Contemporary South Asia, Volume 32, Issue 2 (2024)

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Unravelling the constitutional settlement: devolution, democracy and patronage in eastern Sri Lanka
Bart Klem
Pages: 121-136
Published online: 27 Feb 2024
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Press charges: renegotiating free speech and citizenship in post-partition Delhi
Rotem Geva
Pages: 137-150
Published online: 20 Apr 2024
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Gendered division of paid, unpaid, and total work in India: who bears more burden?
Dakrushi Sahu
Pages: 151-166
Published online: 20 Apr 2024
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When ‘the broken’ breaks through: politics of struggle and solidarity in Manchadikkari
Sephora Jose
Pages: 167-180
Published online: 12 Apr 2024
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Intimacy and industry: the multiple heterosexual intimacies shaping cycle rickshaw men’s labor and migration in India
Patrick Beckhorn
Pages: 181-193
Published online: 15 Apr 2024
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Consolidating a political dynasty: Abhishek Banerjee, the Trinamool Congress, and the 2023 panchayat elections in West Bengal
Ritanjan Das & Kenneth Bo Nielsen
Pages: 194-201
Published online: 27 Dec 2023
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Contestations and contradictions: feminist research on structures and institutions governing sex work in India
Mirna Guha & Kimberly Walters
Pages: 202-208
Published online: 02 May 2024
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India and Africa in the pandemic imagination
Gowri Vijayakumar
Pages: 209-222
Published online: 15 Nov 2022
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From ‘house of horrors’ to ‘sensitive’ governance: sex workers’ shelter detention in India
Vibhuti Ramachandran
Pages: 223-241
Published online: 18 Oct 2023
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Everyday violence and care: insights from fictive kin relations between madams and sex workers in India
Mirna Guha
Pages: 242-257
Published online: 20 Apr 2024
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The material and the moral: contradictory imperatives and the production of trafficking narratives in South India
Kimberly Walters
Pages: 258-272
Published online: 15 Apr 2024
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Shadows at noon: the South Asian twentieth century
by Joya Chatterji, London, Bodley Head, Vintage, 2023, 864 pp., £30.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-847-92549-7
Sanjida Parveen
Pages: 273-274
Published online: 25 May 2024
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The voices of war heroines: sexual violence, testimony, and the Bangladesh Liberation War
Hasnat Fayeza, London, Brill, 2022, 248 pp., ₹599, ISBN: 978-9-00450-848-4
Rana Abhyendra Singh
Pages: 274-275
Published online: 25 May 2024
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Colonizing Kashmir: state-building under Indian occupation
by Hafsa Kanjwal, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2023, xiii + 366 pp., $32, ISBN 978-1-5036-3603-3
Ambreen Agha
Pages: 276-277
Published online: 25 May 2024
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Spatial justice, contested governance and livelihood challenges in Bangladesh the production of counter space
by Lutfun Nahar Lata, New York, Routledge, 2023, x + 195 pp., ₤125.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-032-39515-9
Anil Kumar Patel
Pages: 277-278
Published online: 25 May 2024
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Hailing the state: Indian democracy between elections
by Lisa Mitchell, Durham, Duke University Press, 2023, xviii + 300 pp., ISBN 978-1-478-01876-6
Chinmaya Lal Thakur
Pages: 278-279
Published online: 25 May 2024
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Migration, regional autonomy, and conflicts in Eastern South Asia: searching for a home(land)
edited by Amit Ranjan and Diotima Chattoraj, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, xxiii + 337 pp., €139.99 (hardback), ISBN 978-3-031-28763-3
Dipsikha Acharya
Pages: 279-280
Published online: 25 May 2024
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Home in the world: a memoir
by Amartya Sen, London, Allen Lane, 2021, xv + 463 pp, ISBN 978-1-846-14486-8
Yifei Yan
Page: 281
Published online: 25 May 2024
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Under the gun: political parties and violence in Pakistan
by Niloufer A. Siddiqui, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, xviii + 272 pp., ISBN 978-1-00924-253-0
Nazir Ahmad Mir
Pages: 282-283
Published online: 25 May 2024
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Voices of dissent
Romila Thapar, Kolkata, Seagull Books, 2020, viii + 164 pp., ₹304 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-85742-862-2
Bilal Ahmad Tantray
Pages: 283-284
Published online: 25 May 2024
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Books Available for Review
Raphael Susewind
Page: 285
Published online: 25 May 2024
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