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SAGSCX 

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The Place of Literature 

4-5 April 2013 

The Tenth South Asia Graduate Student Conference 

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University of Chicago 

Classics 110

9.00-10.00am 

Panel I 

Tamil and Telugu Literature 

Chair: 

Rajagopal Vakulabharanam 

10.15-11.15am 

Panel II 

Sanskrit Literature 

Chair: 

Gary Tubb 

Session One 

8.30am 

Coffee and Breakfast 

Opening Remarks 

Sravanthi Kollu 

Department of Asian 

Languages and Literatures, 

University of Minnesota 

Malarvizhi Jayanth 

Department of South Asian 

Languages and Civilizations, 


Shiv Subramaniam 

Department of Middle Eastern, 

South Asian, and African Studies, 

Columbia University 

Luther Obrock 

Department of South and 

Southeast Asian Studies, 

University of California, Berkeley 

Disrupting Literature’s Place: 

Intentionality and Politics in Telugu 

Feminist Poetry 

Crafting the Dalit Political Subject 

in South India 

How to Read a Stotra? 

A Close Reading 

of Vedāntadeśika’s Godāstuti 

Abhinava, Somadeva, and the Problem 

of the Total Text 

11.30am-12.30pm 

Whitney Cox 

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Dākṣiṇātyābhavadbhaṅgiḥ: Literary and Political Peregrinations 

in Medieval South Asia

2.30-3.30pm 

Panel III 

Persian Literature 

Chair: 

Franklin Lewis 

3.45-4.45pm 

Panel IV 

Mughal Literature 

Chair: 

Thibaut d’Hubert 

Session Two 

12.45pm 

Lunch 

Leila El-Murr 

Institute of Islamic Studies, 

McGill University 

Hajnalka Kovacs 




Hasan Siddiqui 

Department of History, 


Usman Hamid 

Department of Near and 

Middle Eastern Civilizations, 

University of Toronto 

5.00-6.00pm 

A. Azfar Moin 

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Akbar’s “Jesus” and Marlowe’s “Tamburlaine”: 

Strange Parallels of Early Modern Sacredness 

6.30pm 

Dinner 

Zulaykhā’s Banquet Interpreted 

through the Lens of Vision 

“No Journey is Possible Outside 

of the Heart”: The Story of King Lavaṇa 

in Bedil’s Muḥīṭ-i A ⊂ z̧am 

Naqshbandīyya 

and Counter-Insurgency 

in the Eighteenth Century: 

The Asrār of ⊂ Abd al-Ṣamad Khān 

A Traditionist’s Counsel to 

the Mughal Emperor: 

⊂ Abd al-Ḥaqq Dilhavī’s 

Risāla-yi Nūrīya-yi Sulṭānīya

8.45-10.00am 

Panel V 

Satire and Nostalgia 

in Colonial North India 

Chair: 

Rochona Majumdar 

10.15-11.15am 

Panel VI 

Buddhist Literature 

Chair: 

Steven Collins 

Debjani Bhattacharyya 


Emory University 

Session Three 

8.30am 

Coffee and Breakfast 

Ahona Panda 




Sravani Biswas 


Syracuse University 

Davey Tomlinson 

Divinity School, 


Justin Fifield 

Committee on the 

Study of Religion, 

Harvard University 

Hujuk and Lies: 

The World of Satire in 

NineteenthCentury Bengal 

From Navya to Ādhunik: Nostalgia and the 

Various Forms of the Modern in Early 

Twentieth-Century Bengal 

Deadly Punch: The Role of the Cartoon 

as a Site of Resistance in Late 

Nineteenth-Century Colonial India 

Maitrīpa's Amanasikārādhāra, 

or How to Not Pay Attention 

Narrative Explanation and 

Anthologization in South Asian 


11.30am-12.30pm 

Charles Hallisey 

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Seeing with the Mind’s Eye: 

Synergies between Literature and Meditative Practice in Medieval Sri Lanka

2.30-3.30pm 

Panel VII 

Places of Urdu 

Chair 

Elena Bashir 

3.45-4.45pm 

Panel VIII 

Faiẓ Aḥmad Faiẓ 

Chair: 

C.M. Naim 

Session Four 

12.45pm 

Lunch 

Alexander Jabbari 

Department of Comparative 

Literature, University of 

California, Irvine 

M.A. Ahmad Khan 

Girton College, 

Cambridge University 

Francesca Chubb-Confer 

Divinity School, 


Taimoor Shahid 

Department of Middle Eastern, 

South Asian, and African Studies, 

Columbia University 

From Hagiography to History: 

The Place of the Tażkirah 

in Literary Criticism 

Changes in the Space 

of the Mushā ⊂ irah, 1874-1950 

Solidarity, Exile, and Longing 

from Pakistan to Palestine: 

Faiẓ Aḥmad Faiẓ in Beirut 

The Prejudice of Place 

in Literature: Resituating Faiẓ Aḥmad 

Faiẓ’s “Communist” Poetry in its Locale 

5.00-6.00pm 

Frances W. Pritchett 

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“Orient Pearls” Split Open: The Subatomic Structure of the Ghazal

Rājarāja Chola with his teacher, 

Rājarājeśvara Temple, 1010CE. 

Session Two 

2.30-3.30pm Panel III 

Persian Literature 

Leila El-Murr 

Hajnalka Kovacs 

3.45-4.45pm Panel IV 

Mughal Literature 

Hasan Siddiqui 

Usman Hamid 

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5.00-6.00pm 

A. Azfar Moin 

April 4 

Session One 

9.00-10.00am Panel I 

Tamil, Malayalam, and Telugu Literature 

Sravanthi Kollu 

Malarvizhi Jayanth 

10.15-11.15am Panel II 

Sanskrit Literature 

Shiv Subramaniam 

Luther Obrock 

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11.30am-12.30pm 

Whitney Cox 

Aurangzeb, reading.

Ambedkar, surrounded by his followers, 

converts to Buddhism. 

Session Four 

2.30-3.30pm Panel VII 

Places of Urdu 

Alexander Jabbari 

M.A. Ahmad Khan 

3.45-4.45pm Panel VIII 

Faiẓ Aḥmad Faiẓ 

Francesca Chubb-Confer 

Taimoor Shahid 

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5.00-6.00pm 


April 5 

Session Three 

8.45-10am Panel V 

Satire and Nostalgia in 

Colonial North India 

Debjani Bhattacharyya 

Ahona Panda 

Sravani Biswas 

10.15-11.15am Panel VI 


Davey Tomlinson 

Justin Fifield 

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11.30am-12.30pm 


M.F. Husain. Faiẓ, Ghālib, and Iqbāl.

Muzaffar Alam 

George V. Bobrinskoy Professor, 

Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, 

University of Chicago. 

Elena Bashir 

Senior Lecturer, Department of South 

Asian Languages and Civilizations, 


Steven Collins 

Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities, 

Department of South Asian Languages and 

Civilizations, University of Chicago. 

Whitney Cox 

Senior Lecturer, Department of the Languages 

and Cultures of South Asia, SOAS, 

University of London. 

Thibaut d’Hubert 

Assistant Professor, Department of South 

Asian Languages and Civilizations, 



Yehan Numata Senior Lecturer 

on Buddhist Literatures, 

Harvard Divinity School. 

Franklin Lewis 

Associate Professor, Department of 

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, 


The Committee on Southern Asian Studies 

The Franke Institute for the Humanities 

The Nicholson Center for British Studies 

The Council on Advanced Studies 

Theory and Practice in South Asia Workshop 

The University of Chicago Divinity School 

With Thanks to Our Sponsors 

Rochona Majumdar 

Associate Professor, Departments of South 

Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Cinema 

and Media Studies, University of Chicago. 

A. Azfar Moin 

Assistant Professor, William P. 

Clements Department of History, Southern 

Methodist University. 

C.M. Naim 

Professor Emeritus, Department of South Asian 




Professor of Modern Indic Languages, 

Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, 

and African Studies, Columbia University. 

Gary Tubb 

Professor, Department of South Asian 



Rajagopal Vakulabharanam 

Lecturer, Department of South Asian 



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The Buddhist Studies Group 

The Department of History 

The Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture 

The Division of the Social Sciences 

The Department of Comparative Literature 

The Division of the Humanities 

Co-organized by Ishan Chakrabarti and Jane Mikkelson 

PhD Students, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago. 

With special thanks to our faculty sponsors, Muzaffar Alam and Thibaut d’Hubert. 

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Cover image: photograph by Carl Parkes. Session 1 image: Gaṇeśa, reading. Session 2 image: Bābur, reading. Session 3 image: 

Buddhist monks, reading. Session 4 image: Ghālib, by M.F. Husain.

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