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...Sucheta Mazumdar Copyright 1984: Regents of University of California 1984 SOUTH ASIA BULLETIN, Vol. IV No.2, Fall 1984. LIFE OF STRUGGLE: An Autobiography by Moni Sinha Excerpts and Translation of Sections...

...Audrey Truschke This article presents the first in-depth textual analysis of the Razmnamah ( Book of War ), the Persian translation of the Mahabharata sponsored by the Mughal emperor Akbar in the late sixteenth century. I argue that the Razmnamah was a central literary work in the Mughal court...

...Kyle T. Evered Architecture in Translation: Germany, Turkey, and the Modern House Akcan Esra Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2012 xiv + 392 pp. , $89.95 ( cloth ), $24.95 ( paper ) © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 BOOK REVIEWS The Nation Writ Small...

... into the precolonial Swahili poetic genre of the utendi . In contrast to previous analyses that have highlighted the appropriation of text to fit local discourses of identity, Vierke argues that the relationship between the Swahili translation and the previous Arabic text is basically aesthetic. Drawing on the concept...

..., the Sangitadarpana (“Mirror of Music”) of Harivallabha (ca. 1653). Harivallabha was translating a recent Sanskrit work of the same name: an old-fashioned treatise that nonetheless proved extremely influential in Persian and other Sanskrit works, as well as in miniature painting. This article examines...

...Razak Khan Abstract This article examines literary and cultural translations in the domain of thoughts on education by following the trajectories of intellectual networks among South Asian and German scholars. The main protagonists of this entangled intellectual history are Syed Abid Husain (1896...

...LITAL LEVY Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2003 Exchanging Words: Thematizations of Translation in Arabic Writing from Israel1 LITAL LEVY When two languages meet, one of them is necessarily linked...

...Hosna Sheikholeslami Abstract This article examines the role of translation in Iranian intellectual life. By taking translation as its ethnographic object, the article attends carefully to debates on translations and to Iranian translators’ multiple, contentious approaches to translation...

... Copyright 1992: South Asia Bulletin 1991 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XI, Nos. 1 & 2 (1991). Two poems of Sivaramani - Translated from Tamil With an introduction by Sitralega Maunaguru The two poems published below were written by Sivaramani, who killed herself on May 19...

...Eleanor Zelliot Copyright 1987: South Asia Bulletin 1987 SOUTH ASIA BULLETIN Vol. 7 (1987). THE VARlED VOICES OF DALIT POETS FROM MAHARASHTRA: A COLLECTION OF TRANSLATIONS Eleanor Zelliot REVOLUTION...

...Michael Gilsenan This article argues for the importance of concepts of translation, conversion, and articulation in the study of inheritance and the transmission of goods among diasporic populations. It focuses on the Hadhrami migrations to Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century, migrations...

...Sumit Guha Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2004 Transitions and Translations: Regional Power and Vernacular Identity in the Dakhan, 1500–1800 SUMIT GUHA The theoretical underpinnings of reductionist under- paradoxical fate of this effort through...

... explores the place of misunderstanding and translation in encounters between evangelists and Buddhist audiences. For evangelists, to go public was to open oneself to the possibility, even the likelihood, of being misunderstood. Such misunderstandings emerged in part from the negotiation of similarity...

...Kutluğhan Soyubol Considering translation as a convoluted process of transformation between different cultures, this article scrutinizes the work of İzzettin Şadan, the initiator of psychoanalysis in Turkey. Through translations of the works of Western psychoanalysts such as Sigmund Freud, Ernest...

... Islamic activists perceive as the destructive effects of Western culture and to align the production of knowledge with the teachings of Shi'i Islam. The effort to produce modern Islamic knowledge, however, has paradoxically intensified the translation of European thought and invested it with the ethos...

... movements risks excising some from the domain of revolutionary practice for not fitting a model, and relegating others to the status of belated and derivative ones that repeat the stages of the earlier model. Instead, the author suggests moving past models to pay attention to the practices of translation...

...Elizabeth M. Holt Abstract This article reads Buṭrus al-Bustānī’s 1861 translation of Daniel Defoe's 1719 Robinson Crusoe into Arabic in Beirut alongside Karl Marx's contemporaneous critique of the popularity of Robinsonades among British political economists. Al-Bustānī’s translation of Robinson...

...Wandana Sonalkar Sonalkar's piece is a tribute to the late poet Tulsi Parab and serves as an introduction to the English translations of four of Parab's poems. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Tulsi Parab poetry Marathi Bombay leftist...

... and epistemology. Starting in the mid-1970s, four distinct yet overlapping endeavors converged: the work for international human rights, colonial and postcolonial expectations of economic development and well-being, women’s rights and liberation movements, and women’s studies in their global translations...