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.
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 17th 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 21st
and 8 on Saturday morning the 22nd 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.
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
