Contemporary South Asia, Volume 29, Issue 3 (2021)

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Marginal gains: borderland dynamics, political settlements, and shifting centre-periphery relations in post-war Nepal
Jonathan Goodhand, Oliver Walton, Jayanta Rai & Sujeet Karn
Pages: 311-329
Published online: 04 Jun 2021
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Transnational land and property disputes: the British-Bangladeshi experience
Md Farid Miah
Pages: 330-342
Published online: 12 Feb 2021
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Where does hybridity originate? Interfacing between local and international actors in Sri Lankan postconflict peacebuilding
Ryo Uchida
Pages: 343-357
Published online: 19 Feb 2021
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The prospects of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC): the importance of understanding western China
Matthew McCartney
Pages: 358-375
Published online: 17 Dec 2020
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The caste question in West Bengal politics: continuing inconsequentiality or rising relevance?
Ayan Guha
Pages: 376-400
Published online: 26 Feb 2021
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Securing health care within a ‘magical’ state: the construction of eligibility in India
Lesley Branagan
Pages: 401-418
Published online: 23 Feb 2021
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Embodied spatial practices in the field: critical ethnographies in village studies from India
Madhumita Biswal
Pages: 419-432
Published online: 22 Feb 2021
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Managing mobility: commuting domestic workers, mobile phones, and women’s ‘honour’ in Kolkata
Lauren Wilks
Pages: 433-445
Published online: 12 Feb 2021
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‘A mobile phone is like a friendship. It depends from person to person how it is used': mobile phone relationships among low-income women in urban Bangladesh
Hannah Sibona
Pages: 446-459
Published online: 30 Jul 2021
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Exposure of mobile phones and mass media in maternal health services use in developing nations: evidence from Urban Health Survey 2013 of Bangladesh
Raaj Kishore Biswas, Nusma Rahman, Humayera Islam, Teresa Senserrick & Jahar Bhowmik
Pages: 460-473
Published online: 26 May 2020
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Of the (im)mobility regime in India: the post-COVID medicalisation of mobilities
Neha Gupta & Avishek Ray
Pages: 474-478
Published online: 17 Feb 2021
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Money, Culture, Class: Elite women as modern subjects
by Parul Bhandari, London, Routledge Focus, 2019, xviii + 98 pp., INR 6071 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-8153-5888-6
Sristi Mondal
Pages: 479-480
Published online: 30 Jul 2021
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Walking with pilgrims: the Kanwar pilgrimage of Bihar, Jharkhand and the Terai of Nepal
by Ruma Bose, New Delhi, Manohar, 2019, 425 pp., ₹ 2095 (hardback), ISBN 978-93-88540-31-5⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
Ruchi Shree
Pages: 480-481
Published online: 06 Aug 2021
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South Asian regionalism: the limits of cooperation
by Bhumitra Chakma, Bristol, Bristol University Press, 2020, vii+241 pp., £75.00 (Hardcover), ISBN 978-1-5292-0515-2
Javed Alam
Pages: 481-482
Published online: 30 Jul 2021
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Beyond regimes: China and India compared
edited by Prasenjit Duara and Elizabeth J. Perry, Cambridge, Harvard University Asia Center, 2018, xvii+341 pp., ₹4,093 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-674-98710-4
Suchismita Das
Pages: 482-483
Published online: 03 Aug 2021
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In a Pure Muslim Land: Shi’ism between Pakistan and the Middle East
by Simon Wolfgang Fuchs, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2019, 376 pp., $34.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-4696-4979-5
Fizza Joffrey
Pages: 483-485
Published online: 02 Aug 2021
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Witch hunts: culture, patriarchy and structural transformation
by Govind Kelkar and Dev Nathan, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020, xi + 272 pp., ISBN 978-1-108-49051-1
Priyanka Choudhary
Pages: 485-486
Published online: 30 Jul 2021
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Political Kinship in Pakistan: Descent, Marriage and Government Stability
by Stephen M. Lyon, London, Lexington, 2019, vii +137pp., ISBN 978-1-4985-8217-9
Shahla Hussain
Pages: 486-487
Published online: 02 Aug 2021
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Poetry of belonging: Muslim Imaginings of India 1850-1950
by Ali Khan Mahmudabad, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2020, 324 pp., 1595.00 INR, ISBN 978-0-19-012101-3
Atiya Hussain
Pages: 487-488
Published online: 02 Aug 2021
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Masculinity and modern slavery in Nepal
by Matthew Maycock, New York, Routledge, 2019, 197 pp., ISBN 978-0-203-73075-1
Venkatesh Boddu
Pages: 488-489
Published online: 30 Jul 2021
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The Indian Economy
by Matthew McCartney, London, Agenda, 2019, 276 pp., £65.00 (Hardback) and £17.99 (Paperback) ISBN 978-1-78821-009-6⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
Willem van der Geest
Pages: 490-491
Published online: 30 Jul 2021
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Holy science: the biopolitics of Hindu nationalism
by Banu Subramaniam, Delhi, Orient BlackSwan Private Limited, 2019, XVIII + 290 pp., US $95.00, ISBN 978-93-5287-651-8
Ganeshdatta Poddar
Pages: 491-492
Published online: 02 Aug 2021
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Books Available for Review
Page: 493
Published online: 11 Aug 2021
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