Padma Kaimal is Batza Professor of Art and Art History at Colgate University. She is the author of Scattered Goddesses: Travels with the Yoginis (Association for Asian Studies, 2013) and Opening Kailasanatha: The Temple in Kanchipuram Revealed in Time and Space (Washington, 2021).
26 Ebooks bởi Padma Kaimal
Heidi Pauwels: Mobilizing Krishna’s World
Savant Singh (1694–1764), the Rajput prince of Kishangarh-Rupnagar, is famous for commissioning beautiful works of miniature painting and composing devotional (bhakti) poetry to Krishna under the nom …
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Nico Slate: Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet
Mahatma Gandhi redefined nutrition as fundamental to building a more just world. What he chose to eat was intimately tied to his beliefs, and his key values of nonviolence, religious tolerance, and r …
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Jason Cons: Sensitive Space
Enclaves along the India-Bangladesh border have posed conceptual and pragmatic challenges to both states since Partition in 1947. These pieces of India inside of Bangladesh, and vice versa, are space …
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Charu Gupta: The Gender of Caste
Caste and gender are complex markers of difference that have traditionally been addressed in isolation from each other, with a presumptive maleness present in most studies of Dalits (“untouchables”) …
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Rebecca M. Brown: Displaying Time
From the fluttering fabric of a tent, to the blurred motion of the potter’s wheel, to the rhythm of a horse puppet’s wooden hooves—these scenes make up a set of mid-1980s art exhibitions as part of t …
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Sumit Guha: History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200–2000
In this far-ranging and erudite exploration of the South Asian past, Sumit Guha discusses the shaping of social and historical memory in world-historical context. He presents memory as the result of …
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Sheetal Chhabria: Making the Modern Slum
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Bombay was beset by crises such as famine and plague. Yet, rather than halting the flow of capital, these crises served to secure it. In colonial …
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Jeffrey A. Redding: A Secular Need
Whether from the perspective of Islamic law’s advocates, secularism’s partisans, or communities caught in their crossfire, many people see the relationship between Islamic law and secularism as antag …
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Pika Ghosh: Making Kantha, Making Home
In Bengal, mothers swaddle their infants and cover their beds in colorful textiles that are passed down through generations. They create these kantha from layers of soft, recycled fabric strengthened …
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Sienna R. Craig: The Ends of Kinship
What sustains and remakes family and community through migration? For centuries, people from Mustang, Nepal, have relied on agriculture, pastoralism, and trade as a way of life. Seasonal migrations t …
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Padma Kaimal: Opening Kailasanatha
The footsteps and sensory experience of devotees linger in an Indian temple Stone figures hardened by ascetic discipline and heroic effort face north in deep shadow. There they meet the gazes of the …
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Juned Shaikh: Outcaste Bombay
Caste, class, and development converge in a booming metropolis Over the course of the twentieth century, Bombay’s population grew twentyfold as the city became increasingly industrialized and cosmopo …
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Tarini Bedi: Mumbai Taximen
Best Read for the General Public: IBP 2023 Accolades in the Humanities by the International Institute for Asian Studies 2nd Prize Winner of the 2022 Victor Turner Prize sponsored by the Society for H …
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Alice Tilche: Adivasi Art and Activism
As India consolidates an aggressive model of economic development, indigenous tribal people known as adivasis continue to be overrepresented among the country’s poor. Adivasis make up more than eight …
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Sanderien Verstappen: New Lives in Anand
In 2002 widespread communal violence tore apart towns and villages in rural parts of Gujarat, India. In the aftermath, many Muslims living in Hindu-majority villages sought safety in the small town o …
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Iftikhar Dadi: Lahore Cinema
Commercial cinema has been among the most powerful vectors of social and aesthetic modernization in South Asia. So argues Iftikhar Dadi in his provocative examination of cinema produced between 1956 …
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David Geary: The Rebirth of Bodh Gaya
This multilayered historical ethnography of Bodh Gaya — the place of Buddha’s enlightenment in the north Indian state of Bihar — explores the spatial politics surrounding the transformation of the Ma …
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Amanda Thérèse Snellinger: Making New Nepal
One of the most important political transitions to occur in South Asia in recent decades was the ouster of Nepal’s monarchy in 2006 and the institution of a democratic secular republic in 2008. Based …
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Amy Bhatt: High-Tech Housewives
Tech companies such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft promote the free flow of data worldwide, while relying on foreign temporary IT workers to build, deliver, and support their products. However, eve …
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Sonja Thomas: Privileged Minorities
Although demographically a minority in Kerala, India, Syrian Christians are not a subordinated community. They are caste-, race-, and class-privileged, and have long benefitted, both economically and …
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Eric Huntington: Creating the Universe
Winner, 2018 Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities Buddhist representations of the cosmos across nearly two thousand years of history in Tibet, Nepal, and India show that cosmolog …
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Nachiket Chanchani: Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains
From approximately the third century BCE through the thirteenth century CE, the remote mountainous landscape around the glacial sources of the Ganga (Ganges) River in the Central Himalayas in norther …
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Sugata Ray: Climate Change and the Art of Devotion
In the enchanted world of Braj, the primary pilgrimage center in north India for worshippers of Krishna, each stone, river, and tree is considered sacred. In Climate Change and the Art of Devotion, S …
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Sidharthan Maunaguru: Marrying for a Future
The civil war between the Sri Lankan state and Tamil militants, which ended in 2009, lasted more than three decades and led to mass migration, mainly to India, Canada, England, and continental Europe …
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John Stratton Hawley & Christian Lee Novetzke: Bhakti and Power
Bhakti, a term ubiquitous in the religious life of South Asia, has meanings that shift dramatically according to context and sentiment. Sometimes translated as “personal devotion, ” bhakti nonetheles …
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Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria: Mumbai on Two Wheels
Cyclists from India reimagine transportation infrastructure for all Mumbai is not commonly seen as a bike-friendly city because of its dense traffic and the absence of bicycle lanes. Yet the city sup …
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