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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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: 978-1-787-38400-216
Threatening dystopias12
Childlessness in Bangladesh: intersectionality, suffering and resilience Childlessness in Bangladesh: intersectionality, suffering and resilience , by Papreen Nahar, Lon12
Foreign intervention, executive corruption, and economic growth in Afghanistan11
Uprooted when settled: Koonj and Kuku in the changing migrating identity of Gujjars and Bakerwals, the transhumant pastoralist of Jammu an10
Enhancing environmental performance: evidence from SAARC Countries8
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
Hindus in India, Bengalis in Bengal: the role of religious and regional identities in West Bengal politics6
Voting for security: evidence from a Maoist-affected region in India6
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
Pakistan state practices in Gilgit-Baltistan: a paradox?4
Neoliberal city and exclusive communities: the politics of contemporary urbanisation in northern India4
Encountering the state: situated strategies and perspectives of Tanchangya villagers in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh4
On becoming a demanding Community: Neelam and its March for Justice4
Digitalization and Informality in media industries: beyond the platform-portal divide?4
The dynamic of stepwise migrations of Nepalese high-skilled migrants via the Middle East4
On-going Shaheen Bagh: collective creation, newness and solidarity4
Resistance as negotiation: making states and tribes in the margins of modern India4
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
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
Surrender, rehabilitation and hybrid regimes: the making of the northeast frontier2
Memory of landscapes: nostalgia, migration and the exilic memory of the East Bengali refugees in Dandakaranya2
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
‘New’ terrains of precarity – gig work in India2
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
Thief plates: the mediation of extortion in the rickshaw business in Dhaka, Bangladesh2
‘ Randua on the bench’: examining the colonial and post-colonial roots of contemporary forced bachelorhood and vigilantism in the Agrarian North2
Crooked cats: beastly encounters in the Anthropocene2
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
Books Available for Review1
Being seen: the political and bureaucratic entanglements of Muslim women in West Bengal1
Hailing the state: Indian democracy between elections Hailing the state: Indian democracy between elections , by Lisa Mitchell, Durham, Duke University Press, 2023, xvii1
Healing at the periphery: ethnographies of Tibetan medicine in India1
Gendering the everyday state: Muslim women, claim-making & brokerage in India1
Creating the Universe: Depictions of the Cosmos in Himalayan Buddhism1
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
Networks, space and belonging: the Marwaris in Manipur1
Undignified names: caste, politics, and everyday life in North India1
Marketing affect: mapping the centredness of the election campaign through a comparison of party strategies in the Delhi assembly elections1
Intimacy and industry: the multiple heterosexual intimacies shaping cycle rickshaw men’s labor and migration in 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
Introduction to the BASAS 2021 special section1
Voices of dissent Voices of dissent , Romila Thapar, Kolkata, Seagull Books, 2020, viii + 164 pp., ₹304 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-85742-862-21
Contestations and contradictions: feminist research on structures and institutions governing sex work in India1
Shifting political landscapes in post-370 abrogation Kashmir: an analysis of emerging dynamics and implications1
Kashmir after 2019: completing the partition1
Political parties and initial COVID-19 policies: subnational trends in India1
Of histories (un)shared: India – Pakistan, postage stamps, and 18571
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
Caste, marginalisation, and resistance: the politics of identity of the Naths (Yogis) of Bengal and Assam1
Poetics and politics of post-partition cultural memories in Kamila Shamsie’sKartography1
Critical analysis of debates on Tamil populism: perspectives from the field1
Nongra Kaj / ‘dirty work’: caste, colonialism and entrapment in Bangladesh1
The politics of hope1
Subcontinental drift: domestic politics and India’s foreign policy1
A small car for a small family: building India’s first ‘people’s car’1
Courting agency: gender and divorce in an English sharia council1
Archive of tongues: an intimate history of brownness1
Informing or campaigning? The narrative of the state of electoral politics in election posters in rural Pakistan1
Police matters: the everyday state and caste politics in South India, 1900–19751
Why the digital classroom is a bad model for digital learning1
History, Memory and Memorabilia: Kamala Dasgupta and the Politics of Remembering Revolutionary Bengal1
Reflections on Kasia Paprocki's Threatening dystopias1
Muslim marriages, the South African state and the courts: between limbo, liberation, and the spaces for contestation in-between1
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