Punjabi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ / پنجابی) The SOAS South Asia Institute is hosting a series of monthly meetings to explore the rich and diverse culture of Punjabi poetry. This will also include a journey through history and literature. The meetings are open to the general public of all ages and level. There is no need to be proficient in the Gurmukhi/Shahmukhi script and all are welcome to just listen and explore. For
Comparative and thematic Sharing sacred spaces in the Mediterranean: Christians, Muslims, and Jews at shrines and sanctuaries / edited by Dionigi Albera and Maria Couroucli. Heirs to forgotten kingdoms: journeys into the disappearing religions of the Middle East / Gerard Russell After secularism: rethinking religion in global politics / Erin K. Wilson (also available as an e-book) Buddhism Muktālatāvadānam of Ksẹmendra : Sanskrit text, Tibetan version with Hindi, English translations
We have an exciting offer of a free trial to the FO Files for India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan for the period 1947-1980! Many departments, students and researchers will find this digital archive relevant and resourceful for a number of subject disciplines, including History, Politics, Development Studies, Economics, Near Middle Eastern Studies (Afghanistan), South East Asian Studies (Burma) and South Asian Studies. Access is from this link: www.archivesdirect.amdigital.co.uk/FO_India. When off site please
George Blaker, who was born in India in 1912 and died in England in 2001, spent time in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Burma in the 1950’s-60’s. He took a large collection of beautiful photos of Indian classical and regional dance. Now with the help of George Blaker’s daughter, Jenny Blaker these pictures have been brought to life in high quality colour and added to the SOAS digital library! The
We currently have trial access (until 20 Feb 2015) to the Armed Conflict Database (ACD) from the International Institute for Strategic Studies. The Armed Conflict Database monitors armed conflicts worldwide, focusing on political, military and humanitarian trends in current conflicts, whether they are local rebellions, long-term insurgencies, civil wars or inter-state conflicts. In addition to the comprehensive historical background for each conflict, the weekly timelines and the monthly updates, the
Childhood in a Sri Lankan village : shaping hierarchy and desire / Bambi L. Chapin. The golden wave : culture and politics after Sri Lanka’s tsunami disaster / Michele Ruth Gamburd. The 1970s and its legacies in India’s cinemas / edited by Priya Joshi and Rajinder Dudrah. The city son / Samrat Upadhyay. Midnight, Dhaka / by Mir Mahfuz Ali. Bodies that remember : women’s indigenous knowledge and cosmopolitanism in
Hindu theology in early modern South Asia : the rise of devotionalism and the politics of genealogy / Kiyokazu Okita. I too have some dreams : N. M. Rashed and modernism in Urdu poetry / A. Sean Pue. Mapping South Asia through contemporary theatre : essays on the theatres of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka / Ashis Sengupta [editor]. ‘Nation-state’ and minority rights in India : comparative perspectives
Comparative and thematic Material culture and Asian religions: text, image, object / edited by Benjamin J. Fleming and Richard D. Mann. Objects of worship in South Asian religions: forms, practices and meanings / edited by Knut A. Jacobsen, Mikael Aktor, Kristina Myrvold The family of Abraham: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim interpretations / Carol Bakhos Unbelievable: why we believe and why we don’t / Graham Ward. Religion in development: rewriting the
E-Books South Asian Feminisms / Ania Loomba, & Ritty A. Lukose. Public administration in South Asia : India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan / edited by Meghna Sabharwal and Evan M. Berman. Books Reform and productivity growth in India : issues and trends in the labour markets / Dibyendu Maiti. Development and public health in the Himalaya / edited by Ian Harper. Participolis : consent and contention in neoliberal urban India /
A partnership between the British Library and ‘Findmypast’ has made over 2.5 million family history records from the India Office Records accessible online. The digitized documents reveal a vast amount about the lives of the British in India from 1698 to 1947 including: careers and domestic life, the lives of women in India, records of baptisms, marriages, wills and burials and civil and military pensions. The indexes can be accessed
