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South Asian Studies and Conflicts

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Pratim Ghosal
King's College London
2
Rashid Manzoor Bhat
Annamalai University
3
Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza
University of Manchester
4
Hameeda Hossain
Unknown
5
Suraj Yengde
Harvard University Press
6
Sana Jaffrey
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
7
Muzamil Ahmad Rather
Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir
8
Zeeshan Husain
Calcutta Research Group
9
Shabnum Mukhtar
Singhania University
10
Niharika Pandit
Queen Mary University of London

Rising Stars Papers

1
A feminist analysis of the coloniality of militarization: thinking with Kashmir at the margins of the Global South
International Feminist Journal of Politics|2025
15 cit.
2
Indonesia On The Edge of Competitive Authoritarianism
Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies|2024
14 cit.
3
Enacting a politics of possibilities against Zulm and towards Azadi from coloniality and occupation
European Journal of Women s Studies|2025
9 cit.
4
The Brahmanisation of Indian Sociology or the Birth of the Racial Theories of Untouchability
South Asia Journal of South Asian Studies|2024
5 cit.
5
Race and caste in the making of US sociology
Current Sociology|2024
5 cit.
6
Resisting Biographical Illusions: Pandurang Khankhoje, Indian Revolutionaries and the Anxiety to be Remembered
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society|2024
1 cit.
7
Feudalism in early medieval Kashmir
Cogent Arts and Humanities|2024
1 cit.
8
Curating Citizens' Verdict on Indonesian Democracy
Asia policy|2024
0 cit.
9
A Historical Analysis of the Status of Education in Ancient Kashmir with Special Reference to Sharada Peeth.
The Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society|2024
0 cit.
10
Concepts and Contexts: The Interplay of Philosophy and History in Understanding Human Society
Journal of Learning on History and Social Sciences|2024
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Geeta Patel
University of Virginia
2
Dolly Kikon
University of Melbourne
3
Sheuli Ray
Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute
4
Wani Suhail Ahmad
Institute of Geography
5
Malini Ranganathan
American University
6
Pavithra Vasudevan
SOAS University of London
7
Shafi Nuzhat
University of Kashmir
8
Shrimoyee Nandini Ghosh
Azim Premji University
9
Ather Zia
University of Northern Colorado
10
Atanu Bhattacharya
University of St Andrews

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
'Mafias' in the waterscape : Urban informality and everyday public authority in Bangalore
Digital Library Of The Commons Repository (Indiana University)|2023
96 cit.
2
Racial regimes of property: Introduction to the special issue
Environment and Planning D Society and Space|2022
60 cit.
3
A Pipeline for Automated Processing of Declassified Corona KH-4 (1962–1972) Stereo Imagery
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing|2022
36 cit.
4
Towards a Political Ecology of Caste and the City
Journal of Urban Technology|2022
35 cit.
5
Geopolitical ecology for our times
Political Geography|2023
33 cit.
6
Storytelling Earth and Body
Annals of the American Association of Geographers|2022
31 cit.
7
Estimation of soil erosion and sediment yield concentrations in Dudhganga watershed of Kashmir Valley using RUSLE & SDR model
Environment Development and Sustainability|2022
28 cit.
8
Influence of climate and non-climatic attributes on declining glacier mass budget and surging in Alaknanda Basin and its surroundings
Global and Planetary Change|2023
25 cit.
9
Prediction of spatio-temporal (2030 and 2050) land-use and land-cover changes in Koch Bihar urban agglomeration (West Bengal), India, using artificial neural network-based Markov chain model
Modeling Earth Systems and Environment|2023
20 cit.
10
CODA: The Racial Ecologies of Urban Wetlands
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research|2022
15 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Paul Novosad
Dartmouth College
2
Maitreesh Ghatak
University of Chicago
3
Hannah Knox
University of Manchester
4
Šumit Ganguly
Hewlett-Packard (United States)
5
Gyanendra Pandey
Johns Hopkins University
6
David D. Laitin
Stanford University
7
Marcus Nüsser
Heidelberg University
8
Veena Das
Johns Hopkins University
9
Muhammad Arsalan Wani
Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University
10
Christophe Jaffrelot
King's College London

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War
American Political Science Review|2003
6.1k cit.
2
Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion|1987
3.7k cit.
3
Explaining Interethnic Cooperation
American Political Science Review|1996
1.6k cit.
4
Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War
Unknown Journal|2003
1.5k cit.
5
Violence and the Social Construction of Ethnic Identity
International Organization|2000
1.1k cit.
6
Identity in Formation: The Russian-Speaking Populations in the Near Abroad
Foreign Affairs|1998
924 cit.
7
The economics of lending with joint liability: theory and practice
Journal of Development Economics|1999
888 cit.
8
Group lending, local information and peer selection
Journal of Development Economics|1999
702 cit.
9
Ethnic and Nationalist Violence
Annual Review of Sociology|1998
629 cit.
10
Political Language: Words that Succeed and Policies that Fail.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews|1978
622 cit.

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