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Kazi Nazrul Islam and the Partition of Bengal: A Language of Unity, a Language of Loss
TAPSA: Ahona Panda, doctoral candidate in South Asian Languages and Civilizations Arguably the most successful poet and music composer appealing to both Hindus and Muslims equally in undivided and divided Bengal, Kazi Nazrul Islam was the singular voice of an...
Self-Determination and the Minority Question in Colonial India
TAPSA: Tejas Parasher, doctoral candidate in Political Science Between the late 1800s and the early 1950s, South Asian politics were dominated by demands for elected representative government. These demands were made by nationalists challenging British colonial...
From Pulavar to Professor: The Changing Status of the Tamil Pandit
South Asia Seminar: A.R. Venkatachalapathy, Madras Institute of Development Studies "From Pulavar to Professor: The Changing Status of the Tamil Pandit" This paper traces the changing status of Tamil pulavars or pandits in colonial Tamil Nadu. Following Macaulay's...
‘Harishchandra Chāritra’ and the Medieval Shaiva Literary Canon in Kannada
South Asia Seminar: Vanamala Viswanatha, Azim Premji University Harishchandra Chāritra, or Harishchandra Kāvya, as more popularly known in Kannada literary culture, (The Life of Harishchandra, Murty Classical Library of India, Harvard University Press, 2017) was...
UChicago Presents Hosts Music Without Borders
Carnatic vocalist TM Krishna is a revolutionary force in Indian classical music and art. Born to musical parents, Krishna grew up in Brahmin society, surrounded by the traditional arts and educated by gurus of Carnatic musical form and style. Now one of India’s...
Old World, New World; Old Ways, New Ways: Libraries and Cultural Property
South Asia Seminar: Graham Shaw, British Library [Celebrating the Career of James Nye Dinner Following, Classics 110] In this talk, Graham Shaw will offer a review of the ways in which South Asian collections in the West - Europe and America - have developed from...
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