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...Paul F. Power President Zakir Husain: A Quest for Excellence . By A. G. Noorani . Foreword by Jayaprakash Narayan. Bombay : Popular Prakashan , 1967 . xvi, 128 pp. Illustrations, Appendix, Bibliography, Index. Rs. 15.00 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969...

...Morris E. Opler Abstract In November, 1949, I witnessed the ritual events of the tenth day of the month of Muharram in a village of north India inhabited by Muslims of the Shiah sect. According to Shiah tradition, on this day of the year in 680 A.D., Husain, the grandson of Mohammed, sacrificed his...

....' This leads him to translate titles of the sultan's officers as "king so-and-so," or "great king so-and-so," although at one point (p. 652), he begins to follow Husain's practice of leaving it untranslated. This can be confusing for those who are not familiar with the evolution of the use of the term...

... Italian version of 1961. The issue is not quite so clear in the case of Mahdi Husain's translation (The Rehla of Ibn Battuta [India, Maldive Islands and Ceylon], Gaekwad's Oriental Series, CXXII, Oriental Institute, Baroda, 1953) which will be dealt with below in connection with remarks on the translation...

... Worldly Affiliations takes its readers on a deep dive into the production and praxis of four of the pillars of India's twentieth-century art scene: Amrita Sher-Gil (1918–41), Maqbool Fida Husain (1915–2011), K. G. Subramanyan (1924–2016), and Bhupen Khakhar (1934–2003). The book's four interior chapters...

... story: Tradition and problems], ed. by C¯ Gōpī and Nārang . Delhi : Educational Publishing House . The Hindustan Times . 1971 . “Symposium Urges India to Help Bangla Desh.” April 1. Husain Intizār . 1973 . shahr-e-afsōs [The city of sorrow]. Lahore : Maktaba-e-Kārvān...

... whose work critiqued or expanded on the modernist and often secularist agenda of the Progressives. These writers use Karbala and Husain for their own agendas, displacing the sectarian significance of the martyrdom through revolutionary readings, disrupting religious identities and defying simplistic...

.... The wealth of material presented in these volumes make it an asset to any individual or library. S. VAIDYANATHAN. University of Pennsylvania. President Zakir Husain: A Quest for Excellence. BY A. G. NOORANI. Foreword by Jayaprakash Narayan. Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1967. xvi, 128 pp. Illustrations...

... result was self-exploitation and self-orientalism. Following the trajectory of the exploited nude in Indian art, Guha-Thakurta brings her discourse up to recent times by reviewing the tamaashaa over the contemporary secular Muslim artist M. F. Husain s nude goddess series of the 1970s B O O K R E V I E W...

... A 781 (pp. 245 48). In 1996 the Hindutva political hegemony found it useful to target Husain s work of almost thirty years preceding as being disrespectful to Saraswati, Parvati, and Laxmi somewhat surprising in a country that had an erotic temple sculpture tradition rmly embedded in its art historical...

... Britain. Indian Statutory Commission, Memorandum Submitted by the Government of the Punjab (London: H. M. Stationery Office, 1930 ) and in Husain Azim , Fazl-i-Husain ( London : Orient, Longmans, and Green, and Co., Ltd. , 1946 ) . See also Tribune (Lahore) throughout November...

...Aditya Behl Medieval India: Essays in Intellectual Thought and Culture . Edited by Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui . Vol. 1 . New Delhi : Manohar , 2003 . 223 pp. Rs 450 $29.50 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 1182 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I...

... © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1957 1957 1 These are A. F. A. Husain et al., “Human and Social Impact of Technological Change in Pakistan” (typescript, University of Dacca, 1954 [in press]); Pakistan, Ministry of Labour, Report of the I.L.O. Labour Survey Mission on Labour...

... 1957). An unpublished paper by Farouk Abdul and Husain A. F. A. , “Experience of Field Work in Survey Research in East Pakistan,” presented at a UNESCO Conference on Methods of Social Research, Calcutta, December 1958 , dealt with issues in field work data-collection within...

... Muslim administrative elite during the late eighteenth century. Three (I'tisam al-Din, Mir Muhammad Husain, Abu Talib) themselves visited Europe between 1767 and 1802, observing the colonial metropole firsthand; four (Murtaza Husain Bilgrami, Ghulam Husain Khan Tabatabai, 'Abd al-Latif al-Shushtari...

... to accept all kinds of ideas. Since Urdu poetry began, the ghazal has been its major form of expression. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it came up against determined opposition, first from the poet-critic Altaf Husain Hall (1837 1914) and later from the Progressive writers. It eventually...

... politics in India, Ruud s book should also be able to provide useful insights for comparativists looking for an account of politics of the local in non-Western societies more generally. MALTE PEHL University of Heidelberg Medieval India: Essays in Intellectual Thought and Culture. Edited by IQTIDAR HUSAIN...

.... Like Mirza Ghulam Husain Khan Tabataba'I, the Mughal official who ended his career in service to the East India Company, Moon served the new India after 1947. He was one of those few among his countrymen who clearly saw the long shadows of empire when he came to India in 1929- As the twilight...

... outlook. Noorani's half-title aptly characterizes the former, with the understanding that Zakir Husain has asked for quality performance in cottage industries as well as in formal education. His nationalism combines ideas advising a moral community, self-development and disciplined labor. The 1967...

...Martin Yanuck Selected Documents from the Aligarh Archives . Edited by Yusuf Husain . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1967 . xii, 414 pp. Index. $7.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 BOOK REVIEWS 899 writing produced even the Nydyayi\as and other...