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Caste politics, minority representation, and social mobility: the associational life of Muslim caste in India 种姓政治、少数民族代表和社会流动:印度穆斯林种姓的社团生活

IF 1.4 3区社会学

Contemporary South Asia Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/09584935.2023.2240258

J. Levesque, Soheb Niazi

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The political life of Muslim caste: articulations and frictions within a Pasmanda identity 穆斯林种姓的政治生活:Pasmanda身份中的表达和摩擦

IF 1.4 3区社会学

Contemporary South Asia Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/09584935.2023.2237417

Shireen Azam

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Identity, nationhood and Bangladesh independent cinema 身份、国家地位与孟加拉国独立电影

IF 1.4 3区社会学

Contemporary South Asia Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/09584935.2023.2240628

Anushka Chaudhuri

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Passionate politics: democracy, development and India’s 2019 general election 激情政治：民主、发展与印度2019年大选

IF 1.4 3区社会学

Contemporary South Asia Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/09584935.2023.2240629

Lidis Garbovan

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Social mobility and politicisation of caste among the Rayeens of Uttar Pradesh 北方邦拉延人的社会流动性和种姓政治化

IF 1.4 3区社会学

Contemporary South Asia Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/09584935.2023.2238266

Azeem Ahmed

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Urban development and environmental history in Modern South Asia 近代南亚的城市发展与环境史

IF 1.4 3区社会学

Contemporary South Asia Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/09584935.2023.2240634

Purnima Dhavan

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Kashmir at the crossroads: inside a 21st-century conflict 十字路口的克什米尔:21世纪冲突的内幕

IF 1.4 3区社会学

Contemporary South Asia Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/09584935.2023.2240625

Syed Eesar Mehdi

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Dynastic dilemma in South Asia: influence, networks and shamefacedness 南亚王朝的困境:影响、网络和羞耻

IF 1.4 3区社会学

Contemporary South Asia Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/09584935.2023.2227591

Ritanjan Das, Kenneth Bo Nielsen, A. E. Ruud

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Muslim New Womanhood in Bangladesh 孟加拉国的穆斯林新女性

IF 1.4 3区社会学

Contemporary South Asia Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/09584935.2023.2240627

Anushka Chaudhuri

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Organising the Sheikh sanitation workers in Srinagar: from the politics of dignity to Pasmanda activism? 组织斯利那加的谢赫环卫工人:从尊严政治到Pasmanda行动主义?

IF 1.4 3区社会学

Contemporary South Asia Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/09584935.2023.2238265

H. Shah

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