Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
1-20 of 30
Search Results for varanasi
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
1
Journal Article
Three Riots in Varanasi, 1989–90 to 1992
Available to Purchase
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1994) 14 (1): 53–56.
Published: 01 May 1994
...Dipak Malik © 1994: South Asia Bulletin 1994 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XIV No. 1 (1994)
Three Riots in Varanasi, 1989-90 to 1992
Dipak Malik
Three consecutive riots in Varanasi since 1989- tion has entered except for a Diesel Loco Factory
90 make it fertile ground...
Journal Article
The Anxiety of Innovation: The Practice of Literary Science in the Hindi/ riti Tradition
Available to Purchase
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (2): 45–59.
Published: 01 August 2004
... in 1929,
literary systems, and the ritigranth was a primary tool for and it has remained in wide circulation ever since. Ramcandra
enabling these social and communicative processes. The Sukla, Hindi Sahitya ka Itihas (1929; repr. Varanasi: Nagari Pra-
writing of ritigranths also had a largely...
Journal Article
Who Killed Arjun Singh?: Poetry and History in Bundelkhand
Available to Purchase
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 370–380.
Published: 01 August 2022
... in 1930; and it appeared a third time in the collection Padmakar (Granthavali) , edited with introductory material by Vishwanathprasad Mishra (Varanasi, India: Nagari Pracharani Sabha, 1959), 5–30. The poem was thus known to riti (“courtly”) poetry scholars, though—like most early Hindi poetry—it had...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Between Qasbas and Cities: Language Shifts and Literary Continuities in North India in the Long Eighteenth Century
Available to Purchase
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 68–81.
Published: 01 May 2019
... University Press , 2011 . Busch Allison . “ Riti and Register .” In Before the Divide: Hindi and Urdu Literary Culture , edited by Orsini Francesca , 84 – 120 . New Delhi : Orient Blackswan , 2010 . Chaturvedi Jawaharlal . Kavyanirnaya . Varanasi : Kalyandas , 1962...
Journal Article
Remembering and Removing Aurangzeb: The Manuscript History of Sabalsingh Chauhan's Mahabharat
Available to Purchase
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 356–361.
Published: 01 August 2022
... of 1819: Awadh, the British and the Mughals .” Modern Asian Studies 19 , no. 2 ( 1985 ): 239 – 77 . Hiralal Rai Bahadur . The Twelfth Report on the Search of Hindi Manuscripts for the Years 1923, 1924, and 1925 . Varanasi, India : Nagari Pracharini Sabha , 1944 . Lutgendorf...
Journal Article
History Beyond the Reality Principle: Literary and Political Territories in Sena Period Bengal
Available to Purchase
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (3): 633–643.
Published: 01 December 2012
... sounding outland-
(Varanasi). This last reference is definitely to ish To describe the dynamics of the Sena
the Gahadavala kings (whose second capital was fixation, I will draw below on Sigmund Freud’s
Varanasi Laksmanasena’s inscriptions refer terms...
Journal Article
Party Politics and Communal Mobilization in Uttar Pradesh
Available to Purchase
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1994) 14 (1): 42–52.
Published: 01 May 1994
... was communalized through the argument
from Aligarh, Varanasi, Moradabad and Meerut in
that unity could be maintained only by Hindus. The
the
1980 parliamentary elections, held after Indira
In sum, political developments...
Journal Article
Minority Identity and Its Discontents: Ayodhya and Its Aftermath
Available to Purchase
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1994) 14 (2): 24–40.
Published: 01 August 1994
... and anxiety in many circles,
was not just to erase a hated symbol of Mughal/ including those who had hitched their fortunes to
Muslim rule, but to turn Ayodhya into a graveyard the rising BJP-RSS-VHP star.16 Thus when tension
of secularism. Sure enough, what took place on the mounted at Varanasi...
Journal Article
Prospects for Land Reform in Nepal
Available to Purchase
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1993) 13 (1_and_2): 23–34.
Published: 01 August 1993
.... , 1984 . “The Growing Oppositional Strains on the Reformed System,” in Dharamdasani, M. (ed.), Political Participation and Change in South Asia (Varanasi: Shalimar Publishing House). Kaushik , B. , 1984 . “Nepal's Political Cauldron,” in Dharamdasani, M. (ed.), Political Participation...
Journal Article
Vighnaharta Shree Siddhivinayak: Ganesh, Remover of Obstacles, Lord of Beginnings in Mumbai
Available to Purchase
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 263–276.
Published: 01 August 2015
... is widespread, the heart of the cosmopolitan city, and the Sid-
with well-known examples such as Kanchipuram dhivinayak temple’s website offers virtual worship
being defined as “the Varanasi of the South.” to those who cannot visit him. He is neither patri...
Journal Article
Temple Architecture and Modern Hindu Appropriations of Buddhism
Available to Purchase
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (1): 43–60.
Published: 01 May 2023
... through the Gangetic Plains to Varanasi and out to the sea, mapping a geohistorical approach to Hinduism that traces the development of the Arya Dharma from its presumed Vedic origins to its practice as part of a modern reform Hinduism. Working to form an image of all India as an amalgamation...
FIGURES
| View All (8)
Journal Article
Interliterariness “Still,” And “Methodized,” Too: Literary Contactuality in India
Available to Purchase
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (3): 604–610.
Published: 01 December 2012
... to Bengali
Premchand was fairly exposed to Bengali litera-
Studies of (Tagore and Nirala), but also for methodically
ture in Varanasi, which has had a strong Ben- studying its practice in India without overlook...
Journal Article
Soldiers, Sovereignty and Silences: Gorkhas as Diplomatic Currency
Available to Purchase
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1993) 13 (1_and_2): 67–80.
Published: 01 August 1993
... Press). Regmi , D.R. , 1958 . A Century of Family Autocracy in Nepal . 2nd ed., (Varanasi: The Nepali National Congress). Regmi , M.C. , 1972 . A Study in Nepali Economic History, 1768–1846 (New Delhi: Manjusri). Shrestha , N. . 1990 . Landlessness and Migration in Nepal...
Journal Article
Reflecting in the Vernacular: Translation and Transmission in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century North India
Available to Purchase
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 96–110.
Published: 01 May 2019
... be appropriate in the context of the verse, since it focuses on women and bees losing their self-control around Bhairav. Doniger and Kakar, Kamasutra , 40 . 73. C.f. the proliferation of polyglot sentimental romances in Tudor England, see Boro, “Multilingualism.” 74. Sarasvati Bhavan (Varanasi...
Journal Article
Unintended Consequences: The Ideological Impact of Development in Nepal
Available to Purchase
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1993) 13 (1_and_2): 45–58.
Published: 01 August 1993
... of Social Scientific Labor, circa 1950–75,” Comparative Studies in Society and History , 23 ( 3 ): 565 –90. Poudyal , Sriram , 1982 . Foreign Aid and Economic Development: Nepal's Experience with Chinese Aid (Varanasi: Onrak Publishing House). Pradhan , Bina , and Indira Shrestha, 1983...
Journal Article
Communalism and the Indian Polity
Available to Purchase
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1991) 11 (1_and_2): 62–68.
Published: 01 August 1991
... in an again abolished in 1712 Temples at Mathura and Varanasi were
equally strong wave when its leader Mrs. Indira Gandhi demolished by Aurangzeb and mosques constructed in their place;
came up with the slogan garibi hatuo (“Remove these still stand.
9. Ina...
Journal Article
Common Ground: Filth as an Idiom of Critique in Two South Asian Communities
Available to Purchase
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 134–151.
Published: 01 May 2016
... defeca-
encounters this mud in Varanasi as it swallows tion is iterative, producing an overwhelming mass
up his mother’s body and, along with it, his early of sameness, like the mud that “spreads mud and
hopes for advancement. The struggle between his throws up...
Journal Article
Citizen's Inquiry Reports on Ayodhya and Its Aftermath
Available to Purchase
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1994) 14 (2): 1–9.
Published: 01 August 1994
... of Uttar
Magistrate’s report to the State government on the Pradesh, wrote to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
2
demanding restoration of Hindu temples at Ayod- resiled from these statements within days.’ Other
hya, Varanasi and Mathura, allegedly...
Journal Article
Caught in a Conflict of Loyalties: Rathor Ramsingh's Death, 1577
Available to Purchase
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 325–333.
Published: 01 August 2022
... . Prthvirajraso ( Ballad of Prithviraj ), Vol. 1 . 2nd ed., edited by Pandya Mohanlal Vishnulal and Das Syamsundar . Varanasi, India : Nagaripracarini Sabha , 1993 . Busch Allison . “ The Classical Past in the Mughal Present: The Brajbhasha Riti Tradition .” In Innovations...
Journal Article
Coining Words: Language and Politics in Late Colonial Tamilnadu
Available to Purchase
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1995) 15 (2): 120–129.
Published: 01 August 1995
... from to the Aryans, to exalt the civilization of the ancient
Sanskrit. He wrote: Tamils, to distort in the name of historical research
The “Nagari Pracharini Sabha” of Varanasi is pro- current traditions and literature, and to pooh-pooh
ducing a huge...
1
