South Asia Research is an international, multidisciplinary forum which covers the history, politics, law, economics, sociology, visual culture and, languages and literature of the countries in South Asia. It includes work of theory, review and synthesis as well as detailed empirical studies by both research students and established scholars from around the world. EDITORIAL BOARD
EDITOR
Werner Men
ski, SOAS, UK
DEPUTY EDITORS
Kalindi Kokal (Reviews Editor), Law and Society, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India
Anubhav Pradhan (Online Submissions), Liberal Arts, IIT Bhilai, Raipur, India
Anirudh Tagat, Economics, IITB Monash Research Academy, IIT Mumbai, India
Farooq Yousaf, Swisspeace, Basel, Switzerland
Muneeb Yousuf (International Relations/Twitter), Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India
ASSISTANT EDITORS
Diotima Chattoraj, Migration Studies, Brunei, Brunei Darussalam
Nafay Choudhury, Law, St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
Vineeth Mathoor, History, Changanacherry, Kerala, India
Gaurav Pathania, Sociology, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA, USA
Amit Ranjan, International Relations, NUS, Singapore
Zahoor A Wani, Political Science, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, India
Saidalavi P C, Anthropology, ANU, Canberra, Australia
Editorial Committee
Santhosh Abraham, Humanities/Social Sciences, IIT Madras, Chennai, India
Raziuddin Aquil, Department of History, University of Delhi
Rohit De, History, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
M Christhu Doss, History, Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
Namita Gupta, Human Rights, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
Eswarappa Kasi, Tribal Studies, IGNTU, Amarkantak, MP, India
Prashant Kidambi, History, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Alessandra Mezzadri, Development Studies, SOAS, London, UK
Muhammad A Z Mughal, Anthropology, King Fahd University of Petro & Min, Saudi Arabia
Shobna Nijhawan, Languages and Literatures, York University, Toronto, Canada
Saba Pirzadeh, Environmental Humanities, LUMS, Lahore, Pakistan
Shilpi Rajpal, Social History of Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Susmita Roye, English/Foreign Languages, Delaware State University, Dover, USA
Devapriya Sanyal, Film Studies, Mt. Carmel College, Bangalore, India
Kanika Sharma, Law and Gender, SOAS, London, UK
Gopika Solanki, Political Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
International Advisory Board
Waheeda Amien, Law, Religion and Gender, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Domenico Amirante, Political Science, Università “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Caserta, Italy
Padma Anagol, History, Cardiff University, UK
Faisal Devji, History, St Antony’s, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Ridwanul Hoque, Law, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Michael Hutt, Studies, SOAS, London, UK
Chris Ogden, Asian Security, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland, UK
Ashok Pankaj, Development Studies, Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India
Mohammad Quayum, Humanities and Literature, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
Tanika Sarkar, School of Social Sciences, JNU, Delhi, India
Gauri Viswanathan, Comparative Literature, University of Columbia, New York, USA