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Ph. D. Dissertations and Masters Theses

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A. Ph. D. Dissertations.

 

  1. Hess, Gary Ray. Sam Higginbottom of Allahabad: The Missionary As an Advance Agent of American Economic and Technical Assistance to India. 1965. Diss. 1202. 318 leaves. http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u1366153 ProQuest

 

---. Book - Sam Higginbottom of Allahabad: Pioneer of Point Four to India [by] Gary R. Hess. 1967 book. BX9225 .H48 H4 1967 http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u1182402

 

  1. Laushey, David M. The Bengal Terrorists and Their Conversion to Marxism: Aspects of Regional Nationalism in India, 1905-1942. [Charlottesville]: [publisher not identified], 1969. Diss. 1510. 262 leaves. http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u1364707 ProQuest

 

---. Book. Bengal Terrorism & the Marxist Left: Aspects of Regional Nationalism in India, 1905-1942. 1975. By David M. Laushey. Book. DS485 .B49 L38 1975. http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u380372

 

  1. Bishop, Cletus James. Sachchidananda Sinha and the Making of Modern Bihar; A Study in Constitutional Agitation at the Provincial Level, 1905-1919. 1972. Diss. Hist. 1972 .B5 296 leaves. http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u1343266 ProQuest And in Libra

 

  1. Yang, Yun Yuan. Nehru and China, 1927-1949. 1974. Diss. Hist. 1974 .Y3. 276. leaveshttp://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u499210 ProQuest

 

  1. Yang, Anand Alan. Control and Conflict in an Agrarian Society: A Study of Saran District, 1866-1920. 1976. Diss. Hist. 1976 .Y3. 370 leaves.  http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u350738 ProQuest

 

---. Book. The limited Raj : agrarian relations in colonial India, Saran District, 1793-1920. 1989. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/15316160  http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u1602705 JS7025 .S27 Y36 1989

 

  1. White, David L. Parsis As Entrepreneurs in Eighteenth Century Western India: The Rustum Manock Family and the Parsi Community of Surat and Bombay. 1979. Diss. Hist. 1979 .W45. 295 leaves. http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u208578 ProQuest

 

  1. Gabriel, Ruth. Learned Communities and British Educational Experiments in North India: 1780-1830. 1979. Diss. Hist. 1979 .G3. 275 leaves. http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u203835 ProQuest

 

  1. McEldowney, Philip F. Colonial Administration and Social Developments in Middle India: The Central Provinces, 1861-1921. 1980. Diss. Hist. 1980 .M4. 577 leaves. http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u163660 ProQuest  And in Libra   Also available on-line as an electronic resource. https://asianstudies.github.io/area-studies/SouthAsia/Ideas/CP/intro.html

 

  1. Hagen, James Ray. Indigenous Society, the Political Economy, and Colonial Education in Patna District: A History of Social Change from 1811 to 1951 in Gangetic North India. [Charlottesville, Va.]: [publisher not identified], 1981. Diss. Hist. 1981 .H3. 472 leaves. http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u120499 ProQuest And In Libra

 

  1. Hill, Christopher Vaughan. History in Motion: The Social Ecology of Purnia District, 1770-1960. 1987. Diss. Hist. 1987 .H54. 274 leaves. http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u1226300 ProQuest

 

---. Book. River of sorrow : environment and social control in Riparian North India, 1770-1994. 1997  http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u2793506 HD2073 .H55 1997

 

  1. Pinch, William Ralph. Being 'Vaishnava', Becoming 'Kshatriya': Culture, Belief, and Identity in North India, 1800-1940. 1991. Diss. Hist. 1990 .P56. 331 leaves. http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u1832426 ProQuest

 

---. Book. Peasants and monks in British India. 1996.  http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u2624087 BL1287.542 .P56 1996

 

  1. Singer, Wendy Faye. Creating History: Oral Narrative and the Political Process of History-Making in Rural North India (1781-1942). 1991. Diss. Hist. 1991 .S56. 436 leaves. http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u2019941 ProQuest

 

---. Book. Creating histories: oral narratives and the politics of history-making. 1997.    http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u2940452  DS485 .B51 S487 1997

 

  1. Grover, Ruhi. Rhythms of the Timber Trade: Forests in the Himalayan Punjab, 1850-1925. 1997. Diss. Hist. 1997 .G76.  247 leaves. http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u2727907 ProQuest

 

  1. Campion, David Andrew. Watchmen of the Raj: The United Provinces Police, 1870-1931 and the Dilemmas of Colonial Policing in British India. 2002. Diss. Hist. 2002 .C35. 292 leaves.  http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u3884167

 

  1. Dhavan, Purnima. The Warrior's Way: The Making of the Eighteenth-Century Khalsa Panth. 2003. Diss. Hist. 2003 .D45. 275 leaves. http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u3940976 ProQuest

 

---. Book. When sparrows became hawks : the making of the Sikh warrior tradition, 1699-1799. 2011.     http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u5576061  On Line (Oxford)

 

  1. Bracken, Hillary Jean. Maternity and Child Welfare Reform in North India, 1900-1947. 2007. Diss. Hist. 2007 .B72. 346 leaves. http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u4699022 ProQuest And In Libra

 

 

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B. Masters Theses.

 

  1. Hess, Gary Ray. India's Sam Higginbottom: Agricultural Missionary Extraordinary. 1962. Masters 2579. 134 leaves. http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u1659945

 

  1. Laushey, David M. The Movement for Left Unity in Indian Politics, 1947-1952. 1963. Masters 2629. 177 leaves. http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u1668480

 

  1. Emerson, Frank Eckman. D.P. Mishra and Congress Politics in Madhya Pradesh, 1963-1967. 1970. Masters 3729. 63 leaves. http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u1671426

 

  1. Hogan, Vivian Estelle Davis. The Emergence of the Muslim Challenge to Hindu Dominance in Punjab, 1920-1930. 1970. Masters 3844. 127 leaves. http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u1604653

 

  1. Boykin, James Hodo. The Exploitation of the Authority of the Emperor Shah Alam by Regional Powers in Eighteenth Century India: 1757-1771. 1975. Masters Hist. 1975 .B65.41 leaves. http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u509318

 

  1. Bulbin, Samuel Spigel. Banking in Eighteenth Century Bengal: The Jagat Seths As a Regional Power. 1975. Masters Hist. 1975 .B84. 80 leaves. http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u496936

 

  1. Dunn, Edward Paul. Gaya District: A Study of a Local Agrarian Movement. 1976. Masters Hist. 1976 .D8. 107 leaves. http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u307894

 

  1. Hughes, Pamela Parsons. The Poligars and Stateless Society in Eighteenth Century South India. 1978. Masters Hist. 1978 .H8. 42 leaves. http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u225401

 

  1. Coble, Deborah Byars. Eighteenth Century Statecraft and State Formation in North India. 1978. Masters Hist. 1978 .C6. 59 leaves. http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u272955

 

  1. Clemo, George John Arundel. Barahiya Tal, 1936-1940: A Local Peasant Movement. 1979. Masters Hist. 1979 .C57. 92 leaves. http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u252289

 

  1. Hill, Christopher Vaughan. River of Sorrow: The Influence of the Kosi River on the Social History of Purnea District in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. 1982. Masters Hist. 1982 .H54. 81 leaves. http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u644535

 

  1. Singer, Wendy-Faye. The Barahiya Peasant Struggles: A Study in the Local Processes of Mobilization in Gangetic North India. 1984. Masters Hist. 1984 .S5. 119 leaves.  http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u64445

 

  1. Leckey, Thomas Joseph. Debt Structure in Rural Bihar, 1870-1930. 1986. Masters Hist. 1986 .L43. 66 leaves. http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u108322

 

  1. Pinch, William R. The Local Meanings of Commercial Agriculture in India: Poppy Cultivation in Nineteenth Century Bihar. 1986. Masters Hist. 1986 .P56. 58 leaves. http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u700323

 

  1. Barrow, Ian Jeffrey. Contesting the Raj: Zamindars of Muzaffarpur, 1781-1885. 1991. Masters Hist. 1991 .B377. 74 leaves. http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u1997775

 

  1. Toksoz, Meltem Fikret. Gender Processes in Colonial India: Muzaffarpur, 1891-1931. 1991. Masters Hist. 1991 .T64. 79 leaves. http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u1919831

 

  1. Metcalf, Cynthia Gray-Ware. Ideology, Revolution and Peasant Activism in India: The Transformation of the CPI (M-L) and the Naxalite Movement, 1967-1992. 1992. Masters Hist. 1992 .M47. 104 leaves. http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u2014433

 

  1. Grover, Ruhi. Peasants, Planters and Colonial India: Indigo Cultivation in Late Nineteenth-Century Champaran. 1993. Masters Hist. 1993 .G76. 70 leaves. http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u2096084

 

  1. Campion, David Andrew. The Irish Influence in the Development of Indian Nationalism 1870-1947. 1997. Masters Hist. 1997 .C35. 72 leaves. http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u2709913

 

  1. Dhavan, Purnima. On Becoming Mira. 1998. Masters Hist. 1998 .D45. 56 leaves. http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u2852228
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