SAGARSAGAR
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University of Texas at Austin
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by Manu Bhagavan
by Ian J. Barrow
This paper investigates the ways in which cartography, the scientific representation of land, served a colonial endeavour for understanding India. It examines, through a survey of colonial cartographic practices and beliefs in India, from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, how changing notions of the frontiers helped constitute, in the minds of the British, place and people.
by Dennis Walker
The new untouchable bourgeoisie in Bengal, as it decisevely enters India's socio-political mainstream in the late twentieth century, is reinventing an old protest religion--the Matau--into an instrument aimed at dulling the hostilities of upper caste Hindus.. This paper argues that rather than exhibiting a quiescent acceptance of externally imposed status, the Untouchables have been active participants in their attempts to integrate with upper caste Hindus--India's national elite--through the popularization of the Matau religion, innovated in the nineteenth century to advance the interests of the socially outcaste Untouchables, via the Calcutta Bengali journal Harisevak.
by David Fado
This paper examines the debate between secular nationalism and Hindu nationalism at the federal level of India's government. Relying on many of the English-language pamphlets, books, and articles recently produced in India, this paper tries to provide a fair summary of what divides and unites the two sides. Throughout the debate, the importance of India's constitutional tradition as a federal republic makes it difficult to apply theories of "Third World" nationalism. Furthermore, India resembles other federal republics more than governments marked by totalitarianism, military rule, Islamic fundamentalism, or fascism.
by Rosane Rocher
This lecture, delivered at the first session of the South Asia Seminar "Reconsidering Boundaries in South Asian Studies" at the University of Texas at Austin on September 22, 1994, argues that South Asian Studies ought to be reconstituted to learn from the culture, account for the experience, and serve the needs of the growing South Asian ethnic community in the United States.
by CYNTHIA TALBOT