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Monday, October 30, 2017

Special South Asia Seminar: Screening & Discussion of Garam Hawa with Tarun Kumar

Screening of Garam Hawa ("Hot Winds", 1973; Dir. M.S. Sathyu)
With Tarun Kumar

      Date:     Friday, November 3
      Time:    5-8 pm
      Place:   537 Heller Hall 
      Series:  South Asia Seminar Series

Mr. Tarun Kumar, visiting film and theater artist, will lead a discussion after the film


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AIIS summer 2018 and academic year 2018-2019 language programs in India

The American Institute of Indian Studies welcomes applications for its summer 2018 and academic year 2018-2019 language programs. Programs to be offered include Hindi (Jaipur), Bengali (Kolkata), Punjabi (Chandigarh), Tamil (Madurai); Marathi (Pune), Urdu (Lucknow), Telugu (Hyderabad), Gujarati (Ahmedabad), Kannada (Mysore), Malayalam (Thiruvananthapuram), Mughal Persian (Lucknow), Sanskrit (Pune) and Pali/Prakrit (Pune). We will offer other Indian languages upon request. All academic year applicants should have the equivalent of two years of prior language study. For summer Sanskrit, we require the equivalent of two years of prior study; for summer Bengali, Hindi and Tamil we require the equivalent of one year of prior study. For summer Urdu, we require the equivalent of one year of either Hindi or Urdu. We can offer courses at all levels, including beginning, in other Indian languages for the summer. Summer students should apply for FLAS if available at their institutions for funding to cover the costs of the program. Funding for Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu may be available through the U.S. State Department's CLS program (see www.clscholarship.org). AIIS has some funding available for summer students who cannot procure FLAS or CLS funding. This funding is allocated on the basis of the language committee's ranking of the applicants. Pending availability of funding, AIIS hopes to award language fellowships, on a competitive basis, to academic year students which would cover all expenses for the program. AIIS is also offering a fall semester program. We offer Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Urdu and other languages at all levels for the fall. The application deadline is December 31, 2017.  Applications can be downloaded from the AIIS web site at www.indiastudies.org. For more information: Phone: 773-702-8638. Email: aiis@uchicago.edu.

Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Funding for Language Study in India - Hindi or Urdu

The application for the 2017 Boren Awards is now open at www.borenawards.org !

Boren Awards fund U.S. undergraduate and graduate language study and research abroad in world regions critical to U.S. national interests (including Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East).

The South Asian Flagship Languages Initiative (SAFLI) offers Boren Awards applicants the special opportunity to study Hindi or Urdu by participating in domestic and overseas language programs in India. Created in partnership with experienced program providers, SAFLI is appropriate for applicants with no language proficiency, as well as those with intermediate and advanced proficiency in Hindi or Urdu.

This immersive program begins with an intensive summer domestic language institute at the University of Wisconsin, followed by a fall overseas program in India administered by the American Councils for International Education (in Jaipur for Hindi and Lucknow for Urdu.

Awardees also have the option to continue their Boren Awards-funded language study in India in the spring in a program they identify themselves.

The Boren Scholarships provide up to $20,000 for undergraduate students for language‐focused study abroad.

The Boren Fellowships provide up to $30,000 for graduate students to fund language study, graduate‐level research, and academic internships abroad.

Additional information on SAFLI program requirements, program locations, and a complete list of preferred languages can be found on our website. Webinars on aspects of the Boren Awards, including special regional initiatives and components of the application are scheduled throughout the 2016‐2017 academic year. Sign up today at www.borenawards.org/webinars.html.


Applicants are encouraged to contact their Boren Awards campus representatives, listed in a directory on the website, for institution‐specific guidance. They may also contact Boren Awards staff directly at 1‐800‐618‐NSEP or boren@iie.org

Monday, October 16, 2017

Two South Asia talks Wednesday, October 18: Tariq Thachil and Lalit Batra

Who do Political Brokers Serve? Experimental Evidence from India's Slums
By: Tariq Thachil
Vanderbilt University

Date:    Wednesday, October 18
Time:   11:30-1pm
Place:  Social Sciences 1314
Event:  Comparative Politics Colloquium (CPC)

Abstract:
Why are political brokers responsive to the claims of some voters and not others? Despite an expansive comparative literature on brokers, relatively few studies have systematically scrutinized their downstream responsiveness to clients. Existing literature anticipates brokers will privilege co-partisan and co-ethnic clients, whose reciprocity they can most confidently monitor. In this paper, we argue that brokers must also prioritize clients best positioned to maximize their local reputations for competence. We test our theoretical expectations through a conjoint survey experiment among archetypical urban brokers in the developing world: informal slum leaders. Embedded in local communities, slum leaders spearhead efforts to resist eviction and demand basic services, and encourage electoral support and turnout on behalf of political parties. Our survey of 629 slum leaders across 110 slums in two north Indian cities finds strong evidence of the importance of reputational concerns in driving broker responsiveness. We find more mixed evidence of brokers prioritizing monitoring concerns emphasized by extant literature, highlighted by a marked absence of ethnic favoritism within Indian slums.

You can learn more about Professor Thachil's research here.

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The 'Native' and the "Sweeper' in the Colonial Sanitation Discourse
By: Lalit Batra
Geography, Environment and Society
Date:    Wednesday, October 18
Time:    3-4:30 pm
Place:   537 Heller Hall
Event:   South Asia Seminar Series

Thursday, October 12, 2017

AIIS 2017 winter short term fellowship competition

Below please find an announcement about the AIIS winter short-term fellowship competition which is open to faculty at AIIS member institutions. The application deadline is December 31, 2017. Please circulate to faculty at your institutions. Applicants should apply by submitting the application found on the fellowship section of our web site www.indiastudies.org

AIIS Winter short term fellowships

Talk Oct. 24: Samia Khatun on Power and Protest: Bengali Textile Workers and Resistance Narratives

Power and Protest: Bengali Textile Workers and Resistance Narratives
By: Dr. Samia Khatun,
University of Liberal Arts, Bangladesh


Date:   Tuesday October 24, 2017
Time:   3:30-5:00 pm
Place:  215 Humphrey

Abstract: Dr. Khatun has begun a 400-year history of girls and young women (mostly between the ages of 13 and 21) engaged in textile work in what is now Bangladesh. Concentrating on worker-produced sources, Dr. Khatun is taking a “slices-through-time approach” and will focus on how workers have memorialized five key moments in the history of textile production through song and poetry, beginning with Mughal Bengal and ending with the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh in 2013.

Sponsors:  The ICGC Research Circle on “Subjects, Objects, Agents: Young People’s Lives and Livelihoods in the Global South” and Society for the History of Children and Youth (SHCY)


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Selected New Titles in Ames Library, October 2017

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SELECTED NEW TITLES IN AMES LIBRARY

OCTOBER 2017

Listing titles added in September


She walks, she leads: women who inspire India. Jain, Gunjan, (Gurgaon, Haryana, India: Penguin Random House India Pvt. Ltd., 2016)
Ames Library CT3720.J35 2016

Bullets and bylines: from the frontlines of Kabul, Delhi, Damascus, and beyond. Bhatia, Shyam, (New Delhi, India: Speaking Tiger, 2016)
Ames Library DS341.B535 2016

India's untouchables. Chabrier, Gwendolyn, (New Delhi: Creative Crows Publishers LLP, 2016)
Ames Library DS422.C3 C4635 2016

Western foundations of the caste system. Fárek, Martin, (London: This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature, 2017)
Ames Library DS422.C3 W447 2017

Popular culture: plumbing people's history. Palit, Chittabrata, (Kolkata, [India]: Rupali, 2016)
Ames Library DS423.P67 2016

Study of material remains in Indian perspective. (Delhi, [India]: Bookwell, 2016)
Ames Library Quarto DS425.N374 2015

Woodsmoke and leafcups: autobiographical footnotes to the anthropology of the Durwa people. Ramnath, Madhu, (Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India: Harper/Litmus, 2015)
Ames Library DS432.P26 R35 2015

An era of darkness: the British empire In India. Tharoor, Shashi, (New Delhi, [India]: Aleph, 2016)
Ames Library DS463.T43 2016

Empire made: my search for an outlaw uncle who vanished in British India. Hillsbery, Kief, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017)
Ames Library DS475.2.H13 H55 2017

Decolonisation and the politics of transition in South Asia. Bandyopādhyāẏa, Śekhara, (New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, 2016)
Ames Library DS480.84.D382 2016

In search of freedom: journeys through India and South-East Asia. Chhabra, Sagari, (Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India: HarperCollins Publishers India, 2015)
Ames Library DS481.A1 C524 2015

Contemporary relevance of Ambedkar's thoughts. Ramaiah, A., (Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2017)
Ames Library DS481.A6 C66 2017

Old history, new geography: bifurcating Andhra Pradesh. Ramesh, Jairam, (New Delhi: Rupa, 2016)
Ames Library DS485.A558 R36 2016

Power, memory, architecture: contested sites on India's Deccan Plateau, 1300-1600. Eaton, Richard Maxwell, (New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2014)
Ames Library DS485.D25 E28 2014

A Muslim conspiracy in British India?: politics and paranoia in the early nineteenth-century Deccan. Mallampalli, Chandra, (Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2017)
Ames Library DS485.D25 M35 2017

Secular structures of Gangetic Plain: Neolithic-Chalcolithic age to the Gupta period. Chandra, Priyanka, (Delhi: B.R. Publishing Corporation, 2016)
Ames Library Quarto DS485.G26 C436 2016

A colonial affair: commerce, conversion, and scandal in French India. Agmon, Danna, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2017)
Ames Library DS485.P66 A34 2017

Askew: a short biography of Bangalore. George, T. J. S. (New Delhi [India]: Aleph, 2016)
Ames Library DS486.B362 G46 2016

Report on the excavations at Hampi: 1991-2010. Vasudevan, C. S., (Mysore: Department of Archaeology, Museums and Heritage, 2014)
Ames Library Quarto DS486.H3 V37 2014

Intangible cultural heritage of Bhutan. Dorji, Jaġar, (Thimphu: Research & Media Division, National Library & Archives of Bhutan, 2015)
Ames Library Quarto DS491.7.I58 2015

Rethinking tribe in Indian context: realities, issues, and challenges. (Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2017)
Ames Library GN635.I4 N38 2014

Glimpses of India-China rock art. Malla, Bansi Lal, (New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, 2016)
Ames Library Quarto GN799.P4 M34 2016

Social economy of development in India. Chalam, K. S. (Los Angeles: SAGE, 2017)
Ames Library HC435.3.C54 2017

Development challenges in Bhutan: perspectives on inequality and gross national happiness. Schmidt, Johannes Dragsbaek, (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2017)
Ames Library HC440.25.D48 2017

Women workers in urban India. Raju, Saraswati, (Delhi, India: Cambridge University Press, 2016)
Ames Library HD6054.2.I4 W696 2016

Transformation of women at work in Asia: an unfinished development agenda. Dasgupta, Sukti, (Los Angeles: SAGE, 2016)
Ames Library HD6181.85.T736 2016

Bhujia barons: the untold story of how Haldiram built a [Rs.] 5000-crore empire. Kumar, Pavitra, (Gurgaon, Haryana, India: Portfolio, Penguin, 2016)
Ames Library HD9219.I44 H355 2016

From start-up to global success: the Zensar story. Natarajan, Ganesh, (New Delhi: SAGE, 2016)
Ames Library HD9696.2.I44 Z46 2016

International trade and industrial development in India: emerging trends, patterns and issues. Veeramani, Choorikkad, (New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, 2016)
Ames Library HF3786.5.I58 2016

Globalization before its time: the Gujarati merchants from Kachchh. Goswami, Chhaya, (Gurgaon: Portfolio, Penguin, 2016)
Ames Library HF3790.K33 G67 2016

Towards a new sociology in India. Bandyopadhyay, Mahuya, (New Delhi, [India]: Orient BlackSwan, 2016)
Ames Library HM477.I4 T69 2016

Sociology of well-being: lessons from India. Derné, Steve, (Los Angeles, California: SAGE, 2017)
Ames Library HN687.D398 2017

Human development and disparities: issues and concerns for Northeast India. Hazra, Anupam, (Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2017)
Ames Library HN690.N6 H86 2017

Commercialization of hinterland and dynamics of class, caste and gender in rural India. Singh, Supriya, (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017)
Ames Library HN690.Z9 S65 2017

Evolving humanitarian action. International Committee of the Red Cross. (Colombo: International Committee of the Red Cross, 2013)
Ames Library Quarto HV555.S72 E96 2013

Decentralised convergence plan: an alternative development. Sarumathy, M. (New Delhi: Studera Press, 2016)
Ames Library JS7025.D56 S27 2016

Perilous interventions: the security council and the politics of chaos. Puri, Hardeep Singh, (Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India: Harpercollins Publishers India, 2016)
Ames Library JZ5006.7.P87 2016

Picturing India: people, places and the world of the East India Company. McAleer, John (London: The British Library, 2017)
Ames Library Quarto N8214.5.I5 M33 2017

Jaina sculptures, paintings and manuscripts of Golden Temple of Gwalior. Singh, A. K. (Delhi: B.R. Publishing Corporation, 2016)
Ames Library Quarto NB1912.J34 S56 2016

Multilingualism and multiculturalism: perceptions, practices and policy. Pattanayak, D. P. (New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, 2016)
Ames Library P115.M855 2016

India connected: mapping the impact new media. Narayan, Sunetra Sen, (Sherman Oaks, California: SAGE Publications, 2016)
Ames Library P92.I7 I49 2016

A thousand yearnings: a book of Urdu poetry and verse. Russell, Ralph, (New Delhi, India: Speaking Tiger, 2017)
Ames Library PK2049.H54 2017

Shibli Numani: life and works. Cug̲h̲tāʼī, Muḥammad Ikrām, (Lahore: Pakistan Writers Cooperative Society, 2017)
Ames Library PK2199.S5 Z836 2017

Writing the first person: literature, history, and autobiography in modern Kerala. Kumar, Udaya, (Ranikhet: Permanent Black and Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, in association with Ashoka University, 2016)
Ames Library PL4718.K84 2016

Badal Sircar: search for a language of theatre. Jain, Kirti, (New Delhi, India: Niyogi Books, 2016)
Ames Library PN2888.D83 B33 2016

Bravely fought the queen: a stage play in three acts. Dattani, Mahesh, (New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 2006)
Ames Library PR9499.3 D348 B73 2006

When I hit you; or, A portrait of the writer as a young wife. Kandasamy, Meena, (London: Atlantic Books, an imprint of Atlantic Books Ltd, 2017)
Ames Library PR9499.4.K363 W44 2017

Health and medicine in the Indian princely states: 1850-1950. Ernst, Waltraud, (Abingdon, Oxon; Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018)
Ames Library RA418.3.I4 E76 2018

Languished hopes: tuberculosis, the state, and international assistance in twentieth-century India. Brimnes, Niels, (New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, 2016)
Ames Library RC317.I4 B75 2016

Politics of the womb: the perils of Ivf, surrogacy & modified babies. Virani, Pinki, (Gurgaon, Haryana, India: Penguin, Viking, 2016)

Ames Library RG133.5.V57 2016