The Bihar Niche Collection at the University of Virginia

Have a look at the Bihar Niche Collection at UVa slide show. This is one of the niche collections being developed under the South Asia Coooperative Collection Development organization which has the goal to develop global collections of South Asian research resources which support and enhance scholarship.  South Asian scholars might be interested in a Presentation I did at the recent South Asia Conference’s Friday morning’s (12 October 2018) librarian’s meeting of the South Asian Cooperative Collection Development group. 

     Each member institution has decided to designate a particular research area they are committed to specialize in collecting resources. Have a look at the other niche collections which 21 institution have selected as their specialized collection - at https://guides.lib.utexas.edu/c.php?g=855906&p=6197041.   

     The University of Virginia selected Bihar as its niche collection in 2014. You will see the Bihar Niche collection Presentation I created and talked about at Bihar Niche Collection at UVA. (You may use the controls at the bottom left of the slide pages if you wish to stop the “5-seconds per slide” show.)

     The Presentation is also listed on the web page of our recent SACOOP Workshop report https://guides.lib.utexas.edu/c.php?g=855906&p=6130503.

    Mary Rader of the University of Texas also gave a presentation of their niche collection. See her information at Popular and Pulp Fiction.  

     Let me know if you have any comments or questions. 

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Now Read This! South Asia Resources 2018 September

News and resources for a great beginning of another academic year.

        Here is a blog about A. recent or new events, B. South Asia Resources, and C. A local library database, bibliographies, and books.

 A. Recent or new events-

Event. #1. On Sunday, September 16th, Kaushiki Chakraborty performed a stunning virtuoso vocal concert at Old Cabell Hall. It featured the internationally-acclaimed classical vocalist Kaushiki Chakrabarty, accompanied by Kedar Sudhir Naphade. See more - Kaushiki Chakraborty

In adddtion, on Monday Chakraborty led an interactive workshop from 4-5:30 pm in UVa’s International Center September 17^th 2018. Kaushikiji demonstrated how she improvises with different melodies and rhythms in concert.

Event #2. Sunil Sharma of Boston University, gives a Lecture on “Travel in Reverse: Mughals in Safavid Iran” at 4:45 – 6:00 pm in Wilson Hall #301 on Friday September 21, 2018.

Event #3. The Rabb Symposium on Urban Sustainability in South Asia and Latin America, at North Carolina State in the James B. Hunt Jr. Library on September 20-22, 2018.

Interdisciplinary scholars, writers, artists, and practitioners address urban sustainability issues in 23 presentations and discussions over two days – 15 presentations on Friday the 21^st and 8 on Saturday morning the 22^nd September 2018. For more details: go.ncsu.edu/rabb2018

Event #4. The South Asia 47th Annual Conference in Madison Wisconsin on October 11-14, 2018. Many, many exciting topics. At least two University of Virginia participants – Neeti Nair (Session 5 Mahatma) and Swati Chawla (Symposium – Borders). Also Anand Yang (at University of Washington) is Chair of the Mahatma session – his history Ph. D. is from the U of Virginia.

B. South Asia Resources. 

1. Resource – Aruna Magier article is on the “state of the art” (2018) detailing “Online research resources for South Asian history,” published in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History (New York: Oxford University Press), July 2018.  It’s a great up-to-date overview, an extensive and thorough citing lots of projects. 

2. Resource, digital humanities symposium. Listen to the recordings of the panels of Spring 2018 “Emory Digital Humanities Symposium” on South Asia. As promised, these are the links to the recordsings of the panels of the April 6-7, 2018 at https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/dh4sa/media of the “Emory Digital Humanities Symposium: DH for South Asia Updates.”

 

Two resources or projects from the South Asia Open Archives are underway. The University of Virginia is one of 25 research libraries participating in a 5-year program to create digitized material for the South Asia Open Archives (SAOA).  Near the end of the second year in October 2017 it had already digitize historical materials. Here is a sample of 30 titles available from the South Asia Open Archives.

3. The SAOA has begun digitizing the Indian Newspaper Reports. They contain weekly translations and summaries of local Anglo-Indian and vernacular-language newspapers from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth century, from throughout South Asia. The resulting digital files of the approximate 150,000 pages will be freely available on SAOA’s open-access platform in early 2019.

4. 1931 India Census. This SAOA project is to digitize the complete collection of

the 1931 censuses of South Asia. It consists of 144 volumes and includes many tables, maps (90 GIS data sets), and over 1,000 graphics. The complete collection will be available as full-text, open access through SAOA and other websites.

C. Local Library database, bibliographies, and books.

1. Database of the Times of India. UVa researchers now do have access to the Times of India ProQuest historical newspaper database. Coverage: 1838 – 2008. The link is https://search.proquest.com/hnptimesofindia/fromDatabasesLayer?accountid=14678

VIRGO also lists access to other years of the Times of India (Bombay, India)     from 07/01/1861 to 12/31/2008 in ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Times of India     from 05/25/2005 to 08/08/2011 in Newspaper Source Plus

from 01/07/2010 to present in LexisNexis Academic

from 05/09/1986 to present in Factiva

from 03/30/2011 to present in Factiva

from 01/01/2002 to present in Access World News (current version)          2. Oxford Bibliographies – faculty and students now have access to excellent descriptions and lists of titles for several subjects including Hinduism, Anthropology, and Art History. Search, for example, for Khare, and find his writings listed in Caste, Food, Sociological approaches to Hinduism, and The Body. Or see South Asian Architecture and Sculpture, 13th to 18th Centuries. What will your searches find to help you in your research and writing papers?

3. Books. Here are four lists of South Asia books recently received (but not all cataloged) --

a. 2018 Sept New A, b. South Asia titles in September, c. Pakistan titles 2018 September, and d. Bibliography of South Asian titles 2018 August, 

You might be especially interested in the following titles

* Bhatia, Gautam. Offend, Shock, or Disturb: Free Speech Under the Indian Constitution. 2016.

* S.D. Burman: The Prince-Musician. 2018.

* Lelyveld, David. Sir Sayyid, Maulana Azad, and the Uses of Urdu. 2013. (short, only 19 pages)

* Cug̲h̲tāʼī, Muḥammad Ikrām. Garcin de Tassy (1794-1878): a French devotee of Urdu langauge and literature. 2018.

* Sprenger, Aloys, and Muḥammad Ikrām Cug̲h̲tāʼī. Royal Libraries of Lucknow and the British Government. 2018.

* Kumar, Vijoy. Sheel Bhadra Yajee: in the records of Bihar State Archives. 2015.

Sinhā, Lakshmaṇa Prasāda. Hindī sāhitya ko Bihāra kī dena. 2016.

* Asher, Catherine B. Delhi's Qutb Complex: The Minar, Mosque and Mehrauli. 2017.

* Hussain, Fatima. Lahore: The City of Love. 2018.

* Baruah, Manjeet. Mapping Literature: Culture and Region Formation in the Brahmaputra Valley. 2013.

 

3. And finally three other title lists (non-English) of recently received books – a. Persian or Farsi 2018 September list of and b. Farsi titles in 2018 March of . And --

And some Arabic titles 2018 June        

  

Please feel free to contact me about any of the items on this blog, at pm9k@virginia.edu