Browsing UT Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Asian Studies"
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"A career in self-sacrifice : the Medicine King's self-immolation in the Sanskrit Lotus Sūtra"
(2020-08-11)Modern self-immolation as political protest finds its roots in religious textual precedence in the ancient Buddhist Sanskrit Lotus Sūtra, a Mahāyāna scripture composed in central Asia some time between the first century ... -
A comparative analysis of divergent immigration policies for foreign elderly care workers in Japan and South Korea
(2017-05)In the midst of labor shortages and socio-demographic pressures, Japan and South Korea are facing an increasing demand for elderly care. In order to respond to this demand, these nations have both looked to a foreign labor ... -
A market for speech : poetry recitation in late Mughal India, 1690-1810
(2014-12-09)This project focuses on 18th-century Persian and Urdu language mushairahs or poetry gatherings patronized by Mughal India’s urban elite and depicted in period compendiums or tazkirahs. Besides preserving poetry, the ... -
A room of her own : romance, resistance, and feminist thought in modern Urdu poetry
(2015-05)This dissertation examines the ways in which the female figure has emerged, and the ways in which women’s issues have been addressed in Urdu poetry in various ways during the twentieth century. In order to track these ... -
The aesthetics of sppropriation : Ghalib's Persian Ghazal poetry and its critics
(2010-05)This thesis examines the Persian ghazal poetry of Mirza Ghalib. It does so in the light of the corpus of critical literature in Urdu, Persian, and English that concerns both the poetry of Ghalib as well as the poetry of ... -
Agriculture and religion in ancient India
(2017-08-10)This project examines the religious conception of agriculture of the Vedic tribes as they transitioned from semi-nomadic pastoralism to an agriculturally-based sedentism in the Gangetic Basin. The basic thesis is that the ... -
Animating revolution : an inquiry on non-human agency in wartime China (1940-1945)
(2020-04-30)It is becoming extremely evident that the world is composed of and sustained by myriads of agentive actors, only a small portion of which are humans. This deeply entangled world of humans and non-humans demands attention, ... -
An annotated translation of chapter 7 of the Carakasamhita Citiksasthana : leprosy and other skin disorders
(2014-05)The Carakasaṃhitā is an early Sanskrit text in the field of āyurvedic medicine. The Cikitsāsthāna is a section of that text dealing with treatments of various maladies, and Chapter 7 of this section discusses skin diseases. ... -
Approaching death : responses to dying in two South Asian medical traditions
(2018-06-19)Love and Death are words that often appear together, not because they are antonyms, but because we feel them so closely bound. The people we love die, and, with changes in medical technologies, questions have arisen for ... -
Atomic activism : the history and legacy of Japan’s Hibakusha activists
(2018-06-27)Atomic bomb survivors, called hibakusha, are active in campaigning against nuclear arms, but also in demanding that the Japanese government recognize their healthcare needs and meet them. This fight for recognition, of ... -
The Baba-e-Urdu : Abdul Haq and the role of language in Indian nationalism
(2010-05)Abdul Haq was the secretary of the Anjuman Taraqqi-e-Urdu from 1912 to 1961. He was also a founder of Osmania University, one of the first universities in India to provide instruction in an Indian vernacular. He had a ... -
Balochistan and nationalism
(2012-12)Balochistan and Nationalism discusses a divided region in South Asia and their ideas of nationalism. Balochistan is divided among three neighboring countries; Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Each Balochi region within ... -
Beruf, the self, and Jain business : presentations of merit as the calling
(2021-06-21)This report explores the idea of beruf in the context of Jain business practices. It asks whether the concept of worldly asceticism ties into business successes in a similar fashion to the protestant ethic. Through an ... -
BETI : a nonprofit organization empowering through performance
(2006-08)BETI (Better Education Through Innovation) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of disempowered adolescent girls and their communities in rural areas in India through informal education and vocational ... -
Birth and development of the Pakistan army : from British conception to the nuclear age
(2006-05)This thesis examines of the creation of the Pakistan Army beginning from the British Indian Army's defense strategy before the Partition of India in 1947 and the immediate challenges facing the Army's reconstitution efforts ... -
Brahmin humor : Chennai's sabha theater and the creation of middle-class Indian taste from the 1950s to the present
(2007-12)“Sabha theater” is a genre of Tamil language comedy theater that started in Madras (Chennai) in the period following India’s 1947 independence. Its name comes from the fact that the amateur drama troupes rely on cultural ... -
Caodai spiritism : hybrid individuals, global communities
(2010-05)The Caodai religion of Vietnam has often been labeled as a peasant-driven, politico-religious sect due to its anti-colonial activities during the first half of the 1940s. This paper conducts an historical analysis of ... -
Carried meaning in the Mahābhārata
(2015-12)The Mahābhārata describes itself as both a comprehensive and exhaustive text, incorporating a range of genres while presenting diverse perspectives through a matrix of interacting narratives. Its main story and subtales ... -
Caste and Kuñcan Nampyār’s Ghōṣayātra
(2020-08-12)In this report, a close reading and expository analysis of Kuñcan Nampyār’s Ōṭṭan Tuḷḷal compositions, specifically Ghōṣayātra, will serve to reveal Nampyār’s view on points of social tension during his lifetime. Given ... -
The catastrophe remembered by the non-traumatic: counternarratives on the Cultural Revolution in Chinese literature of the 1990s
(2004)After its demise in 1976, the Cultural Revolution has been conventionally portrayed as an era of political persecution, a “cultural desert,” an ascetic regime, and a decade of total chaos. Contested memories of this ...
