SOUTH ASIA

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Session 11. CONTENDING WITH LANGUAGES IN PRE-MODERN INDIA

• Three Local Cultures in the Sanskrit Cosmopolis (AD 300-1300), by Sheldon Pollock
• Manipravalam: Threading the Necklace of a Language for Kerala, by Rich Freeman
• Style Wars: Sanskrit and Telugu in Medieval Andhra, by Velcheru Narayana Rao
• In Praise of Tamil: Ideologies of Language Before the Nation, by Sumathi Ramaswamy

Session 29. LANGUAGE, GENRE, AND DISCOURSES OF PLURALITY IN SOUTH INDIAN LITERATURE

• Bhakti Beyond the Mother Tongue: Vedantadesika's Devotional Poetry in Three Languages, by Steven P Hopkins
• Devotion to an Extraordinary Child: Presences and Absences in a Multi-Religious Poetic Genre, by Paula Richman
• The Play of the Kuravanci Fortuneteller: Pluralistic Discourses of Identity in an Eighteenth Century South Indian Literary Genre, by Indira V Peterson

Session 30. COMMUNAL VIOLENCE IN INDIA: NEW RESEARCH

• Kala Bacha: Portrait of a BJP Hero, by Paul R Brass
• A Tale of Two Cities: Why Hyderabad is Riot-Prone But Lucknow Is Not, by Ashutosh Varshney

Session 38. INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: GENDER, SUBJECTIVITIES & PUBLICS IN SOUTH ASIA

• Women on the Wheel: Contested Realities of Potter's Work in North India, by Neema Caughran
• Sitadevi: The Status of Women in Early Gaudiya Vaisnava Hagiography, by Rebecca Manring
• The Distances Appropriate to Humor: Jokes, Gender, and Discursive Distance on the Tamil Popular Stage, by Susan Seizer
• A Novel, Anyone? Fiction, the Reading Public, and the Emergence of the Novel in Colonial India, by Priya Joshi

Session 50. REPRESENTATIONS OF THE RURAL IN URBAN INDIAN IMAGINATIONS

• Village and City in an Urban Industry, by Clare Wilkinson Weber
• Romance of the Rural: "Development" and Difference in South Indian Pilgrimage, by Margaret Meibohm
• The Prostitute's Lot: Urban Middle-Class Images/Women Sex Working in Calcutta, by Heather Dell

Session 51. DIASPORA SOUTH ASIANS: IDENTITIES, POLITICS, AND PERFORMANCE, Part One: CONSTRUCTING SELF AND COLLECTIVITY (See Session 71)

• Muharram Performances and the Religious and Cultural Identity of South Asian Shi'i Muslims in North America, by Vernon James Schubel
• Bites of India in the Big Apple: Asian Indian Identity at the South Street Seaport Deepavali Festival, Manhattan and at Jackson Heights, Queens, by Sunita Sunder Mukhi
• Constucting Identity Through Community Journals, by Carla R Petievich

Session 58. INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: CULTURES OF POWER IN SOUTH ASIA

• Technocrat Brotherhoods and Corruption in South Asia, by Clarence T Maloney
• Genealogies of Development: Science and Politics in the History of Managing Forests in Bengal, by K Sivaramakrishnan
• The "Rule of Law" and Rituals of Governance in Colonial India: The Trials of Emperor Bahadur Shah (1858) and Mahatma Gandhi (1922), by Vinay Lal
• The Death of Bala Shah Nuri and the Birth of Valmiki: Hinduization and the Politics of Religion, by Vijay Prashad

Session 69. CONSTRUCTING A SOCIETY AND A STATE: COLONIAL POLITICS AND LAW IN THE MAKING OF PAKISTAN

• In Search of a Pakistani "Grundnorm": The Constitution, the Judiciary and the Patterns of Post-colonial State Formation, by Nasser Hussain
• The Colonial Roots of the Development State in Pakistan, by David Gilmartin
• Biradaris and Elections in the Punjab: Colonial Roots and Post-Colonial Implications, by Steven Holtzman

Session 70. CHANGING SONGS, CHANGING WORLDS: CONTEXTUALIZING INDIAN WOMEN'S EXPRESSIVE TRADITIONS

• The Once Well-Nourished Women Are Now Grown Thin and Weak: The Politics and Poetics of Famine in Nineteenth Century Women's Song, by Gloria Goodwin Raheja
• Imagined Pasts, Anticipated Presents: Kangra Songs as a Strategic Resource, by Kirin Narayan
• Khyal: Feeling Changes, by Ann Grodzins Gold
• Encompassment and Dividualization of the Other by Tamil Women, by Margaret Trawick

Session 71. DIASPORA SOUTH ASIANS: IDENTITIES, POLITICS, AND PERFORMANCE, Part Two: POLICY, IDEOLOGY AND CULTURAL PRACTICES (See Session 51)

• Indo-Caribbean Music and Cultural Identity: Progress, Problems, and Polemics, by Peter Manuel
• From Bhangra to Bharata Natyam: The Cultural Politics of South Asian Dance in the U.S., U.K., and Canada, by Kathryn Hansen
• The Poetics and Politics of Nationalism and Multiculturalism: Diasporan Sikhs in Pluralist Polities, by Verne A Dusenbery

Session 90. OTHER IMAGES OF THE OTHER: ASPECTS OF THE GERMAN ENCOUNTER WITH SOUTH ASIA

• Exoticism and Empiricism in Early Modern German Reports on India (1500-1750), by Gita Dharampal-Frick
• The Production of Meaning in Early 18th Century South India, by Eugene Irschick
• Orientalism? : Herder's Revolt against the Enlightenment and South Asia, by Lynn Zastoupil

Session 91. THE POLITICAL ELEMENT IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: PERSPECTIVES FROM INDIA AND PAKISTAN

• The Many Faces of Indian Economic Nationalism: Party Ideology and Policy Frameworks in Indian Economic Debates, by Arun Swamy
• Authoritarianism, Democracy and Factory-Level Politics in India and Pakistan, by Christopher Candland

Session 92. RE-PRESENTING INDIAN WOMEN: GENDER, METHODOLOGY, AND THE POLITICS OF CATEGORIES

• Depicting Positions, Positioning Depiction: Feminist Research and the Politics of Location, by Brinda Rao
• Engendering Ethnography: Class, Gender and the Politics of Representing Indian Women Workers, by Leela Fernandes
• Representing Rural Indian Women, by Prema Kurien
• Situating Location(s): The Politics of Self, Identity and Nativity in Feminist Research Practice, by Jayati Lal

Session 110. ROUND TABLE: ENDOWED ACADEMIC CHAIRS IN SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES: PROSPECTS AND PROBLEMS

Session 111. HIGHER EDUCATION & THE EMERGENCE OF ETHNIC IDENTITIES IN INDIA

• Defining the "Hindu" in Benares Hindu University, by Leah Young Renold
• Creating New Identities: Educating the Backward Classes at Mysore University, by Manu Bhagavan
• Promoting the Processes of Emotional Integration in National Life?: Higher Education and Indian Federalism, by David Fado

Session 112. BIRTH IN SOUTH ASIA: MIDWIVES AND FEMALE HEALERS

• Childbirth with a Traditional Birth Attendant in a Kathmandu Valley Newar Village, by Barbara Johnson
• Knowing All the Gods: Grandmothers, God Families, and Women Healers in Nepal, by Linda L Iltis
• Modernity and the Midwife: Three Case Studies in Rural Tamil Nadu, South India, by Kalpana Ram
• Dai and Midwives: The Renegotiation of the Status of Birth Attendants in Contemporary Bangladesh, by Santi Rozario and Geoffrey Samuel

Session 130. LOSING ONE'S HEAD: SACRIFICE, SUBSTITUTION AND THE GODDESS

• Blood Relations: Dhyanu Bhagat's Descendents, by Cynthia Ann Humes
• A Coconut for a Head: The Goddess and Sacrificial Substitution, by Kathleen M Erndl
• The Goddess Who Cuts Off Her Head, by David Kinsley
• Making Connections: Reflections of Resemblance and Ritual in the Head Offering of the Devotee and the Goddess, by Brian Smith

Session 131. POWER AND SOCIETY IN PAKISTAN

• Social and Personal Power in Pakistan, by Syed Zulfiqar Gilani
• Gendered Power and Social Organization in Pakistan, by Anita M Weiss
• Crises of the State, Fundamental Rights and the Superior Judiciary, by Tayyab Mahmud

Session 132. ROUND TABLE: APPROACHES TO TEACHING ABOUT SOUTH ASIA

Session 150. AMBEDKAR'S LEGACY: CONTEMPORARY CURRENTS IN INDIAN BUDDHISM

• Ambedkar's Dhamma: Source and Method in the Construction of a New Buddhism, by Christopher Queen
• The Navayana Creation of the Buddha Image, by Gary Michael Tartakov
• Symbol and Sense in the New Buddhist Literature of India, by Eleanor Zelliot
• "Liberate the Mahabodhi Temple": Religion and Politics from Maharashtra to Bihar, by Tara Nancy Doyle

Session 151. MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN AT MIDDLE AGE: CHANGING TRADITIONS AND EMERGING IDENTITIES IN INDIA NEAR THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

• The Concept of Tradition and Multiple Identities Among East Indian Trinidadians, by Frank Korom
• Imaging India: Colonial Discourse in the Tourist Trade, by Rose DeNeve
• Dhola and the Modern North Indian Peasant, by Susan S Wadley
• Changing Values, Altered Tale: The Shifting Models of Bengali Girlhood, by Suchismita Sen

Session 165. M. K. GANDHI'S MOTIVES AND INTENTIONS IN HIS FORMATIVE YEARS

• Gandhi's Reasons for Leaving Rajkot for South Africa in 1893, by Stephen Hay
• Why Did Gandhi Write Hind Swaraj? A.J. Parel
• Intentions and Counter-Intentions at Tolstoy Farm, by James D Hunt

Session 166. DEFINING "REGIONS" IN SOUTH ASIAN ART HISTORY

• Inter-Regionality in Post-Gupta Sculpture: The Case of "Malwa," by Walter Smith
• Changing Shape: Innovation, Evolution, and the Transmission of Forms in the North Indian Temple, by Darielle Mason
• The Art of Classical Sri Lanka: An Instance of Cultural Dominance or Independence? Cecilia Levin

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