Overview dissertations 1996 - 2000

Henrik Berglund at Dept of Political Science, Stockholm University, defended his doctoral thesis on ”Hindu Nationalism and Democracy: A Study of the Political Theory and Practice of the Bharatiya Janata Party”, on 12 December, 2000. Abstract of the dissertation.

Julie Wilk, Dept. of Water and Environmental Studies, Linköping University, defended her doctoral dissertation on ”Do forests have an impact on water availability? Assessing the effects of heterogeneous land use on streamflow in two monsoonal river basins”, on 8 December 2000. More information with abstract.

Ingrid Widlund, Dept of Government, Uppsala University, defended her thesis on ”Paths to Power and Patterns of Influence. The Dravidian Parties in South Indian Politics”, on 7 October, 2000. Abstract of the dissertation.

Madelene Ostwald, Dept of Earth Sciences/Physical Geography, Göteborg University, defended her doctoral dissertation on ”Local protection of tropical dry natural forest, Orissa, India”, on 26 May, 2000. Abstract of the dissertation.

Mahfuzar Rahman, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Department of Health and Environment, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, defended his doctoral dissertation on ”Nonmalignant Health Effects of Arsenic Exposure”, on 14 December 1999. Faculty opponent was Dr. Per Gustavsson, Karolinska Institutet Medical University. More information with abstract of dissertation.

Håkan Tropp, Dept. of Water and Environmental Studies, Linköping University, defended his doctoral dissertation on ”Patronage, Politics and Pollution. Precarious NGO-State Relationships: Urban Environmental Issues in South India”, on 15 January 1999. More information with abstract.

Pernille Gooch, Division of Human Ecology, Department of European Ethnology, Lund University defended her doctoral dissertation ”At the Tail of the Buffalo: Van Gujjar Pastoralists between the Forest and World Arena” at the Department of Sociology, Lund University, on 4 November 1998. Faculty opponent was Professor Tim Ingold, Dept. of Social Anthropology, Manchester University, Manchester, England. More information with abstract

Åke Edén , Dept. of Economic History, Göteborg University, defended his doctoral dissertation ”Hävstången. Agrarkooperativa utvecklingsförsök i Östbengalen/Bangladesh 1860-1984”, on 27 February 1998. Four years earlier Dr. Edén published his Licentiate thesis on a similar subject, titled ”East India Company’s Indienpolitik före 1773”.

Sten Widmalm, Dept. of Government, Uppsala University, defended his thesis on ”Democracy and violent separatism in India: Kashmir in a comparative perspective”, on 2 June, 1997. Abstract of the dissertation.

Gunnel Cederlöf, Dept. of History, Uppsala University, defended her doctoral dissertation on ”Bonds lost: Subordination, conflict and mobilisation in rural south India c. 1900-1970”, on 2 May, 1997 Abstract of the dissertation.

Bengt G Karlsson, Dept. of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University, defended his doctoral dissertation on ”Contested Belonging: An Indigenous People's Struggle for Forest and Identity in Sub-Himalayan Bengal” at the Dept. of Social Anthropology, Lund University, in 1997. Read the book.

Aase Mygind Madsen, Associate Professor at the Department of Social Work, VIA University College in Aarhus, Denmark. In 1996, she defended her doctoral dissertation entitled ”Untouchables: Stuck at the Bottom or Moving Upward? A Study of Changing Conditions for the Scheduled Castes in five Villages in Karnataka, South India. Vol. 1 and 2” at the Centre for Development Research in Copenhagen. In 2010, she made a follow-up study of the thesis, as a publication in a working papers series from VIA University College/Dept. of Social Work. Read the paper, entitled ”Dalits in South India – stuck at the bottom or moving upward? Findings from the PhD thesis ‘Untouchables – stuck at the bottom or moving upward’”