About the Journal

CSASCritical South Asian Studies (CSAS) is a bi-annual, peer-reviewed international Open Access journal. Interdisciplinary in nature, the journal focuses on literary, media and cultural studies. The journal invites theoretical submissions from these areas to explore and understand the varied contexts that define South Asia and its people. The CSAS journal is home to scholarly debates among scholars from Asia, Americas, Africa and Europe.

Critical South Asian Studies is an Open Access publication, allowing users to freely access, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to full-text articles for any lawful purpose without requiring permission from the publisher or author. 

ISSN: 2753-6734 (Print) ISSN: 2753-6742 (Online)

Critical South Asian Studies is published twice a year in February and August.

Current Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2025)
Published: 2025-07-20

Articles

  • Deconstructing Divine Diktat from Orthodoxy to Altruism: Mahima Cult – The Last Surviving Renegade Faith in India

    Dr Nishamani Kar
    1-13
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/csas.v3i1.3394

  • The Manifestations of Liberalization on Bollywood Cinema of the 1990s and Early 2000s

    Saumya Krishna
    15-27
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/csas.v3i1.3489

  • Ethnographic Analysis of South Asian Forced Migration

    Mohammed Taukeer
    29-40
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/csas.v3i1.3496

  • "اين نيز می کذرد" Narrative Plasticity in Rahimi's War Chronicles

    Bootheina Majoul
    41-51
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/csas.v3i1.3497

  • Echoes of Trauma: The Interplay of Bodies and Borders in Gitanjali Shree's Tomb of Sand

    Nithiyasri , Dr. Prem Shankar Pandey
    53-62
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/csas.v3i1.3506

  • Re)Imagining India: A Study on Nineteenth-Century Colonial Historiography

    Agnibha Maity
    63-70
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/csas.v3i1.3429

  • Alternating Between Flow and Reflexivity: Transformational Dramaturgy of Boal and Semiotic Autonomy of Spect-actor

    Ajeet Singh
    71-79
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/csas.v3i1.3580

  • Bodies of Water: Hydrofeminist Perspectives on Gender, Religion, and Social Exclusion in Deepa Mehta’s Water

    Dr Shaista Irshad
    81-91
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/csas.v3i1.3581

  • Reading English Literature through the Lens of Indian Aesthetics

    Susheel Kumar Sharma, Richa Biswal
    93-111
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/csas.v3i1.3582
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