Centre for Comparative Literature

South Asia Research, Volume 42, Issue 1, Page 21-39, February 2022. In January 2016, Iran, India and Afghanistan signed a trilateral economic agreement on developing the Chabahar Port in south-eastern Iran. This project holds immense economic and geopo…

South Asia Research, Volume 42, Issue 1, Page 7-20, February 2022. This article discusses two prominent protest movements in India responding to nuclear energy expansion, protests related to the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project in Tamil Nadu and the Ja…

South Asia Research, Volume 42, Issue 1, Page 109-120, February 2022. Celebrated as a nutrition champion, Odisha state in India has achieved significant improvements in nutrition of its women and children. The overall progress, however, masks familiar …

South Asia Research, Volume 42, Issue 1, Page 93-108, February 2022. Colonialism in the nineteenth century brought a new ‘space’ for lunatics in British India. The Northeastern province witnessed the establishment of a lunatic asylum in 1876 at Tezpur …

South Asia Research, Volume 42, Issue 1, Page 76-92, February 2022. This article is based on field research investigating levels of ecoliteracy and associating factors among four tribal groups in Jharkhand and West Bengal, involving 360 respondents fro…

South Asia Research, Volume 42, Issue 1, Page 40-55, February 2022. This article focuses on the Sealdah railway station in Calcutta, West Bengal, as a site of refugee ‘settlement’ in the aftermath of British India’s partition. From 1946 to the late 196…

South Asia Research, Volume 42, Issue 1, Page 56-75, February 2022. In the context of larger discussions of how education, employment opportunities and social mobility processes intersect, this article presents micro-evidence to interrogate the role of…