ECSAS2012: The 22nd European Conference on South Asian Studies

25 Jul, 2012

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14:00C406P04State and tribe in central-eastern India: (re)approaching a troubled and troublesome nexusemail
14:00C301P05The empire at the margins: subaltern voices from Portuguese colonialism in Indiaemail
14:00C402P10Rural poverty, inequality and contemporary social mobilisationemail
14:00C408P11Changing spaces, identities and livelihoods in Delhiemail
14:00C407P35Imagining Bangladesh and its 40 yearsemail
14:00C405P36Language death and language preservation in South Asiaemail
14:00C401P38The 19th century: discontinuities, sites and events in Indian literatureemail
16:15C401P16Meerut revisited: the conspiracy case in context, 1929-1934email

26 Jul, 2012

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09:00C402P09Developing control: the reconfiguration of space and the making of development on the groundemail
09:00C302P15Re-forming subjects: colonial and national approaches to moral education, 18th to mid-20th centuryemail
09:00C406P30Village restudies in South Asiaemail
09:00C405P32Marriage in South Asia: practices and transformationsemail
09:00C408P39Narrative and counter narrative in contemporary South Asian literature and filmemail
09:00C407P44Security architecture in South Asia: prospects and challengesemail
09:00C401P47Of saints, converts, and heroes: hagiographies and conversion auto/biographies across religions in South Asiaemail
09:00Grande AuditórioP51From the inside looking out… Filmic visions of South Asia's tacit "other"email
14:00C406P18Settled strangers: why South Asians in diaspora remain outsiders?email
14:00C301P48Life on the margins: Expressions of agency among the marginalized in Contemporary South Asia.email
16:15C405P02Collective action and class struggle: anthropological and historical perspectives on India's working classesemail
16:15C402P25Mercantile spaces, networks, and mobility in early modern South Asiaemail
16:15C407P26The politicization of emotions in South Asiaemail
16:15C301P33Law and religion in practice in South Asiaemail
16:15C408P42Relevance of the economy in transformations from war to peace in South Asiaemail

27 Jul, 2012

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09:00C407P03Possession, mental illness and the effectiveness of healing rituals in contemporary South Asia and beyondemail
09:00C301P06Politics in the margins: the everyday state, violence and contested rule in South Asiaemail
09:00C302P07Knowledge, power and health in South Asia: historical tensions and emerging issuesemail
09:00C402P23Yogis, sufis, devotees: religious/literary encounters in pre-modern and modern South Asiaemail
09:00C405P24Pakistan: state formation, identity politics, and national contestationemail
09:00C406P40Portuguese orientalism: postcolonial perspectivesemail
09:00C408P45Objects of worship in the lived religions of South Asia: forms, practices and meaningsemail
09:00C401P46Christians, cultural interactions, and South Asia's religious traditionsemail
14:00C301P19Visions of Portuguese India, Portuguese visions of India, 16th-18th centuriesemail
14:00C104P34The partisan manufacture of citizens in Indiaemail
16:15C407P12Rethinking gender and politics in South Asiaemail
16:15C406P17Children and colonial (con)texts of power in Indiaemail
16:15C405P20Bombay from the ashes: the creation and emergence of city space, 1803-1920email
16:15C401P21The republic of letters: the Islamicate world of writingemail
16:15C408P27Technologies, industries, practices: examining the soundscape of Indian filmsemail
16:15C301P29Courtesans in South India: towards a revisionist cultural historyemail

28 Jul, 2012

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09:00B201P01Ritual and the practice of texts in South Asiaemail
09:00C406P08Dalit communities in India and diaspora: agency and activism, research and representationemail
09:00C407P14Regimes of violence and phantasms of good government in colonial India, 1800-1947email
09:00C405P28The (im)morality of everyday life in South Asiaemail
09:00B202P31Disability in South Asia: an emerging discourseemail
09:00C401P37Up to date? Hindi literature in the 21st centuryemail
09:00C402P43Political parties and change in South Asiaemail
09:00C408P50State-identity interface: explorations in economic, social and cultural dynamics of tribal communitiesemail
11:15C407P13The Indian state in transition in the 1940s and 1950semail