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Global News and the Dynamics of Differentiated Responses in the Age of Conflict, Anshu Chatterjee
Transnational Flows in the Age of Terrorism: Case of Mistaken Identity, Karthika Sasikumar
Laboring Over Global Image: Work and Product Identities in Tiruppur and Bangalore, Caroline E. Arnold
Session 8, Individual Papers: Gender, Culture and Memory in Indian Politics
Remembering Revolution: Violence, Gender and Memory in Naxalbari, Srila Roy
Gender, Nation, Religion: The Discursive Construction of Identities in India, 1950–1980, Rina Williams
Neo-Epic and National Identity: Maithilisharan Gupta’s "The Slaying of Jayadrath", Pamela Lothspeich
A Tale of Two Eids: Defining the Boundaries of Islamic Community in North India, Jacqueline Fewkes
Session 31, Militant Nationalisms: Regional Patriotisms and Indian Heroes
Bhagat Singh as ‘Satyagrahi’: A ‘Clash of Principles’ and a ‘Question of Humanity’, Neeti Nair
Revolutionary Women, Nationalist Heroes: Kalpana, Kalyani, Kamaladevi and the Narratives of Violent Resistance, Durba Ghosh
Immortality of a Mortal: Netaji's Death and Its Aftermath, 1945–2005, Rochona Majumdar
Session 32, The Politics of Youth in South Asia
Girls, Leaves and Dignity: Children’s Forest use, Cultures of Friendship and the Micro-Geography of Work, Jane P. Dyson
Student Politics in Comparative Perspective: Exit, Voice and Loyalty in Modern Uttar Pradesh, Craig J. Jeffrey
The Bourgeois Woman and the Half-Naked One: Dalit Young Men’s Politics, the Middle-Class Modern Myth and the Re-making of Gender Regimes in a Northern Indian Village, Manuela Ciotti
Growing up in the Knowledge Society: the IT Dream and the Rhetoric of e-Progress for Bangalore’s Middle Class Youth, Nicholas Nisbett
Session 33, Ritual and Renovation: Permanence, Regeneration, and the Making of Memory in South Asia
Renovation Versus Conservation: The Treatment of Jrnoddhara, Alexander von Rospatt
Whose Heritage, Whose Hallowed Ground? Spatial Practices, Mass Death, and Memory in "Mutiny Tourism", Carol Henderson
The Renovation, Disposal and Conservation of Temples and Images in Tamil Nadu, Samuel K. Parker
The Theft of Divinity and the Consecration of Polity at the Ambika Temple in Jagat, Rajasthan, Deborah L. Stein
Session 50, Siddhas and Sadhus: Ascetics in Later South Asian Culture and Art
Nath Narratives of Siddhas at Srisailam, Rob Linrothe
Mimesis and Authority: Naths in Jodhpur, Debra Diamond
Master of Yogis: Guru Nanak, the Nath Siddhas, and Sikh Tradition, Tushara Bindu Gude
The Erotic Aesthetics of Ecstatic Ascetics, Sondra Leslie Hausner
Session 51, New Approaches to the Textualization of Knowledge
From Recollection to Repetition: Mnemonic Writing and Bureaucratic Transformaion in Company Madras, Bhavani Raman
Counting in Tamil: Making Texts from Arithmetic Practice in Colonial Madras, Senthil Babu
Christian Piety and Textual Authority: Early Writings by Vedanayaka Sastri, the Christian Poet of Tanjavur, Aparna Balachandran
Of Light, Literacy and Knowledge in the Tamil Countryside, Francis Cody
Session 52: Roundtable: Reform Movements across Religious Boundaries in South Asia
Session 74, For Profit and Pleasure: Historiography and the Logic of Reproduction
Lost and Found: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive, Anjali Arondekar
In the Name of Risk: Embodying Historiography Before and After 1857, Geeta Patel
Pirates, Profits, and Histories of Technological Reproduction, Kavita Philip
Session 75, The Methodology of Gender in South Asia: Sponsored by the South Asia Council
Gender, Method and the Politics of Local Governance, Mary E. John
Tricky Triangulation in Rural Pakistan, Tahira Sadaf
Feminism, Fieldwork and Politics, Maya Subrahmanian
The Women’s Movement in Nepal: Politics of Age, Politics of Ethnicity, Sushma Joshi
Session 76: Roundtable: Textures of Time: Writing History in South India 1600–1800
Women's Souls, Women's Votes: Gender and Islamism in Bangladesh, Elora Shehabuddin
The Jamaat-i-Islami in Pakistan: From a Reading Group to a Political Party, Humeira Iqtidar
Erosion of Secularism, Explosion of Jihad: Explaining Islamist Radicalization in India, Irfan Ahmad
Session 98, Repackaging South Asia's Visual Culture
Repackaging the Mughal Past, Iftikhar Dadi
Architectural Pattern Books as an Experimental Zone, Will Glover
Experimenting with Popular Posters, Sandria B. Freitag
Session 99, Translating Property: Law and the Liberal Subject
Contracting Freedom: Indian Indentured Migration and the Liberal Subject, Radhika V. Mongia
Property, Personhood and Self-Mastery: The Problem of Liberal Subjecthood in the Colonial Bombay High Court, Rachel Sturman
Recreating the Self: Copyright and the Bounds of Ownership, Christi A. Merrill
Session 111: Roundtable: Whatever Happened to Class? Reflections from the Subcontinent
Session 119, Natural Remedies: Women and Cultural Responses to Science
Problem Women: Srngara and Sexology in Early Twentieth-century Hindi, Valerie L. Ritter
Cumin, Capsules, and Colonialism: Encounters with Natural and Allopathic Medical Practices in Hindi Literature, Shobna Nijhawan
Man’s Enem—Woman: Marriage, Masturbation and a Vernacular Discourse on Degeneration (Bengal 1890s), Ishita Pande
"No More Nautches in Poodoocottah": Colonial Modernity, Memory and the Devadasi Dance Tradition of the Viralimalai Murukan Temple, Davesh Soneji
Making Visible Intercultural Histories of Modern Dance: The Nautch Women of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century, Priya Srinivasan
Interdisciplinarity and Modernism in South Asian Performing Arts, Avanthi Meduri
Transforming Time and Space: Alternative Modernities in Deen Dayal’s Durbar Photos, Gita Rajan
Photographic Portraits of Maharajahs: Interventions and Identities, Julie F. Codell
The Durbar as Collectible, Saloni Mathur
Out of Text: Religious Identity and Citizenship in the Northern Areas of Pakistan, Nosheen Ali
Issues of Citizenship and Cultural Identity among the Nepalese of Bhutan, Rajesh Kharat
The Politics of Place and Performance among Musicians in Uttaranchal, Stefan Fiol
Becoming Indigenous: An Essay on the Cultural History of the Religious Minorities in Assam (1985-2005), Arupjyoti Saikia
Post-colonial Reconstruction of the Political and the Politics of Partition in East Bengal, Riaz Khan
The Literary Imagination of Violence and Trauma in South Asia, Kazi Anis Ahmed
After Nostalgia: the Bengal Partition of 1947 in Film, Abhijeet Paul
Partition as Process: The Bengal Experience, Joya Chatterji
Session 162, A Way of Life: Representing the Middle Classes in India
Industrial Middle Classes and Cosmopolitanism: An Ethnographic Exploration of Provincial Representations of Middle Class Identity, Geert R. De Neve
Kitty-Parties: Exploring Female Middle-Classness in New Delhi, Anne Waldrop
"Toward the Family": Representations of Middle-class Lifestyles in Urban Bengal, Henrike Donner
"Everybody Bought It": The Illustrated Weekly of India and the Post-independence Idea of a Pan-Indian Middle Class, Rashmi Sadana
Session 163, Print and Pleasure in 19th-Ccentury India
The Novel and the Newspaper: Pleasure and the Everyday in Ratan Nath Sarshar's Fasana-e Azad, Jennifer Dubrow
Vibrant at the Margins: Punjabi Print Culture in Late-Nineteenth-Century India, Farina Mir
Tales between Two Scripts, Francesca Orsini
"Pandering to the Vicious Tendencies": Commercial Publishers, Colonial Censorship and Forbidden Pleasure, Ulrike B. Stark
Session 164, Reclaiming History: A Century of North Indian Dalit Protest
Reclaiming a Past: Histories of Dalit Protest in North India, Ramnarayan S. Rawat
Dalits in the United Provinces and the Late Colonial Reforms, Ian Duncan
Dalits and the Formation of a Counter-Public Sphere: Pamphlet Publishing in 20th CenturyNorth India, Sarah Beth Wilkerson
The Problem with Premchand: Historiographic Trends in Hindi Dalit Literary Criticism, Laura R. Brueck
Session 186, Because Languages Don’t Speak for Themselves: Modern State Practices in South Asia
Tamarind Trees like Steam Engines: Making All Things Commensurable in Indian Colonial Textbooks, Clare Talwalker
Words that Live: Urdu as a Modern Language, Kavita Datla
Linguistic Hegemony and Colonial Legacies: Bengali Language Planning and its Political and Cultural Significance, Suhail Mohiul Islam
Conceptualizing "Religion" and the "Religions" of India: Scottish Missionaries and the Religions in Nineteenth-Century Bombay, Mitchell W. Numark
Protestant Christianity, Christian Missionaries, and the Politics of Translation in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century India, Parna Sengupta
A Scottish "Shastra" in Sanskrit: Representing Christianity and the Scottish Enlightenment in Mid-19th-century Benares, Richard Young
The Necessary Preliminaries to a Formal Siege: The Study of Indian Religions in the Tranquebar Mission, B. William H. Sweetman
Session 188, Making Film, Making Culture: New Research on Popular Hindi Film
All that Glitters: Jewelry and the Bollywood Period Flick, Sangita Gopal
The Circuits of Desire: Bombay Cinema's Fan Magazines and Award Shows, Ranjani Mazumdar
Two Guys, a Girl, and an India Flick: Personal Accounts of the Hindi Film Industry, Debashree Mukherjee
Script Culture and Alternative Modes of Coordination: the Case of the Bombay Film Industry, Emmanuel Grimaud
Session 210, South Asian Madaris in Comparative Perspective
Madaris Education in Bangladesh: Continuity and Change, Ali Riaz
"School Choice" and the Question of Sectarianism in Pakistan, Matthew J. Nelson
Distrust of Islamic Educators: Madaris Reforms in Comparative Historical Perspective, Christopher Candland
Session 211, Rethinking Imperial Science and Science of Empire
Regionalizing the Universal and the Local: Environment and the Development of Hospitals and Dispensaries in the Punjab Plains, Lauren Nauta
The Emergence of Animal Breeding and Veterinary Science in Colonial Punjab, Brian P. Caton
Pasteur Institutes in India: International Collaborations and Local Health, Pratik Chakrabarti