Recent Dissertations
Year Name PH.D.THESIS
2005
CHANDRA SHOBHI, Prithvi Datta
Pre-Modern Communities and Modern Histories: Narrating Virasaiva and Lingayat Selves
2005
GAUTAM, Sanjay
Conflict of Callings: Love, Care and the Birth of Pain in the Poetry of Mutibodh (1917-1964)
2005
NICHOLSON, Andrew J.
Doctrine and Boundary-Formation: The Philosophy of Vijnanabhikshu in Indian Intellectual History
2005
STEELE, Laurel
Relocating the Postcolonial Self: Place, Metaphor, Memory and the Urdu Poetry of Mustafa Zaidi (1930-1970)
2004 BLEDSOE, Bronwen Written in Stone: Inscriptions of the Kathmandu Valley's Three Kingdoms
2004 VAJPEYI, Ananya Politics of Complicity, Poetics of Contempt: A History of the Sudra in Maharashtra, 1650-1950 CE
2004 FAIR, Christine The Historical Novels of Bhai Vir Singh: Narratives of Sikh Nationhood
2004 AYRES, Alyssa Speaking Like a State: Nationalism, Language, and the Case of Pakistan
2004 MOOKERJEA-LEONARD, Debali Unfinished Histories: Gendered Violence and National Identity in Women's Writings
2003 ROTMAN, Andrew Monks, Merchants, and a Moral Economy: Visual Culture and the Practice of Faith in the Divyavadana
2003 MAJUMDAR, Rochana Marriage, Modernity and Sources of the Self: Bengali Women, 1870-1956
2003 BUSCH, Allison The Courtly Vernacular: The Transformation of Braj Literary Culture, 1590-1690
2002 VIEDLINGER, Daniel Spreading the Dhamma: The Written Word and the Transmission of Pali Texts in Pre-Modern Northern Thailand
2001 IYENGAR, Sameera Performing Presence: Feminism and Theatre in India
2000 SCHNEIBEL, Jeffrey A. The Construction of Jagannath
1999 BRONNER, Yigal D. Poetry at its Extreme: The Theory and Practice of Bitextual Poetry (Slesa) in South Asia
1998 ROCKWELL, Anne Daisy The Novelty of Ashk
1998 MCCREA, Lawrence J. The Teleology of Poetics in Medieval Kashmir
1997 BAKIC-HAYDEN, Milica Devastating Victory and Glorious Defeat: The Mahabharata and Kosovo in National Imaginings
1995 SHODHAN, Amrita N. Legal Representations of Khojas and Pushtimarga Vaishnava Polities as Communities: The Aga Khan Case and the Maharaj Libel Case sin Mid-Nineteenth Century Bombay
1995 GOSSMAN, Patricia Riots and Victims: Violence and the Construction of Communal Identity among Bengali Muslims 1905-1947
1994 SWAIN, David C. Images of Kabir: A Study of Transformations in the Identity of a Saint
1994 SELBY, Martha A. Toward a Grammar of Love: A Comparative Study of Interpretive Modes in Classical Indian Poetry
1994 MAZAK, Arlene Gopinath Kaviraj's Synthetic Understanding of Kundalini Yoga in Relation to the Non-Dualistic Hindu Tantric Traditions
1992 LAL, Vinay Committees of Inquiry and Dis-Courses of 'Law and Order' in Twentieth-Century British India
1991 BONNER, Rahul Sexual Dynamics in the Amarusataka
1990 SATTAR, Arshia Hanuman in the Ramayana of Valmiki: A Study in Ambiguity
1990 NOBLE, Sally A. The Tamil Story of the Anklet: Classical and Contemporary Tellings of Cilappatikaram
1990 LLEWELLYN, John E. The Arya Samaj as a Fundamentalist Movement: A Study in Comparative Fundamentalism
1990 DELMONICO, Neal G. Sacred Rupture: A Study of the Religious Aesthetic of Rupa Gosvamin