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Catalysing Social Work Expertise: Connecting Science and Sarvodaya in Post-Independence India South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-15 Julia Kowalski
Throughout the decades following Independence, Indian experts in social and economic development fiercely debated the definition of social work. This article analyses materials from a Working Group...
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Bazaar Lives: Calcutta, New Urban Form and Spatial Experience: 1890–1940 South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Chris McConville, Robert Pascoe
South Asian cities share a contested late colonial history. Calcutta (Kolkata) occupies a distinctive place in their emergence as modernising urban centres. Instead of viewing changes in Calcutta’s...
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Reformation and Modernity: Catholic Printing in Kerala in the Nineteenth Century South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-02 Subin Scaria, Asha S.
In examining the religious implications of printing, there is a scholarly consensus that Protestant Christianity, rather than Catholicism, played a central role in popularising print technology by ...
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Designing a Modern Self: The English Travels of Pandita Ramabai and Krishnabhabini Das South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-02 Aarti Wani, Subarna Bhattacharya
In 1882, Krishnabhabini Das travelled to England and wrote a travelogue, Englandey Bangamahila (A Bengali Lady in England) in Bengali. A year later in 1883, Pandita Ramabai also travelled to Englan...
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Smart Cities, Surveillance and Speed in Imphal, Manipur South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Duncan McDuie-Ra
Common across India’s Smart Cities Mission (SCM) projects are ‘smart’ components added to existing surveillance infrastructure, termed surveillant assemblages here. Surveillant assemblages resonate...
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The Sex Worker That She Is Not: Suggestion, Risk and Public Femininity in Contemporary Hindi Cinema South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Ananya Dasgupta
This paper argues for the significance of sex work as a figurative and affective reference point in the production of ideas of romance, risk and respectability in public culture through a reading o...
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Women Reading/Women Writing: Anxiety and Āzādī in Twentieth Century Urdu Pulp Fiction South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-20 Afroz Taj
Anglophone pulp fiction has been identified by Paula Rabinowitz as an important site for the production of modernity. I argue that Urduphone novels written by and for women likewise grappled with c...
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The Representations of Faith and Belonging: Locating Sri Lankan Muslim Women in Ameena Hussein’s The Moon in the Water South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-28 Sk Sagir Ali
The study examines Ameena Hussein’s 2009 novel, The Moon in the Water, with the objective of unveiling an alternative form of religious faith and belonging among Sri Lankan Muslim women. This inves...
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Introduction: Writing Muslim Women in South Asia South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-21 Fatima Naveed, Sheelalipi Sahana, Zehra Kazmi
Published in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Between Sādhū and Darwesh: Storytelling and Social Reform in S. uġhrā Humāyūñ Mirzā’s Mohinī (1929) South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Nazia Akhtar
Ṣuġhrā Humāyūñ Mirzā (1884–1958) was a reformer, journalist, writer and traveller from the erstwhile princely state of Haidarābād, Dakkan. She wrote prolifically and used her fiction and non-fictio...
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Angel Undone: Interrogating Hyderabadi Muslim Femininity, Colonial Modernity and Sharafat in Zohra South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-21 Zehra Kazmi
Zeenuth Futehally’s understudied Zohra (1951) has generated some renewed interest due to its representation of Muslim womanhood amidst political and cultural change in South Asia. I examine how the...
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Reconciling Religion, Reform and Modernity: A Study of Early Muslim Women’s Periodicals from South India South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-21 B. S. Sherin
This study analyses the women’s periodicals that were in circulation among the Muslims of Kerala, South India, during the early twentieth century. They were published by small-scale print houses an...
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The Many Bismils of Today: Ram Prasad ‘Bismil’, ‘Bismil’ Azimabadi and Recovering the Legacy of a Muslim Intellectual South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-21 Krupa Shandilya
This essay argues that the misattribution of Bismil Azimabadi’s ghazal, ‘Sarfaroshī kī Tamannā’, to Ram Prasad ‘Bismil’ in contemporary India is the work of two poetry anthologies—Krāntī Gītāñjalī ...
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Progressive Laments and/on Partition: The Cost of Freedom in Khadija Mastur’s Aangan (1962) South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-14 Fatima Zehra Naveed
During the 1947 Partition, the new manifesto of the All-India Progressive Writers’ Association (PWA), which had committed to portraying the ‘radical changes’ within Indian society, demanded ‘neutra...
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Whatever Happened to Chand Bibi Sultan? Narratives of a Deccan Warrior Queen South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Sarah Waheed
Drawing from Persian, Urdu, Dakkhani and Marathi sources, this article examines narratives about the sixteenth century Queen-Regent of Ahmadnagar and Bijapur, Chand Bibi (1550–1600), who was also w...
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‘If Only That Pitiless Blade Had Pierced My Own Heart and Eyes’: Mughal Royal Women’s Grief as a Form of Political Rhetoric South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Amanda Caterina Leong
Royal Mughal women have been acknowledged as powerful historical figures in the early modern Persianate world. This article provides a more concrete understanding of the extent and nuances of their...
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Correction South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-09
Published in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Writing Rokeya: Muslim Women’s Life-Writing, Intergenerational Camaraderie and Activism in Twentieth Century Bengal South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Sreejata Paul
This paper showcases how the intersubjective is at the heart of women’s associations through Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s nurturance and support of younger colleagues in colonial Bengal. Arguing that ...
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Text and Tradition: The Dynasty of Villarvattom among Syrian Christians in Kerala, India South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 P.K. Sreekumar, A.Y. Eldhose
The present paper introduces, inventories and interrogates prevailing narratives about the complex trajectories through which a putative Syrian Christian dynasty named Villarvattom has taken root i...
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The Architecture of Laila’s World in Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 Sheelalipi Sahana
Attia Hosain’s Partition novel, Sunlight on a Broken Column (1961), offers possibilities for the physical structure of the home to be analysed through a spatial lens to decode architectural metapho...
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Za Nur Jahan Begum ain Sara Abad: Viewing Inscription and Reading Architecture in the Caravanserai of a Mughal Empress South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Parshati Dutta
There has been no dearth of Mughal women in positions of immense power, but their histories have been limited by a shortage of credible, primary sources, and their gendered and colonial readings. T...
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Shame and Safety Pins: Dress Controversy and ‘Moral Technologies’ in 1900s Urdu Magazines for Women South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Eve Tignol
This article interrogates the changing bodily practices of shame (sharm) in colonial India at a time when a Muslim national identity was being shaped and gender expectations were being questioned w...
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Ambiguous Identity and Uncertain Belonging: Assessing the Lives of Undocumented Brihannalas in the Backdrop of the COVID-19 Pandemic South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-16 Aniket Nandan, Swarupa Deb
This study explores the predicament faced by the undocumented Brihannala community in the north-eastern state of Tripura, India, in the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, foregrounding their gender...
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Micro Partitions: Interrogating ‘Punjabi Refugee’ Identities South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Anjali Gera Roy
This special section on micro partitions follows ‘the reduction in scale’ from macro in national to meso in regional and micro in micro-regional histories in the field of Partition studies through ...
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‘Development Has Gone Crazy’: The Gujarat Model of ‘Unequal’ Development through Neoliberalism and Hindutva South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Rakib Akhtar
Since the mid 1990s, the western Indian state of Gujarat has been continuously led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a Right-wing Hindu nationalist political party. The BJP has aggressively purs...
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Gender, Dissent and the Afterlives of the Pakistan Movement: Fatima Jinnah in the 1965 Elections South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Aalene Mahum Aneeq
This article focuses on Fatima Jinnah’s politics in postcolonial Pakistan. Widely hailed as the ‘Mother of the Nation’ in contemporary Pakistan, Fatima Jinnah harbours immense symbolic significance...
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Television and Temples: Hindutva and OBC and Adivasi Self-Making in Borderland Gujarat South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-12 Dolly Daftary
This paper describes how Kolis—who are an OBC—and Adivasis in Gujarat negotiate and are constituted by militant Hinduism. Once the anchor of a secular political coalition, the political personhood ...
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The Object as Gift: Practices of Gift Exchange in Awadh in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Nimra Rizvi
This paper examines rituals of gift exchange in the North Indian state of Awadh in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. It draws parallels between the gifting practices of the Nawabs and th...
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The Anagarika’s Lists: Time, Space and Emotions in the ‘Sarnath Notebooks’ South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Frederik Schröer
This article focuses on the plethora of lists that the Sri Lankan Buddhist revivalist Anagarika Dharmapala (1864–1933) composed across his many notebooks. Rather than seeing lists as mere repositor...
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Anthropological Developmentalism: Furer-Haimendorf and the Making of Social Policy in Hyderabad State1 South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Bhangya Bhukya
Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf has left a formidable legacy on the social policy of Hyderabad state, which was ruled by an Indian ruler during British colonial rule. As a field anthropologist, admi...
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Introduction: Between the Field and the Gallery: Exploring Anthropological Knowledge in South Asia South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-24 Arunima Bhattacharyaa, Jesús Cháirez-Garza, William Gould
This special section brings together the work of historians, anthropologists and museologists, exploring how anthropological and sociological knowledge has been produced, consumed and reproduced in...
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The Houseness of the Naga House Museum: Towards a Narrative of the Postcolonial South Asian House Museum South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-24 Akshaya Tankha
This article expands the study of museums and public culture in postcolonial South Asia and the Global South through an exploration of non-state house museums in contemporary Nagaland, a state in n...
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‘The Bad Stock’: Nazi Eugenics and the Growth of Anthropology in Delhi South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-24 Hoda Bandeh-Ahmadi
This article examines connections between biological anthropology in India and Nazi German anthropology, particularly through Profulla Chandra Biswas (1904–84), a Nazi sympathiser and founding head...
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The Brahmanisation of Indian Sociology or the Birth of the Racial Theories of Untouchability South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza
This article shows how untouchability was framed as an ethnographic problem largely through a racial and Brahmanical perspective by looking at some of the main interventions made by British and Ind...
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Engaging with Ethnographic Museum Objects from Erstwhile Naga Hills: From Imperial, Colonial and Postcolonial Eras to Contemporary Reimagining South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Vibha Joshi
The colonial monographs on Naga peoples and the colonial appropriation of artefacts in north-east India enhanced anthropological knowledge in Europe. This paper asks how far the ‘decolonising the m...
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Contemporary Ritual: Teyyam and the Creation of Its Epistemic World South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Gita Jayaraj, Mathangi Krishnamurthy
This article examines the various interpretations of teyyam, a ritual of North Kerala, arguing that new meaning-making practices and fresh experiences of teyyam continue to reinvent the ritual even...
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Sociology and the Vagrant: Beggars, Welfare and Tradition in Writing about the New Citizen in 1950s India South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-17 William Gould
Exploring the work of M.S. Gore and the Delhi School of Social Work on Delhi’s ‘Beggar Problem’, which was published in 1959, this article shows how the ostensibly ‘secular’ solutions to the phenom...
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Hidden Histories of Pakistan: Censorship, Literature, and Secular Nationalism in Late Colonial India South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Sabyn Javeri
Published in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (Vol. 46, No. 6, 2023)
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Scripts of Power: Writing, Language Practices, and Cultural History in Western India South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Sanjukta Poddar
Published in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Slow Death of the Diorama: Tribal and Ethnographic Museums in India since Independence South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Crispin Bates, Aya Ikegame
During colonial times, dioramas were commonly used to portray the diverse peoples of India. They depicted essentialised human types through plaster models in rural settings, engaged in typical acti...
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Preserving the Bannuwal Identity: Post-Partition Bannu Refugees South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Prachi Ratra
This paper deals with Partition refugees from Bannu who identified as Bannuwals and continue to do so. It aims to examine the microhistory of post-Partition Bannu refugees resettled across North In...
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When They Know Us: Do Dalit Lives Matter? South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Jadumani Mahanand
This paper explores the concept of knowing in caste-ridden Dalit lives using the analogy of seeing in the context of the Black African-American racial society, where race is identified primarily th...
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Forging Communal Space: Negotiating Streets and Practices in Delhi, 1922–65 South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Saeed Ahmad
This paper examines space-making in the Jangpura-Bhogal locality of Delhi by documenting communal conflicts in the late 1920s and 1950s. First, it addresses the production of a Hindu religious spac...
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Communal Geographies: Space, Identity and Electoral Constituency in Colonial North India South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Nazima Parveen
The Indian Councils Act, 1909, the Government of India Act, 1919, and the Government of India Act, 1935, defined political space—an arena of political negotiations through electoral representation—...
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Measuring Race, Space and the Citizen: Anthropology and Statistics in Early Post-Independence India South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 William Gould
This article explores how Indian anthropologists employed abstract concepts of ‘space’ and ‘distance’ in the mid twentieth century to reconfigure the racial scientific approaches to caste and commu...
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Cartographic Anxiety on the Thar Desert: The Border Security Force and Jaisalmer’s Tanot Mata Mandir South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Nilanjana Mukherjee
The spatiality of the Tanot Mata Temple, in Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan, places it at the crossroads of religion and nationalism. Firstly, its location near the international border makes it a ...
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The Census amid Language Politics: The Production of Language Data and the Politics of Mother Tongue in the Census of India, Punjab, 1941–71 South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Silvia Tieri
Censuses serve as a reliable basis for policy formulation. However, a census’ objectivity is challenged by its own mission of creating categories to make sense of the reality it is called to docume...
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Communal Geographies: An Introduction South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Charu Gupta, Stephen Legg
This paper introduces a special section comprising eight papers that delve into complex geographies of communal identities in modern South Asia. It situates these papers at a significant intersecti...
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Mill, Market, Mandir, Masjid: The Geographies of Communal Conflict in Colonial Bombay, c. 1929–39 South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Prashant Kidambi
This article reframes a crucial period in the history of popular politics in colonial Bombay. Focusing on Hindu-Muslim antagonism between 1929 and 1939, it highlights the centrality of everyday urb...
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Communal Geographies and Peasant Insurgency in Colonial Myanmar South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Jonathan Saha
This article makes two arguments, one theoretical and the other empirical. The first is that Ranajit Guha’s classic text, Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India, contains genera...
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Persian Literati, Islam and Politics in Early Modern South Asia: Being a Muslim in ‘Abd al-Haqq Dehlawi’s Texts South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Sushmita Banerjee
In the early modern period, Persian scholars deliberated on the complexities in the Islamic doctrines in distinct ways. Several Sufis and scholars engaged in intellectual debates regarding ideal Mu...
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Business as Usual? Bazars and Communalism in Colonial Delhi, 1913–32 South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Anish Vanaik
This paper uncovers a hitherto unnoticed pattern of communal segregation among establishments located in some of Delhi’s most important bazars. It demonstrates that this pattern, emerging between 1...
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Prayers, Not Protests: Christian Internationalism and Young Womanhood in South India South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Sneha Krishnan
Protestant communities in South India were vocal in dissenting against colonial rule and in expressing their discomfort with the demographic politics of nationalist discourse. Within this context, ...
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Transformation of the Deities: Temples, Caste and Identity in Goa South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Parag D. Parobo
This article analyses the history of village deities in Goa from premodern times in order to understand the interactions between received traditions, the temple and the colonial state with regard t...
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The ‘Migrant-Leper’ as the Undeserving Outsider: Historicising Leprosy Policy in Delhi, 1920–60 South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Manas Raturi
Discussions on migration and leprosy in India, largely absent from historical enquiries, feature dominantly in epidemiological studies that frame the migrant with leprosy as a bacterium-carrying ou...
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Siraiki Language Speakers in London: A Case Study South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Nukhbah Taj Langah
This paper discusses the settlement of the first and second generations of Siraiki speakers in London and their attachment to their mother tongue as a key identity marker. Their convoluted Siraiki-...
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Nehruvian Ghosts: Kamal Amrohi’s Film, Mahal (1949) South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Margrit Pernau
The Nehruvian era has been seen as marked by the focus on sovereign human agents, no longer dependent on non-humans and their powers to achieve self-defined goals. This reinforced the distinction b...
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Subregional Memories of an Undivided Rural Punjab: Community, Culture and Identity among the Hindus of Bahawalpur South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Shaifali Arora
This paper revisits Punjab’s ethnic composition at the time of the 1947 Partition of India by tracing the ethnic and cultural experiences of a subregional ethnic group from the princely state of Ba...
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Multani Shikarpuri Migration to Malabar: A Praxis on Homemaking South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Aiswarya Sanath, Anjali Gera Roy
Since time immemorial, Malabar, the fabled port region on the western seaboard of India, has witnessed several waves of migration owing to its expansive trade networks across the Arabian Sea. This ...
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Inventive Indians: Technological Imaginaries and Patenting Activity in Late Colonial India (1911–48) South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Priya Mirza
The Patent Act extended to colonial India in 1859 introduced to Indians the right to file a patent for an invention. The article locates India as a site for invention and innovation, not by looking...