Like other regions of the Indian subcontinent, colonial Bengal saw considerably organized Dalit political movements against its historically dominant upper caste Hindus. With the Partition of Bengal and the winning of India's and Pakistan's freedom from British rule in 1947 howe…
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This dissertation provides a historical dimension to development studies by tracing, for one region, the emergence of official and popular discourses on rural poverty and “backwardness” and the prospect of their amelioration through science, social science and technology. Combin…
The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), a 10-item self-rating scale designed to screen for postnatal depression, was developed for use with Bengali women. It was adapted using the back-translation method. The Bengali version of the EPDS was then validated against the Ge…
This dissertation explores the influence of regional cultures and, more specifically, of regionally based and regionally determined aesthetic preferences, on the Hindustani classical music tradition. The period from the late 19th century up through the decades following independ…
The dissertation explores comparatively the experimental Sanskrit poetry of the literary salon of Laks[dotbelow]man[dotbelow]sena of Bengal, on the eve of the Turkish conquest (1205 A.D.); concluding with a look at how this period was formative for the comparable inventions of t…
This dissertation focuses on the Partition of Bengal in 1947 and its aftermath to 1965 to examine how India and Pakistan legitimized and symbolically reproduced markers of national identity. It argues that specific concepts of what constituted loyal citizens, Partition violence …
The goal of this thesis is to document, analyze and interpret the process that led to the realized scenic design of Rajiv Joseph's Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo , produced by Temple University Department of Theater, and presented at the Adrienne Theater as part of the Philadel…
A radically alternative vision of the fakir is given in surviving medieval (Bng. madhya-y˙ug, “Middle Age”) and pre-modern textual sources that predate and coincide with the colonial period in Bengal, such as the widely influential 17th century Yoga Kalandar text as well as Bāul…
As a director and theatre artist, I want my creative work as a storyteller to illuminate myth. The beauty of myth transcends all cultural boundaries by revealing, through the art of storytelling, the universal within the particular, thus illuminating the foundation of our common…
This dissertation studies how the specificity of regional practices of cultural productions, ideological strands, forms and practices of civil associations, and styles of literary expressions among Muslims inflected the Pakistan movement in late colonial Bengal. Using wide-rangi…
The Fara'izi Islamic revivalist movement emerged as a champion of peasants' socio-economic interests, achieving its greatest influence from 1840 to 1860 as the rise of bhadrolok middle class entrepreneurs and European indigo planters placed increasing strain on the peasants' rig…
As a regional history, this dissertation examines Bengali Muslim politics of region, religion, and social justice from the 1840s to 1952. It argues that Bengali Muslim constructions of communitarian selfhood in the colonial and early post-colonial eras entailed a variety of appr…
This dissertation interrogates questions of 'identity' in international relations and advances the argument that disciplinary IR, rather than needing to incorporate 'identity' into its framework, is already itself an identity practice. This argument is developed with reference t…
In the popular imagination of Bengalis and visitors in West Bengal (India) and Bangladesh, Bauls are generally depicted as a sect of musical mendicants clad in ochre-colored clothes, with flowing hair and an instrument in their hands. Their popularity stems from their mystical s…