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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Colonizing Kashmir: state-building under Indian occupation Colonizing Kashmir: state-building under Indian occupation , by Hafsa Kanjwal, Stanford, Stanford University P18
Political conflict in Pakistan Political conflict in Pakistan , by Mohammad Waseem, London, Hurst, 2021, 576 pp., £35.00 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-787-38400-215
Childlessness in Bangladesh: intersectionality, suffering and resilience Childlessness in Bangladesh: intersectionality, suffering and resilience , by Papreen Nahar, Lon13
Threatening dystopias11
Uprooted when settled: Koonj and Kuku in the changing migrating identity of Gujjars and Bakerwals, the transhumant pastoralist of Jammu an10
Foreign intervention, executive corruption, and economic growth in Afghanistan9
Modi regime and the disempowerment of ‘Other Backward Classes’9
Musicoplia in Mumbai: performing subjects and the metropolitan unconscious7
Hindus in India, Bengalis in Bengal: the role of religious and regional identities in West Bengal politics7
India and Africa in the pandemic imagination7
Enhancing environmental performance: evidence from SAARC Countries7
Resistance as negotiation: making states and tribes in the margins of modern India6
Encountering the state: situated strategies and perspectives of Tanchangya villagers in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh6
On becoming a demanding Community: Neelam and its March for Justice6
Lives of circumcised and veiled women: a global-Indian interplay of discourses and narratives6
The dynamic of stepwise migrations of Nepalese high-skilled migrants via the Middle East5
Muslim New Womanhood in Bangladesh5
Pakistan state practices in Gilgit-Baltistan: a paradox?5
Neoliberal city and exclusive communities: the politics of contemporary urbanisation in northern India5
Dharmaśāstra and the legal personality of deities in the Ayodhya verdicts (2010 & 2019)5
Correction5
On-going Shaheen Bagh: collective creation, newness and solidarity5
Multilingual education in south Asia: at the intersection of policy and practice Multilingual education in south Asia: at the intersection of policy and practice , edite5
Reordering Adivasi worlds: representation, resistance, memory Reordering Adivasi worlds: representation, resistance, memory , by Sangeeta Dasgupta, New Delhi, Oxford Uni4
Books Available For Review4
Memory of landscapes: nostalgia, migration and the exilic memory of the East Bengali refugees in Dandakaranya4
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
Performing sovereign aspirations: Tamil insurgency and postwar transition in Sri Lanka4
Digitalization and Informality in media industries: beyond the platform-portal divide?4
Nongra Kaj / ‘dirty work’: caste, colonialism and entrapment in Bangladesh3
Making bureaucracy work: norms, education and public service delivery in rural India Making bureaucracy work: norms, education and public service delivery in rural India 3
Books Available for Review3
Language ideologies and the vernacular in colonial and postcolonial South Asia3
Caste and politics in (West) Bengal: in conversation with Sekhar Bandyopadhyay3
The epistemology and ontology of a bhakta: an analysis of pejorative and secularised meanings of bhakta3
‘ Randua on the bench’: examining the colonial and post-colonial roots of contemporary forced bachelorhood and vigilantism in the Agrarian North3
Under the gun: political parties and violence in Pakistan Under the gun: political parties and violence in Pakistan , by Niloufer A. Siddiqui, Cambridge, Cambridge Unive3
The Covid-19 pandemic and governance dimensions of crisis response in developing countries: evidence from Sri Lanka3
Books Available for Review3
The Troubling State of India’s democracy3
Sexuality reimagined: MSM in modern India3
Bottom-up imaginaries: examining discursive construction of social media roles and affordances in India3
Books Available for Review2
Sama in the forest2
Introduction – new forms of anti-Muslim violence in India: Hindu Xenophobia in the post-instrumental Era2
Thakawath as active waiting: using exhaustion to transform fruitless waiting into continuous activism and hope in Kashmir2
The new experts: populist elites and technocratic promises in Modi’s India2
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
Hailing the state: Indian democracy between elections Hailing the state: Indian democracy between elections , by Lisa Mitchell, Durham, Duke University Press, 2023, xvii2
Voices of dissent Voices of dissent , Romila Thapar, Kolkata, Seagull Books, 2020, viii + 164 pp., ₹304 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-85742-862-22
Networks, space and belonging: the Marwaris in Manipur2
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
Intimacy and industry: the multiple heterosexual intimacies shaping cycle rickshaw men’s labor and migration in India2
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, Cambri2
Subcontinental drift: domestic politics and India’s foreign policy2
Healing at the periphery: ethnographies of Tibetan medicine in India2
Books Available for Review1
The material and the moral: contradictory imperatives and the production of trafficking narratives in South India1
Urban ecologies in the capitalocene: postcolonial environmental crisis and spatial inequality in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger1
Undignified names: caste, politics, and everyday life in North India1
Shifting political landscapes in post-370 abrogation Kashmir: an analysis of emerging dynamics and implications1
Archive of tongues: an intimate history of brownness1
Of histories (un)shared: India – Pakistan, postage stamps, and 18571
Caste, marginalisation, and resistance: the politics of identity of the Naths (Yogis) of Bengal and Assam1
Mandir vs Mandal in 2024: are there limits to the BJP’s social engineering?1
Whose city is it anyway? Place, community and the fractured urban1
Unravelling the constitutional settlement: devolution, democracy and patronage in eastern Sri Lanka1
Popular geopolitics of ‘nuclear India’: tracing the evolution of India’s ‘regional’ and ‘global’ identities in the English daily The Hindu from 2011–20201
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
The Indian economy: issues, policies and performance1
Deformed bodies and the decolonial turn: unthinking and rethinking the colonial episteme in animal’s people1
Development, education and learning in Sri Lanka: an international research journey1
Jurisprudence and geography of Hindu majoritarianism: thinking with the 2019 Ayodhya judgement1
Reflections on Kasia Paprocki's Threatening dystopias1
Drone attacks and non-grievable lives: erasure of collateral damage in the Northwestern borderlands of Pakistan1
The Karachi Jews and the history of Pakistani antisemitism1
After cyclone Aila: politics of climate change in Sundarbans1
An anthropological understanding of the sea, subalternity, and the Sundarbans1
Tourism and hospitality in Asia: crisis, resilience and recovery1
Dust on the throne: the search for Buddhism in modern India1
Kashmir after 2019: completing the partition1
Contestations and contradictions: feminist research on structures and institutions governing sex work in India1
Informing or campaigning? The narrative of the state of electoral politics in election posters in rural Pakistan1
Dirty politics and political care in local politics: gendered barriers to moral boundary crossing in Dehradun, India1
Asia after Europe: imagining a continent in the long twentieth century1
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
The political life of Muslim caste: articulations and frictions within a Pasmanda identity1
Policy for cultural and creative industries in India: the issue of regulation through digital policy1
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