Frank Joseph Shulman - Doctoral Dissertations on South Asia 1966-1970: An Annotated Bibliography Covering North America, Europe, and Australia

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN CENTER FOR SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES

MICHIGAN PAPERS ON SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA

Editorial Board
Alton L. Becker
John K.Musgrave
Thomas R. Trautmann, chm.

DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS ON SOUTH ASIA 1966-1970

AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY COVERING NORTH AMERICA, EUROPE, AND AUSTRALIA

Compiled and edited by

Frank J. Shulman

Ann Arbor

Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies

The University of Michigan

1971

Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia, 4

Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 78-186256

ISBN 0-89148-004-8

Copyright 1971

by

Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies

The University of Michigan

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ISBN 978-0-472-12832-7 (ebook)
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To those among my American and South Asian friends who have awakened my interest in the civilizations and contemporary affairs of the subcontinent

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This volume gathers the harvest of recent doctoral dissertations on South Asia, principally from North America and Western Europe, but exclusive of theses from universities in South Asia itself. The yield1305 dissertations based on research carried out during the early and middle nineteen-sixties and brought to completion between 1966 and 1970is even greater than one would have guessed, eloquent testimony to the expansion of South Asian studies in the West over the last decade. It will not be claimed, of course, that the results of all this fervid scholarly industry are of uniformly high standard. In fact, Treasures and Trivia might aptly characterize the range of quality to be found in these 1305 entries, had not that title been pre-empted by Paul W. van der Veur and Lian The as a rubric for American dissertation research on the neighboring region of Southeast Asia. What is claimed is that the magnitude of the research effort here surveyed demands, if we are to go on to improve the quality and depth of dissertation scholarship on South Asia, just the sort of bibliographical controls which Mr. Frank Shulman provides in this volume.

Mr. Shulmans bibliographical services to Asian studies in general are well know to readers of the Newsletter of the Association for Asian Studies (now Asian Studies Professional Review ), to which he contributes a section on current dissertation research over the entire area of South, Southeast and East Asia. South Asian specialists may not know that the present volume was preceded by his Japan and Korea: An Annotated Bibliography of Doctoral Dissertations in Western Languages, 1877-1969 (Chicago: American Library Association, 1970) and, with Leonard H. D. Gordon, Doctoral Dissertations on China: A Bibliog raphy of Studies in Western Languages, 1945-1970 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1972).

No one is exactly sure where his bibliographical daimon will lead him next, but CSSEAS Publications are pleased that Mr. Shulman has spent some considerable time and labor with us in South Asia, and proud to make his work available to scholars as a part of Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia .

Thomas R. Trautmann
Editor, CSSEAS Publications

The present bibliography was designed initially as a limited listing of current American research that would help keep South Asian scholars informed of work being done on their respective countries. It has since developed into an annotated and classified compilation of 1305 dissertations submitted to educational institutions throughout the West since 1966. As such Doctoral Dissertations on South Asia seeks to be a comprehensive compilationof recently completed theses dealing in whole or in part with the former civilizations and the contemporary affairs of Ceylon, India, Nepal and Pakistan. At the same time, this work provides striking testimony of the dynamic growth of Asian Studies outside of the subcontinent and particularly in the United States, Great Britain, Germany and France, where most of the major centers of scholarship on South Asia are presently found. The bibliography, however, should not be viewed only as a means of publicizing the existence of a significant number of largely unpublished dissertations. The reader should also find it to be a convenient guide for securing copies of materials that embody some of the latest and most advanced work within the field.

Doctoral Dissertations on South Asia is an interdisciplinary work covering the natural sciences as well as the humanities and social sciences. In the process of compiling it, we have not made any attempt to select or discard titles on the basis of their relative value or intrinsic merit, for we assume that doctoral candidates will want to know at the very least what topics already have been chosen by their immediate predecessors. It should be noted, however, that bibliographic coverage is noticeably greater for dissertations completed within the English-speaking world than it is for those done elsewhere because of the unavailability of the latest data for several European countries. The compilation is essentially complete for the United States and Canada through 1970 and for Great Britain through 1969, but it lists only a portion of the relevant theses believed to have been submitted since the mid-1960Ts to institutions elsewhere in Europe and it is limited in the case of Australia to work done at the Australian Na tional University. Doctoral research undertaken in the Soviet Union has been omitted entirely.

As may be seen from the table of contents, we have classified all dissertations on the basis of the country with which they deal and the specific subject or time period with which they are concerned. The academic departments to which the dissertations have been submitted often did not serve as a criterion for their final classification. Within individual entries we provide the authors full name, the complete title and subtitle of his thesis (with an English translation, where necessary, that we have prepared), the name of the university in abbreviated form, and the calendar year in which the dissertation was completed or formally approved. In the case of works abstracted in Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI), we give the DAI reference volume and page numbers along with the University Microfilms (UM) order number. Where known, the number of pages in the dissertation is also included either in the form of the pagination for the microfilm copy (where the thesis is available from University Microfilms, Inc.) or as the number of pages in the actual typescript. Where logical categories of classification are mixed, we have been generous in supplying cross references, and these in turn are supplemented by a subject index (pages 221-28) designed to assist the reader in readily locating theses dealing with specific geographical entities, individuals, or literary and religious works. In addition, keys to all abbreviations used in the various entries are provided on page xvii; a listing of universities with their complete names is available in the Institutional Index (pages 209-20); and the numerical distribution of dissertations according to the years in which they were completed and the countries with which they deal may be found in Appendices A and B (pages 18485). Finally, an appendix entitled Availability of Dissertations (pages 186-89) is included to guide the reader who is seeking to obtain copies of actual dissertation typescripts. He will do well to keep in mind the fact, though, that certain of these dissertations have already been published in book or article form or will be appearing in print before long.