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India in Bengali Travel Writing on Russia in the Twentieth Century: Travelling The World, Writing about Home
South Asia Research, Ahead of Print. This article examines the discourse on India in Bengali travelogues on Russia/the USSR. In the first half of the twentieth century, Russia attracted a particular type of Indian travellers, politically engaged indivi…
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Caste Solidarity and Religiosity among Mumbai Dalits during the Covid Pandemic
South Asia Research, Ahead of Print. This article explores patterns of caste solidarity and religious practices among North Indian Dalits in Mumbai during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing from ethnographic data, it demonstrates how respondents experience…
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Pottery in Telangana: Empirical Evidence of Current and Future Challenges
South Asia Research, Ahead of Print. This article presents and discusses empirical evidence of the socio-economic status of the Kummari potter community in Telangana to highlight the continued primacy of the traditional caste-based occupation as a live…
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Climate Migration in Humayun Kabir’s Men and Rivers: the Padma and Faridpur
South Asia Research, Ahead of Print. The intensely precarious integration in many parts of Bangladesh between life, rivers and water has been reflected in the country’s river novels that describe the experiences of fishermen and riparian peasants. Amon…
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Water Governance in Puducherry
South Asia Research, Ahead of Print. This article retraces the emergence of contemporary water governance in Pondicherry/Puducherry as a case study to illustrate how new forms or shades of participatory management strategies have recently been created …
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Transnational Labour Migration and the Renegotiation of Masculinity by Left-Behind Men in Kerala
South Asia Research, Ahead of Print. This article explores an understudied aspect of women’s transnational labour migration, namely how left-behind men negotiate the changes in their status in the domestic and public spheres when their daughters or wiv…
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Social Change, Employment and Development in Weekly Rural Markets in Odisha
South Asia Research, Ahead of Print. Local rural markets (haats) are considered important spaces of economic and social exchange all over South Asia. Based on a detailed ethnography in four weekly haats in Koraput district of Odisha in India, this arti…
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Social Change, Employment and Development in Weekly Rural Markets in Odisha
South Asia Research, Ahead of Print. Local rural markets (haats) are considered important spaces of economic and social exchange all over South Asia. Based on a detailed ethnography in four weekly haats in Koraput district of Odisha in India, this arti…
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Book review: Swati Ganguly, Tagore’s University: A History of Visva-Bharati, 1921–1961
South Asia Research, Ahead of Print. Swati Ganguly, Tagore’s University: A History of Visva-Bharati, 1921–1961 (Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2022), xx + 488 pp.