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Session 10, Sabhas: Changing the Landscape of Chennai’s Music, Dance, and Drama
Sabha, Samaj, Sampradaya Sangeetam: The Aesthetics and Politics of Performance in Modern South India 1870-1950, Lakshmi
Subramanian
"Well Done, Sabha Secretary!": Staging Classical Music in South India, Amanda Weidman
Choreographing Madras: Bharata Natyam, Sabhas, and the Production of Local Identities in Late Colonial India, Janet O'Shea
Sabha Comedy: Content, Aesthetics, and Patronage, Kristen Rudisill
The Hyderabadis in Pakistan and Beyond, Karen Leonard
Citizens without a Nation: Minorities in Post Partition Bengal, 1947-65, Haimanti Roy
Moving People: Immoveable Property; the Archive of Partition, Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar
An Enduring Legacy of the Raj: "Martial Races" in the Post-Partition Indian Army, Omar Khalidi
Session 28, Shifting Identities, Shifting Roles: Advocating for India’s Unheard Melodies
Malayalam Jewish Folk Songs 1977-2007: Shifting Ethnographic Roles In Their Preservation and Analysis, Barbara C. Johnson
Reception and Advocacy of Tamil Folk Music: Performing Multiple Ethnographic Roles Among Dalit Christian Villagers, Zoe Sherinian
Popular Music as a "Minority Music" within South Asian Studies? Advocacy, Academics, and the Real World of Tamil Film Music, Joseph Getter
Session 52, Buddhist Traditions among Tibeto-Burman Peoples
Daughters Empowered? Competing and Connecting Buddhist Ritual Traditions between Burma and Nepal, Christoph Emmrich
Nature, Buddhism, and Society in Tamang Creation, David Holmberg
"The Right Dharma for Today": Newar Buddhism, Globalization, and the Theravada Turn, Lauren Leve
The Local and the Global in Religious Texts: Contact, Isolation and Change in the Himalayan Periphery of Tibetan Buddhism, Nicolas Sihle
Dharma Beyond the Temple: Buddhist Monks and New Media in Thailand, Rachelle M. Scott
A Study of Human Impact on Sacred Groves in India, Neelam Singh
Pain and Gain: Renovation in Vietnam's Spirit World, Mai Lan Gustafsson
Session 70, The Many Meanings of "1857": Perspectives on the 150th Anniversary
The Multiple Meanings of "1857" for South Asians in Britain, Michael H. Fisher
Rethinking Rebel Responses: The Sepoy Mutiny of 1857, Seema Alavi
Staging the Mutiny, W.R. Vijay Pinch
Jail Breaks: Rebels, Mutineers, and Prisoners in Bihar, 1857-58, Anand A. Yang
Session 71, Hygienic Modernities: Science and the City in Colonial South Asia
Cleansing the Oriental City: The Destruction of Old Delhi and the Creation of a New Capital, Manu P. Sobti
Sewers and Sensibility: The Culture of Sanitation in Nineteenth Century Calcutta, Ishita Pande
Domesticating Urban Space: Vernacular Architecture and Hindu Revivalism in North Indian Cities 1870-1910, Leigh Denault
Calcutta: Engineering Remedies, Sanitation and State Ideology, Partho Datta
Session 72, Consumption, Waste, and Interpretation in South Asia
The Quack Whom We Know: Illness and Nursing in Gandhi, Sandhya Shetty
Alimentary Tracts: Food, Flesh, and Filth in the Mutiny of 1857, Parama Roy
Looking at Leftovers: History Lessons and More, Lalitha Gopalan
Session 91, Mughal Courtly Literature: Perspectives on Gender, Politics, and Religion
Illuminator of the Timurid Flame: Jahanara Begum’s Patronage, Piety and Poetic Prowess, Afshan Bokhari
"The Heart is Me and You": A Mughal Conversation about Familiarity and Difference, Rajeev K. Kinra
The Loves of a Princess: Zebunnisa and Persian Poets and Poetry, Sunil Sharma
The Topography of Hindustan in a Persian Ramayana: Masih Panipati's Masnavi-yi Ram va Sita, Supriya Gandhi
Session 92, Roundtable: Public Anthropology in South Asia
Women in Panchayats: A Case Study in Haryana, Aparna Basu
Governance Reforms and Rural Women in India: When Do Empowered Women Talk Back to the State?, Jana Everett
The Panchayati Experiment in India: A case study of West Bengal, Bharati Ray
Session 114, The Modern Ghalib
Turning Nets into Nests: Geography, History, and the Last Mughal Poet, Syed Akbar Hyder
"Not All, Only Some": The Modern Ghalib and His Interpreters, Frances Pritchett
In the Mirror of Ghalib, Alexander Sean Pue
Multiculturalism and School Curricula: The California Textbook Controversy, Prema Kurien
Good Citizens: The Indian Supreme Court and Teaching of Religion, Ronojoy Sen
Session 135, The Changing Roles of Politicized Islam in Pakistan's Northwest
Why are Hisba and Hudood so Important? The MMA and Gender Politics in the NWFP, Anita M. Weiss
Faultlines and Lines of Control: Islamist Charities, International Organizations, and the Pakistan Military in the Earthquake Relief and
Reconstruction Project, Cabeiri D. Robinson
Islamists in the Assembly: The Muttahida Majis-e-Amal and NWFOP Politics, Robert H. Nichols
Military Interventions in FATA: Import for Security and Governance, Carol Christine Fair
The Paradoxical Place of Caste/Biradari in 20th Century Elections, David Gilmartin
Ascriptive Identitites in Modern Sri Lanka, John D. Rogers
From Vertical Integration to Horizontal Conflict: Caste Identity and Politics in Contemporary India, Dipankar Gupta
Transforming Identities in Nepal: From Caste to Indigeneity and Race, Susan Hangen
Session 154, Monuments, Narratives, and Reinventions of the Past in South Asia
Reusing the Past: Religious Architecture in 20th Century Jaipur, Catherine E. B. Asher
Sayyid Ahmad Khan and the Mughal Past, David Lelyveld
Invoking Chola and Maratha Pasts in Colonial Tanjavur: King Serfoji II and the Brihadisvara Temple, Indira V. Peterson
Imperial Authority and Legitimacy:
Reinventing Mewar's History through Art and Architecture, Jennifer B. Joffee
Session 174, Buddhisms Beyond Buddhism
In Search of a Secular Religion: Buddhist Themes in Modern Telugu Literature, Velcheru Narayana Rao
In a "Buddhist" World, But Not Of It: Martin Wickramasinghe and the Sinhala Novel, Charles Hallisey
The Aesthetics of Suffering in Rabindranath Tagore, Sudipta Kaviraj
From Buddhism to Communism: Hindi Intellectuals in the Early 20th Century, Francesca Orsini
Session 175, Democracy and the Politics of Islamism in Bangladesh
Revivalist Islam and Labor Migration from Bangladesh to the Middle East, Nazli Kibria
Countdown to Elections: High Stakes for Bangladesh, Maneeza Hossain
The Dynamics of Islamist Militancy in Bangladesh, Ali Riaz
Global Terrorism and Bangladesh: A Comparative Analysis, Abdul Momen
Localization Reconsidered at a Goddess Temple in Upstate New York, Corinne Dempsey
Local Transnational Hindus and Private Religious Practices in a Global World, Jennifer B. Saunders
Localism, Universalisms, and Nationalisms in Hindu California, Shana Sippy
Bhaktivinoda Thakura and the Middle Class Appropriation of a Vaisnava Holy Site in Late 19th-century Bengal, Jason D. Fuller
Session 194, Individual Papers: Global Cultural and Capital Exchanges, South and Southeast Asia
Language, Ethnicity and Transnational Motherhood: A Comparative Study of Chinese and Indonesian Female Migrant Spouses in Taiwan, Yi-Hsuan Kuo
Clashing Frames: Differing Visions of the Hindi Film through the Cameras of Raj Kapoor, Mehboob Khan, Bimal Roy and Guru Dutt , Bulbul Tiwari
The Eccentric Communication Networks of Overseas Filipino Workers in Asia, Fernando Paragas
Buffalo Boy: Surviving the Flood of Globalization in Viet Nam, Kim Worthy
The Best Laid Plans: The Transformation of Urban Planning in Mumbai, India, Liza Weinstein
The Role of Donors and Responses of Bangladesh: Good Governance, Povery Reduction and Development, Syeda Naushin Parnini
Session 195, Time and History in South Asian Pasts
Vernacular Messianic Time in the Ismaili Ginan Tradition, Teena Purohit
The Historiographic Hallmarks of Hagiography, Christian Lee Novetzke
Repetition Without Origin: Time, Temporality and Task in the Sikh Scriptures, Arvind-pal S. Mandair
Redemptive Pasts and Imperiled Futures: The Writing of a Sikh History, Purnima Dhavan
Session 196, Sacred Songs of the Saints: Medieval and Modern Perspectives on the Tamil Hymns
Singing Saintly Songs: Tamil Hymns in the Medieval South Indian Temple, Leslie C. Orr
Waves of Bhakti, Waves of Song: The Proliferation of Alvar Poetry in the 20th Century, Vasudha Narayanan
The Festival of the Devotees, Richard H. Davis
Chanting and Singing: Markers of Srivaisnava Identities in Tamil Nadu, Katherine K. Young
Session 215, How to Count the Multitude: Logics, Mechanisms, and Technologies
Tallying Bodies: Arundhati Roy’s Moral Math, Bishnupriya Ghosh
Discredited Bodies: Of Citizenship and Colonial Indentured Labor, Sukanya Banerjee
Session 216, Crime And Criminality in 18th- and 19th-centuries Rajasthan: State, Family and Tribes
Moralizing Rhetoric of Pre-colonial States: Position of Women in 18th-century Rajasthan, Fatima Imam
Who Will Police the Police? The Criminal Tribe Crisis and the Struggle for Control in North-West India., Anastasia Piliavsky
Structure of Punishment in 18th century Rajasthan, Nirmal Kumar