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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 0.841) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Sabyn Javeri
Published in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Scripts of Power: Writing, Language Practices, and Cultural History in Western India South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Sanjukta Poddar
Published in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Preserving the Bannuwal Identity: Post-Partition Bannu Refugees South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) 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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The Slow Death of the Diorama: Tribal and Ethnographic Museums in India since Independence South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) 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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When They Know Us: Do Dalit Lives Matter? South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) 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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Communal Geographies: Space, Identity and Electoral Constituency in Colonial North India South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) 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 0.841) 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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Forging Communal Space: Negotiating Streets and Practices in Delhi, 1922–65 South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) 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: An Introduction South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) 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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Cartographic Anxiety on the Thar Desert: The Border Security Force and Jaisalmer’s Tanot Mata Mandir South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) 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 0.841) 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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Mill, Market, Mandir, Masjid: The Geographies of Communal Conflict in Colonial Bombay, c. 1929–39 South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) 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 0.841) 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 0.841) 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 0.841) 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 0.841) 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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The ‘Migrant-Leper’ as the Undeserving Outsider: Historicising Leprosy Policy in Delhi, 1920–60 South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) 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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Transformation of the Deities: Temples, Caste and Identity in Goa South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) 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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Siraiki Language Speakers in London: A Case Study South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) 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 0.841) 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 0.841) 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 0.841) 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 0.841) 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...
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Suffering, Survival and Sustenance: Meos’ Post-Partition Experiences in Pakistan South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) Pub Date : 2023-11-19 Ilyas Chattha
More than half a million Meos from the former princely states of Alwar and Bharatpur and the Gurgaon district of the former province of East Punjab, facing discrimination, hostility and violence in...
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Refugee Cities: How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi
Published in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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‘Satrah Din, Satrah Saal’: Media, Propaganda and Virtual Warfare in the India-Pakistan War of 1965 South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Meher Ali
The 1965 India-Pakistan War, also known as the Second Kashmir War or the ‘Seventeen-Day War’, is usually understood through the lens of military history, regional geopolitics and the long-standing ...
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Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy and Saintly Affects in Pakistan South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Nada Raza
Published in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The 2022 State Elections in Uttar Pradesh and the RSS-isation of the BJP South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Shashank Chaturvedi, David N. Gellner, Sanjay Kumar Pandey
Since 2014, the BJP has become increasingly dominant in Uttar Pradesh, India, a state where, as recently as 2012, its vote share had slumped to 15 percent. This paper examines, through ethnographic...
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Going Wild on Instagram: Tiger Safaris and India’s Protected Areas in the Age of Social Media South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Aileen Blaney
Through the lens of tiger photography on Instagram, this paper investigates a desire for wilderness without the human footprint; based on a false separation between nature and society, this aspirat...
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The Ungrudging Indian: The Political Economy of Salt in India, c. 1878–1947 South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) Pub Date : 2023-10-29 Miles Taylor
This article investigates the long background to Mohandas K. Gandhi’s choice of salt as a symbol of protest against British colonial rule. Arguably the largest of all the colonial monopolies in Ind...
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Museums and the Fashioning of National History in Postcolonial Pakistan South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Mrinalini Venkateswaran
This article uses the deliberations of the Museums Association of Pakistan to demonstrate the collaborative and multidisciplinary nature of national history-writing that took place in the wake of P...
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Friendly Nations and Open Borders: Gender, Caste and Sacredness at the India-Nepal Border South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Bhoomika Joshi
The postcolonial legacy of India’s borderlands is a legacy of othering, particularly of the religious other (meaning, other than Hindu). The ‘friendly’ India-Nepal border, however, negotiates the s...
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Setting India on the Wrong Path: Robert McCarrison’s Goitre Research, 1906–35 South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Ashok Malhotra
This article examines how Dr. Robert McCarrison’s goitre research in British India in the early twentieth century established his credentials as a medical researcher. It argues that the recognition...
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Monopoly, Excise and the Salt Supply Conundrum in British India South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Neeta Sanghi
This paper relies on hitherto unexplored archival sources to understand the origin of differentiated systems for collecting salt revenue in different regions of colonial India. It finds that the go...
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Castoffs of Capital: Work and Love Among Garment Workers in Bangladesh South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Dina M. Siddiqi
Published in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (Vol. 46, No. 4, 2023)
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Salt Workers in Contemporary South India: Change and Continuity South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Arularasan G., Balaharish V., Senthil Babu D.
Monopolies of different kinds have remained a constant factor in the history of the salt industry in India. The available literature focuses on the economic aspects of the industry and not on labou...
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Introduction: Salt, Protest and Public Health in Modern India South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) Pub Date : 2023-09-10 Tanuja Kothiyal, Miles Taylor
Salt played a vital role in social, political, economic and cultural life in South Asia. This special issue brings together multiple perspectives on salt, highlighting its place in shaping state po...
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A Precarious Trade: The English East India Company and Its Interventions in the Balasore Salt Trade South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Arijita Manna
The salt trade in early colonial Orissa was shaped by its unique landscape with intersecting river valleys, forested plateaus, and a long coastline where salt was produced. In the late eighteenth c...
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Salt and the National Imaginary: The Photojournalism of the Dandi Satyagraha South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Elisa deCourcy, Miles Taylor
This article looks at how Gandhi used the Dandi Salt Satyagraha as a site for imagining anti-colonial nationalism. We focus on the visual dimensions of the Salt March and the divergent ways in whic...
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Salt, Sovereignty and Law in Colonial India: The Case of Rajputana Salt in the Late Nineteenth Century South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Tanuja Kothiyal
This article explores salt as a substance that lay at the heart of discussions around sovereignty, jurisdiction, criminality and control. Tracing salt administration in late nineteenth-century Rajp...
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Preface South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) Pub Date : 2023-08-20 Miles Taylor, Tanuja Kothiyal
Published in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (Vol. 46, No. 4, 2023)
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Salt: An Afterword South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) Pub Date : 2023-08-15 David Arnold
Published in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (Vol. 46, No. 4, 2023)
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‘Social Media Is the Second Ambedkar’: Bhim Army and Social Media Mobilisation in North India South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Shantanu Kulshreshth
Understanding the increasing Dalit activism on social media through the lens of publics and counter-publics, this paper shows how the Bhim Army, a popular on-ground Dalit organisation in North Indi...
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Imaging ‘Slow Violence’ in the Jharia Coalfields of India: Disrupting Energy Modernity through Photography South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Meenakshi S., Krupa Shah
The paper contributes to the field of Energy Humanities from an often under-discussed Global South perspective, foregrounding cultural productions around coal extraction as a potential tool for dis...
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‘Purify the Deval and Devi’: Dalits and Politics of Hindu Social Reform in Hyderabad, 1920–28 South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Venna Abhilash
This paper compares the efforts and vision of Dalit and Hindu social reformers in princely Hyderabad during the 1920s, focusing on three critical aspects of Brahmanical Hinduism: space, practice, a...
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Reimagining Hindu Mythology for the Diasporic Queer Body: Discursive Materiality in Vivek Shraya’s She of the Mountains South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Tharini Viswanath
This article explores what it means to be queer, Indian and brown in a diasporic context through the lens of young adult fiction. Western discourses often offer an insufficient set of resources for...
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Lifelines: The Traffic of Trauma South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) Pub Date : 2023-07-09 Waqas Butt
Published in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (Vol. 46, No. 5, 2023)
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Negotiating Power and Constructing the Nation: Engineering in Sri Lanka South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) Pub Date : 2023-07-09 Benedikt Korf
Published in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (Vol. 46, No. 5, 2023)
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Religious Nationalism, Christianisation and Institutionalisation of Indigenous Faiths in Contemporary Arunachal Pradesh, India South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) Pub Date : 2023-07-09 Bhaswati Borgohain, Mekory Dodum
The paper examines the interface of indigenous faiths with the twin forces of Hindu religious nationalism and Christianity, and the eventual institutionalisation of the former in Arunachal Pradesh,...
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Sufis as Sacred Props: Hagiographical Transmutation of Shāh Ḥusayn (945/1538–1008/1599) South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Saima Perveen, Ahmad Hassan
Abstract Sufism has been subjected to reformist ideas, whether by the colonial Orientalists or the post-colonial Islamic Republic of Pakistan. This research investigates the process of colonial and post-colonial reformism through the hagiographical transmutation of a malāmatī Qādirī Sufi, Shāh Ḥusayn. It observes that the idea of colonial reformism cannot be thoroughly applied in this case—the post-colonial
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‘Modi’-fied Beliefs: Assessing Cognitive Dissonance in Populist Voting Behaviour in India South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Vibhor Mathur
Voting is a multifaceted decision that involves choosing a leader/party in spite of not agreeing with all that they represent. How then do voters deal with the aspects that they do not like? Using ...
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Corporate Brahminism and Tech Work: Caste in a Modern Indian Profession South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 S. Shakthi
This article investigates caste dynamics within the information technology (IT) industry in Chennai. While there has been considerable commentary on the dominance of ‘upper’ castes within the indus...
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Christian Women’s Journals and Vernacular Christianity: A Case Study of Vivekavathi in Telugu-Speaking Regions South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) Pub Date : 2023-07-02 Chakali Chandra Sekhar
This article investigates the Vivekavathi journal, established in 1909 by Protestant Christian female missionaries for women readers in the Telugu-speaking regions of the Madras Presidency, India. ...
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Muslim Household, Nation and Urdu in Television Dramas of Pakistan South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Razak Khan
Abstract The article explores the genealogies of Muslim cultural and Urdu language reform in late nineteenth century colonial India and traces its post-colonial trajectories in contemporary public culture in Pakistan. It does so by analysing the language and gender politics of Urdu in two Pakistani TV dramas, Aangan Terha (Crooked Courtyard), written by Anwar Maqsood and screened on the government-run
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Between Globalising Religions and Embodying Asia: Imagining Japan in Bengal South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Varun Vivian Mallik
This article subjects the varied meanings that Bengalis gave to their imaginations of Japan during the Swadeshi Movement (1905–11) to close scrutiny. It does so by contextualising it within the att...
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The Home and the World: Queering Diaspora and Recasting the Nation in Ananda Devi’s Indian Tango South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Kritish Rajbhandari
This article attends to the legacies of Indian Ocean migrations in the construction of women as integral to the territorial sense of Indian nationhood. Specifically, it examines Mauritian writer An...
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Creating an Oral Map: ‘Living On’ after the Nellie Massacre, 1983 South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Jabeen Yasmeen
How do survivors of violence process their experiences of trauma when they continue to live in and identify the place of the attack as their home? While narrating the 1983 Nellie Massacre, survivor...
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‘To Kiss or Not to Kiss?’ Cinema, Vulgarity and Marathi Manus in 1950s and 1960s Maharashtra South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Shailaja Paik
Abstract Critiques of vulgarity, sexuality and class featured prominently in the social, cultural and intellectual life of post-Independence India. This article focuses on the discourse of chumban bandi (banning kissing) in the 1950s and 1960s Maharashtra and analyses how it became a particularly unique index of heightened transgressive pleasure. I situate this discourse within a larger public debate
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Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) Pub Date : 2023-05-21 Thomas Cowan
Published in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (Vol. 46, No. 3, 2023)
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Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (IF 0.841) Pub Date : 2023-05-21 Navaneetha Mokkil
Published in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (Vol. 46, No. 3, 2023)