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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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The Changing Ecology of the Kolkata Tanpura	7
Hear #MeToo in India: News, Social Media, and Anti-Rape and Sexual Harassment Activism	7
Virtual Ethnicity? The Visual Construction of ‘Sinhalaness’ on Social Media in Sri Lanka	5
(Enforced) Migration, (Up)rootedeness, (In)separability and (Post)memory in The Garden of Solitude and The Infidel Next Door	5
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, India	4
India, China, and the World: A Connected History	4
Review Essay: Blasphemy Laws, Sectarianism and Religious Minorities in Pakistan	4
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 Northeast	3
Bad Brown Aunties, Fagony Aunts and Resistance Aunties: Centring Queer Desi Aunties in Diasporic Social Movement and Justice Work	3
Smart Cities, Surveillance and Speed in Imphal, Manipur	3
Instrumental Lives: An Intimate Biography of an Indian Laboratory,	3
Salt Workers in Contemporary South India: Change and Continuity	3
Language and the Making of Modern India: Nationalism and the Vernacular in Colonial Odisha, 1803–1956	3
Uncivil City: Ecology, Equity and the Commons in Delhi	3
‘Nature’ in the Ṭhumrī Genre as Performed by Some Female Exponents of the Pūrab Aṅg: Liminality, Identity and Resistance	3
Ambedkar on Indian Christianity: towards a critique	3
Muslim Household, Nation and Urdu in Television Dramas of Pakistan	3
Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene	2
The Observant Owl: Sensory Worlds of Colonial Calcutta in Hutom’s Vignettes	2
Population, Eugenics and Reproductive Rights: Legalising Abortion in India, 1966–71	2
Mourning a Queer Aunty: Kinship, Creative Resilience and World-Making	2
The City Possessed: Ghost Stories and the Urban History of Late Colonial Calcutta	2
Going Wild on Instagram: Tiger Safaris and India’s Protected Areas in the Age of Social Media	2

Friendly Nations and Open Borders: Gender, Caste and Sacredness at the India-Nepal Border	2
Our Libraries Are Colonial Archives: South Asian Collections in Western and Global North Libraries	2
Post-Colonial Disasters and Narratives of Erasure: Reimagining Testimonies of Toxic Encounter	2
Communal Geographies: Space, Identity and Electoral Constituency in Colonial North India	2
Christianity in India: The Anti-Colonial Turn	2
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. Venkata	2
Hysteria Narratives and Love-in-Separation (Viraha) in North India	2
The Racialisation of Citizenship in Post-Colonial India	2
Religious Nationalism, Christianisation and Institutionalisation of Indigenous Faiths in Contemporary Arunachal Pradesh, India	2
Persian Literati, Islam and Politics in Early Modern South Asia: Being a Muslim in ‘Abd al-Haqq Dehlawi’s Texts	2
Proximity or Sycophancy? The Relationship between Intelligence and Policy in the Nehruvian Era, 1947–64	2
Between Globalising Religions and Embodying Asia: Imagining Japan in Bengal	2
Inspectors of the Raj: A Pedagogy of Critical Conservatism in Odisha	2
Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh and the Passing of Soviet India	1
India’s Rural Medical Revolution: The Attitudes of Villagers to Village-Level Blood Testing in Maharashtra	1
Hindu economicus	1
New Linguistic Hierarchy in Nineteenth Century Bengal and Education for Muslims	1
Introduction: Salt, Protest and Public Health in Modern India	1
The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India	1
Remembering Heterodox Pre/Colonial Oral Cultures in (Re)Organising Bengali Dalit Literary Histories	1
The Politics of the Post-Colonial Literary Archive: The Rushdie Papers at Emory University	1
Imagined Geographies in the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands: Culture, Politics, Place	1
Afterword: Women Writing in Kashmir?	1
The Films Division of India and the Nehruvian Dream	1
The Representations of Faith and Belonging: Locating Sri Lankan Muslim Women in Ameena Hussein’s The Moon in the Water	1
Preface	1
Amritsar’s Heritage Street: Mapping Heritage, Eclipsing Offence	1
Accessing Affordable Medicines in a Post-TRIPS Environment: The Case of Bangladesh	1
The Changing Landscape of Punjab in Bollywood Film Songs	1
From Worse than Dogs to Heroic Tigers: Situating the Animal in Dalit Autobiographies	1
Hysteria: A South Asian History of Global Medicine	1
Writing History in Deobandi-Barelvi Polemics: Conflicting Views of Shah Ismail and Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi	1
The Duplicate Malady: Repositioning Hysteria in South Asia	1
Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi , by Sushmita Pati, Cam	1
Self-Sacrifice, Suffrage and Socialism: Gandhi and the Mobilisation of Women, 1930–31	1
From Discordance to Assemblages: Renegotiating French and Portuguese Colonial Identities through Indian Tourism and Heritage Sites	1
‘Speak True to the People’: ¹ Radio Pakistan and the Making and Unmaking of a National Soundscape	1
Authors, Activists, Archivists: A Dialogue with Francesca Orsini on Dalit Literature across Languages, Genre, Media	1
Language, Script and Enemies of the State: Bengali Language and Nation-Building in Pakistan, 1947–53	1
The Houseness of the Naga House Museum: Towards a Narrative of the Postcolonial South Asian House Museum	1
Women Reading/Women Writing: Anxiety and Āzādī in Twentieth Century Urdu Pulp Fiction	1
The Return of Chen Ching Lin: Chinese Deserters and Chinatowns in the British Raj, 1943–46	1
Forging Communal Space: Negotiating Streets and Practices in Delhi, 1922–65	1
A Precarious Trade: The English East India Company and Its Interventions in the Balasore Salt Trade	1
Gendering Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Commercial Surrogacy and Constructions of Motherhood	1
Elusive Lives: Gender, Autobiography and the Self in Muslim South Asia	1
The Religious and Racial Geography of Late Nineteenth-Century Bombay	1
Salt, Sovereignty and Law in Colonial India: The Case of Rajputana Salt in the Late Nineteenth Century	1
The Evacuation and Repatriation of ‘British Indians’ Resident in Japan, 1940–42	1

Rituals as a Means of Mitigation and Prevention: Containing Sectarian Rivalry in Kanchipuram	1
Negotiating Power and Constructing the Nation: Engineering in Sri Lanka Negotiating Power and Constructing the Nation: Engineering in Sri Lanka , by Bandura DileepaWitha	1
Animosity at Bay: An Alternative History of the India–Pakistan Relationship, 1947–1952	1
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought	1
Animal Enthusiasms: Life beyond Cage and Leash in Rural Pakistan	1
Encountering the Postcolonial State: Development Bureaucracy and Social Transformation in Rural Pre-Independent Bangladesh, 1947–70	1
‘ Satrah Din, Satrah Saal ’ : Media, Propaganda and Virtual Warfare in the India-Pakistan War of 1965	1
‘Do You Hear Voices, or Do You Think You Hear Voices?’: Malevolence and Modernity in the Psychiatric Clinic	1
Looting in the NWFP and Punjab: Property and Violence in the Partition of 1947	1
Picturing Development: Outdoor Campaign Materials during the 2019 General Election in India	1