Contemporary South Asia

Papers
(The median citation count of Contemporary South Asia 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
The politics of hope15
The ethics of staying: social movements and land rights politics in Pakistan8
Highways and hierarchies: ethnographies of mobility from the Himalaya to the Indian Ocean8
Books available for review7
Introduction to the BASAS 2021 special section6
Tourism and hospitality in Asia: crisis, resilience and recovery6
Master Plans and Encroachments: The architecture of informality in Islamabad4
Foreign intervention, executive corruption, and economic growth in Afghanistan4
The university as a site of resistance: identity and student politics3
Uprooted when settled: Koonj and Kuku in the changing migrating identity of Gujjars and Bakerwals, the transhumant pastoralist of Jammu an3
Markets, capitalism and urban space in India: right to sell3
Being seen: the political and bureaucratic entanglements of Muslim women in West Bengal3
Money, Culture, Class: Elite women as modern subjects3
Identity, nationhood and Bangladesh independent cinema3
Hindus in India, Bengalis in Bengal: the role of religious and regional identities in West Bengal politics3
Madrasas and the making of Islamic womanhood3
Holy science: the biopolitics of Hindu nationalism3
Making the right choice: narratives of marriage in Sri Lanka2
Migration, patriarchy and ‘modern’ Islam: views from left behind wives in rural northern Bangladesh2
Walking with pilgrims: the Kanwar pilgrimage of Bihar, Jharkhand and the Terai of Nepal2
Popular geopolitics of ‘nuclear India’: tracing the evolution of India’s ‘regional’ and ‘global’ identities in the English daily The Hindu from 2011–20202
Political conflict in Pakistan Political conflict in Pakistan , by Mohammad Waseem, London, Hurst, 2021, 576 pp., £35.00 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-787-38400-22
Books Available for Review2
Urban development and environmental history in Modern South Asia2
Taking the bull by its horns: the political economic logics of new farm laws and agrarian dissent in India2
Dreaming in the shadow of history: micro-mobilities and belonging in Lucknow2
Muslim marriages, the South African state and the courts: between limbo, liberation, and the spaces for contestation in-between2
Women’s participation in the Central Superior Services of Pakistan 1973–20202
Till kingdom come: medieval Hinduism in the modern Himalaya Till kingdom come: medieval Hinduism in the modern Himalaya , by Lokesh Ohri, Albany, State University of New2
Producing multiple ‘others’: spatial upheaval and Hindutva politics in urban India2
Shiptown: between rural and urban North India2
Political parties and initial COVID-19 policies: subnational trends in India2
Muslim daughters and inheritance in India:Sharīcat, custom and practice2
Cancer and the Kali Yuga: gender, inequality and health in South India Cancer and the Kali Yuga: gender, inequality and health in South India , by Cecilia Coale Van Holl2
Colonizing Kashmir: state-building under Indian occupation Colonizing Kashmir: state-building under Indian occupation , by Hafsa Kanjwal, Stanford, Stanford University P2
‘A mobile phone is like a friendship. It depends from person to person how it is used': mobile phone relationships among low-income women in urban Bangladesh1
The material and the moral: contradictory imperatives and the production of trafficking narratives in South India1
Narratives of cultural violence in 1947 partition: ‘Environmental Upheaval’ and ethnic-linguistic shift1
Policy for cultural and creative industries in India: the issue of regulation through digital policy1
Enhancing environmental performance: evidence from SAARC Countries1
Getting schools to work better: educational accountability and teacher support in India and China1
A Secular Need: Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India1
Threatening dystopias1
Special treatment: student doctors at the all India institute of medical sciences (South Asia in motion)1
Critical analysis of debates on Tamil populism: perspectives from the field1
Freedom Inc. gendered capitalism in new indian literature and culture1
Press charges: renegotiating free speech and citizenship in post-partition Delhi1
Unravelling the constitutional settlement: devolution, democracy and patronage in eastern Sri Lanka1
Caste and partition in Bengal: the story of Dalit refugees, 1946–1961 Caste and partition in Bengal: the story of Dalit refugees, 1946–1961 , by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay and1
After cyclone Aila: politics of climate change in Sundarbans1
The university, student politics, and the ABVP1
The Outsiders Within: A Dalit Feminist Standpoint in the Life Narratives of Dalit Women The Outsiders Within: A Dalit Feminist Standpoint in the Life Narratives of Dalit Women 1
In the shadow of a sword: the memoir of a woman leader in the LTTE1
The contributions of Threatening Dystopias to critical adaptation studies1
Living religions across transnational spaces: experiences of South Asian American Hindu and Muslim women1
Gendered division of paid, unpaid, and total work in India: who bears more burden?1
Correction1
Voting for security: evidence from a Maoist-affected region in India1
‘I don’t know how we can stop ragging’: a qualitative study on the perceptions of staff and work-affiliated individuals at a Sri Lankan University, on the phenomena of ragging1
A song for Jains or a song for India: contesting narratives during the COVID-19 crisis1
Childlessness in Bangladesh: intersectionality, suffering and resilience Childlessness in Bangladesh: intersectionality, suffering and resilience , by Papreen Nahar, Lon1
Caste and two types of status. Comparing Dumont and Weber for studies of caste today1
Bridging neoliberalism and Hindu nationalism: the role of education in bringing about contemporary India Bridging neoliberalism and Hindu nationalism: the role of education in bringing 1
Theatre of Nepal and the people who make it1
Dust on the throne: the search for Buddhism in modern India1
Books Available for Review1
The National Register of Citizens (NRC) in India and the potential for statelessness in situ: a cautionary tale from Assam1
Intimacy and industry: the multiple heterosexual intimacies shaping cycle rickshaw men’s labor and migration in India1
Women and South Asian Hinduism and Islam: in the subcontinent and the diaspora0
Colonial legacies and the British geological survey in cold war South Asia: 1960s–1980s0
Asserting caste? Bhishti sanitation workers and Muslim caste associations in Jaipur0
Development, Neoliberalism, and Islamism in South Asia: The Case of Bangladesh0
‘New’ terrains of precarity – gig work in India0
Reflections of Amma: Devotees in a Global Embrace0
Climate justice in and beyond South Asia0
In the name of the father? Northeast India and problems of national kinship0
Political Kinship in Pakistan: Descent, Marriage and Government Stability0
Watan , loss, and the Pashtun ethno-nationalism0
Neoliberal city and exclusive communities: the politics of contemporary urbanisation in northern India0
The South Asia Gallery, Manchester Museum0
Media discourse in contemporary India: a study of television news Media discourse in contemporary India: a study of television news , by Sudeshna Devi, London, Routledge0
Under the gun: political parties and violence in Pakistan Under the gun: political parties and violence in Pakistan , by Niloufer A. Siddiqui, Cambridge, Cambridge Unive0
The BJP’s expansionist strategies in Tamil Nadu (2014 – present)0
Correction0
Weaver to precarity capitalism: ethnographic understanding of contemporary Surat through the experiences of Odia labour migrants0
The Indian economy: issues, policies and performance0
‘Still disappeared’: reconstructing the 1990 ‘truth commission’ in Nepal0
Defining Girlhood in India: a transnational history of sexual maturity laws0
Books available for review0
Dynamics of Caste and Law: Dalits, Oppression and Constitutional Democracy in India0
Audio-visual piracy on Telegram: a perspective on monetization models, pirate strategies and industrial pathways0
Muslim Woman/Muslim women: lived experiences beyond religion and gender in South Asia and its diasporas0
Life, labour, and dreams: one woman’s life in Old Delhi0
Correction0
Singing across divides: music and intimate politics in Nepal0
Dynastic dilemma in South Asia: influence, networks and shamefacedness0
Shadows at noon: the South Asian twentieth century Shadows at noon: the South Asian twentieth century , by Joya Chatterji, London, Bodley Head, Vintage, 2023, 864 pp., £0
Books Available for Review0
A strategic myth: ‘Underdevelopment’ in Jammu and Kashmir0
India’s Pakistan conundrum: managing a complex relationship0
Everyday violence and care: insights from fictive kin relations between madams and sex workers in India0
Beyond religion in India and Pakistan: gender and caste, borders and boundaries0
Politics of (dis)contentment. Restitching identities in rural Sri Lanka: gender, neoliberalism, and the politics of contentment0
Bhakti and embodiment: fashioning divine bodies and devotional bodies in Kṛṣṇa Bhakti0
Emotions, identity and the entrepreneurial self: narratives of working Muslim women in rural India0
Musicoplia in Mumbai: performing subjects and the metropolitan unconscious0
A small car for a small family: building India’s first ‘people’s car’0
Anjuman, jami‘at, and association: what Sayyid organizations tell us about associational forms among Muslim caste groups0
Spatializing popular Sufi shrines in Punjab: dreams, memories, territoriality0
The changing shape of the Indian recorded music industry in the age of platformisation0
Education, teaching, and learning: discourses, cultures, conversations0
Otherness at war: Poles and World War II British Indian Army0
The view from Mathura: nationalist projections in local perspective0
Consolidating a political dynasty: Abhishek Banerjee, the Trinamool Congress, and the 2023 panchayat elections in West Bengal0
Kashmir after 2019: completing the partition0
Poetics and politics of post-partition cultural memories in Kamila Shamsie’sKartography0
Camp life of Sri Lankan refugees in India0
Thief plates: the mediation of extortion in the rickshaw business in Dhaka, Bangladesh0
Reflections on Bangladesh at 500
India's engagement with the International Monetary Fund: growing into an ownership role0
Complex rivalry: the dynamics of India–Pakistan conflicts0
Alien at birth: Chinese migrants in post-colonial Assam (1947-1962)0
India and Africa in the pandemic imagination0
Contesting Masculinities and Women’s Agency in Kashmir0
Social mobility and politicisation of caste among the Rayeens of Uttar Pradesh0
Provincial globalization in India: transregional mobilities and development politics0
To be upper caste/to be a victim0
Subcontinental drift: domestic politics and India’s foreign policy0
Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border0
Performing sovereign aspirations: Tamil insurgency and postwar transition in Sri Lanka0
Lived reality of elite neighbourhoods: geographies of inequality in Delhi0
Prophet and statesmen in crafting democracy in India: political leadership, ideas, and compromises0
Civil society, local government and rural health in an eastern Indian state0
Networks, space and belonging: the Marwaris in Manipur0
Books available for review0
Books Available for Review0
History, Memory and Memorabilia: Kamala Dasgupta and the Politics of Remembering Revolutionary Bengal0
Shifting political landscapes in post-370 abrogation Kashmir: an analysis of emerging dynamics and implications0
Mumbai on two wheels: cycling, urban space, and sustainable mobility0
Warlord Survival: The Delusion of State Building in Afghanistan0
Role of anti-/pro-public sector bias in shaping perceived performance and fairness: an experimental exploration in South Asia0
Village ties: women, NGOs, and informal institutions in rural Bangladesh0
Contesting the milad : Deobandis and Barelvis in British India and contemporary Pakistan0
Asia after Europe: imagining a continent in the long twentieth century0
Pakistan’s foreign policy: contemporary developments and dynamics Pakistan’s foreign policy: contemporary developments and dynamics , edited by Ghulam Ali, New York, Rou0
Dirty politics and political care in local politics: gendered barriers to moral boundary crossing in Dehradun, India0
Afterword: questions for the study of Muslim castes and anti-caste Islam0
India’s democratic political system, economic growth and domestic security challenges, and China’s dismissiveness of India’s great power ambitions0
Eco-spatial rethinking of two Malayalam movies Kumbalangi Nights and Malik : spatial imagination, solastalgia, and environmental in/justic0
Gendering the everyday state: Muslim women, claim-making & brokerage in India0
Books Available for Review0
Contesting resources, contesting the nation?0
Witch hunts: culture, patriarchy and structural transformation0
Organising the Sheikh sanitation workers in Srinagar: from the politics of dignity to Pasmanda activism?0
Books available for review0
Freedom inc.: gendered capitalism in new Indian literature and culture Freedom inc.: gendered capitalism in new Indian literature and culture , by Mukti Lakhi Mangharam,0
The relationship between female labor force participation and violent conflicts in South Asia0
The Politics of love in Myanmar: LGBT mobilization and human rights as a way of life0
The Karachi Jews and the history of Pakistani antisemitism0
Essays in celebrity culture: Stars and styles0
Subalternity and everyday solidarity in contemporary Indian short stories0
Evacuee Cinema: Bombay and Lahore in Partition Transit (1940-1960) Evacuee Cinema: Bombay and Lahore in Partition Transit (1940-1960) , by Salma Siddique, Cambridge, Cam0
Devotional contextures: the māla songs and Muslim ethical formation in contemporary Kerala0
Christianity and politics in tribal India0
Youth, meritocracy and cultural hierarchy in the New Nepal0
Bottom-up imaginaries: examining discursive construction of social media roles and affordances in India0
The Ayodhya case, freedom of religion, and the making of modernist ‘Hinduism’0
The dynamics of federal (in)stability and negotiated cooperation under single-party dominance: insights from Modi’s India0
The final straw? Bhola cyclone, 1970 election, disaster politics, and the making of Bangladesh0
Encountering the state: situated strategies and perspectives of Tanchangya villagers in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh0
Institutional trust paradox: understanding the dynamics of trust among different ethnic groups in Sri Lanka0
Decolonial praxis/es of solidarity in Indian literary and cultural discourses on social movements0
Gender and neoliberalism: the All India Democratic Women’s Association and its strategies of resistance0
Whose city is it anyway? Place, community and the fractured urban0
The ritual of parikramā, Hinduization of space and the case of Ayodhyā0
When ‘the broken’ breaks through: politics of struggle and solidarity in Manchadikkari0
House ablaze: a case study of marital conflict in rural Sri Lanka0
Courting agency: gender and divorce in an English sharia council0
The politics of celebration: interrogating the secular heritage of the Phool Waalon Ki Sair festival in Delhi0
Karma and grace: religious difference in millennial Sri Lanka0
Masculinity, consumerism and the post-national Indian city: streets, neighbourhoods, home Masculinity, consumerism and the post-national Indian city: streets, neighbourhoods, home 0
The (im-)possibilities of co-operatives in ‘free market’ conditions: a case study of neoliberal Sri Lanka0
On-going Shaheen Bagh: collective creation, newness and solidarity0
From ‘house of horrors’ to ‘sensitive’ governance: sex workers’ shelter detention in India0
The political life of Muslim caste: articulations and frictions within a Pasmanda identity0
Books available for review0
Beyond papers: understanding the making of citizenship in the Foreigners’ Tribunals of Assam0
Creating the Universe: Depictions of the Cosmos in Himalayan Buddhism0
India and the framework convention on tobacco control: the politics of rising power attitudes toward international rules0
Correction0
Books Available for Review0
Culture, context and aging of older Indians: narratives from India and beyond0
Delineating Dalit trauma: (re)contextualizing cultural trauma, survivor’s guilt and partial privilege in post millennial Dalit women’s memoirs0
Introduction to the BASAS 2023 special section0
Composing Violence: The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities0
Marketing affect: mapping the centredness of the election campaign through a comparison of party strategies in the Delhi assembly elections0
Channelling compassion towards change: elite volunteerism, corporate philanthropy and education reform in urban India0
Surrender, rehabilitation and hybrid regimes: the making of the northeast frontier0
Moving beyond faith: Muslim Jogis and religious conversion in north India0
Indian Federalism (Oxford India Short Introductions)0
The greater India experiment: Hindutva and the Northeast0
Spatial justice, contested governance and livelihood challenges in Bangladesh the production of counter space Spatial justice, contested governance and livelihood challenges in Banglade0
Caste politics, minority representation, and social mobility: the associational life of Muslim caste in India0
Beyond regimes: China and India compared0
Contestations and contradictions: feminist research on structures and institutions governing sex work in India0
Power of Bonding and Non-Western Soft Power Strategy in Iran: Comparing China and India's Engagement0
Shaping landscapes: transforming ethnic lands into state highways in Nagaland0
Contested Capital: Rural Middle Classes in India0
Simultaneous identities: language, education and the Nepali nation0
Poetry of belonging: Muslim Imaginings of India 1850-19500
Shaligram pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas Shaligram pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas , by Holly Walters, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2020, 293 pp., € 124, 0
Radiant infrastructures: media, environment and cultures of uncertainty0
Defending Muhammad in Modernity, by0
The Covid-19 pandemic and governance dimensions of crisis response in developing countries: evidence from Sri Lanka0
The regulation of religion and the making of Hinduism in colonial Trinidad0
From family to police force: security and belonging on a South Asian border0
Home in the world: a memoir Home in the world: a memoir , by Amartya Sen, London, Allen Lane, 2021, xv + 463 pp, ISBN 978-1-846-14486-80
Deformed bodies and the decolonial turn: unthinking and rethinking the colonial episteme in animal’s people0
Books Available for Review0
Muslim New Womanhood in Bangladesh0
Resurgent diversity: upland agriculture, indigenous crops and foodways in Eastern Himalayas0
Divorcing Traditions: Islamic marriage law and the making of Indian secularism0
Debates on agricultural loan waiver schemes in India: myths and realities0
Books Available for Review0
Maritime security complexes of the Indo-Pacific region Maritime security complexes of the Indo-Pacific region , by Vijay Sakhuja and Lawrence S. Prabhakar, New Delhi, In0
Intimate Connections: Love and Marriage in Pakistan’s high mountains0
Risk and the rupee in Pakistan’s new economy0
Motivations for Christian conversion among rural to urban migrants in the Kathmandu Valley0
Masculinity and modern slavery in Nepal0
Culture, Context and Aging of Older Indians Narratives from India and Beyond0
Sirens of modernity: world cinema via Bombay0
CAA-NRC-NPR, intra- and cross-movement solidarity, and trans and queer resistance in India0
The dynamic of stepwise migrations of Nepalese high-skilled migrants via the Middle East0
Introduction: Platform Challenges to Creative Industries in India0
Practices of the State: Muslims, Law and Violence in India0
Substantial relations: making global reproductive medicine in postcolonial India0
South Asian regionalism: the limits of cooperation0
A study of risk perception of radiofrequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) exposure from mobile phones and base stations in India0
Reordering Adivasi worlds: representation, resistance, memory Reordering Adivasi worlds: representation, resistance, memory , by Sangeeta Dasgupta, New Delhi, Oxford Uni0
Identifying and regulating religion in India: law, history and the place of worship0
Gurus and Media: Sound, Image, Machine, Text and the Digital0
Hailing the state: Indian democracy between elections Hailing the state: Indian democracy between elections , by Lisa Mitchell, Durham, Duke University Press, 2023, xvii0
Making bureaucracy work: norms, education and public service delivery in rural India Making bureaucracy work: norms, education and public service delivery in rural India 0
Jurisprudence and geography of Hindu majoritarianism: thinking with the 2019 Ayodhya judgement0
Can there be a decolonial praxis of solidarity? Structural violence and mobilisation in social movements0
Marginal gains: borderland dynamics, political settlements, and shifting centre-periphery relations in post-war Nepal0
Kashmir at the crossroads: inside a 21st-century conflict0
Reverse migrations and women’s role in shaping religious identities in Hyderabad0
Mobilisation of social movements and the local state in Independent India0
Agency in a quake in time: a study of jokes about the future among Pakistani migrant youth0
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