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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Political conflict in Pakistan Political conflict in Pakistan , by Mohammad Waseem, London, Hurst, 2021, 576 pp., £35.00 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-787-38400-218
Hindus in India, Bengalis in Bengal: the role of religious and regional identities in West Bengal politics12
Childlessness in Bangladesh: intersectionality, suffering and resilience Childlessness in Bangladesh: intersectionality, suffering and resilience , by Papreen Nahar, Lon11
Colonizing Kashmir: state-building under Indian occupation Colonizing Kashmir: state-building under Indian occupation , by Hafsa Kanjwal, Stanford, Stanford University P11
Threatening dystopias11
Uprooted when settled: Koonj and Kuku in the changing migrating identity of Gujjars and Bakerwals, the transhumant pastoralist of Jammu an7
Enhancing environmental performance: evidence from SAARC Countries7
Madrasas and the making of Islamic womanhood6
Foreign intervention, executive corruption, and economic growth in Afghanistan6
Voting for security: evidence from a Maoist-affected region in India6
The National Register of Citizens (NRC) in India and the potential for statelessness in situ: a cautionary tale from Assam5
Provincial globalization in India: transregional mobilities and development politics4
Pakistan state practices in Gilgit-Baltistan: a paradox?4
The dynamic of stepwise migrations of Nepalese high-skilled migrants via the Middle East4
Migration, patriarchy and ‘modern’ Islam: views from left behind wives in rural northern Bangladesh4
A study of risk perception of radiofrequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) exposure from mobile phones and base stations in India4
Musicoplia in Mumbai: performing subjects and the metropolitan unconscious4
Encountering the state: situated strategies and perspectives of Tanchangya villagers in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh4
Devotional contextures: the māla songs and Muslim ethical formation in contemporary Kerala3
Resistance as negotiation: making states and tribes in the margins of modern India3
Multilingual education in south Asia: at the intersection of policy and practice Multilingual education in south Asia: at the intersection of policy and practice , edite3
India and Africa in the pandemic imagination3
Capsizing the gaze: gender non-conforming communities as monitorial citizens3
Muslim New Womanhood in Bangladesh3
On-going Shaheen Bagh: collective creation, newness and solidarity3
On becoming a demanding Community: Neelam and its March for Justice3
Digitalization and Informality in media industries: beyond the platform-portal divide?3
Neoliberal city and exclusive communities: the politics of contemporary urbanisation in northern India3
Reordering Adivasi worlds: representation, resistance, memory Reordering Adivasi worlds: representation, resistance, memory , by Sangeeta Dasgupta, New Delhi, Oxford Uni2
In the name of the father? Northeast India and problems of national kinship2
Identifying and regulating religion in India: law, history and the place of worship2
‘Still disappeared’: reconstructing the 1990 ‘truth commission’ in Nepal2
‘New’ terrains of precarity – gig work in India2
Surrender, rehabilitation and hybrid regimes: the making of the northeast frontier2
Performing sovereign aspirations: Tamil insurgency and postwar transition in Sri Lanka2
Crooked cats: beastly encounters in the Anthropocene2
Sexuality reimagined: MSM in modern India2
Thief plates: the mediation of extortion in the rickshaw business in Dhaka, Bangladesh2
Chronotopes of sovereign power in In the Name of the Nation2
Painting stories: lives and legacies from an Indian crafts village Painting stories: lives and legacies from an Indian crafts village , by Helle Bundgaard, Toronto, Univ2
Memory of landscapes: nostalgia, migration and the exilic memory of the East Bengali refugees in Dandakaranya2
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‘ Randua on the bench’: examining the colonial and post-colonial roots of contemporary forced bachelorhood and vigilantism in the Agrarian North2
Dharmaśāstra and the legal personality of deities in the Ayodhya verdicts (2010 & 2019)2
Making bureaucracy work: norms, education and public service delivery in rural India Making bureaucracy work: norms, education and public service delivery in rural India 1
Under the gun: political parties and violence in Pakistan Under the gun: political parties and violence in Pakistan , by Niloufer A. Siddiqui, Cambridge, Cambridge Unive1
Beyond religion in India and Pakistan: gender and caste, borders and boundaries1
Networks, space and belonging: the Marwaris in Manipur1
Dirty politics and political care in local politics: gendered barriers to moral boundary crossing in Dehradun, India1
Healing at the periphery: ethnographies of Tibetan medicine in India1
Hailing the state: Indian democracy between elections Hailing the state: Indian democracy between elections , by Lisa Mitchell, Durham, Duke University Press, 2023, xvii1
A small car for a small family: building India’s first ‘people’s car’1
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
Dreaming in the shadow of history: micro-mobilities and belonging in Lucknow1
Being seen: the political and bureaucratic entanglements of Muslim women in West Bengal1
Caste and politics in (West) Bengal: in conversation with Sekhar Bandyopadhyay1
The Politics of love in Myanmar: LGBT mobilization and human rights as a way of life1
Divorcing Traditions: Islamic marriage law and the making of Indian secularism1
Intimacy and industry: the multiple heterosexual intimacies shaping cycle rickshaw men’s labor and migration in India1
Critical analysis of debates on Tamil populism: perspectives from the field1
Why the digital classroom is a bad model for digital learning1
Voices of dissent Voices of dissent , Romila Thapar, Kolkata, Seagull Books, 2020, viii + 164 pp., ₹304 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-85742-862-21
Reflections on Kasia Paprocki's Threatening dystopias1
Marketing affect: mapping the centredness of the election campaign through a comparison of party strategies in the Delhi assembly elections1
The politics of hope1
In the shadow of a sword: the memoir of a woman leader in the LTTE1
Books Available for Review1
Introduction to the BASAS 2021 special section1
The Covid-19 pandemic and governance dimensions of crisis response in developing countries: evidence from Sri Lanka1
Bottom-up imaginaries: examining discursive construction of social media roles and affordances in India1
Taking the bull by its horns: the political economic logics of new farm laws and agrarian dissent in India1
Muslim marriages, the South African state and the courts: between limbo, liberation, and the spaces for contestation in-between1
Political parties and initial COVID-19 policies: subnational trends in India1
Undignified names: caste, politics, and everyday life in North India1
Subcontinental drift: domestic politics and India’s foreign policy1
Police matters: the everyday state and caste politics in South India, 1900–19751
History, Memory and Memorabilia: Kamala Dasgupta and the Politics of Remembering Revolutionary Bengal1
Shiptown: between rural and urban North India1
Poetics and politics of post-partition cultural memories in Kamila Shamsie’sKartography1
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
Books Available for Review1
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