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The Unlikely Commentator: The Hermeneutic Reception of Shankara’s Thought in the Interpretive Scholarship of Dara Shikoh, Douglas L. Berger
Dara Shikoh’s Intellectual and Mystical Vision and Its Implications for Hindu-Muslim Relations, Irfan A. Omar
Contemporary Pakistani Views of Dara Shikoh and Aurangzeb, David Pinault
Session 28: Fifty Years of Wonder: A. L. Basham’s Legacy and Contemporary South Asian History
Basham’s Big Book, Thomas R. Trautmann
Basham and the New History in India, Romila Thapar
On Values and Historic Interpretation, Benjamin Preciado Solis
Rewriting the History of India in the 1950s, Richard H. Davis
The Hindu Widow and Inheritance: Legal Battles in Colonial North India, 1876–1911, Nita Verma Prasad
Women’s Souls, Women’s Votes: Gender and Islamic Activism in Bangladesh, Elora Rahnuma Shehabuddin
Gender and Religious Law in India: Political Discourse and the Personal Laws, Rina Williams
Session 48: Postcolonial Cities and the Question of Social Order
Artist and Bourgeois in Post-Partition Delhi, Vasudha Dalmia
Neighborhood, Locality, City: Alternative Geographies, Commodity Cultures, and the Spaces of "Hindu" Violence, Sanjay Srivastava
From the Big House to the Apartment: Domestic Anxiety and Spatial Transformation in Kolkata, Seemin Qayum and Raka Ray
Session 49: Recent Changes in Indian Family Law: Marriage and Divorce among the Communities
Courts, Gender Rights, and Secularism in India and Israel, Shylashri Shankar
Contesting Homogeneity from Within: A Comparative Study of Community-Based Adjudication Processes under the Hindu Law, Gopika Solanki
The Judiciary, the Legislature, and the Reform of Christian and Muslim Law, Narendra Subramanian
Between Welfare, Equity, and Efficiency: Tracing the Trajectory of Hindu Marriage Law, Srimati Basu
Session 70: Modern Formations of South Asian Identities
Global Domesticity and the Bengali Home, Judith E. Walsh Wilson
Indians Abroad: Indian Narratives of Travel to Europe, Julie F. Codell
Spinning for Safety: Re-Imagining Religious History in Post-Partition Punjab, Anna B. Bigelow
A Requiem for Feminism: Depiction of Women in Indian TV Serials, Rajesh Kumar
Session 71: Literature and the Writing of South Asian History
The Vernacular Complex in Maharashtra: Literature and Subalternity before the Folk, Milind Wakankar
Punjab’s Literature as Historical Source: Hir-Ranjha in the Nineteenth Century, Farina Mir
The Limits of Literary Humanism in Dowry Reform: The Death of Snehalata Mukhopadhaya, Rochona Majumdar
Session 89: Beyond Metropole and Colony: South Asia, Colonialism, and Comparative History
Reporting the Raj: Communications and the Politics of the Indian Empire, 1870s–1920s, Chandrika Kaul
Tales of the Expansion of Modern Science: A Study in the Comparative Historiography of Science in India and Australia, Dhruv Raina
The Irish Free State and Indian Nationalism: A Historiographical Review, David Campion
The Persistence of Colonial Categories: Rethinking the Conquest/Settler Colony Divide, Deana Lee Heath
Being a King the Saiva Way: Love and Violence in Tamil Literary Culture, Anne E. Monius
Priests and Kings/Temples and Teachers: The Making of Saiva and Vaisnava Identities in the Chola Period, Leslie C. Orr
Lovers, Messengers, and Beloved Landscapes: Sandesa Kavya in Comparative Perspective, Steven P. Hopkins
Staging Smarta Religion in Maratha Tanjavur: King Tulaja’s Drama of the Wedding of the Goddess at the Mahadevapatnam Visnu Temple, Indira V. Peterson
Session 108: Violence in Gujarat: 2002–2004: Sponsored by the South Asia Council (SAC)
The Sociology of Gujarat Violence, Ghanshyam Shah
Gujarat Violence in Literature, Panna Naik
Historical Perspectives on Gujarat Violence, Howard Spodek
Session 129: Text and Context on Food in South Asian Hindu, Christian, and Jain Traditions
Into the Mouths of Babes: Ayurvedic Diet and Rituals for Pregnancy and Infancy, Susannah McNeely
Changing Attitudes toward Divine "Leftovers" in Tamil Temple Traditions, Ginette Ishimatsu
Asanam Meal: A Ritual Leveling of Differences in South Indian Christianity, Selva J. Raj
Creative (Re-)Imagining in Jain Fasting Narratives, M. Whitney Kelting
Session 147: Subaltern Medical Women in Late Colonial India
Commercializing Tradition through Women: A Woman Ayurvedic Practioner, Charu Gupta
Making and Re-casting Nurses in Colonial India, 1900–1930, Rosemary Fitzgerald
Medical Women and Maternal and Infant Health Programs in Colonial South India, Barbara N. Ramusack
At the Crossroads of Literary Modernity: The Lives and Works of the "Mishrabandhu", Allison R. Busch
Towards Rumanviyat: Altaf Husain Hali and Urdu Romanticism, Guriqbal Sahota
The Two Critical Traditions in Nineteenth-Century Bengali Criticism: A Study in Polarization and Mergers, Abhijeet Paul
Celebrity Itineraries: The Postcolonial State in the Making of National Culture, Dard Neuman
Muslim in the Margin: The Making of a Post-Partition National Order in South Asia, Vazira Zamindar
After Midnight: Official Nationalism and the Production of Postcolonial Identity in India, Srirupa Roy
Historicizing State Sovereignty: Racialized Nationality and the International State System, Radhika Mongia
Session 168: Individual Papers: Politics, Economy, and Gender in South and Southeast Asia
Women at War: Jahanara Imam and the Bangladeshi Liberation Struggle, Debali Mookerjea-Leonard
Unbecoming Women: Re-writing the Gender Script in a Factory Worker’s Life Story (or, Whatever Happens to the Bharat Nari?), Jayati Lal
The 1947 Partition: Women, New Histories, and Public Spheres in South Asia, Kavita Daiya
India at Doha: The Politics of Policy Making in the "New" Issues at WTO, Surupa Gupta
Democratic Transition, Economic Crisis, and Labor Reform in Indonesia, Teri L. Caraway
Session 187: Regionalizing the Mughal Tradition in Early Modern Bengal
The Mughal Tradition and Prose Narratives in Early Bengal, Kumkum Chatterjee
Mughal Style and the Temple Vernacular in Eighteenth-Century Bengal, Pika Ghosh
Qazi: Representing the Islamic Lawgiver in Eighteenth-Century Bengal, Sudipta Sen
Session 207: Legacies of Andhra Buddhism
Andhra’s Buddhist Influence on Sri Lanka, John C. Holt
Amaravati as Lens: Envisioning Early Buddhism in the Ruins of the Great Temple, Jacob N. Kinnard
Madhyamaka Monks and Krishna River Valley Kings, Karen Lang
Buddhist Tantra in the Krishna River Area, A. W. Barber