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Persian at the Court or in the Village?” addresses central issues of the literary history of Persianate Bengal. The first half of the article revises received knowledge [...]
2019 |
South Asian Languages and Civilizations |
Book Chapter |
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Throughout the centuries, Jaina authors actively engaged in producing their own versions of stories that were told in sources such as the Rāmāyaṇa, Mahābhārata, and [...]
19 September 2024 |
South Asian Languages and Civilizations |
Article |
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“Dādācaritmānas: A Cultural History of the Modern Bengali Youth” ['Dādācaritmānas' literally translated as ‘in the lake of the deeds of the Dādā’] offers [...]
2024-08 |
South Asian Languages and Civilizations |
Dissertation |
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This dissertation investigates a significant but little-studied aspect of one of Hinduism’s best-known texts, the Bhagavad Gītā: its textual and interpretive life in [...]
2024-08 |
South Asian Languages and Civilizations |
Dissertation |
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The Sanskrit word campū is usually understood to refer to a literary composition that combines prose and verse. I argue that this sense of the word was not available bef [...]
19 April 2024 |
South Asian Languages and Civilizations |
Article |
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This paper is about the historical relationship between the grammars of Sanskrit and Tamil and the debates around it. The debates are between the grammarians and commenta [...]
27 March 2024 |
South Asian Languages and Civilizations |
Article |
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The mutual influence of Indic and Iranic languages in the ‘contact zone’ of the upper Indus valley and the adjoining mountain ranges has long been known to scholarshi [...]
24 May 2024 |
South Asian Languages and Civilizations |
Article |
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This paper offers a study of Mullā Farīd and Mullā Ṭayyib, two astronomers active in several North Indian courts in the first half of the seventeenth century. The li [...]
18 October 2023 |
South Asian Languages and Civilizations |
Article |
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The article is concerned primarily with Maulana Azad's early political and theological writings with a view to understanding his positions on Islam and the non-Islamic re [...]
14 September 2023 |
South Asian Languages and Civilizations |
Article |
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My dissertation “Muslim Home-Making: Bengali Muslims’ Belonging in a Transnational Horizon, c.1880-1914” excavates some literary tropes that came to represent Benga [...]
2023-08 |
South Asian Languages and Civilizations |
Dissertation |
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In this project, I ask if avant-garde literary experimentations can enable an alternative imaginary for intimate lives. Through a close reading of experimental Bengali li [...]
2023-08 |
South Asian Languages and Civilizations |
Dissertation |
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Sourced from Pakistan National Bibliography 1947-1961, this dataset collects the metadata for over 1870 major literary works published in West Pakistan from 1947 to 1961. [...]
2023 |
South Asian Languages and Civilizations |
Dataset |
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Asrar Ahmad, widely known as Ibn-e-Safi, is one of the most popular detective novelists in South Asia. He was born on July 26, 1928, in Nara of Allahabad District, Uttar [...]
2022-06 |
South Asian Languages and Civilizations |
Thesis |
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The Sanskrit epic Mahābhārata (300 BCE–300 CE) paints an irresistibly complex, dark narrative landscape. Its central story of fratricidal war and pyrrhic victory exer [...]
2022-12 |
South Asian Languages and Civilizations |
Dissertation |
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This dissertation is a literary study of the voices of some of the better known, yet leaststudied, Sanskrit poets of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Tamil [...]
2022-12 |
South Asian Languages and Civilizations |
Dissertation |
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No abstract.
18 October 2022 |
History; South Asian Languages and Civilizations; Social Sciences; Humanities |
Article |
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No abstract
02 November 2022 |
History; Humanities; Social Sciences; South Asian Languages and Civilizations |
Article |
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18 October 2022 |
South Asian Languages and Civilizations |
Article |
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My dissertation investigates how a prescriptive discourse on norms lost currency in the early nineteenth century colonial Kolkata, and how a new generation of Bengali int [...]
2022-08 |
South Asian Languages and Civilizations; History |
Dissertation |
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This dissertation investigates the formation of the idea of the Middle Ages in Bengal during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It explores the processes and intell [...]
2022-08 |
South Asian Languages and Civilizations |
Dissertation |
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In this dissertation, I examine the socio-cultural history of the provincial city of Allahabad from 1885 until 1939. Place, identities, and most importantly, texts, are t [...]
2022-08 |
South Asian Languages and Civilizations |
Dissertation |
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In the first half of the eleventh century, a close-knit group of scholars in southwest India did something new. They began composing texts about practical topics in a reg [...]
2022-08 |
South Asian Languages and Civilizations; Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science |
Dissertation |
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“Performances of Posterity: Theatre, Archives and Cultural Regulation in Modern India,” excavates processes of cultural preservation and appropriation in the context [...]
2021-08 |
South Asian Languages and Civilizations; Theater and Performance Studies |
Dissertation |
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This dissertation centers on the Sufi devotional tradition of Sidis, Indians of East African ancestry, in western India. It is the product of ethnographic field research [...]
2021-06 |
South Asian Languages and Civilizations |
Dissertation |
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This dissertation foregrounds the environment as a key concern for the study of modern and contemporary Hindi literature. It takes the “environment” to be a polyvalen [...]
2020-08 |
South Asian Languages and Civilizations |
Dissertation |
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