Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations

[...]I take up the issue of agency and explore how God’s enslaved are treated as God’s instrumental agents in the Shepherd. [...]I revisit scholarly conversations on Madhusudan’s Meghnādbadh Kabya in light of his essays and satires to demonstrate the relevance of reflection on religion to his magnum opus and his literary legacy. [...]what do his writings, read in light of his biography, indicate about Madhusudan’s personal relationship with religion, especially after his conversion to Christianity in 1843? Significant strands of Islam and Christianity suggest that the agency that these two trees display is not only miraculous.