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Religion, political parties, and Thailand’s 2019 election: Cosmopolitan royalism and its rivals 宗教、政党和泰国2019年大选:世界主义保皇派及其对手

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Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-15 DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X22000038

Tomas Larsson

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Caldwell's Dravidians: Knowledge production and the representational strategies of missionary scholars in colonial South India 考德威尔的德拉威人:南印度殖民地传教学者的知识生产与表征策略

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Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X21000524

John Solomon

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ASS volume 56 issue 6 Cover and Front matter ASS第56卷第6期封面和封面

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Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-28 DOI: 10.1017/s0026749x22000476

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ASS volume 56 issue 6 Cover and Back matter ASS第56卷第6期封面和封底

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Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-28 DOI: 10.1017/s0026749x22000488

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Pashtun homelands in an Indo-Afghan hagiographical collection 普什图人的家园在印度-阿富汗的圣徒文集中

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Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-28 DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X2200004X

M. Pelevin

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An anti-secularist pan-Asianist from Europe: Paul Richard in Japan, 1916–1920 来自欧洲的反世俗主义泛亚洲主义者:保罗·理查在日本，1916-1920

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Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-27 DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X22000087

Hans Martin Krämer

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Reshaping the figure of the Shudra: Tukaram Padwal’s Jatibhed Viveksar (Reflections on the Institution of Caste) 重塑Shudra的形象：Tukaram Padwal的Jatibhed Viveksar（对种姓制度的反思）

IF 0.9 2区社会学

Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-11 DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X21000767

Ketaki Jaywant

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From ‘mystic synthesis’ to ‘Jesuit plot’: The Society of Jesus and the making of religious policy in Indonesia 从“神秘综合”到“耶稣会阴谋”:耶稣会与印尼宗教政策的制定

IF 0.9 2区社会学

Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-11 DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X21000731

Rémy Madinier

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Rewriting the hills: Youth sociality as a mode of navigating unemployment in a context of outmigration in North India 改写山:青年社会作为一种模式导航失业在北印度外迁的背景下

IF 0.9 2区社会学

Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-11 DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X21000792

Andrew Deuchar

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Struggles about class and Adivasi-ness in an eastern Indian steel plant 在印度东部的一家钢铁厂里，关于阶级和种族的斗争

IF 0.9 2区社会学

Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X21000354

C. Strümpell

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