Contemporary South Asia, Volume 28, Issue 3 (2020)

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Why Muslims join the Muslim wing of the RSS
Felix Pal
Pages: 275-287
Published online: 07 Jun 2020
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The Indian military and environmental affairs: an analysis through the lens of military change
Dhanasree Jayaram
Pages: 288-303
Published online: 11 Jun 2020
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Digital inclusion challenges in Bangladesh: the case of the National ICT Policy
Abdul Aziz
Pages: 304-319
Published online: 22 Jul 2020
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The hydro-social dynamics of exclusion and water insecurity of Dalits in peri-urban Kathmandu Valley, Nepal: fluid yet unchanging
Anushiya Shrestha, Deepa Joshi & Dik Roth
Pages: 320-335
Published online: 31 May 2020
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Pakistan caught between Iran and Saudi Arabia
Zahid Shahab Ahmed & Shahram Akbarzadeh
Pages: 336-350
Published online: 16 Jun 2020
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Pakistan’s grand strategy: the poverty of imagination
Wali Aslam & Bradley A. Thayer
Pages: 351-358
Published online: 17 Feb 2020
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Special Section: British Association of South Asian Studies Annual Conference 2019 Guest edited by Tom Widger

Introduction
Introduction to the BASAS 2019 special section
Ben Campbell, Raihana Ferdous, Nayanika Mookherjee & Tom Widger
Pages: 359-361
Published online: 04 Aug 2020
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Claiming crisis: narratives of tension and insurance in rural India
Tim van de Meerendonk
Pages: 362-373
Published online: 05 Aug 2020
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Public sector employment, class mobility, and differentiation in a tribal coal mining village in India
Itay Noy
Pages: 374-391
Published online: 04 Aug 2020
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‘Give me the space to live’: trauma, casted land and the search for restitution among the Meghwal survivors of the Dangawas massacre
Sandhya Fuchs
Pages: 392-407
Published online: 04 Aug 2020
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Review Article

Review Article
The return of the 1990s in Kashmir
Generation of rage in Kashmir, by David Devadas, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2018, 223 pp., ₹495, ISBN 978-0-199-47799-9Paradise at war: a political history of Kashmir, by Radha Kumar, New Delhi, Aleph, 2018, 394 pp., ₹799, ISBN 978-9-388-29212-2Love, loss and longing in Kashmir, by Sahba Husain, New Delhi, Zubaan, 2019, 228 pp., ₹595, ISBN 978-9-385-93287-8
Basharat Ali
Pages: 408-411
Published online: 01 Aug 2020
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Delusional states: feeling rule and development in Pakistan’s northern frontier
by Nosheen Ali, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, 325 pp., ISBN 978-1-108-49744-2
Anna-Maria Walter & Sohaib Bodla
Pages: 412-413
Published online: 07 Aug 2020
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The next billion users: Digital life beyond the West
by Payal Arora, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2019, 269 pp., $ 35 USA, ISBN 978-0-674-98378-6
Ratan Kumar Roy
Pages: 413-414
Published online: 27 Jul 2020
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Violent conjunctures in democratic India
by Amrita Basu, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2015, xxviii+334 pp., ISBN 978-1-107-46132-1
Vijendra Singh
Pages: 414-415
Published online: 27 Jul 2020
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Paradoxes of the popular: crowd politics in Bangladesh
by Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2019, xiii + 245 pp., ISBN 978-1-5036-0947-1
Alif Shahed
Pages: 415-416
Published online: 04 Aug 2020
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Men and feminism in India
edited by Romit Chowdhury and Zaid Al Baset, London, Routledge, 2018, xii + 256 pp., £125.00 ISBN 978-1-138-21038-7
Khalaf Mohamed Abdellatif
Pages: 416-417
Published online: 27 Jul 2020
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Mapping power: the political economy of electricity in India’s states
by Navroz K. Dubash, Sunila S. Kale and Ranjit Bharvirkar, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2018, 380 pp., INR1195.00, ISBN 978-0-19-948782-0
David Singh
Pages: 418-419
Published online: 29 Jul 2020
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The archive of loss: lively ruination in mill land Mumbai
by Maura Finkelstein, Durham, Duke University Press, 2019, 264 pp., $26.95, ISBN 978-1-478-00398-4
Jonathan Galton
Pages: 419-420
Published online: 29 Jul 2020
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The gender of caste: representing Dalits in print
by Charu Gupta, Seattle, The University of Washinton Press, 2016, xv+336pp., ISBN 978-0-295-74422-3
Pravati Dalua
Pages: 420-421
Published online: 18 Aug 2020
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Living with oil & coal: Resource politics and militarization in Northeast India
by Dolly Kikon, Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2019, xi+189 pp., $95, paperback edition, $30, ISBN 978-0-295-74395-0
Nabanita Sharma
Pages: 421-422
Published online: 29 Jul 2020
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Depression in Kerala: Ayurveda and mental health care in 21st century India
by Claudia Lang, London, Routledge, 2018, x + 322 pp., £ 96.00, ISBN 978-1-138-48280-7.
Shilpa Krishna
Pages: 422-423
Published online: 29 Jul 2020
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Lord Cornwallis is dead: the struggle for democracy in the United States and India
by Nico Slate, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2019, 372 pp, £‌31.95 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-674-98344-1
Silas Webb
Pages: 423-424
Published online: 29 Jul 2020
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Books Available for Review
Pages: 425-426
Published online: 21 Sep 2020
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Correction
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Published online: 14 Jul 2020
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