Centre for Comparative Literature

South Asia Research, Ahead of Print. This article connects the political science literature on small states and the historical coverage of trade in the Indian Ocean to identify a remarkable pattern in foreign relations management of Maldivian geopoliti…

South Asia Research, Ahead of Print. The phenomenon of custodial grandparents has increased in South Asia and elsewhere, partly due to the growing trend of parents migrating for work, but often because of the untimely demise of one or both parents, ill…

South Asia Research, Ahead of Print. The phenomenon of custodial grandparents has increased in South Asia and elsewhere, partly due to the growing trend of parents migrating for work, but often because of the untimely demise of one or both parents, ill…

South Asia Research, Ahead of Print. Existing studies, highlighting that dining out forms an important part of public cultures in India, have focused on the growing influence of consumer cultures on India’s middle classes and their identity formation. …

South Asia Research, Ahead of Print. Nadeera Rupesinghe, Law Making in Dutch Sri Lanka: Navigating Pluralities in a Colonial Society (Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2023), 301 pp.

South Asia Research, Ahead of Print. Amit Ranjan and Diotima Chattoraj (Eds), Migration, Regional Autonomy, and Conflicts in Eastern South Asia. Searching for a Home(land) (Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), xxiii + 337 pp.