Dissertations

COMPLETED DISSERTATIONS

2014

Kaicker, Abhishek. The Cultures of Urban Politics in the Mughal Empire, 1707-1748. Columbia University.

2013

Dudney, Arthur. Indo-Persian Philology in the Eighteenth Century and the Politics of Literary Culture.. Columbia University.

Kovacs, Hajnalka. “The Tavern of the Manifestation of Realities”: The Masnavi Muhit-i A`zam by Mirza `Abd al-Qadir Bedil (1644-1720). University of Chicago.

Nair, Shankar. Philosophy in Any Language: Interaction between Arabic, Sanskrit, and Persian Intellectual Cultures in Mughal South Asia. Harvard University.

2012

Balachandran, Jyoti Gulati. Texts, Tombs and Memory: The Migration, Settlement, and Formation of a Learned Muslim Community in Fifteenth-Century Gujarat. UCLA.

Fischel, Roy. Society, Space, and the State in the Deccan Sultanates, 1565-1636. University of Chicago.

Khan, Pasha M. The Broken Spell: The Romance Genre in Late Mughal India. Columbia University.

Sheffield, Daniel. In the Path of the Prophet: Medieval and Early Modern Narratives of the Life of Zarathustra in Islamic Iran and Western India. Harvard University.

Truschke, Audrey. Cosmopolitan Encounters: Sanskrit and Persian at the Mughal Court. Columbia University.

2011

Gandhi, Supriya. Mughal Self-Fashioning, Indic Self Realization: Dara Shikoh and Persian Textual Cultures in Early Modern South Asia. Harvard University.

Kia, Mana. Contours of Persianate Community, 1722-1835. Harvard University.

2005

Sarkar, Nilanjan. The Political Identity of the Delhi Sultanate, 1200-1400: A Study of Ziā ud-Dīn Baranī’s Fatāwā-i-Jahāndārī. SOAS.

DISSERTATIONS IN PROGRESS

Cornwall, Owen. The Astral Sciences in Early Modern South Asia. Columbia University.

Hamid, Usman. Sufis, Soldiers, and Scribes: The Rise and Rule of Mughal Power in North India, 1526-1627. University of Toronto.

Hasson, Michal, From Global to Local: The Story of Laila and Majnun in South Asian Literature. Harvard University.

Jabbari, Alexander, Literary Historiography in the Making of Persianate Modernity, 1871-1942. University of California, Irvine.

Majchrowicz, Daniel, Travel as a Means to Victory: Urdu Travel Writing and Aspiration in Islamicate South Asia. Harvard University.

Rathee, Vikas. Narratives of a War of Succession (1658) for the Mughal Throne, c.1670 – c.1710. The University of Arizona.