Abstracts of the 2000 AAS Annual
Meeting
March 9–12, 2000, San Diego, CA
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Twenty Years of Tarai Research: A Reflective Note, Nanda R. Shrestha
Reflections on the Concept of "Deforestation-Led-Environmental Degradation in the Himalaya," John J. Metz
Hindering the Himalayans: Germanic Notions in the Construction of Development in the Greater Himalaya, Nigel J. R. Allan
Locating and Preserving Documents: The First Step in Writing Women’s History, Geraldine Forbes
Moving from the Margin and Dissolving Binaries: Indian and British Women, Barbara N. Ramusack
Rethinking National Feminist Histories: The Politics of Location and Boundaries, Sanjam Ahluwalia
Renouncing Renunciation: Viraha Bhakti, Veer Bhakti and the Rajput Ethos of Dadupanthi Nagas, James M. Hastings
Harem Architecture in 16th- and 17th-Century Mughal India: The Impact of Political, Religious and Demographic Changes on Layout and Design, Naseem Ahmed Banerji
The Kartrika and Kapala: The Inconographic and Philosophical Significance of a Pair of Esoteric Buddhist Implements, Natalie R. Marsh
The Marriage of Draupadi in the Hindu and Jain Mahabharata, Jonathan Geen
Gandhi: Nationalist Aims, Secular Claims, and Religious Strategies, Naseem Hines
"Vote for the Lamp Post": Landmarks of Jinnah’s Cultural Exegesis/Eisegesis, Agha Saeed
The Poetics of Bangladeshi Nationalism: Mujib’s Indebtedness to Tagore and Nazrul Islam, Sartas Aziz
VISION: Dalit Pioneers in the New York City Area, Owen M. Lynch
The Dalit International Network, John C. B. Webster
The Issues of the Dalit Diaspora, K. P. Singh
The Appeal of Hindu Nationalism: The 1996, 1998, 1999 Elections in Maharastra, Sikata Banerjee
Natural Selection and Selective Cooptation in the 13th General Election, Harold A. Gould
The Never-Ending Election Campaign in Goa, Arthur G. Rubinoff
Differing Responses to the Lok Sabha Elections in the Kashmir Valley and Jammu Region, Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay
Including the Excluded: Civil Society, NGO’s and Women’s Empowerment in Bangladesh, Rifat A. Salam
Contextualizing Bhutanese Mani Shrines Katherine, Anne Paul
Extension of Darwinism to Language as a Natural Process, Ravi Prasad
Nationality, Temporality, and Desplacement After the 1947 Partition of India, Gautam Ghosh
Mapping Old Identities onto New Terrain: The Drawing up of Borders in Pakistani Cities During the Late 1940s and 1950s, Sarah Ansari
Partition and Memory, Urvashi Butalia
Maps, Identities, and Boundaries: The 1947 Radcliffe Award and the Punjab, Lucy Chester
Voices from Partitions: Muslim Refugee Families in Lahore, Ian A. Talbot
The Violence of State Protection: Women and Safe Custody, Dina Siddiqi
Constituting Religious Minorities as the Other: A Study of Pakistan’s Judicial Practice, Tayyab Mahmud
An Amendment to Violence: Justice and Healing after the Riot, Radhika Subramaniam
Political Performatives and Untouchable Identity: Culture, the Body, and Naming a Caste Atrocity, Anupama Rao
Restructuring the Middle Class in Liberalizing India, Leela Fernandes
Liberalization, Education, and Sectarianism in Pakistan, Christopher Candland
From Peasant-Worker to Global Industrialist: Gounder "Toil" in Tiruppur, Tamilnad, Sharad Chari
Reinventing the "Village Goddess"/Revisioning the Urban Middle Class, Joanne P. Waghorne
Delivering the Goods: Hanuman and the Popularization of "Tantra," Philip Lutgendorf
The Science of Ritual in Contemporary Maharashtra: A Saint and His Mission, Timothy Lubin
Making a Case for Vishnu at Bodhgaya: Polemical Scholarship and Religious Identity, Jacob N. Kinnard
Reading the Devadasi as Sati: From South Indian Temple Legend to Goethe’s Poem, Der Gott und die Bajadere, Indira V. Peterson
Mother(s) Of Invention: Prostitute-Actresses of Late 19th-Century Bengali Theater, Sudipto Chatterjee
At Home in the World? The Bharata Natyam Dancer as Transnational Interpreter, Janet O’Shea
From Premodern to Postmodern Patronage of Muslim Musicians in Western Rajasthan, Daniel Neuman
Musical Patronage at the Sufi Shrines of Pakistan Hiromi, Lorraine Sakata
South Asian Muslim Musicians: Post-Independence Patterns of Patronage, Brian Silver
Changing Relations of Musical Production: Hereditary Musicians Between Feudal and Bourgeois Patronage, Regula Burckhardt Qureshi
The Devotional Community as Depicted in a Vaisnava Hagiography of the Seventeenth Century, Vasudha Dalmia
Strategies of Persuasion, or How the Gaudiya Vaisnavas Survive Without Centralized Authority, Tony K. Stewart
Imagining Communities of Holy Men: The Case of Hariram Vyas, Heidi Pauwels
Community Formation in the Dadupanth According to Hagiography, Monika Boehm-Tettelbach
