1905, 2016

Vernacular Scripts of the Indus Valley and Beyond

By Farzana Whitfield|May 19, 2016|Africa, Anthropology and Sociology, Archival collections, History, Literature, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Religions, South Asia|0 comments

The following exciting workshop is taking place at the British Library. Come and be a part of it: Vernacular Scripts of the Indus Valley and Beyond Friday, 20 May 2016 The Eliot Room, British Library Conference Centre London  10:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks – Nur Sobers-Khan (British Library) 10:30 – 11:15 Personal Reflections and Observations on the Indus Valley Scripts Christopher Shackle, SOAS (London) 11:15 – 12:00 An Anthropological Perspective

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2002, 2015

Religions – December 2014 and January 2015.

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|February 20, 2015|Religions|0 comments

General and thematic Convulsing bodies: religion and resistance in Foucault / Mark D. Jordan The myth of religious violence: secular ideology and the roots of modern conflict / William T. Cavanaugh The devil: a new biography / Philip C. Almond Logical positivism [by] C.A. Qadir. Global religious movements across borders: sacred service / edited by Stephen M. Cherry [&] Helen Rose Ebaugh Medicine and religion: a historical introduction / Gary

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3007, 2012

South Asia – July 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 30, 2012|South Asia|0 comments

South Asia Pakistans freedom & Allama Mashriqi : statements, letters, chronology of Khaksar Tehrik (movement) period : Mashriqis birth to 1947 / edited & compiled by Nasim Yousaf. Indian and Persian prosody and recitation / Hiroko Nagasaki ; English editing by Ronald I. Kim. Changing homelands : Hindu politics and the partition of India / Neeti Nair. Cross-disciplinary perspectives on a contested Buddhist site : Bodhgaya jataka / [edited by]

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1906, 2012

South Asia – May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 19, 2012|South Asia|0 comments

Sambandha / Rājendra ‘Rājeśa’. 1857, Narahatạ kī vīrān̐ganā / Vinoda Kumara Śrīvāstava. Patthara galī : [kahānī-saṅgraha] / Nāsirā Śarmā. Mahākavikālidāsaviracitam, Abhijñānaśākuntalam : Prabhopetam / sampādaka, samīkshaka evaṃ vyākhyākāra, Śivabālaka Dvivedī, Ratnā Tivārī, Pratyushavatsalā Divedī. Nirālā kā kāvya rāga se vidroha taka / Avadheśa Kumāra. Muṃśī Premacanda aura Dalita samāja : rāshtṛīya bahasa ke āīne meṃ vivecanā / Ratnakumāra Sāmbhariyā. Āja ke g̲ẖama ke nāma / Faiza Ahamada Faiza ; sampādaka,

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