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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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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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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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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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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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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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Caste and politics in (West) Bengal: in conversation with Sekhar Bandyopadhyay （西）孟加拉邦的种姓与政治：与Sekhar Bandyopadhyay的对话

IF 1.4 3区社会学

Contemporary South Asia Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/09584935.2023.2229751

S. Sen, S. Bandyopadhyay

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India’s Pakistan conundrum: managing a complex relationship 印度与巴基斯坦的难题：管理复杂关系

IF 1.4 3区社会学

Contemporary South Asia Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/09584935.2023.2240633

Namita Barthwal

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Anjuman, jami‘at, and association: what Sayyid organizations tell us about associational forms among Muslim caste groups Anjuman, jami 'at和协会:赛义德组织告诉我们穆斯林种姓群体之间的协会形式

IF 1.4 3区社会学

Contemporary South Asia Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/09584935.2023.2240719

J. Levesque

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