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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Colonizing Kashmir: state-building under Indian occupation Colonizing Kashmir: state-building under Indian occupation , by Hafsa Kanjwal, Stanford, Stanford University P27
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 dystopias13
Voting for security: evidence from a Maoist-affected region in India12
Uprooted when settled: Koonj and Kuku in the changing migrating identity of Gujjars and Bakerwals, the transhumant pastoralist of Jammu an11
Foreign intervention, executive corruption, and economic growth in Afghanistan9
Hindus in India, Bengalis in Bengal: the role of religious and regional identities in West Bengal politics8
Enhancing environmental performance: evidence from SAARC Countries8
Devotional contextures: the māla songs and Muslim ethical formation in contemporary Kerala7
Musicoplia in Mumbai: performing subjects and the metropolitan unconscious7
Encountering the state: situated strategies and perspectives of Tanchangya villagers in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh6
The dynamic of stepwise migrations of Nepalese high-skilled migrants via the Middle East6
India and Africa in the pandemic imagination6
Lives of circumcised and veiled women: a global-Indian interplay of discourses and narratives5
Pakistan state practices in Gilgit-Baltistan: a paradox?5
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
On-going Shaheen Bagh: collective creation, newness and solidarity5
On becoming a demanding Community: Neelam and its March for Justice5
Muslim New Womanhood in Bangladesh5
Resistance as negotiation: making states and tribes in the margins of modern India5
Neoliberal city and exclusive communities: the politics of contemporary urbanisation in northern India5
Correction5
Reordering Adivasi worlds: representation, resistance, memory Reordering Adivasi worlds: representation, resistance, memory , by Sangeeta Dasgupta, New Delhi, Oxford Uni4
Books Available For Review4
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
Dharmaśāstra and the legal personality of deities in the Ayodhya verdicts (2010 & 2019)4
Digitalization and Informality in media industries: beyond the platform-portal divide?4
Memory of landscapes: nostalgia, migration and the exilic memory of the East Bengali refugees in Dandakaranya3
Crooked cats: beastly encounters in the Anthropocene3
Books Available for Review3
Performing sovereign aspirations: Tamil insurgency and postwar transition in Sri Lanka3
‘New’ terrains of precarity – gig work in India3
‘Still disappeared’: reconstructing the 1990 ‘truth commission’ in Nepal3
Thief plates: the mediation of extortion in the rickshaw business in Dhaka, Bangladesh3
‘ Randua on the bench’: examining the colonial and post-colonial roots of contemporary forced bachelorhood and vigilantism in the Agrarian North3
The Troubling State of India’s democracy3
The Covid-19 pandemic and governance dimensions of crisis response in developing countries: evidence from Sri Lanka2
Language ideologies and the vernacular in colonial and postcolonial South Asia2
Bottom-up imaginaries: examining discursive construction of social media roles and affordances in India2
Introduction to the BASAS 2021 special section2
Political parties and initial COVID-19 policies: subnational trends in India2
Networks, space and belonging: the Marwaris in Manipur2
The epistemology and ontology of a bhakta: an analysis of pejorative and secularised meanings of bhakta2
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
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
Critical analysis of debates on Tamil populism: perspectives from the field2
History, Memory and Memorabilia: Kamala Dasgupta and the Politics of Remembering Revolutionary Bengal2
Police matters: the everyday state and caste politics in South India, 1900–19752
Nongra Kaj / ‘dirty work’: caste, colonialism and entrapment in Bangladesh2
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
Books Available for Review2
Sama in the forest2
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
Books Available for Review2
Caste and politics in (West) Bengal: in conversation with Sekhar Bandyopadhyay2
The new experts: populist elites and technocratic promises in Modi’s India1
Of histories (un)shared: India – Pakistan, postage stamps, and 18571
A small car for a small family: building India’s first ‘people’s car’1
Thakawath as active waiting: using exhaustion to transform fruitless waiting into continuous activism and hope in Kashmir1
Healing at the periphery: ethnographies of Tibetan medicine in India1
Kashmir after 2019: completing the partition1
Dust on the throne: the search for Buddhism in modern India1
The Karachi Jews and the history of Pakistani antisemitism1
The Indian economy: issues, policies and performance1
Deformed bodies and the decolonial turn: unthinking and rethinking the colonial episteme in animal’s people1
Archive of tongues: an intimate history of brownness1
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
Hailing the state: Indian democracy between elections Hailing the state: Indian democracy between elections , by Lisa Mitchell, Durham, Duke University Press, 2023, xvii1
Jurisprudence and geography of Hindu majoritarianism: thinking with the 2019 Ayodhya judgement1
Dirty politics and political care in local politics: gendered barriers to moral boundary crossing in Dehradun, India1
Mandir vs Mandal in 2024: are there limits to the BJP’s social engineering?1
The material and the moral: contradictory imperatives and the production of trafficking narratives in South India1
Shifting political landscapes in post-370 abrogation Kashmir: an analysis of emerging dynamics and implications1
Asia after Europe: imagining a continent in the long twentieth century1
Informing or campaigning? The narrative of the state of electoral politics in election posters in rural Pakistan1
Reflections on Kasia Paprocki's Threatening dystopias1
Introduction – new forms of anti-Muslim violence in India: Hindu Xenophobia in the post-instrumental Era1
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
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
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
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