ANT 330-301: Peoples and Cultures of South Asia

Spring 2007

An online version of this syllabus is available at:
http://faculty.missouristate.edu/e/edwardproctor/ANT330.htm

Edward Proctor

EdwardProctor@MissouriState.edu and EdwardProctor@gmail.com

Meyer Library, Room 110-I

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Course Description:

An introduction to the anthropology of South Asia, with an emphasis on India. Themes and issues covered will include: 1) Background & Overview: Representing South Asia Emically & Etically; 2) Hinduisms: Great Tradition & Little Traditions; Orientalism & Occidentalism vs. Sanātana Dharma; 3) Bhagavadgītā & Rāmāyaṇa; Qissā-Kahānī & Amar Chitra Katha: Classical & Popular Literature and the Transmission of Culture through Traditional and Modern Media; 4) Caste, Part 1: Varna & Jāti; Class & Sanskritization; Ambedkar & Periyar vs. Gandhiji; 5) Caste, Part 2: Louis Dumont: His Disciples & Detractors; 6) Post-Colonial, Post-Modern, Post-Structuralist, & Subaltern Studies; 7) Men, Women, & Others: Gender, Emotion, Kinship, & Sexuality; 8) Transportation: Physical & Social Mobility; 9) Hāsya Rasa: Humo(u)r from Vidūśaka to Bollywood; 10) Food (Bhog) & Fasting (Vrat): Goodness (Sattva), Passion (Rajas), & Darkness (Tamas); 11) Minorities in Hindustan: Muslims & other Others; Hindutva & Communalism; 12) Language & Languages; 13) Aging & Death; and 14) The Future.

Prerequisites: There is no prerequisite for this course.

Goals and Objectives: To provide knowledge of the peoples and cultures of South Asia (mostly India) both emically (as the people themselves see things) and etically (as outsiders see things), including analysis of the ways in which the roots of the present are located in the past (both real and imagined). Also covered are differing British, American, South Asian, and Continental approaches to the anthropological study of South Asia, and how Western preconceptions have affected (and continue to affect) the study and representation of South Asian cultures.

Class Requirements: Grades will be based on three tests of terminology, concepts, and identification (10% each); one map test (10%); a take-home Mid-Term esssay test (30%); and a 5 to 10 page research paper (30%). Tests may be retaken until passed, and papers rewritten until acceptable. Sample quizzes & tests are attached to the bottom of this syllabus.

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1) Background & Overview:

Representing South Asia Emically & Etically

·   Cohn, India: The Social Anthropology of a Civilization in Cohn & Chakrabarty, The Bernard Cohn Omnibus, Oxford University Press, 2006: “Foreword”; “Preface”; “Chapter 1 Approaches to the Study of Indian Civilization”; “Chapter 2 India as a Geographic Entity”; “Chapter 3 Cultural and Historical Geography”; “Chapter 4 “Demography, Economic Structures, and Language”; “Chapter 5 The Shaping of the Civilization: Views of the Past”, “Chapter 10 Indian Social Structure and Culture: Introduction”, pp. iii - 59 & 111 - 123.

o Review by Paul Hockings, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 74, No. 4. (Aug., 1972), pp. 850 - 851:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-7294%28197208%292%3A74%3A4%3C850%3AITSAOA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-0

·   “Bernard Cohn, 75, studied colonialism, India’s caste system”, The University of Chicago Chronicle, Dec. 11, 2003: http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/031211/cohn-obit.shtml

·   Lelyveld, David, “[Reader-list] Remembering Prof. Bernard S. Cohn, 1928-2003”

Sarai.net, Dec 2, 2003: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/2003-December/003282.html

·   Stern, Robert W., Changing India: Bourgeois Revolution on the Subcontinent. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2^nd ed., 2003: Preface to the second edition”; “Glossary”; pp. i - xiv.

·   South Asia at Chicago: Fifty Years of Scholarship. Highlights From the Library’s Holdings: “IV. Recurrent Themes in the Representation of South Asia”:

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/southasia/50yrs4.html

·   Das, Veena, “The Anthropological Discourse on India: Reason and Its Other” in Das, Veena, Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India. Oxford University Press, 1995: pp. 25 – 54.

·   Mines, Diane and Sarah Lamb, “Introduction” to Mines, Diane and Sarah Lamb, eds., Everyday Life in South Asia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002: pp. 1 – 6.

·   Searle-Chatterjee, Mary, Christopher R., “Religious Division and the Mythology of the Past” in Hertel, Bradley R. and Cynthia Ann Humes, eds., Living Banaras: Hindu Religion in Cultural Context. State University of New York Press, 1993: pp. 145 – 158.

·   Soundar, Chitra, Gateway to Indian Culture. Singapore: Asiapac Books Pte Ltd, 2005: “Social Customs and Etiquette”, pp. 119 – 122; “Home and Attire”, pp. 123 – 128; “Do’s and Don’ts in Indian Culture”, pp. 160 - 161.

·   Cohn, An Anthropologist Among the Historians and Other Essays in Cohn & Chakrabarty, The Bernard Cohn Omnibus, Oxford University Press, 2006: “Introduction”; “Chapter 1. An Anthropologist among the Historians: A Field Study”; “Chapter 4. Networks and Centres in the Integration of Indian Civilization”, “Chapter 5. The Pasts of an Indian Village”, pp. v - 18 & 78 - 99.

o Review by Frank F. Conlon, The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 48, No. 3. (Aug., 1989), pp. 647 – 648:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-9118%28198908%2948%3A3%3C647%3AAAATHA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23

o Review by C. J. Fuller, Man, New Series, Vol. 26, No. 4. (Dec., 1991), pp. 762 – 763:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0025-1496%28199112%292%3A26%3A4%3C762%3AAAATHA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q

·   Key facts: Indian rising (British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC] News): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6257057.stm

·   CIA - The World Factbook – India: “Introduction”; “Geography”; “People”; “Government”; “Economy”; “Communications”; “Transportation”; “Military”; “Transnational Issues”: https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/in.html

·   Digital South Asia Library. “Reference Resources”; “Images”; “Books and Journals”: http://dsal.uchicago.edu

·   India Map Lonely Planet: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/mapimages/indian_subcontinent/india/india.gif

·   Census GIS India: An Interactive Thematic Presentation of Census Data on Maps: http://www.censusindiamaps.net/

·   India Maps - Perry-Castañeda Map Collection: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/india.html

·   Cohn, India: The Social Anthropology of a Civilization in Cohn & Chakrabarty, The

Bernard Cohn Omnibus, Oxford University Press, 2006: “Chapter 6 The Cultural and Structural History of India: Hindu Beginnings and Islamic Penetrations”; “Chapter 7 The Mughal Period and European Conquest”; “Chapter 8 Cultural and Structural History: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries”, pp. 60 - 97.

o Review by Stanley Plastrik, Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 2, No. 2. (Mar., 1973), pp. 173 – 176:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-3061%28197303%292%3A2%3C173%3AITSAOA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23

o Review by Ákos Östör, American Historical Review, Vol. 82, No. 4. (Oct., 1977),

pp. 1051 - 1052: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28197710%2982%3A4%3C1051%3AITSAOA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C

·   Mathur, Saloni, “History and Anthropology in South Asia: Rethinking the Archive”, Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 29. (2000), pp. 89 – 106: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0084-6570%282000%292%3A29%3C89%3AHAAISA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-U

2) Hinduisms:

Great Tradition & Little Traditions;

Orientalism & Occidentalism vs. Sanātana Dharma

·   Varanasi_aarti (Streaming Video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylAjJ9t8DxU

·   Indian Heritage - Hindu Gods & Goddesses: http://www.saigan.com/heritage/gods/gods.htm

·   Lorenzen, David N., “Who Invented Hinduism?” Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 41, No. 4. (Oct., 1999), pp. 630 - 659:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0010-4175%28199910%2941%3A4%3C630%3AWIH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-X

·   Tripathi, Gaya Charan, “Hinduism through Western Glasses: A Critique of Some Western Views on Hinduism”, in Sontheimer, Gunther-Dietz, et al., eds., Hinduism Reconsidered (European Conference of Modern South Asian Studies 1989). 2^nd ed., 2001: pp. 121 – 133.

·   Sugirtharajah, Sharada, Imagining Hinduism: A Postcolonial Perspective. London: Routledge, 2003: “Introduction”; “Defining the Other”; “Postcolonial criticism as an interrogative tool”; “William Jones: Making Hinduism Safe”; “Max Müller: Mobilizing texts and managing Hinduism”; “Replicating Orientalist Constructions”; “New Orientalists: Fashioning a Monolith Hinduism”; “Textualizing Hinduism Politicizing Hinduism Reframing Hinduism and Forging an Identity”.

·   Inden, Ronald, “Orientalist Constructions of India”, Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 20, No. 3. (1986), pp. 401 - 446:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0026-749X%281986%2920%3A3%3C401%3AOCOI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-E

·   Maduro, Renaldo, “The Brahmin Painters of Nathdwara, Rajasthan”, in Graburn, Nelson H. H., ed., Ethnic and Tourist Arts: Cultural Expressions from the Fourth World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979: pp. 227 - 244.

·   Smith, Daniel H., “Impact of ‘God Posters’ on Hindus and Their Devotional Traditions”, in Babb, Lawrence A. and Susan S. Wadley, eds., Media and the Transformation of Religion in South Asia. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995: Chapter 2, pp. 24 – 50.

·   Eck, Diana L., Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in India. Prefaces to 2^nd & 3^rd editions; “Chapter 1: Seeing the Sacred”; “Chapter 2: The Nature of the Hindu Images”.

·   Hinduism Sanathana Dharma and Vedanta: presented by Shri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham: http://www.kamakoti.org/

·   Bharati, Agehananda, “The Hindu Renaissance and its Apologetic Patterns”, The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 29, No. 2. (Feb., 1970), pp. 267 – 287:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-9118%28197002%2929%3A2%3C267%3ATHRAIA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B

·   Guneratne, Arjun, A Dialogue of Civilizations: Robert Redfield and the development of language and area studies at the University of Chicago, An Exhibition based on the papers of Robert Redfield and Milton Singer at the Regenstein Library University of Chicago, September 11 - October 31, 1992: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/southasia/singer-red.html

·   South Asia at Chicago: Fifty Years of Scholarship II. Highlights From the Library’s Holdings: “12. Indian Arts”; “14. The Milton B. Singer Papers”: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/southasia/50yrs2.html

·   “Milton Singer, 82, Teacher and Author”, New York Times, December 9, 1994: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9805E5DA1339F93AA35751C1A962958260

·   “Obituary: Milton Singer, College & Anthropology”, The University of Chicago Chronicle, Dec. 8, 1994, Vol. 14, No. 8: http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/941208/singer.shtml

·   Singer, Milton, When a Great Tradition Modernizes: An Anthropological Approach to Indian Civilization. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973: Passim.

·   Slawek, Stephen M., “Popular Kīrtan in Benares: Some ‘Great’ Aspects of a Little Tradition”, Ethnomusicology, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Spring - Summer, 1988), pp. 77 – 92:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0014-1836%28198821%2F22%2932%3A2%3C77%3APKIBS%27%3E2.0.CO%3B2-8

·   Review by Agehananda Bharati of Alain Daniélou’s Hindu Polytheism,

Artibus Asiae, Vol. 28, No. 1. (1966), pp. 89 – 94: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0004-3648%281966%2928%3A1%3C89%3AHP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-6

·   Sri Venkateswara Temple: The Official Website of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams [aka Balaji]: http://www.tirumala.org

·   e-Haveli of Shri Nathji: http://www.geocities.com/pushti_marg/index.html

·   Jai Santoshi Maa (Streaming Video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpBMP8luXr8

·   Welcome to Shri Jagannath Dham, Puri: http://ori.nic.in/jagannath

·   Dance Ganesh Mumbai 2006 (Streaming Video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slxVGb3kS4Q&mode=related&search=

·   Durga Puja 2005 (Streaming Video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b0MA9zu8BA

·   Murugan, or Muruga, or Murukan (aka Subramanya, or Skanda, or Kartikeya): http://murugan.org/

·   Ayyappan (aka Dharmasastha, or Hariharasuthan, or Manikantan, or Manikandha, or Ayyanar , or Bhoothnathan): http://www.ayyappan-ldc.com/

o Ayyapan Poojai' 05 (Streaming Video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_5D9XuuTHc

·   Wadley, Susan S., “Śītalā: The Cool One”, Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 39, No. 1. (1980), pp. 33 – 62: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0385-2342%281980%2939%3A1%3C33%3ASTCO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-R

·   Templenet - The Comprehensive Indian Temple website: http://www.templenet.com

·   The Hindu Almanac 2007: http://hinduism.about.com/library/weekly/extra/bl-alm.htm

·   Pongal (January 15, 2007): http://www.pongalfestival.org

o Makar Sankranti (January 14): http://www.pongalfestival.org/makar-sankranti.html

·   Mahashivratri (February 16, 2007): http://www.mahashivratri.org

·   Holi (March 3, 2007): http://www.holifestival.org

·   Baisak (April 13, 2007): http://www.baisakhifestival.com

·   Onam (August 27, 2007): http://www.onamfestival.org

·   Raksha Bandhan (August 28, 2007): http://www.raksha-bandhan.com

·   Krishna Janmashtami (September 3 - 4, 2007): http://www.krishnajanmashtami.com

·   Divali, or Deepavali (November 9, 2007): http://www.diwalifestival.org

·   Crooke, William, The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1896; Numerous reprints (2 vol. Rpt. 2004): Volume 1: “Chapter II: The Heroic and Village Godlings”; “Chapter III: The Godlings of Disease”; “Chapter IV: The Worship of the Sainted Dead”.

o Review by Anonymous, Folklore, Vol. 8, No. 3. (Sep., 1897), pp. 269 – 271:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0015-587X%28189709%298%3A3%3C269%3ATPRAFO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-R

o Review by H. A. Rose, Folklore, Vol. 37, No. 4. (Dec. 31, 1926), pp. 408 – 411:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0015-587X%2819261231%2937%3A4%3C408%3ARAFONI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-T

o Review by George W. Briggs, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 47. (1927), pp. 189 – 192:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0279%281927%2947%3C189%3ARAFONI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-U

·   Babb, Lawrence A., The Divine Hierarchy, Popular Hinduism in Central India. New York: Columbia University Press, 1975. Passim.

·   FILM: Origins of Yoga: Reviews; Trailer; Making Of: http://www.paradisefilmworks.com/film.html

·   Coccari, Diane M., “Protection and Identity: Banaras's BirBabas as Neighborhood Guardian Deities” in Freitag, Sandria B., ed., Culture and Power in Banaras: Community, Performance, and Environment, 1800-1980. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989: http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft6p3007sk&chunk.id=d0e7627&toc.depth=100&toc.id=d0e7627&brand=eschol

o Ibid. , “The Identity of the Birs”:

http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft6p3007sk&chunk.id=d0e7869&toc.depth=100&toc.id=d0e7627&brand=eschol

o Ibid., “The Birs as Village Guardian Deities”:

http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft6p3007sk&chunk.id=d0e8072&toc.depth=100&toc.id=d0e7627&brand=eschol

·   Cutler, Norman, Criminal Gods and Demon Devotees: Essays on the Guardians of Popular Hinduism, History of Religions, Vol. 31, No. 4 (May, 1992), pp. 427 – 431:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0018-2710%28199205%2931%3A4%3C427%3ACGADDE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-V

·   Shulman, David Dean, Tamil Temple Myths: Sacrifice and Divine Marriage in the South Indian Saiva Tradition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980: Introduction; et passim.

o Review by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty of Tamil Temple Myths, Numen, Vol. 28, Fasc. 2. (Dec., 1981), pp. 265-271: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0029-5973%28198112%2928%3A2%3C265%3ATTMSAD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-1

o Review by Norman Cutler, “Tamil Religion: Melting Pot or Battleground?”of Clothey, Fred W. and A. K. Ramanujan, The Many Faces of Murukan: The History and Meaning of a South Indian God and Tamil Temple Myths, History of Religions, Vol. 22, No. 4 (May, 1983), pp. 381 - 391:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0018-2710%28198305%2922%3A4%3C381%3ATRMPOB%3E2.0.CO%3B2-V

o Review by J. R. Marr of Tamil Temple Myths, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 45, No. 3. (1982), pp. 598 – 599:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0041-977X%281982%2945%3A3%3C598%3ATTMSAD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5

o Review by Norman Cutler of Tamil Temple Myths, The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 45, No. 5. (Nov., 1986), pp. 1108 – 1110:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-9118%28198611%2945%3A5%3C1108%3ATKATCI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9

·   Review by Alessandra V. Iyer of David Dean Shulman’s The King and the Clown in South Indian Myth and Poetry, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 51, No. 1. (1988), p. 158:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0041-977X%281988%2951%3A1%3C158%3ATKATCI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-P

·   Brahmo Samaj: http://search.eb.com/eb/article-9016166

·   Arya Samaj: http://search.eb.com/eb/article-9009747

·   Ramakrishna: http://search.eb.com/eb/article-9062567

·   Vivekananda: http://search.eb.com/eb/article-9075594

·   Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust, Prasanthi Nilayam (aka Sai Baba): http://www.srisathyasai.org.in

·   Amma Amritanandamayi Devi's Homepage Amritapuri.org (aka Mata Anandamayi): http://www.amritapuri.org

·   Aghoracharya Baba Kinaram Sthal, Shivala, Varanasi (U.P.): http://www.aughar.org/

·   Visuvalingam, Sunthar, “Transgressive Sacrality in the Hindu Tradition”: http://www.svabhinava.org/TSHT-old/index.php

·   FILM: Naked in Ashes: Reviews; Trailer; Making Of: http://www.paradisefilmworks.com/film.html

·   Sadhus & Yogis of India: http://www.adolphus.nl/sadhus

o 1^st version (different photographs): http://web.archive.org/web/20000419073205/http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/dolfhart/index.html

·   SADHUS: HOLY MEN OF INDIA - KUMBHA MELA: http://digidownload.libero.it/maloca/sadhus.html

·   Llewellyn, J. E., The Kumbh Mela Home Page: Hindu Pilgrimage in Contemporary India: http://courses.missouristate.edu/JLlewellyn/kumbhmela.html

·   FILM: Shortcut to Nirvana: The Event; Synopsis & Trailer; Credits; The Filmmakers; Mela Words; Mela Gallery: http://www.melafilms.com

·   Welcome to the official website of Kumbh Mela 2001, being organised by Government of Uttar Pradesh, India at Allahabad (Prayag): http://web.archive.org/web/20010202170800/http://www.kumbhallahabad.com/ [Archived Feb 02, 2001]

·   The Glorius [sic] event of the Millennium - Kumbh 2001 which was organised by Government of Uttar Pradesh, India: http://web.archive.org/web/20010402024920/http://www.kumbhallahabad.com/ [Archived Apr 02, 2001]

·   Official Nodal Website for Kumbh Mela: http://www.webdunia.com/kumbhupinfo/ (Hindi)

·   Phohtoh Gailaree [Photo Gallery]: http://www.webdunia.com/kumbhupinfo/photogallary/ (Hindi)

·   BBC NEWS | South Asia | India's youth hit the web to worship: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6322237.stm

3) Bhagavadgītā & Rāmāyaṇa; Qissā-Kahānī & Amar Chitra Katha:
Classical & Popular Literature and the Transmission of Culture through Traditional and Modern Media

·   National Mission for Manuscripts (Department of Culture, Government of India):   http://namami.org

·   Asian Classics Input Project: http://www.asianclassics.org/

·   Tasveer Ghar: A Digital Network of South Asian Popular Visual Culture   http://www.tasveerghar.net/

·   The Song Celestial or Bhagavad-Gîtâ, Translated by Edwin Arnold, M.A. London: Truber & Co., 1886. Preface, pp. vii - xi; Chapter III: Virtue in Work, pp. 25 –33; Chapter XI: The Manifesting of One and Manifold, pp. 94 – 117; Chapter XII: Religion of Faith, pp. 118 – 122; Blurb, p. 175: http://books.google.com/books?vid=0nBPYJ5XP42iDGBT9&id=gaXj9AoLno4C&printsec=titlepage&dq=bhagavad-gita+Arnold&as_brr=1

·   RÁMÁYAN OF VÁLMÍKI, translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith, M.A., 1871. Passim: http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/rama/index.htm

·   Murphy, Anne, Ramayana: An Introduction to the Great Indian Epic, Asia Society: http://www.askasia.org/teachers/essays/essay.php?no=48&era=&grade=&geo=

·   Richman, Paula, ed., Many Ramayanas: The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991: “Introduction: the Diversity of the Ramayana Tradition”: http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=ft3j49n8h7&chunk.id=d0e97

·   Pollack, Sheldon, “Ramayana and Political Imagination in India”, The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 52, No. 2 (May, 1993), pp. 261 – 297: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-9118%28199305%2952%3A2%3C261%3ARAPIII%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9

·   Lutgendorf, Philip, “The Secret Life of Ramcandra of Ayodhya” in Richman, Paula, ed., Many Ramayanas. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991: http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft3j49n8h7&chunk.id=d0e12239&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e12239&brand=eschol

·   Rao, Velcheru Narayana, “A Ramayana of Their Own: Women's Oral Tradition in Telugu” in Richman, Paula, ed., Many Ramayanas. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991: http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=ft3j49n8h7&chunk.id=d0e7108

·   Lutgendorf, Philip, “All in the (Raghu) Family: A Video Epic in Cultural Context”, in Babb, Lawrence A. and Susan S. Wadley, eds., Media and the Transformation of Religion in South Asia. Univ of Pennsylvania Press, 1995: Chapter 9, pp. 217 – 253.

·   Pictures relating to 'Ramayana' - British Library Images Online: http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/britishlibrary/controller/textsearch?text=Ramayana&x=0&y=0

·   Hansen, Kathryn, “Chapter Five: Kings, Warriors, and Bandits” in Grounds for Play: The Nautanki Theatre of North India. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992:

http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft9v19p2qq&chunk.id=d0e4318&toc.depth=100&toc.id=d0e4318&brand=eschol

·   Ibid., “Chapter Four: Authors, Akharas, and Texts: The Sources of Sangit Texts: Old and New”: http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft9v19p2qq&chunk.id=d0e2980&toc.depth=100&toc.id=d0e2962&brand=eschol

·   Pritchett, Frances W., Marvelous Encounters: Folk Romance in Urdu and Hindi. New Delhi: Manohar Publications, 1985: “Introduction April 2005”; “Chapter One: Qissa and Dastan”; Any one of chapters two through seven; “Chapter Eight: Qissa and Oral Narrative”; “Chapter Nine: Qissa as a Genre”:

http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00litlinks/marv_qissa/index.html

·   Amar Chitra Katha - Home of Indian comics, great Indian epics & stories from India about culture, history and society: http://www.amarchitrakatha.com

oPritchett, Frances W., “The World of Amar Chitra Katha” in Babb, Lawrence A. and Susan S. Wadley, eds., Media and the Transformation of Religion in South Asia. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995: pp. 76 – 107.

oHawley, John Stratton “The Saints Subdued: Domestic Virtue and National Integration in Amar Chitra Katha: in Babb, Lawrence A. and Susan S. Wadley, eds., Media and the Transformation of Religion in South Asia. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995: pp. 107-36.

·   Derné, Steve., “Market Forces at Work: Religious Themes in Commercial Hindi Films”, in Babb, Lawrence A. and Susan S. Wadley, eds., Media and the Transformation of Religion in South Asia. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995: Chapter 8, pp. 191 – 216.

·   Dalrymple, William, “Homer in India: The oral epics of Rajasthan”, New Yorker, 11/20/2006, Vol. 82 Issue 38, pp. 48 - 55: http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.missouristate.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=23151357&site=ehost-live

·   Little, , John T., “Video Vacana: Swadhyaya and Sacred Tapes”, in Babb, Lawrence A. and Susan S. Wadley, eds., Media and the Transformation of Religion in South Asia. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995: Chapter 10, pp. 254 – 284.

4) Caste, Part 1: Varna & Jāti;Class & Sanskritization;

Ambedkar & Periyar vs. Gandhiji

·   “Caste” (See “Etymology”), Oxford English Dictionary, 2^nd ed., 1989:

http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/display/50034207?keytype=ref&ijkey=tVzj4Jth.vNEM .

http://library.missouristate.edu > Indexes & Databases > Oxford English Dictionary

· “Class” (See “Etymology”), Oxford English Dictionary, 2^nd ed., 1989: http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/display/50040921?keytype=ref&ijkey=H0sGDjgDPks D6 .

http://library.missouristate.edu > Indexes & Databases > Oxford English Dictionary

·   “varNa”, Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon Wörterbücher Sanskrit (Monier-Williams' Sanskrit-English Dictionary): Enter varNa into http://webapps.uni-koeln.de/tamil/

·   “jAti”, Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon Wörterbücher Sanskrit (Monier-Williams' Sanskrit-English Dictionary): Enter jAti into http://webapps.uni-koeln.de/tamil/

·   “Caste”, Encyclopædia Britannica Online: http://search.eb.com/eb/article-219066

·   “Hinduism > Rituals, social practices, and institutions > Ritual and social status > Castes”, Encyclopædia Britannica Online: http://search.eb.com/eb/article-59798

·   “India > The people > Caste”, Encyclopædia Britannica Online: http://search.eb.com/eb/article-46404

·   “The history of Hinduism > Sources of Hinduism > Non-Indo-European sources >

The process of “Sanskritization”, Encyclopædia Britannica Online: http://search.eb.com/eb/article-8978

·   “Seven Prevalent Misconceptions about India’s Caste System” in Mines & Lamb, Everyday Life in South Asia. Bloomington: Indiana Univ Press, 2002: pp. 225 – 226.

·   Tripathi, Gaya Charan, “Hinduism through Western Glasses: A Critique of some Western views on Hinduism”, in Sontheimer, Gunther-Dietz, et al., eds., Hinduism Reconsidered (European Conference of Modern South Asian Studies 1989). 2^nd ed., 2001: pp. 121 – 133.

·   Dirks, Nicholas, “The invention of caste: Civil society in Colonial India”, Social Analysis #25, (1989): pp. 42 - 52.

·   Cohn, India: The Social Anthropology of a Civilization in Cohn & Chakrabarty, The Bernard Cohn Omnibus, Oxford University Press, 2006: Chapter 11 “Indian Social Structure and Culture: Caste”.

·   Kakar, Sudhir, The Inner World: A Psychoanalytic Study of Hindu Childhood and Society. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983: “Beyond family: caste (jati)” pp. 122 – 126; “Ontogeny of homo hierarchicus” pp. 133 – 139.

·   Stern, Robert W., Changing India: Bourgeois Revolution on the Subcontinent. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2^nd ed., 2003: Chapter 2, “Caste”; Chapter 3 “Class”.

·   Review by Diane P. Mines of Nicholas Dirks’s Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India. American Ethnologist Book Reviews On-line Vol 30 No 2 May 2003: http://www.aaanet.org/aes/bkreviews/result_details.cfm?bk_id=484

·   Srinivas, M. N., Caste in Modern India and Other Essays. Bombay: Media Promoters & Publishers Pvt. Ltd. (1962) 11th Rpt.1994, pp. 48 et passim.

o Lubin, Timothy, Bibliography on Sanskritization / 'Hinduization' / 'Brahmanization'. Introductory paragraphs: http://home.wlu.edu/~lubint/texts/sktztn-bib.htm

o Anon., “M.N. Srinivas, 1916-1999. OBITUARY A scholar remembered” Frontline, Vol 16, Issue 26, Dec. 11 - 24, 1999: http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1626/16261120.htm

·   Appadurai, Arjun, “Putting Hierarchy in Its Place”, Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 3, No. 1, Place and Voice in Anthropological Theory. (Feb., 1988), pp. 36 – 49:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0886-7356%28198802%293%3A1%3C36%3APHIIP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C

·   Review by Agehananda Bharati of André Béteille’s Inequality among Men, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 81, No. 3. (Sep., 1979), p. 690:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-7294%28197909%292%3A81%3A3%3C690%3AIAM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-L

·   Brown, Judith M., “Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand [Mahatma Gandhi] (1869–1948)”, Matthew, H. C. G. and Brian Harrison, eds., Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Online ed. Goldman, Lawrence, ed. May 2006. 20 Jan. 2007: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33318

·   Comprehensive Sites by Gandhian Institutes Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal and Gujarat Vidyapith, Ahmedabad: http://www.mkgandhi.org/

Gandhi, M. K., “Untouchability”, Harijan 11-2-1933: http://www.mkgandhi.org/journalist/untouchablity.htm

Gandhi, M. K., The Curse Of Untouchability: http://www.mkgandhi.org/philosophy/untouchability.htm

·   Moraes, Frank. “Ambedkar , Bhimrao Ramji (1891–1956).” Rev. Eleanor Zelliot. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Online ed. Goldman, Lawrence, ed. May 2006. 20 Jan. 2007: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30399

·   Dr. B .R. Ambedkar And His People: http://ambedkar.org/

o Gandhi's Ambedkar: http://www.ambedkar.org/research/GandhiAmbedkar.htm

o QOTD: Gandhi vs Ambedkar:

   http://www.ibnlive.com/news/qotd-gandhi-vs-ambedkar/27864-3-single.html

o “Cheers greet death announcement of Gandhi in Ambedkar film”. The Times of India News Service, 13th Jan, 2001: http://www.ambedkar.org/News/Cheersgreet.htm

·   Periyar.org: http://www.periyar.org/

o “1904: INSULT AT KAASI ENLIGHTENS HIS RATIONALISM” and “1905 onwards: SELFLESS SOCIAL SERVICES”: http://www.periyar.org/html/ap_bios_eng1.asp

o “Revolutionary Sayings: About Myself?”: http://www.periyar.org/html/ap_sayings_eng.asp

·   Online NewsHour: India Votes - September 24, 1999: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/july-dec99/india_9-24.html

·   BBC News: Caste controversy over temple (Streaming Video):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_6190000/newsid_6193600?redirect=6193650.stm&news=1&bbwm=1&nbram=1&nbwm=1&bbram=1

·   BBC News: Low-caste Hindus change faith (Streaming Video):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_6050000/newsid_6051300?redirect=6051384.stm&news=1&bbram=1&nbram=1&nbwm=1&bbwm=1

5) Caste, Part 2:

Louis Dumont: His Disciples & Detractors

·   Dumont, Louis. Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and its Implications. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1966) Revised 2^nd edition, 1980: Preface to the Complete English Edition; Preface to the First French Edition; Introduction; 1. Castes and ourselves; 2. The individual and society; 7. Necessity of hierarchy; 11. Definition: the word 'caste'; 12. Main attitudes; 13. Voluntarist explanation; 14. Caste as the limiting case of known institutions; 25. Pure and impure; 33. Caste and varna; 42. The 'jajmani' system; 118. Hierarchical society and egalitarian society: a summary comparative diagram; 119. Conclusion; Postface: Toward a Theory of Hierarchy.

o Droit , Roger-Pol, “Obituary” [Louis Dumont], Anthropology Today, Vol. 15, No. 1. (Feb., 1999), pp. 16 – 17:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0268-540X%28199902%2915%3A1%3C16%3AO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-S

o Review by McKim Marriott of “Homo hierarchicus: Essai sur le système des castes”, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 71, No. 6. (Dec., 1969), pp. 1166 - 1175:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-7294%28196912%292%3A71%3A6%3C1166%3AHHESLS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-S

§    Dumont, Louis, “Marriott's Review of Dumont's Homo Hierarchicus: A Comment”. American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 72, No. 2. (Apr., 1970), pp. 468 - 469: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=00027294%28197004%292%3A72%3A2%3C468%3AMRODHH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z

o Alter, Joseph S., “Sannyasi” in Alter, Joseph S. The Wrestler's Body: Identity and Ideology in North India. Berkeley: Univ of California Press, 1992:

http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft6n39p104&chunk.id=s1.9.1&toc.depth=100&toc.id=ch09&brand=eschol

o Bastin, Rohan, “Death of the Indian Social”, Social Analysis, Fall 2004, Vol. 48 Issue 3, pp. 207 - 215:

http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.missouristate.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=15668136&site=ehost-live

·   Béteille, André, “Homo Hierarchicus, Homo Equalis”, Kingsley Martin Memorial Lecture, Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 13, No. 4. (1979), pp. 529 - 548:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0026-749X%281979%2913%3A4%3C529%3AHHHE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-1

·   Raheja, Gloria G., The Poison in the Gift: Ritual, Prestation, and the Dominant Caste in a North Indian Village. Chicago: University Press, 1988: “1. Introduction: Toward a Redefinition of "Dominance" in North Indian Society”: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/3051.ctl

o Review by Jeffrey Bonner, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 91, No. 1. (Mar., 1989), p. 224:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-7294%28198903%292%3A91%3A1%3C224%3ATPITGR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q

o Review by Michael Moffatt, American Ethnologist, Vol. 22, No. 3. (Aug., 1995), pp. 647 – 648:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-0496%28199508%2922%3A3%3C647%3ATPITGR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y

·   Parry, Jonathan P., Caste and Kinship in Kangra. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul (1979) Rpt. 2005: “The Economy: Caste and the division of labour”, pp. 58 – 81.

·   Review by David F. Pocock of Concepts of Person: Kinship Caste and Marriage in India, Man, New Series, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Dec., 1983), p. 804:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0025-1496%28198312%292%3A18%3A4%3C804%3ACOPKCA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A

·   Natrajan, Balmurli, “Caste, Class, and Community in India: An Ethnographic Approach”, Ethnology, Summer 2005, Vol. 44 Issue 3, pp. 227 - 241:

http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.missouristate.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=20872643&site=ehost-live

·   Review by Ashwini Deshpande of Caste in Question: Identity or Hierarchy? Pacific Affairs, Summer2006, Vol. 79 Issue 2, pp. 345 – 346:

http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.missouristate.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=23266206&site=ehost-live

·   Parry, Jonathan P., Caste and Kinship in Kangra, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul (1979) Rpt. 2005: “The hierarchical aspects of caste”; “Introduction”; “‘Jat’” as genus”; “The hierarchy in terms of attributes”; “Interactional relations”; “Degrees of untouchability”; “The politics of social mobility: the Koli case”; “The internal structure of the caste”; “Clans and their segments”; “Introduction”; “Clans and ‘gotras’”; “Sub-clans and lineages”; “Clan-segments, deities and shrines”; “Deference within the sub-clan”.

o Review by Mark Holmstrom, RAIN (Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland), No. 41. (Dec., 1980), p. 11:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0307-6776%28198012%290%3A41%3C11%3AC%26KIK%3E2.0.CO%3B2-6

o Review by Nancy E. Levine, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 82, No. 4. (Dec., 1980), pp. 912 – 913:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-7294%28198012%292%3A82%3A4%3C912%3ACAKIK%3E2.0.CO%3B2-1

·   Bancroft, Sarah, “Uproar over caste quotas for colleges”, New Statesman, 6/5/2006, Vol. 135 Issue 4795, p. 16:

http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.missouristate.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=21062317&site=ehost-live

·   Bagla, Pallava, “India Opens Universities to More Underprivileged Students”, Science, 6/2/2006, Vol. 312 Issue 5778, p. 1291:

http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.missouristate.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=21178528&site=ehost-live

·   Dickey, Sarah, “Anjali's Prospects: Class Mobility in Urban India” in Mines, Diane and Sarah Lamb, eds., Everyday Life in South Asia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002: pp. 214 - 226.

·   Omvedt, Gail, “Untouchables in the World of IT”, Contemporary Review, May 2004, Vol. 284 Issue 1660, pp 286 – 288:

http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.missouristate.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=13203577&site=ehost-live

6) Post-Colonial, Post-Modern,

Post-Structuralist, & Subaltern Studies

·   Subaltern Studies: http://subalternstudies.com/

·   Eagleton, Terry, “In the Gaudy Supermarket: A Critique of Post-Colonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak”, London Review of Books, Vol. 21 No. 10, 13 May 1999:

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n10/eagl01_.html

o Postcolonial Studies @ Emory, “Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak”: http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Spivak.html

·   Eaton, Richard Maxwell “(Re)imag(in)ing Other 2ness: A Postmortem for the Postmodern in India”, Journal of World History - Volume 11, Number 1, Spring 2000, pp. 57 – 78:

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_world_history/v011/11.1eaton.html

·   Said, Edward, Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978 (Rpt. 1996): Introduction; Chapter 1 The Scope of Orientalism: Projects; et passim.

·   Said, Edward, “Orientalism 25 Years Later: Worldly Humanism v. the Empire-builders”, CounterPunch, August 4, 2003: http://www.counterpunch.org/said08052003.html

o Singh, Amardeep, “An Introduction to Edward Said, Orientalism, and Postcolonial Literary Studies”, Friday, September 23, 2004:

http://www.lehigh.edu/~amsp/2004/09/introduction-to-edward-said.html

o Keith Windschuttle, “Edward Said's ‘Orientalism Revisited’”, The New Criterion, January 17, 1999: http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/17/jan99/said.htm

o “Orientalism: An Exchange by Edward W. Said, Oleg Grabar, Reply by Bernard Lewis”, New York Review of Books, Vol 29, No 13, August 12, 1982: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/6517

o Jasanoff, Maya, “Before and After Said”, London Review of Books, Vol. 28 No. 11, 8 June 2006:

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n11/jasa01_.html

o Kamiya, Gary, “How Edward Said took intellectuals for a ride”, Salon, Dec. 6, 2006: http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2006/12/06/orientalism/

·   Rogers, John D., “Post-Orientalism and the Interpretation of Premodern and Modern Political Identities: The Case of Sri Lanka”, The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 53, No. 1. (Feb., 1994), pp. 10 – 23:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-9118%28199402%2953%3A1%3C10%3APATIOP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-E

·   Cohn, Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge: The British in India in Cohn & Chakrabarty, The Bernard Cohn Omnibus, Oxford University Press, 2006: Chapter 1 “Introduction”; Chapter 3 “Law and the colonial state in India”; Chapter 4 “The transformation of objects into artifacts, antiquities, and art in nineteenth-century India”; Chapter 5 “Cloth, clothes, and colonialism: India in the nineteenth-century”.

o Review by Carolyn Martin Shaw of Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge, American Ethnologist, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Feb., 1998), p. 82:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-0496%28199802%2925%3A1%3C82%3ACAIFOK%3E2.0.CO%3B2-6

o Review by Allen Kornmesser of Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Autumn 1999), pp. 371-373:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-1953%28199923%2930%3A2%3C371%3ACAIFOK%3E2.0.CO%3B2-O

7) Men, Women, & Others:

Gender, Emotion, Kinship, & Sexuality

·   Chatterjee, Partha, “Gender and Nation”, Postcolonial Studies @ Emory:

http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Pub.html#Gender%20and%20Nation

·   Lamb, Sarah, White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender, and Body in North India. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000: “Gendered Transformations: Transformations of Gender and Gendered Transformations”; “Gendered Bodies and Everyday Practices”; “Countermeasures: Containing the Body”; “Competing Perspectives: Everyday Forms of Resistance”:

http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=ft458006c0&chunk.id=d0e10704

·   Das, Veena, “National Honour and Practical Kinship: Of Unwanted Women and Children” in Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, (1995) Rpt. 2004: pp. 55 - 83

o Review by Ákos Östör, American Ethnologist, Vol. 24, No. 4. (Nov., 1997), pp. 951 - 953: http://www.jstor.org/view/00940496/ap020096/02a00260/0

o Review by Tanya Luhrmann, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 2, No. 2. (Jun., 1996), pp. 381 - 382: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=13590987%28199606%292%3A2%3C381%3ACEAAPO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4

o Review by Manesh Shrestha, The Kathmandu Post Review of Books, 25 May 1997, Vol. 2, No. 2: http://www.asianstudies.emory.edu/sinhas/kprb0205.html

·   Wadley, Susan S., “One Straw from a Broom Cannot Sweep: The Ideology and Practice of the Joint Family in Rural North India” in Mines, Diane and Sarah Lamb, eds., Everyday Life in South Asia. Bloomington: Indiana Univ Press, 2002, pp. 11 – 22.

·   John, Mary E., “Postcolonial Feminists in the Western Intellectual Field: Anthropologists and Native Informants?” in Discrepant Dislocations: Feminism, Theory, and Postcolonial Histories. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996: http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft509nb389&chunk.id=d0e92&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e92&brand=ucpress

·   Online NewsHour: Favoring Boys in India (Transcript & Streaming Video):     http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/july-dec01/india_boys_8-16.html

·   FILM: “Water”. Available on 2-hour RESERVE in MEDIA COLLECTIONS (2nd floor, Meyer Library).
Open M-Th 7:00am - 11:00pm; Fri 7:00am - 6:00pm; Sat 9:00am - 6:00pm; Sun noon - 11:00pm. (417) 836-4548.
Film Website: http://water.mahiram.com Trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/water

o Yuen-Carrucan, Jasmine, “The Politics of Deepa Mehta's “‘Water’”, Bright Lights Film Journal, Issue 28, April 2000: http://web.archive.org/web/20060522223933/http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/28/water.html

o Heartcrossings, “Movie Review: Deepa Mehta's Water Is A Watery Waste”: http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/09/02/204641.php

o BBC News: 'Water' film to show in India (Streaming Video):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_6290000/newsid_6298700?redirect=6298789.stm&news=1&nbwm=1&bbwm=1&bbram=1&nbram=1

·   BBC News: Ahluwalia story causes stir at Cannes (Streaming Video):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_4990000/newsid_4999100?redirect=4999118.stm&news=1&bbwm=1&bbram=1&nbram=1&nbwm=1

·   Alter, Joseph S., “Nag Panchami: Snakes, Sex, and Semen” in The Wrestler's Body: Identity and Ideology in North India. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992: http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft6n39p104&chunk.id=ch06&toc.depth=1&toc.id=ch06&brand=eschol

·   Cohen, Lawrence. No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, The Bad Family, and Other Modern Things. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. “Five: The Anger of the Rishis”: http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=ft658007dm&chunk.id=d0e4655

·   Govinda, Radhika, “The Politics of the Marginalised: Dalits and Women's Activism in India”, Gender & Development, Jul2006, Vol. 14 Issue 2, pp. 181 - 190: http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.missouristate.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=22018246&site=ehost-live

·   Bhutti Weavers Cooperative Society Ltd.: http://www.bhuttico.com

·   Freitag, Sandria B., ed., Culture and Power in Banaras: Community, Performance, and Environment, 1800-1980. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989: “Introduction to Part 2 - Identity and Constructions of Community in Banaras: Organizing Expressions of Identity”:

http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft6p3007sk&chunk.id=d0e7142&toc.depth=100&toc.id=d0e7142&brand=ucpress

·   Jaini, Padmanabh S. Gender and Salvation: Jaina Debates on the Spiritual Liberation of Women. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. “Foreword”; “Preface”; “Introduction”: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft138nb0wk/

·   Raheja, Gloria Goodwin, and Ann Grodzins Gold, “Introduction: Gender Representation and the Problem of Language and Resistance in India”. Listen to the Heron's Words: Reimagining Gender and Kinship in North India. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=ft5x0nb3v0&chunk.id=d0e880

·   The Kama Sutra of Vatsayayana, trans by Sir Richard Burton (1883): “Chapter II. On the Acquisition of Dharma, Artha, and Kama”; et passim:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/sex/kama/kama102.htm

o Review by Agehananda Bharati, The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 22, No. 3. (May, 1963), pp. 350 – 351: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-9118%28196305%2922%3A3%3C350%3ATKSOV%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B

·   Daniélou, Alain, The Complete Kama Sutra: The First Unabridged Modern Translation of the Classic Indian Text. Rochester: Park Street Press, 1993:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/product-description/0892814926/ref=dp_proddesc_0/202-2922776-5627037?ie=UTF8&n=266239&s=books

·   Review by Rohan Bastin of Sexual Sites, Seminal Attitude: Sexualities, Masculinities and Culture in South Asia, Australian Journal of Anthropology, Apr2006, Vol. 17 Issue 1, pp. 118 - 119:

http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.missouristate.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=20410918&site=ehost-live

·   Yim, Jennifer Young & Ramaswami Mahalingam, “Culture, Masculinity, and Psychological Well-being in Punjab, India”, Sex Roles, Nov 2006, Vol. 55 Issue 9-10, pp. 715 – 724: http://www.metapress.com/content/bl5487272k068265/fulltext.pdf

·   Overview of HIV and AIDS in India. AVERT - AVERTing HIV and AIDS: http://www.avert.org/aidsindia.htm

·   Trawick, Margaret, Notes on Love in a Tamil Family. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990: “Prologue”; “1. What Led Me to Them: About the Author” & “Traditional India”; “3. The Ideology of Love”; “8. Final Thoughts”.

o Review by Sujata Sriram and Chaudhary Nandita, “An Ethnography of Love in a Tamil Family”, Culture & Psychology Vol. 10(1), pp. 111 – 127:

http://www.tamilnation.org/books/Women/sujata.pdf

o Review by Avis Sri Jayantha Sangam, Ilankai Tamil Sangam, USA, Inc. - www.sangam.org - Association of Tamils of Sri Lanka in the US (USA): http://www.sangam.org/BOOKS/LoveTamilFamily.htm

·   Review by Jonathan Parry of Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty’s Women, Androgynes and Other Mythical Beasts. Man, New Series, Vol. 16, No. 2. (Jun., 1981), pp. 317 – 318: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0025-1496%28198106%292%3A16%3A2%3C317%3AWAAOMB%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K

·   BBC News: Eunuchs collect taxes in India (Streaming Video):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_6130000/newsid_6134700?redirect=6134786.stm&news=1&bbwm=1&nbram=1&nbwm=1&bbram=1

·   Mitra, Nirmal, “The Making of a Hijra”, Onlooker, February 18, 1983, pp. 18 - 25.

·   Opler, Morris E., “The Hijara (Hermaphrodites) of India and Indian National Character: A Rejoinder”, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 62, No. 3. (Jun., 1960), pp. 505 – 511:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-7294%28196006%292%3A62%3A3%3C505%3ATH%28OIA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-D

o Shah, A. M., “A Note on the Hijadas [sic] of Gujarat”, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 63, No. 6. (Dec., 1961), pp. 1325 – 1330:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-7294%28196112%292%3A63%3A6%3C1325%3AANOTHO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y

§    Opler, Morris E., “Further Comparative Notes on the Hijarā of India”, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 63, No. 6. (Dec., 1961), pp. 1331 – 1332: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-7294%28196112%292%3A63%3A6%3C1331%3AFCNOTH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-E

·   Lal, Vinary, “Not This, Not That: The Hijras of India and the Cultural Politics of Sexuality”, Social Text, No. 61, Out Front: Lesbians, Gays, and the Struggle for Workplace Rights. (Winter, 1999), pp. 119 – 140:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0164-2472%28199924%290%3A61%3C119%3ANTNTTH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-7’

·   Bombay Dost http://bombay-dost.com/ "India's Only Gay Publication"

·   SimplyMarry.com - An Online Matrimonial Service (Times of India): http://www.simplymarry.com/

·   BBC NEWS | South Asia | Love-seeking Indians head online :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6279287.stm

·   BBC News: Mass weddings for India's child brides (Streaming Video): http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_5050000/newsid_5057800?redirect=5057820.stm&news=1&bbram=1&bbwm=1&nbwm=1&nbram=1

·   Das, Veena, “Communities as Political Actors: The Shah Bano Case” in Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, (1995) Rpt. 2004: pp. 94 – 107.

o Review by Sylvia Vatuk of Critical Events. Contemporary Sociology, Sep96, Vol. 25 Issue 5, p645 - 646: http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.missouristate.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=9611103174&site=ehost-live

·   Jenkins, Laura Dudley. Shah Bano - Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Bill: http://homepages.uc.edu/thro/shahbano/allshahbano.htm

·   A. M., “The Shah Bano legacy”, The Hindu, Sunday, Aug 10, 2003 http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2003/08/10/stories/2003081000221500.htm

·   Review by Agehananda Bharati of Sati: Historical and Phenomenological Essays,

Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 110, No. 3. (Jul -Sep, 1990), pp. 546 – 548:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0279%28199007%2F09%29110%3A3%3C546%3ASHAPE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W

·   Das, Veena, “The Question of Sati” in Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective

on Contemporary India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, (1995) Rpt. 2004: pp. 107 - 117.

o Review by Pauline Kolenda, The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 54, No. 4. (Nov., 1995), pp. 1124 - 1125: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=00219118%28199511%2954%3A4%3C1124%3ACEAAPO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y

·   Parrilla, Vanessa, Sati: Virtuous Woman Through Self-Sacrifice: http://www.csuchico.edu/~cheinz/syllabi/asst001/spring99/parrilla/parr1.htm

·   Anonymous, “Uproar Over Rajput 'Sati'”, Hinduism Today, December 1987: http://www.hinduismtoday.com/archives/1987/12/1987-12-04.shtml

·   Sugirtharajah, Sharada, Imagining Hinduism: A Postcolonial Perspective. London: Routledge, 2003: “Courtly text and courting Sati”; “Sati as Voluntary”; “Sati as a positive construct”; “Textual warrant: Resurrecting an eighteenth-century Sanskrit text”; “Two voices framing Sati: Julia Leslie and Mary Daly”; “Liberating texts: Roop Kanwar's Sati from Srivaisnava and other textual practices”; “Concluding remarks”.

·   Anonymous, “Phoolan Devi”, The Daily Telegraph (London), 22/11/2001:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/07/26/db01.xml

·   Weaver, Mary Anne, “India's Bandit Queen: A saga of revenge—and the making of a legend of ‘the real India’”, The Atlantic Monthly, November 1996: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/199611/bandit-queen

buses
8) Transportation:

Physical & Social Mobility

·   Indian Railways Online Website: http://www.indianrail.gov.in

o Salient Features of Indian Railways: http://www.indianrail.gov.in/abir.html

·   National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) Website: http://www.nhai.org/

·   Buses: http://www.indiatransit.com/

·   Grieco, Margaret, “Transport and Society: Imported models, imposed skills: running the railways”: http://www.geocities.com/transport_and_society/classnotes3.html

·   Headrick, D. R., “The Railroads of India” in The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981: pp. 180 - 191.

·   Silas, Sandeep, “Gandhi's association with the railways: On the Right Track” : http://www.lifepositive.com/Spirit/masters/mahatma-gandhi/gandhi-railways.asp

·   Waldman, Amy, “India Accelerating: Building a Highway”, New York Times, December 4 - 7, 2005: http://www.nytimes.com/ref/international/2005_HIGHWAY_SERIES.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

·   India Driving (Streaming Video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjrEQaG5jPM

·   [Scooter] Rickshaw Ride (Streaming Video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPLMGsxnpZM

·   Bajaj Auto Rickshaw Rear Engine 2 Stroke Petrol: http://www.roleximpex.com/bajaj-auto-rickshaw.html#bajaj-auto-rickshaw-rear-engine

·   Polepalli, Mayur, “autobacks: Art found on the backs of autorickshaws”: http://arart.blogspot.com/

·   Cycle Rickshaw Ride (Streaming Video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnC8uGho1g8

·   Jawaid, Rifat, BBC NEWS | South Asia | Calcutta's rickshaw pullers fear future: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3122346.stm

· Mulberg, Colin, “Confronting Real Problems: Cross-Cultural Design and Intermediate Technology Projects in Schools”, Journal of Design History, Vol. 6, No. 3. (1993), pp. 209 - 213: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0952-4649%281993%296%3A3%3C209%3ACRPCDA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q

9) Hāsya Rasa:

Humo(u)r from Vidūśaka to Bollywood

·   Visuvalingam, Sunthar, Abhinavagupta's Conception of Humor: Its Resonances in Sanskrit Drama, Poetry, Hindu Mythology & Spiritual Praxis: Introduction: http://www.svabhinava.org/HumorPhd/Intro/; The VidûSaka’s World: the Semiotics of Transgression in Hindu Culture: Laughter and Transgression: http://www.svabhinava.org/hasy-abh/ch11/Humor-11.html

·   Kolenda, Pauline, in Lynch, Owen M., ed., Divine Passions: The Social Construction of Emotion in India. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990: “Untouchable Chuhras Through Their Humor: "Equalizing" Marital Kin Through Teasing, Pretence, and Farce”: http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft296nb18c&chunk.id=d0e4645&toc.depth=100&toc.id=d0e4645&brand=eschol

·   Siegel, Lee, Laughing Matters: Comic Tradition in India. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987: “Preface”; “Prologue”; ”1. The Laughter of Ganeśa: The Comic Tradition in Ancient India: The Aesthetics of Comedy and a Psychology of Laughter ”; “6. The Laughter of the Weaver: The Fool: The Wisdom of Folly”.

o Review by Margaret Trawick, American Ethnologist, Vol. 16, No. 1. (Feb., 1989), pp. 175 – 176:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-0496%28198902%2916%3A1%3C175%3ALMCTII%3E2.0.CO%3B2-E

·   Handoo, Lalita, “Indian Numskull Tales: Form and Meaning”, Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 42, No. 2 (1983), pp. 253 – 262:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0385-2342%281983%2942%3A2%3C253%3AINTFAM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q

·   Lynch, Own M., ed., Divine Passions: The Social Construction of Emotion in India. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990: “Joy and Humor in Public Caste Contexts: The Mastram Emotion and Person Among Mathura's Chaubes”:

http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft296nb18c&chunk.id=d0e3206&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e3206&brand=eschol

·   Freitag, Sandria B., ed., Culture and Power in Banaras: Community, Performance, and Environment, 1800-1980. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989: “Introduction to Part 2 - Identity and Constructions of Community in Banaras: Organizing Expressions of Identity”:

http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft6p3007sk&chunk.id=d0e7142&toc.depth=100&toc.id=d0e7142&brand=ucpress

·   Marriott, McKim, “Feast of Love” in Mines, Diane and Sarah Lamb, eds., Everyday Life in South Asia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002, pp. 249 - 260.

·   Lutgendorf, Philip, “The Secret Life of Ramcandra of Ayodhya” in Richman, Paula, ed., Many Ramayanas: The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991: p. 218: “humor”: http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft3j49n8h7&chunk.id=d0e12239&toc.depth=1&toc.id=0&query=humor

·   Review by Alessandra V. Iyer of Shulman’sThe King and the Clown in South Indian Myth and Poetry, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 51, No. 1. (1988), p. 158:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0041-977X%281988%2951%3A1%3C158%3ATKATCI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-P

·   Akbar and Birbal: http://www.geocities.com/shishusansar/birbal/birbal.htm

o Index of Stories: http://www.geocities.com/shishusansar/birbal/index.htm

·   Akbar-Birbal anecdotes (19^th & 20^th century):

http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00urduhindilinks/txt_akbar_birbal.html

·   Bollywood Comedy (Streaming Video):

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4807397690444864476

·   Johnny Lever (from Bollywood film Awara Pagal Deewana) (Streaming Video):

IMDb Plot Summary: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319020/plotsummary

Clip 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VUPTL2uHA8

Clip 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uks4_gZwNJA

10) Food (Bhog) & Fasting (Vrat):

Goodness (Sattva), Passion (Rajas), & Darkness (Tamas)

·   “Bhoga”, Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon Wörterbücher Sanskrit (Monier-Williams' Sanskrit-English Dictionary): Enter bhoga into http://webapps.uni-koeln.de/tamil/

·   “Vrata”, Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon Wörterbücher Sanskrit (Monier-Williams' Sanskrit-English Dictionary): Enter vrata into http://webapps.uni-koeln.de/tamil/

·   Toomey, Paul M., “Mountain of Food, Mountain of Love”, in Khare, R. S., ed., The Eternal Food: Gastronomic Ideas and Experiences of Hindus and Buddhists, pp. 117 – 145.

o Review by Vineeta Sinha, American Ethnologist, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Nov., 1994), pp. 936 – 937:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-0496%28199411%2921%3A4%3C936%3ATEFGIA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y

o Review by Rachel Dwyer, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 56, No. 3 (1993), p. 609:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0041-977X%281993%2956%3A3%3C609%3ATEFGIA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-0

·   Alter, Joseph S., The Wrestler's Body: Identity and Ideology in North India. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992: “The Discipline of the Wrestler’s Body: Diet”:

http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft6n39p104&chunk.id=s1.5.3&toc.depth=100&toc.id=s1.5.3&brand=ucpress

·   Ibid., “The Sannyasi and the Wrestler” (Part II):

http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft6n39p104&chunk.id=s1.9.2&toc.depth=100&toc.id=ch09&brand=ucpress

·   Marriott, McKim, “Caste Rankings and Food Transactions: A Matrix Analysis" in M. Singer & B. S. Cohn, eds, Structure and Change in Indian Society. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Co., 1968.

·   Anonymous folktale, “Hanchi”, in Ramanujan, A. K., A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India. Berkeley London: University of California Press, 1997:

http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft067n99wt&chunk.id=ch28&toc.depth=100&toc.id=ch28&brand=ucpress

o Comments on “Hanchi” by A. K. Ramanujan:

http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft067n99wt&chunk.id=d0e4521&toc.depth=100&toc.id=ch28&brand=ucpress

·   Parry, Jonathan,“Death and Digestion: The Symbolism of Food and Eating in North Indian Mortuary Rites”, Man, New Series, Vol. 20, No. 4. (Dec., 1985), pp. 612 – 630:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0025-1496%28198512%292%3A20%3A4%3C612%3ADADTSO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-F

·   Lamb, Sarah, “Death-Separation Impurity: The Containing of Bodies, the Cutting of Maya” in Lamb, Sarah, White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender, and Body in North India. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000:

http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft458006c0&chunk.id=s2.5.21&toc.depth=100&toc.id=s1.5.29&brand=eschol

·   Vrat Katha - Hindu Fasts and their stories in Hindi & English: http://www.indif.com/nri/kathas/default.asp

o Somvar Vrat Katha,Weekly Monday Fast for Lord Shiva ( English ):

http://www.indif.com/nri/kathas/Somvar/somvrateng.asp

·   Gopalan , Gopalan V., “Vrat: Ceremonial Vows of Women in Gujarat, India”, Ninth Congress of Ethnographers and Anthropologists, August 30, 1973, Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 37, No. 1. (1978), pp. 101 - 129: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0385-2342%281978%2937%3A1%3C101%3AVCVOWI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A

·   Lamb, Sarah, “A Widow’s Bonds: Controlling Sexuality” in Lamb, Sarah, White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender, and Body in North India. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000:

http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft458006c0&chunk.id=s2.7.27&toc.depth=100&toc.id=s1.7.39&brand=eschol

·   Caughran, Neema, “Fasts, Feasts, and the Slovenly Woman: Strategies of Resistance among North Indian Potter Women”, Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 57, No. 2. (1998), pp. 257 – 274: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0385-2342%281998%2957%3A2%3C257%3AFFATSW%3E2.0.CO%3B2-S

·   Indian food worse than Western junk? Times of India, 13 Mar, 2007: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Indian_food_worse_than_Western_junk/articleshow/1755418.cms

11) Minorities in Hindustan:

Muslims & other Others; Hindutva & Communalism

·   Qawwali at Nizamuddin Auliya (Streaming Video):    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt1w38E7b80

o Baba, Hazrat Nawab Gudri Shah, r.a., Hazrat Nizamuddin Awlia, r.a.

http://muslim-canada.org/sufi/nizamud.htm

·   Ikram, S. M., Muslim Civilization in India. New York: Columbia University Press, 1964: Passim: http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00islamlinks/ikram/index.html

·   Fazlie, Murtahin Billah Jasir, “Muslims in India: Past and Present”in Islam, Muslim and Politics in India (Hindustan, Bharat, Aryavart):

http://www.islamawareness.net/Asia/India/muslims_in_india.html

·   Searle-Chatterjee, Mary, Christopher R., “Religious Division and the Mythology of the Past” in Hertel, Bradley R. and Cynthia Ann Humes, eds., Living Banaras: Hindu Religion in Cultural Context. State University of New York Press, 1993: pp. 145 – 158.

·   Roy, Beth, “Introduction”; “3. The Riot”; & “9. History and Ideology” in Some Trouble with Cows: Making Sense of Social Conflict. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft629007fg

·   Hindutva: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/919617/Hindutva

·   Hindus Arise: http://www.hindusarise.com/

·   Quraishi, Mohammad Abdul Rahim, BABRI MASJID - TEMPLE DISPUTE: Where was Ram Born?: http://www.geocities.com/indianfascism/Babri/where_ram_born.htm

·   BBC ON THIS DAY | 27 | 2002: Hindus die in train fire: http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/27/newsid_4168000/4168073.stm

o BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | Gujarat's Muslims live in terror: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1977246.stm

·   “We Have No Orders To Save You”: State Participation and Complicity in Communal Violence in Gujarat. Human Rights Watch Report, April 2002 Vol. 14, No. 3(C): http://hrw.org/reports/2002/india/

·   Demerath III, N. J., "The Pitfalls of Pluralism: Talibanization and Saffronization in India", Harvard International Review, Vol. 25 (4) - Winter 2004: http://hir.harvard.edu/articles/1183/

·   Kumar, Nita, “Work and Leisure in the Formation of Identity: Muslim Weavers in a Hindu City” in Freitag, Sandria B., ed., Culture and Power in Banaras: Community, Performance, and Environment, 1800-1980. Berkeley: Univ of California Press, 1989:

http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft6p3007sk&chunk.id=d0e8626&toc.depth=100&toc.id=d0e8626&brand=ucpress

·   Islam in South Asia: Some Useful Study Materials: http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00islamlinks/index.html

·   Online NewsHour “The U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan, as seen by Muslims living in India” (Streaming Video): http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/terrorism/july-dec01/india_10-29.html

·   Jinvani.com : A complete portal on Jainism: http://www.jinvani.com/jinindex.php

·   The UNESCO Parsi Zoroastrian Project : http://www.unescoparzor.com/

·   The Sikhism Home Page: http://www.sikhs.org/

·   Ādivāsī, or ‘Tribal’ people: http://www.pucl.org/Topics/Dalit-tribal/2003/adivasi.htm

·   Indian National Congress: http://www.aicc.org.in/

·   Nationalist Congress Party: http://www.ncp.org.in/

·   BJP :Bharatiya Janata Party: http://www.bjp.org/

·   VHP: Vishva Hindu Parishad: http://www.vhp.org/

·   Bajrang Dal: http://www.hinduunity.org/bajrangdal.html

·   RSS: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh : http://www.rss.org/New_RSS/index.jsp

·   Akhil Bharthiya Vidyarthi Parishad: http://www.abvp.org/

12) Language & Languages

·   Languages and Scripts of India: http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/scripts.html

·   Digital Dictionaries of South Asia: http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/

·   Language in India Monthly online journal devoted to the study of the languages spoken in the Indian sub-continent: http://www.languageinindia.com

·   Lariviere, Richard W., “Protestants, Orientalists, and Bråhmanas: Reconstructing Indian Social History”, 1994 Gonda Lecture, Gonda Foundation, Netherlands:

http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/subject/gondalecture.html

·   Simon, Beth, “Language Choice, Religion, and Identity in the Banarsi Community” in Hertel, Bradley R. and Cynthia Ann Humes, eds., Living Banaras: Hindu Religion in Cultural Context. State University of New York Press, 1993, pp. 245 – 268.

·   King, Christopher R., “Forging a New Linguistic Identity: The Hindi Movement in Banaras, 1868–1914” in Freitag, Sandria B., ed., Culture and Power in Banaras: Community, Performance, and Environment, 1800-1980. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989: http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft6p3007sk&chunk.id=d0e10062&toc.depth=100&toc.id=d0e10062&brand=ucpress

·   Mehrotra, R. R., “The Secret Parlance of Pandas”, in The Sociology of Secret Languages. Simla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1977 (Rpt. in Singh, P. B. R., ed., Banāras (Vārānasī): Cosmic Order, Sacred City, Hindu Traditions. Varanasi: Tara Book Agency, 1993, pp. 197 - 214.

·   Raheja, Gloria Goodwin, “Caste, Colonialism, and the Speech of the Colonized: Entextualization and Disciplinary Control in India”, American Ethnologist, Vol. 23, No. 3. (Aug., 1996), pp. 494 – 513: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-0496%28199608%2923%3A3%3C494%3ACCATSO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-7

·   Cohn, Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge: The British in India in Cohn & Chakrabarty, The Bernard Cohn Omnibus, Oxford University Press, 2006: “Chapter 2: The command of language and the language of command”.

·   Ramaswamy, Sumathi. Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997, “Preface”; “Introduction: Language in History and Modernity”; “Conclusion”: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft5199n9v7/

·   South Asia News Sources: http://library.missouristate.edu/resources/soasiaps.shtml

·   All India Radio: http://allindiaradio.org

13) Aging & Death

·   Lamb, Sarah, White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender, and Body in North India. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000: “2. Aging and Dying”; “4. White Saris and Sweet Mangoes, Partings and Ties”; “5. Dealing with Mortality”:

http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft458006c0&chunk.id=d0e6657&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e6657&brand=eschol

·   Cohen, Lawrence. No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, The Bad Family, and Other Modern Things. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. “The Ground Of The Argument”; “Introduction”; “Nine: The Body in Time”: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft658007dm/

·   Parry, Jonathan, “Ghosts, Greed and Sin: The Occupational Identity of the Benares Funeral Priests”, Man, New Series, Vol. 15, No. 1. (Mar., 1980), pp. 88 – 111:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0025-1496%28198003%292%3A15%3A1%3C88%3AGGASTO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z

·   Lamb, Sarah, “A Widow’s Bonds”, in White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender, and Body in North India. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000:

http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft458006c0&chunk.id=ch7&toc.depth=1&toc.id=ch7&brand=eschol

·   Review by Mary Mary Hancock of Jonathan Parry’s Death in Banaras. American Ethnologist, Vol. 22, No. 4. (Nov., 1995), p. 1047: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-0496%28199511%2922%3A4%3C1047%3ADIB%3E2.0.CO%3B2-7

·   Review by Christopher Justice of Death in Banaras, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 98, No. 1. (Mar., 1996), p. 217: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-7294%28199603%292%3A98%3A1%3C217%3ADIB%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A

14) The Future

·   BBC NEWS | Special Reports | 2007 | India Rising: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/south_asia/2007/india_rising

·   Stern, Robert W., Changing India: Bourgeois Revolution on the Subcontinent. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2^nd ed., 2003: “Introduction: Change, the societies of India and Indian society”, pp. 1 - 32.

o Review by Werner F. Menski, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 58, No. 3. (1995), pp. 588 – 89:

http://www.jstor.org/view/0041977x/ap020141/02a00480/0

·   Cohn, India: The Social Anthropology of a Civilization in Cohn & Chakrabarty, The

Bernard Cohn Omnibus, Oxford University Press, 2006: “Chapter 9 Urbanization, Education, and Social and Cultural Change”, pp. 98 - 110.

·   Online NewsHour: Conversation | Authors Discuss Globalization | [Thomas Friedman & Sen. Byron Dorgan] (Transcript & Streaming Video):

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/july-dec06/globalization_09-28.html

·   Video diary: Indian construction worker (BBC News) (Streaming Video):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_4990000/newsid_4999100?redirect=4999178.stm&news=1&nbram=1&bbram=1&nbwm=1&bbwm=1

·   1-800-INDIA (Wide Angle): http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/about/film_s4_f7b.html

·   BBC News: India and China's race to the top (Streaming Video): http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_5140000/newsid_5148200/5148222.stm?bw=nb&mp=rm

·   BBC NEWS | Business | Multinationals lead India's IT revolution:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6288247.stm

·   BBC NEWS | Business | Bangalore's Boomtown Blues: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6288325.stm

o BBC NEWS | Photo journal: Bangalore:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/07/africa_bangalore/html/1.stm

·   Video diary: Indian IT worker (BBC News) (Streaming Video):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_5010000/newsid_5013600?redirect=5013662.stm&news=1&nbram=1&nbwm=1&bbram=1&bbwm=1

·   Cohen, Lawrence. No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, The Bad Family, and Other Modern Things. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. “Six: The Maladjustment of the Bourgeoisie”: http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=ft658007dm&chunk.id=d0e5976

·   Stern, Robert W., Changing India: Bourgeois Revolution on the Subcontinent. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2^nd ed., 2003: “The Indian Union in a Changing India” & “Appendix Two: Major political events in the history of the Indian Union, 1947 – 2002", pp. 171 – 216 & 220 - 223.

·   Wal-Mart's dilemma in India: The No. 1 retailer is eager to set up shop in the subcontinent, but local regulations still pose a challenge to its entry strategy CNNMoney.com: http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/23/news/companies/walmart_india/index.htm

o Wal-Mart may have an India problem: Reports say Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi wants to reassess relaxing rules for foreign investment in retailing CNNMoney.com February 6, 2007:

http://money.cnn.com/2007/02/06/news/companies/retailindia_setback/index.htm

·   Little details could keep the petty retails going. Economic Times, February 9, 2007

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1581384.cms

·   Wal-Mart, Bharti may adopt neighbourhood store format. Economic Times, February 11, 2007

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1590549.cms

·   Shopkeepers protest as Wal-Mart eyes India. MSNBC.com, Feb 22, 2007

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17276629/?GT1=9033

·   In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India, Edward Luce (BookTV) Feb 22, 2007 (Streaming Video):

http://www.booktv.org/feature/index.asp?segid=7887&schedID=475

·   Online NewsHour: "Environmental Activist Questions the Goals of Globalization" March 23, 2007 (Transcript & RealAudio): http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/environment/jan-june07/globalization_03-23.html

·   Charlie Rose: "The Indian Ascent" 02/27/2006 - 03/06/2006 (Transcript & RealAudio): http://www.charlierose.com/features/the-indian-ascent

·   Mishra, Pankaj, “The Myth of the New India", New York Times, July 6, 2006: http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/07/06/opinion/06mishra.html

Sample Quizzes & Tests

Terminology Quiz

Map Quiz

Gods & Goddesses Quiz

Take-home Essay Test

FINIS

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