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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Colonizing Kashmir: state-building under Indian occupation Colonizing Kashmir: state-building under Indian occupation , by Hafsa Kanjwal, Stanford, Stanford University P20
Political conflict in Pakistan Political conflict in Pakistan , by Mohammad Waseem, London, Hurst, 2021, 576 pp., £35.00 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-787-38400-219
Childlessness in Bangladesh: intersectionality, suffering and resilience Childlessness in Bangladesh: intersectionality, suffering and resilience , by Papreen Nahar, Lon14
Hindus in India, Bengalis in Bengal: the role of religious and regional identities in West Bengal politics13
Threatening dystopias11
Foreign intervention, executive corruption, and economic growth in Afghanistan10
Uprooted when settled: Koonj and Kuku in the changing migrating identity of Gujjars and Bakerwals, the transhumant pastoralist of Jammu an8
Voting for security: evidence from a Maoist-affected region in India7
The National Register of Citizens (NRC) in India and the potential for statelessness in situ: a cautionary tale from Assam7
Migration, patriarchy and ‘modern’ Islam: views from left behind wives in rural northern Bangladesh7
Musicoplia in Mumbai: performing subjects and the metropolitan unconscious6
Enhancing environmental performance: evidence from SAARC Countries6
Devotional contextures: the māla songs and Muslim ethical formation in contemporary Kerala5
A study of risk perception of radiofrequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) exposure from mobile phones and base stations in India5
India and Africa in the pandemic imagination5
Encountering the state: situated strategies and perspectives of Tanchangya villagers in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh5
Pakistan state practices in Gilgit-Baltistan: a paradox?4
Lives of circumcised and veiled women: a global-Indian interplay of discourses and narratives4
Digitalization and Informality in media industries: beyond the platform-portal divide?4
Resistance as negotiation: making states and tribes in the margins of modern India4
On becoming a demanding Community: Neelam and its March for Justice4
Correction4
On-going Shaheen Bagh: collective creation, newness and solidarity4
The dynamic of stepwise migrations of Nepalese high-skilled migrants via the Middle East4
Neoliberal city and exclusive communities: the politics of contemporary urbanisation in northern India4
Dharmaśāstra and the legal personality of deities in the Ayodhya verdicts (2010 & 2019)3
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
Painting stories: lives and legacies from an Indian crafts village Painting stories: lives and legacies from an Indian crafts village , by Helle Bundgaard, Toronto, Univ3
Chronotopes of sovereign power in In the Name of the Nation3
Reordering Adivasi worlds: representation, resistance, memory Reordering Adivasi worlds: representation, resistance, memory , by Sangeeta Dasgupta, New Delhi, Oxford Uni3
In the name of the father? Northeast India and problems of national kinship3
Muslim New Womanhood in Bangladesh3
‘ Randua on the bench’: examining the colonial and post-colonial roots of contemporary forced bachelorhood and vigilantism in the Agrarian North2
Thief plates: the mediation of extortion in the rickshaw business in Dhaka, Bangladesh2
Caste and politics in (West) Bengal: in conversation with Sekhar Bandyopadhyay2
Sexuality reimagined: MSM in modern India2
The Politics of love in Myanmar: LGBT mobilization and human rights as a way of life2
Books Available for Review2
Crooked cats: beastly encounters in the Anthropocene2
‘New’ terrains of precarity – gig work in India2
Divorcing Traditions: Islamic marriage law and the making of Indian secularism2
The Covid-19 pandemic and governance dimensions of crisis response in developing countries: evidence from Sri Lanka2
Bottom-up imaginaries: examining discursive construction of social media roles and affordances in India2
‘Still disappeared’: reconstructing the 1990 ‘truth commission’ in Nepal2
Memory of landscapes: nostalgia, migration and the exilic memory of the East Bengali refugees in Dandakaranya2
Performing sovereign aspirations: Tamil insurgency and postwar transition in Sri Lanka2
Language ideologies and the vernacular in colonial and postcolonial South Asia2
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
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
Identifying and regulating religion in India: law, history and the place of worship2
Surrender, rehabilitation and hybrid regimes: the making of the northeast frontier2
Being seen: the political and bureaucratic entanglements of Muslim women in West Bengal1
Subcontinental drift: domestic politics and India’s foreign policy1
Reflections on Kasia Paprocki's Threatening dystopias1
Deformed bodies and the decolonial turn: unthinking and rethinking the colonial episteme in animal’s people1
Kashmir after 2019: completing the partition1
Police matters: the everyday state and caste politics in South India, 1900–19751
Shifting political landscapes in post-370 abrogation Kashmir: an analysis of emerging dynamics and implications1
Archive of tongues: an intimate history of brownness1
Networks, space and belonging: the Marwaris in Manipur1
Of histories (un)shared: India – Pakistan, postage stamps, and 18571
Marketing affect: mapping the centredness of the election campaign through a comparison of party strategies in the Delhi assembly elections1
Undignified names: caste, politics, and everyday life in North India1
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
Books Available for Review1
Introduction to the BASAS 2021 special section1
Healing at the periphery: ethnographies of Tibetan medicine in India1
Muslim Woman/Muslim women: lived experiences beyond religion and gender in South Asia and its diasporas1
Intimacy and industry: the multiple heterosexual intimacies shaping cycle rickshaw men’s labor and migration in India1
Courting agency: gender and divorce in an English sharia council1
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
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
Why the digital classroom is a bad model for digital learning1
Hailing the state: Indian democracy between elections Hailing the state: Indian democracy between elections , by Lisa Mitchell, Durham, Duke University Press, 2023, xvii1
Political parties and initial COVID-19 policies: subnational trends in India1
Nongra Kaj / ‘dirty work’: caste, colonialism and entrapment in Bangladesh1
The politics of hope1
A small car for a small family: building India’s first ‘people’s car’1
Voices of dissent Voices of dissent , Romila Thapar, Kolkata, Seagull Books, 2020, viii + 164 pp., ₹304 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-85742-862-21
Gendering the everyday state: Muslim women, claim-making & brokerage in India1
Poetics and politics of post-partition cultural memories in Kamila Shamsie’sKartography1
Creating the Universe: Depictions of the Cosmos in Himalayan Buddhism1
Informing or campaigning? The narrative of the state of electoral politics in election posters in rural Pakistan1
Caste, marginalisation, and resistance: the politics of identity of the Naths (Yogis) of Bengal and Assam1
History, Memory and Memorabilia: Kamala Dasgupta and the Politics of Remembering Revolutionary Bengal1
Dirty politics and political care in local politics: gendered barriers to moral boundary crossing in Dehradun, India1
Muslim marriages, the South African state and the courts: between limbo, liberation, and the spaces for contestation in-between1
Critical analysis of debates on Tamil populism: perspectives from the field1
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