Contemporary South Asia, Volume 32, Issue 1 (2024)

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Special Issue: Jurisprudence and Geography of Hindu Majoritarianism: Thinking with the 2019 Ayodhya Judgement

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Jurisprudence and geography of Hindu majoritarianism: thinking with the 2019 Ayodhya judgement
Vera Lazzaretti & Knut A. Jacobsen
Pages: 1-9
Published online: 19 Jan 2024
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The Ayodhya case, freedom of religion, and the making of modernist ‘Hinduism’
Ratna Kapur
Pages: 10-25
Published online: 23 Jun 2023
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Dharmaśāstra and the legal personality of deities in the Ayodhya verdicts (2010 & 2019)
Christopher T. Fleming
Pages: 26-39
Published online: 27 Nov 2023
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The Ayodhya decision and Marwari mercantile patronage: materializing a devotional geography for Rāma through Hanumān
R. Jeremy Saul
Pages: 40-53
Published online: 29 Aug 2023
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The ritual of parikramā, Hinduization of space and the case of Ayodhyā
Knut A. Jacobsen
Pages: 54-65
Published online: 26 Nov 2023
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Ayodhya 2.0 in Banaras? Judicial discourses and rituals of place in the making of Hindu majoritarianism
Vera Lazzaretti
Pages: 66-83
Published online: 15 Mar 2023
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The view from Mathura: nationalist projections in local perspective
Nick Tackes
Pages: 84-100
Published online: 21 Nov 2023
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Review Article

Review Article
The South Asia Gallery, Manchester Museum
William Gould
Pages: 101-108
Published online: 19 Jan 2024
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Pakistan’s foreign policy: contemporary developments and dynamics
edited by Ghulam Ali, New York, Routledge, 2023, 209 pp., £104.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781032169057
Sanjukta Nath
Pages: 109-110
Published online: 18 Feb 2024
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Bridging neoliberalism and Hindu nationalism: the role of education in bringing about contemporary India
by Marie Lall and Kusha Anand, Great Britain, Bristol University Press, 2022, 336pp., £80 (hardcover), £22 (paperback), ISBN 978-1529223224
Sneha Roy
Pages: 110-111
Published online: 18 Feb 2024
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Forging new partnerships, breaching new frontiers: India's diplomacy during the UPA rule 2004–14
edited by Rejaul Karim Laskar, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, xxii + 414 pp., ₹1576, Online ISBN 9780191960123, Print ISBN 9780192868060
Dhanabalan Thangam
Pages: 111-112
Published online: 18 Feb 2024
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Freedom inc.: gendered capitalism in new Indian literature and culture
by Mukti Lakhi Mangharam, London, Bloomsbury Academy, 2023, ix + 179 pp., (Hardcover) $103, ISBN: 9781350200814
Suryakumar Murugaiah & P. Divakar
Pages: 112-113
Published online: 18 Feb 2024
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Making bureaucracy work: norms, education and public service delivery in rural India
by Akshay Mangla, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, xx + 420 pp., 31.99 GBP (digital access), 110 USD (hardcover), 37.99 USD (paperback), ISBN 978-1-009-25801-2
Therese Boje Mortensen
Pages: 114-115
Published online: 18 Feb 2024
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Childlessness in Bangladesh: intersectionality, suffering and resilience
by Papreen Nahar, London, Routledge, 2022, xviii + 210, 31.19 GBP (paperback), 104 GBP (hardback), ISBN 978-0-367-50485-4
Anindita Majumdar
Pages: 115-116
Published online: 18 Feb 2024
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Body on the barricades: life, art and resistance in contemporary India
by Brahma Prakash, Delhi, LeftWord, 2023, x + 210pp., ₹325, ISBN 978-93-92018-10-7
Bharti Arora
Pages: 116-117
Published online: 18 Feb 2024
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House of the people: parliament and the making of Indian democracy
by Ronojoy Sen, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, xvi + 311 pp., ₹1,101 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-009-18025-2
Shreya Das
Pages: 117-118
Published online: 18 Feb 2024
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Books Available for Review

Books Available for Review
Raphael Susewind
Page: 119
Published online: 18 Feb 2024
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