SOUTH ASIA SESSIONS

Environmental History of Tamil Nadu: State, Law and the Decline of Forests and Tribals, 1950–2000, Velayutham Saravanan

The Role of Women in Environmental Conservation: Examples from Bangladesh, Shahnaz Huq-Hussain

Nationalist Perspective on Floods: A Case Study of North Bihar, Praveen Singh

The Impact of the Ethnic Conflict-Related Displacement on Human-Centred Environment in Sri Lanka, R. A. Ariyaratne

Pakistan’s Madrassahs: Teaching the Alphabets of Jihad?, Ali Riaz

Fundamentalism, the Curriculum, and National Identity: Lessons from India, Marie Lall

Regressive Anti-Hindutva? The James Laine Affair within and besides Election 2004, Spencer A. Leonard

Between Security and Conflict: Governments and Muslim Minorities in Asia, Sandra Leavitt

The Other Side: Tajik Discourses of the Afghan Border, Jonah Steinberg

Constructing a Temple, Michael W. Meister

Constructing a Brahman Caste, Lawrence A. Babb

Constructing a Jain Mendicant Lineage, John E. Cort

Saraswati’s Children and the Preference for "Traditional" Hindu Education in Korba, Chhattisgarh, Peggy Froerer

Fees, Boards and Uniforms: State Material in North Indian Schooling, Paul Chaise LaDousa

Between Sex and Education: Gender, Violence, and the Public in Kerala, India, Ritty Lukose

From KG to IT: Middle Class Attitudes to Education in Chennai, Haripriya Narasimhan

Early Colonial Archives and the Production of a History for India, Nicholas B. Dirks

The Fantastic World of English, and Its Colonial Legacy, Nita Kumar

The Production of Persian as a Language of Command in Colleges in India and England, Michael H. Fisher

Languages and Buildings as Bricolage in Sayyid Ahmad Khan’s Asar us-Sanadid, David Lelyveld

The Parlour and the Para: Class and Gender in a Neighborhood of Central Calcutta, Henrike Donner

"Our Locality, Our Law": Ethnic Neighborhoods and Women "Gangsters" in Bombay Slums, Atreyee Sen

What Makes a Neighborhood? Notes on Representations of an Urban Working-Class Neighborhood in Tamilnadu, South India, Geert R. De Neve

Muslims, Cosmopolitanism, and the Communalization of Space in Calicut, Kerala, Caroline Osella and Filippo Osella

Muslim Women in Colonial India: Gender and the Boundaries of Class, Religion, and Nation, Barbara D. Metcalf

Aryas, Hindus and Notions of Territorial Belonging, Vasudha Dalmia

Outside the Language of Citizenship, Faisal Devji

Urbanization and Its Effects on the Rural Community of Karimpur, Susan S. Wadley

Margin Practices or the Resource of Being In-Between: Some Examples in the Urban/Rural Fringe of Udaipur, Rajasthan, Nicolas Bautes

India Shining (albeit in Bits and Pieces): Spatial Perception and Political Choice-Making in and around Indian Globalized Cities, Sanjeev Vidyarthi

Court Theater and Cultural Politics in Maratha Tanjavur: The Debate between Ganga and Kaveri, Indira V. Peterson

Embodying the Devotee and Entertaining the Goddess: The Araiyar Cevai as Commentary at the Srivilliputtur Antal Temple, Archana Venkatesan

Invoking Courtly Culture: Memory, Identity, and the Devadasis of Telugu-Speaking South India, Davesh Soneji

Religious Conversion and the Expression of Difference in Precolonial Gujarat, Samira Sheikh

Religious Change among the Adivasis of Gujarat, David Hardiman

Peasant Politics and Religious Identity in Gujarat: Remembering Daduram, 1906–1996, Vinayak Chaturvedi

Princely Baroda and the Hindu Imaginary: Exploring the Cartography of Hindu Nationalism in Colonial India, Manu Bhagavan

Gender, Colonial Rule, and Property Rights in India, Nitasha Kaul

Carving a New Identity: The Changing Portrayal of Women in Indian Cinema, Rajesh Kumar

Constructing Hindu Masculinity: Gender, Sexuality, and Politics of Hate in India, Dibyesh Anand

Reckless Engenderment: Changing Parameters of Tibetan Gender in Refugee Communities in India, P. Christiaan Klieger

Hindu Ascendancy in India: Religion, State, and Cultural Dominance, Angana P. Chatterji

Suddh Kul aur Suddh Viry (Pure Blood and Pure Semen): Racializing the National Body in North India, 1900–1942, Rachel Berger

The Role of Malaria in the Scientification of Race in British India, Monica Poole Piotter

Gustave le Bon and India’s Aryan Greatness, Jyoti Mohan

"Aryan" Medicine and the Colonial Encounter: The Idea of Race in Colonial Histories of Indian Medicine, Bengal, 1830s, Ishita Pande

Does the Doctrine of Skillful Means Justify Too Much? The Justice and Injustice of War in Sri Lankan Buddhism, Eric S. Nelson

Right Action vs. Right Intention: Buddhist Doctrines in Conflict, Lori L. Witthaus

Karma and Compassion: Justifying Engaged Buddhism, Jeffery D. Long

Readership and Irony in Late 19th-Century Indian Travel Narratives, Julie F. Codell

Escape through Travel: Vacation Photographs of Indian Women, Geraldine Forbes

"The New World of Asia": Images of Cold War Cosmopolitanism in Holiday Magazine, Antoinette M. Burton

Samosas and Stardust: Fashion Photography, Travel, Tourism and the Popular Contemporary Indian Magazine, Romita Ray

Sedition and Terror: Tilak, Gandhi and Savarkar, Janaki Bakhle

"The Body Evidencing the Crime": The Law of Rape in Colonial India, Elizabeth Kolsky

The Parisi Identity Debates: Saklat vs. Bella (1914–25), Mitra Sharafi

Freedom, War and the Nation-State: The Indian National Army Trial of 1945, Mithi Mukherjee

Homogenizing Vaishnava Religion in the Eighteenth Century, Monika Horstmann

Sanātana Dharma as the Twentieth Century Began, John S. Hawley

Ahimsā, Śānti and Sanātana Dharma: A Comparison of Some Classical and Modern Concepts, Katherine K. Young

The Development of Sanātana Dharma in the Twentieth Century, Diana Dimitrova

Envisaging the Land of the Pure: Imagining Pakistan in the United Provinces in the 1940s, Yasmin Khan

What is Cutch, Kutch and Kachchh? Newsprint, Territory and Contest in the Democratic Era, Edward Simpson

Imagining a Hindi Pradesh? Early Formations of the Region in Gangetic North India in the 1890s, Harriet Bury

The Idea of Jharkhand: Who Cares About Jharkhand State? Alpa Shah

From Shahbano to Kausar Bano and Beyond, Huma Dar

Gendered Citzenship? Feminist-Nationalist Questioning in Hindi Women’s Journals (1910–1930), Shobna Nijhawan

Voices from Home and Abroad: Constructing a Modern Indian Nation and Canon in the Pages of the Hindi Literary Journal Sarasvati, Sujata Mody

East/West Encounters: "Indian" Identity and Transnational Feminisms in Manushi, Anita Anantharam

House, but No Garden: Apartment Living and the Middle Classes in Bombay, 1930s-1950s, Nikhil Rao

Muslim Urban Modernity in South Asia: Late Princely Hyderabad City, Eric L. Beverley

Cities of Knowledge: Re-imagining Paithan and Banaras in the History of Medieval Maharashtra, Ananya Vajpeyi

A View from the Margins: Vijayanagara as seen by Śaiva Viraktas, Prithvi Datta Chandra Shobhi

Gandhi’s Fallen Sisters: Moral Hygiene in Public Sphere Participation, Ashwini Tambe

Of Mimicry and Wo/men, Shefali Chandra

Mythologizing the Past: Jyotiba Phule and the "Limits" of History, Aparna Devare

Beyond the "Private" Marathi Women’s Oral Traditions, 1910–1960, Shruti Tambe

Excavating a Multi-Religious Site: Ellora in the 8th–9th Centuries, Lisa Nadine Owen

Constructing Kalachuri Hegemony: New Sects and Architectural Programs in Tenth- and Eleventh-Century India, Kimberly Masteller

Building on India’s New Sultanate "Frontier": The Role of the Artisan, Architect, and Patron in the Kingdom of Janupur, Anna Sloan

Divine Resources: Smelting Zinc and Housing the Gods at Jawar, Deborah L. Stein

The (Un)Making of a South Asian Aesthetic: Analyzing the Consumption of Bollywood in Pakistan and the Pakistani Diaspora, Ahmed Afzal

Socks, Shoes, and Toilet Seats: The Commodification of Hindu Imagery in the Western Market, Tanisha Ramachandran

First Night: Conservative Sexual Humor in Madras Theater, Kristen Rudisill

Geographies of Contagion: Hijras, Kotis, and the Politics of Sexual Marginality in India, Gayatri Reddy