Recently Awarded PhDs & Current PhD Projects
Recently Awarded PhDs
2012
- Mayurika Chakravorty Enchantment and the politics of subversion: fantasy fiction in colonial Bengal
- David Jonathan Lunn Looking for Common Ground: Aspects of Cultural Production in Hindi/Urdu, 1900-1947
- Udeni Samarasekara Reconstructing the Transition from Oral to Written: The Comparative Genesis and Reception of the Iliad, the Ramayana and the Aeneid
- Soofia Siddique Remembering the revolt of 1857: Contrapuntal formations in Indian literature and history.
2011
- Louise Harrington Conflicted places and thirdspaces: the landscape of Partition in South Asian literature and film
- Akhil Katyal Playing a double game: idioms of same sex desire in India
2010
- Nuno Mourato Translating Hinduism: Juan Mascaro and Indian Spirituality
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2009
Manjita Palit Songs of the Body: Embodiments of Sexuality in Bengali Literature and Culture, 1880-1920
Mara Malagodi Constitutional Nationalism and Legal Exclusion in Nepal (1990-2007)
Abu Musa Mohammad Arif Billah The Influence of Persian Literature on two Medieval Bengali Poets - Shah Muhammad Sagir and Alaol
Ana Jelnikar Towards Universal Man: R. Tagore, W.B. Yeats, and Srecko Kosovel: Identity in Difference
2007
Sutanuka Ghosh Identity politics and the twentieth century bhadramahila in Bengali women's fiction
2006
Choy Fah Kong Saccakiriya: The Belief in the Power of True Speech in Theravada Buddhist Tradition
2005
Fabrizio Ferrari The Shunya Purana of Ramai Pandit: a survey of ancestral beliefs of Bengal
Angela Eyre Land, language and literary identity: a thematic comparison of Indian novels in Hindi and English
2004
Tsering Chakya The Emergence of Modern Tibetan Literature - gsar rtsom
Hepzibah Israel Protestant translations of the Bible (1714-1995) and defining a protestant Tamil identity
Hanne-Ruth Thompson Towards a definitive grammar of Bengali: A study and criticism of research on selected grammatical structures
2003
Rhoderick Chalmers "We Nepalis". Language, literature and the formation of a Nepali public sphere in India, 1914-1940
Rochelle Pinto The Formation of a Divided Public: Print, Language and Literature in Colonial Goa
Current PhD Projects
Priyanka Basu
‘Cockfight in Tune: Reading Nations, Communities and Performance in the “Bengali” Kobigaan’
- Email: 256154@soas.ac.uk
Eleanor Halsall
German Orientalism, Indian Occidentalism: cinematic collaboration up to 1939
- Email: 217937@soas.ac.uk
Rashi Rohatgi
Fighting Cane and Canon: Reading Abhimanyu Unnuth's Hindi Poetry in and outside of Literary Mauritius
- Email: rashi@soas.ac.uk
Patricia Sauthoff
Open Secrets and the Retention of Power in Kashmir Saivism
- Email: 249292@soas.ac.uk
Chinmay Sharma
The Mahabharata re-constructed for Hindi and English publics: modernity and the 'national epic'
- Email: 537173@soas.ac.uk
Krishna Prasad Upadhyaya
Observances of International Humanitarian Laws in the Internal Conflict of Nepal
- Email: 179337@soas.ac.uk
Bryony Whitmarsh
Modernity, nationalism and identity: 19th and 20th century palace buildings in the Kathmandu Valley
- Email: bryony_whitmarsh@soas.ac.uk
