South Asia-Journal of South Asian Studies

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
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Hear #MeToo in India: News, Social Media, and Anti-Rape and Sexual Harassment Activism11
‘Nature’ in the Ṭhumrī Genre as Performed by Some Female Exponents of the Pūrab Aṅg: Liminality, Identity and Resistance10
‘The Best Timber in India’: Shipbuilding Supplies and the Dutch East India Company in Cochin, 1663–17958
Mourning a Queer Aunty: Kinship, Creative Resilience and World-Making8
Smart Cities, Surveillance and Speed in Imphal, Manipur8
Women Reading/Women Writing: Anxiety and Āzādī in Twentieth Century Urdu Pulp Fiction5
Picturing Development: Outdoor Campaign Materials during the 2019 General Election in India5
Forging Communal Space: Negotiating Streets and Practices in Delhi, 1922–655
Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil4
The Politics of the Post-Colonial Literary Archive: The Rushdie Papers at Emory University4
Delhi and Its Urban Peripheries: Associational Life of the Village3
State Spectacles of Yoga: Invisible India and India Everywhere3
A Precarious Trade: The English East India Company and Its Interventions in the Balasore Salt Trade3
Writing History in Deobandi-Barelvi Polemics: Conflicting Views of Shah Ismail and Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi3
Anti/Aunty as Critical Method: From Gendered Resistance to Soft Grace3
From Communist Internationalism to a ‘New Humanism’: On M.N. Roy’s Confrontation with Fascism3
Living in the Naga life-world: Indigeneity, masculinity and the consumption of pig testicles in Northeast India3
Introduction: Salt, Protest and Public Health in Modern India3
The Hill and Forest Products of the Tamiḻakam: Communication and Exchange Between Southern India and the Roman World2
‘We Look at Our Feet and Work’: Women Construction Workers Negotiating Patriarchies in Kolkata, India2
Internal colonisation, national liberation and cultural resistance: A postcolonial reading of pre-Bangladesh Bangla poetry of resistance2
Rethinking the Role of Informality as a Barrier to Financial Inclusion: Insights from an Indian Urban Setting2
‘For the Farmers of the Country’: Indian Agricultural Universities at the Cusp of Nation-Building Plans and the Cold War, 1947–672
‘What else to do?’: Middle adult men, idleness and drinking at the margins in Nagaland, India2
Contemporary Ritual: Teyyam and the Creation of Its Epistemic World2
Transformation of the Deities: Temples, Caste and Identity in Goa2
Collaborative neoliberalism: Social mobility in rural North India2
The Possibility of Translation: Turning Ghosts into Psychosomatic Disorders in Nepal2
Religion and the Public Sphere: The Multifaceted Role of Sacred Sites in Political Mobilisation in the Kashmir Valley2
Shauqeen Viewing: Mingling with the Indian Courtesan2
Yes to Vedānta, No to Bhakti? Some Philosophical and Religious Novelties of Jasvant Siṃh I’s Brajbhāṣā Prabodha Nāṭaka2
Communal Geographies: An Introduction2
Rain of Life, Rain of Music: Music as Life Power in Indian Thought and Contemporary Musical Traditions2
Text and Tradition: The Dynasty of Villarvattom among Syrian Christians in Kerala, India2
‘Purify the Deval and Devi’: Dalits and Politics of Hindu Social Reform in Hyderabad, 1920–282
Spilling the Tea: Aunty Discipline and the Queer Diasporic Child in D’Lo’s To T, or Not To T?2
Himalayan masculinities2
Embodying Sacred Pain: Practice of Austerities Among Hindu Ascetics2
‘Songs of the Lake’: Understanding Cultural Expressions of Nature through Dwindling Folk-Songs and Mythologies in Bengaluru1
Reconciling Religion, Reform and Modernity: A Study of Early Muslim Women’s Periodicals from South India1
Salt and the National Imaginary: The Photojournalism of the Dandi Satyagraha1
Navigating patriarchy: Aspects of working-class Nepali masculinity through a visual frame1
Satrah Din, Satrah Saal: Media, Propaganda and Virtual Warfare in the India-Pakistan War of 19651
Inventive Indians: Technological Imaginaries and Patenting Activity in Late Colonial India (1911–48)1
Subregional Memories of an Undivided Rural Punjab: Community, Culture and Identity among the Hindus of Bahawalpur1
‘Tippoo…Was Just Such a Man As I Am’: Protest, Rebellion and Military Labour in South India1
‘Development Has Gone Crazy’: The Gujarat Model of ‘Unequal’ Development through Neoliberalism and Hindutva1
The Many Labours of Leather: Artisans, Tree Bark and Chemical Knowledge in Industrial South India, 1914–341
The Home and the World: Queering Diaspora and Recasting the Nation in Ananda Devi’s Indian Tango1
Letter to the Editors1
Melancholia of the Past: Remembering Communal Violence in a Mumbai Slum1
Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene1
Caste as Process in Post-Liberalisation India1
Pakistan to Bangladesh, 1947–71: Introduction1
Riaz Hassan, AM FASSA (August 14, 1937–June 8, 2022)1
The Films Division of India and the Nehruvian Dream1
Violence as border governmentality: Myanmar military coup, Assam-Mizoram border dispute and beyond1
The Architecture of Laila’s World in Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column1
Magical India: Some Notes on Forest-Dwellers and Their Products in Ancient Greek and Roman Sources1
Framing ‘fear for the future’ as a concept to study the subjectification of youth and university students: An introduction1
Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh1
Muslim Household, Nation and Urdu in Television Dramas of Pakistan1
Neo-Liberal Pitfalls and the COVID-19 Pandemic Challenges in Bangladesh1
Reimagining Hindu Mythology for the Diasporic Queer Body: Discursive Materiality in Vivek Shraya’s She of the Mountains1
Dārā Šukōh’s Bhagavad Gītā ? The Attribution of the Āb-i Zindagī and Its Place Among the Persian Translations of Indic Philosophical Mater1
Between Ritual Doubt and Spiritual Striving: The Mediation of Adab at a Sufi Shrine in Contemporary India1
Business as Usual? Bazars and Communalism in Colonial Delhi, 1913–321
Leaving Comrades to Die: Shahadat , Soldiering and Accidental Death on the Siachen Glacier1
Designing a Modern Self: The English Travels of Pandita Ramabai and Krishnabhabini Das1
Digging Up the Dirt: Democracy, Visibility and the ‘Crisis of Corruption’ in Nepal1
Engaging with Ethnographic Museum Objects from Erstwhile Naga Hills: From Imperial, Colonial and Postcolonial Eras to Contemporary Reimagining1
Perceptions and Products of the Forested Highlands: A View from the Malwa Sultan’s Book of Delicacies , c. 15001
Ambedkar in America: An Archive for Our Times1
Making Way for Ships: Displacement, Religion and Urban Space-Making in India’s Southwest Littoral1
Gardening the community: The Basel Mission, household economy, gardens and farms in Germany and India1
Unruly Children, Transgressive Gazes: Interpreting Childhood and Freedom in the Writings of Leela Majumdar1
Anthropological Developmentalism: Furer-Haimendorf and the Making of Social Policy in Hyderabad State 11
The Ecology of the Archive in Adil Jussawalla's ‘Date Book’ for a Missing Novel1
Introduction: Ecology, Music and Community—Exploring Performance in South Asia1
The Object as Gift: Practices of Gift Exchange in Awadh in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century1
Afterword: Women Writing in Kashmir?1
‘Tell Them Our Story’: Memories of the Sumi Naga Labour Corps in World War I1
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
The Thrill of Emergency and the Chronic Crisis of Corruption0
Patriarchy as an Assemblage: Qandeel Baloch, Male Domination and Feminist Publics in Pakistan0
Digitising the Diaspora Temple: Diasporic Affordances of Devotional Objects at a Hindu Sindhi Temple in Hong Kong0
Bad Brown Aunties, Fagony Aunts and Resistance Aunties: Centring Queer Desi Aunties in Diasporic Social Movement and Justice Work0
Imagined Geographies in the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands: Culture, Politics, Place0
Environmental Casteism and the Democratisation of Natural Resources: Reimagining Dalit Testimonies0
Thinking with Signs: Caste, Ethnicity and the Dual Body in Contemporary Eastern Nepal*0
Historicising Housing Rights: Critical Events and Political Ruptures in Post-Partition Urban India0
Men and Masculine Identities in Life Narratives of Sri Lanka’s War0
Impartiality as a Quality of Government and Its Violation in the Governance of Sectarian Conflict in Pakistan0
Ambedkar on Indian Christianity: Towards a Critique0
Introduction: Writing Muslim Women in South Asia0
The Religious and Racial Geography of Late Nineteenth-Century Bombay0
Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy and Saintly Affects in Pakistan0
From Discordance to Assemblages: Renegotiating French and Portuguese Colonial Identities through Indian Tourism and Heritage Sites0
Introduction: Between the Field and the Gallery: Exploring Anthropological Knowledge in South Asia0
The Changing Ecology of the Kolkata Tanpura0
Salt Workers in Contemporary South India: Change and Continuity0
The Ingredients of Casteism: Holy Week and Syrian Christian Food Practices in Kerala, India0
Technologies of becoming-imperceptible in Ritwik Ghatak’s Ajantrik (1958)0
Salt: An Afterword0
‘Do You Hear Voices, or Do You Think You Hear Voices?’: Malevolence and Modernity in the Psychiatric Clinic0
Imaging ‘Slow Violence’ in the Jharia Coalfields of India: Disrupting Energy Modernity through Photography0
Refugee Cities: How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan0
Gender politics and nationalist imagination: The role of Bengali Muslim women educationists, 1947–710
Art, Resistance and Social Media: The Anti-CAA Protests in India0
Hysteria: A South Asian History of Global Medicine0
Reworking Culture: Relatedness, Rites, and Resources in Garo Hills, North-East India0
An impotent prince, a powerful begum and a servant queen: Lives of women servants in the Awadh Court (1814–37)0
Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi , by Sushmita Pati, Cam0
Subaltern and Dalit-Bahujan Organisation in South Asia: The Historical Roots0
Famine in a Rice Economy: Natural Calamities, Grain Scarcity and the Company-State in Bengal, 1770–18030
The Sex Worker That She Is Not: Suggestion, Risk and Public Femininity in Contemporary Hindi Cinema0
Special Section Preface: Engaging with Early Modern Indian Philosophy: Vedānta and Beyond0
The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India0
Mill, Market, Mandir, Masjid: The Geographies of Communal Conflict in Colonial Bombay, c. 1929–390
Hindu Economicus0
Authority Traversed: Police, Politics and the Urban Poor in Dhaka0
Enemy Property: Violence, Dispossession and Citizenship in South Asia0
The Brahmanisation of Indian Sociology or the Birth of the Racial Theories of Untouchability0
Tea & Solidarity: Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka0
Gendering Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Commercial Surrogacy and Constructions of Motherhood0
‘To Kiss or Not to Kiss?’ Cinema, Vulgarity and Marathi Manus in 1950s and 1960s Maharashtra0
Smell as a Marker of Social Boundary: Exploring the Role of Fish ‘Stench’0
‘Good Muslim girls’ with punchlines: Piety, agency and humour in Pakistani stand-up comedy0
Uncovering the Erasure: The Case for Babasaheb Ambedkar as a Pioneer of Indian Sociology0
Self-Sacrifice, Suffrage and Socialism: Gandhi and the Mobilisation of Women, 1930–310
Sufis as Sacred Props: Hagiographical Transmutation of Shāh Ḥusayn (945/1538–1008/1599)0
Hysteria Narratives and Love-in-Separation (Viraha) in North India0
Black Land, May Your Trees Be Great Trees! The Forest Goods Trade from Meluhha to Mesopotamia in the Third Millennium BCE: A Multi-Perspective Approach0
Cleansing India: Gandhi, Hindutva and the Calypsology of Sanitation Reforms0
‘I Will Make a ṭīkā ’: Translation, Commentary and Tradition in Nājar Ānandrām’s Paramānanda Prabodha0
Scripts of Power: Writing, Language Practices, and Cultural History in Western India0
Television and Temples: Hindutva and OBC and Adivasi Self-Making in Borderland Gujarat0
Introduction: Transnational Figurations of the South Asian Aunty0
Corporate Brahminism and Tech Work: Caste in a Modern Indian Profession0
Negotiating Power and Constructing the Nation: Engineering in Sri Lanka Negotiating Power and Constructing the Nation: Engineering in Sri Lanka , by Bandura DileepaWitha0
Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891–19370
Making Management Hindu: S.K. Chakraborty and the Indigenisation of Homo Economicus0
Imperial exception: Judges, lawyers and the making of the law of evidence in post-1857 British India0
Neoliberal pedagogies of Pahari enterprise: Youth in provincial North India0
Documents, Digitisation and History0
Obituary: Jim Masselos0
From Hearth to Print: Women Authors and the Cultural Politics of Food in Western India, 1875–19450
Understanding Dakaiti (Banditry) in the Chambal Valley and Bundelkhand0
The Houseness of the Naga House Museum: Towards a Narrative of the Postcolonial South Asian House Museum0
Ambiguous Identity and Uncertain Belonging: Assessing the Lives of Undocumented Brihannalas in the Backdrop of the COVID-19 Pandemic0
Saving Cows and Counting Ploughs: The Biopolitics of Cow Protection0
A Tiger for Theodosius II: Exotic Gift Giving and Diplomatic Contacts Between Eastern Rome and India in Late Antiquity0
Bankimchandra and Rabindranath on the concepts of satya (truth) and morality: The dispute0
Obituary: Johannes Bronkhorst0
Setting India on the Wrong Path: Robert McCarrison’s Goitre Research, 1906–350
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
South Asian Forest-Dwellers and the Making of World Histories0
Proximity or Sycophancy? The Relationship between Intelligence and Policy in the Nehruvian Era, 1947–640
‘This is Caste Power’: Youth Politicians, Vernacular Notions of Caste-Based Supremacy and its Reproduction in Contemporary North India0
Masculinity in Assamese films0
(Re)Imagining Anglo-American Relations: Natural History, Sport Hunting and Scientific Imperialism in the Vernay-Faunthorpe Indian Expeditions of 1922–290
Laying the Foundation of the ‘Native’ Christian Community: The Church Missionary Society and Its Experiments with Famine Orphans and Orphanages, 1840s–1920s0
The City Possessed: Ghost Stories and the Urban History of Late Colonial Calcutta0
Suffering, Survival and Sustenance: Meos’ Post-Partition Experiences in Pakistan0
Communal Geographies and Peasant Insurgency in Colonial Myanmar0
The Post-Colonial Magazine Archive0
Prayers, Not Protests: Christian Internationalism and Young Womanhood in South India0
Supplying Affordable Beverages to GIs: Coca-Cola Production and Provision in the China-Burma-India Theatre0
Border, Pastoralism and Affect: Memories, Interactions and Cultural Transformations of Pastoralists in Western Rajasthan Borderlands0
Iron, Honey and Wild Cinnamon: Forest Resource Extraction in Sri Lanka’s Historical Landscape0
Drag Queen in the Beauty Salon: What Theorising Strange Bedfellows Can Tell Us about the Labour of Aunties0
A Forest of Ships: Malabar’s State Forests and Bombay’s Dockyards, 1795–18220
Progressive Laments and/on Partition: The Cost of Freedom in Khadija Mastur’s Aangan (1962)0
Being Young, Becoming Political: Subjectivity and Urban Space in Early Partition Novels0
Timber, Fibre, Resin and Cotton: South Asian Materials in Western Indian Ocean Watercraft0
Creating an Oral Map: ‘Living On’ after the Nellie Massacre, 19830
Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India0
Bikās as Pedagogy: The Concept of Development at an Elite Boarding School in Nepal0
Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India , by Akshya Saxena, Princeton Universit0
Singing the River in Punjab: Poetry, Performance and Folklore0
Mangalkavya s and the Acculturation of Medieval Bengal: Analysing the Integration of Puranic and Folk Goddesses in the Folk Epics0
Film and Caste Anxieties in Early Twentieth-Century India0
Karva Chauth Travels: Fasting, Feasting and Everything in Between0
Writing Rokeya: Muslim Women’s Life-Writing, Intergenerational Camaraderie and Activism in Twentieth Century Bengal0
Encountering the Postcolonial State: Development Bureaucracy and Social Transformation in Rural Pre-Independent Bangladesh, 1947–700
Miracle millets: Indigenous food sovereignty and the revival of ancient grains in Northeast India0
Weaving Pasts: Kashmiri Textile Artisans and Their Modes of Self-Identification0
Salt, Sovereignty and Law in Colonial India: The Case of Rajputana Salt in the Late Nineteenth Century0
Cartographic Anxiety on the Thar Desert: The Border Security Force and Jaisalmer’s Tanot Mata Mandir0
Friendly Nations and Open Borders: Gender, Caste and Sacredness at the India-Nepal Border0
Muslim Communities and Trade along the Malabar Coast: A State of the Art0
The Heritage of Hynñiew Trep in Desmond Kharmawphlang’s Poems0
The Ungrudging Indian: The Political Economy of Salt in India, c. 1878–19470
Nehruvian Ghosts: Kamal Amrohi’s Film, Mahal (1949)0
Anticipating Failure: Gurkha Recruitment and Brokerage in Nepal0
Media discourse, alternative medicine and COVID-19 in India: A case of an Ayurvedic drug ‘Coronil’0
Consider the Aunty: The Obfuscation of Desire in My Beautiful Laundrette0
‘Speak True to the People’: 1 Radio Pakistan and the Making and Unmaking of a National Soundscape0
The Duplicate Malady: Repositioning Hysteria in South Asia0
Introduction: Postcolonial Archives0
Parables for Neoliberalism: Devdutt Pattanaik and the Mahabharata in Post-Liberalisation Indian English Literature0
Homeland Insecurities: Autonomy, Conflict and Migration in Assam0
Scissors from Meerut, Locks from Aligarh: Locality and Production in North India, 1870–19500
A for appearance: Aesthetic labour and the work of image consultants in a globalised Delhi0
Post-Colonial Disasters and Narratives of Erasure: Reimagining Testimonies of Toxic Encounter0
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
Authors, Activists, Archivists: A Dialogue with Francesca Orsini on Dalit Literature across Languages, Genre, Media0
The ‘Migrant-Leper’ as the Undeserving Outsider: Historicising Leprosy Policy in Delhi, 1920–600
Measuring Race, Space and the Citizen: Anthropology and Statistics in Early Post-Independence India0
Dhandha , Accumulation and the Making of Valuable Livelihoods in Contemporary Mumbai 10
Editor’s Note0
Going Wild on Instagram: Tiger Safaris and India’s Protected Areas in the Age of Social Media0
Of Loss, Belonging and Remembrance: Indian Poetic Responses to World War I0
Figures of Menace: Militarisation in Post-War Sri Lanka0
George Grierson’s map and the remaking of Orissa, 1917–360
Communal Geographies: Space, Identity and Electoral Constituency in Colonial North India0
From Colonial India to Semi-Colonial Republican China: Imaginaries and Realities of Civil Service and State-Building in Salt Administration, 1912–450
Consuming Students: Advertisements and the Indian Youth Market, 1935–650
The Elephant Crown: Wodeyar Kingship, Hunting and the Politics of Preservation Under British Colonialism0
David E.U. Baker (1932–2021): A Life Extraordinaire0
Gender, Dissent and the Afterlives of the Pakistan Movement: Fatima Jinnah in the 1965 Elections0
C.A. Bayly’s Unfinished Business: A History of Ideas in an Old Manuscript0
Bureaucratic Mediations for Biometric Governance in India’s Northeast—Aadhaar in Tripura0
Remembering Heterodox Pre/Colonial Oral Cultures in (Re)Organising Bengali Dalit Literary Histories0
The Organisation of Sex Work in Bangladesh0
When They Know Us: Do Dalit Lives Matter?0
Connected History: Essays and Arguments0
Archives of Minority: ‘Little’ Publications and the Politics of Friendship in Post-Colonial Bombay0
The Changing Landscape of Punjab in Bollywood Film Songs0
Reordering Adivasi Worlds: Representation, Resistance, Memory Reordering Adivasi Worlds: Representation, Resistance, Memory , by Sangeeta Dasgupta, New Delhi, Oxford Uni0
Between Sādhū and Darwesh: Storytelling and Social Reform in S. uġhrā Humāyūñ Mirzā’s Mohinī (1929)0
Burdened Agency and Empowered Mothering: Domestic Workers Negotiating Care and Constraint in Kolkata0
Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor0
Multani Shikarpuri Migration to Malabar: A Praxis on Homemaking0
Inheritance, Marriage and Adoption: Changing Judicial Practices in Hyderabad State0
Religious Nationalism, Christianisation and Institutionalisation of Indigenous Faiths in Contemporary Arunachal Pradesh, India0
The Indo-Myanmar Borderlands: Border Trade, Urbanisation and Ethnic Politics in Mizoram, India0
Research Ethics and the Chimera of Postcolonial Policing: Reflections after Zoha Waseem’s Insecure Guardians (2023)0
The East Pakistan-West Pakistan Entanglement: Gender, Politics and Postcolonial Development in Shawkat Ali’s Dhakkhinayoner Din0
Choirs on the Coast: Impact of COVID-19 on Musical Pedagogy and Festivals0
Mapping Histories: An Environmental Perspective for Writing Local History in Pakistan0
‘Why Can’t Our Bhuta Have a Mask?’ Caste Contestations and Ritual Practice in Tulunadu0
Population, Eugenics and Reproductive Rights: Legalising Abortion in India, 1966–710
The Lahure dream: Unpacking Nepali military aspirations and masculinity0
Music and Intermediality in Trans-Border Performances: Ecological Responses in Patachitra and Manasamangal0
Preface0
Centring the margins: Heteronormativity and sexual otherness in India0
Preserving the Bannuwal Identity: Post-Partition Bannu Refugees0
Gendered Nationalism and Material Texts: An Urdu Women’s Periodical in 1960s Pakistan0
Youth and Selfhood in Neoliberal India: Shifting Geographies of Higher Education, Coaching Centres and Religiosity in Patna0
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