum1
Women Reading/Women Writing: Anxiety and Āzādī in Twentieth Century Urdu Pulp Fiction1
The Return of Chen Ching Lin: Chinese Deserters and Chinatowns in the British Raj, 1943–461
Forging Communal Space: Negotiating Streets and Practices in Delhi, 1922–651
A Precarious Trade: The English East India Company and Its Interventions in the Balasore Salt Trade1
Gendering Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Commercial Surrogacy and Constructions of Motherhood1
Elusive Lives: Gender, Autobiography and the Self in Muslim South Asia1
The Religious and Racial Geography of Late Nineteenth-Century Bombay1
Salt, Sovereignty and Law in Colonial India: The Case of Rajputana Salt in the Late Nineteenth Century1
The Evacuation and Repatriation of ‘British Indians’ Resident in Japan, 1940–421
Rituals as a Means of Mitigation and Prevention: Containing Sectarian Rivalry in Kanchipuram1
Negotiating Power and Constructing the Nation: Engineering in Sri Lanka Negotiating Power and Constructing the Nation: Engineering in Sri Lanka , by Bandura DileepaWitha1
Animosity at Bay: An Alternative History of the India–Pakistan Relationship, 1947–19521
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought1
Animal Enthusiasms: Life beyond Cage and Leash in Rural Pakistan1
Encountering the Postcolonial State: Development Bureaucracy and Social Transformation in Rural Pre-Independent Bangladesh, 1947–701
Satrah Din, Satrah Saal: Media, Propaganda and Virtual Warfare in the India-Pakistan War of 19651
‘Do You Hear Voices, or Do You Think You Hear Voices?’: Malevolence and Modernity in the Psychiatric Clinic1
Looting in the NWFP and Punjab: Property and Violence in the Partition of 19471
Picturing Development: Outdoor Campaign Materials during the 2019 General Election in India1
Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh and the Passing of Soviet India1
India’s Rural Medical Revolution: The Attitudes of Villagers to Village-Level Blood Testing in Maharashtra1
Hindu economicus1
New Linguistic Hierarchy in Nineteenth Century Bengal and Education for Muslims1
Introduction: Salt, Protest and Public Health in Modern India1
The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India1
Remembering Heterodox Pre/Colonial Oral Cultures in (Re)Organising Bengali Dalit Literary Histories1
The Politics of the Post-Colonial Literary Archive: The Rushdie Papers at Emory University1
Imagined Geographies in the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands: Culture, Politics, Place1
Afterword: Women Writing in Kashmir?1
The Films Division of India and the Nehruvian Dream1
The Representations of Faith and Belonging: Locating Sri Lankan Muslim Women in Ameena Hussein’s The Moon in the Water1
Preface1
Amritsar’s Heritage Street: Mapping Heritage, Eclipsing Offence1
Accessing Affordable Medicines in a Post-TRIPS Environment: The Case of Bangladesh1
The Ecology of the Archive in Adil Jussawalla's ‘Date Book’ for a Missing Novel0
Mill, Market, Mandir, Masjid: The Geographies of Communal Conflict in Colonial Bombay, c. 1929–390
Reworking Culture: Relatedness, Rites, and Resources in Garo Hills, North-East India0
Making Way for Ships: Displacement, Religion and Urban Space-Making in India’s Southwest Littoral0
Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka0
Figures of Menace: Militarisation in Post-War Sri Lanka0
Writing Industrial Change in Urdu: Artisanship, Islam and Technology in Colonial India0
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
A Poet’s Ocean: Merchants and Imagination across Indian Ocean Gujarat0
Gender, Dissent and the Afterlives of the Pakistan Movement: Fatima Jinnah in the 1965 Elections0
Correction0
Hidden Histories of Pakistan: Censorship, Literature, and Secular Nationalism in Late Colonial India0
The Smell of Caste: Leatherwork and Scientific Knowledge in Colonial India0
(Re)Imagining Anglo-American Relations: Natural History, Sport Hunting and Scientific Imperialism in the Vernay-Faunthorpe Indian Expeditions of 1922–290
The Imagination of the Forest and the Fear of the Land: The Idea of Nature in Recent Hindi Fiction0
The Slow Death of the Diorama: Tribal and Ethnographic Museums in India since Independence0
Preserving the Bannuwal Identity: Post-Partition Bannu Refugees0
Karva Chauth Travels: Fasting, Feasting and Everything in Between0
‘To Kiss or Not to Kiss?’ Cinema, Vulgarity and Marathi Manus in 1950s and 1960s Maharashtra0
Famine in a Rice Economy: Natural Calamities, Grain Scarcity and the Company-State in Bengal, 1770–18030
Saving cows and counting ploughs: The biopolitics of cow protection0
Whatever Happened to Chand Bibi Sultan? Narratives of a Deccan Warrior Queen0
Messengers of Hindu Nationalism: How the RSS Reshaped India0
‘For the Farmers of the Country’: Indian Agricultural Universities at the Cusp of Nation-Building Plans and the Cold War, 1947–670
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
‘Development Has Gone Crazy’: The Gujarat Model of ‘Unequal’ Development through Neoliberalism and Hindutva0
Connected History: Essays and Arguments0
Parables for Neoliberalism: Devdutt Pattanaik and the Mahabharata in Post-Liberalisation Indian English Literature0
‘Modi’-fied Beliefs: Assessing Cognitive Dissonance in Populist Voting Behaviour in India0
Subregional Memories of an Undivided Rural Punjab: Community, Culture and Identity among the Hindus of Bahawalpur0
Border, Pastoralism and Affect: Memories, Interactions and Cultural Transformations of Pastoralists in Western Rajasthan Borderlands0
Reformation and Modernity: Catholic Printing in Kerala in the Nineteenth Century0
Uncovering the Erasure: The Case for Babasaheb Ambedkar as a Pioneer of Indian Sociology0
Bhutanese or Nepali? The Politics of Ethnonym Ambiguity0
The Sex Worker That She Is Not: Suggestion, Risk and Public Femininity in Contemporary Hindi Cinema0
The 2022 State Elections in Uttar Pradesh and the RSS-isation of the BJP0
Introduction: Transnational Figurations of the South Asian Aunty0
National Romances: Singleton Desire and the Discovery of India in Chick Lit Narratives0
Reconciling Religion, Reform and Modernity: A Study of Early Muslim Women’s Periodicals from South India0
Choirs on the Coast: Impact of COVID-19 on Musical Pedagogy and Festivals0
Making management Hindu: S.K. Chakraborty and the indigenisation of homo economicus0
Cosmopolitan, Bridge-Builder and Missionary: Prof. Dietmar Rothermund, 1933–20200
Architecture of East Pakistan: International experts, regional tropical architecture and the search for architectural identity, 1947–710
Authority Traversed: Police, Politics and the Urban Poor in Dhaka0
Thinking with Signs: Caste, Ethnicity and the Dual Body in Contemporary Eastern Nepal*0
When They Know Us: Do Dalit Lives Matter?0
Music and Intermediality in Trans-Border Performances: Ecological Responses in Patachitra and Manasamangal0
Un/veiling the Maharani: Autobiography as Medium and Metaphor for Royal Women’s Self-Fashioning in the Indian Princely States0
Dhandha, Accumulation and the Making of Valuable Livelihoods in Contemporary Mumbai10
Environmental Casteism and the Democratisation of Natural Resources: Reimagining Dalit Testimonies0
Scripts of Power: Writing, Language Practices, and Cultural History in Western India0
Drag Queen in the Beauty Salon: What Theorising Strange Bedfellows Can Tell Us about the Labour of Aunties0
Regulating Hooligans and Mawaalis: Collective Action and the Politics of Public Order in Late Colonial India0
India’s Spatial Imaginations of South Asia: Power, Commerce, and Community0
Angel Undone: Interrogating Hyderabadi Muslim Femininity, Colonial Modernity and Sharafat in Zohra0
Talking Crime and Aggression: Tourism and Governance in Agra, India0
The long migration: Revisiting the postcolonial minority/refugee crisis and governance in East Pakistan0
The Post-Colonial Magazine Archive0
Bengali Dalit Literature and the Politics of Recognition0
Imaging ‘Slow Violence’ in the Jharia Coalfields of India: Disrupting Energy Modernity through Photography0
Business as Usual? Bazars and Communalism in Colonial Delhi, 1913–320
The Thrill of Emergency and the Chronic Crisis of Corruption0
Containing Murder in a South Indian Temple0
The Possibility of Translation: Turning Ghosts into Psychosomatic Disorders in Nepal0
Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India0
A Guide for Poets: Debating the First Poet of Classical Telugu Literature0
The Census amid Language Politics: The Production of Language Data and the Politics of Mother Tongue in the Census of India, Punjab, 1941–710
Television and Temples: Hindutva and OBC and Adivasi Self-Making in Borderland Gujarat0
Communal Geographies and Peasant Insurgency in Colonial Myanmar0
Vernacular Apocalypse in Medieval Kashmir: The Mystical Poetry of Nund Rishi (1378–1440)0
The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India0
Waiting for Dignity: Legitimacy and Authority in Afghanistan Waiting for Dignity: Legitimacy and Authority in Afghanistan , by Florian Weigand, New York, Columbia Univer0
The heritage of Hynñiew Trep in Desmond Kharmawphlang’s poems0
Contemporary Ritual: Teyyam and the Creation of Its Epistemic World0
Historicising Housing Rights: Critical Events and Political Ruptures in Post-Partition Urban India0
Inheritance, Marriage and Adoption: Changing Judicial Practices in Hyderabad State0
‘Songs of the Lake’: Understanding Cultural Expressions of Nature through Dwindling Folk-Songs and Mythologies in Bengaluru0
Ambiguous Identity and Uncertain Belonging: Assessing the Lives of Undocumented Brihannalas in the Backdrop of the COVID-19 Pandemic0
Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil0
Laying the Foundation of the ‘Native’ Christian Community: The Church Missionary Society and Its Experiments with Famine Orphans and Orphanages, 1840s–1920s0
Salt: An Afterword0
Shame and Safety Pins: Dress Controversy and ‘Moral Technologies’ in 1900s Urdu Magazines for Women0
Demanding Development: The Politics of Public Goods Provision in India’s Urban Slums0
Towards the Publication of The Transfer of Power Documents, 1961–690
Inventive Indians: Technological Imaginaries and Patenting Activity in Late Colonial India (1911–48)0
Empress: Queen Victoria and India0
The Making of a Modern Slum: The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay0
The Many Bismils of Today: Ram Prasad ‘Bismil’, ‘Bismil’ Azimabadi and Recovering the Legacy of a Muslim Intellectual0
Measuring Race, Space and the Citizen: Anthropology and Statistics in Early Post-Independence India0
Neo-Liberal Pitfalls and the COVID-19 Pandemic Challenges in Bangladesh0
Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy and Saintly Affects in Pakistan0
Tea & Solidarity: Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka0
Consider the Aunty: The Obfuscation of Desire in My Beautiful Laundrette0
A Majoritarian View of ‘Gender Justice’ in Contemporary India: Examining Media Coverage of ‘Triple Talaq’ and ‘Love Jihad’0
Salt and the National Imaginary: The Photojournalism of the Dandi Satyagraha0
Pakistan to Bangladesh, 1947–71: Introduction0
Siraiki Language Speakers in London: A Case Study0
Subaltern and Dalit-Bahujan Organisation in South Asia: The Historical Roots0
The East Pakistan-West Pakistan Entanglement: Gender, Politics and Postcolonial Development in Shawkat Ali’s Dhakkhinayoner Din0
Sufis as Sacred Props: Hagiographical Transmutation of Shāh Ḥusayn (945/1538–1008/1599)0
Swallowing Hurt: Conversion, Broken Deity Tiles and Reluctant Forgiveness in Kanpur0
Anthropological Developmentalism: Furer-Haimendorf and the Making of Social Policy in Hyderabad State 10
Of Loss, Belonging and Remembrance: Indian Poetic Responses to World War I0
Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India , by Akshya Saxena, Princeton Universit0
Progressive Laments and/on Partition: The Cost of Freedom in Khadija Mastur’s Aangan (1962)0
Museums and the Fashioning of National History in Postcolonial Pakistan0
The Ingredients of Casteism: Holy Week and Syrian Christian Food Practices in Kerala, India0
State Spectacles of Yoga: Invisible India and India Everywhere0
Christian Women’s Journals and Vernacular Christianity: A Case Study of Vivekavathi in Telugu-Speaking Regions0
Riaz Hassan, AM FASSA (August 14, 1937–June 8, 2022)0
‘Social Media Is the Second Ambedkar’: Bhim Army and Social Media Mobilisation in North India0
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
No Offence: Communal Vulnerability, Law and Versatility in a Vernacular Indo-Islamic Context0
Documents, Digitisation and History0
Who is a Muslim? Orientalism and Literary Populisms0
‘Purify the Deval and Devi’: Dalits and Politics of Hindu Social Reform in Hyderabad, 1920–280
Review Essay: Forgotten Pasts, Uncertain Futures: Land and Water in Colonial and Post-Colonial Calcutta0
Impartiality as a quality of government and its violation in the governance of sectarian conflict in Pakistan0
The ‘Migrant-Leper’ as the Undeserving Outsider: Historicising Leprosy Policy in Delhi, 1920–600
Ontologies of a Pandemic: Polarisations Exposed by COVID-19 in Bangladesh0
Spaces of Indian Anti-Colonialism in Early Twentieth-Century London and Paris0
C.A. Bayly’s Unfinished Business: A History of Ideas in an Old Manuscript0
The Anagarika’s Lists: Time, Space and Emotions in the ‘Sarnath Notebooks’0
Introduction: Between the Field and the Gallery: Exploring Anthropological Knowledge in South Asia0
Refugee Cities: How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan0
Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh0
Pakistan’s Health-Care System: A Case of Elite Capture0
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
Cleansing India: Gandhi, Hindutva and the calypsology of sanitation reforms0
The Brahmanisation of Indian Sociology or the Birth of the Racial Theories of Untouchability0
Bikās as Pedagogy: The Concept of Development at an Elite Boarding School in Nepal0
Religious Offence Policed: Paradoxical Outcomes of Containment at the Centre of Banaras, and the ‘Know-How’ of Local Muslims0
Film and Caste Anxieties in Early Twentieth-Century India0
The Object as Gift: Practices of Gift Exchange in Awadh in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century0
Why Do Rich Sindhi Women Need a Kitty Group? Space, Sociality and Status Production among Upper-Class Housewives in Singapore0
A Journey to Justice: Transnational Civil Rights and Ramnath Biswas, an Indian Globetrotter from Bengal, 1938–400
Monopoly, Excise and the Salt Supply Conundrum in British India0
Summoning the Dead: Psychic Happenings and Gendered Spiritualist Practices in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Calcutta0
Multani Shikarpuri Migration to Malabar: A Praxis on Homemaking0
Dispersal and Development: Two Key Moments in the Growth of Thane City0
The Ungrudging Indian: The Political Economy of Salt in India, c. 1878–19470
The Anglo-Indian Household: Paradoxes of Hierarchy and Intimacy in Imperial Domestic Space0
Designing a Modern Self: The English Travels of Pandita Ramabai and Krishnabhabini Das0
Sociology and the Vagrant: Beggars, Welfare and Tradition in Writing about the New Citizen in 1950s India0
Gendered Nationalism and Material Texts: An Urdu Women’s Periodical in 1960s Pakistan0
Prayers, Not Protests: Christian Internationalism and Young Womanhood in South India0
Writing Rokeya: Muslim Women’s Life-Writing, Intergenerational Camaraderie and Activism in Twentieth Century Bengal0
Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife0
Corporate Brahminism and Tech Work: Caste in a Modern Indian Profession0
Political Representation in India: Ideas and Contestation 1908–510
Micro Partitions: Interrogating ‘Punjabi Refugee’ Identities0
From Colonial India to Semi-Colonial Republican China: Imaginaries and Realities of Civil Service and State-Building in Salt Administration, 1912–450
Between Sādhū and Darwesh: Storytelling and Social Reform in S. uġhrā Humāyūñ Mirzā’s Mohinī (1929)0
‘The Bad Stock’: Nazi Eugenics and the Growth of Anthropology in Delhi0
The Organisation of Sex Work in Bangladesh0
Between Myth, Memory and History: Persian Texts and the Making of the ‘Tomb of Jesus’ in Kashmir0
Being Young, Becoming Political: Subjectivity and Urban Space in Early Partition Novels0
George Grierson’s map and the remaking of Orissa, 1917–360
Understanding Dakaiti (Banditry) in the Chambal Valley and Bundelkhand0
Creating an Oral Map: ‘Living On’ after the Nellie Massacre, 19830
Reordering Adivasi Worlds: Representation, Resistance, Memory Reordering Adivasi Worlds: Representation, Resistance, Memory , by Sangeeta Dasgupta, New Delhi, Oxford Uni0
Introduction: Containing Religious Offence beyond the Courts0
Introduction: Writing Muslim Women in South Asia0
David E.U. Baker (1932–2021): A Life Extraordinaire0
Patterns of Power in Constitutional Design: East-West Symbiosis in United Pakistan0
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