UIUC Dissertations on South Asia

Following is a select bibliography of dissertations / theses accepted in South Asian studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. For detailed information please search library theses catalogue. Information about dissertations can be located through keyword, author or advisor search. Also there are two huge VIDYANIDHI and INFLIBNET searchable databases of several doctoral theses accepted in Indian universities. Information about Indian theses can be searched by author, supervisor, subject, title, language, university, and year of award.

Abraham, Itty
Security, technology and ideology : "strategic enclaves" in Brazil and India, 1945-1989.Thesis (PhD),1993.

Aggarwal, Arjun Prakash
Comparison of selected aspects of American and Indian labor Law. Thesis (JSD),1959.Subjects: Labor laws and legislation--United States Labor laws and legislation—India.

Ahmed, Quazi Mesbahuddin
Foreign aid, domestic savings and economic growth : the experience of Bangladesh, 1972-1991.Thesis (PhD),1992.

Akhtar, Shahnaz
A study of daily time allocation by rural housewives in north west frontier province of Pakistan. Thesis (MS),1993.

Arnold, Alison E
Hindi film¯i g¯it : on the history of commercial Indian popular music. Thesis (PhD),1991.Subjects: Popular music--India--History and criticism. Motion picture music--India--History and criticism.

Asrar, Mohammad
Perceptions and preferences on institutional decision making of the faculty of North-West Frontier Province Agricultural University, Pakistan. Thesis (PhD),1990.

Aswathanarayana, Vani
After the demolition : constructing the communal riots of 1992-93 in the Media. Thesis (Ph D), 1999. Subjects: Communications. 

Babiracki, Carol M
Musical and cultural interaction in tribal India : the karam repertory of the Mundas of Chotanagpur. Thesis (PhD),1991.Subjects: Munda (Indic people)--India--Chota N¯agpur--Music. Culture diffusion--India--Chota N¯agpur. Folk music--India--Chota N¯agpur—History & criticism.

Bajpai, Kanta Prasad
The origins of association in South Asia : SAARC 1979-1989.Thesis (PhD),1990.Subjects South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation. South Asian cooperation. South Asia--Economic policy. South Asia--Politics and government.

Barnes, Douglas French
The impact of agricultural development on social structure in India : a district level analysis from 1961 to 1971.Thesis,1979.Subjects: Agriculture—India. India--Economic conditions—1947. India--Social conditions—1947.

Barua, Pradeep P
Race, politics, and armies: the dynamics of military modernization in twentieth-century colonial India. Thesis (PhD), 1995.Subjects:Great Britain. Army--Colonial forces--India. India. Army--History--20th century. Armies--India--History--20th century. India--Politics and government--20th century.

Bashir, Muhammad
An evaluation of some management practices for improving wheat productivity in northern Pakistan. Thesis (PhD),1993

Bashir, Muhammad
Impact of farm mechanization on labor and crop production cost in Pakistan. Thesis (MS),1990.

Basu, Sriparna
Overlapping terrains :orientalism, Indian nationalism and the erotics of cross-cultural contact. Thesis (PhD),1999. Subjects: Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941.Maitraye Devi, Eroticism in literature.

Begum, Roshan A
Welfare analysis of price policy for raw cotton in Pakistan. Thesis (MS),1993.

Berns, Margie Sue
Functional approaches and communicative competence: English language teaching in non-native contexts. Thesis (PhD),1985. Subjects: English language--Study and teaching--India. English language--Study and teaching--Japan.

Bhatia,Tej Krishan
A syntactic and semantic description of negation in South Asian languages. Thesis (PhD), 1978.

Bhatt, Rakesh Mohan
Word order and case in Kashmiri. Thesis (PhD),1994. Subjects:Kashmiri language—Case. Kashmiri language--Word order.

Bhattacherjee, Debashish
Union-type, labor market structure, and bargaining outcomes in Indian manufacturing : an analysis of the new unionism in greater Bombay. Thesis (PhD), 1987. Subjects: Industrial relations--India--Bombay. Labor unions--Textile employees--India--Bombay. Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry--India.
Collective bargaining--Textile industry--India.

Birla, Suresh Chandra
Regional demand analysis of major food grains in India. Thesis (PhD), 1970.

Bower, Mary Elizabeth
Communism in India [microform] : an analytical perspective. Thesis (BA) in Political Science, 1980.

Burns, Susan Marie
Potential arms management and limitations measures for South Asia. Thesis (MA),1990.Subjects: Nuclear nonproliferation Arms control. Nuclear disarmament--South Asia. Nuclear arms control--South Asia.

Chakravarty, Pradip
The political economy of mass media development in India 1947-1984. Thesis (PhD),1994. Subjects: Mass media--Social aspects--India. Mass media policy--India.

Chakravarty, Sumita
Identity and authenticity : nationhood and the popular Indian cinema, 1947-1962.Thesis (PhD),1987. Subjects: Nationalism --India. Motion pictures--India.

Chawdhry, Muhammad Arshad
Effect of land tenure on resource use and productivity in agriculture : a case study of Punjab,Pakistan. Thesis (PhD), 1974.

Chen, Shu-Fen
Rendition techniques in the Chinese translation of three Sanskrit Buddhist scriptures. Thesis (PhD),1986. Subjecta:Sanskrit language--Translating into Chinese. Buddhist literature, Sanskrit--Translations into Chinese--History and criticism.

Chishti, Anwar Fazil
Demand for and supply of Pakistan Basmati rice. Thesis (MS),1990.

Damle, Vivek Madhav
Analysis of the Indian vegetable seed industry. Thesis (PhD), 2000.

Darda, Jayashree
Landscape design guidelines for cave temples and monasteries in western India. Thesis (MLA),1990. Subjects: Cave temples--India Landscape architecture--India.

Debchaudhury, Sudata
Japanese imperialism and the Indian nationalist movement :a study of the political and psychological impact of possible invasion and actual occupation, 1939-1945. Thesis (PhD),1992. Subjects: Anti-imperialist movements--India--History--20th century. Nationalism--India--History--20th century. Japan--History--1926-1945.

Deo, Susan Ruth Rothrock
An economic analysis of biogas technology for a hypothetical village in rural India. Thesis (MS),1980.

DeSousa, Valerian
The constitution of the colonial labor subject : labor law in Colonial India, 1881 to 1936.Thesis(PhD),1993.

D'souza, Jean
South Asia as a sociolinguistic area. Thesis (PhD),1987.

Forbes, Geraldine Hancock
Positivism in Bengal : a case study in the transmission and assimilation of an ideology. Thesis, 1972.Subjects:Philosophy, Hindu Positivism--History. Bengal (India)--Intellectual life.

Ganguly, Shivaji
The United States and South Asia : a study of policy and process. Thesis, 1977.Subjects:United States--Foreign relations--Asia, Southern. United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989. Asia, Southern--Foreign relations--United States.

Ganguly, Sumit Kumar
The origins of war in South Asia : 1947-1971.Thesis (PhD),1984. Subjects: India-Pakistan Conflict, 1965.India-Pakistan Conflict, 1971.

Geldard, Alison Elizabeth
Music and musical performance among the East Indians in Chicago.Thesis (M.Mus),1981. Subjects:East Indians-Illinois-Chicago-Music.

George, Arun
Design guidelines for the Goshree Roadlink in Kochi, India. Thesis (MLA),2001.Subjects:Landscape Architecture.

Gingrich, Chris Daniel
Trade deficits, foreign exchange reserves and the agricultural sector in developing countries : Nepal as a case study. Thesis (MS),1987.

Gour, Sudama Swarup
A study in concepts and measurement of labor force and labor requirements in agriculture with special reference to India. Thesis (MS),1963.

Gujral, Ragini
The military, war and national integration : symbolic treatment of the military and war for purposes of national integration in Indian mass media. Thesis (PhD),1984.

Gurdev Singh
Operating capital use in relation to investment in depreciable assets on farm firms in central Punjab, India. Thesis (PhD),1979.

Hall, Charles Joseph
The maharaja's account books : state and society under the Sikhs, 1799-1849.Thesis(PhD),1981.

Heinrich, Steven Allan
Code switching and contextual culture : the Indian model of stability maintenance. Thesis (PhD),1991.
Subjects: Anthropological linguistics--India. Code switching (Linguistics)—India.

Hemenway, Stephen Ignatius
The novel of India Summary: On English novels about India; a study. Thesis (PhD), 1972.Subjects:Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970. Passage to India. English fiction--Authors, Indic--History and criticism. Anglo-Indian fiction--History and criticism.

Householder, David Eugene
Caging the rainbow : the effects of center-periphery conflict on a major adult education program in India. Thesis (PhD),1984.Subjects: Adult education--India. Continuing education—India.

Huda, Shamsul
Elite composition and power structure of Chittagong, Bangladesh, 1940-1985.Thesis(PhD),1989.

Hussain, Syed Sajidin
Analysis of economic efficiency in northern Pakistan : estimation, causes and policy implications. Thesis (PhD), 1989.

Idris, Mohammad
Family influence on utilization of remittances : a case study of a village in the North West Frontier Province Pakistan. Thesis (PhD),1991.

Islam, Mursaleena
Floodplain resource management : an economic analysis of policy issues in Bangladesh. Thesis (PhD),2001.

Jha, Satish Chandra
Indian land reform research literature. Thesis (PhD), 1967. Subjects: Land reform--India.

Jindia, Jaswant Rai
Estimation of costs and returns on Indian farms : sampling problems and production function analysis .Thesis (PhD), 1970.

Jones, Lynn Anne
Between Byzantium and Islam : royal iconography and the Church of the Holy Cross at Aghtamar. Thesis (PhD),1995.

Kahl, Chad M
The improbability of progress on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons in the Middle East and South Asia. [microform].Thesis (BA), 1993.

Kahn, Asmatullah
Farmers' resource status and information availability and utilization : a study within Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan. Thesis (PhD),1988.

Khan, Hamid
Islamic law of intestate succession. Thesis (LLM),1973.

Khory, Kavita Rusi
Separatism in South Asia : the politics of ethnic conflict and regional security. Thesis (PhD),1991.
Subjects: Social conflict--South Asia. Sikhs--India--Punjab. Sindhis —Pakistan. South Asia--Politics and government. National security--South Asia. South Asia--Ethnic relations.

Kolavalli, Shashidhara
Economic analysis of conjunctive use of water : the case of Mahi-Kadana irrigation project in Gujarat, India. Thesis (PhD),1986.

Kotamraju, Pradeep
The 'other' energy crisis and economic development : the role of non-commercial fuels in Indian subsistence agriculture. Thesis (PhD),1985. Subjects: Power resources--India.

Layng-Awasthi,Tracey
Indian English fiction and the American reader: non-native texts in the ESL classroom. Thesis (AM), 1994.Subjects: English language--India. Indic fiction(English)--20th century--History and criticism.

Lutz, Richard
The effect of pronoun type on first and second language perceptual strategies in Hindi.Thesis (PhD),1985.

Madaiah, Madappa
Financial intermediaries, and monetary policy. Thesis (PhD),1968. Subjects: Monetary policy--India. Financial institutions--India.

Mandana, Ganapathy Biddanda
Indian tea in the world market. Thesis (MS), 1993.

Malik, Arshad Salim.
An historical analysis of student activism in India, prior to 1947.Thesis (MS),1990.Subjects:Education, Higher--India--History. Student movements--India--History.

Maloney, Joel
Soviet ballistic missile defense and small nuclear force states [microform] : Chinese, Indian, and Pakistani security dilemmas in the age of strategic defense.Thesis (BA), 1985

Marlow, Patrick Edwardsp
Origin and development of the Indo-Aryan quotatives and complementizers : an areal approach. Thesis(PhD),1997.Subjects:Indo-Aryan languages, Modern--Complement.Indo-Aryan languages, Modern--Foreign elements--Persian. Indo-Aryan languages, Modern--Foreign elements--Dravidian. Persian language--Influence on Indo-Aryan. Dravidian languages--Influence on Indo-Aryan. Languages in contact--South Asia.

Mazumder, Aparajita
Cross-cultural refractions: India in English Romantic poetry. Thesis (PhD),1990. Subjects: English poetry--18th century--History and criticism. India in literature. English poetry--19th century--History and criticism.

Mehra, Beloo
The home-school relations : an exploration into the perspectives of parents and schools on Asian Indian cultural model of schooling. Thesis (PhD), 1998.

Mehra, Bharat
Mandala and the sacred landscape of traditional Hindu cities. Thesis (MLA), 1997.Subjects:Mandala. Urban landscape architecture.

Menon, Goutham M
Caregiving and schizophrenia : understanding the worldview of Asian Indian families. Thesis (PhD), 1997.

Menon, M. Rajan
India and the Soviet Union: a case study of international influence.Thesis,1979. Subjects: Soviet Union--Relations--India. India--Relations--Soviet Union.

Misra, Rama Shanker
Production and market potentials of soybeans in India. Thesis, 1970.

Mitchell, Lisa Ann
Acceptability of variation in nativized varieties of English: India as a case study. Thesis (MA), 1993
Subject: English language--Variation--India. Multilingualism--India. English language--Social aspects—India.

Mitra, Ananda
Mahabharat on Doordarshan : the articulation of television and popular culture in India. Thesis (PhD),1992.Subjects:Mahabharata--Adaptations--History and criticism. Television broadcasting--India. Television serials--India.

Mohanty, Chandra Talpade
The hidden curriculum of sex roles in two urban middle class Bombay preschools. Thesis(PhD),1987.Subjects:Sex role in children--India--Bombay. Sex role--India--Bombay.

Murase, Satoru
Patchwork jacket and loincloth : an ethnographic study of the Bauls of Bengal. Thesis(PhD),1991.Subjects:Bengalis--Social life and customs. Bauls--India--West Bengal--Social life and customs.

Murase, Satoru
Rethinking ritual purity-impurity in India. Thesis (MA), 1984. Subjects: Rites and ceremonies—India. Purity, Ritual--Hinduism.

Murti, Kamakshi P
Die Reinkarnation des Lesers als Autor : ein rezeptionsgeschichtlicher Versuch über den Einfluss der altindischen Literatur auf deutsche Schriftsteller um 1900.Thesis (PhD),1987 Subjects: Hesse, Hermann, 1877-1962. Siddhartha. Wedekind, Frank, 1864-1918. Sonnenspektrum.Feuchtwanger, Lion, 1884-1958. German literature--Sanskrit influences.

Mushtaq, Mohammad
Rural credit markets and consumption smoothing : evidence from Pakistan. Thesis (PhD),1999.

Narayan, Arathir
A comparative analysis of the Indian textile and apparel industries.Thesis (MS), 1988.

Neuman, Daniel M
The cultural structure and social organization of musicians in India : the perspective from Delhi. Thesis, 1974.Subjects: Musicians--India. Hindustani music

Oldenburg, Veena Talwar
The making of colonial Lucknow, 1856-1877. Thesis (PhD), 1980.Subjects: Urbanization--India--Lucknow. Lucknow (India)--History.

Ollikkala, Robert Charles
Concerning Begum Akhtar: "Queen of Ghazal". Thesis( PhD),1997. Subjects: Akhtar, Begum, 1914-1974. Ghazals--History and criticism. Singers—India.

Pandharipande, Rajeshwari
Syntax and semantics of the passive construction in selected South Asian languages. Thesis (PhD), 1981.

Panjwani, Jyoti
From 'A room of one's own' to 'A room in the home': Discourses of negation in Indian feminist post-colonial fiction of Anita Desai, Mannu Bhandari and Ashapurna Devi. Thesis (PhD),1996. Subjects: Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 --Criticism and interpretation. Desai, Anita, 1937- --Criticism and interpretation.

Pant, Shridhar Prasad
An evaluation of econometric and mathematical programming models : useful for planning the agricultural sector in India. Thesis,1970.Subjects: Agriculture--Mathematical models. Agriculture--Economic aspects--India.

Propp, Kathleen M
The establishment of agricultural universities in India; a case study of the role of USAID-U.S. university technical assistance. Thesis (MA),[1968]. Subjects: Agricultural colleges--India. Agricultural assistance, American--India.

Pruitt, Eric S
Exegesis and the quest for textual univalency in the Indian philosophical tradition [microform] : a comparative study of the Bhagavadgita commentaries of Shankara and Swami A.C. Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada. Thesis (BA), 1993.

Quayes, Muhammad Shakil
The agricultural household in Bangladesh : a disaggregated empirical analysis with particular emphasis on the demand for food calories. Thesis (PhD),2000.

Quazi, Rahim Masudur
Macro performance, fiscal behavior, and water investments: three essays on the effects of foreign and in Bangladesh. Thesis (PhD),1999.

Raghavulu, C. V
Organizational conflict in Indian government organizations. Thesis (PhD), 1976.Subjects: India--Politics and government—1977.

Rajagopalan, Swarna
National integration : the state in search of community. Thesis (PhD), 1998. Subjects: Political Science.

Raman, Deepa
The meaning and role of the Hindu temple in the United States. Thesis (MLA),1993.

Ramu, G. N.
Family and caste in urban India : a case study. Thesis, 1972.Subjects: Family--India. India--Social conditions—1947.

Rao, Srinivas M
Attempts at secession in India. Thesis (MA), 1989.Subjects: Secession, India--Politics and government—1977.

Rasool, Saeeda
From private gardens to public parks : a study of transformation in landscape of Lahore, Pakistan from seventeenth century till present. Thesis (MLA),1994.

Saroyara Jahana
An inter-regional planning model for rural development in Bangladesh. Thesis (PhD),1987.

Sardesai, Shonali
The management and mismanagement of ethno-regional conflicts : the case of South Asia. Thesis (PhD),2000.

Schäufele, Steven William
Free word-order syntax: the challenge from Vedic Sanskrit to contemporary formal syntactic theory. Thesis (PhD),1991.Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax. Grammar, Comparative and general--Word order. Vedic language--Syntax.

Sen, Siddhartha
Role of Indian NGO's in housing and development : a critical appraisal. Thesis (PhD),1991. Subjects: Low-income housing.--India. Non-governmental organizations--India. Community development, Urban--India.

Shaw, Annapurna
The role of the casual poor in a Third World urban economy: a case study of Calcutta, India. Thesis (PhD),1985.Subjects: Labor and laboring classes--India--Calcutta. Poor--India--Calcutta.

Sijapati, Binod Bickram
Small farmer credit programs in Nepal. Thesis (MS),1980.

Slawek, Stephen Matthew
K¯irtan : a study of the sonic manifestations of the divine in the popular Hindu culture of Ban¯aras. Thesis (Ph.D.),1986.Subjects: Music--India--Uttar Pradesh.

Smiley, Chareva Leigh
American Hinduism [microform] : South Asian religious beliefs and practices as incorporated into American culture in the New Age. Thesis (BA), 1994.

Sridhar, Kamal Keskar
The development of English as an elite language in the multilingual contest of India : its educational implications.Thesis,1977.Subjects: English language in India. English language--Social aspects.

Subbarao, K.V
Noun phrase complementation in Hindi. Thesis(PhD), 1983.

Suraweera, Don Edward Franklyn
A programming analysis of production and resource use in small-holder agriculture in the dry zone of Sri Lanka. Thesis (PhD),1982.

Tan, Kim Lai
An economic analysis of tubewell irrigation ; a case study in Dhamrai, Bangladesh. Thesis (MS),1985. 

Tehseen, Waheeda Mant
Validation of the planarian bioassay with defined mixtures and testing against other bioassays with contaminated samples from Pakistan. Thesis (PhD),1993

Tsiang-Starcevic, Sarah Yvonne
The discourse functions of subordinate constructions in classical Sanskrit narrative texts. Thesis (PhD), 1997.Subjects: Sanskrit language--Subordinate constructions. Sanskrit language--Discourse analysis.

Tulachan, Pradeep Man
Demand and production of rice in Nepal: the past situation and future prospect. Thesis (MS),1979.

Valentine, Tamara Marie
Aspects of linguistic interaction and gender in South Asia. Thesis (PhD), 1986. Subjects: Women--India--Language. Hindi language--Sex differences. Sociolinguistics--India. English language--Sex differences. 

Varma, Alka
Effect of U.S.-India bilateral agreements on the growth of apparel trade with India. Thesis (MS), 1989.

Vasudeva, Sunita
The poverty of communication theory in India. Thesis (PhD), 1994.Subjects:Mass media--India. Information theory--India. Communication--India--Methodology.

Venkataraman, Jayashree
Indigenization process of alcoholism treatment from the American to the Indian context. Thesis (PhD), 1996.

Warfield, Ronald Ralph
Land tenure and its role in the economic development of Nepal. Thesis (MS),1967.

Weinstein, Jay Allan
Madras : an analysis of urban ecological structure in India. Dissertation, 1973.Subjects:Urbanization--India. Social surveys--Madras. Madras--Social conditions.

Welikala, Nihal
Dynamics of potassium in some Illinois and Sri Lanka soils. Thesis, 1986.

Wolf, Richard Kent
Innovation, interpretation, and the maintenance of tradition in the Karaikkudi style of vina playing. Thesis (MM.), 1989. Subjects: Carnatic music theory- Vina.

Wolf, Richard Kent
Of God and death : music in ritual and everyday life : a musical ethnography of the Kotas of South India. Thesis (PhD),1997.Subjects:Funeral music--India, South--History and criticism.Rites and ceremonies--India, South.Music--India, South--History and criticism.

Yesuratnam, Basimalla
Attitudes of secondary school teachers in Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh, India toward in-service education. Thesis (PhD),1982. Subjects:Teachers--In-service training--India--Guntur District. Teachers--Training of--India--Guntur District.