...Hala Halim As part of the endeavor to seek out nonmetropolitan forms of comparatism, this article addresses the trilingual periodical Lotus: Afro-Asian Writings that was published by the Afro-Asian Writers’ Association from the late 1960s until the early 1990s. Lotus , the article argues...

... of commenting on, reforming, and, in some cases, occupying in order to defend the rights of religious and ethnic minorities in other countries. 1. Nassar, “‘My Struggle Embraces Every Struggle’” ; Halim, “Lotus” ; Bashkin, Impossible Exodus , 125 . 2. Nassar, “‘My Struggle Embraces Every...

... anti-Tamil violence Suddenly this image of a lotus-eaters paradise was in the recorded history of the island. While an intense shattered in July 1983 when a violent pogrom against the guerilla campaign for a separate Tamil homeland had created Tamil minority took place...

...) and by Ananda Wickremaratne, suggests that he was Manual of Budhism (1853), and the posthumous invited to do so because of popular interest in publication of Eugene Burnouf’s Le lotus de la Buddhism.10 His fi rst book, the highly infl uen- bonne loi, which appeared...

..., common Sufi tropes, alluded to the divinity beyond what could be apprehended as sensual experience. At the same time, Chanda is of the “padmini type” exalted by classical Indic poets and aestheticians, the “lotus woman” considered the supremely perfect heroine or nayika in India's Kāmaśāstra literature...

...,” with no obvious con- ordering of the psychic faculty symbolized by nection to breath control. the lotus flower, elsewhere correlated with the Nevertheless, our author continues explor- psychic centers known as cakras...

..., the di- ing on the “fuzziness” of that category in the versity of colonial policy, the nature and history process — Hala Halim revisits the Afro- Asian of colonial contact, and the varied nature of the journal Lotus, finding in that archive an early...

... in cen- most important such schemes in the post-Second tral Africa, of the “Lotus Group.” Organizing World War era were the Bulawayo-based African around a monthly magazine called Lotus, the group...

... clearly in which are like charming lotuses, are dropping tears.] the distribution of the textual variants. Here the Longer Recension has more difficult readings On the basis of twenty sample places already proc- than the somewhat clumsily rhyming versions of the essed, it can be observed...

....” 13. Musicologists have maintained that Damodara was derivative, compared to some of his more experimental peers, such as Pundarikavitthala. Nijenhuis, Musicological Literature , 22–23 . 14. Widdess, Rāgas of Early Indian Music ; Bor, Raga Guide ; Leante, “Lotus and the King...

.... To pinpoint the exact nature of this new- poet’s flagrant disregard for tradition. First of all, a ness can seem an elusive prospect. Given the long- woman’s breasts should be firm like lotus buds, not soft standing primacy of Sanskrit as the medium of like blooming lotuses. The images in the next line...

... Vishnu, while a lotus springs from the god’s and his hood in order to protect him from a navel and the four-­headed Brahman is seen great storm.27 Another story reports that when emerging from the flower.29 Queen Maya Devi gave birth to the future Bud- While the cult of snakes...

... of the Struggle for Hyderabad . New Delhi : Lotus Roli , 2010 . Jalal Ayesha . Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1995 . ———. The Pity of Partition: Manto’s Life, Time, and Work across the India-Pakistan Divide . Princeton, NJ : Princeton...

... Miyake Setsu- image of the “Four Sages” for this occasion, with Mi rei to consider the promotion of Western philo- copies of the Great Learning, the Doctrine of the sophical thought in Japan to be among his top Mean, the Analects, the Yi Jing, the Lotus Sutra...

...-conditioned DCM Toyota converted cent of government jobs for the backward castes. into a tacky celluloid-inspired ruth and sporting the Though it cautiously welcomed the decision and BJP’s election symbol of a lotus was the most bra- only asked for the inclusion of the economic zen mixing of religion...

... come to light.   appearance of a lotus-­shaped motif, as appear One such funerary bed was made for an anony- of on ninth-­century Manichaean miniature paint- mous merchant, who lived and died in sixth-   Comparative ings...

... Delacour and Pé- as some attributes are specifi c to him: the two nélope Riboud proposed to recognize him as archers Usha and Pratyusha, symbols of dawn Indra, because the elephant is usually this god’s and sunset, and the lotus flowers in the Sun vahana (mount).25 But further restoration...

... of Malay-Indonesian and rat: The Archaeology, History, and Legends of a South- Middle-Eastern “Ulama” in the Seventeenth and Eigh- ern Thai Town (Bangkok: White Lotus, 2001). teenth Centuries (Leiden: KITLV, 2004). 38 organize their daily lives according to the rules support one...

... not mention any temples to lower left hand; a lotus in the upper right; an axe Ganesh in Bombay in the 1860s in his book, though in the upper left, and a japmala in the lower right. he does discuss the Ganpati festival,21 which is cel- Like a third eye, he is seated between Riddhi...

..., for Thou art Lahhmi lotus throned, the concept of a “nation” had now been created. It And the Muse a hundred-toned. was the first time Hindus and Muslims had united in Pure and Perfect without peer, political and military action against the British. What . . . Mother sweet, I bow to thee had...