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The Shah Bano Case: An English-Language Democratic Practice in Post-Colonial India

Date: 2023-01-01

Creator: Hafsa Hossain

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In 1985, Mohd. Ahmad Khan v. Shah Bano Begum, known commonly as the Shah Bano Case, became a flashpoint for Indian democracy. The Shah Bano case revolved around the maintenance of a divorced woman, not the first of its kind by any means. A case that sparked major social and political upheaval during a broader period of political turmoil, the Shah Bano case has long been interpreted as an expression of the crisis and contradictions between the democratic rights of women as citizens and the democratic rights of Muslims as a religious minority in the Indian nation-state. In the immediate aftermath of the case, critical feminist and post-colonial scholarship grappled with the dilemmas it involved, but to some extent remained caught up in those dilemmas. This thesis builds upon the important work of these and later scholars, but it also draws new attention to the specific role of the English-language public sphere in shaping the terms of debate that surrounded the case in the 1980s. This paper argues against the binary understanding of the landmark Shah Bano Case as either a failure or success of Indian secularism. I argue that the case and its aftermath demonstrate the continual nature of Indian secularism and democratic practice, especially laden in the post-Emergency era.


Miniature of Hemocyte-derived proteins from the lobster, <i>Homarus americanus</i>: Changes in response to an LPS immune system challenge
Hemocyte-derived proteins from the lobster, Homarus americanus: Changes in response to an LPS immune system challenge
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    Date: 2024-01-01

    Creator: Olivia Sewon Choi

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      Racial Bias within Capital Punishment: Instructional Comprehension

      Date: 2024-01-01

      Creator: Marcus Gadsden

      Access: Open access

      This dissertation examines the existence of racial bias within capital punishment. Since colonial times discriminatory death sentencing has impacted racial minorities, and despite living in a post-colonial epoch, the United States Justice system continues to produce alarming racial disparities. Consequently, both law reviews and social science journals indicate that race remains a significant factor in criminal trials. So, to what extent does racial bias influence capital punishment trials? Given that it does exist, how can it be alleviated? Through a statistical/qualitative analysis of psychological studies, Supreme Court cases, and jury instructions, this dissertation suggests that implicit cognitive bias continues to produce daunting realities in contemporary criminal punishment processes. Notably among juries, traditional judicial procedures have ostensibly triggered implicit bias and psychological intimidation, i.e. jury instructions. Moreover, do long and complicated jury instructions heighten instances of partial judgment? In Racial Bias within Capital Punishment: Instructional Comprehension, I argue that inaccessible jury instructions provide a space where jurors adhere to subtle racial preferences. Consequently, the swaying capacity of juries in capital punishment trials proceeds to arbitrarily produce discrepancies in sentencing rates.


      Miniature of Characterization of Retinoic Acid Signaling  During Tooth Morphogenesis and Evolution in <i>Danio rerio</i>
      Characterization of Retinoic Acid Signaling During Tooth Morphogenesis and Evolution in Danio rerio
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        Date: 2023-01-01

        Creator: Lyn Stephanie Miranda Portillo

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          Miniature of Thioglycosides modulate bacterial glycosylation
          Thioglycosides modulate bacterial glycosylation
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              Date: 2023-01-01

              Creator: Isabella de la Luz Quintana

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                Miniature of "What's Outside the Window?": Evil, Literature, and Detection in Roberto Bolaño's Fiction
                "What's Outside the Window?": Evil, Literature, and Detection in Roberto Bolaño's Fiction
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                  Date: 2023-01-01

                  Creator: Andrew YH Chang

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                    Miniature of “There’s Nothing More to Get From It”: Subverting Representation in Olivia Wenzel’s <i>1000 Serpentinen Angst</i> and Sharon Dodua Otoo’s <i>Adas Raum</i>
                    “There’s Nothing More to Get From It”: Subverting Representation in Olivia Wenzel’s 1000 Serpentinen Angst and Sharon Dodua Otoo’s Adas Raum
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                      Date: 2023-01-01

                      Creator: Annika Moore

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                        On L-functions and the 1-Level Density

                        Date: 2023-01-01

                        Creator: Arav Agarwal

                        Access: Open access

                        We begin with the classical study of the Riemann zeta function and Dirichlet L-functions. This includes a full exposition on one of the most useful ways of exploiting their connection with primes, namely, explicit formulae. We then proceed to introduce statistics of low-lying zeros of Dirichlet L-functions, discussing prior results of Fiorilli and Miller (2015) on the 1-level density of Dirichlet L-functions and their achievement in surpassing the prediction of the powerful Ratios Conjecture. Finally, we present our original work partially generalizing these results to the case of Hecke L-functions over imaginary quadratic fields.


                        White Southerners Respond to Brown v. Board of Education: Why Crisis Erupted When Little Rock, Arkansas, Desegregated Central High School

                        Date: 2017-05-01

                        Creator: Abby Elizabeth Motycka

                        Access: Open access

                        What was the impact of Brown v. Board of Education on the United States and how did pro-segregationists in the South respond? In order to answer this question, I argue three key arguments over the course of three chronological chapters. In chapter one, I argue that segregationists from southern states responded to Brown by fighting to preserve segregation in order to protect a racial hierarchy they believed was essential. This racial hierarchy is magnified in the southern capital of Little Rock, Arkansas, which I argue in chapter two exposed segregationists’ political defiance and poor organization around racial integration of public schools. After a year of integration, analyzed in chapter three, I conclude my chapters by arguing the first year slowed down the segregationist organizations, but did not persuade them that racial integration would improve the “southern way of life.”


                        This is What You Want: Stories

                        Date: 2017-05-01

                        Creator: Savannah Blake Horton

                        Access: Open access

                        This is What You Want: Stories is a collection of nine stories exploring the role of humor in dark situations. It is a work of fiction.