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{"title":"Bridget Allchin","authors":"Jason D. Hawkes","doi":"10.1080/02666030.2017.1382044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2017.1382044","url":null,"abstract":"Bridget Allchin, who has died at the age of 90, was a pioneer in the field of South Asian archaeology. During her career, she made some of the most important discoveries of South Asian prehistory, and laid the foundations for (now standard) interdisciplinary approaches to its study. She also played a pivotal role in promoting and facilitating South Asian studies across Europe. Born Bridget Gordon on 10 February 1927 in Oxford, the daughter of Major Stephen Gordon of the Indian Army Medical Service and Elsie (née Cox), Bridget spent her childhood in Scotland. During World War II, she helped her mother run the family farm, which at that time also involved looking after evacuees and even a German prisoner of war. It was here, inspired by the works of William Sollas, that she resolved to study prehistory at university. However, archaeology was not taught as a degree in Britain at the time. So she enrolled for a Bachelor’s degree at University College London that included Ancient History, and spent her Easter holidays excavating a prehistoric site in Oxford. Her studies were interrupted when her parents moved to South Africa, and Bridget was compelled to follow them. She planned to return to Britain as soon as possible to resume her studies, but soon found that she could read for a degree in African Studies, including Anthropology and Archaeology, at Cape Town University. Here, she studied under Astley Goodwin, who instilled in her the necessity of strictly scientific methods of fieldwork; and in her free time, learned to fly in a Piper Cub. In the summer of 1950, armed with her degree and all of her savings, Bridget returned to Britain on her own to study for a PhD. After being told by the London School of Economics that her ‘colonial degree’ was not considered adequate preparation for a research degree, she resolved to go to UCL instead. Demanding to meet the then director of the Institute of Archaeology, Vere Gordon Childe, without an appointment – and in what she herself described as a ‘somewhat belligerent mood’ – she managed to convince the Institute to admit her in less than ten minutes. She began her PhD that autumn, under the supervision of Frederick Zeuner, with every intention of working on later African prehistory and ethnoarchaeology. It was there, at a lecture, that Bridget met her future husband and lifelong colleague, Raymond Allchin. The couple were married in March 1951, and spent their honeymoon in the Dordogne visiting the Palaeolithic cave paintings in the Vallée de la Vézère. Raymond, who had just won a PhD scholarship to study the archaeology of the Deccan, was due to spend a year in South Asia, and so Bridget made arrangements to spend a year’s study leave with him. Raymond’s supervisor, Kenneth Codrington, was very supportive of this plan, not least because Bridget was the only one among them who had a driving licence. While preparing to go, Bridget found out that she was pregnant. Hiding the news from both of their families, ","PeriodicalId":52006,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Studies","volume":"10 1","pages":"118 - 120"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85627032","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":"Gordon Sanderson’s ‘Grand Programme’: Architecture, Bureaucracy and Race in the Making of New Delhi, 1910-1915","authors":"Deborah Sutton","doi":"10.1080/02666030.2020.1741246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2020.1741246","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the relationship between choreography of India’s monuments and imperial hierarchies of race. It does so by situating one man’s professional biography within the structures of authority and privilege to which he owed his position. Gordon Sanderson was appointed Superintendent of Muhammadan and British Monuments in Northern India in 1910 and was charged with overseeing the exploration and conservation of archaeological monuments in the new imperial city at Delhi. The classification of India’s architectures offers a uniquely revealing insight into imperial ideologies of race and place. During his brief career, Sanderson demonstrated an intense dislike for the principles and practises of imperial architecture . Sanderson believed in a profound connection between landscape and architecture, a theory for which he found an antithesis in the imperial Public Works Department. Ultimately, and paradoxically, his work was deployed by the Government of India as a repudiation of the credibility of Indian design and architecture.","PeriodicalId":52006,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":"72 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82568678","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":"Mushirul Hasan, 1949–2018","authors":"M. Siddiqi","doi":"10.1080/02666030.2019.1595668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2019.1595668","url":null,"abstract":"Mushirul Hasan died in December 2018 after a prolonged bout of partial recovery from a traffic accident four years ago. He was admirably looked after by his wife, Zoya Hasan, in this long, trying p...","PeriodicalId":52006,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"121 - 121"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77361098","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":"Stone Beads of South and Southeast Asia: Archaeology, Ethnography and Global Connections","authors":"S. Bawa","doi":"10.1080/02666030.2018.1470740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2018.1470740","url":null,"abstract":"terize most of popular Hindu worship. Finally, in the conclusion, Ramos brings the discussion of pilgrimage, politics, and nationalism up to the present by examining the rhetoric of right-wing politicians in the twenty-first century. Perhaps most importantly, she highlights Narendra Modi’s remarkable creation of a new spiritual tourist destination at Gabbar Hill in Gujarat, where replicas of all fifty-one shakti pithas have been constructed at a single site. As such, the pithas continue to play a key role in the imaging of the nation, in the politics of Hindutva, and in the literal attempt to re-integrate the body of ‘Mother India.’ Overall, Ramos’ book is a compelling read and an important contribution to our larger understanding of the complex intersections between religion, politics, sacred space, pilgrimage, and national identity. She brings together an outstanding collection of visual images with a number of key historical sources in order to shed important light on the rise of nationalist consciousness during this key period. Perhaps the one weakness with this book is simply that it is so short and so narrowly focused. At 126 pages, the book is tightly written and precisely argued, but there are many places where the reader will simply want more – more historical evidence (for example, in the chapter on Kamakhya) and more case studies beyond these three sites in the northeast (how, for example, did the other forty-eight major pithas play into this nationalist narrative? Do they support or challenge her analysis of these three sites in Bengal and Assam? And what of the pithas that lie outside the boundaries of the modern Indian nation, such as those in Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh)? But despite this weakness, Pilgrimage and Politics in Colonial Bengal is an important book that should be of genuine interest to anyone interested in the study of pilgrimage, sacred space, religious nationalism, and modern Indian history.","PeriodicalId":52006,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"114 - 116"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77570059","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":"Giorgio Stacul","authors":"L. Olivieri","doi":"10.1080/02666030.2019.1595653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2019.1595653","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52006,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"122 - 124"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79150052","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":"Archaeological (Non?) Alignments: Egypt, India, and Global Geographies of the Post-War Past","authors":"W. Carruthers","doi":"10.1080/02666030.2019.1674487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2019.1674487","url":null,"abstract":"This article demonstrates how the politics of non-alignment and multilateralism intersected with the making of scientific knowledge about the past after the Second World War. The article shows how post-war political (re-) arrangements helped to realign not only the geographies of that knowledge, but also the people who could claim expertise in making it. The article concentrates on events during UNESCO’s International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia, which took place during the 1960s and 1970s in Egypt and Sudan in response to the flooding caused by the construction of the Aswan High Dam. Discussing the Egyptian excavations carried out during the work by the Archaeological Survey of India, the article shows how the campaign offered the chance to realign – if not entirely non-align – the ways in which knowledge of the past was made, circulated, and justified. Carrying out archaeological work in another non-aligned nation-state not only represented a favourable international intervention for India, but also allowed the country to rearrange colonial logics of archaeological knowledge production to its advantage and to claim expertise in their use. The Archaeological Survey of India then attempted to perform this expertise elsewhere and thereby bolster the post-partition narrative of a ‘greater India’.","PeriodicalId":52006,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Studies","volume":"50 1","pages":"45 - 60"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86410210","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 Colonial State. Theory and Practice","authors":"M. Siddiqi","doi":"10.1080/02666030.2017.1282011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2017.1282011","url":null,"abstract":"new textual data. Relics and reliquaries have also been the focus of numerous recent publications, including a 2016 Cambridge University dissertation by Wannaporn Rienjang, who has also contributed to this volume; also deserving note is a chronological study of inscriptions on reliquaries by Stefan Baums. This publication offers, for the first time, access to Masson’s finds in the form of beautiful photographs and clearly vetted documentation. A body of evidence with far-reaching implications that now is accessible to the broader scholarly community.","PeriodicalId":52006,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Studies","volume":"55 1","pages":"109 - 110"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77793066","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":"Pilgrimage and Politics in Colonial Bengal: The Myth of the Goddess Sati","authors":"H. Urban","doi":"10.1080/02666030.2018.1455949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2018.1455949","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52006,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":"113 - 114"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81955589","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":"Questionable Company: Representing Ethnicity at the Mughal Court","authors":"A. King","doi":"10.1080/02666030.2019.1601382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2019.1601382","url":null,"abstract":"This paper was prompted by the discovery of three dozen portrait drawings by an anonymous Indian artist in Old Delhi’s Chandni Chowk market. Some portraits, drawn in black pen and ink on paper and dating from around 1830, are framed by a caption, written in Devanagari script, apparently describing prominent figures in the Mughal court, following the British conquest of Delhi (1803). The first section focuses on the translated script of the captions around the portraits and provides some historical context to identify the subjects portrayed. It focuses on who they are. It also situates the portraits in relation to ‘Company School’ painting, i.e. work by eighteenth-/early nineteenth-century Indian artists adjusting their styles to paint subjects appealing to British (and European) taste. Attention shifts to portraits of British officials, possibly including Sir David Ochterlony, first Resident at the Mughal Court, 1803–06, and again, 1818–22, and Charles Metcalfe, 1811–18. The paper draws attention to the ways in which the artist distinguishes between Asian and European subjects, simultaneously coming to terms with the challenges of representing unfamiliar European ethnicities. The drawings themselves – historically interesting and occasionally amusing – are unique in relation to what is generally understood as ‘Indian painting’.","PeriodicalId":52006,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"32 - 44"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82132870","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":"Saturated Space, Signs of Devotion in South Indian Temples","authors":"Leah Elizabeth Comeau","doi":"10.1080/02666030.2019.1641969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2019.1641969","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I investigate the significance of contemporary Tamil temple signs that have been laid, hung, and sometimes painted over earlier stone inscriptions. I am particularly interested in the following questions: What is the purpose of these old and new signs? And how does their existence contribute to the devotional program of a temple? While signs appear everywhere within a temple complex and come in a wide variety of materials, I argue that their impact is not found at the level of an individual signboard. Instead, the significance of southeast Indian temple signs is found in the fullness of the walls and their non-linear refrains to events, values, communities, and scenes for the worship of the deity. To make this argument, I draw from affect theory, material studies, and especially concepts of accumulation and saturation.","PeriodicalId":52006,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Studies","volume":"162 1","pages":"181 - 192"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86739652","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}