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South Asia NewsletterCentre of South Asian Studies, SOAS

http:www.soas.ac.uk/csas

No 56 January 2004

FROM THE CHAIR

Happy New Year!

Last term we had some special events in the Centre which proved popular with our members andothers. These included the Annual Lecture by Professor Ronald Inden on the theme of paradise,which was followed by a very stimulating one-day workshop on the topic. Daud Ali and I arediscussing the possibilities of a publication of these and other papers and have already hadinterest expressed by publishers.

Professor Sheldon Pollock's lecture on literary newness, co-hosted by the SOAS AHRB Centreon African and Asian Literature, was a well-attended and much discussed event.

Lalita du Perron organised a one-day workshop 'Food and emotion in South Asian literature' forthe CSAS series, 'The cultural meaning of food in South Asia'. This workshop provided someexcellent papers and lively discussion (see report below) and a publication is planned. We areanticipating holding two more workshops in the next session, 2004-5. Last year's annual lecture,by Professor Ashis Nandy, 'The changing popular culture of Indian food: preliminary notes',which inaugurated the series, will appear shortly in a special issue of South Asia Research, 24.1[May 2004]. This volume also contains papers by Virinder Kalra ('The political economy of thesamosa'), Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay ('Between elite hysteria and subaltern carnivalesque: thepolitics of street-food in Calcutta'), and Barbara Harriss-White ('Nutrition and its politics inTamil Nadu') and an editorial by Rachel Dwyer.

Our series of occasional seminars, 'Keywords in South Asian Studies', continued last term withSudipta Sen on 'Bazaar', Boria Mujumdar on 'Khel', Werner Menski on 'Dowry', and AlessandraLopez y Royo on 'Bharat natyam'. This term's programme is outlined below and will includeStephanie Jones on 'Diaspora', Richard Widdess on 'Raga', Francis Robinson on 'Khilafat' andSamira Sheikh on 'Medieval'. Submissions for publication are due in July 2004 and details ofpublication will follow.

This year's event organised in conjunction with the British Asian Women's Film Festival,Tongues on Fire will be held March 17. The event will include a book launch of Lord Desai'sbook on Dilip Kumar, 'Nehru's hero'. More details to follow.

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Samira Sheikh and I are planning a meeting in the summer term of all those interested in GujaratStudies. We would be delighted to hear of any proposals for discussion and will be postingdetails in the next newsletter.

This term we shall be welcoming two new fellows funded by the Charles Wallace Trust. DrVijayabaskar, of the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, will be giving a seminarin the Development Studies Department. Mr Farooq Dar of of Quaid-i-Azam University,Islamabad, will give a seminar in the History Department on ‘Pakistan’s foreign policy underQuaid-i-Azam Jinnah’. Dr Vijayabaskar and Mr Dar are sharing an office (Room 404), telephone020 7898 4244. Mr Dar’s email is fd7@soas.ac.uk

We are delighted to have arranged to cooperate with the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.Details to follow in next newsletter.

I should like to thank members of the management committee (Daud Ali, Werner Menski andRupert Snell); Jens Lerche for his help with the Charles Wallace applications; and Barbara Lazoifor her ongoing assistance.

Rachel DwyerJanuary 2004

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‘FOOD AND EMOTION IN SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE’Report on one-day conference held at SOAS on 27 October 2003

The remit for this workshop had been wide, and led to a variety of papers which neverthelessworked together well in their shared meeting-points. It was noted with interest that although thebrief of the workshop was “food”, many papers in fact discussed the issue of hunger. RukminiBhaya Nair (Professor of English, IIT, New Delhi) started the day with a thought-provokingpaper linking philosophy of food with religious and societal injunctions and taboos. Drawing onLevi-Strauss, she included a discussion of modern interpretations of the Sudama story fromKrishnaite mythology. Parama Roy (Professor of Postcolonial Literature, University ofCalifornia at Riverside) raised in her paper many serious issues regarding official food andfamine policy, reading two of Mahasweta Devi’s stories through a political lens. After a teabreak Geetanjali Shree (Delhi) spoke of her own experiences of writing about food, including anappraisal of the way that the consumption of alcohol by middle-class women is increasingly seenas a means to attaining equality. She started her talk by asking “Are some societies more intofood than others?” It was suggested - though not agreed by all - that the ritualisation of food maybe connected to fear of hunger and famine.

After lunch the workshop focused on writing about food in English, Hindi and Tamil. AnjanaSharma (Head of English, Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi) explored the link between foodand sexuality in four contemporary novels written by Indian women in English. This talk wasfollowed by a discussion on the use of cliché in sexual and food metaphors, for instance themanner in which a lack of a healthy appetite in women is considered equivalent to being asexualand therefore socially acceptable. Thomas de Bruijn (University of Leiden, The Netherlands)discussed “the uneasy triangle of food, fasting and hunger” on the basis of an issue of the LittleMagazine dedicated to images of hunger. His primary focus was the semi-absurd play “Hunger isFire” in which the author Krishna Baldev Vaid uses the middle-class confrontation with hungerand poverty to make the characters experience their own identity. The workshop was concludedby Lakshmi Holmström (Writer and translator, Norwich) who talked about food symbolism inAmbai’s writing, particularly within the context of food, community and self.

A strong theme to emerge from this diverse array of papers was how relationships with andperspectives on food tend to be gendered, not just because of well-worn portrayals of women asnurturers but also because women are more likely to locate their sense of identity somewhere inthe realm of food. As pointed out earlier, the topos of hunger looms large in this realm, where formen as well as women deprivation (be it through fasting or famine) becomes an essential part ofthe “food-experience”.

OUP Delhi have expressed an interest in publishing an anthology on the topic of “Food”, and soit is hoped that the excellent papers presented at this one-day conference will be published in duecourse.

Lalita du PerronSOAS

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KEYWORDS IN SOUTH ASIAN STUDIESWednesdays, 1-3pm, Room B111, Brunei Gallery, SOAS

21 January Dr Rupert Snell, SOAS‘Hindi’ THIS SEMINAR IS POSTPONED

4 February Dr Stephanie Jones, Open University'Diaspora'

18 February Dr Richard Widdess, SOAS‘Raga’

3 March Dr Francis Robinson, Royal Holloway'Khilafat'

17 March Dr Samira Sheikh, Wolfson College, Oxford'Medieval'

‘JAINA DOCTRINES AND DIALOGUES’ (6th JAINA STUDIES WORKSHOP AT SOAS)

The 4th Annual Lecture On Jainism6 - 7pm, Tuesday 16 March 2004, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS

Nalini Balbir (Paris)‘Thoughts on the Meaning and the Role of the Svetambara Canon

in the History of Jainism’

Wednesday 17 March 2004, Room 116, SOAS9.45 - 10.00 Tea and coffee

10.00 - 10.45 Frank Van Den Bossche (Gent)On the Jambudvipasamgrahani of Haribhadra

10.45 - 11.30 Julia Hegewald (Oxford)Meru, Samavasarana and Simhasana: The Recurrence of Three-TieredStructures in Jaina Cosmology, Mythology and Ritual

12.15 - 13.00 Hawon Ku Kim (University of Minnesota)Formation of Identity: The Nineteenth-Century Jain Pilgrimage Site ofSatrunjaya, Gujarat

13.00 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 14.45 Peter Flugel (SOAS)The Lonkagaccha Re-Revisited

14.45 - 15.30 Eva DeClerq (Gent)Doctrinal Elements in Svayambhudeva's Paumacariu, With Reference toHis Own Sect

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15.30 - 16.15 Sin Fujinaga (Miyakonojo Miyazaki, Japan)On Samudghata

16.15 - 16.30 Tea and coffee

16.30 - 17.15 Christopher Chapple (Los Angeles)Classical Yoga and Jainism: A Comparison of Patanjali and Haribhadra

17.15 - 18.00 Devendra Kumar Jain (Mumbai)The Date of Kundakunda

18.00 - 18.45 Shalini Sinha (SOAS)The Philosophy of the Self in Kundakunda

ALL WELCOME

Contact: Department for the Study of Religions, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, SOAS,Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H OXG.Telephone: 020 7898 4028, email: rw35@soas.ac.uk

TWO-DAY CONFERENCE‘NARRATIVES OF “HOME” IN SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE’24-25 June 2004, Room VG01, Vernon Square Campus, SOAS

The notion of 'home' has been central to mankind throughout history. Modernity problematisedthis notion, gave the search for ‘home’ new poignancy. The modern individual, living in auniverse where 'all that is solid melts into air' has had to redefine the concept of home in relationto the changing roles of man and woman, to renegotiate his/her identity within his/her specifichistories and locations. The widespread experience of migration has required a re-mapping ofconnections between the self, home and the community. 'Home' has acquired a new importancein today's ‘global village’ of transnational corporations where large categories like ‘nation’,‘first/third world’, etc. have been dramatically destabilised. Moreover, quests for the culturallyperfectly located ‘homes’, exemplified by religious fundamentalism, neo-Nazism, etc., point tothe urgent need to address the politics of home today.

The search for the location in which the self is 'at home' has been one of the primary projects ofmodern literature all over the world. This workshop's objective is to map the narratives of 'home'in South Asian literature from the advance of modernity on the subcontinent till the present day.It aims to read more than the domestic into representations of the home, to explore not only thegeographical, but also the psychological and material connotations of 'home'. Its goal is todisassemble the concept of 'home' in all its incarnations - as confinement, as stability, as security,as myth and as desire.

Our objective is to problematise ‘home’ and its experience in different contexts and in differentways. Martin and Mohanty, for instance, engage with the notion of 'being home' ('the placewhere one lives within familiar, safe, protected boundaries') and of 'not being home' ('therealization that home is an illusion of coherence and safety based on exclusion of specifichistories of oppression and resistance, the repression of differences even within oneself'). We

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aim to investigate if and how home changes its significations when articulated from differentlocations, in different languages and by different subjects, paying particular attention toideological determinants like gender and class. The parameters of ‘home’ in Diaspora writingand media, particularly film, will also be explored.

The deadline for submission of paper proposals is 1 March 2004.Abstracts and the conference programme will be publicised on the CSAS website in due course.

For further information, please go to www.soas.ac.uk/csas or contact Lucy Rosenstein(lr1@soas.ac.uk).

SOUTH ASIA HISTORY SEMINARSpring Term 2004 Tuesdays 5.00pm Room G59, SOAS

13 January Student Discussion of selected Readings

20 January John Game, SOASThe Scandal of Parochialism: Cosmopolitan in a Colonial Context

27 January Manu Goswami, NYUTerritorial Nativism: Swadeshi and Swaraj

3 February Farooq Dar, Charles Wallace Fellow, PakistanPakistan’s Foreign Policy Under Quaid-i-Azam Jinnah

10 February Reading Week

17 February Francesca Orsini, CambridgeCultural and Social Mediations in Pandit Ratannat Sarshar’s Fasana-e Azad (1878-1885)

24 February Akira Shimada, SOASCity and Stupa: the Social Roles of Buddhist Monasteries in AncientIndian Cities

2 March Lisa Trivedi, Hamilton CollegeKhadi Flags and Nationalist Occasions: Performing Time inColonial India

9 March Jayeeta Sharma, Carnegie Mellon University'The Laziest People Under the Sun'? Commodity, Language andLabour in the Quest for Asomiya

16 March Bhavana Krishnamoorti, SOASCertifying the ‘Uncanny’ Physician: The Siddhar Tradition in theMadras Presidency, 1780-1820

Convenor: Dr Daud Ali (da7@soas.ac.uk)

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SOUTH ASIA RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIESSpring Term 2004, Wednesdays at the NEW time of 1.00-3.00pm

Arts C 162, School of Humanities, University of Sussex

The theme of the Seminar series this year is Globalisation, Ethnicity and Culture.

14 January Dr Rachel Dwyer, SOASFilming The Gods: Religion and Indian Cinema

21 January Dr Sudipta Bhattacharyya, BathClass, Politics and Participatory Rural Development in West Bengal

4 February Dr Lyla Mehta, SussexGendered Spaces Within Struggles: Displacement and Resistance inthe Narmada Valley

11 February Dr Francesca Orsini, CambridgeTBA

18 February Professor Jan Brouwer, Northeastern Hill University, IndiaCultural Interaction, Christianity and Conversion - AnAnthropological Perspective

3 March Ms Gurminder Bhambra, SussexPostcolonial Theory: Refiguring Modernity

10 March Dr Julia Shaw, OxfordBuddhist Monasteries in the Archaeological Landscape: Approachesto Social and Cultural Change in Early India

ALL WELCOME

Convenor: Dr Daniel J Rycroft, Arts B 341, School of Humanities, University of Sussex.(D.J.Rycroft@sussex.ac.uk)

Asian Studies Centre, St Antony’s College, University of OxfordSOUTH ASIAN HISTORY SEMINAR

Tuesdays, 2.00pm, The Deakin Room, Founder’s Building, St Antony's College (exceptwhere otherwise stated)

Friday 30 January5.00 pm

Her Excellency Dr Maleeha Lodhi, Pakistan High CommissionerPakistan's Vision of the FuturePlease note that this seminar will be held in the Dahrendorf Room and tea will be served inthe Buttery from 4.30pm

3 February Professor Francis Robinson, Royal Holloway, University of LondonOther-worldly and This-worldly Islam and the Islamic Revival

10 February Satoshi Mizutani, St Antony'sThe ‘Europeans’ in India and the Education of their ‘Domiciled’ Brethren:Race, Mixed-Race and Class in the Colonising Context, 1858- 1920s

17 February Dr Mark Harrison, Wellcome Unit for the History of MedicineNetworks of Knowledge: Medicine and Natural History in Late-Eighteenthand Early Nineteenth-Century India

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24 February5.00pm.(tea at 4.30pm)

Sunita Puri, St Antony'sPhotographing Plague: Visual Narratives of the Indian Body, ColonialPower and Infectious Disease in Bombay, 1896-1897

2 March PRS presentations

9 March PRS presentations

ALL WELCOME

Convenor: Dr D.A. WashbrookEnquiries: e-mail: asian@sant.ox.ac.uk telephone 01865 274559

Asian Studies Centre, St Antony’s College, University of OxfordCONTEMPORARY SOUTH ASIA SEMINAR

Mondays, 4.00 - 5.45pm, Garden Room, Queen Elizabeth House, 21 St. Giles, Oxford

19th January Naata (The Bond) documentary screening(2003, 45mins, dir: Anjali Monteiro and K P Jayashankar), with anintroduction by Rowena Robinson.

26 January Alan Bullion, Open UniversityThe Peace Process in Sri Lanka

2nd February Matthew McCartney, SOASNeo-Liberal Economic Reforms in South Asia: The Case of aShrinking Discourse

9 February Sharad Chari, LSE & University KwaZulu NatalFraternal Capital: Gender and Accumulation in Provincial India

16 February Subir Sinha, SOASConfiguring Rural India: Development Regimes, National andInternational

23 February Lyla Mehta, IDSThe Dynamics of Water Scarcity in Kutch/Gujarat

1 March Rowena Robinson, IIT Bombay & OCISEveryday Violence, Extraordinary Violence: Talking to Muslim RiotSurvivors.

8 March Giridhar Pillarisetti, Public Interest Litigator, ChennaiSecularism, Human Rights and Security Legislation in India

ALL WELCOME

Please check: http://www2.qeh.ox.ac.uk/teaching/diary.html for updates/changes.

Convenors: Judith Heyer and Rajesh Venugopal

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Centre for South Asian Studies Scotland, University of Edinburgh.ANNUAL SINGHVI / MUNRO PUBLIC LECTURE

Professor Veena Das, John Hopkins University'The Eventedness of the Everyday: Illness, Despair, and Hope'

Thursday 22 January, 5.15pm, Lecture Theatre, Hugh Robson Building, George Square.

ALL WELCOME

For further details of the Centre for South Asian Studies 2003-2004 programme and relatedseminars of interest please see: http://www.sociology.ed.ac.uk/sas/seminars.htmor contact the convenor Dr Crispin Bates at Crispin.Bates@ed.ac.uk.

Institute of Commonwealth StudiesSOUTH ASIA SEMINAR

Mondays, 5.00-6:30, Menzies Room, Institute of Commonwealth Studies,28 Russell Square, London

9 February Sumantra Bose, London School of EconomicsBook Discussion: Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths of Peace

8 March Shaheen Ali, University of WarwickLaw Reform and its Implications for Human Rights in Pakistan

12 April Yasmin Khan, St. Antony’s College, OxfordCreating the Secular: Reaction to Partition Refugees in India

10 May Mark Thompson, University of ErlangenMartyrs’ Wives and Dynasties’ Daughters: Women Leaders inSouth Asia

For further details, please contact the convenor: Dr Lawrence Saez (L.saez@lse.ac.uk).

MA DISSERTATIONS AT SOASThe following dissertations were submitted by students as part of the MA South Asian Studiesprogramme 2002-03.

Awasthi AnkitaGender, Tradition, and Modernity in India: Inheritance and Succession.

Simon FourmyChallenging the Modernist State: Legal Pluralism and South Asians in Britain.

Larry HartsellThree Possible Sub-Genres of Nepali Travel Literature.

Gopika JadejaA Story I Have Heard: Girish Karnad and Modern Drama in India.

Insa KlasingDoes Group Lending to Self-Help Groups in India Improve Credit Access for the RuralPoor and Reduce Poverty?

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Oliver LamersThe Commentary Tradition of Samkhya: The Quest For the Self.

Hilary MacraeThe Vyaghrijataka. An Examination of a Buddhist Narrative.

John MankelowThe Implementation of the Watershed Development Programme in Zangskar, Ladakh:Irrigation Development, Politics and Society.

Vinita RamaniTowards a Reconsideration of Self, Community and Justice.

Justin RoseThe Unresolved Dowry Problem in India: Greed, Fear and the Need for LegalRethinking.

Rima TreonBal-Caritra: A Comparison of Childhood in Medieval Poetic Narratives Featuring Ramand Krsna

William SmithAspects of Rana Architecture: The Arrival of Classical Architecture in Nepal.

NEWS FROM CAROLINE OSELLA

Caroline is now half way through her ESRC funded fieldwork on consumption among KeralaMuslims. Among other things, she is collecting data on Muslim food cultures, and will beproposing a workshop around this theme in the autumn of 2004. Anyone interested pleasecontact her, co6@soas.ac.uk. Sub-topics will include: links between Unnanni medicine and food;the veg : non-veg divide; Muslim commensality; transregional influences on Muslim foodcultures.

Caroline Osella and Filippo Osella, 'Migration and the Commoditisation of Ritual: Sacrifice,Spectacle and Contestation', in (eds.) Contributions to Indian Sociology Special Issue onSouth Asian Migration, Vol 37, 1&2.

(eds) Radhika Chopra, Caroline Osella, Filippo Osella. South Asian Masculinities: Sites ofContinuity, Contexts of Change. Kali for Women. 2003.

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SOUTH ASIA RESEARCHSouth Asia Research is a bi-annual interdisciplinary area journal for the South Asia region, now publishedby Sage Publications in London and edited by Werner Menski. From Vol. 25 (2005) onwards, it willappear thrice a year. The topics covered include modern and pre-modern history, politics, economics,anthropology, literary and visual culture, language and literature. Its primary aim is to give rapid access tocurrent research work and to provide opportunities for publication to research students as well as toestablished scholars. In addition to reports of research in progress and book reviews, review articles arewelcome. South Asia Research also publishes ‘thought pieces’ and interpretive essays that address issuesand problems arising from new research.

Vol. 24, No 1, May 2004

RACHEL DWYEREditorial: The Cultural Meaning of Food in South Asia

ASHIS NANDYThe Changing Popular Culture of Indian Food: Preliminary Notes

VIRINDER S. KALRAThe Political Economy of the Samosa

BHASKAR MUKHOPADHYAYBetween Elite Hysteria and Subaltern Carnivalesque: The Politics of Street-food in the City of Calcutta

BARBARA HARRISS-WHITENutrition and its Politics in Tamil Nadu

Vol. 23. No. 2, Autumn 2003

LIVIA SORENTINO HOLDENCustom and Law Practices in Central India: Some Case Studies

SHIRIN ZUBAIRLiteracies across Generations: Women’s Religious and Secular Identities inSiraiki Villages

ALESSANDRA LOPEZ Y ROYOClassicism, Post-classicism and Ranjabati Sircar’s Work: Redefining the Terms of IndianContemporary Dance Discourses

SHANTHA HARIHARANTown Revenues and Taxes in Eighteenth Century Gujarat: An English East IndiCompany Document

VINEETA PALKARFailing Gender Justice in Anti-dowry Law

South Asia Research (ISSN 0262-7080) is published twice a year in May and November by SAGEPublications (London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi). Details are available from SAGEPublications, (new UK address from December 2003): Oliver’s Yard, 55 City Road, London EC1Y 1SP,UK; Sage Publications Inc, 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320, USA or Sage PublicationsIndia Pvt. Ltd., Post Box 4215, New Delhi 110048, India.(e-mail: subscription@sagepub.co.uk; website: http://www.sagepub.co.uk/home.aspx

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Indian ReligionsA Historical Reader ofSpiritual Expressionand ExperiencePETER HEEHS (ED.)

Indian Religions is an anthologyof the key written and oral texts

by thespiritualteachers ofSouth Asia,covering3,500 yearsfrom the RigVeda to thepresent. Allthe majortraditions —Buddhism,

Jainism, Hinduism, Islam,Sikhism and ‘new’ Indian reli-gions — are represented, in-cluding less-known traditionsand individuals, among themwomen (often overlooked) andmystics from the lower castes. No single book can present anadequate selection of texts rep-resenting all aspects of Indianreligion (ritual, institutions, eth-ics, myth, philosophy, experi-ence), but this volume focuses onindividual religious experience.Most Indian traditions preservetexts featuring experiential reli-gion, and this selection covers allthe key traditions and providesan unusually comprehensive in-troduction to the history ofreligions of South Asia. Indian Religions will appealwidely to those interested inIndia and Eastern religions, andundergraduate students of reli-gion and of South Asian culture.

x, 600pp. 2003Pbk: £16.50 1-85065-496-4

A History of IndianLiterature in EnglishARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA (ED.)

‘Mehrotra’s volume brings together some of the best writers and thinkers on Indian litera-ture in English. [...] I can think of few titles that rival it for sheer range, freshness of

insight, or scholarly depth.’ (Professor Harish Trivedi)

For anyone interested in the story of English inIndia, or in the finest English storytellers of India,this book is the essential companion. It discussesthe canonical poets, novelists, and dramatists whohave made major contributions to the evolution ofIndian literature in English. AAAAARVINDRVINDRVINDRVINDRVIND K K K K KRISHNARISHNARISHNARISHNARISHNA M M M M MEHROTRAEHROTRAEHROTRAEHROTRAEHROTRA is a poet, critic andtranslator who teaches English at the University ofAllahabad. He is the editor of the Oxford Anthologyof Modern Indian Poets.x, 450pp. 2003 Pbk: £16.50 1-85065-681-9

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Gandhi in hisTime and OursThe Global Legacyof his IdeasDAVID HARDIMAN

‘Hardiman’s book is empathetic but by nomeans uncritical. It draws on thirty years ofthinking and reflecting upon Gandhi. It iswidely researched, and extremely well written.It is wise, insightful, and, above all, histori-cally subtle.[...] As a long-time student of thesubject, let me say that this book goes on myvery short list of indispensable books aboutGandhi. Indeed, I would go as far as to saythat Hardiman's work is one of the five bestbooks ever written about the Mahatma.’(Ramachandra Guha)

DDDDDAVIDAVIDAVIDAVIDAVID H H H H HARDIMANARDIMANARDIMANARDIMANARDIMAN, who lived formany years in Gandhi's homeregion of Gujarat, is based at theUniversity of Warwick. He is afounder member of the SubalternStudies group. His books includePeasant Nationalists of Gujarat 1917-1934; The Coming of the Devi: AdivasiAssertion in Western India; andFeeding the Baniya: Peasants and Usu-rers in Western India.

xii, 338pp. Feb. 2004Pbk: £15.95 1-85065-711-4

UnsettlingMemoriesNarratives of theEmergency in DelhiEMMA TARLO

‘Enormous political weight has gone intowiping out the Emergency as a livememory.’ (Ashis Nandy)

‘It would perhaps be inappropriate to saythat I read it with pleasure, since its sub-ject matter [forced sterlisation cam-paigns and slum clearances] is so un-pleasant, but Tarlo writes so beautifullyand constructs her arguments so elegantlythat this really was something that I foundI could not put down. The Emergencywas an important era in Indian politics,yet little has been written from the point ofview of “ordinary people” and how theyremember and dealt with the experiences ofthat time.’ (Professor Patricia Jeffrey,University of Edinburgh)

This book explores the avenuesthrough which the Emergency isremembered and forgotten.Based on fieldwork and archivalanalysis, Unsettling Memoriesraces the experiences andperceptions of those men andwomen who were the targets ofthe infamous slum clearance andsterilisation campaigns whichconverged to disrupt life in Delhi.

256pp. 2003 £16.50 1-85065-453-0

Action DharmaNew Studies in Engaged BuddhismEdited by Christopher Queen,Charles Prebish and Damien KeownRoutledgeCurzon Critical Studies inBuddhismRoutledgeCurzonJune 2003: 368ppHb: 0-7007-1593-2: £50.00Pb: 0-7007-1594-0: £16.99

Indian Buddhist Theories Of PersonVasubandhu’s Refutation of the Theory of a SelfJames DuerlingerRoutledgeCurzon Critical Studies in BuddhismRoutledgeCurzonMay 2003: 320ppHb: 0-415-31835-1: £65.00

The Buddhist UnconsciousThe Alaya-vijñana in the context ofIndian Buddhist ThoughtWilliam S. WaldronRoutledgeCurzon Critical Studies inBuddhismRoutledgeCurzonMarch 2003: 288ppHb: 0-415-29809-1: £60.00

Modernization and Effeminization in IndiaKerala Cashew Workers Since 1930Anna LindbergNIAS MonographsNordic Institute of Asian StudiesOctober 2003: 288ppHb: 87-91114-21-7: £50.00

The Indian Ocean RimSouthern Africa and RegionalCooperationEdited by Gwyn CampbellRoutledgeCurzon - IIAS Asian StudiesSeriesRoutledgeCurzonMarch 2003: 280ppHb: 0-7007-1344-1: £55.00

Commoners and NoblesHereditary Divisions in TibetHeidi FjeldNIAS MonographsNordic Institute of Asian StudiesOctober 2003: 224ppHb: 87-91114-17-9: £45.00

Nationalism and Post-Colonial IdentityCulture and Ideology in India andEgyptAnshuman A. MondalRoutledgeCurzonAugust 2003: 304pp: illus.1 tableHb: 0-415-31415-1: £65.00

Teaching and Learning inTibetA Review of Research and PolicyPublicationsEllen BangsboNordic Institute of Asian StudiesJune 2003: 120ppPb: 87-91114-30-6: £14.99

A Maldivian DictionaryChristopher ReynoldsRoutledgeCurzonApril 2003: 432ppHb: 0-415-29808-3: £55.00

Sufis and Scholars of the SeaFamily Networks in East Africa, 1860-1925Anne BangRoutledgeCurzon Sufi SeriesRoutledgeCurzonAugust 2003: 272pp: illus. 12 line drawings and 9 b+w photosHb: 0-415-31763-0: £60.00

Muslim Architecture of South IndiaThe Sultanate of Ma’bar and the Traditions of MaritimeSettlers on the Malabar and Coromandel Coasts (Tamil Nadu,Kerala and Goa)Mehrdad ShokoohyRoutledgeCurzon Studies in South AsiaRoutledgeCurzonJune 2003: 352pp: illus. 115 line drawings and 234 b+w photosHb: 0-415-30207-2: £75.00

YogaThe Indian TraditionEdited by Ian Whicher and David CarpenterIndian Philosophy and ReligionRoutledgeCurzonMarch 2003: 224ppHb: 0-7007-1288-7: £60.00

Perception, Politics andSecurity in South AsiaThe Compound Crisis of 1990P. R. Chari, Pervias Iqbal Cheema and Stephen Philip CohenRoutledgeCurzon Advances in South Asian StudiesRoutledgeCurzonMarch 2003: 184ppHb: 0-415-30797-X: £55.00

Christians and Public Life in Colonial SouthIndia, 1863-1937Chandra MallampalliThis book describes a condition of marginality faced byCatholic and Protestant elites of the Madras Presidency, butargues that this condition was far from inevitable.RoutledgeCurzonNovember 2004: 256ppHb: 0-415-32321-5: £55.00

The Indo-Aryan ControversyEvidence and Inference in Indian HistoryEdited by Laurie L. Patton and Edwin BryantThis book presents an overview of the debate surroundingIndo-Aryans, their place in South Asian history and identityformations.RoutledgeCurzonFebruary 2004: 320ppHb: 0-7007-1462-6: £50.00Pb: 0-7007-1463-4: £16.99

Muslims in India Since 1947Islamic Perspectives on Inter-Faith RelationsYoginder SikandThis book explores the attempts being made by scholar-activists and Muslim organisations to develop newunderstandings of Islam to relate to people of other faithsand the modern nation-state, and deal with issues such asdemocracy and secularism.Royal Asiatic SocietyRoutledgeCurzonFebruary 2004: 256ppHb: 0-415-31486-0: £55.00

Textiles in Indian Ocean SocietiesRuth BarnesThis is the first dedicated book to concentrate on textiles as amajor commodity, and primary indicator of status, wealthand identity in Indian Ocean regions.RoutledgeCurzon Indian Ocean SeriesRoutledgeCurzonJuly 2004: 256ppHb: 0-415-29766-4: £55.00

Muslim Saints of South AsiaThe Eleventh to Fifteenth CenturiesAnna SuvorovaThis book studies the veneration practices and rituals of theMuslim saints. It outlines trends of the main Sufi orders inIndia, the profiles and teachings of the famous and lessknown saints, and the development of pilgrimages.RoutledgeCurzonMay 2004: 256ppHb: 0-415-31764-9: £55.00

Wildlife in AsiaCultural PerspectivesEdited by John KnightBringing together anthropologists and historians, thisvolume examines the range, variability and historical mutability of human relationships with animals in Asia.NIAS MonographsRoutledgeCurzonDecember 2003: 280pp: illus. 1 line drawing and 25 b+w photosHb: 0-7007-1332-8: £55.00

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