{"id":56,"date":"2024-09-18T22:42:34","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T22:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/south-asia\/?page_id=56"},"modified":"2024-09-18T22:42:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T22:42:34","slug":"illinois-dissertations-on-south-asia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/south-asia\/south-asian-studies-library-materials\/illinois-dissertations-on-south-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Dissertations on South Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For more details on how to search for dissertations and theses please visit the library&#8217;s online <a href=\"http:\/\/wwwlib.umi.com\/cr\/uiuc\/main\">Dissertations and Theses Catalog<\/a>\u00a0for the University of Illinois. Information about dissertations can be searched using <strong>keyword<\/strong>, <strong>author<\/strong>, or <strong>advisor<\/strong> search criteria.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, students and researchers can access a vast database of doctoral theses accepted by universities throughout India at <a href=\"http:\/\/shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in\/\">Shodhganga<\/a>. Within the database, Indian theses can be searched using search criteria such as <strong>author<\/strong>, <strong>supervisor<\/strong>, <strong>subject<\/strong>, <strong>title<\/strong>, <strong>language<\/strong>, <strong>university<\/strong>, and <strong>year of award.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The following dissertations and theses have been organized by country and at times by topic within:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#Afghanistan\">Afghanistan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Bangladesh\">Bangladesh<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Bhutan\">Bhutan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#India\">India<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Maldives\">Maldives<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Nepal\">Nepal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Pakistan\">Pakistan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Srilanka\">Sri Lanka<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Generalsouthasiantopics\">General South Asian Topics<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a id=\"Afghanistan\" name=\"Afghanistan\"><\/a>Afghanistan <a href=\"#top\">\u2191<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Monje, David Matthew &#8211; Making enemies: Articulations of the &#8220;enemy&#8221; in the War on Terror. Thesis (PhD), 2007.<\/li>\n<li>Sharif, Sharifa. &#8211; Educated Afghan women in search of their identities. Thesis (PhD), 1994.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a id=\"Bangladesh\" name=\"Bangladesh\"><\/a>Bangladesh <a href=\"#top\">\u2191<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Ahmed, Quazi Mesbahuddin &#8211; Foreign aid, domestic savings and economic growth: the experience of Bangladesh, 1972-1991.Thesis (PhD), 1992.<\/li>\n<li>Huda, Shamsul &#8211; Elite composition and power structure of Chittagong, Bangladesh, 1940-1985. Thesis (PhD), 1989.<\/li>\n<li>Islam, Mursaleena &#8211; Floodplain resource management: an economic analysis of policy issues in Bangladesh. Thesis (PhD), 2001.<\/li>\n<li>Quayes, Muhammad Shakil &#8211; The agricultural household in Bangladesh: a disaggregated empirical analysis with particular emphasis on the demand for food calories. Thesis (PhD), 2000.<\/li>\n<li>Quazi, Rahim Masudur &#8211; Macro performance, fiscal behavior, and water investments: three essays on the effects of foreign and in Bangladesh. Thesis (PhD), 1999.<\/li>\n<li>Rashid, A. S. M. Shahidur. &#8211; Idiosyncratic income shocks, access to credit, and households&#8217; welfare in an agrarian economy: Micro-econometric studies on rural households in Bangladesh. Thesis (PhD), 1999.<\/li>\n<li>Saroyara Jahana &#8211; An inter-regional planning model for rural development in Bangladesh. Thesis (PhD), 1987.<\/li>\n<li>Tan, Kim Lai &#8211; An economic analysis of tubewell irrigation; a case study in Dhamrai, Bangladesh. Thesis (MS), 1985.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a id=\"Bhutan\" name=\"Bhutan\"><\/a>Bhutan <a href=\"#top\">\u2191<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Currently there have not been any dissertations or theses written on the nation of Bhutan at the University of Illinois.<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"India\" name=\"India\"><\/a>India <a href=\"#top\">\u2191<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>The nation of India has generated a multitude of dissertations and thesis and as a result they have been organized into three domains:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"#Humanities\">Humanities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Socialsciences\">Social Sciences<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Hardsciences\">Hard Sciences<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><a id=\"Humanities\" name=\"Humanities\"><\/a>Humanities <a href=\"#top\">\u2191<\/a><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Adisasmito-Smith, Steven Eric. &#8211; Svaraj and self-reliance: Translating the self and its rule from the &#8220;Bhagavad-Gita&#8221; and &#8220;Manusmriti&#8221; to the works of Emerson, Thoreau, and Gandhi. Thesis (PhD), 2003.<\/li>\n<li>Arnold, Alison E. &#8211; Hindi film\u00afi g\u00afit: on the history of commercial Indian popular music. Thesis (PhD), 1991.<\/li>\n<li>Babiracki, Carol M &#8211; Musical and cultural interaction in tribal India: the karam repertory of the Mundas of Chotanagpur. Thesis (PhD), 1991.<\/li>\n<li>Bhattacharya, Himika &#8211; Is my honor not honor? Women&#8217;s narratives of marriage, violence and culture in Lahaul, India. Thesis (PhD), 2008.<\/li>\n<li>Chakravarty, Sumita &#8211; Identity and authenticity: nationhood and the popular Indian cinema, 1947-1962.Thesis (PhD), 1987.<\/li>\n<li>Fiol, Stefan Patrick &#8211; Constructing regionalism: Discourses of spirituality and cultural poverty in the popular music of Uttarakhand, North India. Thesis (PhD), 2008.<\/li>\n<li>Forbes, Geraldine Hancock &#8211; Positivism in Bengal: a case study in the transmission and assimilation of an ideology. Thesis, 1972.<\/li>\n<li>Geldard, Alison Elizabeth &#8211; Music and musical performance among the East Indians in Chicago. Thesis (M. Mus), 1981.<\/li>\n<li>George, Arun &#8211; Design guidelines for the Goshree Roadlink in Kochi, India. Thesis (MLA), 2001.<\/li>\n<li>Hemenway, Stephen Ignatius &#8211; 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&#8211;Authors, Indic&#8211;History and criticism. Anglo-Indian fiction&#8211;History and criticism.<\/li>\n<li>Layng-Awasthi, Tracey &#8211; Indian English fiction and the American reader: non-native texts in the ESL classroom. Thesis (AM), 1994.<\/li>\n<li>Lutz, Richard &#8211; The effect of pronoun type on first and second language perceptual strategies in Hindi. Thesis (PhD), 1985.<\/li>\n<li>Marlow, Patrick Edwards &#8211; Origin and development of the Indo-Aryan quotatives and complementizers: an areal approach. Thesis (PhD), 1997.<\/li>\n<li>Mazumder, Aparajita &#8211; Cross-cultural refractions: India in English Romantic poetry. Thesis (PhD), 1990.<\/li>\n<li>Mishra, Mithilesh &#8211; The syllable structure and stress patterns of the Maithili language. Thesis (PhD), 2006.<\/li>\n<li>Mitchell, Lisa Ann &#8211; Acceptability of variation in nativized varieties of English: India as a case study. Thesis (MA), 1993.<\/li>\n<li>Mitra, Ananda &#8211; Mahabharat on Doordarshan: the articulation of television and popular culture in India. Thesis (PhD), 1992.<\/li>\n<li>Murase, Satoru &#8211; Patchwork jacket and loincloth: an ethnographic study of the Bauls of Bengal. Thesis (PhD), 1991.<\/li>\n<li>Murase, Satoru &#8211; Rethinking ritual purity-impurity in India. Thesis (MA), 1984. Neuman, Daniel M The cultural structure and social organization of musicians in India: the perspective from Delhi. Thesis, 1974.<\/li>\n<li>Oldenburg, Veena Talwar &#8211; The making of colonial Lucknow, 1856-1877. Thesis (PhD), 1980.<\/li>\n<li>Pandharipande, Rajeshwari &#8211; Syntax and semantics of the passive construction in selected South Asian languages. Thesis (PhD), 1981.<\/li>\n<li>Panjwani, Jyoti &#8211; From &#8216;A room of one&#8217;s own&#8217; to &#8216;A room in the home&#8217;: Discourses of negation in Indian feminist post-colonial fiction of Anita Desai, Mannu Bhandari and Ashapurna Devi. Thesis (PhD), 1996.<\/li>\n<li>Pruitt, Eric S. &#8211; Exegesis and the quest for textual univalency in the Indian philosophical tradition [microform]: a comparative study of the Bhagavad-Gita commentaries of Shankara and Swami A.C. Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada. Thesis (BA), 1993.<\/li>\n<li>Sch\u00e4ufele, Steven William &#8211; Free word-order syntax: the challenge from Vedic Sanskrit to contemporary formal syntactic theory. Thesis (PhD), 1991.<\/li>\n<li>Schultz, Anna C. &#8211; Rastriya kirtan of Maharashtra: Musical fragments of nationalist politics. Thesis (PhD), 2004.<\/li>\n<li>Slawek, Stephen Matthew &#8211; K\u00afirtan : a study of the sonic manifestations of the divine in the popular Hindu culture of Ban\u00afaras. Thesis (Ph.D.), 1986.<\/li>\n<li>Subbarao, K.V. &#8211; Noun phrase complementation in Hindi. Thesis (PhD), 1983.<\/li>\n<li>Tsiang-Starcevic, Sarah Yvonne &#8211; The discourse functions of subordinate constructions in classical Sanskrit narrative texts. Thesis (PhD), 1997.<\/li>\n<li>Venkataraman, Kalpagam. &#8211; Rasa in Indian aesthetics: Interface of literature and sculpture. Thesis (PhD), 2003.<\/li>\n<li>Wolf, Richard Kent &#8211; Innovation, interpretation, and the maintenance of tradition in the Karaikkudi style of vina playing. Thesis (MM.), 1989.<\/li>\n<li>Wolf, Richard Kent &#8211; Of God and death: music in ritual and everyday life: a musical ethnography of the Kotas of South India. Thesis (PhD), 1997.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a id=\"Socialsciences\" name=\"Socialsciences\"><\/a>Social Sciences <a href=\"#top\">\u2191<\/a><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Abraham, Itty &#8211; Security, technology and ideology: &#8220;strategic enclaves&#8221; in Brazil and India, 1945-1989.Thesis (PhD), 1993.<\/li>\n<li>Aggarwal, Arjun Prakash &#8211; Comparison of selected aspects of American and Indian labor Law. Thesis (JSD), 1959.<\/li>\n<li>Asthana, Vandana &#8211; Discourses of power and resistance in the water policy process of Delhi, India. Thesis (PhD), 2008.<\/li>\n<li>Barnes, Douglas &#8211; FrenchThe impact of agricultural development on social structure in India: a district level analysis from 1961 to 1971.Thesis, 1979.<\/li>\n<li>Barua, Pradeep P. &#8211; Race, politics, and armies: the dynamics of military modernization in twentieth-century colonial India. Thesis (PhD), 1995.<\/li>\n<li>Basu, Sriparna &#8211; Overlapping terrains: orientalism, Indian nationalism and the erotics of cross-cultural contact. Thesis (PhD), 1999.<\/li>\n<li>Bhattacherjee, Debashish &#8211; Union-type, labor market structure, and bargaining outcomes in Indian manufacturing: an analysis of the new unionism in greater Bombay. Thesis (PhD), 1987.<\/li>\n<li>Birla, Suresh Chandra &#8211; Regional demand analysis of major food grains in India. Thesis (PhD), 1970.<\/li>\n<li>Bower, Mary Elizabeth &#8211; Communism in India [microform]: an analytical perspective. Thesis (BA) in Political Science, 1980.<\/li>\n<li>Chakravarty, Pradip &#8211; The political economy of mass media development in India 1947-1984. Thesis (PhD), 1994.<\/li>\n<li>Damle, Vivek Madhav &#8211; Analysis of the Indian vegetable seed industry. Thesis (PhD), 2000.<\/li>\n<li>Darda, Jayashree &#8211; Landscape design guidelines for cave temples and monasteries in western India. Thesis (MLA), 1990.<\/li>\n<li>Debchaudhury, Sudata\u00a0 &#8211; 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.<\/li>\n<li>DeSousa, Valerian &#8211; The constitution of the colonial labor subject: labor law in Colonial India, 1881 to 1936.Thesis (PhD), 1993.<\/li>\n<li>Deva, Vrinda &#8211; Women&#8217;s bargaining power in the household: Self-employment versus wage employment among low-income women in India. Thesis (PhD), 2003.<\/li>\n<li>Gour, Sudama Swarup &#8211; A study in concepts and measurement of labor force and labor requirements in agriculture with special reference to India. Thesis (MS), 1963.<\/li>\n<li>Gujral, Ragini &#8211; 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.<\/li>\n<li>Gurdev Singh &#8211; Operating capital use in relation to investment in depreciable assets on farm firms in central Punjab, India. Thesis (PhD), 1979.<\/li>\n<li>Hall, Charles Joseph &#8211; The maharaja&#8217;s account books: state and society under the Sikhs, 1799-1849. Thesis (PhD), 1981.<\/li>\n<li>Heinrich, Steven Allan &#8211; Code switching and contextual culture: the Indian model of stability maintenance. Thesis (PhD), 1991.<\/li>\n<li>Householder, David Eugene &#8211; Caging the rainbow: the effects of center-periphery conflict on a major adult education program in India. Thesis (PhD), 1984.<\/li>\n<li>Jha, Satish Chandra &#8211; Indian land reform research literature. Thesis (PhD), 1967.<\/li>\n<li>Jindia, Jaswant Rai &#8211; Estimation of costs and returns on Indian farms: sampling problems and production function analysis .Thesis (PhD), 1970.<\/li>\n<li>Kolavalli, Shashidhara &#8211; Economic analysis of conjunctive use of water: the case of Mahi-Kadana irrigation project in Gujarat, India. Thesis (PhD), 1986.<\/li>\n<li>Madaiah, Madappa &#8211; Financial intermediaries and monetary policy. Thesis (PhD), 1968.<\/li>\n<li>Mandana, Ganapathy Biddanda &#8211; Indian tea in the world market. Thesis (MS), 1993.<\/li>\n<li>Malik, Arshad Salim. &#8211; An historical analysis of student activism in India, prior to 1947.Thesis (MS), 1990.<\/li>\n<li>McLain, Robert Anthony. &#8211; The body politic: Imperial masculinity, the Great War, and the struggle for the Indian self, 1914&#8211;1918. Thesis (PhD), 2003.<\/li>\n<li>Mehra, Beloo &#8211; The home-school relations: an exploration into the perspectives of parents and schools on Asian Indian cultural model of schooling. Thesis (PhD), 1998.<\/li>\n<li>Mehra, Bharat &#8211; Mandala and the sacred landscape of traditional Hindu cities. Thesis (MLA), 1997.<\/li>\n<li>Mehta, Rini Bhattacharya &#8211; Prisoners of history: Bengali cultural nationalists and the Hindu past. Thesis (PhD), 2006.<\/li>\n<li>Menon, Goutham M &#8211; Care giving and schizophrenia: understanding the worldview of Asian Indian families. Thesis (PhD), 1997.<\/li>\n<li>Menon, M. Rajan &#8211; India and the Soviet Union: a case study of international influence. Thesis, 1979.<\/li>\n<li>Misra, Rama Shanker &#8211; Production and market potentials of soybeans in India. Thesis, 1970.<\/li>\n<li>Mohanty, Chandra Talpade &#8211; The hidden curriculum of sex roles in two urban middle class Bombay preschools. Thesis (PhD), 1987.<\/li>\n<li>Murthi, Meera. &#8211; Rape attributions in India: the influence of attitudes towards women, violence, and communities. Thesis (PhD), 2006.<\/li>\n<li>Murti, Kamakshi P. &#8211; Die Reinkarnation des Lesers als Autor : ein rezeptionsgeschichtlicher Versuch \u00fcber den Einfluss der altindischen Literatur auf deutsche Schriftsteller um 1900.Thesis (PhD),1987<\/li>\n<li>Narayan, Arathir &#8211; A comparative analysis of the Indian textile and apparel industries. Thesis (MS), 1988.<\/li>\n<li>Ollikkala, Robert Charles &#8211; Concerning Begum Akhtar: &#8220;Queen of Ghazal&#8221;. Thesis ( PhD),1997. Subjects: Akhtar, Begum, 1914-1974.<\/li>\n<li>Prasad, Srirupa &#8211; Social production of hygiene: Domesticity, gender, and nationalism in late colonial Bengal and India. Thesis (PhD), 2006.<\/li>\n<li>Propp, Kathleen M. &#8211; The establishment of agricultural universities in India; a case study of the role of USAID-U.S. university technical assistance. Thesis (MA), 1968.<\/li>\n<li>Raghavulu, C. V. &#8211; Organizational conflict in Indian government organizations. Thesis (PhD), 1976.<\/li>\n<li>Rajagopalan, Swarna &#8211; National integration : the state in search of community. Thesis (PhD), 1998.<\/li>\n<li>Raman, Deepa &#8211; The meaning and role of the Hindu temple in the United States. Thesis (MLA), 1993.<\/li>\n<li>Ramu, G. N. &#8211; Family and caste in urban India : a case study. Thesis, 1972.<\/li>\n<li>Ranganath, Nicole Therese &#8211; Wedding women to tradition: The politics of marriage in the Indian Diaspora, 1947\u20142002. Thesis (PhD), 2003.<\/li>\n<li>Rao, Srinivas M. &#8211; Attempts at secession in India. Thesis (MA), 1989.<\/li>\n<li>Sardesai, Shonali &#8211; The management and mismanagement of ethno-regional conflicts: the case of South Asia. Thesis (PhD), 2000.<\/li>\n<li>Sen, Siddhartha &#8211; Role of Indian NGO&#8217;s in housing and development: a critical appraisal. Thesis (PhD), 1991.<\/li>\n<li>Shaw, Annapurna &#8211; The role of the casual poor in a Third World urban economy: a case study of Calcutta, India. Thesis (PhD), 1985.<\/li>\n<li>Smiley, Chareva Leigh &#8211; American Hinduism [microform] : South Asian religious beliefs and practices as incorporated into American culture in the New Age. Thesis (BA), 1994.<\/li>\n<li>Sridhar, Kamal Keskar &#8211; The development of English as an elite language in the multilingual contest of India : its educational implications.Thesis,1977.<\/li>\n<li>Tata, Lakshmi S. &#8211; Factors facilitating and hindering safer sex negotiations among female sex workers in Pune, India: Conversations with women in sex work. Thesis (PhD), 2004.<\/li>\n<li>Tellis, Allwyn\u00a0 &#8211; Mahatma Gandhi&#8217;s &#8220;Constructive Programme&#8221;: Building a new India. Thesis (PhD), 2006.<\/li>\n<li>Varma, Alka &#8211; Effect of U.S.-India bilateral agreements on the growth of apparel trade with India. Thesis (MS), 1989.<\/li>\n<li>Vasudeva, Sunita &#8211; The poverty of communication theory in India. Thesis (PhD), 1994.<\/li>\n<li>Venkataraman, Jayashree &#8211; Indigenization process of alcoholism treatment from the American to the Indian context. Thesis (PhD), 1996.<\/li>\n<li>Weinstein, Jay Allan <strong>&#8211;<\/strong> Madras: an analysis of urban ecological structure in India. Dissertation, 1973.<\/li>\n<li>Yesuratnam, Basimalla <strong>&#8211;<\/strong>Attitudes of secondary school teachers in Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh, India toward in-service education. Thesis (PhD), 1982.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a id=\"Hardsciences\" name=\"Hardsciences\"><\/a>Hard Sciences <a href=\"#top\">\u2191<\/a><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Deo, Susan Ruth Rothrock An economic analysis of biogas technology for a hypothetical village in rural India. Thesis (MS), 1980.<\/li>\n<li>Kotamraju, Pradeep The &#8216;other&#8217; energy crisis and economic development: the role of non-commercial fuels in Indian subsistence agriculture. Thesis (PhD), 1985.<\/li>\n<li>Pant, Shridhar Prasad An evaluation of econometric and mathematical programming models : useful for planning the agricultural sector in India. Thesis, 1970.<\/li>\n<li>Prasad, Amit. Cultures of techno science: A study of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) research in the United States and India. Thesis (PhD), 2004.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a id=\"Maldives\" name=\"Maldives\"><\/a>Maldives <a href=\"#top\">\u2191<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Currently there have not been any dissertations or theses written on the Maldives at the University of Illinois.<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"Nepal\" name=\"Nepal\"><\/a>Nepal <a href=\"#top\">\u2191<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Gingrich, Chris Daniel &#8211; Trade deficits, foreign exchange reserves and the agricultural sector in developing countries: Nepal as a case study. Thesis (MS), 1987.<\/li>\n<li>Sijapati, Binod Bickram &#8211; Small farmer credit programs in Nepal. Thesis (MS), 1980.<\/li>\n<li>Tulachan, Pradeep Man &#8211; Demand and production of rice in Nepal: the past situation and future prospect. Thesis (MS), 1979.<\/li>\n<li>Warfield, Ronald Ralph &#8211; Land tenure and its role in the economic development of Nepal. Thesis (MS), 1967.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a id=\"Pakistan\" name=\"Pakistan\"><\/a>Pakistan <a href=\"#top\">\u2191<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Akhtar, Shahnaz &#8211; A study of daily time allocation by rural housewives in North West frontier province of Pakistan. Thesis (MS), 1993.<\/li>\n<li>Asrar, Mohammad &#8211; Perceptions and preferences on institutional decision making of the faculty of North-West Frontier Province Agricultural University, Pakistan. Thesis (PhD), 1990.<\/li>\n<li>Bashir, Muhammad &#8211; An evaluation of some management practices for improving wheat productivity in northern Pakistan. Thesis (PhD), 1993<\/li>\n<li>Bashir, Muhammad &#8211;\u00a0Impact of farm mechanization on labor and crop production cost in Pakistan. Thesis (MS), 1990.<\/li>\n<li>Begum, Roshan &#8211; A Welfare analysis of price policy for raw cotton in Pakistan. Thesis (MS), 1993.<\/li>\n<li>Chawdhry, Muhammad Arshad &#8211; Effect of land tenure on resource use and productivity in agriculture: a case study of Punjab, Pakistan. Thesis (PhD), 1974.<\/li>\n<li>Chishti, Anwar Fazil &#8211; Demand for and supply of Pakistan Basmati rice. Thesis (MS), 1990.<\/li>\n<li>Hussain, Syed Sajidin &#8211;\u00a0Analysis of economic efficiency in northern Pakistan: estimation, causes and policy implications. Thesis (PhD), 1989.<\/li>\n<li>Idris, Mohammad &#8211;\u00a0Family influence on utilization of remittances: a case study of a village in the North West Frontier Province Pakistan. Thesis (PhD), 1991.<\/li>\n<li>Kahn, Asmatullah &#8211;\u00a0Farmers&#8217; resource status and information availability and utilization: a study within Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan. Thesis (PhD), 1988.<\/li>\n<li>Maloney, Joel &#8211; 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<\/li>\n<li>Misri, Deepti &#8211; Reading violence: Gender, violence, and representation in India and Pakistan (1947&#8211;present). Thesis (PhD), 2008<\/li>\n<li>Mushtaq, Mohammad\u00a0&#8211; Rural credit markets and consumption smoothing : evidence from Pakistan. Thesis (PhD), 1999.<\/li>\n<li>Rasool, Saeeda &#8211; From private gardens to public parks : a study of transformation in landscape of Lahore, Pakistan from seventeenth century till present. Thesis (MLA), 1994.<\/li>\n<li>Tehseen, Waheeda Mant &#8211; Validation of the planarian bioassay with defined mixtures and testing against other bioassays with contaminated samples from Pakistan. Thesis (PhD), 1993.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a id=\"Srilanka\" name=\"Srilanka\"><\/a>Sri Lanka <a href=\"#top\">\u2191<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Suraweera, Don Edward Franklyn &#8211; A programming analysis of production and resource use in small-holder agriculture in the dry zone of Sri Lanka. Thesis (PhD), 1982.<\/li>\n<li>Welikala, Nihal &#8211; Dynamics of potassium in some Illinois and Sri Lanka soils. Thesis, 1986.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a id=\"Generalsouthasiantopics\"><\/a>General South Asian Topics <a href=\"#top\">\u2191<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Aswathanarayana, Vani &#8211; After the demolition: constructing the communal riots of 1992-93 in the Media. Thesis (Ph D), 1999.<\/li>\n<li>Bajpai, Kanta Prasad &#8211; The origins of association in South Asia: SAARC 1979-1989.Thesis (PhD), 1990.<\/li>\n<li>Berns, Margie Sue &#8211; Functional approaches and communicative competence: English language teaching in non-native contexts. Thesis (PhD), 1985.<\/li>\n<li>Bhatia, Tej Krishan &#8211; A syntactic and semantic description of negation in South Asian languages. Thesis (PhD), 1978.<\/li>\n<li>Bhatt, Rakesh Mohan &#8211; Word order and case in Kashmiri. Thesis (PhD), 1994.<\/li>\n<li>Burns, Susan Marie &#8211; Potential arms management and limitations measures for South Asia. Thesis (MA), 1990.<\/li>\n<li>D&#8217;souza, Jean &#8211; South Asia as a sociolinguistic area. Thesis (PhD), 1987.<\/li>\n<li>Furtado. Christina S. &#8211; Inter-rebel group dynamics: cooperation or competition the case of South Asia. Thesis (PhD), 2007.<\/li>\n<li>Ganguly, Shivaji &#8211; The United States and South Asia: a study of policy and process. Thesis, 1977.<\/li>\n<li>Ganguly, Sumit Kumar &#8211; The origins of war in South Asia: 1947-1971.Thesis (PhD), 1984.<\/li>\n<li>Jones, Lynn Anne &#8211; Between Byzantium and Islam: royal iconography and the Church of the Holy Cross at Aghtamar. Thesis (PhD), 1995.<\/li>\n<li>Kahl, Chad M. &#8211; The improbability of progress on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons in the Middle East and South Asia. [Microform].Thesis (BA), 1993.<\/li>\n<li>Khan, Hamid &#8211; Islamic law of intestate succession. Thesis (LLM), 1973.<\/li>\n<li>Khory, Kavita Rusi &#8211;\u00a0Separatism in South Asia: the politics of ethnic conflict and regional security. Thesis (PhD), 1991.<\/li>\n<li>Valentine, Tamara Marie &#8211;\u00a0Aspects of linguistic interaction and gender in South Asia. Thesis (PhD), 1986.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more details on how to search for dissertations and theses please visit the library&#8217;s online Dissertations and Theses Catalog\u00a0for the University of Illinois. Information about dissertations can be searched using keyword, author, or advisor search criteria. 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