Article
Area Studies
Christopher T. Fleming
Summary: This article discusses how Hindu deities and places of worship are considered legal persons in the Supreme Court and the Allahabad High Court in relation to the Ayodhya Dispute. It analyzes the courts' interpretations of Sanskrit jurisprudence and how it affects the constitutional rights of the Hindu community. The article also highlights the differences between the two courts' verdicts on the matter.
CONTEMPORARY SOUTH ASIA
(2023)
Article
Asian Studies
Sohyun Park
Summary: This article reexamines the relationship between artist Lee Ufan and nationalist art history by exploring his concept of ambivalent otherness. As a zainichi Korean, Lee has experienced exclusion and marginalization in the art world and art historiography, but he transformed it into a source of power to challenge nationalist art history. The study also analyzes the art criticism of Japanese Contemporary Art History in the 1970s and 1980s and highlights the ruptures caused by Lee's in-between identity on nationalist art history. It examines how Lee attempted to rewrite art history using Mono-ha art theory and a postcolonial perspective.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Film, Radio, Television
Eda Kandiyil Ahmad Faseeh
Summary: This article reflects on the viewpoints of Muslim filmmakers in Hyderabad on their everyday practices of Islam and filmmaking. Hyderabad cinema, produced in the Deccani language, is popular among Muslim communities in South India. Despite its small scale, the Hyderabadi cinema culture is closely related to the Telugu film industry in India.
BIOSCOPE-SOUTH ASIAN SCREEN STUDIES
(2023)
Article
History
Eugenia Vanina
Summary: This article aims to review the geography of ancient and medieval Indian seafaring, in which Hindus played a significant role, and to explore why sea travel became prohibited for Hindus during colonial India, leading to the excommunication of young castes who wished to study abroad by the descendants of merchants who operated from Aden to Indonesian and Chinese ports.
INDIAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Area Studies
Liang Yao
EAST ASIAN SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
(2023)
Article
Film, Radio, Television
Amrita Chakravarty
Summary: This article explores the remediation of Hindi cinema's filmi culture in digital media through citational practices. By focusing on lip-sync videos on platforms like Dubsmash and TikTok, it examines the development of an expanded archive of Hindi cinema, which presents cinema not only as a collection of films, but as a repertoire of gestures, expressions, and styles available for use by non-traditional cinephiles. The article argues that this archival view is made possible by the shift from a cinema-centered filmi culture to a platform-centered one, with the decline of masala films playing a significant role. Furthermore, the article highlights the detachable parts and circulation of masala films, and discusses the emergence of a new industrial reflexivity in response to the popularity of filmi style in the era of platforms.
BIOSCOPE-SOUTH ASIAN SCREEN STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Asian Studies
Stefanie Rudolf
Summary: This article investigates the terms for comets and meteors in Syriac, explores their significance in the study of Syriac astral terminology, and discusses their relevance to Semitic studies.
JOURNAL OF SEMITIC STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Area Studies
Knut A. Jacobsen
Summary: This article examines the use of the concept of parikrama in the 2019 Supreme Court judgement on the Ayodhya dispute and its aftermath. It argues that parikrama has been employed to legitimize the claim of exclusive Hindu sacred space in Ayodhya. The article emphasizes the significance of parikramas in the Hinduization of space and the convergence of rituals and legal discourses on places of worship.
CONTEMPORARY SOUTH ASIA
(2023)
Article
History
Kalpana Malik
Summary: This article examines the concept of business profit and the role of religion in the profession of business. By analyzing an autobiographical memoir, it explores the motives and methods employed by the bania community to pursue profit during the medieval period. The article draws attention to a valuable primary source that provides insights into the pursuit of profit during this time.
INDIAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Asian Studies
Zahir Bhalloo
Summary: The New Persian paper documents unearthed in Afghanistan since the 1990s provide significant sources for understanding the usage of New Persian in Arabic script as an administrative and legal language in the eastern Islamic lands before the Mongol conquest of Khurasan in the 11th and early 13th centuries. This article introduces the three main collections where these documents are preserved and presents a preliminary edition, translation, and commentary on one of the documents from the Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, which is a record of court proceedings and a judge's decision in a water rights lawsuit initiated by a woman, dated AH 608/1212 CE.
BULLETIN OF THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES-UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
(2023)
Book Review
Asian Studies
Chandni Bhambhani
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES
(2023)
Book Review
History
Hugh Clark
JOURNAL OF CHINESE HISTORY
(2023)
Book Review
Area Studies
N. Safrine, Arundhathi Subramaniam
Summary: Arundhathi Subramaniam's "Women Who Wear Only Themselves: Conversations with Four Travelers on Sacred Journeys" is a book that features conversations with four travelers discussing the theme of sacred journeys.
SOUTH ASIA RESEARCH
(2023)
Book Review
Area Studies
V. Ratnamala, Jagdish Lal Dawar
Summary: This book discusses the role of food in the lives of Mizos, from precolonial times to the present.
SOUTH ASIA RESEARCH
(2023)
Book Review
Asian Studies
Kaeko Chiba, Chris McMorran
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES
(2023)
Book Review
History
Craig Clunas, Juliane Noth
JOURNAL OF CHINESE HISTORY
(2023)
Article
Asian Studies
Zarawar Khan
Summary: This article explores the history of clandestine activities concerning Buddhist antiquities in the former Khyber Agency of the British Indian Empire. It shows that Gandharan sculptures recovered during these secret excavations were illegally transported to England, and highlights the disappearance of sculptures belonging to senior officers. The article particularly focuses on the discovery, hurried excavation, and destruction of Buddhist ruins near the great stupa called Shpola, which was part of the Khyber Agency under British rule.
SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES
(2023)
Book Review
History
Catherine Churchman, Hugh R. Clark
JOURNAL OF CHINESE HISTORY
(2023)
Biographical-Item
Area Studies
Bernard Hourcade, Houshang Chehabi
Article
Asian Studies
Omer Naim Kucuk, Metin Yucekaya
Summary: This study examines the divergent state responses to the 1973 oil shock in Turkey and South Korea and proposes a sociological perspective on the influence of state autonomy and bureaucratic systems on decision-making processes. The research finds that pre-crisis economic policies and industrialization strategies may limit policy options, but state autonomy and bureaucratic organization impact the effectiveness of these policies.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES
(2023)
