South Asia news and bibliography 2017 November

      I hope everyone will join in the consert - “Strings of India’ through SPICMACAY, this Saturday evening (Dec. 2, 2017) at 7 pm in McLeod Hall Auditorium here at the University of Virginia. Featured are Apartim Majumdar on the sarod with Amit Chatterjee on the tabla.

        Partly related, because it is also music, is a book and cassette about Muslim epic songs in Bangladesh. The book is written by Mary Frances Dunham and titled Jarigan. The book and cassette will be cataloged and available in the Music Library. Thank you, Murray Milner, for donating this to our library collection.
       See more about it through the links below.

   I’ve selected 13 titles from the 213 or so which arrived here from India and Pakistan in the last couple of months for a brief bibliography.  Included are Nandini Sundar’s  the Burning Forest, Vilmik Thapar’s  Living with tigers, two Sanskrit books, 23 essays on food (Chillies and porridge, with no recipes or photos!), a collection of biographies of Hindi authors,  a play about the Komagata Mara, the poem about the Dharbhanga Raja, Urdu short stories and articles about Akhtaruliman. Other titiles are about the dark era of the British empire in India, decolonization, colonial agricultural practices, Ujjain’s Kumbha Mela, and Puri’s pilgrims and shrines.

           Nandini Sundar enthralled the audience at the recent (2017 October) Madison Wisconsin South Asia Conference, speaking of her intense experience with Bastar tribals during the last few years. There are other titles in Urdu, Hindi, and Sanskrit which should be of interest to the South Asia academic community. 

           Now, just in time for the end of the month here is the 2017 November Bibliography of South Asian Titles. Click on the link or see the list below or on Worldcat

·                    But watch out for hot, hot peppers in the background.

·                   Come to the library and check out the books. 

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    More about Jarigan -

      Video – jari gan Bangladesh https://youtu.be/bLDmDE_3sSY or https://youtu.be/enqRjkxIX2A

      Jarigan Music MP3 1 > https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8jZBOWEt6R9YVJRMVRVSHlRVUE/view

        Jarigan Music MP3 2 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8jZBOWEt6R9eVE2UW4wek16a2s/view

      https://dunham-family.com/jarigan/
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   Here’s the bibliography     

Click > Burning Forest

Bibliography of South Asian Titles 2017 November Books published in South Asia Philip McEldowney 2017 November South Asia Studies websit or South Asia Library Guide Worldcat lists these titles at https://www.worldcat.org/profiles/uvalibrary/lists/3781789

Click > tigers

Topics (no order) Burning Forest, Living with tigers, Sanskrit, food essays, Hindi authors, Komagata Mara, Dharbhanga Raja's poem, Urdu short stories, and British empire history.

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South Asia Titles

	Akhtaruliman. Faruqi, Athar, Anjuman Taraqqi-yi Urdu (Hind), 2016. ISBN: 9788171601769. Contents: Contributed articles on the works of Akhtaruliman, 1915-1996, Urdu poet. Language: In Urdu. PK2200 2016333935 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/950966165
	The burning forest : India's war in Bastar. Sundar, Nandini, 2016. ISBN: 9789386228000. Contents: "In her meticulously researched book, The Burning Forest: India's War in Bastar, Nandini Sundar writes about the Maoist conflict in Bastar." She considers her "academia's role (or lack thereof) in studying the Maoist conflict, the politics of co-option by the state in the region, the maligned adivasis, the future and what it may bring to the region." [From Firstpost Manik Sharma, 2016 October] Language: English HX395 2016332094 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/961035505
	Decolonisation and the politics of transition in South Asia. Sekhara Bandyopadhyaya , 2016. ISBN: 9788125062523. Contents: Critical thinking in South Asian history. This volume interrogates the concept of decolonisation, which is often taken to mean a transfer of power from a colonial to an indigenous elite. However, decolonisation involved a much more complex historical experience for the people of the postcolonial nations. Language: English DS480 2016331418 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/948975635
	An era of darkness : the British empire in India. Shashi Tharoor , 2016. ISBN: 9789383064656. Contents: Tharoor has now converted that 'viral' Oxford union speech into a new book, `An Era of Darkness' (Aleph) in which he expands his theme of the evil, heartless, greedy and racist British mercilessly exploiting India, impoverishing its people, stealing its riches, destroying its social fabric and leaving it with a ruined economy, dysfunctional democracy and confused modernity, with even the so-called gains of colonialism like the English language and the railway network being only very mixed blessings. From Times of India January 6, 2017 Sagarika Ghose. Language: English DS463 2016334718 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/974952895
	Kulliyat-i Mirza Hamid Beg. Beg, Mirza Hamid, Abdussamad Dihlavi, 2016. ISBN: 9789386125255. Contents: Short stories in Urdu. Mirza Hamid Beg has written 42 works such as these short stories and also biographical, bibliographic, and criticism books. Language: In Urdu. PK2659 2016333506 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/966362977
	Living with tigers. Valmik Thapar , 2016. ISBN: 9789384067502. Contents: Living with Tigers is a book by Valmik Thapar, the well-known conservationist who is mostly associated with the famous Ranthambore tigress Machhli. The book is divided into chapters, each dealing with Thapar's experiences with well-known tigers - Padmini, Ustad, Genghis, Broken Tooth and others. [from Bookstore Blog January 3, 2017]. Language: English DS485 2016330288 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/966362971
	Nato'ham. Minakshi Svami , 2016. ISBN: 9789383234486. Contents: Novel based on the famous festival Kumbha Mela of Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India. Language: In Hindi. PK2099 2016325753 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/953816767
	Tilling the land : agricultural knowledge and practices in colonial India. Kumar, Deepak; Raha, Bipasha, 2016. ISBN: 9384092800. Contents: This volume sheds light on systems of agricultural knowledge, inherited agricultural practices and allied activities, adoption of new knowledge as well as attempts at modernization, and the involvement and perception of the key historical players and agricultural pioneers who initiated the process of transformation of the system of agrarian production and the creation of a new agrarian knowledge basagainst the backdrop of burgeoning Western scientific knowledge. Language: English S471 2016334713 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/962324585
	Vo ghari na ati kasa. Balarama, 2016. ISBN: 9788176673204. Contents: Collective biographies of 21 distinguished contemporary Hindi writers. Language: In Hindi. PK2034 2016325153 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/944022634
	Chillies and porridge : writing food. Mita Kapur, 2015. ISBN: 9789351772842. Contents: The experience of food can mean many things to many people. A joyous mix of the familiar and the unfamiliar, the home-grown and the street-born, Chillies and Porridge is a celebration of that most vital ingredient of life: food. Features 23 essays on their food experiences. [EBay reviews]. Language: English GT2850 2015357360 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/929825005
	Komagata maru : forgotten heroes. S. N. Sewak, 2015. ISBN: 9788171166565. Contents: This play is a tribute to the heroic passengers of Komagata Maru who were turned away from Vancouver in July 1914 and were made to face bullets at Baj Baj Ghat near Calcutta in September 1914. [CityNews, August 2015] . Language: In English, Panjabi and Hindi. DS479 2016364722 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/931036343
	Laksmisvaropayanam : satikam. Misra, Raghuvira, Tivari, Visrama, 2015. ISBN: 9789381721315. Contents: Narrative poem on the life of Lakshmisvara Simha, -1898, King of Dharbhanga. Language: Hindi PK2040 2016325351 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/957696795
	Sri Jagannatha Purusottamaksetramahima = Mahimas of Sri Jagannatha Purusottama ksetra. Tamraparni Subbachar Raghavendran, 2011. Contents: On Hindu pilgrims and shrines in Puri, India ; texts from Vedic literature. Language: In Sanskrit. BL1243 2016315141 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/939911456
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