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{"title":"Re-imagining the Regional Polity: Lessons in Bhrātṛbhāva and Bandhubhāva from the Baghel Kingdom","authors":"Ayesha Sheth","doi":"10.1080/02666030.2023.2287835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2023.2287835","url":null,"abstract":"Confronted by an increasing number of mahārājādhirājas and shahanshāhs during the period between the fourteenth-sixteenth centuries, how do we characterise state-making and royal projections of aut...","PeriodicalId":52006,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140303181","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":"Editorial Note on the Special Issue","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/02666030.2023.2287864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2023.2287864","url":null,"abstract":"Published in South Asian Studies (Vol. 39, No. 2, 2023)","PeriodicalId":52006,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140301706","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":"From the Interstices of History: Rethinking Regional Polity in North India and the Deccan, 14th–16th Centuries","authors":"Daud Ali","doi":"10.1080/02666030.2023.2287817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2023.2287817","url":null,"abstract":"Published in South Asian Studies (Vol. 39, No. 2, 2023)","PeriodicalId":52006,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140303183","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":"Routes of Translation: Connected Book Histories and al-Jazari’s Robotic Wonders from the Mamluks to Mandu","authors":"Vivek Gupta","doi":"10.1080/02666030.2023.2287840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2023.2287840","url":null,"abstract":"Over the course of the long fifteenth century, scholars and books moved across regions and spurred transcreations of numerous Islamicate manuscripts in South Asia. This essay undertakes a close rea...","PeriodicalId":52006,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140322840","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":"Rethinking the Regional in Rājamatī’s World: Placemaking, Patronage and the Performance of Polity in Chanderi, c. 1479","authors":"Saarthak Singh","doi":"10.1080/02666030.2023.2287842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2023.2287842","url":null,"abstract":"A bilingual inscription on a stepwell built in 1479 on the suburbs of Chanderi, Madhya Pradesh presents a rare biography of its patron Rājamatī, a female entertainer (bhāṭiṇi), who is said to have ...","PeriodicalId":52006,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140301619","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":"Creating an Ecumene: Cultural, Economic, and Social Boundaries of the Deccan Sultanates","authors":"Pushkar Sohoni","doi":"10.1080/02666030.2023.2287838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2023.2287838","url":null,"abstract":"A notional region was fashioned by the rulers of the sixteenth-century Deccan; they used cultural, economic, social, and urban organisations to define the region. In the choices they made about min...","PeriodicalId":52006,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140303200","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":"Region, Politics and Literary Culture: Reflections from Mithila in the Long 15th Century","authors":"Pankaj Jha","doi":"10.1080/02666030.2023.2287833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2023.2287833","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the notion of region as they figure in certain literary texts of the medieval and early modern north India across diverse linguistic archives. The idea is to look at and beyond ...","PeriodicalId":52006,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140301618","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 Pursuit of Gandhāran Sculptures: A Record of Amateur Excavations in the Former Khyber Agency","authors":"Zarawar Khan","doi":"10.1080/02666030.2023.2271250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2023.2271250","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis article explores the history of clandestine activities concerning Buddhist antiquities in the former Khyber Agency of the British Indian Empire. To this end, the archives kept at the Directorate of Archives and Libraries at Peshawar prove that Gandhāran sculptures recovered during these clandestine excavations were transported to England in violation of the law in force. In addition, some sculptures belonging to senior officers have disappeared and are to this day unknown. This article envisions and considers some of these facts and therefore focuses particularly on the discovery, hasty excavation, and devastation of Buddhist ruins near the great stupa called Shpola which was part of the Khyber Agency under the British Kingdom.Keywords: Pursuance of antiquitiesBuddhist remainsKhyber AgencyBritish period AcknowledgementsThe author expresses gratitude to the Director of the Directorate of Archives and Library, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Peshawar for permission to study the archival record preserved therein the record section. I am also grateful to Mr Muhammad Ismail, Research Officer, and Mr Jibran Ullah, the custodian of the record section of DOAL, for their cooperation in tracing out the required material consulted in the present research.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. Iqbal Javed, ‘An Overview of British Administrative Set-Up and Strategy in the Khyber 1849-1947’, IPRI Journal, XI/1, (2011), 77-95 (pp. 77-78); see also Baha Lal, ‘The Administration of the North-West Frontier Province 1901-1919’, Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertations, submitted to the School of Oriental and African Studies, (University of London,1968), p. 16.2. Khan Zarawar & Fawad Khan, ‘The Shpola Stupa of Khyber Pass: The Twentieth-Century Record of a Proposed Conservation Project’, Pakistan Heritage, 13, (2021), 13-22 (pp. 13-16).3. Fergusson James, ‘History of Indian and Eastern Architecture’, (London: John Murry, 1910), 1, p.92.4. Hargreaves Harold, ‘Some monuments in the Punjab and North-Weste Frontier Province’, in Annual Report of the Archaeological Survey of India for the year 1926-27, ed. by Sir Jhon Marshall, (Calcutta: Central Publication Branch, 1930); 120-127(pp.125-126).5. Schneider Britta, ‘The beginning and development of Gandhāran collections in German public museums’, in Buddhism and Gandhara an Archaeology of Museums Collection, ed. by Himanshu Prabha Ray, (New York: Routledge, 2018), 213-231; (P.219).6. See fig.047. Spooner Brainerd. D, ‘Section II. Exploration and research: Frontier Circle, in Annual Report of the Archaeological Survey of India for the year 1922-23, ed. by D. Brainerd Spooner, (Calcutta: Central Publication Branch, 1923); 96-102, (pp.100-101).8. Natesa Aiyer. V, ‘Shpola Stupa, Khyber’, in Archaeological Survey of India. Annual Report 1915-16, ed.by Sir Jhon Marshall, (Calcutta: Government Printing, India, 1918); pp.115-16, Pl. LX a &b.9. Because the stupa was in the ","PeriodicalId":52006,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135934107","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":"Ranajit Guha: A Tribute","authors":"David Hardiman","doi":"10.1080/02666030.2023.2270837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2023.2270837","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52006,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135872759","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":"“ <i>It is a Gurdwara, Not a Memorial</i> .”: The Politics and Aesthetics of Sikh Memorials for 1984","authors":"Kanika Singh","doi":"10.1080/02666030.2023.2270839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2023.2270839","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis paper looks at two memorials built in India to commemorate Sikh victims of the violent events of June 1984 and November 1984. Gurdwara Yaadgaar Shaheedan (Gurdwara Martyrs’ Memorial) was built in the Golden Temple complex, Amritsar in 2013, and the Wall of Truth: Sikh Genocide Memorial was inaugurated in Gurdwara Rakabganj, New Delhi in 2017. While both memorials commemorate related events and are built by the same group of people, they differ completely in the choice of nomenclature, design and even the justification given for their creation. This paper discusses the differences between these memorials and their relevance in the memorial politics of contemporary India.Keywords: Sikhmuseummemorial1984Operation Bluestarmemorials for atrocitiesHolocaust AcknowledgementI am grateful to Manjit Singh GK for discussing his work with me. I also thank the anonymous reviewers for their detailed comments on the paper.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. From the word, panth, for the Sikh community.2. This alliance broke in the year 2020 in the context of the historic Farmers’ Protests led by the farmers of Punjab, against the BJP-led Central Government’s introduction of three farm laws.3. For this paper, I consider museums and memorials together, keeping in mind the commemorative function of museums. In the Sikh case, museums are often both sites for acquiring knowledge of the past and also to remember a particular aspect of Sikh history. For example, the information panel at the Bhai Mati Das Museum in Gurdwara Sisganj, Delhi informs the visitor that it is built on the ‘land enriched by the blood of martyrs’ and the museum is for the younger generations to remember these sacrifices.4. Kanika Singh, ‘Understanding Sikh Museums in Contemporary India’, Economic & Political Weekly 57, no. 15, (April 2022): 32–39.5. See, for instance, Yogesh Snehi, ‘Narratives of History’, The Tribune, 5 August 2012, https://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120805/spectrum/main4.htm; Kanchan Vasudev et al., ‘Punjab Elections 2017: CM Parkash Singh Badal Spends Generously on War Memorials and Monuments’, The Indian Express, 18 July 2016, https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/punjab-elections-2017-cm-parkash-singh-badal-spends-on-monuments-memorials-unlimited-hardlook-2920540/.6. Singh, Understanding Sikh, p. 36.7. It should be noted that the two Partition Museums mentioned here are not ‘Sikh’ projects. Their sponsorship is not exclusively Sikh nor is their thematic focus on the Sikh community alone. Along with the Virasat-e Khalsa, they are the first examples and the only recent examples of museumization of the Partition, an event which is extremely significant in the history of South Asia.8. The Golden Temple is also referred to by other names such as the Darbar Sahib and the Harmandir Sahib.9. Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale (1947–84) was the head of the Damdami Taksal (a radical Sikh seminary), and ","PeriodicalId":52006,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135814024","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}