Bengal Studies Conference:
(April 28-30, 1995)

Papers*



*Some of the papers listed below are not accessible from this Web site either because I have not as yet received a copy from the author or because I have been unable so far to decode the file sent me. I hope to have all the papers online in the near future. My apologies to those authors whose contributions are not included here. CBS

The University of Chicago


Issues of Gender

Marital Instability in Dhaka, Bangladesh
----- Lubna T. Khan (Northern Arizona University)

Women, Islam, and the State
-----Tazeen M. Murshid (University of North London)

As the Husband, so the Wife: Old Patriarchy, "New Patriarchy" and Misogyny in One Late Nineteenth-Century Domestic Science Manual
-----Judith Walsh (SUNY/College at Old Westbury)

Swami Vivekananda's Concept of Woman
-----Narasingha P. Sil (Western Oregon State College)

The Question of Gender and Representation in the Novels of Bangladesh
-----Saiyeda Khatun (University of Rhode Island)

Reading the Character of Kamala in Shesh Prashna
-----Amalendu K. Chakraborty (University of Wisconsin, La Crosse)
Say What?: Language and Linguistics

Diglossia, Religion, and Ideology: On the Mystification of Cross-Cutting Aspects of Bengali Language Variation
-----James M. Wilce (Northern Arizona University)

Linguistic Nationalism and Development of a State: Bangladesh
-----Syed Abu Hasnath (Boston University)

Processing Bangla with Principles and Parameters
-----Zeeshan R. Khan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)


Art-i-Fact: Visual Culture

Quilt (Kantha) Art of Bengal
-----Manjari Mohanty

The Indian Museum, Calcutta: A Symbol of British Politics of Power
-----Monolina Bhattacharyya (University of Minnesota)

What Happens When the Gaze Hits the Pat
-----Gwendolyn Layne (University of Chicago)

The Bengali Yatra in Kavikarnapura's Caitanyacandrodaya
-----Gerald T. Carney (Hampden-Sydney College)

Performing (Domi-)Nation: Aspects of Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Bengali Theatre
-----Sudipto Chatterjee (New York University)


Pre-Modern Muslim Bengal

Metaphoric Worlds: The Legends of Satya Pir
-----Tony K. Stewart (North Carolina State University)

Many Identities, Some Emphases: The Case of the Muslims of Bengal Down to the 18th Century
-----Anisuzzaman (University of Dhaka)


The Economics of Religion: Money and Nineteenth-Century Religious Movements in Bengal

"Perfected in a Dream". . . at a Price: The Spiritual and Financial Struggle of Ram Chandra Datta and the Beginnings of the Ramakrishna Movement
-----Jeffrey Kripal (Westminster College)

The Economics of Religion in Eighteenth- to Nineteenth-Century Bengal
-----Rachel Fell McDermott (Barnard College)

Milestone and Grindstone: Socio-economic Change in Bengal as Seen by Two Pandits
-----Brian Hatcher (Illinois Wesleyan University)


At Home in the World: Bengali Identity

Need for a Literary Magazine for a New Immigrant Community in the USA
-----Purabi Nandi (Sangbadik)

Bengalis on the World's Stage
-----Mekhala Banerjee (University of Chicago)

Modernism and the Teaching of Sri Ramakrishna
-----Pranab Bhattacharya (University of Chicago)

Bengalis in the Twenty-first Century
-----Serajul Alam Khan


Bangladesh Political Reality and Party Politics

Religion and Politics in Bangladesh: The Ascendancy of Jamaati-i-Islam
-----Enayet Rahim (Georgetown University)

The Politics of Fragmentation: Bangladesh, 1971-95
-----Shamsul I. Khan (University of Dhaka & the University of Illinois)

Caretaker Government, Constitution, and the Democratizing Process
-----Zillur R. Khan (University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh)

Civil-Military Relations in Bangladesh
-----Choudhury M. Shamim (California State University, Fullerton)


Cooperation, Conflict, and (yes) Carotene

Carotene-Rich Foods: Promotion of Some Common and Less Familiar, and Modification of Cooking Procedures in Rural Bangladesh
-----K. M. A. Aziz (International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research--Bangladesh)

Class, Caste, and Agrarian Conflict in West Bengal
-----Satadal Dasgupta (University of Prince Edward Island)

Bilateral Trade and Development Cooperation between Bangladesh and India
-----Syed Abu Nasnath and M. Ahsan Habib (Boston University)

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