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[ 7 | 8 | 29 | 49 | 69 | 70 | 89 | 90 | 111 | 112 | 131 | 152 | 171 | 172 | 191 | 210 | 211 ]

Session 7
Individual Papers: Shaping Public Consciousness in South and Southeast Asia
Digital Stories: Rethinking Southeast Asian Ethnicity, Gender, and National Identity through Textiles and Dress, Cherubim A. Quizon
Rewriting a Nationalist Narrative: State Power in India in the 1940s, Indivar Kamtekar
Media Convergence and Hindi Newspapers: Changing Dynamics of News-Making Practices, Taberez A. Neyazi
Balinese Babad: The Politics of Historical Expression, 18th Century to the Present, Robin Tatu
Warfare and Worship: Elephants in Cankam Literature, Rajmohan Ramanathapillai

Session 8
Changing Uses of Religious Buildings in India
Superhighway Tirthas: Temple Claims for a Jain Maharashtra, M. Whitney Kelting
Re-imagining, Re-shaping, and Re-signifying the Temple in Medieval Tamilnadu, Leslie C. Orr
Re-membering the Amaravati Stupa, Catherine Becker
Baba Farid’s Door in a New Dargah: The Politics of Charisma and Saintly Heritage in Princely Hyderabad, Alison M. Shah

Session 29
A Permeable Membrane: The Interaction Between Theology and Literary Theory in Sanskrit Literature
Poetics as Theology in Rupa Gosvami's Prathama Caitanyastaka, David Buchta
Dhvani as Aesthetic Consecration: Abinavagupta’s Initiation Metaphor for Literary Revelation, David Mellins
How Rasa Dies: Kalidasa's Implicit Commentary in Abhijna nasa kuntala, Nadine L Berardi
The Use of karuna rasa or pathos in Bhavabhuti’s Uttararamacarita: An Analysis of the Effectiveness of a Literary Tool, Ronita Bhattacharya

Session 49
South Asian Social Imaginaries: Regionalized Modernities - Sponsored by the South Asia Council
Assembling Militarism: The Garment Factory, Military Camp, and Emergent Communities in Sri Lanka, Neloufer de Mel
Claims of Belonging: Understanding the Plantation Repatriate, Ravindran Sriramachandran
Defense or Development? Human Security, National Security, and Militarization in Ladakh (Kashmir, India), Mona Bhan

Session 69
South Asian Social Imaginaries: Globalized Modernities - Sponsored by the South Asia Council
Locating Kerala: Region, Nation, Globe, Ritty Lukose
The Language of Pan-Islamism, Faisal F. Devji
Islamism and Secularism: Modernity’s Squabbling Offsprings, Humeira Iqtidar

Session 70
Subverting Representation, Once Again: Toward a Dialogue among "Scholarly," "Everyday’"and "Global" Gender in India
Encountering Subversion? Ethnographic Sex, "Third-world" (Indian) Women, and the Genesis of Representation, Manuela Ciotti
Subversions of the Gentlewoman: Representational Maneuvers, Middle-class Sensibilities, and the Pursuit of Agency in South India, Patricia Taber
Resisting DisposSession Women and Men against Mining and Metal Factories in Central/Eastern India, Samarendra Das

Session 89
Cultural Cross-Currents in Early Modern India (16th-18th Centuries)
Cultural Negotiation and Cosmopolitanism: The Case of the Bishnupur Kingdom in the 17th and 18th Centuries, Kumkum Chatterjee
Rajput, Mughal, Vaishnava: Cultural Synthesis in the Court Arts of 17th- and 18th-Century Mewar, Jennifer B. Joffee
Vaishnava Landscapes in 18th Century Marwar: Painting under Maharaja Vijai Singh, Debra Diamond
Orchha Literary Styles in the Cultural Economy of Early Modern India, Allison R. Busch

Session 90
Roundtable: A New Intellectual History for Colonial India

Session 111
Organizing across Divides: Women Workers and Working Class Politics in India
Sex Workers’ Organizing in India: Historical and Political Perspectives, Svati Shah
Citizenship, Labor, and the Limits of Rights Based Claims: Women Garment Factory Workers in India, Jayati Lal
Hungry for Justice: Alliance Work and the Politics of NGO-ization in Indian Plantation Women’s Labor Activism., Piya Chatterjee

Session 112
Arguing for a Hindu India? c. 1900-1930
Unity Cannot be Purchased at the Cost of Hindu Rights: The Nation Debated as "Hindu", Neeti Nair
V.D Savarkar and the Uses of History in the Making of a Hindu India-- Vinayak Chaturvedi
Hindu, Christian, and Buddhist in a Non-brahmin Space: South Indian Debates on Religion, 1900-1930, Dilip Menon

Session 131
From India to Trinidad: Debates over Textuality, Theater, and Commemoration
Ramlila is Alive and Well and Living in Trinidad: Theatrical Innovation Overseas, Paula Richman
Indian Arrival Day: Lines in the Shifting Sands of Trinidad's Religious Landscape, Lindsey B. Harlan
Hindu Text, Trinidadian Context: Ramcharitmanas, Yagnas, and Life-cycle Rituals, Sherry-Ann Singh

Session 152
Individual Papers: Gender, Religion, and Power in South Asia
"Dynastic Politics" and the Political Culture of Bangladesh, Ali Riaz
When Militants Become New Leaders: Questions of Legitimacy, Citizenship, and Minority Rights in Western Assam (India), Nel Vandekerckhove
Authoring (In)Authenticity, Regulating Religious Tolerance: The Legal and Political Implications of Anti-conversion Legislation for Indian Secularism, Jennifer R. Coleman
Vivekananda and Indian Islam, Gautam Kundu
Cultural Autonomy versus Women’s Rights? Reframing the Debate on Religious Family Laws in India, Gopika Solanki

Session 171
Colonial Bombay in Indian History
Charles Napier’s “Bombay Cabal”: Sindh’s Annexation and the Bombay Presidency, Matthew A. Cook
Worker’s Choices and Public Health: Maternity and Maternal Care in Bombay, 1920-1930, Lisa Navin Trivedi
Workers’ Politics and the "Fugitive" Discourse of Development in Bombay, 1918-1939, Juned Shaikh
Translating and Transforming Religion: Scottish Missionary-Orientalists, Religious Diversity, and Religious Understanding in Nineteenth-Century Bombay, Mitchell W. Numark

Session 172
The Geography of Urdu: Canon, Metaphor, Community
Revisiting that Earth(l)y, Glorious Tradition, Carla R. Petievich
"Madrasi Urdu" in the Hierarchy of Linguistic Value, Amy C. Bard
From a Space of Solitude to a Space of Community: The Desert in Modern Urdu Poetry, A. Sean Pue

Session 191
Material Culture, Esoteric Practice, and Lay Devotion in Medieval Southern Asia
Institutionalized Ascetics, Monastic Practice, and Lay Devotion in Medieval Central India, Tamara I. Sears
Karsha’s Queen’s Chorten and Nested Communities: A Case Study in the Institutionalization of Tantra, Rob N. Linrothe
Imagery, Architecture, and the Practice of Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Bengal, Pika Ghosh
From a Monastic Scribe to a Wandering Acarya: The Production and Patronage of Illustrated Buddhist Manuscripts in Early-Medieval Eastern India, Jinah Kim

Session 210
Continuity vs. Change: Education, Learning and Tradition in Indian Society, c. 1700-1950
Learning, Education, and Knowledge in the Transition to Colonialism in India, c.1750-1850, Hayden John-Andrew Bellenoit
Larkon ki kahani: Education, Parenting, and the Hindi-speaking Household c.1870-1915, Leigh Denault
Agricultural Science and the Discourse of Modernity in Late Colonial India, Prakash Kumar

Session 211
Individual Papers: Globalizing States and Markets in South and Southeast Asia
Globalization's Local Face: Situating Indian Handicrafts in Global Context, Pradeep Kumar Jena
Industrial Policies and Preferential Trade: Some Unique Features of ASEAN-based Asymmetric Free Trade Agreements, Alisa DiCaprio
Cultural Econo-mixes of the Bazaar, Nitasha Kaul
From Non-interference to Constructive Engagement: Contemporary Malaysia-Myanmar Relations, Zarina Othman