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What is this mysterious philosophy which originated in the 6th century BCE, whose absolute requirement is vegetarianism, and which now commands a following of four million adherents both in its native India and diaspora communities across the globe? Yet for all its apparent exoticism, Jainism is still little understood in the West. Or of Jains sweeping the ground in front of them to ensure that living creatures are not inadvertently crushed: a practice of non-violence so radical as to defy easy comprehension. New Books in South Asian Studies, Episode 1: Jainism evokes images of monks wearing face masks to protect insects and micro-organisms from being inhaled. Keywords: India, classical music, national culture, Muslims, Brahmanic elite, Indian music, Hindu, societal divisions, politics, culture Janaki Bakhle is a Professor of Modern South Asian History at the University of California at Berkely, with a focus on the cultural, social and political history in the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. This book lays bare how a nation’s imaginings-from politics to culture-reflect rather than transform societal divisions.ĭr. The author demonstrates how the emergence of an “Indian” cultural tradition reflected colonial and exclusionary practices, particularly the exclusion of Muslims by the Brahmanic elite, which occurred despite the fact that Muslims were the major practitioners of the Indian music that was installed as a “Hindu” national tradition. New books in South Asian Studies, Episode 2: This book is a provocative account of the development of modern national culture in India using classical music as a case study. Pankaj Jain is a Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at FLAME University, where he is heading the Indic Studies Initiative in the FLAME School of Liberal Education. He has also taught in Australia and the USA, and has published extensively in the fields of comparative religion and Indology.ĭr. Arvind Sharma is the Birks Professor of Comparative Religion in the School of Religious Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Scholarly and accessible, The Ruler's Gaze throws fresh light on Indian colonial history through a Saidian lens.įormerly of the IAS, Dr. He explores in an Indian context Said's contention that the relationship between knowledge and power is central to the way the West depicts the non-West. It critiqued Western scholarship about the Eastern world for its patronizing attitude and tendency to view it as exotic, backward and uncivilized.Īrvind Sharma, longstanding professor of comparative religion at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, now takes up the Palestinian academic's groundbreaking ideas - originally put forth predominantly in a Middle Eastern context - and tests them against Indian material. He is also the general editor of the Encyclopedia of Indian Religions (Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer,2017).Įpisode 3 (New Books in Indian Studies): Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) is a seminal work in the field of postcolonial culture studies.
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He has contributed to and edited Our Religions: The Seven World Religions Introduced by Prominent Scholars from Each Tradition. His recent books include The Ruler’s Gaze: A Study of British Rule over India from a Saidian perspective, Gandhi: A Spiritual Biography Hinduism and Its Sense of History and Decolonizing Indian Studies. He was instrumental, through three global conferences (2006, 2011, 2016), in facilitating the adoption of a Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the World’s Religions. Arvind Sharma is the Birks Professor of Comparative Religion in the School of Religious Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, He has taught in Australia (University of Queensland, Sydney) and the USA (Northeastern, Temple, Boston, Harvard) and has published extensively in the fields of comparative religion and Indology. Speaker: Professor Arvind Sharma, McGill University, Canadaįormerly of the IAS, Dr. This talk will focus on the kind of shifts in understanding of such key categories suggested by modern developments. The history of Hinduism, from one point of view, is a history of the periodic realignments of its conceptual universe, consisting of such key categories as Karma, Dharma, Veda, Yoga, and soon. Rethinking Hindu Concepts: A Webinar by Professor Arvind Sharma