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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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Uncivil City: Ecology, Equity and the Commons in Delhi	10
Divisive Politics of the Inner Line Permit in Three Stories from Manipur in India’s Northeast	10
Smart Cities, Surveillance and Speed in Imphal, Manipur	7
‘Nature’ in the Ṭhumrī Genre as Performed by Some Female Exponents of the Pūrab Aṅg: Liminality, Identity and Resistance	7
Hear #MeToo in India: News, Social Media, and Anti-Rape and Sexual Harassment Activism	7
Mourning a Queer Aunty: Kinship, Creative Resilience and World-Making	6
Women Reading/Women Writing: Anxiety and Āzādī in Twentieth Century Urdu Pulp Fiction	6
The Possibility of Translation: Turning Ghosts into Psychosomatic Disorders in Nepal	4
Forging Communal Space: Negotiating Streets and Practices in Delhi, 1922–65	4
‘The best timber in India’: Shipbuilding supplies and the Dutch East India Company in Cochin, 1663–1795	4
Picturing Development: Outdoor Campaign Materials during the 2019 General Election in India	4
A Precarious Trade: The English East India Company and Its Interventions in the Balasore Salt Trade	3
From Communist Internationalism to a ‘New Humanism’: On M.N. Roy’s Confrontation with Fascism	3
Delhi and Its Urban Peripheries: Associational Life of the Village	3
Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil	3
Writing Industrial Change in Urdu: Artisanship, Islam and Technology in Colonial India	3
Ontologies of a Pandemic: Polarisations Exposed by COVID-19 in Bangladesh	3
Introduction: Salt, Protest and Public Health in Modern India	3
The Politics of the Post-Colonial Literary Archive: The Rushdie Papers at Emory University	3
Writing History in Deobandi-Barelvi Polemics: Conflicting Views of Shah Ismail and Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi	3
Anti/Aunty as Critical Method: From Gendered Resistance to Soft Grace	3
Inventive Indians: Technological Imaginaries and Patenting Activity in Late Colonial India (1911–48)	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
Spilling the Tea: Aunty Discipline and the Queer Diasporic Child in D’Lo’s To T, or Not To T?	2

The hill and forest products of the Tamiḻakam: Communication and exchange between Southern India and the Roman World	2
The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India	2
Rain of Life, Rain of Music: Music as Life Power in Indian Thought and Contemporary Musical Traditions	2
‘We Look at Our Feet and Work’: Women Construction Workers Negotiating Patriarchies in Kolkata, India	2
Contemporary Ritual: Teyyam and the Creation of Its Epistemic World	2
Making Way for Ships: Displacement, Religion and Urban Space-Making in India’s Southwest Littoral	2
Towards the Publication of The Transfer of Power Documents, 1961–69	2
Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh	2
Subregional Memories of an Undivided Rural Punjab: Community, Culture and Identity among the Hindus of Bahawalpur	2
Combining Global Expertise with Local Knowledge in Colonial India: Selling Ideals of Beauty and Health in Commodity Advertising (c. 1900–1949)	2
Transformation of the Deities: Temples, Caste and Identity in Goa	2
‘Purify the Deval and Devi’: Dalits and Politics of Hindu Social Reform in Hyderabad, 1920–28	2
Internal colonisation, national liberation and cultural resistance: A postcolonial reading of pre-Bangladesh Bangla poetry of resistance	2
Shauqeen Viewing: Mingling with the Indian Courtesan	2
Pakistan to Bangladesh, 1947–71: Introduction	2
Introduction: Making Sense of Empire	2
Anthropological Developmentalism: Furer-Haimendorf and the Making of Social Policy in Hyderabad State ¹	2
Vernacular Apocalypse in Medieval Kashmir: The Mystical Poetry of Nund Rishi (1378–1440)	2
Religion and the Public Sphere: The Multifaceted Role of Sacred Sites in Political Mobilisation in the Kashmir Valley	2
Communal Geographies: An Introduction	2
Text and Tradition: The Dynasty of Villarvattom among Syrian Christians in Kerala, India	2
State Spectacles of Yoga: Invisible India and India Everywhere	2
‘For the Farmers of the Country’: Indian Agricultural Universities at the Cusp of Nation-Building Plans and the Cold War, 1947–67	2
‘Songs of the Lake’: Understanding Cultural Expressions of Nature through Dwindling Folk-Songs and Mythologies in Bengaluru	2
The Home and the World: Queering Diaspora and Recasting the Nation in Ananda Devi’s Indian Tango	1
Introduction: Transnational Figurations of the South Asian Aunty	1
Reconciling Religion, Reform and Modernity: A Study of Early Muslim Women’s Periodicals from South India	1
Leaving Comrades to Die: Shahadat , Soldiering and Accidental Death on the Siachen Glacier	1
Engaging with Ethnographic Museum Objects from Erstwhile Naga Hills: From Imperial, Colonial and Postcolonial Eras to Contemporary Reimagining	1
Surveillance, Censure and Support: Gender Counting in South Asia	1
‘ Satrah Din, Satrah Saal ’ : Media, Propaganda and Virtual Warfare in the India-Pakistan War of 1965	1
The Ecology of the Archive in Adil Jussawalla's ‘Date Book’ for a Missing Novel	1
Muslim Household, Nation and Urdu in Television Dramas of Pakistan	1
Caste as Process in Post-Liberalisation India	1
Banishment and Belonging: Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka and Ceylon	1
‘Tell Them Our Story’: Memories of the Sumi Naga Labour Corps in World War I	1
Ambiguous Identity and Uncertain Belonging: Assessing the Lives of Undocumented Brihannalas in the Backdrop of the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Reimagining Hindu Mythology for the Diasporic Queer Body: Discursive Materiality in Vivek Shraya’s She of the Mountains	1
The Object as Gift: Practices of Gift Exchange in Awadh in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century	1
Violence as border governmentality: Myanmar military coup, Assam-Mizoram border dispute and beyond	1
Melancholia of the Past: Remembering Communal Violence in a Mumbai Slum	1
Neo-Liberal Pitfalls and the COVID-19 Pandemic Challenges in Bangladesh	1
Ambedkar in America: An Archive for Our Times	1
After TRIPS: Can India Remain ‘the Pharmacy of the Developing World’?	1
Perceptions and products of the forested highlands: A view from the Malwa Sultan’s Book of Delicacies , c. 1500	1
Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene	1
From Worse than Dogs to Heroic Tigers: Situating the Animal in Dalit Autobiographies	1
Between Ritual Doubt and Spiritual Striving: The Mediation of Adab at a Sufi Shrine in Contemporary India	1
Empress: Queen Victoria and India	1
The ‘Migrant-Leper’ as the Undeserving Outsider: Historicising Leprosy Policy in Delhi, 1920–60	1

Senses and Sensibilities in Sarojini Naidu’s Poetry	1
Salt and the National Imaginary: The Photojournalism of the Dandi Satyagraha	1
Letter to the Editors	1
Riaz Hassan, AM FASSA (August 14, 1937–June 8, 2022)	1
Research as Development: Biomedical Research, Ethics and Collaboration in Sri Lanka	1
Designing a Modern Self: The English Travels of Pandita Ramabai and Krishnabhabini Das	1
Introduction: Ecology, Music and Community—Exploring Performance in South Asia	1
The Architecture of Laila’s World in Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column	1
Afterword: Women Writing in Kashmir?	1
The Films Division of India and the Nehruvian Dream	1
Business as Usual? Bazars and Communalism in Colonial Delhi, 1913–32	1
Language and Cinema: Schisms in the Representation of Hyderabad	1
Consider the Aunty: The Obfuscation of Desire in My Beautiful Laundrette	1
Men and Masculine Identities in Life Narratives of Sri Lanka’s War	1