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SOUTH ASIA SESSIONS

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Session 7. Understanding Networks of Power and Authority in Early Modern South Asian Empires

Merchants, Religious Associations, and the Mughal State, Brendan LaRocque

Princely Rebellion and Empire Building in Mughal India, Munis D. Faruqui

Biography of a Corpse: Discourses of Incorruptibility and the Making of a Portuguese Saint, Pamila Gupta

Rethinking State Formation and Sovereignty in Precolonial India, Christopher Chekuri


Session 8. Civil Society Unbridled? The Empowerment of Civil Society under the Military Regime in Pakistan Today

Civil Society and Development Discourse under the Musharraf Regime, Robert Nichols

Democracy and Non-Governmental Organizations: Lessons from Pakistan, Christopher Candland

Struggling for a Political Voice: Women Contesting the System in Pakistan, Anita M. Weiss and Farzana Bari


Session 29. Hindu Na, Nahin Musulman: Shared Idioms of Piety and Sanctity

Dissonant Memories: Recontextualising the Sikh Past in Dhadi Memory Delivery, Michael Nijhawan

Alternative Imaginings: Shared Piety in Panjabi Popular Narrative, c. 1850–1900, Farina Mir

A House of Miracles for One and All: Sufi Shrines, Islamic Identity, and the Synthesis of (Sub-)Cultures in India Today, Kelly L. Pemberton


Session 30. Women, Marriage, and the Law in India

Having Her Say: Authority and Resistance in the Calcutta Family Courts, Srimati Basu

Domestic Love: The Negotiation of Moral Parameters at a Legal Aid Cell in Delhi, Perveez Mody

A Contradictory Task for an Indian Wife: Cutting off the Marital Tie, Siru Maunuksela-Aura

Muslim Women’s Access to Divorce by Khul’: An Analysis of a Qazi’s Divorce Register, Sylvia Vatuk


Session 49. Making Science: History, Language and Colonialism in South Asia

Science, Colonialism and Romanticism, David Arnold

Translating Science in Nineteenth-Century India , Michael S. Dodson

Freud and His Indian Friends: Religion, Selfhood and Psychoanalysis, Shruti Kapila

Faith in Experts and the Soil of Bengal: Scientific Agriculture in Colonial India, c. 1870–1945, Ian C. Petrie

The Cold War Science of Population: Demography, Kingsley Davis, and the Always-Already of Overpopulation in India, Sarah Hodges


Session 50. Shared Spiritualities of South Asia

Sufism in Tamil-Speaking South Asia: Evidence for Hindu-Muslim Shared Spirituality? Susan Schomburg

Defying Binary Categories: A Gujarati Religious Community, Shafique N. Virani

Light, Light-bearer, and the Enlightened Word: Shared Spiritual Symbolism of ‘Mahapanth’ and Nizari Ismaili Communities of Gujarat, Neelima Shukla-Bhatt

South Asian Shia Majalis: Articulating Alterity through Invoking Outside Authorities, S. Akbar Hyder


Session 70. Mapping Scientific Research: A Social Study of Science in Modern India

Profit and Science: Business and Laboratories at Crossroads in British India, 1897–1930, Prakash Kumar

Practicing Science: Language and Culture of Modern Science in India, Abha Sur

Purdah and the Practice of Medical Research in Late Colonial India, Maneesha Lal

The Scientific Vedist and the Vedic Scientist: Religion and the Practice of Science in Modern India, Banu Subramaniam


Session 71. Sanskrit Knowledge Systems on the Eve of Colonialism II

Novelty of Form and Novelty of Substance in Seventeenth-Century Mimamsa, Lawrence McCrea

What is New and What is Navya: Sanskrit Poetics on the Eve of Colonialism, Yigal Bronner

Turtles All the Way Down? Tradition and Experiment in Cosmological Reasoning, Christopher Minkowski

Ritual as Medium in Precolonial South Asia, Jan Houben


Session 89. Politics and Identity: Women and Work in South Asian Contexts

Discipline, Delicacy and Labor: Women’s Bodies, Fetishisms and Resistance on an Indian Plantation, Piya Chatterjee

Sri Lankan "Juki Girls": A Foreign Brand, a Stereotype, and a Response, Caitrin Lynch

"That Money Burns Like Oil": A Sri Lankan Cultural Logic of Morality and Work, Michele Gamburd

The Work of Networking: Women Entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka, Manjari Wijenaike


Session 90. Mapping Race in the South Asian Diaspora

The Progressive-Regressive Politics of Expatriates: South Asians Negotiating Hindu Nationalism in the U.S., Arvind Rajagopal

The Racial Implications of ‘Protected Women’ and ‘Predatory Men,’ Raminder Kaur

Race and Forced Migration in the South Asian Diaspora, Suvendrini Perera

Racism, Bollywood and Politics of Identity: Fiji Indians from Indenture to Diaspora, Manas Ray

Charous and Ravans: Racial Encounters in a South African Township, Thomas Blom Hansen


Session 110. Focus on Film: Engaging with Films from South Asia and the South Asian Diaspora

Speaking and Seeing: Language, Reality, and Technology in South Indian Cinema, V. Sanil

Recasting Femininity: A Study of the Reconstruction of Indian Womanhood in Contemporary Indian Popular Cinema, Shivani Chakravorty

From Bombay to Ray: Indian Film through the Orality-Literacy Continuum, Sheila Nayar

What You Hear . . . What You See . . . That’s Not All You Get (Films and the South Asian Diaspora), Monica Ghosh


Session 111. Transitions and Translations: Carrying Textuality and Meaning through Time, Language and Place in South Asian Fiction and Criticism

Quratullain Hyder’s River of Fire: The Urdu Novel, the English Novel, the Audience and the Critics, Laurel Steele

When a Critical Conversation Is Interrupted: Ghalib and His Commentators, Frances W. Pritchett

Translating Jibanananda Das’ Fiction: Reconstructions and Confusions, Abhijeet Paul

Were the Smells Strong; the Colors Intense? Exploring the Poetics of Place in English, Hindu and Urdu Fiction, Daisy Rockwell....130


Session 130. Where Have All the Children Gone? Childhood and Youth in Indian History

Muslim Women in Transition: Narratives of Childhood, Sonia Nishat Amin

Narratives of Childhood: Three Readings from Colonial Bengal, Swapna Banerjee

". . . To Be Young Was Very Heaven": Gandhi, Nationalism and Youth, Ranjit Kumar Roy


Session 131. Making India from Without: Trans-National Forces and National Identity

Passages from India: International Dimensions of Indian Nationalism, 1880–1947, Srirupa Roy

Politics of Economic Reform: Gender, Consumption and Middle Class Identity in India, Leela Fernandes

Methodical Worlds: India’s Partition in Comparative Context, Sankaran Krishna


Session 151. South Asians Processions: Space, Hierarchy, and Authority

Royal Processions in the Cola Kingdom, Daud Ali

Processions in the Medieval South Indian Temple: Sociology, Sovereignty and Soteriology, Leslie C. Orr

What’s That British Couple Doing in Jagannatha’s Procession? Richard H. Davis

Temple Processions in Sri Lanka, Paul Younger


Session 152. Regional Historiographies in Late Precolonial and Colonial South Asia

Decanni Regional Difference and Princely Modernity: Modern and Premodern Historical Writing in the Hyderabad Deccan, Eric L. Beverley

History, Memory, and Representation in Kashmiri Historical Narratives, Chitralekha Zutshi

Chronicle, History, and Identity in Colonial Maharashtra, Prachi Deshpande


Session 153. Representation, Reciprocity, and the Ethnographic Study of South Asia

Informants’ Perspectives on Representation and Other Uses of Anthropology: Vignettes from Suburban America and a Bengali Village, Sarah Lamb

Image, Text, and Hypertext: Representation, Reciprocity and Concealment in the Virtual Village, Peter S. Gottschalk and Mathew N. Schmalz

Initiation, Reciprocity, and Disclosure in Ethnographic Studies of Tantric Traditions, Sarah Caldwell

Burdens of a Messianic History: Negotiating the Politics of Identity and Representation among the Nurbakhshis of Baltistan, Shahzad Bashir


Session 174. Roundtable: India Briefing


Session 175. Race, Culture, Community: Making Indian Identities at Home and Abroad

Orientalism, Ethnology and Race: William Jones in Bengal, Minakshi Menon

Pensioning Off Race, Geeta Patel

North Carolina’s Indians: Erasing Race to Make the Citizen, Ajantha Subramanian

Custom and the Country: Matrilineal Customary Law in Post-Colonial India, Narendra Subramanian


Session 195. Sexuality and the State in Late Colonial India

Regulating Heterosexuality and Subsuming Caste: Adultery and Bigamy in the Late-Nineteenth-Century Bombay High Court, Rachel Sturman

Sexuality, Capital and Colonial Law: Engendering Histories of Property and the State, Mytheli Sreenivas

The Memsahib Undressed: Reconstituting the Sexuality of the White Woman in Colonial India, Deana Lee Heath


Session 196. Individual Papers: Rethinking Nation and Nationalism in South Asia

National Education and the Social Logic of Swadeshi Nationalism, Andrew Satori

History, Literature, and Gender: Recasting the Critique of Nationalism, Kavita Daiya

Along the Peninsula’s Edge: Rethinking Sri Lankan Nationalist History, Cynthia M. Caron

National or Local Roots? India’s Economic Reforms in Comparative Perspective, Aseema Sinha

The Internet in India: The Emergence of Transnational Identities and Their Relation to National Identities, Shoma Munshi


Session 214. Educating the Modern in Colonial India

Fine Art/Decorative Art Curricula in Colonial Art Education, Deepali Dewan

Imagining the Economy Through Education, Abigail McGowan

An Object Lesson in Colonial Pedagogy, Parna Sengupta

Colonial Textbooks as Myths of the Modern, Clare Talwalker


Session 215. Individual Papers: Discourses of Gender and Kinship: Moments in Indian History

Creating the Modern Consumer: Gender and Identity at the Site of an Indian Development Project, Kathleen O’Reilly

Our Rajput Brothers: History, Romanticism and Imperial Critique in Tod’s Rajasthan, Jason Freitag

The Eye of the City: Dowry and Civility in Colonial Calcutta, 1880–1940, Rochona Majumdar

Law, Gender and Identity: Colonial Civil Law, the Family and Household in North India, 1780–1880, Malavika Kasturi

The Explanation of Draupadi’s Polyandry in Amaracandrasuri’s Balabharata, Jonathan Geen