Contemporary South Asia, Volume 30, Issue 2 (2022)

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Contemporary South Asia, Volume 30, Issue 2 (2022)

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Motivations for Christian conversion among rural to urban migrants in the Kathmandu Valley
Richard Bownas
Pages: 135-153
Published online: 06 Apr 2022
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Poetics and politics of post-partition cultural memories in Kamila Shamsie’s Kartography
Qurratulaen Liaqat & Asia Mukhtar
Pages: 154-165
Published online: 07 Apr 2022
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Agency in a quake in time: a study of jokes about the future among Pakistani migrant youth
Rachael Lindsay
Pages: 166-180
Published online: 05 Apr 2022
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Hijras of Assam: undocumented ‘citizens’ in the National Register of Citizens
Chetna Sharma
Pages: 181-193
Published online: 06 Apr 2022
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The National Register of Citizens (NRC) in India and the potential for statelessness in situ: a cautionary tale from Assam
Amrita Hari & Sugandha Nagpal
Pages: 194-201
Published online: 07 Apr 2022
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Rural decentralization and infant mortality among select Indian states: a preliminary analysis
Nisha Bellinger
Pages: 202-209
Published online: 06 Apr 2022
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Special Section: India and Global Governance Across International Regimes and Time

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India and global governance across international regimes and time
Aseema Sinha
Pages: 210-217
Published online: 06 Apr 2022
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After compliance in India and beyond: a theory of implementation dilemmas and comparative institutional analysis
Aseema Sinha
Pages: 218-235
Published online: 10 Apr 2022
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India's engagement with the International Monetary Fund: growing into an ownership role
Surupa Gupta
Pages: 236-252
Published online: 03 May 2022
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India and the framework convention on tobacco control: the politics of rising power attitudes toward international rules
Karthik Nachiappan
Pages: 253-268
Published online: 05 Apr 2022
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India and maritime governance in the Indian ocean: the impact of geopolitics on India’s involvement in maritime governance
Ivan Lidarev & Harsh V. Pant
Pages: 269-286
Published online: 05 Apr 2022
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Book Forum: In the Name of the Nation: India and its Northeast, by Sanjib Baruah

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Chronotopes of sovereign power in In the Name of the Nation
Amit R. Baishya
Pages: 287-290
Published online: 07 Apr 2022
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In the name of the father? Northeast India and problems of national kinship
Sean M. Dowdy
Pages: 291-294
Published online: 07 Apr 2022
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Surrender, rehabilitation and hybrid regimes: the making of the northeast frontier
Soibam Haripriya
Pages: 295-297
Published online: 10 Apr 2022
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Destroying one’s own home: resource frontiers and indigenous governance in Northeast India
Bengt G. Karlsson
Pages: 298-300
Published online: 23 Apr 2022
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Contesting resources, contesting the nation?
Alf Gunvald Nilsen
Pages: 301-303
Published online: 06 Apr 2022
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The politics of hope
Sanjib Baruah
Pages: 304-306
Published online: 13 Apr 2022
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Creating the Universe: Depictions of the Cosmos in Himalayan Buddhism
by Eric Huntington, Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2019, xviii + 283 pp., Rs. 5,435 (hardcover) ISBN 978-0-295-74406-3
Paulami Guha Biswas
Pages: 307-308
Published online: 10 Apr 2022
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Reflections of Amma: Devotees in a Global Embrace
by Amanda J. Lucia, Oakland, University of California Press, 2014, 320pp., $29.95, £24 (Paperback), ISBN 978-0-520-28114-1
Lesley Branagan
Pages: 308-309
Published online: 23 Apr 2022
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Identifying and regulating religion in India: law, history and the place of worship
by Geetanjali Srikantan, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020, 251pp., ISBN 978-1-108-88630-7
Ananya Pattnaik
Pages: 309-310
Published online: 01 Apr 2022
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Privileged minorities: Syrian Christianity, gender, and minority rights in postcolonial India
by Sonja Thomas, Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2018, xii + 212 pp., ISBN: 978-0-295-74382-0
Sambhavi Ganesh
Pages: 310-311
Published online: 01 Apr 2022
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Books available for review
Page: 312
Published online: 11 May 2022
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