South Asia
Table of Contents:
Session 35: Worldly Women and Homely Acts: Cultural Codes and
Spatial Practices in South Asia
- Homely Acts: Women's Participation in the Public
- Sphere of Late Colonial India, Kamala Visweswaran
- Gendering the Modern: Women and Home Science in South India, Mary Hancock
- Motherhood as a Space of Protest: Women's Political Participation in Sri Lanka, Malathi
de Alwis
- Road Work: Off-Stage Scripts for Acting the Ideal Tamil Woman, Susan Seizer
Session 42: Individual Papers: Identity Construction and Identity
Politics in South Asia
- Rethinking Ethnic Politics: The Mohajirs of Pakistan, Omar Qureshi
- From Category to Group: Affirmative Action in India, Laura D. Jenkins
- Concepts of Jat Identity Among the Tharus of Nepal, Arjun Guneratne
- Failed Hegemony and the Crisis of Class Politics in Post-Colonial India, Michael
McIntyre
Session 59: Genre and Performance: Satire, Love, and Consumption
in "Pre-modern" India
- When the Love-god Laughs: Brahmins, Courtesans, and the Problem of Satire in Sanskrit
Temple Dramas from 18th-Century South India Indira V. Peterson
- The "Thief of Love," Gifts of Food, and the Raja of Nadiya, David Curley
Session 60: Bombay/Mumbai: Issues of Space, Status, and Power
- Bombay Space/Mumbai Space: Changing Notions of the City Complex, Jim Masselos
- Bombay, Cradle of the Ambedkar Movement, Eleanor Zelliot
- Context and Aftermath of the 1992-93 Explosion, Sujata Patel
- Masculine Hinduism, the Shiv Sena, and Political Mobilization, Sikata Banerjee
Session 78: "Traditional" Hindu and Muslim Education in
Colonial and Contemporary India
- Agamic Religious Education and Brahman Temple Priests in Contemporary Tamilnadu, Christopher
J. Fuller
- The Vocation of Vedam, the Selection of Srautam: Vedic Brahmans in Coastal
Andhra, David M. Knipe
- Teaching the Islamic Sciences in Asaf Jahi Hyderabad, Gregory C. Kozlowski
- "Learning for the Sake of God" vs. "Useful Knowledge": Muslim
Scholars Confront the Spread of Western Schooling in Nineteenth-Century Madras, Sylvia
Jane Vatuk
Session 79: Biography and Social History in India, Nepal, and
Tibet
- Notes on the Life of the Indian Master, Mitrayogin (12th Century), Leonard W. J. Van
der Kuijp
- Ritualized Dialogue Between a Man and a Women in the Kalackra Tantra, Jensine
Andresen
- On the Tibetan Lives of the Indian Buddhist Poet-Saint Saraha: One Magus Among Many in The
Lives of the Eight-Four Adepts, Kurtis R. Schaeffer
Session 100: ROUNDTABLE: Implementing the Platform for Action in
South Asia: Goals and Challenges After the UNFWCW
Session 101: Rethinking South Asian Ritual Traditions: The Jain
Factor
- The Significance of Studying Jain Art, Janice Leoshko
- A Grammar of Ornament: Svetambar Jain Temple Images, John E. Cort
- Jain Performative Aesthetics: The "Fit" Between Song,
- Dance, and Jain Religiosity, M. Whitney Kelting
- Mapping the City: Haveli Temples and Issues of Community Identity, Catherine E. B.
Asher
Session 122: Patriarchy in Asia: Comparative and Theoretical
Perspectives from South Asia
- Exploring the Assumption of Universality in Theories of Patriarchy: A Perspective from
Contemporary Bangladesh, Shelley Feldman
- The Creation of Modern Patriarchy in Agrarian South Asia, David Ludden
- Capitalising on Patriarchy? Female Factory Labor in Bangladesh and Sir Lanka, Dina M.
Siddiqi
- Engendering Communal Violence: Men as Victims, Women as Agents, Amrita Basu
Session 145: The Resurgence of Small-Scale Production in South
Asia: Handlooms, Powerlooms, Mills and the Changing Structures of Indian Capitalism
- Weavers' Capital and the Origins of the Powerlooms: Technological Transformation and
Structural Change among Handloom Producers in Western India, 1920-1950, Douglas E.
Haynes
- Ethnic Enterprise in the Decentralized Textile Industry of Surat City, India, Garrett
Menning
- The Rise and Fall of the Factory in the Indian Cotton Textile Industry, 1750-1950 Rajnarayan
Chandavarkar
- Powerlooms versus Handlooms: Two Case Studies in Silk Weaving in Karnataka, Supriya
RoyChowdhury
Session 150: Individual Papers: Gender and the Discourse of
Rights and Activism in India
- Wo Ayee Hak Lene/Here She Comes, To Take Her Rights: The Dreadful Specter of the
Property-Owning Woman in India, Srimati Basu
- Constituting Violence, Co-opting Rights: Debating the Decriminalization of Sex Work in
India, Heather Dell
- Taking Gender Off the Agenda: Women's Rights and the Religious Right in Indian Politics,
Rina Verma
- Who Draws the Line? The Legal Regulation of Speech and the Hindu Right in India, Ratna
Kapur
- Transformation of the Self and Other: Analysis of the Lives of Activists in a Community
Organization in India, Jotinder Sekhon
Session 166: Agrarian Change and Local Politics in India >
- Resisting Enclaves: Ritual, History, and Politics on an Indian Plantation, Piya
Chatterjee
- The Politics of Identity, Domination, and Accumulation: Agrarian Change in Kheda
District, Gujarat, Vinay Krishin Gidwani
- Work and the Politics of Identity in the Forests of Southwest Bengal, K.
Sivaramakrishnan
- Labour Relations and Agricultural Development in Tamil Nadu Jenny Springer
Session 181: Agency and Accommodation: Contradictions in Words
and Actions of Three South Asian Women
- Protest on the Job and Appeasement at Home: Haimavati Sen, Geraldine Forbes
- Subversion and Accommodation in the Life and Work of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossein, Sonia
Nishat Amin
- The Unhappy Marriage of Feminism and Gandhism: The Case of Rameshwari Nehru, Mrinalini
Sinha