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Theatre of Nepal and the people who make it Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 Jessica Sequeira
Published in Contemporary South Asia (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2024)
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Karma and grace: religious difference in millennial Sri Lanka Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 Bhadrajee S. Hewage
Published in Contemporary South Asia (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2024)
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Camp life of Sri Lankan refugees in India Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 Kanav Narayan Sahgal
Published in Contemporary South Asia (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2024)
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Bangladesh on a new journey: moving beyond the regional identity Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 Md. Daloar Hossain
Published in Contemporary South Asia (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2024)
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Freedom Inc. gendered capitalism in new indian literature and culture Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 Shakti Jaising
Published in Contemporary South Asia (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2024)
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Dust on the throne: the search for Buddhism in modern India Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 Amol Nimsadker, Anupreet Singh Tiwana
Published in Contemporary South Asia (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2024)
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Sirens of modernity: world cinema via Bombay Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 Muhammad Asad Latif
Published in Contemporary South Asia (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2024)
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Books Available for Review Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 Raphael Susewind
Published in Contemporary South Asia (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2024)
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Colonial legacies and the British geological survey in cold war South Asia: 1960s–1980s Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-30 Rakesh Ankit
This article explores change and continuity in the institutional objectives and actions of the British Geological Survey across independent South Asian countries, namely India, Pakistan, Afghanista...
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Delineating Dalit trauma: (re)contextualizing cultural trauma, survivor’s guilt and partial privilege in post millennial Dalit women’s memoirs Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-27 Bhattacharya Alankrita, B Meenu
Shilpa Raj’s memoir The Elephant Chaser’s Daughter (2017) and Yashica Dutt’s Coming Out as a Dalit: A Memoir (2019) map a specific kind of individual trauma, along with the cultural trauma that is ...
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Enhancing environmental performance: evidence from SAARC Countries Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Shekar Bose, Asadul Hoque, Olaf Weber
This paper examines the influence of population density, economic growth, and regulatory quality on the environmental performance of five SAARC countries from 2000 to 2020. To this end, fixed and r...
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Linguistic landscaping in Kathmandu’s Thamel ‘Chinatown’: language as commodity in the construction of a cosmopolitan transnational space Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-20 Chonglong Gu
This study explores the linguistic landscape of a new unofficial 'Chinatown' in Kathmandu, Nepal. Located in the tourist hub Thamel, this Chinatown came into being recently because of globalisation...
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Shaping landscapes: transforming ethnic lands into state highways in Nagaland Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-20 Viliebeinuo Medom
Land for the Nagas in Northeastern India reflects the local, culturally shaped concepts of physical space, ethnic relations, and social identity. It embodies the political security and the symbolic...
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The university, student politics, and the ABVP Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Leela Khanna
The rise of Hindu nationalist ideologies in public universities in India has partly been accredited to the growing prominence of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). The ABVP is the stude...
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To be upper caste/to be a victim Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Akhil Kang
By treating the upper caste as an ethnographic category, this article shows what an endeavour of flipping the ethnographic gaze away from Dalits and onto the upper caste looks like. In studying upp...
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‘Agency, voice and choice’: reflecting on assisted reproductive technologies through select Indian films Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-14 Soumya Kashyap, Priyanka Tripathi
The article examines the contested aspects of neoliberalism through cinematic narratives, addressing the issue of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) in India, a debated subject in socio-legal s...
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The BJP’s expansionist strategies in Tamil Nadu (2014 – present) Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-07 Arun Kumar G.
This viewpoint delves into the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) determined efforts to transform itself into a prominent political force in Tamil Nadu, a state dominated by Dravidian parties for over ...
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Critical analysis of debates on Tamil populism: perspectives from the field Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Balu Sunilraj, Rahul N
This study engages with debates on Tamil populism using insights from the field. The initial theorists of Tamil populism characterised it broadly into two — assertive populism propagated by the Dra...
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Shadows at noon: the South Asian twentieth century Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-25 Sanjida Parveen
Published in Contemporary South Asia (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2024)
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The voices of war heroines: sexual violence, testimony, and the Bangladesh Liberation War Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-25 Rana Abhyendra Singh
Published in Contemporary South Asia (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2024)
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Colonizing Kashmir: state-building under Indian occupation Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-25 Ambreen Agha
Published in Contemporary South Asia (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2024)
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Spatial justice, contested governance and livelihood challenges in Bangladesh the production of counter space Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-25 Anil Kumar Patel
Published in Contemporary South Asia (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2024)
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Hailing the state: Indian democracy between elections Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-25 Chinmaya Lal Thakur
Published in Contemporary South Asia (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2024)
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Migration, regional autonomy, and conflicts in Eastern South Asia: searching for a home(land) Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-25 Dipsikha Acharya
Published in Contemporary South Asia (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2024)
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Home in the world: a memoir Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-25 Yifei Yan
Published in Contemporary South Asia (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2024)
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Under the gun: political parties and violence in Pakistan Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-25 Nazir Ahmad Mir
Published in Contemporary South Asia (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2024)
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Voices of dissent Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-25 Bilal Ahmad Tantray
Published in Contemporary South Asia (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2024)
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Books Available for Review Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-25 Raphael Susewind
Published in Contemporary South Asia (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2024)
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Contestations and contradictions: feminist research on structures and institutions governing sex work in India Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Mirna Guha, Kimberly Walters
Taking exception to the persistent and recurrent exceptionalism of sex work within discourses on anti-trafficking, global health, brahmanical patriarchy and Indian nationalism, this special section...
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Everyday violence and care: insights from fictive kin relations between madams and sex workers in India Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-20 Mirna Guha
This article intervenes in the globally polarised terrain of debates on violence and agency in sex work. With a critical eye on how developmentalism governs these debates, the article explores fict...
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Gendered division of paid, unpaid, and total work in India: who bears more burden? Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-20 Dakrushi Sahu
This study examines the gendered division of paid, unpaid, and total work in contemporary India. We explore this division of work through an analysis of India’s first large-scale time use survey, c...
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Press charges: renegotiating free speech and citizenship in post-partition Delhi Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-20 Rotem Geva
This article examines the conflict between press censorship and free speech in post-partition Delhi, focusing on the Urdu press. It demonstrates how conflicts over free speech became a focal point ...
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Intimacy and industry: the multiple heterosexual intimacies shaping cycle rickshaw men’s labor and migration in India Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Patrick Beckhorn
Indian men who migrated circularly from their village homes to Delhi to pedal cycle rickshaws for work practiced intimate relationships with their wives, sex workers, and middle-class female custom...
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The material and the moral: contradictory imperatives and the production of trafficking narratives in South India Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Kimberly Walters
Transnational anti-trafficking networks seek to ‘rescue’ cisgender women who sell sex in India. This article puzzles out why cis female sex workers might narrate themselves as victims of traffickin...
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When ‘the broken’ breaks through: politics of struggle and solidarity in Manchadikkari Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Sephora Jose
Manchadikkari is a region in central Kerala occupied primarily by Dalit Christian communities. The majority of the people in the area are agricultural daily wage workers who have been economically ...
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Eco-spatial rethinking of two Malayalam movies Kumbalangi Nights and Malik: spatial imagination, solastalgia, and environmental in/justice Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 S. Meenakshi, Krupa Shah
The paper undertakes the eco-spatial re-reading of two Malayalam movies, Kumbalangi Nights (2019) and Malik (2021), using the framework of solastalgia. Solastalgia is an environmental philosophy de...
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Unravelling the constitutional settlement: devolution, democracy and patronage in eastern Sri Lanka Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Bart Klem
Like other conflict-torn societies, Sri Lankans have long sought to build peace through constitutional re-design with devolution of power and minority protections. However, the preoccupation with l...
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House of the people: parliament and the making of Indian democracy Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Shreya Das
Published in Contemporary South Asia (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2024)
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Pakistan’s foreign policy: contemporary developments and dynamics Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Sanjukta Nath
Published in Contemporary South Asia (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2024)
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Bridging neoliberalism and Hindu nationalism: the role of education in bringing about contemporary India Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Sneha Roy
Published in Contemporary South Asia (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2024)
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Forging new partnerships, breaching new frontiers: India's diplomacy during the UPA rule 2004–14 Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Dhanabalan Thangam
Published in Contemporary South Asia (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2024)
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Making bureaucracy work: norms, education and public service delivery in rural India Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Therese Boje Mortensen
Published in Contemporary South Asia (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2024)
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Childlessness in Bangladesh: intersectionality, suffering and resilience Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Anindita Majumdar
Published in Contemporary South Asia (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2024)
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Body on the barricades: life, art and resistance in contemporary India Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Bharti Arora
Published in Contemporary South Asia (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2024)
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Books Available for Review Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Dr Raphael Susewind
Published in Contemporary South Asia (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2024)
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Freedom inc.: gendered capitalism in new Indian literature and culture Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Suryakumar Murugaiah, P. Divakar
Published in Contemporary South Asia (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2024)
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The South Asia Gallery, Manchester Museum Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 William Gould
In February 2023, the Manchester Museum opened its new South Asia Gallery. Co-curated by a collective - 'individuals from British Asian communities in and around Manchester and fellow experts', the...
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Jurisprudence and geography of Hindu majoritarianism: thinking with the 2019 Ayodhya judgement Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Vera Lazzaretti, Knut A. Jacobsen
In this introduction, we first outline the background to this collection of papers and recall some of the conversations that were its genesis, before introducing the questions we wish to address th...
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Consolidating a political dynasty: Abhishek Banerjee, the Trinamool Congress, and the 2023 panchayat elections in West Bengal Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Ritanjan Das, Kenneth Bo Nielsen
In this viewpoint article, we analyse the consolidation of Abhishek Banerjee as the future leader of the Trinamool Congress (TMC), the dominant political party in West Bengal and one of the most in...
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Multilingual education in south Asia: at the intersection of policy and practice Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Gaoxin Li, Jianguang Sun
Published in Contemporary South Asia (Vol. 31, No. 4, 2023)
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Reordering Adivasi worlds: representation, resistance, memory Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Harsh Vikram Singh
Published in Contemporary South Asia (Vol. 31, No. 4, 2023)
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Of histories (un)shared: India – Pakistan, postage stamps, and 1857 Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Sridhar Krishnan
While much has been written about how imperialist and Indian nationalist historiographies have approached 1857, scant attention has been paid to how it has been remembered in Pakistan. This article...
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The dynamic of stepwise migrations of Nepalese high-skilled migrants via the Middle East Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Marko Valenta, Marianne Garvik
This article explores the experiences of Nepalese highly skilled migrants who use temporary migration to the Gulf region as a stepping-stone to further migration to developed countries outside the ...
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Undignified names: caste, politics, and everyday life in North India Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Bhawani Buswala
Focusing on the experiences of the marginalised castes in North India, this article examines the use of given names in intercommunity micro interactions and how it shapes the practices of everyday ...
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Popular geopolitics of ‘nuclear India’: tracing the evolution of India’s ‘regional’ and ‘global’ identities in the English daily The Hindu from 2011–2020 Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Tanvi Pate
Conventional wisdom on India’s nuclear geopolitics takes a top-down approach, foregrounding state perceptions of India’s nuclear role in regional and global politics. This conventional approach ove...
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A preliminary review of India’s rural economic crisis: stagnant wages, piling debt and waning demand Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Isha Gupta
Aggregate growth numbers for India present a positive outlook as its economic momentum builds back and the economy displays full recovery following the Covid-19 crisis. It consequently reflects the...
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Caste and partition in Bengal: the story of Dalit refugees, 1946–1961 Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Soham Jorapur, Antara Chatterjee
Published in Contemporary South Asia (Vol. 31, No. 4, 2023)
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Mother cow, mother India, a multispecies politics of dairy in India Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Hema Vaishnavi Ale
Published in Contemporary South Asia (Vol. 31, No. 4, 2023)
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Renunciation and longing: the life of a twentieth-century Himalayan Buddhist saint Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 V. Kalyani, M. Surya Kumar
Published in Contemporary South Asia (Vol. 31, No. 4, 2023)
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Maritime security complexes of the Indo-Pacific region Contemporary South Asia (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Anmol Mukhia
Published in Contemporary South Asia (Vol. 31, No. 4, 2023)