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‘The Jews of Ceylon’: Antisemitism, prejudice, and the Moors of Ceylon 《锡兰的犹太人》:反犹主义、偏见和锡兰的摩尔人

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Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-25 DOI: 10.1017/s0026749x2300029x

Shamara Wettimuny

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The point of death: Religious conversion and the self in South India – CORRIGENDUM 死亡之点:南印度的宗教皈依和自我-勘误

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Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-23 DOI: 10.1017/s0026749x23000331

Nandagopal R. Menon

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How the first revolution affected the second: The setback of 1927 for the Chinese Communist Party Revolution in the 1920s 第一次革命如何影响第二次革命:1927年中国共产党革命在20世纪20年代的挫折

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Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-10 DOI: 10.1017/s0026749x23000276

Luyang Zhou

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The point of death: Religious conversion and the self in South India 死亡之点:南印度的宗教皈依与自我

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Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-25 DOI: 10.1017/s0026749x23000239

Nandagopal R. Menon

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Beyond conservation: Royal picnics at Elephanta and the legitimization of empire 在保护之外:在象岛的皇家野餐和帝国的合法化

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Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-21 DOI: 10.1017/s0026749x23000240

Deepti Mulgund

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Torn between the nation and the world: D. F. Karaka and Indian journalism in the Second World War 在国家与世界之间挣扎:二战中的d·f·卡拉卡和印度新闻业

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Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1017/s0026749x22000452

Rotem Geva

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Media wars: Remaking the logics of propaganda in India’s wartime cine-ecologies 媒体之战:重塑印度战时电影生态中的宣传逻辑

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Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1017/s0026749x22000427

Debashree Mukherjee

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From fascism to famine: Complicity, conscience, and the narrative of ‘peasant passivity’ in Bengal, 1941–1945 从法西斯主义到饥荒:同谋、良心和孟加拉“农民被动”的叙述，1941-1945

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Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1017/s0026749x2200021x

Ahona Panda

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A tale of a tyre: National space, infrastructure, and narration in S. H. Vatsyayan’s ‘Parśurām se tūrxam’ 一个轮胎的故事:S. H. Vatsyayan的《Parśurām se tūrxam》中的国家空间、基础设施和叙事

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Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1017/s0026749x22000105

Gregory Goulding

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Broadcasting the ‘(anti)colonial sublime’: Radio SEAC, Congress Radio, and the Second World War in South Asia 广播“(反)殖民崇高”:SEAC电台、国会电台和南亚的第二次世界大战

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Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1017/s0026749x2200049x

Isabel Huacuja Alonso

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