{"title":"Were the Cretulae (Clay Sealings) from the Indus Port Town of Lothal Part of an Administrative Archive? Contextual, Interpretive, and Comparative Evidence","authors":"Dennys Frenez","doi":"10.1080/02666030.2024.2401206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2024.2401206","url":null,"abstract":"Clay sealings (cretulae) have traditionally been assumed to have been used in ancient administrative systems to secure the shipment of commodities and to account for their receipt. However, researc...","PeriodicalId":52006,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Studies","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142252223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mudgagiri, a Pāla “Jayaskandhāvāra”: An Assessment of Recent Sculptural and Inscriptional Findings at Munger, Bihar","authors":"Akash Pandey, Sushmita Sen, Rahul Maurya","doi":"10.1080/02666030.2024.2391633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2024.2391633","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores recently reported inscriptional and sculptural evidence from an early Medieval “Jayaskandhāvāra” i.e. the royal administrative headquarters of the Pāla dynasty, named Mudgagir...","PeriodicalId":52006,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Studies","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142221968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why Ananda Coomaraswamy’s Time in Sri Lanka (Still) Matters","authors":"Janice Leoshko","doi":"10.1080/02666030.2024.2338990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2024.2338990","url":null,"abstract":"While the period that Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877–1947) spent as the Director of the Mineralogical Survey of Ceylon (1903–1906) is acknowledged as an important aspect of his development, exactly w...","PeriodicalId":52006,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141508800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Sapta Sthala Along The Kaveri: Among the Earliest Chola Temples Epigraphy as a Tool","authors":"Vidya Dehejia","doi":"10.1080/02666030.2024.2338987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2024.2338987","url":null,"abstract":"In 1985, Rick Asher and G.S. Gai, jointly edited a volume published by the American Institute for Indian Studies that was titled Indian Epigraphy. Its Bearing on the History of Art. The volume carr...","PeriodicalId":52006,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Studies","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141614618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bamiyan Comes to Bangkok: Situating the Buddha of the Cave Museum at Wat Saket","authors":"Sraman Mukherjee","doi":"10.1080/02666030.2024.2332012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2024.2332012","url":null,"abstract":"This paper traces the making of Bamiyan Buddhas beyond the Bamiyan valley in Afghanistan since 2002. Recounting the building and rebuilding of a monastic complex in Bangkok, the study focuses on on...","PeriodicalId":52006,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Studies","volume":"112 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141508799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Being in the World Artfully: Institutions, Infrastructure, Interconnections","authors":"Rebecca M. Brown, Sumathi Ramaswamy","doi":"10.1080/02666030.2024.2338986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2024.2338986","url":null,"abstract":"Published in South Asian Studies (Vol. 40, No. 1, 2024)","PeriodicalId":52006,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Studies","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141529833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aesthetic of Light and Time: An Intellectual History of Pictorialism from India","authors":"Ranu Roychoudhuri","doi":"10.1080/02666030.2024.2338996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2024.2338996","url":null,"abstract":"Pictorialism emerged in the last quarter of the nineteenth century as a global aesthetic movement that argued for photography’s artistic status on par with other plastic arts more powerfully than e...","PeriodicalId":52006,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Studies","volume":"117 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141508801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Artistic Relations: Mapping KCS Paniker’s Constellations","authors":"Rebecca M. Brown","doi":"10.1080/02666030.2024.2332011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2024.2332011","url":null,"abstract":"As student, teacher, and principal of the Madras School of Art, and as mentor, colleague, editor, and painter, KCS Paniker (1911–77) lived within a network of relations that one might map, followin...","PeriodicalId":52006,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Studies","volume":"167 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141508803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Satyagraha After Cancel Gandhi: Race and Caste through Labor and Architecture, C. 1896-1942","authors":"Venugopal Maddipati","doi":"10.1080/02666030.2024.2338988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2024.2338988","url":null,"abstract":"In the early twentieth century M.K. Gandhi articulated Satyagraha as a decentering quest for truth through everyday politics. Satyagraha privileged the “minor” or the marginalized over the dominant...","PeriodicalId":52006,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Studies","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141508802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Historical Convergences and Region Making in Sultanate Gujarat","authors":"Jyoti Gulati Balachandran","doi":"10.1080/02666030.2023.2287830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2023.2287830","url":null,"abstract":"This article reflects upon the role of intra-, inter-, and trans-regional networks in the making of distinctive regional formations in the long fifteenth century. Through its focus on Gujarat, a re...","PeriodicalId":52006,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Studies","volume":"234 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140301705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}