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Chen Mengzhao's storeroom in Park Street, Calcutta. Wartime India-China smuggling, 1942–1945 陈梦照在加尔各答公园街的储藏室。1942年至1945年战时中印走私

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Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X21000652

Yina Cao

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‘Willing’ ethnic-nationalists, diffusion, and resentment in India: A micro-foundational account 印度的“自愿”民族主义者、扩散和怨恨:微观基础分析

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Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-26 DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X22000208

Aseema Sinha, Manisha Priyam

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ASS volume 57 issue 1 Cover and Front matter ASS第57卷第1期封面和封面

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Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-19 DOI: 10.1017/s0026749x2200052x

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ASS volume 57 issue 1 Cover and Back matter ASS第57卷第1期封面和封底

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Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-19 DOI: 10.1017/s0026749x22000531

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Revisiting Rabindranath Tagore’s critique of nationalism 重访泰戈尔对民族主义的批判

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Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-14 DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X22000051

R. Lamba

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A region in dispute: Racialized anticommunism and Manila’s role in the origins of Konfrontasi, 1961–63 一个有争议的地区:种族化的反共主义和马尼拉在对抗起源中的作用，1961-63

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Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-09 DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X22000397

Joseph Scalice

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Crafting literary Urdu: Mirza Hatim’s engagement with Vali Dakhani 创作文学乌尔都语:米尔扎·哈蒂姆与瓦利·达克哈尼的交往

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Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X22000166

Purnima Dhavan, Heidi Pauwels

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Imperial inheritance: The transnational lives of Gurkha families in Asian contexts, 1948–1971 帝国继承:1948-1971年亚洲背景下廓尔喀人家庭的跨国生活

IF 0.9 2区社会学

Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-28 DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X22000191

Hema Kiruppalini

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‘It all comes from me’: Bahu Begam and the making of the Awadh nawabi, circa 1765–1815 “一切都来自我”:约1765-1815年，巴胡·贝甘和阿瓦德纳瓦比的制作

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Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-28 DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X22000178

Nicholas J. Abbott

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Representations of disaster victimhood: Framing suffering and loss after the 1934 Bihar-Nepal earthquake 灾难受害者的表现:1934年比哈尔邦-尼泊尔地震后的痛苦和损失

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Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-15 DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X22000130

Eleonor Marcussen

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