Recent Master's Thesis Topics of Program Alumni

Workers
  • Women and the Evolution of Power in Mughal India (1600-1720 CE)
     
  • Devoted to the Texts: Bhakti in the Śāstric Imagination of Pre-modernity
     
  • Politics of Discrimination: Study of Caste against Ravidasi Sikhs in the Diaspora
     
  • Locating South Asian Dancers in Pre-Colonial and Colonial Aesthetics
     
  • Silently Speaking: The nation, the female body and cinema in "Mother India" and "Samt-el-Qusur/Silences of the Palace"
     
  • Protecting the King: Royal Priest and Ritual Empowerment in Medieval India
     
  • Borders/Barriers/Boundaries: The Ressurection of Caste Practices in Postwar Jaffna
     
  • The Ramayana in Hindu Nationalist Politics: A Narrative of Anxiety and Ambition from the 1960s and 1970s
     
  • Dangerous Democracy: Examining the Riot Systems of Uttar Pradesh
     
  • Revival of Lohia
     
  • Is there and Should There Be a  Pedagogy of Revolution, Focusing on the Maoist Struggle Among the Adivasis in India
     
  •  Bal Gangadhar Tilak and the Bombay Textile Workforce 1880-1908
     
  • An Afterlife of Images: A Study on Tibetan Self-Immolations
     
  • US Foreign Policy's Influence on the TTP and Pakistan's Needed Effort to Counterinsurgency Warfare in FATA
     
  • India-US Relations: Examining the relationship under UPA 1 and UPA 2
     
  • The challenges of interventions in the informal justice sector of Afghanistan
     
  • Political Sufism of Dr. Muhammad Tahir ul Qadri: Dreams of a Mujaddid in a World Modern
     
  • An Ethnographic Study of the Shri Surya Narayan Mandir
     
  • Indian Penal Code Section 377:  A Charade of Culture, Religion, and Tradition
     
  • Tilth of Revival, Tilth of Conquest: Early 19th c. Social Change in Lanka's Jaffna Pen.
     
  • Modern Forms of Bhakti in Sikhism Through Music and Comic Books
     
  • Secular Conflict: Challenges Confronting the Construction of a Hindu Sacred Space in Chino Hills, California
     
  • "The Labor Problem": History and Governmentality at Work in the Bombay Cotton Mills, 1918 - 1934
     
  • Mental Illness and the Obeahman: An analysis of the practice of religious treatments in Trinidad and Guyana
     
  • Urdu Literature in the Establishment of Islamic Modernism: The Legacy of the Musaddas and Shikwa
     
  • Mnemonic Spaces, the Tidemarks of a Sikh "Punjab"
     
  • Islam in the Ideology of Pakistan:  A Military Project
     
  • Embodied Transcendence:  Tantric Practive in Web 2.0
     
  • Sufi Militancy - Violence in a State of Religious Ambiguity
     
  • Dress and Muslim Identity in Bengal 1400-1600
     
  • The Miracle Surgeon on Horseback: Metaphor and Ayub Khan's Martial Law Regime (1958-1962) in Pakistan
     
  • Pāņiņī in the Present:  Reintroducing Pāņiņī to Sanskrit Pedagogy
     
  • Pyaar Hai, Romance Hai: Love, Space, and Bollywood’s New Visions of Modern Indian Muslimness
     
  • The Complexities of Secularism in Bangladesh
     
  • Alternative World Views:  Liberal Feminism and the Rashtra Sevika Samiti
     
  • Bangladesh's Transition to an Illiberal Democracy, with Special Reference to Hartal Politics
     
  • Developing Precarity: The Nexus of Imperial Globality, Non-existent Hyper-self-reflexivity, and Salvage Accumulations
     
  • Disquietude and Desire: The Failed Pursuit of an Imagined Fullness in Nepali Historiography
     
  • Mughal-e-Azam in Brooklyn: Constructing Archetypes of the Collective Identity Amongst South Asian-American Youth
     
  • South Asian Women, the Seduction of Possibility, and the Polics of Power in Diasporic Literature
     
  • Tracing an Historical Imagination:  The Case of Anarkali
     
  • Independent Politics and the Politics of Independence: 'Tribal' Reform in Early 20th c. Eastern India
     
  • Contesting Biologism:  The Body, Gender Verification Policy, and Universal Rights in Queer India