Contemporary South Asia

Papers
(The TQCC of Contemporary South Asia 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Colonizing Kashmir: state-building under Indian occupation Colonizing Kashmir: state-building under Indian occupation , by Hafsa Kanjwal, Stanford, Stanford University P25
Political conflict in Pakistan Political conflict in Pakistan , by Mohammad Waseem, London, Hurst, 2021, 576 pp., £35.00 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-787-38400-221
Childlessness in Bangladesh: intersectionality, suffering and resilience Childlessness in Bangladesh: intersectionality, suffering and resilience , by Papreen Nahar, Lon17
Threatening dystopias12
Enhancing environmental performance: evidence from SAARC Countries12
Voting for security: evidence from a Maoist-affected region in India11
Foreign intervention, executive corruption, and economic growth in Afghanistan8
Uprooted when settled: Koonj and Kuku in the changing migrating identity of Gujjars and Bakerwals, the transhumant pastoralist of Jammu an8
Hindus in India, Bengalis in Bengal: the role of religious and regional identities in West Bengal politics8
Musicoplia in Mumbai: performing subjects and the metropolitan unconscious7
The dynamic of stepwise migrations of Nepalese high-skilled migrants via the Middle East6
Devotional contextures: the māla songs and Muslim ethical formation in contemporary Kerala6
India and Africa in the pandemic imagination6
Correction5
On-going Shaheen Bagh: collective creation, newness and solidarity5
Encountering the state: situated strategies and perspectives of Tanchangya villagers in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh5
Neoliberal city and exclusive communities: the politics of contemporary urbanisation in northern India5
Pakistan state practices in Gilgit-Baltistan: a paradox?5
On becoming a demanding Community: Neelam and its March for Justice5
A study of risk perception of radiofrequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) exposure from mobile phones and base stations in India5
Resistance as negotiation: making states and tribes in the margins of modern India5
Lives of circumcised and veiled women: a global-Indian interplay of discourses and narratives5
Dharmaśāstra and the legal personality of deities in the Ayodhya verdicts (2010 & 2019)4
Multilingual education in south Asia: at the intersection of policy and practice Multilingual education in south Asia: at the intersection of policy and practice , edite4
Books Available For Review4
Muslim New Womanhood in Bangladesh4
Painting stories: lives and legacies from an Indian crafts village Painting stories: lives and legacies from an Indian crafts village , by Helle Bundgaard, Toronto, Univ4
Digitalization and Informality in media industries: beyond the platform-portal divide?4
Reordering Adivasi worlds: representation, resistance, memory Reordering Adivasi worlds: representation, resistance, memory , by Sangeeta Dasgupta, New Delhi, Oxford Uni4
‘New’ terrains of precarity – gig work in India3
Thief plates: the mediation of extortion in the rickshaw business in Dhaka, Bangladesh3
Memory of landscapes: nostalgia, migration and the exilic memory of the East Bengali refugees in Dandakaranya3
Performing sovereign aspirations: Tamil insurgency and postwar transition in Sri Lanka3
The Troubling State of India’s democracy3
Crooked cats: beastly encounters in the Anthropocene3
Making bureaucracy work: norms, education and public service delivery in rural India Making bureaucracy work: norms, education and public service delivery in rural India 2
Sexuality reimagined: MSM in modern India2
The epistemology and ontology of a bhakta: an analysis of pejorative and secularised meanings of bhakta2
Books Available for Review2
Marketing affect: mapping the centredness of the election campaign through a comparison of party strategies in the Delhi assembly elections2
Books Available for Review2
Books Available for Review2
Nongra Kaj / ‘dirty work’: caste, colonialism and entrapment in Bangladesh2
Bottom-up imaginaries: examining discursive construction of social media roles and affordances in India2
Randua on the bench’: examining the colonial and post-colonial roots of contemporary forced bachelorhood and vigilantism in the Agrarian North2
Language ideologies and the vernacular in colonial and postcolonial South Asia2
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 2
Sama in the forest2
Introduction to the BASAS 2021 special section2
Intimacy and industry: the multiple heterosexual intimacies shaping cycle rickshaw men’s labor and migration in India2
The Covid-19 pandemic and governance dimensions of crisis response in developing countries: evidence from Sri Lanka2
Under the gun: political parties and violence in Pakistan Under the gun: political parties and violence in Pakistan , by Niloufer A. Siddiqui, Cambridge, Cambridge Unive2
‘Still disappeared’: reconstructing the 1990 ‘truth commission’ in Nepal2
Caste and politics in (West) Bengal: in conversation with Sekhar Bandyopadhyay2
History, Memory and Memorabilia: Kamala Dasgupta and the Politics of Remembering Revolutionary Bengal2
Critical analysis of debates on Tamil populism: perspectives from the field2
Political parties and initial COVID-19 policies: subnational trends in India2
Deformed bodies and the decolonial turn: unthinking and rethinking the colonial episteme in animal’s people1
The Indian economy: issues, policies and performance1
Of histories (un)shared: India – Pakistan, postage stamps, and 18571
Undignified names: caste, politics, and everyday life in North India1
Voices of dissent Voices of dissent , Romila Thapar, Kolkata, Seagull Books, 2020, viii + 164 pp., ₹304 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-85742-862-21
Subcontinental drift: domestic politics and India’s foreign policy1
Caste, marginalisation, and resistance: the politics of identity of the Naths (Yogis) of Bengal and Assam1
Archive of tongues: an intimate history of brownness1
Mandir vs Mandal in 2024: are there limits to the BJP’s social engineering?1
Asia after Europe: imagining a continent in the long twentieth century1
Shifting political landscapes in post-370 abrogation Kashmir: an analysis of emerging dynamics and implications1
Kashmir after 2019: completing the partition1
Healing at the periphery: ethnographies of Tibetan medicine in India1
The new experts: populist elites and technocratic promises in Modi’s India1
Police matters: the everyday state and caste politics in South India, 1900–19751
Hailing the state: Indian democracy between elections Hailing the state: Indian democracy between elections , by Lisa Mitchell, Durham, Duke University Press, 2023, xvii1
Thakawath as active waiting: using exhaustion to transform fruitless waiting into continuous activism and hope in Kashmir1
Informing or campaigning? The narrative of the state of electoral politics in election posters in rural Pakistan1
Drone attacks and non-grievable lives: erasure of collateral damage in the Northwestern borderlands of Pakistan1
Media discourse in contemporary India: a study of television news Media discourse in contemporary India: a study of television news , by Sudeshna Devi, London, Routledge1
Contestations and contradictions: feminist research on structures and institutions governing sex work in India1
Jurisprudence and geography of Hindu majoritarianism: thinking with the 2019 Ayodhya judgement1
Why the digital classroom is a bad model for digital learning1
Reflections on Kasia Paprocki's Threatening dystopias1
A small car for a small family: building India’s first ‘people’s car’1
Networks, space and belonging: the Marwaris in Manipur1
House of the people: parliament and the making of Indian democracy House of the people: parliament and the making of Indian democracy , by Ronojoy Sen, Cambridge, Cambri1
Dirty politics and political care in local politics: gendered barriers to moral boundary crossing in Dehradun, India1
The Karachi Jews and the history of Pakistani antisemitism1
Dust on the throne: the search for Buddhism in modern India1
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