Contemporary South Asia, Volume 31, Issue 2 (2023)

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Dirty politics and political care in local politics: gendered barriers to moral boundary crossing in Dehradun, India
Tanya Jakimow
Pages: 165-178
Published online: 12 May 2023
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Alien at birth: Chinese migrants in post-colonial Assam (1947-1962)
Papari Saikia
Pages: 179-192
Published online: 24 Apr 2023
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Women’s participation in the Central Superior Services of Pakistan 1973–2020
Sana Haroon
Pages: 193-206
Published online: 19 May 2023
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Contesting the milad: Deobandis and Barelvis in British India and contemporary Pakistan
Mohammad Waqas Sajjad
Pages: 207-221
Published online: 06 Mar 2023
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After cyclone Aila: politics of climate change in Sundarbans
Sirpa Tenhunen, Mohammad Jasim Uddin & Dayabati Roy
Pages: 222-235
Published online: 03 May 2023
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The final straw? Bhola cyclone, 1970 election, disaster politics, and the making of Bangladesh
Mohammad Mozahidul Islam, Niladri Chatterjee & Muhammad Asiful Basar
Pages: 236-250
Published online: 27 Apr 2023
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Bottom-up imaginaries: examining discursive construction of social media roles and affordances in India
Kiran Vinod Bhatia
Pages: 251-267
Published online: 12 May 2023
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Special Section: Locating Digital Creative Industries in India. Guest Edited by Christine Ithurbide, Philippe Bouquillion, Vibodh Parthasarathi and Puthiya Purayil Sneha

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Introduction: Platform Challenges to Creative Industries in India
Christine Ithurbide, Philippe Bouquillion, Vibodh Parthasarathi & Puthiya Purayil Sneha
Pages: 268-275
Published online: 29 Apr 2023
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Digitalization and Informality in media industries: beyond the platform-portal divide?
Smith Mehta & Stuart Cunningham
Pages: 276-290
Published online: 09 May 2023
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The changing shape of the Indian recorded music industry in the age of platformisation
Aditya Lal, David Hesmondhalgh & Charles Umney
Pages: 291-310
Published online: 07 May 2023
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Audio-visual piracy on Telegram: a perspective on monetization models, pirate strategies and industrial pathways
Meghna Bal
Pages: 311-325
Published online: 03 May 2023
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Policy for cultural and creative industries in India: the issue of regulation through digital policy
Philippe Bouquillion & Christine Ithurbide
Pages: 326-340
Published online: 20 Jun 2023
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Book Review

Book Review
Women, Gender and Religious Nationalism
edited by Amrita Basu and Tanika Sarkar, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, x + 360 pp., € 12.77 (Hardcover), ISBN 978-1-009-12314-3
Anu Kuriakose
Pages: 341-342
Published online: 20 Jun 2023
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Painting stories: lives and legacies from an Indian crafts village
by Helle Bundgaard, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2022, vii + 199 pp., $13.61 (Paperback), ISBN: 978-1-4875-2733-4
S. K. Ananda Krishnan
Pages: 342-343
Published online: 20 Jun 2023
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Reordering Adivasi worlds: representation, resistance, memory
by Sangeeta Dasgupta, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2022, 345 pp., Rs 1,695 (Hardcover), ISBN 978-0-19-102791-6
Daniel J. Rycroft
Pages: 343-344
Published online: 20 Jun 2023
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Media discourse in contemporary India: a study of television news
by Sudeshna Devi, London, Routledge, 2022, ix + 250 pp., ISBN: 978-1-032-14066-7
Sudarshan Sathianathan
Pages: 344-345
Published online: 20 Jun 2023
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Cancer and the Kali Yuga: gender, inequality and health in South India
by Cecilia Coale Van Hollen, Berkley, University of California Press, 2022, 282 pp., ISBN: 978-0-520-38653-2
S. Sreeparvathy
Pages: 345-346
Published online: 20 Jun 2023
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Un/common schooling: educational experiments in twentieth-century India
edited by Janaki Nair, Hyderabad, Orient BlackSwan, 2022, 296 pp., £10.11 (paperback), ISBN: 978-9-354-42277-5
S. L. Amrutha & Luke Gerard Christie
Pages: 346-347
Published online: 20 Jun 2023
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Till kingdom come: medieval Hinduism in the modern Himalaya
by Lokesh Ohri, Albany, State University of New York Press, 2019, x + 394 pp., $34.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-438-48255-2
Vineet Gairola
Pages: 348-349
Published online: 20 Jun 2023
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Shaligram pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas
by Holly Walters, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2020, 293 pp., € 124, ISBN 978-94-6372-172-1
Sohini Chakraborty
Pages: 349-350
Published online: 20 Jun 2023
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Political conflict in Pakistan
by Mohammad Waseem, London, Hurst, 2021, 576 pp., £35.00 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-787-38400-2
Yunas Samad
Pages: 350-351
Published online: 20 Jun 2023
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Books Available for Review

Books Available for Review
Pages: 352-353
Published online: 20 Jun 2023
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