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  Amanda Gilbertson

  Parul Bhandari. Money, Culture, Class: Elite Women as Modern Subjects [Full text]

  Published in Book Reviews, 18 May 2021
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  Sumeet Mhaskar and Prabodhan Pol

  Satyendra More. The Memoirs of a Dalit Communist: The Many Worlds of R.B. More [Full text]

  Edited and Introduced by Anupama Rao. Translated by Wandana Sonalkar

  Published in Book Reviews, 25 March 2021
• Avishek Jha

  Expanding the Vote Base in Uttar Pradesh: Understanding the RSS-BJP Combined Mobilization Strategies [Full text]

  Published in Free-Standing Articles, 23 March 2021

Latest issue
31 | 2023
Art & Activism in South Asia

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• Nicolas Nercam, Christine Ithurbide and Nicolas Bautès
  Introduction. Situating Artistic Activism in South Asia [Full text]
  Framework, Contextualisation, and Contemporary Approaches

• Articles

• Nicolas Nercam
  Artivism Unveiled: Tracing the Historical and Aesthetic Roots of Artistic Activism in South Asia [Full text]
• Samina Iqbal
  Not So “Silent”: Art, Political Expression and the Subtle Use of the Public Sphere in the Work of Pakistan’s Artivists [Full text]
• Ruhanie Perera
  Embodied Witnessing: Performance Expressions as Acts of Citizenship within the Sri Lankan Context [Full text]
• Joël Cabalion and Julien Jugand
  Bhim Geet and the Ambedkarite Movement: The Genesis of a Cultural Field of Protest [Full text]
• Raphaël Rousseleau
  From Performance to Literature and Cinema: Adivasi Art and Activism, with a Focus on Eastern India [Full text]
• Bhawna Parmar
  Dissent Art in the Digital Age: Insights into the Culture of Artivism on Instagram in India [Full text]

• Interviews

• Laetitia Zecchini
  “When My Own Writing is My Enemy”: Notes on Perumal Murugan and an Interview [Full text]
• Yashadatta Alone and Anupam Roy
  Perspectives on Ambedkarian Aesthetics and Social Movements [Full text]
  A Conversation between Prof. Y. S. Alone and Artist Anupam Roy

• Varia

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    • Shantanu Kulshreshth
      “The State is the Biggest Goonda”: Civic Masculinity, Radical Victimhood, and Power in Bhim Army Discourse [Full text]

  • Book reviews

    • Paro Mishra
      Reena Kukreja. Why Would I Be Married Here? Marriage Migration and Dispossession in Neoliberal India [Full text]
    • Nanjani Gandhi
      Maya Sharma. Footprints of a Queer History: Life Stories from Gujarat [Full text]
    • Cansu Gurkaya
      Jessica Namakkal. Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India [Full text]
    • Virginie Dutoya
      Srila Roy. Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India [Full text]
    • Min Tang
      Sujata Patel, D. Parthasarathy, George Jose. MUMBAI/BOMBAY: Majoritarian Neoliberalassism, Informality, Resistance, and Wellbeing [Full text]
    • Satish Chennur
      Malini Sur. Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border [Full text]
    • Arild Engelsen Ruud
      Subho Basu. Intimation of Revolution: Global Sixties and the Making of Bangladesh [Full text]
    • Shahin Kachwala
      Neeti Nair. Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia [Full text]
    • Jonathan Koshy Varghese
      Nienke Boer. The Briny South: Displacement and Sentiment in the Indian Ocean World [Full text]

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Full text issues

• 31 | 2023
  Art & Activism in South Asia
• 30 | 2023
  The Digitalization of Urban Governance in India
• 29 | 2022
  South Asia in Covid Times
• 28 | 2022
  Subalternity, Marginality, Agency in Contemporary India
• 27 | 2021
  Political Mobilizations of South Asians in Diaspora: Intertwining Homeland Politics and Host-Society Politics
• 26 | 2021
  Engaging the Urban from the Periphery
• 24/25 | 2020
  The Hindutva Turn: Authoritarianism and Resistance in India
• 23 | 2020
  Unique Identification in India: Aadhaar, Biometrics and Technology-Mediated Identities
• 22 | 2019
  Student Politics in South Asia
• 21 | 2019
  Representations of the “Rural” in India from the Colonial to the Post-Colonial
• 20 | 2019
  Sedition, Sexuality, Gender, and Gender Identity in South Asia
• 19 | 2018
  Caste-Gender Intersections in Contemporary India
• 18 | 2018
  Wayside Shrines: Everyday Religion in Urban India
• 17 | 2018
  Through the Lens of the Law: Court Cases and Social Issues in India
• 16 | 2017
  Changing Family Realities in South Asia?
• 15 | 2017
  Sociology of India’s Economic Elites
• 14 | 2016
  Environment Politics in Urban India: Citizenship, Knowledges and Urban Political Ecologies
• 13 | 2016
  Land, Development and Security in South Asia
• 12 | 2015
  On Names in South Asia: Iteration, (Im)propriety and Dissimulation
• 11 | 2015
  Contemporary Lucknow: Life with ‘Too Much History’
• 10 | 2014
  Ideas of South Asia
• 9 | 2014
  Imagining Bangladesh: Contested Narratives
• 8 | 2013
  Delhi's Margins
• 7 | 2013
  The Ethics of Self-Making in Postcolonial India
• 6 | 2012
  Revisiting Space and Place: South Asian Migrations in Perspective
• 5 | 2011
  Rethinking Urban Democracy in South Asia
• 4 | 2010
  Modern Achievers: Role Models in South Asia
• 3 | 2009
  Contests in Context: Indian Elections 2009
• 2 | 2008
  ‘Outraged Communities’
• 1 | 2007
  Migration and Constructions of the Other

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