What is SAMAJ?
The South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (SAMAJ) is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to social science research on South Asia. It specializes in the publication of comparative thematic issues as well as individual research articles, review essays, and book reviews. Committed to disseminating rigorous scientific research to the widest possible audience, SAMAJ is fully and freely accessible on line. SAMAJ receives institutional support from the Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud (CEIAS) and has a partnership with the European Association for South Asian Studies (EASAS) since 2011.
Latest issue
9 | 2014
Imagining Bangladesh: Contested Narratives (SAMAJ-EASAS)
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Credits : Joseph Allchin
SAMAJ-EASAS Series
Series editors: Margret Frenz and Roger Jeffery.
This thematic issue is the second in a series of issues jointly co-edited by SAMAJ and the European Association for South Asian Studies (EASAS). More on our partnership with EASAS here.
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Benjamin Zeitlyn, Manpreet K. Janeja and José MaprilIntroduction. Imagining Bangladesh: Contested Narratives [Full text]
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Katy Gardner, Zahir Ahmed, Mohammad Masud Rana and Fatema BasharField of Dreams: Imagining Development and Un-Development at a Gas Field in Sylhet [Full text]
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Delwar HussainThe State of Relief on the Bangladesh-India Border [Full text]
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Lala Rukh SelimArt of Bangladesh: the Changing Role of Tradition, Search for Identity and Globalization [Full text]
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Benjamin ZeitlynWatching the International Crimes Tribunal from London [Full text]
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José MaprilA Shahid Minar in Lisbon: Long Distance Nationalism, Politics of Memory and Community among Luso-Bangladeshis [Full text]
Latest texts
Other Contributions
Free-Standing Articles
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Heidi PauwelsCosmopolitan Soirées in Eighteenth-Century North India: Reception of early Urdu poetry in Kishangarh [Full text]08 October 2014
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Manju LudwigMurder in the Andamans: A Colonial Narrative of Sodomy, Jealousy and Violence [Full text]17 October 2013
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Indrajit RoyContesting Consensus. Disputing Inequality: Agonistic Subjectivities in Rural Bihar [Full text]01 August 2013
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Ajay GandhiStanding Still and Cutting in Line [Full text]The Culture of the Queue in India15 March 2013
Book Reviews
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Dan V. HirslundJudith Pettigrew, Maoists at the Hearth: Everyday Life in Nepal’s Civil War [Full text]10 October 2014
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Imke RajamaniTapan K. Ghosh, Bollywood Baddies: Villains, Vamps and Henchmen in Hindi Cinema [Full text]25 June 2014
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Anne CastaingThinking the Difference: On Feminism and Postcolony [review essay] [Full text]18 February 2014
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Damien KrichewskyPushpa Sundar, Business & Community: The Story of Corporate Social Responsibility in India [Full text]03 February 2014