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LIST No. SS/ 106. Books on Religion & Philosophy
Lala Murari Lal Chharia Oriental Series
1 & 2. Srimad Bhagavatam with the text of Sridhar with Visisitaadvaita and
Dvaita Readings Vol. I Skandhas 1- 7 & Vol. 2 Skandhas 8-12./ Ed.by T.R.
Krishnacharya/ ISBN.978-81-920763-0-0/ (SET) /Rs. 800
3. Brihat Jataka of Varaha Mihira. Translated by N.C. Aiyar.
ISBN.978-81-920763-3-1 / Rs. 500
5. The Twelve Principal Upanisads with Notes from the Commentaries of
Sankaracharya and the Gloss/ Trans. into English by E.Roer, E.B.Cowell,
Rajendra Lal Mitra./ ISBN.978-81-920763-5-5/ Rs.800
6 & 7. The Brahma Vaivarta Purana , 2 Vols.- (Brahma and Prakriti Khandas
Vol.I.)., (Ganesa and Krishna Janma Khandas. Vol.II) / Trans.into English by
Rajendra Nath Sen, 978-81-920763-8-6 (SET) / Set.Rs.1000
9 & 10. The Brihat Samhita of Varaha Mihira, 2 Vols.- Eng.Trans/
N.Chidambaram Iyer.(2 Parts.)ISBN 978-93-81218-17-4(SET) / Set. Rs 600
11. Bhakti Ratnawali with the Commentary of Vishnu Puri Translated by a
Professor of Sanskrit, ISBN.978-93-81218-29-7 / Rs. 300
12. An Introduction to the Yoga Philosophy/ Srisa Chandra Vasu,
ISBN.978-93-81218-28-0/ Rs.120
13, The Brihat Jatakam of Varaha Mihira.Eng.Trans. by Swami Vijnananda.
ISBN. 978-93-81218-27-3. Rs. 500
14. The Patanjali"s Yoga Sutras.Trans. Rama Prasada. Delhi,2011.
ISBN.978-93-81218-26-6. / Rs. 400
15. Sri Narada Pancaratram - The Jnanamrita sara Samhita/ English
Translation Swami Vijnananda/ ISBN 978-93-81218-25-9 / Rs.400
16-24..Sriman Mahabhartam- A New edition mainly based on the South Indian
texts with footnotes and readings ( 9 vol. with a Descriptive contents &
Alphabetical Index of Sriman Mahabharatam) Ed. T.R.Krishnacharya &
T.R.Vyasacharya. / 9 Vols.Set. ISBN.978-93-81218-39-6 (set). Rs.3000
25. Lalitaarchana-Chandrika-Hymns to Lalita, form of Tripurasundari, Hindu
Deity for Worship and Associated rituals/ Trans.Prof.S.K.Ramachandara Rao.
2nd ed. ISBN.978-93-219-45-7. Rs. 300
26. Pratyabhijnahrdayam of Ksemaraja- The Essence of Self-Recognition/
Introduction with practical notes/Dmitri Semenov.ISBN.978-93-81218-47-1. Rs
250
27,28,29. Vastu- Silpa Kosha Encyclopaedia of Hindu Temple Architecture
and Vastu / Prof. S. K.Ramachandra Rao. ,
978-93-81218-51-8,(SET). 3 Vols. Set. Rs.2000
The Vastu-shilpa-kosha is a three volume encyclopedic work .
The first volume has explained comprehensively the fundamentals of the
Indian architecture. It deals with the Agama tradition, the various kinds of
Agama texts, the Alaya tradition and the concept of Vastu.
The second volume has a detailed description of Vastu illustrations and
symbolic representations. The third volume focuses on the architectural and
scuptural ideas. It deals with Vastu Vidya, the rituals of Alaya-sthapana
and other details.
30. Bhavopanishad -Text with Translation and Explanation./ S. K.
Ramachandra Rao. ISBN.978-93-81218-56-3. / Rs.600
31. Sri Sukta-Text with Translation and Explanation./ Prof.S.K.Ramachandra
Rao.ISBN.978-93-81218-55-6. / Rs.200
32. The Teachings of the Odd-Eyed One- A Study and Translation of the
Virupaksapancasika, with the Commentary of Vidyacakravartin/ David Peter
Lawrence . / Rs. 600
A study and translation of a tantric contemplative manual and the
commentary on it.
This book offers the first published translation of the contemplative
manual Virupaksapañcasika, written circa the twelfth century CE, and the
commentary on it, Vivrti by Vidyacakravartin. These late works from the
Pratyabhijña tradition of monistic and tantric Kashmiri Saiva philosophy
focus on means to deindividualize and disclose the primordial, divine
essential natures of the human ego and body-sense.
33. The Advaita Worldview- God, World, and Humanity/ Anantanand
Rambachan/ Rs. 400
2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
A new interpretation of Hindu tradition focusing on the nature of God, the
value of the world, and the meaning of liberation.
34. Meditation on Lalita Sahsaranama/ Prof.S.K.Ramachandra Rao. / Rs 400
* The Philosophy Sadhana- with Special Reference to the Trika
Philosophy of Kashmir/ Deba Brata Sen Sharma. Foreword Paul Muller Ortega. /
Rs. 450
* Singing Krishna - Sound becomes sight in Paramanand's Poetry/ A
Whitney Sanford/ RS. 600
Singing Krishna introduces Paramanand, one of north India's greatest
medieval poet-saints, whose poetry has been sung from the sixteenth century
to the present in ritual service to the Hindu deity Krishna.
* Jivanmukti in Transformation- Embodied Liberation in Advaita and Neo
Vedanta/ Andrew O Fort/ Rs. 600
The Book Examines the Hindu concept of liberation while living from the
perspective of the Advaita Vedanta school from the Upanisads to modern
times.
* Yoga and the Luminous- Patanjali's Spiritual Path to Freedom/
Christopher Key Chapple/ Rs. 500
Divine Books on Perfumery and Cosmetics Series
1. A Comprehensive Treatise on Perfumery-
A Complete Detailed Description of the Raw Materials and Apparatus
used in the Perfumer's Art/ R S Cristiani/ Rs. 1450, Edition 2012
2. A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Perfumery:
Illustrated by Twenty-Eight Engravings Dr. C. Deite,/ translated from the
German by William T. Brannt,/ Rs. 1450 , Edition 2012
3. The Art of Perfumery and the Methods of Obtaining the Odours of
Plants-
The Growth and General Flower Farm System of raising fragrant Herbs with
Instructions for the Manufacture of Perfumes, and Cosmetics etc.with an
appendix on preparing artificial Fruit-Essences/ G. W. Septimus Piesse, /
Rs. 1450, Edition 2012
Sri Garib Das Ayurveda Series
1& 2. Ayurvedic System of Medicine - 2 vols Set/ N.N. Sen
3. Ayurvedic Care & Cure of the Digestive System/ Prof. Dr.P. H.Kulkarni.
ISBN.978-03-81218-19-8 / Rs.300
4. Experiments with Drugs of Ayurveda/ Dr.P.H. Kulkarni. 978-93-81218-20-4
/ Rs.300
5.Ayurveda Philosophy and Practice/ Prof. P.H.Kulkarni.,
978-93-81218-41-9. / Rs.250
6. Encyclopedia of Ayurvedic Massage/ John Douillard/
978-93-81218-40-2/ Rs. 900
This book features more than 15 massage treatments, each described in
step-by-step detail and some synchronized with two therapists for up to two
hours in length. It provides the reader with all the tools necessary to
begin Ayurvedic treatments as a part of a spa menu or massage therapy
program.
Dr. John Douillard is the author of The 3-Season Diet &
Body, Mind, & Sport, which has sold over 60,000 copies & has been printed
in six languages. John received his Ayurvedic training in India and holds a
Ph.D. in Ayurvedic medicine. He co-directed Deepak Chopra's Ayurvedic center
for eight years and has trained over 2000 Western doctors in Ayurvedic
medicine. He has been teaching Ayurvedic medicine, natural health, fitness,
and nutrition internationally for seventeen years. Currently he directs the
LifeSpa School of Ayurveda and practices Ayurvedic and chiropractic medicine
at LifeSpa in Boulder, Colorado.
"With great clarity and precision, Dr. John Douillard has
provided a detailed guidebook to the profound system of Ayurvedic massage,
bringing this ancient method of yogic healing into practical focus for
everyone to use in its many different forms." - Dr. David Frawley
7. Ayurveda Nidana -The Diagnosis & Pathology. / Prof. P.H.Kulkarni, ISBN
978-93-81218-57-0./ Rs.300
8. Positive Health in Ayurveda/ S. R. Sudarshan, ISBN.978-93-81218-58-7. /
Rs.300
9. Obesity and Ayurveda- Care and Cure /Prof. Ajay Kumar Sharma , Dr.
Amit Kumar Sharma. ISBN.978-93-81218-58-4./ Rs.500
10. Hindu Bioethics for the Twenty First Century/ S. Cromwell Crawford. /
Rs. 600
No study on Bioethics will be complete and no problem of Bioethics will
amicably be solved until and unless Hindu Bioethics for the Twenty-first
Century is referred to." - Vedic Science
11. Mettalic and Mineral Drugs in Ayurveda/ S. R. Sudarshan/ Rs. 500
12. Introduction to Ayurveda/ Prof. S. K. Ramachandra Rao/ Rs. 500
13. Fundamentals of Ayurvedic Medicine/ Prof. Dr. P.H. Kulkarni. / Rs. 300
Divine Buddhist Texts and Studies Series
1. The Dhammapada & Sutta Nipata (Collection of Verses & Discourses).
Translated into English by F Max Muller &
V. Fausball. , ISBN.978-93-81218-09-9/ Rs.500
2. Analysis of the Abhisamayalamkara / E.Obermiller.
ISBN. 978-93-81218-18-1. / Rs. 700
3. The Life of Buddha by Ashvaghosha Bodhisattva - Translated from
Chinese into English by Samuel Beal. / ISBN 978-93- 81218-14-3 / Rs.450
4. Buddhist Suttas/ English Translation by T.W. Rhys Davids.
ISBN 978-93-81218-02-0 / Rs.450
5. Hand Book of Colloquial Tibetan/ Graham Sandberg.
ISBN.978-93-81218-10-5. Rs.450
6. Buddha Carita of Asvaghosha / English Translation by E.B.Cowell.
ISBN 978-93-81218-04-4/ Rs.300
7. The Larger Sukhavati-Vyuha, Smaller Sukhavati-Vyuha,
Vajracchedika, Larger Prajna Paramita Hridaya Sutra, Smaller Prajna
Paramita Hridaya Sutra /Trans. F. Max Muller,
The Amitaayur Dhyana Sutra Translated by J.Takakusu, (The Buddhist
Mahayana Text)/ Delhi,2011. ISBN.978-93-81218-03-7, / Rs.500
8- 10. Vinaya Texta/ Translated by T.W. Rhys Davids & Hermann Oldenberg, 3
Vols.
(VOL I- The Patimokkha, The Mahavagga I-IV.), (VOL. II-The Mahavagga,V-X,
The Culavagga I-III), (VOL. III- The Culavagga IV-XII)
978-93-81218-08-2 (Set.) / Price. Rs.600 Per Vol. /
Rs. 1800 ( 3 vols.set)
11. The Lotus Sutra - English translation of Saddharma-Pundrika Sutra/
Trans.H.Kern/ ISBN 978-93-81218-01-3 / Rs. 450
13 & 14. The Questions of King Milinda.Trans. T.W.Rhys Davids. 2 Vols.
978-93-81218-24-2. (Set.) Rs. 600 Per Vols.,/ Rs. 1200 (set)
15. Buddhist Texts from Japan. Ed. F.Max Muller, ISBN.
978-93-81218-43-3./ Rs.600
16. Experiencing Buddhism - Ways of Wisdom and Compassion / by Ruben L.
F. Habito / . ISBN.978-93-81218-46-4.Rs. 450
This book engages the reader with its story-telling style as it
illustrates the principles of Buddhism with concrete examples. Paying
special attention to the rise of Buddhist practice in the West, Habito
introduces the novice to Buddhist experience in its historical unity and the
variety of traditions that reflect its essence. Integrated into Habito's
text are five personal accounts by practicing Buddhists: on being a
Therevada Buddhist by the Venerable Dhammananda, Dr. Chatsumarn Kabilsing;
on being a Zen Buddhist by Jan Chozen Bays; on being a Tibetan Buddhist by
Judith Simmer Brown; on being a Pure Land Buddhist by Kenneth Tanaka; and on
living the Lotus by Virginia Straus
17. Nagarjuna & the Philosophy of Openness/ Nancy McCagney/ Rs. 400
Nancy McCagney demonstrates that the concept of space ('akasa') in early
Indian Mahayana Buddhism is the root metaphor for Nagarjuna's understanding
of 'sunyata', or openness. Nagarjuna's use of the term 'sunyata' was new,
and contrasted with the word's use in Pali Buddhist literature. By using the
word to mean 'openness,' Nagarjuna was able to elucidate, through a deeper
analysis of impermanence, a consistent philosophical foundation for the
truth and efficacy of Gautama's Middle Way. McCagney's book will be
important for those studying Indian philosophy, Buddhism, and the philosophy
of religion.
18. Mediating the Power of Buddhas- Ritual in the Manjusrimulakalpa /
Glenn Wallis/ Rs. 600
Analyzes a seventh-century ritual manual that provides both a rich source
of information of medieval Buddhist life and addresses the ongoing concern
of how an adherent can encounter the power of a buddha.
Mediating the Power of Buddhas offers a fascinating analysis of the
seventh-century ritual manual, the Mañjusrimulakalpa. This medieval text is
intended to reveal the path into a ritual universe where the power of a
buddha abides. Author Glenn Wallis traces the strategies of the
Mañjusrimulakalpa to enable its committed reader to perfect the promised
ritual, uncovering what conditions must be met for ritual practice to
succeed and what personal characteristics practitioners must possess in
order to realize the ritual intentions of the Buddhist community. The manual
itself was written at a key point in Buddhist history, one when Hindu forms
of practice were still imitated and on the cusp of the shift from Mahayana
to Vajrayana (or Tantric) Buddhism. In addition, the Mañjusrimulakalpa
presents a rich compendium of Buddhist life in an earlier era, containing
information on a variety of its readers' concerns: astrology, astronomy,
medicine and healing, ritual practice, iconography, devotion, and
meditation.
Books on Buddhism
51. Buddhism in Far East Asia / Arvind Kumar Singh - [Rs. 1295, US
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52. Bodily Self-Sacrifice in Indian Buddhist Literature / Reiko Ohnuma -
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53. Sinhalese Monastic Architecture : The Viharas of Anurdhapura /
Senake Bandaranayake - [Rs. 1095, US $24.89]
54. Buddhism among the Turks of Central Asia / Margit Koves - [Rs.
1250, US $28.41]
55. Vajrayana Buddhism : Study In Social Iconography / Umakant Mishra -
[Rs. 2500, US $56.82]
56. Science of Medicine and Surgery in Buddhist India / Meena Talim -
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57. Kailasanatha Temple : The Realm of Immortals / Arputhara Rani
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58. Rebuilding Buddhism / Sarah Le Vine & David N. Gellner - [Rs. 795,
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59. The Wheel of Life / Kulananda - [Rs. 250, US $5.68]
60. The Abhidharmakosa & Bhasya of Acarya Vasubandhu with Sphutartha
Commentary of Acarya Yasomittra, 4 Volumes bound in 2) / Swami Dwarika Das
Shastri (Ed.) - [Rs. 1200, ]
61. Riven by Lust : Incest and Schism in Indian Buddhist Legend and
Historiography / Jonathan A. Silk - [Rs. 995, US $22.61]
62. The Dhammapada : A Translator's Guide / K.T.S. Sarao - [Rs. 995,
US $22.61]
63. A Metaphorical Study of Saundarananda / Linda Covill - [Rs. 590,
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64. Dictionary of Buddhism / Soka Gakkai - [Rs. 995, US $22.61]
65. Nyayapravesakasastra of Baudh Acarya Dinnaga / Muni Jambuvijayaji -
[Rs. 795, US $18.07]
66. Mind Only : A Philosophical and Doctrinal Analysis of the
Vijnanavada / Thomas E. Wood - [Rs. 495, US $11.25]
67. Jatakas in Buddhist Thought and Art , 2 Vols. / B. Subrahmanyam -
[Rs. 6460, US $146.82]
68. Hinduism and Buddhism in Perspective / Y.V. Dahiya - [Rs. 595, US
$13.52]
69. Engaged Buddhism : The Dalai Lama's Worldview / Bharati Puri -
[Rs. 250, US $5.68]
70. Buddhism : The Way to Wisdom / Suman Chaterjee - [Rs. 800, US
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71. Stupa : Cult and Symbolism / Lokesh Chandra, Gustav Roth, Franz-Karl
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72. Buddhism : Its Historical, Theoretical and Popular Aspects / Ernest
J. Eitel - [Rs. 485, US $11.02]
73. Buddhist Stupas in South Asia / Jason Hawkes & Akira Shimada -
[Rs. 895, US $20.34]
74. Manifestations of Buddhas / Shashibala - [Rs. 695, US $15.80]
75. India and China : A Thousand Years of Cultural Relations (Zhong-Yin
Qiannian Shi) / Prabodh Chandra Bagchi (Rev. & Ed. by Haraprasad Ray -
[Rs. 650, US $14.77]
76. Vajrayana Images of the Bao-Xiang Lou : (Pao-hsiang Lou) Pantheon, 3
Vols. / Fredrick W. Bunce - [Rs. 14000, US $318.18]
77. Cetana and the Dynamics of Volition in Theravada Buddhism / Nalini
Devdas - [Rs. 895, US $20.34]
78. Synthesis of Buddhist Saiva & Sakta Tantras / Surendra Jha - [Rs.
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79. Elements of Buddhist Iconography / Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (Ed.
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80. A Handbook of Buddhism: Art, Architechture, Literature and
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84. Tibetan Art / Lokesh Chandra - [Rs. 2300, US $52.27]
85. Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies, Vol. IX : Buddhist Philosophy
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86. Yoga, Bhgoga and Ardhanariswara : Individuality, Wellbeing and
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87. Ancient Varanasi : An Archaeological Perspective / Vidula Jayaswal -
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88. Essay on Tibetan Cultural Heritage / Karubaki Datta - [Rs. 795, US
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89. Digha-Nikaya : Romanize Pali Text with English Translation / Alka
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90. Vaishali and the Indianization of Arakan / Noel F. Singer - [Rs.
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91. Buddhist Logic, 2 Vols. / Th. Stcherbatsky - [Rs. 795, US $18.07]
92. Panorama of Himalayan Architecture , Vol. 2 : Buddhist Monasteries,
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and the Search for Understanding) / Jonathan A. Silk (Ed.) - [Rs. 595, US
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94. Buddhist Studies : Papers of the 12th world Sanskrit Conference,
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95. Buddhist Studies : Wisdom, compassion and the search for
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96. Principles of Buddhist Tantra : A Discourse on
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97. Lives of Early Buddhist Monks : The Oldest Extant Biographies of
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98. The Buddhist View of Knowledge and Reality / Moti Lal Pandit -
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99. Advanced History of Buddhism : Monasteries and Temples / Sameer Das
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100. Kizil : On the Silk Road / Rajeshwari Ghose (Ed.) - [Rs. 2500, US
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58. The Infinite Story : The Past and Present of the Ramayanas in Hindi
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the Jaina Tirthankaras (A Historical and Cultural Study) / Lalta Prasad
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77. The Hindu Way : In Search of Eternal / Vidya Nivas Misra (Ed. & Tr.
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80. Sakti Worship in India and Iconography : With Special Reference to
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84. The Touch of Sakti : A Study in Non-dualistic Trika Saivism of
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88. Vedic Etymology / Fatah Singh - [Rs. 750, US $17.05]
89. Swami Vivekananda : The Monarch of Monks / Dushyanta Pandya - [Rs.
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94. The Rigveda and the Avesta: The Final Evidence / Shrikant G.
Talageri - [Rs. 750, US $17.05]
95. The Satapatha Brahmana (4 Vols.) : Sanskrit Text with Eng. Trans. by
Julius Eggeling / Maitreyee Deshpande (Intro.) - [Rs. 7000, US $159.09]
96. The Message of the Upanishads : The World's Most Ancient
Philosophical Thoughts / Sharadchandra Prabhakar Karnik - [Rs. 495, US
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 3:46 AM
Subject: H-ASIA: CONF Nationalism, Democracy, and Colonial Urbanism in the
Interwar South Asia: Nottingham Workshop (April 2012)
> H-ASIA
> March 25, 2012
>
> Workshop: Nationalism, Democracy and Colonial Urbanism in Interwar South
> Asia, University of Nottingham, April 13, 2012
>
> (x-post H-Empire)
> ***********************************************************************
> From: Stephen Legg <Stephen.Legg@nottingham.ac.uk>
>
> Hi
>
> As part of the (re)launch of the Urban Culture Network here at Nottingham
> I have helped organise a one day workshop looking at nationalism and the
> city in colonial India. A specific focus,
> I know (!), but hopefully one that might present themes of interest to
> list members. Details below and at:
> http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ucn/workshops/workshop12/2012.aspx
>
> Attendance is free but places are (technically) limited so please let me
> know if you can attend.
>
> Yours
>
> Steve
>
> Stephen Legg
> University of Nottingham
> <Stephen.Legg@nottingham.ac.uk>
>
>
> NATIONALISM, DEMOCRACY AND COLONIAL URBANISM IN INTERWAR SOUTH-ASIA
> UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
> WORKSHOP APRIL 13TH 2012
>
>
> In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in colonial
> urbanism in South Asia. Books have emerged concerning architectural
> history and planning practices in Lahore, Calcutta, Bombay, and Delhi.
> These writings build upon an earlier generation of colonial urban studies,
> but not upon previous studies of nationalism in Indian cities. This
> workshop aims to re-engage with studies of anti-colonial nationalism in
> Indian cities, incorporating two key insights. First, it will draw upon a
> much richer sense of the urban as, for instance, a performative,
> affective, territorial and literary space, as well as one of finance,
> formal politics, and electoral wards. Secondly, it will feature scalar
> framing of the urban, paying attention to the legislative reforms of the
> interwar period in the context of debates about imperial federalism, to
> examine the city as a municipal and constitutional space.
>
> As such, the workshop will build on earlier political geographies of
> Indian cities which exceeded the spaces and concerns of the colonial
> elite. Some of these works focused on the urban as a theatre of
> nationalist politics, of industrial dispute and working class identity
> formation, or of religion. But even in these studies, the city was a
> back-drop for political action, not a constituent actor in politics
> itself. Similarly, these works tended to focus on the late-Victorian
> period at the cost of exploring the interwar period when mass-mobilisation
> nationalism and constitutional reform combined to radically alter the
> nature of the "urban" in South Asia. This workshop will bring together
> scholars with an interest in anti-colonialism, urbanism and interwar India
> to discuss ways of rethinking nationalism and the city in late-colonial
> India.
> Attendance is free but numbers are limited.
>
> To register please email stephen.legg@nottingham.ac.uk
>
> PROGRAMME
> * 9.20-9.30 Prashant Kidambi and Stephen Legg: Welcome and introduction
> * 9.30-10.15: Stephen Legg (University of Nottingham)
> Spatial Histories and Affective Geographies: Forms and Narratives
> of Nationalism in Colonial Delhi
> * 10.15-10.45: Refreshments
> * 10.45-11.30: Justin Jones (University of Exeter)
> Nationalism in the city, and the city in nationalism: Lucknow as
> political centre, 1919-1939
> * 11.30-12.15: Eleanor Newbigin (SOAS)
> Constructing the 'urban' colonial subject: taxation and
> representation in interwar India
> * 12.15-1.15: Lunch (not provided)
> * 1.15-2.00: Anish Vanaik (University of Oxford)
> An arena of Government: encroachment, public spaces and
> municipal politics in colonial Delhi
> * 2.00-2.45: Prashant Kidambi (University of Leicester)
> Nationalism and municipal politics in inter-war Bombay City
> * 2.45-3.15: Refreshments
> * 3.15-4.00: William Gould (University of Leeds)
> Patronage, publicity and the black market: the politics of food
> and civil supply and 'anti-corruption' in 1940s UP cities
> * 4.00-4.45: Concluding roundtable and discussion
>
> Venue: The Hemsley (formerly known as The Staff Club).
> Number 8 on the following map:
> http://www.thehemsley.co.uk/Library/Images/Pages/file/mapuniversitypark.pdf
>
> Hosted by the Urban Culture Network at the University of Nottingham
> [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ucn/index.aspx]
>
> Organised by Stephen Legg (University of Nottingham)
> and Prashant Kidambi (University of Leicester)
>
> Supported by the School of Humanities
> and the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at the University of Nottingham
> and the Centre for Urban History at the University of Leicester
>
> PRESENTERS AND ABSTRACTS
>
> William Gould is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Leeds. His latest
> books are on the history of the everyday state and corruption -
> Bureaucracy, Community and Influence: Society and the State in India
> (Routledge, 2012) and religious conflict - Religion and Conflict in Modern
> South Asia (Cambridge, 2012), and he has also worked on Hindu nationalism
> and the Congress in Uttar Pradesh - Hindu Nationalism and the Language of
> Politics in Late Colonial India (Cambridge, 2004). He is currently
> working on a collaborative project exploring the experiences of Denotified
> Tribes over India's independence, which involves the making of a
> historical documentary.
>
> "Patronage, Publicity and the Black Market: The politics of Food and Civil
> Supply and 'anti-corruption' in 1940s UP cities": In 1943 India's food and
> civil supply bureaucracy was near the centre of one of the most
> devastating famines of the twentieth century. In Uttar Pradesh, this
> administrative machinery was also a key mechanism in the working of
> political patronage. This paper explores the unusual position of these
> government servants of the early 'license-permit- raj' system, and looks
> at how the specific exigencies of war-time India, created the conditions
> for the more direct exploitation of supply officers by local politicians
> after 1947. But just as Town and District Supply Officers formed
> connections with Members of the Legislative Assembly, so too did
> 'citizens' movements in UP cities begin to develop media-driven campaigns
> against their 'corruption', and the blackmarkets in which they were
> immersed. The administration of Food and Civil Supply became one of the
> central planks in the development of the early post-colonial Indian
> project of 'Anti- Corruption' in urban spaces, even while rationing and
> civil supplies continued as the archetypal machinery of political
> patronage and clientelism.
>
> Justin Jones is Lecturer in South Asian history at the University of
> Exeter. He specialises in South Asian Islam since c.1850, and has worked
> extensively on Islamic reform in the urban public sphere of colonial north
> India.
>
> "Nationalism in the city, and the city in nationalism: political fashions
> in Lucknow, 1909-1939": In the early 1920s, Lucknow became the capital of
> the colonial United Provinces. Thereafter, through the interwar years, the
> city became central in the stories of both the expansion of formal
> political arenas, and the emergence of the north Indian plains as the
> centre of popular nationalism. This paper will examine the ways in which
> political life in the city was informed by language, ritual and imagery
> rooted in the city's perceived character and past. Discussing a range of
> public sphere associations and debates, this paper examines how political
> discourse in the city often incorporated a distinctively 'Lucknawi'
> character and rhetoric. Not only did public intellectuals construct a
> notion of Lucknawi cosmopolitanism as a component of nationalist
> discourse, but nationalist political activity in Lucknow often found
> itself taking on distinctive ideas and imagery in the Lucknawi setting.
> The paper, then, emphasises how the city itself exercised a particular
> influence upon nationalist politics and, conversely, how wider nationalist
> politics often found itself refracted through local motifs and senses of
> belonging.
>
> Prashant Kidambi is Senior Lecturer in Colonial Urban History in the
> School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester. His research
> explores the interface between British imperialism and the history of
> modern South Asia through the prism of the urban. In addition to a number
> of journal articles and book chapters, Dr. Kidambi is the author of a
> major study of colonial Bombay, The Making of an Indian Metropolis:
> Colonial Governance and Public Culture in Bombay, 1890-1920 (Ashgate,
> 2007).
>
> "Nationalism and Municipal Politics in inter-war Bombay City": In the
> inter-war years nationalism increasingly claimed the colonial city as the
> site of its own sovereignty. Notably, popular nationalism in the 1920s and
> 1930s spawned an extensive repertoire of collective performances and
> extra-constitutional forms of public action and protest that sought to
> re-territorialize the city as nationalist space. Simultaneously, however,
> nationalists also began to exercise institutional power in the municipal
> sphere. Yet, save for a few studies (notably, Ray 1979; Haynes 1991; and
> Gooptu 2001), this development has seldom been scrutinised closely. The
> teleological framework underpinning many of the writings on the
> nationalist movement have tended to construe the politics of the urban
> arena as an increasingly inconsequential side-show to the anti-colonial
> struggle as it unfolded at the national level during the inter-war years.
> This paper redresses this neglect and examines the interplay between
> nationalism and municipal politics in colonial Bombay between the wars. In
> particular, it shows how municipal politics in the city were reshaped by
> nationalist mobilization, projects of reform and conceptions of urban
> citizenship.
>
> Stephen Legg is Associate Professor at the School of Geography, University
> of Nottingham. His research focuses on colonial Delhi and explores themes
> of urban governmentality, nationalism and social memory, and the scalar
> politics of prostitution regulation. He has published Spaces of
> Colonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities (Blackwell, 2007) and edited
> Sovereignty, Spatiality and Carl Schmitt: Geographies of the Nomos
> (Routledge, 2011)
>
> "Spatial Histories and Affective Geographies: Forms and Narratives of
> Nationalism in Colonial Delhi": Delhi has been overwritten in imperial
> historiographies as a City of Empire, and the Capital of the Raj. Various
> works have recently set about exploring the local geographies of
> colonialism in the city, but a similar process of spatial recuperation has
> not taken place regarding Delhi as a city of nationalism. In this paper I
> will explore the methodologies through which we can explore cities as
> constitutive agents of nationalism. In part this is a question of spatial
> history; of paying attention to the intersecting scales of
> (inter)nationalism, relational networks with other cities, and the
> distribution and clusters of social movements throughout the urban
> landscape. But, I will suggest, balancing these narratives, must come
> attention to the performative repertoire of urban nationalism, spaces of
> religious community and (non-)violence, sites of counter-memory, and
> communities that threaded the national into daily and domestic routines;
> that is to say, to affective geographies.
>
> Eleanor Newbigin is a lecturer in modern South Asian history at SOAS. Her
> work explores ideas and practices of citizenship in India, especially
> during the subcontinent's transition to independence, including its
> partition. She has published several articles that explore the way in
> which discussions about religious family (or personal) law in India during
> the interwar years impacted on the formation of patriarchal structures and
> state secularism in post-colonial India (as well as editing a special
> edition of the Indian Economic and Social History Review (2009) on
> 'Personal law, identity politics and civil society in colonial South
> Asia'. This paper is taken from her current book project on Hindu law and
> the making of the 'modern' Indian state.
>
> "Constructing the 'urban' colonial subject: taxation and representation in
> interwar India": Limited devolution of power in the first half of the
> twentieth century paved the way for a new era in Indian politics that was
> distinctly marked by the presence and influence of urban, as opposed to
> rural, Indian elites. The war effort and the constitutional reforms that
> followed it committed the colonial administration to finding new and
> sustainable sources of funding to support the much-expanded state
> structure. The colonial administration sought to pay for these
> developments through the introduction of progressive income taxation - a
> charge that had historically been levied on non-agricultural incomes.
> Officials realized that it was more lucrative to tax wealthy Hindu
> families as a single financial collective than to break it down into
> individual payees. While Hindu businessmen and professionals initially
> opposed this move, they soon found that this aspect of colonial policy
> could be made to work to their advantage. Exploring the resulting
> bartering and negotiation, this paper traces the emergence of a
> specifically 'urban', but also Hindu, economic subject as the central
> figure of both colonial fiscal policy formation and Indian nationalist
> mobilization.
>
> Anish Vanaik is a D.Phil candidate at the Department of History,
> University of Oxford. His dissertation work is on property relations in
> Delhi, 1911-1947.
>
> "An Arena of Government: encroachment, public spaces and municipal
> politics in colonial Delhi": The commodification of urban space in 20th
> century Delhi generated a new set of relationships between space and time.
> Ownership came to be the idiom through which the municipality enunciated
> an idea of public-ness: asserting its authority vis-a-vis individual
> owners and neighbourhoods alike through a discourse about encroachment on
> its land. But, the diktats of economy in expenditure and rise and fall of
> property values, in turn, came to shape the spatial interventions of
> public defined in this fashion. The range of ways of creating common
> spaces that emerged from these contradictory impulses - charity hospitals,
> schools, parks and health clinics - generated both a crucible in which
> nationalist activity was formed and an arena in which they sought to
> participate. Its importance is more precisely limned when contrasted with
> the agitational idiom through which ideas of the nation as a common
> project was also asserted. Agitations like the various hartals, or pickets
> during the Civil Disobedience movement, or mass meetings, while spatially
> spread out were temporally more restricted marking, then, the municipality
> as an arena crucial to nationalist activity.
>
>
> Dr Stephen Legg
> University of Nottingham
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