South Asia
Contents:
Session 13: Forbidden Fruit, Longing and Desire: Transcending Food
Taboos
- Soul Food: Eating, Conception and Gender in the Literatures of Premodern India,
Sally J. Sutherland Goldman
- Bhakti and Ber: Interpretations of Shabari Episode, Philip Lutgendorf
- Pregnancy Food Cravings and Gender Determination in Women's Expressive Traditions,
Usha Nilsson
- Ravana's Kitchen: A Testimony of Desire and Other, Robert P. Goldman
Session 14: Indo-American Relations in the Clinton-Rao Years
- The Post-Cold War United States Indian Relationship: Can the Past Become Prologue,
Harold A. Gould
- Economic Relations Between India and the United States: Finally on the Right Track,
John Adams
- Congressional Attitudes Toward India in the Clinton-Rao Years, Arthur G. Rubinoff
Session 35: At Home (in India) and Abroad: Constructing and
Transgressing Colonial Boundaries: Part One (See Session 60)
- The Delhi Frontier, 1200-1800, Jos Gommans
- Himmat Bahadur for Hire: In the Service of Awadh, Maratha, and the East India Company,
William R. Pinch
- A Counterflow of Imperialism: Indians in Britain, 1780-1850 , Michael Fisher
Session 36: Secularism, the Personal Laws and the Dilemmas of the
Indian State
- The Question of the Secular Constitution in India: A Comparative Perspective,
Gary J. Jacobsohn
- The Hindu Code Bill: Forging an Uneasy Peace, Rina Verma
- The Shah Bano Affair: Refounding the Indian Regime, Jon Fullerton
Session 37: ROUND TABLE: Gender, Ethnic Identity and Modernity under
Stress in South Asian Islam (Sponsored by the South Asian Muslim Studies
Association)
Session 60: At Home (in India) and Abroad: Part Two: Constructing
and Transgressing Colonial Boundaries (See Session 35)
- Knowledge and Power: The Making of the Company Army, 1770-1830 , Seema Alavi
- A (British) Indian/Rajput Solider in China: "Self" and "Others"
in the Autobiography/History of Gadhdhar Singh, Anand A. Yang
- Battle Colors: Race, Sex, and Colonial Soldiery in World War One, Philippa Levine
Session 61: Poverty, Gender, and Environment: Empirical Assessments
of Economic Liberalization in India (Sponsored by SAC)
- Liberalization and the Poor in India: The Empirical Case , N. Chandra Mohan
- Structual Adjustment Programme and Gender Concerns in India , Dolly Arora
- Structural Adjustment vs. India's Environment, Ashish Kothari
Session 80: South Indian Epigraphic Studies in Honor of Professor
Noburu Karashima
- In Search of Change: Reflections on the Scholarship of Noboru Karashima, George
W. Spencer
- Merchants, Rulers, and Priests in Early South India and Java Sacred Centers,
Kenneth R. Hall
- Women in the Temple, the Palace, and the Family: The Construction of Women's
Identities in Pre-Colonial Tamilnadu, Leslie C. Orr
- The Nayakas of Vijayanagara Andhra: A Preliminary Prosopography , Cynthia Talbot
Session 81: Radical Mobilization in Kerala: Causes, Consequences and
Comparative Anomalies
- Social Mobilization and State Capacity: Lessons from Kerala , Patrick Heller
- "Fanaticism," Jacquerie, Movement and Party: Modes of Peasant Activism in
Malabar, 1836-1956, Ronald J. Herring
- Insurgency, Organization and "Subaltern" Classes: Some Comments on the Case
of Kerala, Manali Desai
- State, Social Movements and the Constititution of Sectors of the Economy: Kerala
Fisheries and the Fishworkers' Movement , Subir Sinha
Session 107: Looking East: India's Integration with Changing Asia
- Situating India in Asia: Multiple Approaches to an Integrative Framework, Anthony
D'Costa
- The Indian Steel Industry in the Context of India's Integration with Asia, Ram
Prasad Sengupta
- Can Indo-Japanese Cooperation Provide Opportunities for Culturally Appropriate
Organizational Changes in the Indian Workplace? Samuel K. Parker
Session 114: INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: Discourses of Colonialism and
Modernity in South Asia
- Capital Punishment of Women in Early Colonial India: Debates about Law and Practice
in Records of the Deccan Commission, 1818-1826, Anne B. Waters
- State Formation and the Poetics of Space: "Nepal" in 1816, Bernardo A.
Michael
- Development Discourse in a South Indian Agricultural District , Jenny Springer
- Bhutan's Forest Policies and their Role in Promoting Indigenous Forest Management,
Gautam N. Yadama
- The Politics of Privilege: A Study of Babus in Colonial India, Sridevi
Menon
Session 131: Statistic, Status, Self, and Symbol: Experiencing
Aging in India
- The Familial Body of Old Age and the Imagining of Colonial Modernity, Lawrence
Cohen
- Aging, Past and Present, in an Indian Muslim Family, Sylvia Jane Vatuk
- Old Age in a Low-Caste in Tamilnadu, Pauline M. Kolenda
- Aging in a Net of Ties: Self and Gender in West Bengal , Sarah Lamb
Session 132: Imagining Places and Placing Images: Constructing
Buddhist Worlds in South and Southeast Asia (Sponsored by Buddhist Studies)
- World Map, World Order: Imagining and Commanding Space in Buddhist South Asia,
Jonathan S. Walters
- Urban space and Social Place: Buddhists in a Medieval City of the Kathmandu Valley,
Bronwen Bledsoe
- A Pilgrim's Guide to the Galaxy: Jina Mandalas as Maps of Buddhist Pilgrimage
Activity, Elizabeth Wilson
- What's a Bodhisattva to do in the Pure Land?: The Samantabhadra Vow and its
Representation on Barabudur, Julie A. Gifford
Session 154: Craftsmanship and Craft Technology in Mughaland
Deccani India
- Pictorial, Literary, and Technical Evidence for Mughal Lapidary Arts, Stephen A.
Markel
- The Woven Silks of Mughal India, Rahul Jain
- A Workshop Model for the Transmission of Mughal Influence in Rajasthani Painting,
Daniel J. Ehnbom
- Word and Image: Process and Production in a Deccani Manuscript , Sharon
Littlefield
Session 155: Technologies of Imagination in Contemporary South Asia
- What's Left of the Hindu Right Agenda? National Identity in an Era of Globalization,
Arvind Rajagopal
- Inverting India: Reading Roja in Film and Fantasy, Itty Abraham and Lalitha
Gopalan
- Chasing Miracles: Postcolonial Identity and Mimesis in Sri Lanka, Sankaran
Krishna
Session 177: "Authentic" Buddhism in a Hindu Nepal
- Secret Sources: B. H. Hodgson's Collections and the Making of Nepalese History,
Laura Kunreuther
- Buddhist Identity in a Hindu Nation: The Struggle Over Secularism in Post-1990 Nepal,
Lauren Leve
- Touring Lumbini: On Buddhist Centers and National Margins , Heather Hindman
- "Not a Tourist": Space and Identity at a Buddhist Pilgrimage Site in Nepal,
Peter Moran
Session 185: INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: Communications in South Asia:
Networks and Messages
- A Multi-Lingual State in a Media Revolution: Capitalism, Advertising and the Vitality
of (Certain) Cultures in India, 1947-95 , Robin Jeffrey
- Constructions of Femininity in Indian Advertising, Shoma Munshi
- National Roots of International Politics Population Policy and Women's Movement in
India, Aseema Sinha
- Locating the Work of Art: A South Indian Textile and the Question of Context,
Rebecca M. Brown
- Sakti Experienced: Bengali Disciples' Personal Accounts of the Powers of the Guru,
Suchitra Samanta
Session 201: Empowerment and Transformation: Ritual, Symbol,and
Song Among South Asian Muslims
- Propogating the Message: Folk Songs and the Spread of Islam in South Asia, Ali S.
Asani
- Immersed in Remembrance and Song: The Sama c of
a South Indian Mursid, Joyce B. Flueckiger
- "Zenab, I am Coming!" The Transformative Power of Nuwâh,
Andreas D'Souza
- In the Presence of the Martyrs: c Alams in
Popular Shi' c i Piety, Diane D'Souza
Session 222: Shared Metaphoric Worlds: Religion and Literature in
Precolonial India
- Toward a Logic of Equivalence: Hindu and Muslim Convergence in Premodern Bengal,
Tony K. Stewart
- Asymmetries of Appropriation: Hindus and Muslims in Congruent Tamil Worlds,
Vasudha Narayanan
- Yogic Breath Control and Yoginis in in Persian Translation of the Kamarupa
Seed Syllables, Carl W. Ernst
- Rasa and Romance: The Mediated Worlds of Maulana Da'ud's Candayan,
Aditya Behl