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Redrawing boundaries of belonging among Indian Himalayan Buddhists 重新划定喜马拉雅印度佛教徒的归属界限

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South Asian History and Culture Pub Date : 2022-10-12 DOI: 10.1080/19472498.2022.2132052

Swargajyoti Gohain

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Bankimchandra Chatterjee’s Vande Mātaram and the Patriotic Song Tradition in India 查特吉的Vande Mātaram与印度爱国歌曲传统

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South Asian History and Culture Pub Date : 2022-10-04 DOI: 10.1080/19472498.2022.2120242

Suddhaseel Sen

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From the home to the World: ethnography of a contemporary domestic workers’ riot 从家到世界：当代家政工人暴乱的民族志

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South Asian History and Culture Pub Date : 2022-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/19472498.2022.2080321

L. S.

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The Sogdians at Dunhuang in Han Dynasty 汉代敦煌的粟特人

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South Asian History and Culture Pub Date : 2022-10-02 DOI: 10.5539/ach.v14n2p49

Rongyue Sun

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Research on the Influence of Modernization on Oroqen Hunting Culture 现代化对鄂伦春狩猎文化的影响研究

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South Asian History and Culture Pub Date : 2022-09-25 DOI: 10.5539/ach.v14n2p41

Gao Yuanyuan

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A Comparative Study of the Conservation and Transmission of Cultural Heritage in China and Abroad--Dunhuang and Italy as Examples 中外文化遗产保护与传承的比较研究——以敦煌与意大利为例

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South Asian History and Culture Pub Date : 2022-09-20 DOI: 10.5539/ach.v14n2p35

Y. Qian

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Reading the Margins as Central: Representations of domestic servants in Nazir Ahmed and Ismat Chughtai’s literary works 以阅读边缘为中心:纳齐尔·艾哈迈德和伊斯玛特·楚格泰文学作品中家仆的表现

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South Asian History and Culture Pub Date : 2022-09-20 DOI: 10.1080/19472498.2022.2123627

Jama Bashir

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A Study on the Spatial Structure and Its Cultural Factors in Pingyao, China 平遥城市空间结构及其文化因素研究

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South Asian History and Culture Pub Date : 2022-09-10 DOI: 10.5539/ach.v14n2p22

Kaixin Xu, Hiromu Ito

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Remembering Malan: reading representations of domestic servants in colonial Bihar 缅怀马兰：阅读殖民地比哈尔邦的家仆形象

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South Asian History and Culture Pub Date : 2022-09-05 DOI: 10.1080/19472498.2022.2120245

Ufaque Paiker

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Local states in an imperial world: identity, society and politics in the early modern Deccan 帝国世界中的地方国家:近代早期德干的身份、社会和政治

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South Asian History and Culture Pub Date : 2022-09-05 DOI: 10.1080/19472498.2022.2114955

Shounak Ghosh

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