University of Heidelberg
South Asia Institute

[SAI Logo]
17th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies
Heidelberg, September 9 - 14, 2002


Panels, conveniers and co-conveners

1 Federalism in South Asia
 
Katharine Adeney and Marie Lall, ( Katharine.Adeney@balliol.oxford.ac.uk )
"Civic nationalism and federalism in India"
Christine Bigdon christine_bigdon@hotmail.com
"Federalism in Sri Lanka – the potentials of decentralization and devolution to contribute to conflict solution"
Lloyd Rudolph l-rudolph@uchicago.edu
"Lineages of federalism in India"
Bettina Robotka bettina.robotka@rz.hu-berlin.de
"The federal problem of Pakistan"
Andrew Wyatt A.K.J.Wyatt@bristol.ac.uk
"The federal dimension of party politics in Tamil Nadu"
Paneloverview

 

2 Panel canceled
Paneloverview

 

3 Religious Reform Movements in South Asia
from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
 
G. Beckerlegge, ( G.Beckerlegge@open.ac.uk )
"Indian art in Swami Vivekananda’a apologetics"
Hiltrud Rüstau hiltrud-ruestau@online.de
New Religious Movements and Ancient Scriptures:
Two different interpretations of texts on feminine divinity (Devimahatmya and Saundarya Lahari)
M. T. Kamble
"Bengal in Karnataka’s religious reform movement – The
Ramakrishna movement , a case study 1890-1947"
Dietrich Reetz dreetz@rz.hu-berlin.de
"The busy world of the Tablâgh Jamiat: An insight into their system of self-organisation (intizam)"
Peter Heehs pheehs@vsnl.com
"Aurobindo and the orientalists: a nationalist scholar on the Veda, philology and the Aryan question"
Ian Copland ian.copland@arts.Monash.edu.au
"The construction of Muslim identities in princely North India: from pluralism to communal assertion"
Mohammad Amer Morgahi m.amer@isim.nl
"The Mihajul Quran movement
among the Berelvis of South Asia"
Yoginder S. Sikand ysikand@hotmail.com
"Between dialogue and conflict: the Deendar Anjuman, 1920s to 2000"
Heinz Werner Wessler heinzwerner.wessler@uni-bonn.de
"Idolatry, syncretism and antisyncretism in Hindu reform movements of the 19th
century"
Martin Riexinger @uni-freiburg.de
"The Ahl-i Hadis between openness toward modernism and extreme conservatism – the heterogeneity of a puritan reform movement in South Asian Islam"

 

4 Rajasthan Studies
 
Veronique Bouillier bouillier@ehess.fr
A revival of the Nath tradition : a new ashram in Sekhavati
Jason Freitag jf75@columbia.edu
"Myth, history and the nation: The legacy of Tod's Rajasthan"
Monika Boehm-Tettelbach (an9@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de )
Ramanandis of Jaipur: Issues of Monastic Authority
Helene Basu basu@gmx.net
"The Work of Charan-genealogist: Constructing social memory in Kacch"
Peter Flügel
"Jain reform movements in Rajasthan: Intermediary categories between mendicants and laity"
K. L. Kamal nagawat@hotmail.com
"Modernisation of tradition in Rajasthan politics"
Dirk Kooiman
"Imagining Indian maharajas: Constructions by the Indian political service"
Paneloverview

 

5 Linguistics in South Asia
 
Vit Bubenik, ( vbubenik@morgan.ucs.mun.ca )
"On the evolution of the Old Indo-Aryan system of postpositions from Proto-Indo-European"
Tatiana Oranskaia fo8a014@uni-hamburg.de
Complex sentences with concessive clauses in Hindi
Jaroslav Vacek jvck@bohem-net.cz
Dravidian and Altaic-Results and Perspectives
Ludmila Victorovna Khokhlova Khokhl@iaas.msu.ru
"Syntactic peculiarities of Rajasthani"
Ruth Laila Schmidt r.l.schmidt@east.uio.no
"Converbs in Shina of Indus Kohistan"
Nadia Rozova nadia.rozova@hotmail.com
"On defining aktionsarts in Modern Hindi"
Valya Marinova valyamarinova@yahoo.com
"The Problem of anaphora and definiteness in Modern Hindi and Bulgarian"
Ondrej Sefcik* sefcik@phil.muni.cz
"Markedness of consonants in Old Indo-Aryan clusters and their reflexes in Middle Indo-Aryan"
Boris Zakharyin Zakaryin@iaas.msu.ru
"On construcions with agent-qualifying past Participles from Transitive Stems in Hindi"
Hakim Arif hakimarif@yahoo.com
"Language Minority Groups in Bangladesh: Present Situation and Necessity for Future Planning"

 

6 Literature and Cinema in South Asia
 
K. Rameswarappa sirigandha@yahoo.com
"Exposition of Depressed Class Problems in Modern Kannada Literature"
Videlina Dimitrova videlina_d@yahoo.com
"The Impact of Women on Man's Spiritual Search of the Self in Styajit Rav's Apu Trilogy aqna Bibhuti Bhusan Bannerjee's two-volume novel Pather Panchali and Aparajita"
Ines Fornell ines.fornell@east.uio.no
"The Image of Alamgir in in Modern Hindi Literature"
Hugh von Skyhawk skyhawk@mail.uni-mainz.de
"Tukâ and the Fakir Anagadstra Buvâ: Continuity and change in the representation of a sacred event in a multi-religious context"
Tasleem Shakur and Karen D’Souza,
"From ‘Heat and Dust’ to ‘East is East’:
A Journey from Colonial to Post-Colonial Cultural Space in South Asia"

 

7 Panel cancelled
Paneloverview
 

 

8 Representing Local Histories in the Himalayas
 
Stuart Blackburn sb12@btinternet.com
"Migration and Necklaces: Oral Historical Genres among the Apatani of Arunachal Pradesh"
Martin Gaenszle martin.gaenszle@urz.uni-heidelberg.de
History of the Nepali Locality in Benares
Jan Magnusson jan.magnusson@soch.lu.se
Re-Tibetanization projects in Baltistan
Ulrich Oberdiek, Karin Steiner Ulrich.Oberdiek@t-online.de
History and Mythology: Local representations of Devprayag/Uttaranchal
Hugh von Skyhawk skyhawk@mail.uni-mainz.de
The deeds of Turghulí at Catórkhan: Valour and cunning as proofs of royal descent in the local history of Hispar (Nager, Karakorum)"
Ruth Laila Schmidt steiner@uni-freiburg.de
"The oral history of Palas Kohistan: the founding myth of Palas and Jalkot"
Brigitte Steinmann chaource@club-internet.fr
Sikkimese historiography (XIXth and XXth century): description of the political relations between the Tibetans, the Lepchas and the Nepalese populations
Christoph Emmrich christoph.emmrich@urz.uni-heidelberg.de
"'The Hero with the Thousand Eyes': Locality and Translocality in a Modern Bhutanese Historical Novel"
Marie Lecomte-Tilouine mlecomte@vjf.cnrs.fr
Singing and dancing local history in Western Nepal
Peter Sutherland psuther@isu.edu
Traveling Gods and Political Location: Himalayan Counterhistories on the Margins of the State
Grégoire Schlemmer
Rethinking history through the process of creating a new community: the Kirant of East Himalaya
Christopher Evans/Judith Pettigrew
"Local and wordly archaeologies: making history with the Gurung/Tamu-mai"
Pratyoush Onta
"My kind of variously local pokhara"

 

9 The International Indian Diaspora
 
Mohan Gautam ( gautam@rullet.leidenuniv.nl )
The International Indian Diaspora
Ellen Bal ellen.bal@scw.vu.nl, ellen_bal@planet.nl, Kathinka Sinha
The eternal Call of the Ganga?"
India's attempts to reconnect with People of Indian Origin (PIOs) and reactions from Surinam
Frederic Landy Frederic.landy@wanadoo.fr
Land of ancestors and territory of Diaspora: The case of South Africans of Indian origin
Chandrashekar Bhat,
"Indian Diaspora in Transnational Perspective"
Chan Choenni,
"Hindu youngsters in the Netherlands; a case of successfull integration."
Dipak Malik malikdmalik@yahoo.co.in dmalik@banaras.ernet.in
Defining Indian Diaspora: a theoretical perspective
Paneloverview

 

10 Rural Development in South Asia
 

Staffan Lindberg steffan.lindberg@soc.lu.se
Indian Agriculture in the 1990s

Stig Toft Madsen stm@ruc.dk
Farmers' Movements in India
Rani D. Mullen rdtudor@princeton.edu
"Does Local Government Matter? Case Studies of the Relationship between Village Government and Social Welfare in U.P., India"
Sarah Southwold Sarah.Southwold@Alg.ASNW.WAU.NL
The un-intended consequences of government controlled forest harvesting on rural livelihoods and socio-political relations: a case of an agro-pastoralist community in N.W.F.P., Pakistan
Craig Jeffrey, Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery
From textbooks to timepass? Investigating the transition from school to (non-) employment amongst young men in rural UP
Paneloverview

 

11 Representing `Tribal Life in India’: Divergent Perspectives
 
Roland Hardenberg hardenberg@gmx.de
Tribe as caste? An analysis of social relations in the Niamgiris of Orissa
Ellen Bal ellen.bal@scw.vu.nl ellen_bal@planet.nl
Representing the Garos of Bangladesh: construction images of a 'tribal' people
Raphael Rousselleau r_rousselleau@hotmail.com
"Mirroring Identity: The Jhoria Poraja Case"
Georg Pfeffer* gpfeffer@gmx.de
"Debating the Tribe"
Judith Dick judithdick@yahoo.com
"The Image of the Khasi as a Tribal Matriarchy"

Marine Carrin* marine.carrin@wanadoo.fr
"Twisted Speech and Other Rhetorical Devices in Santal Ritual Discourses"

Erik de Maaker maaker@fsw.LeidenUniv.nl
"Rules, Negotiations and Garo Songsarek Death Rituals"
Martin Gaenszle, martin.gaenszle@urz.uni-heidelberg.de
"Brian Houghton Hodgson and the beginnings of colonial ethnography in South Asia"
Paneloverview

 

12 Tradition and Renewal in South Asian Sufism
 
Jan-Peter Hartung janpeter.hartung@uni-erfurt.de
Scholar, Sufi, Politician: The Case of Sayyid Abu l-Hasan 'Ali Nadwi (d 1999)
Parveen Rukhsana ruqsana@yahoo.com
The Reasons for the Devotional attachment of Sultans with Sufis
Soren Lassen, ( soelass@hum.ku.dk )
Tradition and Renewal in South Asian Sufism
Hans Harder harder@indologie.uni-halle.de
"Shrine worship and ‘Islamisation’ in contemporary Bengal"
Hugh van Skyhawk skyhawk@mail.uni-mainz.de
"Oral traditions of Muslim women at Sufi shrines in the Deccan"
Jürgen Frembgen jsfrembgen@aol.com
"The charismatic quality of the holy fool: The case of Mastana Baba, a living saint from Udaipur/ Rajasthan"
Paneloverview

 

13 Gender and South Asian Religions
 
Tehera Aftab taftab@gettysburg.edu
"Womens’ experience of religion and religious traditions: gender, religious authority and devotional Islam
in Pakistan"
Ellen Bangsbo ebangsbo@worldonline.dk
The Changing Status of Nuns in the Exile Tibetan Society in Nepal
Beatrix Hauser beatrixhauser@hotmail.com
Female bodies and the performance of impurity –a case study from Orissa
Birgit Heller Birgit.Heller@univie.ac.at
Claiming Equal Rights. Women's Emancipation in Lingayatism
Vatsala Iyengar Vatsala@giasbg01.vsnl.net.in
Female gender and religion-Myths, legends, rituals and social practices around the cult of a Mother Goddess in Karnataka Anna Leutgeb Hindu priestesses in Maharashtra
Marie Larsson l-marie@spray.se
'When Women Unite!' The Appropriation and Reinterpretation of some Religious Notions on Gender and Alcohol among Participants of the Anti-Arrack Movement in Andhra Pradesh
Kamlesh Mohan kamleshmohan14@yahoo.com
Conceptualization of women in the Sikh religious tradition and beyond.
Anna Narayanan anna_leutgeb@hotmail.com
Hindu priestesses: Women challenging the tradition
Marianne C. Qvortrup Fibiger qfibiger@teologi.au.dk
Sakti in Denmark
Ursula Rao urao@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de
"Temple life and female agency in India"
Eva Rósen-Hockersmith evarosenh@ebox.tninet.se
On Divination and the Construction of Gender in urban North India (preliminary title)
Maya Warrier mw21@yahoo.com
Mother, Guru and Goddess: Gendered Reflections on the Popular Representations of a Contemporary Hindu Female Guru
Sarita Karki skfamily@unlimit.com
"Contradiction on the status of women in Hindu religion/ Fasting: Rituals of Nepalese Hindu women"
R. Anuradha Patel prakashgc@usa.net
"Srivaishnavism in Karnataka - its attitude towards gender"
Anna Leutgeb annacsn@yahoo.com
Hindu priestesses in Maharashtra
Elizabeth Hole Elizabeth.Hole@antro.uu.se
"Gendered Power; fasts, worship and votive rites as instruments of agency"
Eva Hellman Eva.Hellman@teol.uu.se
"The Hindu feminist theology of Lina Gupta"
Paneloverview

 

14 South Asian Narrative Traditions: Verbal and Non-Verbal
 
Aditya Malik, Danuta Stasik and John Brockington ( a.malik@phil.canterbury.ac.nz ) South Asian Narrative Traditions: Verbal and Non-Verbal
Greg Bailey Greg.Bailey@latrobe.edu.au
History and Genre in the Ganesha Purana
Lidia Guzy L.Guzy@gmx.de
Negative ecstasy and sacred narratives
Mathias Metzger MathiasMetzger@aol.com
TBA
Paula Richman paula.richman@oberlin.edu
A Ramayana Narrative of Colonialism: Pudumaippittan Discovers the Missing Features
William L. Smith William.Wmith@orient.su.se
How Gândhâri married a tree and the mahabharat war
Danuta Stasik stasikd@orient.uw.edu.pl
On modern retellings of Râm-Kathâ in Hindi (once again)
Yaroslav Vassilkov yavass@yv1041.spb.edu
The earliest non-verbal representation of an Indian folktale
Nikita V. Yurov orient@ik7406.spb.edu
Of vine and men ("Yodharma" in the Archaic Folk-Epics of the Deccam Cattle-breeders)
Paneloverview

 

15 Political Development and the Processes of Democratization in South Asia:
Administration, Electoral Systems and Elections, Political Parties,
Social Movements and Coalition Politics
(merged with panel 19 The Left in South Asia)
 
Eric Komarow and Vera Gathy, (lochloka01@yandex.ru)
Political Development and the Processes of Democratization in South Asia: Administration, Electoral Systems and Elections, Political Parties, Social Movements and Coalition Politics
Henrik Berglund henrik.berglund@statsvet.su.se
Hindu Nationalism, Civil Society and Democracy
Tatu Vanhanen tatu4@saunalahti.fi
The State and Prospects of Democracy in South Asia
Paneloverview

 

16 Anthropology and Himalayan Politics
 
Susanne von der Heide (himalasia@wlink.com.np )
Anthropology and Himalayan Politics
Susanne von der Heide himalasia@wlink.com.np
On the Death of the King of Nepal and His Family - Fateful intra- and intercultural- as well as national- and transnational Entanglements
Friedemann Hellwig Hellwig@re.fh-koeln.de
Some Aspects of Cultural Change due to the Democracy Movement in Thak Khola, Nepal
Mona Schrempf Mona.Schrempf@vuw.ac.nz
Bon-scapes in the making
Gabriele Tautscher
Maoism among the Tamang: local perception and interpretation
Silke Wolf Silke-Wolf-HD@t-online.de
Village Drama in Nepal - Politics and Aspects of Theatrical Performance
Paneloverview

 

17 Gender and Law in South Asia
 
Tazeen Murshid and Khalid Masud, (t.murshid@planetinternet.be )
Gender and Law in South Asia
Alexander Fischer:
"The Shah Bano myth: Reconceptualising the rights of Muslim women in India"
Livia S. Holden
"Proud of her «price»: divorce and remarriage customs in Madhya Pradesh"
Judith Dick judithdick@yahoo.com
Hindu-family law as Culture- the idea of culture in the jurisdiction on Hindu families
Paneloverview

 

18 panel cancelled
 
Paneloverview

 

19 The Left in South Asia
(merged with panel 15)
 
McKim Marriott mmarriott@midway.uchicago.edu
An Indigeneous Paradigm of Indian Political Styles
Paneloverview

 

20 Bengali Studies
 
William Radice, ( wr@soas.ac.uk )
Bengali Studies
Hans Harder harder@indologie.uni-halle.de
Bengali Muslim Hagiography
Chandanashis Laha jayantam@hotmail.com
Tagore's treatment of a Mahabharata episode
Abdul Latif alatif@albion.k12.mi.us
Portrait of childhood in Satyagit Ray's films
J. E. Lloyd-Williams james@jslw.fsworld.co.uk
TBA
Abhijeet Paul A.Paul@open.ac.uk
Complex Bamla, Simple English: Translating Jibanananda Das' Short Fiction (1931-33)
Fabrizio Ferrari
The concept of transcendency and immanence of God in the Sunya Purana
William Smith
The Other Bengali Mahabharata
William Radice wr@soas.ac.uk
Translating Meghnâd-badh Kâbya
Hanne-Ruth Thompson hanneruth@netscape.net
A New Look at Bengali Compound Verbs in planning Indian Megacities.
Paneloverview

 

21 panel cancelled
 
Paneloverview

 

22 The Industrialisation of India
 
Dietmar Rothermund and Tirthankar Roy, (rotherm@sai.uni-heideberg.de )
The Industrialisation of India
Urs Olbrecht
The Bengal Jute Industry from Colonial Times to the Present
Dietmar Rothermund rotherm@sai.uni-heidelberg.de
Industrial Production and Technological Progress in India
Tirthankar Roy roy@igidr.ac.in
Labour-intensive Industrialization: Generalizing from South Asia
Paneloverview

 

23 The History of the Family in Colonial India
 
Sonia Amin, ( turyyo@cal3.vsnl.net.in )
The History of the Family in Colonial India
Pritha Lahiri Kemtek@vsnl.net
The Perfect Mistress of the Bengali home in colonial Bengal : Notions of Conjugality.
Malavika Kasturi mpk1000@yahoo.com malavika.kasturi@oberlin.edu
Family, Gender and Identity; 'The intervention of colonial civil law in the "domestic space" in 18th and 19th century Northern India
Paneloverview

 

24 Indo-Pakistan Relations: Core Issues and Perspectives Joint panel with 42 International Relations in South Asia
 
Yunus Samad and Christian Wagner, (a.y.samad@bradford.ac.uk, cwagner@uni-bonn.de)
Indo-Pakistan Relations: Core Issues and Perspectives Joint panel with 42 International Relations in South Asia
Yunas Samad a.y.samad@bradford.ac.uk
Jihadi Islam and Kashmir
A.Z. Hilali
September 11 (2001) and its Impact on Pakistan's Kashmir Policy
Diethelm Weidemann
The Conflict Pakistan-India: Nature, Levels of Conflicts, Chances of Resolution
Marika Vicziany
Uygur insurgency in Xinjian Province: Western China and its implications for South Asian security
Theodore P. Wright Jr. wright15@juno.com
The logic of Hindutva vs. the logic of secularism: would resolution of the Kashmir problem solve Indo-Pakistani conflict
Paneloverview

 

25 Current Trends in the Medical Anthropology of South Asia
 
Stefan Eggs, (seggs@sai.uni-heidelberg.de )
Current Trends in the Medical Anthropology of South Asia
Paneloverview

 

26 Karnataka Studies - Polity, Economy, Society and Culture
 
Kunigal S. Shivanna and Nilambar Hatti, (shivanna@bgl.vsnl.net.in )
Karnataka Studies - Polity, Economy, Society and Culture
K. V. Aiyanna Aiyannkv@yahoo.com
Medical Services in Rural Karnataka – A Perspective from Development Studies
O. Anantharamaiah
Caste consciousness, national awakening in the Model State of Mysore (1902-1947)
Alan Bullion alan.bullion@informa.com
Norway and the Peace Process in Sri Lanka (see panel 28)
P. Chandrappa
Changing trends in Municipal Administration in Karnataka in the context of Colonialism. A case study of Bangalore City Municipality
Chaya Degaonkar chayadegaonkar@rediffmail.com
Society, Economy and Women Empowerment in Modern Karnataka
B. Gururaja
The Dalith Movement in Modern Karnataka
K. N. Ingalagi ingalagi_kn@yahoo.co.in
Role of Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation in Rural Development 1961-2000
Mahadevi
Gender Reforms in Colonial Mysore –From Tradition to Modernity (1800-1947)
Baburao Mudbi mudbi@hotmail.com
State Monopoly and New Economic Policy in Modern Karnataka – KS.R.T.C. A Case Study
Nagarajappa samgeol@rediffmail.com
Sacred Geography of Cauvery Basin in Karnataka – A Study of Some Selected Sacred Places
Pius Fidelis Pinto piuspinto@hotmail.com, isdmlore@sancharnet.in
Konkani Christians in Coastal Karnataka during Colonial Period (1800-1947 A.D.)
A. Somashekar som_52shekhar@yahoo.co.in
Urbanisation in Karnataka- Urban history of Mysore City – 1881-2000
R. Vasantha venkata@hd2.dot.net.in, vasantha_ed@yahoo.com
In-door games in Karnataka's heritage- depiction of chess and board games in mural paintings of the colonial period
V. Chandrashekar
Excise Administration in the Native State of Mysore during Colonial period (1831 - 1947)
Y.H. Nayakwadi
The Freedom Struggle in Hyderabad Karnataka (1800-1956)
Shalini Raghunath Bath Hrr-bhat@yahoo.com
Gender Issues in Kannada Folk Literature
H.M. Rajashekar
The Dynamics of Electbral Politics in lndia: A Case Study of Karnataka Since 1956
Nirmal Raju
Mahatma Gandhiji in Karnataka - Revival of Traditional Industries in Colonial Mysore (1920-1947)
H.R. Nagaraja Sharma drmyna@yahoo.com
Linga in the Heritage of Karnataka
Usha Suresh
Karnatalca State Archives and Karnataka Studies
H. L. Venkatesh hlvenkatesh@yahoo.com.in
Scheduled castes in South Asia: From Immobility to mobility – A case study of Karnataka since 1956
Paneloverview

 

27 The Political Economy of the Punjab
 
Pritam Singh and Shinder Thandi, ( psingh@brookes.ac.uk )
The Political Economy of the Punjab
Jivtesh Singh Maini jivtesh@hotmail.com
Fiscal Paradox of a Rich State: Case of Punjab 1992-2002
Shinder S. Thandi
Mobilizing Diaspora-Homeland Relations: Can Diaspora Finance help the Rural Development Process in Punjab, India?
Paneloverview

 

28 Current Research on Sri Lanka
 
Sri Lanka Studies Group Heidelberg, Contactperson/ Speaker: Tilman Frasch
(frasch@sai.uni-heidelberg.de)
Current Research on Sri Lanka
Peter Schalk peter.schalk@relhist.uu.se
Vanniyalätto – a new concept for "Väddo"
Yodhagama Dhammapala g06@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de
Community Movements Between Sri Lanka and South- and Southeast Asia
Alan Bullion alan.bullion@informa.com
Norway and the Peace Process in Sri Lanka
S.T. Hettige
Globalization and Sri Lankan Labour migration : Social impact and Policy Implications
Ellen Kattner elle.kattner@web.de
Seven man, six women: how personal names represent the social structure of Minicoy Island
John P.Neelsen john.neelsen@uni-tuebingen.de
Conflict and Accomodation in multiethnic societies – The Sinhala Tamil conflict in Sri Lanka
Roland Wenzlhuemer roland.wenzelhuemer@sbg.ac.at
Reconsidering the Smhalese Contribution to Estate Labour in late 19th Century Ceylon
Paneloverview

 

29 The Political Economy of Bangladesh
 
R.Vasantha venkata@hd2.dot.net.in
In-Door Games in Karnataka’s Heritage - Deciption of Chess and Board Games in Mural Paintings of the Colonial Period
Willem van der Geest and Mobasser Monem, ( w.vandergeest@eias.org )
The Political Economy of Bangladesh (see panel 26)
Paneloverview

 

30 Problems of Urbanization in South Asia, Past and Present
 
Michael Mann and Evelyn Hust (Michael.Mann@FernUni-Hagen.de)
Problems of Urbanization in South Asia, Past and Present
Maren Bellwinkel-Schempp maren.bellwinkel@debitel.net
Pigs and power: Urban decay in Kanpur
Veronique Dupont Dupont@bondy.ird.fr
Residential practices, creation and the use of the urban space in the periphery of a large developing metropolis. The case of unauthorised colonies in Delhi
Martin Fuchs linkenbach-fuchs@urz.uni-heidelberg.de
Slums as achievement: The agency of slum dwellers
Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal stawalam@hotmail.com
Women and Local Government in Urban India
Marie – Hélène Zérah
Which Path to Follow for an improved urban Governance of Public Services: The Case of Water Supply and Sanitation
Joel Ruet joel.ruet@csh-delhi.com
"The articulation of private and public sector in planning in Indian megacities"
Archana Ghosh
"Environmental concerns in metropolitan cities in India. Local government and community action to meet the challenge"
Bhaskar Vira and Shiraz Vira
"Governing India's urban environment -- problems, policies and politics"
Ajay K. Mehra
"Urban villages of Delhi"
Michael Köberlein
"Wasteful cities: Urban India and its garbage problem"
Bettina Weiz
„Mofussil and beyond: Aspects of water in the process of Urbanization in Tamil Nadu"
Paneloverview

 

31 Locality and the 1947 Partition of India
 
Ian Talbot (I.Talbot@coventry.ac.uk)
Locality and the 1947 Partition of India
Ravinder Kaur
Resettlement of Punjabi refugees in Delhi 1947
Yasmin Khan Yasmin.Khan@sant.ox.ac.uk
The Process of Partition in Uttar Pradesh: A Case Study of Aligarh
Gurpreet Kaur Maini cookiemaini@hotmail.com
The Social and Economic Consequences of Partition in Amristsar
Margrit Pernau Reifeld@del3.vsnl.net.it
Early Delhi newspapers and creation of public sphere (see panel 50)
Ian Talbot iantalbot22@hotmail.com
Locality and Partition
Pippa Virdee p.virdee@coventry.ac.uk
Partition and Locality: The Marlerkotla experience
Paneloverview

 

32 panel canceled
 
Paneloverview

 

33 Current Tendencies in Indian Historiography
 
Michael Gottlob (gottlob@mediacom.it)
Current Tendencies in Indian Historiography
M.Gobalakichenane ggobal@yahoo.com
The Diaries of Anandarangappillai, Irandam Viranaicker and of their Followers in Pondicherry:
Their Contribution to 18th century South Indian History
Jacques Pouchepadass jpdass@club-internet.fr
Indian historiography and the postmodernist paradigm

Kim A.Wagner
Thuggee and the Colonial and Postcolonial Discourse

Michael Gottlob gottlob@mediacom.it
Politics of History in Postcolonial India
Paneloverview

 

34 Orissa Studies
 
Cornelia Mallebrein (mallebrein@aol.com)
Orissa Studies
Joytirmayee Acharya Joytirmayee.Acharya@svt.ntnu.no
Concuring a male bastion in traditional-craft production system in Orissa, India: analytical discourses and lived practices
Lidia Guzy L.Guzy@gmx.de
Mahima Dharma: a religion in its making
Susmita Arp m.a.arp@t-online.de
Jajpur: Subregional Centre or Counter-Centre?
Elinor Gadon elinorgadon@hotmail.com
Ananda Ma, Shaman and Priestess to the Devi
Chris Gregory chris.gregory@anu.edu.au
The oral epics of the women of the Dandakaranya plateau.
Lidia Guzy L.Guzy@gmx.de
"Babas and Alekhs - the asceticism and ecstasy of a new religion in its making"
Barbara Lotz barbaralotz@yahoo.com
Promotion of Tribal Languages: A Case Study of Santali in Orissa
Tatiana Oranskaia fo8a014@uni-hamburg.de
Social-political interface in some tribal villages in Orissa.
Tina Otten
"Marrying at the Crossroads" A Healing Ritual in South Orissa
Cornelia Mallebrein
The tutelary deities of Orissa and their tribal origin
Manmath Padhy
Judicial Administration and Social Justice in Orissa under the Rule of the East India Company
Paul Yule / Martin Brandtner
"Preliminary Report of an Archaeological Survey of the Middle Mahanadi Valley
(November - December 2001)"
Jayanta Sengupta jayantas@sas.upenn.edu
At the margins: the discourses of development, democracy and regionalism in Orissa
Paneloverview

 

35 The Hindu-Christian Encounter in a Global Context, 1700-2000
 
Geoffrey Oddie (geoffrey.oddie@history.usyd.edu.au )
The Hindu-Christian Encounter in a Global Context, 1700-2000
Julia Lederle Julia.lederle@iue.it
Hinduism in 18th Century Jesuit accounts
Nancy Gardner Cassels cassels@mcmaster.ca
“Law and the East India Company’s Policy of Religious Toleration-The Religious Disabilities Removal Act – 1850”
Andrea Major
‘The Enthusiastic, Now Pious Flame’: Sati and 18th Century European Constructions of Hinduism.

G.T Oommen
"Christianization or Dalitization: The 20th century experience of Dalit Christians in Kerala"

Geoffrey Oddie geoffrey.oddie@history.usyd.edu.au
Hinduism' in Periodical Literature: British Protestant Missionary Society Agendas, 1800-1900. Oommen Christianization or Dalitization: The Twentieth Century Experience of Dalit Christians in Kerala
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36 Tamil Studies: Current Trends and Perspectives
 
Thomas Lehmann, Srilata Müller and Sascha Ebeling (d53@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de)
Tamil Studies: Current Trends and Perspectives
Jean-Luc Chevillard jlc@ccr.jussieu.fr
The Middle Tamil Verbal System, as seen in Tevaram: a linguistic corpus study
Sascha Ebeling s.ebeling@uni-koeln.de
T.B.A.
Gabriella Eichinger Ferro-Luzzi
Facing death in modern Tamil literature
Diane P. Mines minesdp@appstate.edu
Studies of space, place and time in Tamil Nadu
Indira V. Peterson ipeterson@mtholyoke.edu
Writing cultural history through the novel: Kalaiman's Tillana Mohanambal
Peter Schalk peter.schalk@relhist.uu.se
1. Tamilpaauttam or Pauttam among Tamils?
2. A critical assessment of Caldwell's derivation ilam sihala
Takanobu Takahashi ttak@l.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Large Before Grammar: Issues on reading some classical Tamil texts
A.R.Venkatachalapathy chalapathy@mids.tn.nic.in
In Print and On the Net:Tamil Literary Canon and Identity in the Colonial and Post-Colonial Worlds
Eva Wilden eva.wilden@t-online.de
Circular structure in old Tamil Akam Poems
Paneloverview

 

37 Continuity and Change in South Asia
 
The Italian Association of Modern South Asian Studies Michelguglielmo Torri (m.torri@flashnet.it) Continuity and Change in South Asia
Diego Abenante AbenanteD@sp.univ.trieste.it
Identifying religious authority in Muslim South Asia: Socio-political roles of Pirs during colonial rule. The case of Multan
Daniela Bredi daniela.bredi@uniroma1.it
Continuity and change in women's role in Indo-Muslim society seen through a few female members of the Tyabji family
Marco Corsi macorsi@unicef.org
Modernization, Modernity, Development. The Karur Industrial District (Tamil Nadu)
Thierry DiCostanzo dicostanzo@utt.fr
"The Star of India" or the first Muslim League modern daily English
Domenico Francavilla domenicofrancavilla@yahoo.it
Continuity and Change in India: A changing dharma and the struggle of law against dharma
Mario Prayer Mario.prayer@flashnet.it
The Development of Self-Government Institutions in Rural West-Bengal
Daniela Rossella ghezziem@tin.it
Indian Women and Divorce: Progress and Traditionalism in Hindu Law and Customs
Laxman D. Satya lsatya@lhup.edu, lsatya_99@yahoo.com
Colonial Modernization and Environmental Change: Central India in the 19th Century
Marzia Casolari m.casolari@libero.it
Juridical aspects and multiculturalism.The problem of a Uniform Code in India: a comparison with some European tendencies
Marius Holden
Singing women, silent witnesses
Michelguglielmo Torri m.torri@flashnet.it
Towards a new Periodization of Indian History
John Zavos john.zavos@man.ac.uk
Understanding Politics Through Performance in Colonial and Postcolonial India
Paneloverview

 

38 Nature, Nation and Empire: Perspectives from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
 
Gunnel Cederlof, K. Shivaramakrishnan and Beppe Karlsson (gunnel.cederlof@antro.uu.se)
Nature, Nation and Empire: Perspectives from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
Kathleen Morrison k-morrison@uchicago.edu
Professionalizing the “Primitive:” Environmental History, the Spice Trade, and the State in South India
Vinita Damodaran V.Damodaran@sussex.ac.uk
Indigenous forests: rights, discourses and resistance in the forests of Singhbhum 1860-2000
Götz Hoeppe ghoeppe@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Fishermen's perceptions of government attempts to regulate fish stocks:
from Madras Presidency to Kerala State
Wolfgang Mey mey.wolfgang@t-online.de
On Forests and Profits. The Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh
Antje Linkenbach Linkenbach-fuchs@urz.uni-heidelberg.de
Political dynamics of regional struggles for forest rights: The case of Uttarakhand (North India)
Claude Garcia
Sacred forests of Kodagu: Multi-faceted resources and New Management Rules
Urs Geiser ugeiser@geo.unizh.ch
Whose forest? Struggles, strategic discourses and practices in North-West Pakistan
Paneloverview

 

39 Globalization, Nation-states and Autonomy in South Asia
 
K. L. Kamal (klkamal@datainfosys.net)
Globalization, Nation-states and Autonomy in South Asia
Paneloverview

 

40 panel cancelled
 
Paneloverview

 

41 South Asian Society, British Colonialism and the Emergence of ‘Subaltern Networks’ in the Indian Ocean Region
 
Ravi Ahuja and Harald Fischer-Tiné (ravi.ahuja@t-online.de)
South Asian Society, British Colonialism and the Emergence of ‘Subaltern Networks’ in the Indian Ocean Region
Gopalan Balachandran bala@hei.unige.ch
Networks of Indian Maritime Workers in Europe, 1900-1945
Ravi Ahuja ravi.ahuja@rz.hu-berlin.de
Subaltern Networks under British Imperialism.Exploring the Case of South Asian Maritime Labour.
Crispin Bates crispin.bates@ed.ac.uk
tba Marina Carter mcarter@freenetname.co.uk tba Harald Fischer-Tiné MCSwami@t-online.de
'White Women degrading themselves to the lowest depths' European networks of prostitution and colonial anxieties in South Asia ca. 1870-1920
Ahmad Salim saleem@sdpi.org
Indian National Army
Adapa Satyanarayana adapasatyam@hotmail.com
'Body-shopping': Migration of South Indian Coolies to South-East Asia.
Adapa Satyanayana adapasatyam@hotmail.com
"Body Shopping": Migration of South Indian Labour to South-East Asia
Paneloverview

 

42 see under 24
 
Gilles Boquérat
India and the Challenge of New Trans-regional Cooperation – South and SEA
Rajendra K Jain
SAARC AND THE EUROPEAN UNION - Is the European Union or the ASEAN a Model for SAARC?
Rajshree Jetly Sasrj@nus.edu.sg
Regional Security and Confidence Building in South Asia; External Dynamics and Internal Constraints
Christian Wagner
Globalisation and Foreign Policy: The Indian Experience
Paneloverview

 

43 panel cancelled
 
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44 Regional Mahabharatas
 
William Sax and Claus-Peter Zoller (william.sax@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de)
Regional Mahabharatas
Alf Hiltebeitel
A Preliminary Report on the Kauravas of Dharmapuri District, Tamilnadu
Gisèle Krauskopff
Dancing for the Five Pandavas: a Tharu Mahabharata in Nepal
Lucia Michelutti
The Mahabharata and the politics of ‘the past’ amongst Mathura’s Ahir-Yadavs
Data Ram Purohit
The Mandakini Temple Mahabharata Tradition
Bo Sax
The Ballad of Chandu
Bruce M.
Sullivan Kerala's Mahabharata On Stage: Text and Context in Kutiyattam Dramas
Claus Peter Zoller
An oral Mahabharata epic from Western Garhwal
Paneloverview

 

45 Little Kingdoms as a Model of the Pre-modern South Asian State
 
Georg Berkemer, Margret Frenz and Burkhard Schnepel (Gberkemer@t-online.de)
Little Kingdoms as a Model of the Pre-modern South Asian State
Niels Gutschow
Territory and Place of a Little Kingdom   Ranpur's Pancadolayatra
Ulrike Teuscher
Kingship and Genealogy in Medieval Western India
Uwe Skoda
A Little Kingdom From Below. The Aghria as Local Gaunti or Village Headmen
Heiko Frese Heiko.frese@t-online.de
Margret Frenz Margret.Frenz@t-online.de
Little Kings in Malaba
Paneloverview

 

46 Education and Social Change in South Asia
 
Roger Jeffery and Joachim Oesterheld (h0208dso@rz.hu-berlin.de)
Education and Social Change in South Asia
Jyette Agergaard ja@geogr.ku.dk
Public Education: The Road to Development? An Investigation into Perceptions and Expectations of Modern Education in Nepal (provisional title)
Martha Caddell martha_caddell@yahoo.co.uk
"We are All One"? Contested Visions of Schooling, Development and the Nation-State in Nepal
Manuela Ciotti
Does education produce better people? The Charmas think so: the value education in a low-caste community in northern India & Schooling and transition to adulthood in Bijnor, 1980-2002
Elvira Graner
A Geography of Education in Nepal
Roger Jeffery
Schooling and transition to adulthood in Bijnor, 1980-2002
Francois Leclercq Fleclerq@csh-delhi.com
'The decentralization of school management and the quality of teaching: A field study of primary schools in Madhya Pradesh, India'
Heike Liebau Heike_wodrich@yahoo.com
Education and Religion: Indian Christians and the Concept of National Education (1930—1947)
Nicolas Yazgi Nicolas.yazgi@unine.ch
Incorporating the village space, learning an image of the nation: a comparative discussion of children’s rituals and formal schooling in Uttaranchal
Joachim Oesterheld Joachim.Oesterheld@rz.hu-berlin.de
Educational Policy of Provincial Governments in India, 1937-1947
Geeta Kingdon Department of Economics University of Oxford geeta.kingdon@economics.ox.ac.uk
TEACHERS, POLITICS, AND EDUCATION IN INDIA:
A POLITICAL ECONOMY CASE STUDY OF UTTAR PRADESH
Paneloverview

 

47 Nuclear Capacities in South Asia
 
Subrata Mitra (js3@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de)
Nuclear Capacities in South Asia
Mohamed Badrul Alam malam@miyazaki-mic.ac.jp
India’s Draft Nuclear Doctrine Revisited
Karsten Frey, Yi-fang Tang
Confidence Building between India and Pakistan after the Nuclear Tests,
A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
Siddharth Swaminathan, Jacek Kugler
The Kashmir Conflict: Structural and Expected Utility Assessments
Paneloverview

 

48 panel cancelled
 
Paneloverview

 

49 panel cancelled
 
Paneloverview

 

50 Information, Entertainment and Ideologies of Reform: Vernacular Newspapers, Periodicals and Literary Magazines in Nineteenth Century India
 
Ulrike Stark and Christina Oesterheld (f07@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de)
Information, Entertainment and Ideologies of Reform: Vernacular Newspapers, Periodicals and Literary Magazines in Nineteenth Century India
Riho Isaka isaka@ask.c.u-tokyo.acd.jp
The Ideas of Social Reform and Gujarati Journals
Gail Minault gminault@mail.utexas.edu
The Journalism of Master Ramchandra of Delhi College
J. V. Gayathri Gayathrijangamkote@yahoo.com
Vernacular Newspapers and Periodicals: Their Influence on Modernity, Reforms and Trends in Nineteenth-Century Mysore
Anindita Ghosh a.gosh@man.ac.uk
Periodicals of fame and periodicals of shame: popular print and reforming tastes in colonial Bengal
Srilata Mueller
Nineteenth-Century Tamil Journals
Mariola Offredi Offred21@unive.it
Hindi Journalism 1877-1906
Margrit Pernau Reifeld@del3.vsnl.it
Delhi Urdu Akhbar. Transformations and Continuities in the Constitution of Public Opinion
Jayeeta Sharma Js288@cam.ac.uk
Discrete Didacticisms: The Orunodoi, the Jonaki and the Sadhana; Three Periodicals in Colonial Assam
Ulrike Stark f07@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de
Politics, Public Issues and the Promotion of Urdu Literature:
Awadh Akhbar, the First Urdu Daily in Northern India
Paneloverview

 

 

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