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Thursday, January 26, 2017

2017 American Institute of Indian Studies Fellowship Competition

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The American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) invites applications from scholars from all disciplines who wish to conduct their research in India.
  • Junior fellowships are given to doctoral candidates at universities in the U.S. to conduct research for their dissertations in India for up to eleven months.
  • Senior long-term (six to nine months) and short-term (four months or less) fellowships are available for scholars who hold the Ph.D. degree. 
  • Scholarly/Professional development fellowships are available to scholars and professionals who have not previously worked in India. 
  • Creative and Performing Arts fellowships are available to practitioners of the arts of India. 
Eligible applicants include 1) U.S. citizens; and 2) citizens of other countries who are students or faculty members at U.S. colleges and universities (this rule does not apply to U.S. citizens).

Applications can be downloaded from the web site www.indiastudies.org.

For more information please contact:
American Institute of Indian Studies
Phone: (773) 702-8638.
Email: aiis@uchicago.edu.
Web site: www.indiastudies.org.

Application deadline is July 1, 2017

Selected New Titles in Ames Library, January 2017

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SELECTED NEW TITLES IN AMES LIBRARY

JANUARY 2017


Special Reminder:  We have added two important new electronic resources on South Asia:

·         India, Raj & Empire:  National Library of Scotland collection documenting the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 to the granting of independence for India and Pakistan in 1947. The sources range from the papers of key East India Company representatives and colonial officials to records of daily life in Agra, Bombay, Lahore, and Madras.

·         Times of India Historical Archive:  Digital archive covering (1838-2007). An additional year of content is added annually.  The titles included under this heading are: Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce (1839-1859) and the Bombay Times and Standard (1861-1861).
           

Books added in December

Displaying India's heritage: archaeology and the museum movement in colonial India. Roychowdhury, Madhuparna, (New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, 2015)
Ames Library AM101.I56 R69 2015

Payyūr Bhaṭṭas and pūrva mimāṃsa literature. Vasudevan Nambudiri, P. M., (Delhi, India: New Bharatiya Book Corporation, 2015)
Ames Library B132.M5 V37 2015

Externalism and the mental. Sen, Madhucchanda, (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2015)
Ames Library BD418.3.S457 2015

Viṣṇu: with special reference to epigraphy and coins. Jain, Suman, (Delhi: Sharada Publishing House, 2016)
Ames Library BL1219.2.J35 2016

Role of sevakas of Lord Jagannath and Navakalevara. Miśra, Manoramā, (Bhubaneswar: Mayur Publications, 2015)
Ames Library BL1225.J33 P87546 2015

The evolution of Gods: the scientific origin of divinity and religions. Kansal, Ajay, (Noida, Uttar Pradesh: HarperCollins Publishers India, 2012)
Ames Library BL2015.G63.K36 2012

Mastery meets mystery: intersecting science, philosophy, religion and culture: interdisciplinary essays in honour of Prof. Job Kozhamthadam. Kozhamthadam, Job, (New Delhi, India: Serials Publications Pvt. Ltd., 2016)
Ames Library BL240.3.M3986 2016

Ghar wapsi, conversions and freedom of religion. Puniyani, Ram, (New Delhi: Media House, 2015)
Ames Library BL639.G43 2015

Religion, caste, and nation in South India: Maraimalai Adigal, the Neo-Saivite movement, and Tamil nationalism, 1876-1950. Vaithees, V. Ravi, (New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2015)
Ames Library BL65.N3 V35 2015

Indus valley seals: navigate Sunderbans tiger. Sengupta, Arputha Rani, (Delhi: Agam Kala Prakashan, 2016)
Ames Library CD5383.S46 2016

Standard catalogue of coins of British India, 1835 to 1947: currency issues. Kias, Gev, (Mumbai, India: Rajgor's, 2015)
Ames Library CJ3547.K53 2015

Foreign sailors on Socotra: the inscriptions and drawings from the cave Hoq. Strauch, Ingo, (Bremen: Hempen Verlag, 2012)
Ames Library DS247.7.S63 F67 2012

1965: stories from the second Indo-Pak war. Rawat, Rachna Bisht, (New Delhi: Penguin Bks, 2015)
Ames Library DS386.R39 2015

Balochistan: a case study of Pakistan's peacemaking praxis. Amirali, Alia. (New Delhi, India; SAGE Publications, 2015)
Ames Library DS392.B28 A528 2015

Conflict and partition: Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh. Mohsin, Amena. (New Delhi, India; SAGE Publications, 2015)
Ames Library DS396.8.C45 M63 2015

Chittagong armoury raid: a memoir. Roy, Subodh, (New Delhi: Left Word, 2015)
Ames Library DS396.9.C48 R69 2015

Decolonizing Indian studies. Decolonizing Indian Studies (Conference) (2010: Denver, Colorado) (New Delhi: DK Printword, 2015)
Ames Library DS407.D43 2010

Memories of a hundred and one moons: an Indian odyssey. Gourdon, Come Carpentier de, (New Delhi: Har-Anand Publications, 2016)
Ames Library DS414.G68 2016

Politics of the All-India Muslim League, 1924-1940. Sultana, Kishwar, (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2016)
Ames Library DS480.45.S769 2016

Pax Gandhiana: the political philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi. Parel, Anthony J., (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2016)
Ames Library DS481.G3 P3485 2016

Politics, kingship, and poetry in medieval South India: moonset on Sunrise Mountain. Cox, Whitney, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016)
Ames Library DS484.65.C69 2016

Narendra Modi: a political journey. Saṅghavī, Nagīnadāsa Purushottamadāsa, (Rajkot, Gujarat, India: Wonderland Publications, 2015)
Ames Library DS485.G882 M6363 2015

Shadow states: India, China and the Himalayas, 1910-1962. Guyot-Réchard, Bérénice (Cambridge, United Kingdom; Cambridge University Press, 2017)
Ames Library DS485.H6 G89 2017

Of gardens and graves: essays on Kashmir, poems in translation. Kaul, Suvir, (Gurgaon: Three Essays Collective, 2015)
Ames Library DS485.K27 K38 2015

Bridging state and nation: peace accords in India's northeast. Manchanda, Rita. (New Delhi, India; SAGE Publications, 2015)
Ames Library DS485.N27 M29 2015

Role of women in Telangana armed struggle. Venkata Ratnam, S., (New Delhi, India: Research India Press, 2016)
Ames Library DS485.T4 V442 2016

Delhi: pages from a forgotten history. Dudney, Arthur, (New Delhi, India: Hay House Publishers (India) Pvt. Ltd., 2015)
Ames Library DS486.D3 D832 2015

Mahad: the making of the first dalit revolt with the account of Comrade R.B. More, the chief organizer of the first conference. Teltumbde, Anand, (Delhi: Aakar Books, 2016)
Ames Library DS486.M263 T45 2016

The cake that was baked at home: Lakshman Kadirgamar: snapshots of the man's life and times by his daughter. Kadirgamar, Ajita, (Colombo: Vijitha Yapa Publications, 2015)
Ames Library DS489.83.K33 K33 2015

After the fall: Sri Lanka in victory and war. Tikku, Mohan K., (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2016)
Ames Library DS489.84.T53 2016

Farewell to yak and yeti?: the Rolwaling Sherpas facing a globalised world. Baumgartner, Ruedi, (Kathmandu, Nepal: Vajra Books, 2015)
Ames Library DS493.9.S5 B37 2015

Portuguese and their artillery in India - Goa. Ambekar, Abhijit, (Panaji, Goa: Vasantrao Dempo Research Foundation and Education Trust in association with Broadway Publishing House, 2015)
Ames Library Quarto DS498.A57 2015
Pakistan education atlas, 2015. (Islamabad: National Education Management Information System (NEMIS), Academy of Educational Planning and Management (AEPAM), Government of Pakistan: 2015)
Ames Library Flat G2271.E68 A33 2015

Tribal culture in Andhra and Telangana: tradition and change. Gandhi, Malli, (New Delhi: Manak Publications Pvt. Ltd., 2016)
Ames Library GN635.I4 G347 2016

The tradition of masks in Indian culture: an anthropological study of Majuli, Assam. Zaman, Arifur, (Bhopal: Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya; 2015)
Ames Library GT1748.I42 M378 2015

Sati: Evangelicals, Baptist missionaries, and the changing colonial discourse. Jain, Meenakshi, (New Delhi: Aryan Books International, 2016)
Ames Library GT3370.J35 2016

A historical analysis of migration in Tripura: 1900-1971. De, Nilanjan, (Delhi, India: Research India Publications, 2014)
Ames Library HB2100.T75 D46 2014

Macro economics: a radical rethinking in growth, inequality and inclusiveness in Nepal. Pyakuryal, Bishwambher, (Kathmandu, Nepal: Mandala Book Point, 2015)
Ames Library HC425.M313 2015

Forging capitalism in Nehru's India: neocolonialism and the state, c. 1940-1970. Tyabji, Nasir, (New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2015)
Ames Library HC435.2.T88 2015

Nandigram: bio-cultural and ecological issues. Sarkar, B. N., (New Delhi: Gyan Publishing House, 2016)
Ames Library HD1537.I4 S27 2016

Mainstreaming the marginalised: reflections on poverty and development in rural India. Vyas, V. S., (New Delhi: Academic Foundation, 2015)
Ames Library HD2073.V93 2015

Impact of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India. Khuntia, Rama Chandra, (Bhubneswar: KIS Foundation, 2015)
Ames Library HD5710.85.I4 K48 2015

Revolutionising corporate social responsibility: towards a sustainable tomorrow. Mishra, R. K., (New Delhi: Academic Foundation in association with Institute of Public Enterprise, 2015)
Ames Library HD60.5.I4 R48 2015

The ageing home-based women-workers in Karachi. Shāh, Nasrīn Aslam, (Islamabad: Higher Education Commission; 2015)
Ames Library HD6056.2.P182 K377 2015

Inside unreal estate: a journey through India's most controversial sector. Sayal, Sushil Kumar, (Gurgaon, Haryana, India: Portfolio/Penguin, 2016)
Ames Library HD8039.R4572 I473 2016

Corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability practices in oil companies: evidence from emerging nations. Geeta Rani, D., (New Delhi, India: Academic Foundation, in association with Institute of Public Enterprises (IPE), Hyderabad, 2015)
Ames Library HD9560.5.G414 2015

Havells: the untold story of Qimat Rai Gupta. Gupta, Anil Rai, (Gurgaon, Haryana, India: Portfolio, Penguin, 2016)
Ames Library HD9697.I4 G87 2016

Stop free trade agreements. Biju, K. V., (Kochi: Kurukshethra Prakasan, 2013)
Ames Library HF2323.B55 2013

The crises of microcredit. Guérin, Isabelle, (London: Zed Books, 2015)
Ames Library HG178.3.C75 2015

Structures of violence: the Indian state in Jammu and Kashmir. (Srinagar: The International Peoples' Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Indian-Administered Kashmir (IPTK) and the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP), 2015)
Ames Library Quarto HN690.J34 S77 2015

A new statistical domain in India: an enquiry into village panchayat databases. Okabe, Jun-Ichi, (New Delhi, India: Tulika Books, 2016)
Ames Library HN690.Z9 C6 2016

Making war, making peace: conflict resolution in South Asia. Manchanda, Rita. (New Delhi, India; SAGE Publications, 2015)
Ames Library HN690.Z9 C739 2015

Development and conflicts. (Kolkata: Mitram, 2015)
Ames Library HN690.Z9 S622 2013

Life, emergent: the social in the afterlives of violence. Arif, Yasmeen, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016)
Ames Library HN981.V5 A75 2016

Women and gender in ancient India: a study of texts and inscriptions. Singh, Vijaya Laxmi, (New Delhi: Aryan Books International, 2015)
Ames Library HQ1137.I4.S56 2015

Women and work in precolonial India: a reader. Vijaya Ramaswamy, (New Delhi, India; SAGE, 2016)
Ames Library HQ1147.I4 W66 2016

Gendered citizenship: historical and conceptual explorations. Roy, Anupama, (New Delhi: Orient Blackswan 2013.)
Ames Library HQ1236.5.I R697 2013

Sustainable development of rural women. Soundari, M. Hilaria, (New Delhi: Authorspress, 2015)
Ames Library HQ1742.S92 2015

Window to Bhutan: a study of emerging new social patterns with urban educated middle class working women in main focus. Rajput, Madhu, (New Delhi: Manak Publications Pvt. Ltd, 2016)
Ames Library HQ1745.3.R35 2016

Dalit women: honour and patriarchy in South India. Still, Clarinda, (New Delhi: Social Science Press, 2014)
Ames Library HQ1745.N36 S75 2014

The politics of slums in the global south: urban informality in Brazil, India, South Africa and Peru. Dupont, Véronique, (Abingdon, Oxon; Routledge, 2016)
Ames Library HT149.5.P65 2016

Dalit: issues & challenges. Bharathi, Thummapudi, (Chennai: MJP Publishers, 2015)
Ames Library HT720.B43 2015

Backward class movement in India: opportunities and challenges. Hegde, M. Dinesh, (New Delhi: Jawahar Publishers & Distributors, 2013)
Ames Library HT720.H44 2013

Non-governmental organizations: origin and development. Chandra, Suresh (Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2015)
Ames Library HV392.C47 2015

Gujarat: behind the curtain. Śrī̲kumār, Ār. Bi., (New Delhi, India: Manas Publications, 2016)
Ames Library HV6485.I42 G8567 2016

The State and sexual violence: challenging impunity, demanding justice. ([Place of Publishing not known]: Women Against Sexual Violence and State Repression, 2014)
Ames Library HV6569.I4 S73 2014

Death penalty India report. (New Delhi: National Law University, Delhi, Centre on the Death Penalty, 2016)
Ames Library HV8699.I4 D43 2016

Democracy and power: the Delhi lectures. Chomsky, Noam, (Gurgaon, Haryana, India: Three Essays Collective, 2015)
Ames Library JC423.C46 2015

Making the poor free?: India's unique identification number. Das, S. K. (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014)
Ames Library JC599.I4 D37 2015

Electoral politics in Mizoram: a study of the post peace accord assembly elections of 1987. Vanlalruala, B., (New Delhi: Abhijeet Publications, 2015)
Ames Library JQ620.M5865 V36 2015

Confronting the federal sphinx in Nepal: Madhesh-Tarai. Bose, Tapan Kumar. (Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, 2015)
Ames Library JQ628.A58 B67 2015

Constitutional status of religious conversions in India. Ramesh (New Delhi: Serials Publications Pvt. Ltd., 2016)
Ames Library KNS2116.C66 2016

Legislating for justice: the making of the 2013 land acquisition law. Ramesh, Jairam, (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2015)
Ames Library KNS2544.A312013 R36 2015

Consistent parliamentary cord fundamental rights of the citizens of Pakistan. Khan, Zafarullah, (Islamabad: Senate of Pakistan, 2016)
Ames Library KPL2095.K543 2016

Deciphering Pakistan's education riddle. Hassan, Wajid, (Karachi: Royal Book Company, 2016)
Ames Library LA1156.H375 2016

Sri Lanka-Peradeniya campus: glimpses of the good old days: memoirs of Ranjani and Leslie de Silva. De Silva, Ranjani, ([Sri Lanka]: [Leslie de Silva], 2014)
Ames Library LG169.C452 A3 2014

Temple architecture and imagery of South and Southeast Asia: prāsādanidhi: papers presented to Professor M.A. Dhaky. Dhaky, Madhusudan A., (New Delhi: Aryan Books International, 2016)
Ames Library Quarto NA6000.T46 2016

Reverie With Raza: on the occasion of Nirantar: the Aesthetic Continuum. Nair, Uma. (Ahmedabad: Mapin Publishing, 2016)
Ames Library ND1010.R39 A4 2016

Wondrous images: Krishna seen as Shrinath-Ji: Pichwais of the Vallabha Sampradaya (in the collection of the Calico Museum of Textiles and the Sarabhai Foundation, Ahmedabad). Goswamy, B. N., (Ahmedabad: Sarabhai Foundation, 2014)
Ames Library Quarto NK9505.2.I4 G67 2014

The Rama epic: hero, heroine, ally, foe. McGill, Forrest, (San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 2016)
Ames Library Folio NX680.3.R35 R35 2016

The Z factor: my journey as the wrong man at the right time. Chandra, Subhash, (Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India: HarperCollins Publishers India, 2016)
Ames Library P92.5.C44 A3 2016

Mass media, the politics and the politicians: a mismatched troika of Pakistan. Iqbal, Zafar (Rawalpindi: Romail House of Publications, 2016)
Ames Library P92.P3 I64 2016

Suniti Kumar Chatterji revisited. Bhattacharya, Krishna (Kolkata: Gangchil, 2015)
Ames Library PK109.C5 B476 2015

Surviving in my world: growing up dalit in Bengal. Biśvāsa, Manoharamauli, (Kolkata: Samya, an imprint of Bhatkal and Sen, 2015)
Ames Library PK1718.B5715 Z4613 2015

Konkaboti: the extraordinary journey of a village girl. Mukhopādhyāẏa, Trailokyanātha, (New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, 2016)
Ames Library PK1718.M824 K36 2016

Meeting with Mussolini: Tagore's tours in Italy, 1925 and 1926. Kundu, Kalyan, (New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2015)
Ames Library PK1725.K86 2015

Politics of writing: a study of Dalits in Odia literature. Palaka, Provakar, (New Delhi: Authorspress, 2016)
Ames Library PK2570.P25 2016

Kaanduri and other stories. Dāśa Benhura, (New Delhi: Orient Blackswan Private Limited, 2015)
Ames Library PK2579.D389 A6 2015

The battle for Sanskrit: is Sanskrit political or sacred, oppressive or liberating, dead or alive?. Malhotra, Rajiv, (New Delhi: HarperCollins Publishers, 2016)
Ames Library PK435.M35 2016

Contemporary short stories of the SAARC region, 2013. Samarasinghe, G. L. W., (Colombo: SAARC Cultural Centre, 2014)
Ames Library PK5461.C66 2014

Vegetarians only: stories of Telugu Muslims. Skai Bāba, (New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, 2016)
Ames Library PL4780.9.S445 A34 2016

A fly in the curry: independent documentary film in India. Jayasankar, K. P., (Los Angeles: SAGE Publications, 2016)
Ames Library PN1995.9.D6 J39 2016

The films of Adoor Gopalakrishnan: a cinema of emancipation. Ganguly, Suranjan, (London; Anthem Press, 2015)
Ames Library PN1998.3.G66 G36 2015

Writing and editing news. Krishnaswamy, K. V., (New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, 2015)
Ames Library PN4775.K75 2015

Inter-sections: essays on Indian literatures, translations, and popular consciousness. Nayar, Rana, (New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, 2012)
Ames Library PR9484.6.N393 2012

(Un)familiar femininities: studies in contemporary lesbian South Asian texts. Rajendran, Aneeta, (New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2015)
Ames Library PR9489.7.R35 2015

Ballad of Bapu. Bakaya, Santosh, (New Delhi: Vitasta, 2015)
Ames Library PR9499.4.B35 B35 2015

Gendering mental health: knowledges, identities, and institutions. Davar, Bhargavi V., (New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2015)
Ames Library RC451.4.W6 G463 2015

Visual impairment. Dawn, Ranjita, (Delhi: Kalpaz, 2015)
Ames Library RE91.D39 2015

Cochin forests and British techno-ecological imperialism in India. Joseph, Sebastian, (New Delhi: Primus Books, 2016)
Ames Library SD646.C63 J67 2016

Land and forest governance in Swat: transition from tribal system to state to Pakistan. Sultan-i-Rome, (Karachi, Pakistan: Oxford University Press, 2016)
Ames Library SD657.P18 S8522 2016

Recollections of a Pakistani nuclear scientist. Hasnain, Syed Ahmed, (Karachi: Dr. Nadira N. Hasnain & Sons, 2015)
Ames Library TK9014.H38 A3 2015

Monday, January 23, 2017

Istanbul Urban Database


"new online archive allows viewers to pull the curtains back and observe some crucial milestones in the megacity’s evolution. The Istanbul Urban Database, created by Nil Tuzcu, a researcher at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and her colleagues at the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative, is a one-stop shop to view historical maps, plans, photographs, and transportation routes, all of which “contribute to the collective memory of Istanbul,” the creators write in a press release."

Film today: The Dream of Shahrazad

ICGC Special Event

Monday, January 23, 2017
4pm
InFlux Auditorium
Regis Center for Art - East
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Francois Verster’s multi-award winning film THE DREAM OF SHAHRAZAD explores recent political events in Turkey and Egypt through the lens of the age-old story collection THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS.

South African documentary filmmaker Francois Verster’s films have won various awards, including a 2006 Emmy, and include WHEN THE WAR IS OVER, THE MOTHERS’ HOUSE, A LION’S TRAIL, SEA POINT DAYS and THE DREAM OF SHAHRAZAD.  He has taught documentaries studies courses at Columbia University, New York University, University of Cape Town, and University of the Witwatersrand, and has published in various journals and anthologies.  He currently teaches a postgraduate course at the University of the Western Cape. He has appeared on festival juries and has had multiple festival retrospectives on his work, most recently at the Jeu de Paume in Paris, France.

Refreshments will be served
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