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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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Pedagogies of Aspiration: Anthropological Perspectives on Education in Liberalising India	34
Reading Aspiration in Kerala’s Migrant Photography	16
Body, Boundaries and Sindoor Feminism in India	11
Life Skills as Affective Labour: Skilling Girls with Gendered Enterprise	10
Masculine Vernacular Histories of Travel in Colonial India: The Writings of Satyadev ‘Parivrajak’	9
Documents, Digitisation and History	7
Posters, Politics and Power: Mediated Materialisation of Public Authority in Bangladesh Party Politics	6
‘Pravasi Really Means Absence’: Gulf-Pravasis as Spectral Figures in Deepak Unnikrishnan’s Temporary People	6
Plunder and Prestige: Tipu Sultan’s Library and the Making of British India	6
Sexuality and the History of Disciplinary Transgression	5
Mothers and Godmothers of Crafts: Female Leadership and the Imagination of India as a Crafts Nation, 1947–67	5
Radical Right Islamists in Bangladesh: A Counter-Intuitive Argument	5
English-Educated as ‘Ready-Made’ Leaders: Re-Inscribing Distinction through the Student Police Cadet Project in Kerala, India	5
Combining Global Expertise with Local Knowledge in Colonial India: Selling Ideals of Beauty and Health in Commodity Advertising (c. 1900–1949)	4
Our Libraries Are Colonial Archives: South Asian Collections in Western and Global North Libraries	4
A Majoritarian View of ‘Gender Justice’ in Contemporary India: Examining Media Coverage of ‘Triple Talaq’ and ‘Love Jihad’	4
Packing a Punch at the Bengali Babu	4
Female Mobility and Bengali Women’s Travelogues in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries	4
Breath of Revolution: Ghadar Anti-Colonial Radicalism in North America and the Mexican Revolution	4
The Post-Colonial Magazine Archive	4
Malika Begum’s Mehfil: The Lost Legacy of Women’s Travel Writing in Urdu	3
Tipu Sultan, the Power of the Past and the Possibility of a ‘Historical Temper’	3
Class Analysis of the Experience of Migration during the Partition of India	3
Feminism, Family Planning and National Planning	3
Women’s ‘Retrieval’ from Pakistan: ‘India’s Daughters’ and the Emotional History of Partition	3

Nation and Its ‘Other’ Women: Muslim Subjectivity and Gendered Agency in Delhi	3
Populism in Pakistan: The Exclusionary-Inclusionary Divide in the Politics of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Imran Khan	3
Religious Offence Policed: Paradoxical Outcomes of Containment at the Centre of Banaras, and the ‘Know-How’ of Local Muslims	3
Introduction to ‘Translating Sex: Locating Sexology in Indian History’	3
From Untouchables to Vyasa’s Clan: Fishermen’s Reform Movement in Kerala	3
Education for Confidence: Political Education for Recasting Bahujan Student Selves	3
Muslim Belonging in Assam: History, Politics and the Future	3
Coca-Cola and the Moral Economy of Rural Development in India	3
Dispersal and Development: Two Key Moments in the Growth of Thane City	2
A Partitioned Library: Changing Collecting Priorities and Imagined Futures in a Divided Urdu Library, 1947–49	2
Consider the Aunty: The Obfuscation of Desire in My Beautiful Laundrette	2
Introduction: Ecology, Music and Community—Exploring Performance in South Asia	2
Epidemiology in Motion: Traumatic Brain Injuries in Mumbai	2
Vernacular Sexology from the Margins: A Woman and a Shudra	2
Making Way for Ships: Displacement, Religion and Urban Space-Making in India’s Southwest Littoral	2
Gendered Nationalism and Material Texts: An Urdu Women’s Periodical in 1960s Pakistan	2
Re-Examining the Nexus between Madrasa Education and Politics in Bangladesh	2
Bhutanese or Nepali? The Politics of Ethnonym Ambiguity	2
Senses and Sensibilities in Sarojini Naidu’s Poetry	2
Ontologies of a Pandemic: Polarisations Exposed by COVID-19 in Bangladesh	2
Introduction: A Country of Her Making	2
Thinking with Signs: Caste, Ethnicity and the Dual Body in Contemporary Eastern Nepal*	2
Introduction: Transnational Figurations of the South Asian Aunty	2
Bengali Dalit Literature and the Politics of Recognition	2
Bureaucratic Mediations for Biometric Governance in India’s Northeast—Aadhaar in Tripura	2
The Modernisation of South Asia’s Disease Burden: 1950 to 2021	2
Theatres of Empowerment: Elite, All-Girls’ Indian ‘Public Schools’ and the Production of Performative Altruism	2
Women in the State: Elected Women and the Challenge of Indian Politics (1957–62)	1
Gandhi, Brahmacharya and Global Sexual Science, 1919–38	1
Introduction: Postcolonial Archives	1
Letter-Writing and Emotional Communities in Early Mughal India: A Note on the Badāyi' al-Inshā	1
Choirs on the Coast: Impact of COVID-19 on Musical Pedagogy and Festivals	1
Introduction: Feeding Bodies, Nurturing Identities: The Politics of Diet in Late Colonial and Early Post-Colonial India	1
Ford Foundation–India Relations in the 1950s: A Recipient Country Perspective	1
Cutting Edge Research in the Contact Zone? The Establishment of the Nutritional Research Laboratories in Coonoor (1925–27)	1
Not Part of the Plan? Women, State Feminism and Indian Socialism in the Nehru Years	1
‘Songs of the Lake’: Understanding Cultural Expressions of Nature through Dwindling Folk-Songs and Mythologies in Bengaluru	1
Internationalism and Nationalism: Indian Protagonists and Their Political Agendas at the 15th World Vegetarian Congress in India (1957)	1
The Smell of Caste: Leatherwork and Scientific Knowledge in Colonial India	1
Writing History in Deobandi-Barelvi Polemics: Conflicting Views of Shah Ismail and Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi	1
The Politics of the Post-Colonial Literary Archive: The Rushdie Papers at Emory University	1
India’s Rural Medical Revolution: The Attitudes of Villagers to Village-Level Blood Testing in Maharashtra	1
Looting in the NWFP and Punjab: Property and Violence in the Partition of 1947	1
Post-Millennial Indian Dystopian Fiction: A Developing Canon of Precarity, (Im)purity and Ideas of India(nness)	1
Unpacking the Library	1
‘No Afghan Refugees in India’: Refugees and Cold War Politics in the 1980s	1
Surveillance, Censure and Support: Gender Counting in South Asia	1
Neo-Liberal Pitfalls and the COVID-19 Pandemic Challenges in Bangladesh	1
A Journey to Justice: Transnational Civil Rights and Ramnath Biswas, an Indian Globetrotter from Bengal, 1938–40	1
A Guide for Poets: Debating the First Poet of Classical Telugu Literature	1

Environmental Casteism and the Democratisation of Natural Resources: Reimagining Dalit Testimonies	1
Search for ‘Context’: Commodities, Consumption and Abul Hasanat’s Material Sexscape	1
The Indian Onion Crisis: Agricultural Pricing Policy and State Legitimacy	1
Music and Intermediality in Trans-Border Performances: Ecological Responses in Patachitra and Manasamangal	1
What Can a Song Do to You? A Life Story of a Gurkha Prisoner in World War I	1
Regulating Hooligans and Mawaalis: Collective Action and the Politics of Public Order in Late Colonial India	1
Writing Industrial Change in Urdu: Artisanship, Islam and Technology in Colonial India	1
A Hydrologically Fractured State? Nation-Building, the Hirakud Dam and Societal Divisions in Eastern India	1
Gendering Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Commercial Surrogacy and Constructions of Motherhood	1
Aspiration as Labour: Muslim Women at a Basic Computer-Training Centre in Hyderabad	1
A Phenomenological Exploration into Lived Experiences of Violence in Northeast India	1
Mourning a Queer Aunty: Kinship, Creative Resilience and World-Making	1
No Offence: Communal Vulnerability, Law and Versatility in a Vernacular Indo-Islamic Context	1
Patriarchy as an Assemblage: Qandeel Baloch, Male Domination and Feminist Publics in Pakistan	1
Language and Cinema: Schisms in the Representation of Hyderabad	1
‘Social Media Is the Second Ambedkar’: Bhim Army and Social Media Mobilisation in North India	1
Singing the River in Punjab: Poetry, Performance and Folklore	1
Towards the Publication of The Transfer of Power Documents, 1961–69	1
A Poet’s Ocean: Merchants and Imagination across Indian Ocean Gujarat	1
Literary Sentiments in the Vernacular: Gender and Genre in Modern South Asia	1
Negotiated Spaces, Shared Place Identities: Roadside Settlements and Culture of Belonging in a Himalayan Town	1
From Worse than Dogs to Heroic Tigers: Situating the Animal in Dalit Autobiographies	1
Women and the Vote: Registration, Representation and Participation in the Run-Up to India’s First Elections, 1951–52	1
The Possibility of Translation: Turning Ghosts into Psychosomatic Disorders in Nepal	1
Social Work, Refugees and National Belonging: Evaluating the ‘Lady Social Workers’ of West Bengal	1
The City Possessed: Ghost Stories and the Urban History of Late Colonial Calcutta	1
India’s Foreign Fighter Puzzle	1
The Observant Owl: Sensory Worlds of Colonial Calcutta in Hutom’s Vignettes	1