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Published: 01 May 2023
Figure 2. Dr. Rajendra Prasad, president of India, laying the foundation stone of Nalanda Pali Institute at Nalanda on November 20, 1951. Photo 23184, Internet Archive. More
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Published: 01 May 2023
Figure 7. Exterior of the Buddhavanam stupa clad in stone relief sculptures, 2017. Photograph by the author. More
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Figure 19. Chief minister of Telangana K. Chandrashekar Rao offers flowers to stone footprints during his 2015 visit to the Buddhavanam theme park, Buddhavanam stupa. Photograph by the author. More
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (3): 624–630.
Published: 01 December 2017
... Arnold Bryce James Bryce . Armenian Atrocities: The Murder of a Nation . London : Hodder and Stoughton , 1915 . Watenpaugh Keith David . Bread from Stones: The Middle East and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2015 . Comparative...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (1): 50–60.
Published: 01 May 2008
... novel. The result is a retooled modernist literature that stresses the ideological preconditions for renewal in a new notion of human dignity. Hassan Daoud's 1983 Binayat Mathilde (The House of Mathilde) , Hoda Barakat's 1990 Hajar al-dahik (The Stone of Laughter) , and Rashid al-Daif's 1995 ' Azizi al...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 610–620.
Published: 01 December 2010
... the serpent dwelling inside. These puttu or termite hills are sometimes transformed into little stone temples, and a sculpture of a goddess called “Puttu Amman” is placed on top of it. This article will attempt to explain the meaning of this popular cult and its possible connections with ancient mediterranean...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 204–221.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Anand Vivek Taneja In this article I explore stories and rituals surrounding sanctified birds, snakes, cats, and stones in contemporary Delhi and rural Uttar Pradesh. These stories and rituals, while drawing on long-standing Indic and Islamic traditions that centrally feature animals, are in many...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (1): 61–81.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Figure 7. Exterior of the Buddhavanam stupa clad in stone relief sculptures, 2017. Photograph by the author. ...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (2): 391–407.
Published: 01 August 2012
.../bpi/eng/ Teshkeel Media Group, 2006). unescopress/97-33e.htm. Lessons from the Tale of the 99 Stones more important than might. It is knowledge 394 In The Origins Mutawa outlines the basic that allows people to move forward, while ig...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (3): 619–624.
Published: 01 December 2017
... . Ticktin Miriam . “ The Problem with Humanitarian Borders: Toward a New Framework of Justice .” Public Seminar , September 18 , 2015 . www.publicseminar.org/2015/09/the-problem-with-humanitarian - borders/#.V-Pw_CErIuU2015 . Watenpaugh Keith . Bread from Stones: The Middle East...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (3): 608–613.
Published: 01 December 2017
... . Bread from Stones: The Middle East and the Making of Modern Humanitartianism . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2015 . Thank you to Lochlann Jain for invaluable feedback on this essay and to Tobias Rees for our discussions. 6 0 8 Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1984) 4 (1): 45–60.
Published: 01 May 1984
... a resolution calling for the abolition of reservations, the roster system and the carry forward system. The police also openly joined the upper castes in their stone-throwing on Dalit homes, using a number of houses belonging to the Patidars to fire down on a neighboring Dalit basti. The other...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (3): 614–619.
Published: 01 December 2017
... : Oxford University Press , 2009 . Watenpaugh Keith David . Bread from Stones: The Middle East and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2015 . Williams George Washington . “ An Open Letter to His Serene Majesty Leopold II, King...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 355–367.
Published: 01 August 2017
... in the nineteenth century. Chairs, beds, and even Figure 1. A nineteenth-­century grand carved doorframe in Stone candlesticks featured some version of it. In fact, by Town Zanzibar. The photograph was labeled “Arab Door’ in 1906. the late nineteenth century entire doorways in this Image courtesy...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (1): 69–84.
Published: 01 May 2010
...), and Telmissany and major representatives of Palestinianness. Canticle of the Stones (1990). I also...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (3): 601–614.
Published: 01 December 2011
... for his own The somewhat ostentatious visual impact of nearby provinces or for more distant states. The the memorial stone erected in Washington on standardization of the tuğra’s form by the great behalf of the sultan contrasts sharply...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 329–340.
Published: 01 December 2010
... of Gernot I. Windfuhr, “Haoma/Soma: The Plant,” Acta Iranica 11   the significance and the cultic importance of stone pestles and ( 1 9 8 5 ) : 6 9 9   –   7 2 5 . mortars dated to the time of Artaxerxes 1 (464 and 452 BC). 5. Mary Boyce, “Haoma, Priest...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1997) 17 (2): 62–81.
Published: 01 August 1997
... of Ruth Stone describes a dance called Cewa that is per- tanburah with Professor Racy do not identify them- formed at both Sohar and Zanzibar, two of the critical If selves as Africans, but as local Arabs. we...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 73–79.
Published: 01 May 2020
... (i.e., the Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages), was formalized in the early to mid-nineteenth century with the expansion and professionalization of archaeology and the scientific classification of rapidly growing museum collections in Europe and the United States. In view of a past now so systematically...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (3): 536–551.
Published: 01 December 2007
... for Arab gamers has been the stones, hurling back tear gas canisters at the sol- Middle ability to turn the tables on Israeli power over diers. Only the experienced fighters have ma- Palestinians and have the upper hand in the re- chine guns, a status to be achieved as each...