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[ 9 | 10 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 106 | 107 | 122 ]

[ 131 | 155 | 156 | 157 | 181 | 182 | 206 | 207 | 208 | 223 | 240 ]

Session 9: Interpreting Ghalib: A Critical Look at the Critical Tradition
From Gray to Ghalib: The Aesthetics of Nazm Tabataba'i, Syed Akbar Hyder
How to Read Ghalib, Frances Pritchett
Ghalib and the Tale of the Short Meter, Mehr A. Farooqi

Session 10: Diets of Modernity in Colonial India
Constructing a "Pure" Body: The Discourse on Nutrition in Colonial Bengal, Utsa Ray
Feeding Subjects and Patients: The Logics of "Nutrition" in Bombay City, 1920-1940, Lisa N. Trivedi
Class, Culture and Cuisine in Colonial Bengal, Jayanta Sengupta

Session 31: De(coding) Codes: Script, Technology and Identity in South Asia
Coding Identity: Clashes of the Future in India's Call Centers, A. Aneesh
Living and Praying in the Code, Sareeta B. Amrute
Cryptographic Imagination: Indus Script and the Project of Scientific Decipherment, Ashish Chadha
In the Loop: Software Coding and the Politics of Time, Simanti Dasgupta

Session 32: Policing, Incarceration, and Colonial Control in India and Abroad
"Prisoners Their Own Warders": Self-policing Indian Convicts in Southeast Asian Penal Colonies in the Nineteenth Century, Anand A. Yang
"A Fanatical Reverence for Gandhi": Nationalism, “Martial Races” and the Bengal Police During the Non-cooperation Movement, Michael S. Silvestri
The Kanpur Riot of 1931: Nationalism, Communalism, and the Crisis of Policing in Late Colonial India, David A. Campion

Session 33: Individual Papers: Fluid Identities: Religion and Culture in South Asia
Shakyamuni's Prothesis: Sculpting Discourses on Death, Lament and Transcendence in Gandharan Iconography, Cibele E. V. Aldrovandi
Caitya Hall, Caityagriha: Relic Veneration at South Asian Buddhist Cave Sites from the Early Historic Period, David Efurd
From Sect to Caste: Dynamics of the Identity Formation of the Satnamis of Narnaul, Abha Singh
Religion, Media and Culture in a New World: The Radhasoami Movement in North America, Diana G. Dimitrova
The "Nation as Woman" and "Woman as Nation": Men Writing the Partition of India (1964-75), Shumona Dasgupta

Session 57: In the Image of Antiquity: Art and the Politics of Modernity in South Asia
Marketing the Ancient Past in the “Enlightened” Present: The Fragmentary Buddhist Sites of Andhra Pradesh as Tourist Attractions, Catherine Becker
The Masses of Antiquity, the Masses of Futurity: Ajanta in the Art of Amrita Sher-Gil, Sonal Khullar
"Vishnu’s Abode on Earth”: The Politics of "Tradition" and "Modernity" at Contemporary Srirangam, Shriya Sridharan
The Historical Rhetoric of a National Symbol: The Present and Past of Gandhi’s Wheel, Rebecca M Brown

Session 58: Classical and Vernacular in Early Modern South Asia: Rethinking Territorial and Social Boundaries. Sponsored by the South Asia Council
"Conversions" to Islam in Early Modern Rajasthan, Ramya Sreenivasan
Legends of Hariscandra: Elite Intervention and Subaltern Performance in the Spring Ritual of Dharma Gajan, David L. Curley
Maps and Map-mapers in Eighteenth-Century Gujarat, Samira Sheikh
Permitted and Forbidden Sources of Knowledge in New Court Literature during the Sudhamma Reformation in the Late Eighteenth-and Early Nineteenth-Century Konbaung Court, Michael W. Charney
Sastra & Civilization: Language, Science and Colonialism in 19th-Century Sri Lanka, Anne M. Blackburn
Narratives of Kings from Medieval and Early Modern Bengal, Kumkum Chatterjee

Session 59: Books, Texts, Print: Material and Intellectual Transactions in Colonial South Asia
Serfoji II’s Marathi Aesop and the Printed Book in Early Nineteenth-Century India, Indira V. Peterson
The International Bible Trade and the Birth of Persian Printing, Nile Green
Bengali Printed Books and the Widow Marriage Debate, Brian A. Hatcher
Urdu Print Culture, Education, and History Texts in North India after 1857, Jeffrey M. Diamond

Session 82: Explosions of Democracy: Conflict and Consensus in New Modalities of Governance in South Asia. Sponsored by the South Asia Council
State(ments) of Emergency: The Narrative of Democratic Reform in Bangladesh, Jalal Alamgir
Visions of Governance: the Lawyers’ Movement in Pakistan and Debates on State-Citizen Relations, Farhat Haq
Towards an Understanding of the Political Significance of Disgust in Gujarat, Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi
Secularism and Democracy in Nepal, Lauren Leve

Session 83: Non-Veg: Sex, Obscenity, and Erasure in Indian Public Culture
When Non-Veg is Not Non-Veg: The Kamasutra and Public Culture, Laura Desmond
Surviving Desire: The Bilhana and Late-medieval pandit Culture, Whitney Cox
Love for the People: Marathi Erotic Songs (Lavani) and Public Culture at the Eve of Empire, Christian L Novetzke
Obscenity and its Publics: Section 294 and the Prehistory of the Mumbai Dance Bar Ban, William Mazzarella
Jungle Love: Exposure and Erasure in Hindi Cinema’s “Tribal Numbers”, William N. Elison
Prostitution, Public Space, and Public Labor Markets in the City of Mumbai, Svati Shah

Session 84: Individual Papers: Material Practices in Pre-Colonial South Asia
Survey of Sites, Material and Physical Evidences of Iron and Wootz Steel Industry in Pre-colonial Telangana, the Deccan Plateau of
Central India, Sriperumbudoor Jaikishan
Forest Conservation Practices and Policies in Pre-colonial Maharashtra (Bombay Presidency), Neena Ambre Rao
State Forestry and Management in Hyderabad State, Shaik Abdul Thaha
Localized Statehood: Cultural Practices at Work at a Governmental Tribal Development Project in India, Markus Schleiter

Session 106: Caste, Region and Nation: Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu Compared
Savarkar and Brahmin Nationalism in the Marathi Imagination, Janaki Bakhle
Conceptualizing the Dalit Buddhist: B. R. Ambedkar’s Philosophico-religious Critique of Brahminism, Anupama Rao
Tamil Brahmin Responses to the Non-Brahmin Movement and Reservations Policies in Tamil Nadu since the Early Twentieth Century,
Christopher J. Fuller
Political Pariahs: Rights and Representation in Dyarchic Madras, Rupa Viswanath

Session 107: Disciplining Marriage: Law, Science and Politics in the Making of Modern South Asian Conjugality
Conjugality and the Making of a Modern Hindu Law, Rachel Sturman
Selling Masculinity: Advertisements for Sex Tonics and the Making of Modern Conjugality, 1900-1945, Douglas E. Haynes
Doing Caste, Making Family: The Production of Conjugality among Caste Groups in Mumbai, Gopika Solanki
The Unfit Marriage: Reading Mind and Body, Health and Sanity in Kolkata Family Court Cases, Srimati Basu

Session 122: Citizenship and Identity in Post-Colonial South Asia
Creating Indians: The Citizenship Act of 1955, Haimanti Roy
Reservations and the Changing Notions of Citizenship for Women and Dalits in Independent India, Wendy Singer
Multiplicity and Fluidity of Identities: A Qasbati Muslim Perspective, M. Raisur Rahman
Emergency as Post-colonial Form: Pakistan’s Basic Democracies Experiment, Tahir Naqvi

Session 131: Genre in the Persianate Literature of South Asia: Interpretation, Translation and Critique
Translating Ghalib and the Emergence of the English Ghazal, Jameel Ahmad
Qissa and Romance: A Genre Equation Revisited, Pasha M. Khan
Defining the Novel Genre in Fasana-e Azad, Jennifer Dubrow
Bedil's Muhit-i A`zam: Reinterpretation of the Saqinamah Genre, Hajnalka Kovacs

Session 155: Kings and Poets in Medieval South Asia
Kings, Poets, and Humor in the Cola Court, Anne E. Monius
The Many Lives of Bhoja, Daud Ali
Imagining and Unimagining the Political in Bilhana’s Vikramankadevacarita, Yigal Bronner
Deshashraya: Literary and Political Territories in Sena Bengal, Jesse R. Knutson
What Happens When a Patron Is Also a Poet?: Krishnadevaraya and His Poets in Telugu Literature, Velcheru Narayana Rao

Session 156: Migratory Melodrama: Early Indian Cinema at the Crossroads
Melodrama at the Crossroads of Indian Cinema: A Joint Transnational Investigation, Christine Gledhill
Melodrama in the Parsi Theater, Kathryn Hansen
Film Peripety: Melodrama, Early Cinema and the Technique of Travel, Anupama P. Kapse

Session 157: Crucible of Conflict: Ethnic and Religious Tensions in Eastern Sri Lanka
Crucible of Conflict? The Dimensions of Peace and Conflict in Eastern Sri Lanka, Jonathan Spencer
Muslim Politics and Islamic Revival in Eastern Sri Lanka, Bart Klem
The Paradox of Popular Sufism in Eastern Sri Lanka, Dennis B. McGilvray
Sinhala Identity and Muslim Resettlement at the Buddhist Site of Deegavapi in Eastern Sri Lanka, K. Tudor Silva
Complexity on the Interface: Tri-ethnic Relations South of Trincomalee, Timmo Gaasbeek

Session 181: Laws for Outlaws: Crime and Social Practice in Modern South Asia
Naomul the Traitor, Manan Ahmed
Criminals and Crime in the Colonial Borderlands, Eric Lewis Beverley
Governing Brothels: Civilizing and Criminalizing Prostitutes in Late Colonial North India, Sarah Waheed
The Untouchable Criminal, Prithvi Datta Chandra Shobhi

Session 182: Roundtable: "The Language of the Gods in the World of Men": Comentators from South and Southeast Asia. Sponsored by the South Asia Council

Session 206: Anthropocentrism: South Asian Perspectives on the Antinomies of Anthropomorphism
Talking Animals: Exploration in an Indian Literary Genre, Patrick Olivelle
The Zoomorphic Impulse: Selfhood, Romance, and Borderland Identities in Tamil Cankam Poetry, Martha Ann Selby
Pure Souls and Perfect Bodies: Anthropocentrism in the Jain Terapanth, Andrea R. Jain
From Bonbibi to Kali, From Tiger to Crocodile: Shifting Paradigms in a Changing World, Annu Jalais
Shifting Parameters of Personhood among Nepali Elephant Handlers, Piers Locke

Session 207: Textuality and Performativity in South Asia
Negotiating Narrative: Contemporary Performances of the Bhagavata Purana in Andhra Pradesh, India, Sangeeta Desai
Hindu Hymns to the Prophet: Performing Traditional Devotional Texts at the Margins, Eric Rothgery
Margali, Morning Rituals and Matrimony: In Search of a Good Husband, Gita V. Pai
Between Ritual Redaction and Textual Performance: Mediating Divine and Ethnic Conflict in Eighteenth Century Kathmandu, Michael Baltutis
The Becoming of a Ritual: The Disjunction between Narrative and Performance in a Nepali Vrat Tradition, Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz

Session 208: Individual Papers: State and Politics in Contemporary South Asia
Locating the State of Emergency in India (1975-77) in the History of Postcolonial Indian Politics., Sourabh Singh
This Looks Familiar: The Legacy of Imperialism on Post-colonial Hindu Nationalism, Juli L. Gittinger
Desperate Housewives, Despairing Farmers: Suicide, Social Change and the Media in India, Peter Mayer

Session 223: Gandhi, India and Comparative Political Theory
Gandhi, Ambedkar and the Problem of Untouchability, Balagangadhara Rao
The Death of Nonviolence, Faisal F. Devji
Gandhi and Secularism, Jakob De Roover
Gandhi’s Political Thought: De-sanitizing and Re-embodying Politics, Farah Godrej

Session 240: Pursuing the Affective Community: Perspectives on Anti-Colonialism and Visions of Community in Early Twentieth-Century South Asia
Bengali Muslim Homes and Their Worlds: The Ideological Parameters of Bengali Muslim Identity Politics, 1918-1926, Neilesh Bose
Traveling Communism: Indian Anticolonialism in Motion, Kris K. Manjapra
Acharya and Barakatullah: An Ethical Dialogue, Maia Ramnath