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Papers

(The TQCC of South Asia-Journal of South Asian Studies is 1. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Nature’ in the Ṭhumrī Genre as Performed by Some Female Exponents of the Pūrab Aṅg: Liminality, Identity and Resistance	13
‘The Best Timber in India’: Shipbuilding Supplies and the Dutch East India Company in Cochin, 1663–1795	10
Forging Communal Space: Negotiating Streets and Practices in Delhi, 1922–65	6
Women Reading/Women Writing: Anxiety and Āzādī in Twentieth Century Urdu Pulp Fiction	6
Mourning a Queer Aunty: Kinship, Creative Resilience and World-Making	5
Pedal Power: Towards a History of Cycles and Cycling in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia	5
A Precarious Trade: The English East India Company and Its Interventions in the Balasore Salt Trade	4
Smart Cities, Surveillance and Speed in Imphal, Manipur	4
Introduction: Salt, Protest and Public Health in Modern India	4
Writing History in Deobandi-Barelvi Polemics: Conflicting Views of Shah Ismail and Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi	4
The Dark Ecology of Flash Floods and Hydropower Dams in Sikkim	4
Living in the Naga life-world: Indigeneity, masculinity and the consumption of pig testicles in Northeast India	3
State Spectacles of Yoga: Invisible India and India Everywhere	3
Internal colonisation, national liberation and cultural resistance: A postcolonial reading of pre-Bangladesh Bangla poetry of resistance	3
Delhi and Its Urban Peripheries: Associational Life of the Village	3
Collaborative neoliberalism: Social mobility in rural North India	3
‘Poetry Is a Flavourful Ball’: Sinhala Poetic Prescriptions in Munidasa Cumaratunga’s Kavi Śikṣāva ( Poetics	3
Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil	3
Anti/Aunty as Critical Method: From Gendered Resistance to Soft Grace	3
From Communist Internationalism to a ‘New Humanism’: On M.N. Roy’s Confrontation with Fascism	3
‘We Look at Our Feet and Work’: Women Construction Workers Negotiating Patriarchies in Kolkata, India	3
Text and Tradition: The Dynasty of Villarvattom among Syrian Christians in Kerala, India	2
Unruly Children, Transgressive Gazes: Interpreting Childhood and Freedom in the Writings of Leela Majumdar	2
Framing ‘fear for the future’ as a concept to study the subjectification of youth and university students: An introduction	2
Magical India: Some Notes on Forest-Dwellers and Their Products in Ancient Greek and Roman Sources	2

‘Development Has Gone Crazy’: The Gujarat Model of ‘Unequal’ Development through Neoliberalism and Hindutva	2
The Freedom to Obstruct: The Conception of Cycling as Nuisance in Twentieth Century India	2
Spilling the Tea: Aunty Discipline and the Queer Diasporic Child in D’Lo’s To T, or Not To T?	2
Communal Geographies: An Introduction	2
New Genealogies of the Contemporary Indian Political Moment	2
‘Purify the Deval and Devi’: Dalits and Politics of Hindu Social Reform in Hyderabad, 1920–28	2
Himalayan masculinities	2
The Concert for Bangladesh: The Global Circulation of Celebrity Capital in a Time of National Disaster	2
‘What else to do?’: Middle adult men, idleness and drinking at the margins in Nagaland, India	2
Subregional Memories of an Undivided Rural Punjab: Community, Culture and Identity among the Hindus of Bahawalpur	2
Yes to Vedānta, No to Bhakti? Some Philosophical and Religious Novelties of Jasvant Siṃh I’s Brajbhāṣā Prabodha Nāṭaka	2
Rethinking the Role of Informality as a Barrier to Financial Inclusion: Insights from an Indian Urban Setting	2
Religion and the Public Sphere: The Multifaceted Role of Sacred Sites in Political Mobilisation in the Kashmir Valley	2
Transformation of the Deities: Temples, Caste and Identity in Goa	2
The Hill and Forest Products of the Tamiḻakam: Communication and Exchange Between Southern India and the Roman World	2
Shauqeen Viewing: Mingling with the Indian Courtesan	2
Contemporary Ritual: Teyyam and the Creation of Its Epistemic World	2
‘Tippoo…Was Just Such a Man As I Am’: Protest, Rebellion and Military Labour in South India	2
Gardening the community: The Basel Mission, household economy, gardens and farms in Germany and India	2
Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh	2
Embodying Sacred Pain: Practice of Austerities Among Hindu Ascetics	2
‘For the Farmers of the Country’: Indian Agricultural Universities at the Cusp of Nation-Building Plans and the Cold War, 1947–67	2
Rain of Life, Rain of Music: Music as Life Power in Indian Thought and Contemporary Musical Traditions	2
The Caste of the City: Puneri and the Caste-Marked Appropriation of a Western Indian City’s Identity	2
Beyond the Male Breadwinner: The Role of Electrification in Changing the Embodied and Gendered Nature of Cycle-Rickshaw Work in Bangladesh	2
Introduction: Transnational Figurations of the South Asian Aunty	1
Scissors from Meerut, Locks from Aligarh: Locality and Production in North India, 1870–1950	1
Perceptions and Products of the Forested Highlands: A View from the Malwa Sultan’s Book of Delicacies , c. 1500	1
Digitising the Diaspora Temple: Diasporic Affordances of Devotional Objects at a Hindu Sindhi Temple in Hong Kong	1
Anger at the Hospital: Emotional Responses and Affective Citizenship in a North Indian Medical Institution	1
The ‘Migrant-Leper’ as the Undeserving Outsider: Historicising Leprosy Policy in Delhi, 1920–60	1
Caste as Process in Post-Liberalisation India	1
Dārā Šukōh’s Bhagavad Gītā ? The Attribution of the Āb-i Zindagī and Its Place Among the Persian Translati	1
Digging Up the Dirt: Democracy, Visibility and the ‘Crisis of Corruption’ in Nepal	1
Ambiguous Identity and Uncertain Belonging: Assessing the Lives of Undocumented Brihannalas in the Backdrop of the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Making Way for Ships: Displacement, Religion and Urban Space-Making in India’s Southwest Littoral	1
Navigating patriarchy: Aspects of working-class Nepali masculinity through a visual frame	1
Letter to the Editors	1
Correction	1
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s ‘Struggle’ for Democracy: Hindu Nationalism, Propaganda and the Internal Emergency of India	1
Reconciling Religion, Reform and Modernity: A Study of Early Muslim Women’s Periodicals from South India	1
Cleansing India: Gandhi, Hindutva and the Calypsology of Sanitation Reforms	1
Consider the Aunty: The Obfuscation of Desire in My Beautiful Laundrette	1
The Object as Gift: Practices of Gift Exchange in Awadh in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century	1
‘ Satrah Din, Satrah Saal ’ : Media, Propaganda and Virtual Warfare in the India-Pakistan War of 1965	1
Architecture of East Pakistan: International experts, regional tropical architecture and the search for architectural identity, 1947–71	1
Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene	1
Between Ritual Doubt and Spiritual Striving: The Mediation of Adab at a Sufi Shrine in Contemporary India	1
Clinical Suspicion: The Affective Politics of Institutional Growth in a Rajasthani Clinic	1
Leaving Comrades to Die: Shahadat , Soldiering and Accidental Death on the Siachen Glacier	1

Muslim Household, Nation and Urdu in Television Dramas of Pakistan	1
‘Songs of the Lake’: Understanding Cultural Expressions of Nature through Dwindling Folk-Songs and Mythologies in Bengaluru	1
Introduction: Ecology, Music and Community—Exploring Performance in South Asia	1
Business as Usual? Bazars and Communalism in Colonial Delhi, 1913–32	1
Inventive Indians: Technological Imaginaries and Patenting Activity in Late Colonial India (1911–48)	1
Development Citizenship in the Age of Terror: The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement in Pakistan	1
Salt and the National Imaginary: The Photojournalism of the Dandi Satyagraha	1
Designing a Modern Self: The English Travels of Pandita Ramabai and Krishnabhabini Das	1
Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy and Saintly Affects in Pakistan	1
Neoliberal pedagogies of Pahari enterprise: Youth in provincial North India	1
Engaging with Ethnographic Museum Objects from Erstwhile Naga Hills: From Imperial, Colonial and Postcolonial Eras to Contemporary Reimagining	1
Debating Islam, Nation and Belonging: Nigār Magazine and Muslim Publics in Late Colonial India	1
Stabilisation, Professionalisation and the Good Life: Shared Aspirations Among Psychiatrists and Others in Northern India	1
The Home and the World: Queering Diaspora and Recasting the Nation in Ananda Devi’s Indian Tango	1
The Many Labours of Leather: Artisans, Tree Bark and Chemical Knowledge in Industrial South India, 1914–34	1
Riaz Hassan, AM FASSA (August 14, 1937–June 8, 2022)	1
Violence as border governmentality: Myanmar military coup, Assam-Mizoram border dispute and beyond	1
Heritage Preservation and Political Legitimisation: Creating a Usable Past in Gwalior State	1
Afterword: Women Writing in Kashmir?	1
Pakistan to Bangladesh, 1947–71: Introduction	1
Reimagining Hindu Mythology for the Diasporic Queer Body: Discursive Materiality in Vivek Shraya’s She of the Mountains	1
Anthropological Developmentalism: Furer-Haimendorf and the Making of Social Policy in Hyderabad State ¹	1
The Architecture of Laila’s World in Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column	1
‘Tell Them Our Story’: Memories of the Sumi Naga Labour Corps in World War I	1
The Many Bismils of Today: Ram Prasad ‘Bismil’, ‘Bismil’ Azimabadi and Recovering the Legacy of a Muslim Intellectual	1