From sellmers at GMX.DE  Sun Jan  1 16:58:25 2006
From: sellmers at GMX.DE (Sven Sellmer)
Date: Sun, 01 Jan 06 17:58:25 +0100
Subject: Terms and modes of address
Message-ID: <161227077290.23782.10219970533267167377.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear Colleagues!

Does anybody know of good books and articles dealing with modes and terms of address in Sanskrit?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Best wishes,
Sven Sellmer

**************************************
Dr. Sven Sellmer
Adam Mickiewicz University
Department of Oriental Studies
ul. Miedzychodzka 5
PL - 60-371 Poznan
Poland
sven.sellmer at amu.edu.pl




From slaje at T-ONLINE.DE  Mon Jan  2 08:37:00 2006
From: slaje at T-ONLINE.DE (Walter Slaje)
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 06 08:37:00 +0000
Subject: Terms and modes of address
In-Reply-To: <003b01c60ef4$95344e40$5d01000a@krasnal>
Message-ID: <161227077292.23782.9461890871782337404.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

"Sven Sellmer" <sellmers at GMX.DE> schrieb:
> Dear Colleagues!
> 
> Does anybody know of good books and articles dealing with modes and terms of address in Sanskrit?
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Sven Sellmer

See
- SPEIJER 1886 (Sanskrit Syntax): ? 259f.
- E. D. Kulkarni, Vocatives in the Critical
Edition of the Mahabharata. Bulletin of the Deccan
College Research Institute 6 (1944/45): 1-36.

For terms of reproach and insulting modes of
address, see
- Observations on the Making of the Yogavasi??ha
(caitta, na?artha and va?). In: Le parole e i
marmi. Studi in onore di Raniero Gnoli nel suo 70
anniversario compleanno. A cura di RAFFAELE
TORELLA. Con la collaborazione di CLAUDIO CICUZZA,
et. al. [Serie Orientale Roma XCII, 1/2.]. Roma
2001: 771-?796. (insulting expressions:
pp.782-788)

Best, WS

----------------------------
Prof Dr Walter Slaje
Hermann-Loens-Str. 1
D-99425 Weimar (Germany)
Tel/Fax: +49-(0)3643 501391
www.indologie.uni-halle.de

Ego ex animi mei sententia spondeo ac polliceor
me studia humanitatis impigro labore culturum et
provecturum
non sordidi lucri causa nec ad vanam captandam
gloriam,
sed quo magis veritas propagetur et lux eius, qua
salus
humani generis continetur, clarius effulgeat.
Vindobonae, die XXI. mensis Novembris MCMLXXXIII.




From athr at LOC.GOV  Tue Jan  3 15:59:32 2006
From: athr at LOC.GOV (Allen W Thrasher)
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 06 10:59:32 -0500
Subject: Terms and modes of address
Message-ID: <161227077299.23782.18234922372193094039.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

The same publisher (Popular Prakashan, Bombay) published a 2nd revised ed. of N. K. Wagle's "Society in the Time of the Buddha" in 1995.

Happy New Year,

Allen

Allen W. Thrasher, Ph.D., Senior Reference Librarian
South Asia Team, Asian Division
Library of Congress, Jefferson Building 150
101 Independence Ave., S.E.
Washington, DC 20540-4810
tel. 202-707-3732; fax 202-707-1724; athr at loc.gov
The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Library of Congress.




From athr at LOC.GOV  Tue Jan  3 18:16:58 2006
From: athr at LOC.GOV (Allen W Thrasher)
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 06 13:16:58 -0500
Subject: Library of Congress Fellowship: Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship              Program
Message-ID: <161227077300.23782.4626862205081585002.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

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From Greg.Bailey at LATROBE.EDU.AU  Tue Jan  3 02:51:44 2006
From: Greg.Bailey at LATROBE.EDU.AU (Gregory Bailey)
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 06 13:51:44 +1100
Subject: Terms and modes of address
Message-ID: <161227077294.23782.11322518837116235785.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear Sven,
 
There is a book written by N.K. Wagle and published in 1965, I think.  I cannot remember the title but it contains a detailed analysis of names of the Buddha when he is being addressed by people from different classes.
 
Cheers,
 
Greg Bailey

________________________________

From: Indology on behalf of Sven Sellmer
Sent: Mon 1/2/2006 3:58 AM
To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
Subject: Terms and modes of address



Dear Colleagues!

Does anybody know of good books and articles dealing with modes and terms of address in Sanskrit?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Best wishes,
Sven Sellmer

**************************************
Dr. Sven Sellmer
Adam Mickiewicz University
Department of Oriental Studies
ul. Miedzychodzka 5
PL - 60-371 Poznan
Poland
sven.sellmer at amu.edu.pl




From r.mahoney at ICONZ.CO.NZ  Tue Jan  3 04:16:34 2006
From: r.mahoney at ICONZ.CO.NZ (Richard MAHONEY)
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 06 17:16:34 +1300
Subject: Terms and modes of address
In-Reply-To: <B4F2B4E9DF6BFB449A17E18DE83E467201376A08@exchange1.ltu.edu.au>
Message-ID: <161227077296.23782.4662322687588674772.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 15:51, Gregory Bailey wrote:
> Dear Sven,
>  
> There is a book written by N.K. Wagle and published in 1965, I think.  I cannot remember the title but it contains a detailed analysis of names of the Buddha when he is being addressed by people from different classes.
>  
> Cheers,
>  
> Greg Bailey
> 

The following?


Main Author:      Wagle, N. K. (Narendra K.)
Title Details:    Society at the time of the Buddha / Narendra Wagle

Publisher:        Bombay : Popular Prakashan, 1966
Physical Desc.:   viii, 314 p ; 23 cm

Notes:            Bibliography: p. 303-307
Subject(s):       India - Social life and customs
                  Buddha
                  India - Social conditions - History
Language:         English

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                    School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS) - Main
                    Library ; JA305.5 /219824


Best,

 RBM


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From arganis at TODITO.COM  Fri Jan  6 20:42:32 2006
From: arganis at TODITO.COM (Horacio Francisco Arganis Juarez)
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 06 20:42:32 +0000
Subject: call for papers, correction
Message-ID: <161227077303.23782.6700293159351791507.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

> Dear Indology members. 
Happy new year! Please is you want look this Interesting Encyclopedia:
http://www.veda.harekrsna.cz/encyclopedia/historical-krsna2.htm

> 
> The correct link for author information for the Internet 
> Encyclopedia of Philosophy is to be found here: 
> 
> http://www.iep.utm.edu/1/author.htm 
> 
> Shyam Ranganathan 
> 
_________________________________________________________________________
?Encuentra trabajo ya! Tenemos miles de vacantes.
www.trabajahoy.com




From nlpdept at YAHOO.CO.IN  Sun Jan  8 12:45:26 2006
From: nlpdept at YAHOO.CO.IN (Srinivasa Varakhedi)
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 06 12:45:26 +0000
Subject: Sanskrit recordings
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.62.0512291842130.7154@harper.uchicago.edu>
Message-ID: <161227077305.23782.1149309329838506323.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear,
   
  Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, Tirupati had a project of recoding the explainations of Shastric classical works by Pandits. Now the cassettes and CDs are avialable in RSV library. You may conatct the Registrar, RSV.
   
  http://rsvidyapeetha.ac.in .
   
  shrivara.

Matthew Kapstein <mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU> wrote:
  Can anyone recommend some goods sources for digital
recordings of spoken Sanskrit, Sanskrit poetry and dramatic
recitation, etc.? Examples of the chants used for
reciting various meters would be of particular interest.
A recorded anthology of Sanskrit poetry, I suppose, is too
much to hope for just yet.

Matthew Kapstein
  


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From LubinT at WLU.EDU  Mon Jan  9 22:13:41 2006
From: LubinT at WLU.EDU (Timothy Lubin)
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 06 17:13:41 -0500
Subject: Sanskrit recordings
Message-ID: <161227077307.23782.15968717879995205326.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

I possess a privately made cassette of Prof. Nagaraja Rao, of Mysore,
illustrating various meters in a quite beautiful style of chanting. 
Most of the examples are from the works of Kaalidaasa and from
Bhart.rhari's "Satakatraya.  In the course of this he also recounts some
amusing anecdotes about Appayadiik.sita.
 
I will see about getting these recordings transferred to digital format
so that it can be made readily available if anyone else is interested.
 
Tim Lubin
Washington and Lee University

>>> mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU 12/29/05 7:48 PM >>>

Can anyone recommend some goods sources for digital
recordings of spoken Sanskrit, Sanskrit poetry and dramatic
recitation, etc.? Examples of the chants used for
reciting various meters would be of particular interest.
A recorded anthology of Sanskrit poetry, I suppose, is too
much to hope for just yet.

Matthew Kapstein




From athr at LOC.GOV  Mon Jan  9 23:00:46 2006
From: athr at LOC.GOV (Allen W Thrasher)
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 06 18:00:46 -0500
Subject: Sanskrit recordings
Message-ID: <161227077310.23782.14060532661828299537.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Tim (and others), 
 
You might think of getting that done through the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology, part of the AIIS in Delhi.  They are interested in such things, and I long ago promised them copies of some tapes I made of chanting of the Vedas and Kavya during my first stay in India.  Already I have  leant them to copy some early Goan 78 rpm vinyls I bought in the Bhendi Bazar in Bombay. 
 
Part of the idea of the ARCE is for US scholars to give back to India some of the things they have gained there.  
 
I don't know for sure whether they have any interest in audio that is in no way "music,"  but their homepage http://www.archive-india.org/arce_profile.html  mentions "music and oral traditions," which may imply they would be. 
 
Allen
 
Allen W. Thrasher, Ph.D., Senior Reference Librarian
South Asia Team, Asian Division
Library of Congress, Jefferson Building 150
101 Independence Ave., S.E.
Washington, DC 20540-4810
tel. 202-707-3732; fax 202-707-1724; athr at loc.gov
The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Library of Congress.

>>> LubinT at WLU.EDU 01/09/06 5:13 PM >>>

I possess a privately made cassette of Prof. Nagaraja Rao, of Mysore,
illustrating various meters in a quite beautiful style of chanting. 
Most of the examples are from the works of Kaalidaasa and from
Bhart.rhari's "Satakatraya.  In the course of this he also recounts some
amusing anecdotes about Appayadiik.sita.

I will see about getting these recordings transferred to digital format
so that it can be made readily available if anyone else is interested.

Tim Lubin
Washington and Lee University

>>> mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU 12/29/05 7:48 PM >>>

Can anyone recommend some goods sources for digital
recordings of spoken Sanskrit, Sanskrit poetry and dramatic
recitation, etc.? Examples of the chants used for
reciting various meters would be of particular interest.
A recorded anthology of Sanskrit poetry, I suppose, is too
much to hope for just yet.

Matthew Kapstein




From magier at COLUMBIA.EDU  Tue Jan 10 00:05:43 2006
From: magier at COLUMBIA.EDU (David Magier)
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 06 19:05:43 -0500
Subject: Sanskrit recordings
In-Reply-To: <s3c2a585.039@loc.gov>
Message-ID: <161227077313.23782.14305002879732444202.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

All,
the person to contact at ARCE at AIIS in Delhi (actually in Gurgaon) is Dr. 
Shubha Chaudhury, Director of ARCE. Their website is 
<http://www.archive-india.org/arce_profile.html>, and their location is:

Archive and Research Center for Ethnomusicology
22, Institutional Area
Sector 32
Gurgaon, Haryana
Telephone: 91-124-2381424

I believe Dr. Chaudhury's email is <shubha at arce.ernet.in>.

Best,
David Magier

--On January 9, 2006 6:00:46 PM -0500 Allen W Thrasher <athr at LOC.GOV> wrote:

> Tim (and others),
>
> You might think of getting that done through the Archives and Research
> Center for Ethnomusicology, part of the AIIS in Delhi.  They are
> interested in such things, and I long ago promised them copies of some
> tapes I made of chanting of the Vedas and Kavya during my first stay in
> India.  Already I have  leant them to copy some early Goan 78 rpm vinyls
> I bought in the Bhendi Bazar in Bombay.
> Part of the idea of the ARCE is for US scholars to give back to India
> some of the things they have gained there.
> I don't know for sure whether they have any interest in audio that is in
> no way "music,"  but their homepage
> http://www.archive-india.org/arce_profile.html  mentions "music and oral
> traditions," which may imply they would be.
> Allen
>
> Allen W. Thrasher, Ph.D., Senior Reference Librarian
> South Asia Team, Asian Division
> Library of Congress, Jefferson Building 150
> 101 Independence Ave., S.E.
> Washington, DC 20540-4810
> tel. 202-707-3732; fax 202-707-1724; athr at loc.gov
> The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Library of
> Congress.
>
>>>> LubinT at WLU.EDU 01/09/06 5:13 PM >>>
>
> I possess a privately made cassette of Prof. Nagaraja Rao, of Mysore,
> illustrating various meters in a quite beautiful style of chanting.
> Most of the examples are from the works of Kaalidaasa and from
> Bhart.rhari's "Satakatraya.  In the course of this he also recounts some
> amusing anecdotes about Appayadiik.sita.
>
> I will see about getting these recordings transferred to digital format
> so that it can be made readily available if anyone else is interested.
>
> Tim Lubin
> Washington and Lee University
>
>>>> mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU 12/29/05 7:48 PM >>>
>
> Can anyone recommend some goods sources for digital
> recordings of spoken Sanskrit, Sanskrit poetry and dramatic
> recitation, etc.? Examples of the chants used for
> reciting various meters would be of particular interest.
> A recorded anthology of Sanskrit poetry, I suppose, is too
> much to hope for just yet.
>
> Matthew Kapstein




From wmcox at UCHICAGO.EDU  Tue Jan 10 02:42:55 2006
From: wmcox at UCHICAGO.EDU (Whitney Cox)
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 06 20:42:55 -0600
Subject: Prof. Bakker's email
Message-ID: <161227077315.23782.13384344869544326521.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear friends,

Could someone please share with me Professor Hans Bakker's 
current email address.  The one I have seems to no longer be 
working.

Thanks in advance, and a happy New Year to all,

Whitney Cox




From slaje at T-ONLINE.DE  Tue Jan 10 08:02:00 2006
From: slaje at T-ONLINE.DE (Walter Slaje)
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 06 08:02:00 +0000
Subject: Prof. Bakker's email
In-Reply-To: <fccbab3.78381c2d.8269f00@m4500-03.uchicago.edu>
Message-ID: <161227077317.23782.2212574046610889133.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

"Whitney Cox" <wmcox at UCHICAGO.EDU> schrieb:
> Dear friends,
> 
> Could someone please share with me Professor Hans Bakker's 
> current email address.  The one I have seems to no longer be 
> working.
> 
> Thanks in advance, and a happy New Year to all,
> 
> Whitney Cox
> 

This is the one I have successfully used:

hans.bakker at let.rug.nl


Best, WS

--------------------- 
Prof Dr Walter Slaje
Hermann-Loens-Str. 1
D-99425 Weimar (Germany)
Tel/Fax: +49-(0)3643 501391
www.indologie.uni-halle.de

Ego ex animi mei sententia spondeo ac polliceor
me studia humanitatis impigro labore culturum et
provecturum
non sordidi lucri causa nec ad vanam captandam
gloriam,
sed quo magis veritas propagetur et lux eius, qua
salus
humani generis continetur, clarius effulgeat.
Vindobonae, die XXI. mensis Novembris MCMLXXXIII.




From vielle at ORI.UCL.AC.BE  Tue Jan 10 08:30:09 2006
From: vielle at ORI.UCL.AC.BE (Christophe Vielle)
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 06 09:30:09 +0100
Subject: Sanskrit recordings
In-Reply-To: <s3c2a585.039@loc.gov>
Message-ID: <161227077320.23782.9592783762850746004.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Maybe is also still available
the CD
"Inde du Sud. Musiques rituelles et th??tre du Kerala/South India. Ritual
Music and Theatre of Kerala", Publishing reference: Le Chant du Monde LDX
274 910 CM , distributed by Harmonia Mundi France, Series: Collection du
Centre de la Recherche scientifique et du Mus?e de l'homme (1989).
in which
excepts  nos. 2-3 = recitation of the .Rgveda (the second one in
rathapaa.tha with one student following the sa.mhitaa- and the other the
pada-paa.tha)
no 4 = from the Saamaveda (Jaiminiiya)
no. 5 = sample of Kuu.tiyaa.t.tam performance
no. 8 = sample of Giitagovinda sung in Guruv?yur

With best wishes,
Christophe Vielle

>Tim (and others),
>
>You might think of getting that done through the Archives and Research
>Center for Ethnomusicology, part of the AIIS in Delhi.  They are
>interested in such things, and I long ago promised them copies of some
>tapes I made of chanting of the Vedas and Kavya during my first stay in
>India.  Already I have  leant them to copy some early Goan 78 rpm vinyls I
>bought in the Bhendi Bazar in Bombay.
>
>Part of the idea of the ARCE is for US scholars to give back to India some
>of the things they have gained there.
>
>I don't know for sure whether they have any interest in audio that is in
>no way "music,"  but their homepage
>http://www.archive-india.org/arce_profile.html  mentions "music and oral
>traditions," which may imply they would be.
>
>Allen
>
>Allen W. Thrasher, Ph.D., Senior Reference Librarian
>South Asia Team, Asian Division
>Library of Congress, Jefferson Building 150
>101 Independence Ave., S.E.
>Washington, DC 20540-4810
>tel. 202-707-3732; fax 202-707-1724; athr at loc.gov
>The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Library of
>Congress.
>
>>>> LubinT at WLU.EDU 01/09/06 5:13 PM >>>
>
>I possess a privately made cassette of Prof. Nagaraja Rao, of Mysore,
>illustrating various meters in a quite beautiful style of chanting.
>Most of the examples are from the works of Kaalidaasa and from
>Bhart.rhari's "Satakatraya.  In the course of this he also recounts some
>amusing anecdotes about Appayadiik.sita.
>
>I will see about getting these recordings transferred to digital format
>so that it can be made readily available if anyone else is interested.
>
>Tim Lubin
>Washington and Lee University
>
>>>> mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU 12/29/05 7:48 PM >>>
>
>Can anyone recommend some goods sources for digital
>recordings of spoken Sanskrit, Sanskrit poetry and dramatic
>recitation, etc.? Examples of the chants used for
>reciting various meters would be of particular interest.
>A recorded anthology of Sanskrit poetry, I suppose, is too
>much to hope for just yet.
>
>Matthew Kapstein


Dr. Christophe Vielle
Centre d'Etudes de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud
Institut orientaliste
Place Blaise Pascal 1
B - 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
BELGIUM
Tel. +32-(0)10-47 49 54 (office)/ -(0)2-640 62 66 (home)
E-mail: vielle at ori.ucl.ac.be




From vielle at ORI.UCL.AC.BE  Tue Jan 10 08:44:48 2006
From: vielle at ORI.UCL.AC.BE (Christophe Vielle)
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 06 09:44:48 +0100
Subject: Sanskrit recordings
Message-ID: <161227077322.23782.899002146273047739.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

I should add about the Giitagovinda performances
that on the CD
"Drumming and chanting in God's own country: the temple music of Kerala in
South India" (recorded bt Rolf Killius), Publishing reference: Topic
Records TSCD922 (London), Series: The International Music Collection of the
British Library Sound Archive (2003).
in which
tracks  nos. 4-5 = Giitagovinda sung by Nyerelate Rama Pooduval, "one of
the last traditional Sopanam Sangeetam" singers in Kerala
track no. 8 = Giitagovinda in a different style of Sopanam Sangeetam by KP
Sivaraman Pooduval


Christophe Vielle


Dr. Christophe Vielle
Centre d'Etudes de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud
Institut orientaliste
Place Blaise Pascal 1
B - 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
BELGIUM
Tel. +32-(0)10-47 49 54 (office)/ -(0)2-640 62 66 (home)
E-mail: vielle at ori.ucl.ac.be




From ucgadkw at UCL.AC.UK  Wed Jan 11 12:50:13 2006
From: ucgadkw at UCL.AC.UK (Dominik Wujastyk)
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 06 12:50:13 +0000
Subject: Job advert: Sanskrit lectureship in London; closing date 3 Feb.
Message-ID: <161227077324.23782.3805394778457016339.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>


See http://www.soas.ac.uk/departments/index.cfm?navid=2722

--

Vacancy No: 100080

Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia
?26,486 - ?30,063 p.a. inclusive of London Allowance

The Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia, whose research 
and teaching is based primarily on Bengali, Hindi, Nepali, Panjabi, 
Sanskrit and Urdu, seeks to appoint a research-active Lecturer in Sanskrit 
to contribute to its ambitious programmes.
The successful candidate will be the one best able to make an outstanding 
contribution to studies in Sanskrit language and literature through 
innovative research and enthusiastic teaching.  Knowledge of a second 
South Asian language, preferably Prakrit or Tamil, would be advantageous, 
as would be the ability to attract research funding. The appointed 
lecturer would have the ability to teach the history of Sanskrit 
literature and culture in the context of the modern world and to 
contribute to our broader South Asian programme which already includes 
such subjects as Cinema, Postcolonial Literature, Himalayan Studies, 
Gender Studies and Islam & Politics in Pakistan.  The post commences on 
September 1st 2006.
Prospective candidates seeking further information may contact the Head of 
the Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia, Dr Rachel 
Dwyer (racheldwyer at soas.ac.uk)

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From athr at LOC.GOV  Wed Jan 11 22:20:49 2006
From: athr at LOC.GOV (Allen W Thrasher)
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 06 17:20:49 -0500
Subject: Punjabi or Hindustani slurs on British?
Message-ID: <161227077326.23782.12173898710597057974.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

A film-maker is doing a film on the Komagatu Maru incident (the turning back of a ship of Indian immigrant farm workers from Vancouver, BC in 1914).  She needs to know what slurs, slang, or derogatory words the Indians involved would have applied to the  British or to the employees of the Immigration offices.  I already suggested Ferenghi and Gora (log), but does anyone know any others?
 
Thanks,
 
Allen Thrasher
 




From jkirk at SPRO.NET  Thu Jan 12 05:25:24 2006
From: jkirk at SPRO.NET (jkirk)
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 06 22:25:24 -0700
Subject: Punjabi or Hindustani slurs on British?
Message-ID: <161227077331.23782.11030957892552148432.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

How about bandar or bandar log?
Joanna K.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Allen W Thrasher" <athr at LOC.GOV>
To: <INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 3:20 PM
Subject: Punjabi or Hindustani slurs on British?


A film-maker is doing a film on the Komagatu Maru incident (the turning back 
of a ship of Indian immigrant farm workers from Vancouver, BC in 1914).  She 
needs to know what slurs, slang, or derogatory words the Indians involved 
would have applied to the  British or to the employees of the Immigration 
offices.  I already suggested Ferenghi and Gora (log), but does anyone know 
any others?

Thanks,

Allen Thrasher




From jenni.cover at URNET.COM.AU  Thu Jan 12 01:06:59 2006
From: jenni.cover at URNET.COM.AU (Jenni Cover)
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 06 12:06:59 +1100
Subject: Decoding date in Sanskrit verse
In-Reply-To: <B93E50E8-578C-4F2D-9843-D6EAEFD78705@let.leidenuniv.nl>
Message-ID: <161227077328.23782.9266832234574236652.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Thankyou to all those who contributed to the discussion - I am in awe of
your knowledge and appreciate your kind contributions. Apologies for the
delay but I have been away since the last posting last December.

To summarize the outcome of this learned discussion.
The original question was to decode the date in a verse of Divakara's
commentary on Narahari's Bodhasara.
 
Sake gajatrimunibhUmimite tu varshe
rAmAdrinAgaSaSacihnamite tapasye
pakshe site sutaSaSAnkatithau jnavAre
vyAkhyA samAptimagamadvibudhaikavandyA 

After ranging through a variety of possibilities, the final outcome was
Wednesday 13th March 1816 CE. 

If this is incorrect please let me know.

Thankyou,
Jenni Cover
PhD Student
University of Sydney
Australia




From stella.sandahl at UTORONTO.CA  Fri Jan 13 00:48:19 2006
From: stella.sandahl at UTORONTO.CA (Stella Sandahl)
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 06 19:48:19 -0500
Subject: Punjabi or Hindustani slurs on British?
In-Reply-To: <s3c53f35.010@loc.gov>
Message-ID: <161227077333.23782.13143945839120736127.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear Allen,
Your knowledge of Hindi "gros mots" is touchingly innocent! Of course the
British and other enemies would have been called saalaa/saalee (latter
correct vocative, lit. 'brother-in-law'), haraamzaade kahiiM kaa (bastard
from God knows where), bahinchod or maaMchod (sister resp. mother-fucker),
laundebaaz ( bugger). Dafaa ho! "bugger off!
This is all I can think of   for the time being, but there are tons of slurs
out there. Hindi and Panjabi are very rich languages!
Best
Stella

-- 
Professor Stella Sandahl
Department of East Asian Studies
University of Toronto
130 St. George Street, Room 14087
Toronto, ON M5S 3H1
Phone: (416) 978-4295
Fax: (416) 978-5711
 
stella.sandahl at utoronto.ca

on 01/11/2006 17:20,     Allen W Thrasher at athr at LOC.GOV wrote:

> A film-maker is doing a film on the Komagatu Maru incident (the turning back
> of a ship of Indian immigrant farm workers from Vancouver, BC in 1914).  She
> needs to know what slurs, slang, or derogatory words the Indians involved
> would have applied to the  British or to the employees of the Immigration
> offices.  I already suggested Ferenghi and Gora (log), but does anyone know
> any others?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Allen Thrasher
> 
> 




From rlamb at HAWAII.RR.COM  Mon Jan 16 11:54:20 2006
From: rlamb at HAWAII.RR.COM (Ramdas Lamb)
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 06 01:54:20 -1000
Subject: Punjabi or Hindustani slurs on British?
In-Reply-To: <s3c53f35.010@loc.gov>
Message-ID: <161227077338.23782.8399679272247961451.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Allen W Thrasher wrote:

>A film-maker is doing a film on the Komagatu Maru incident (the turning back of a ship of Indian immigrant farm workers from Vancouver, BC in 1914).  She needs to know what slurs, slang, or derogatory words the Indians involved would have applied to the  British or to the employees of the Immigration offices.  I already suggested Ferenghi and Gora (log), but does anyone know any others?
>  
>
Angrej or Vilayati

rl




From j_e_m_houben at YAHOO.COM  Mon Jan 16 14:09:23 2006
From: j_e_m_houben at YAHOO.COM (Jan E.M. Houben)
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 06 06:09:23 -0800
Subject: new episode in Laine-Bahulkar epic ...
Message-ID: <161227077340.23782.8868814627479123475.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

For those interested .... 
The Telegraph, Calcutta, of 12 January 2006
discusses the reactions of J. Laine on the recent
ban of the new book The Epic of Shivaji
(published a few years back, I think 2001) and
the November 2005 request of Shivaji?s
descendants to the Maharashtra government to get
him arrested through Interpol. See
http://www.telegraphindia.com/archives/archive.html
for 12 January. 
The Maharashtra Times of 10 January showed an
article in Marathi
(http://maharashtratimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1366560.cms)
with an interview with S.S. Bahulkar where the
latter accepts authorship of only limited
sections of the book and denies to be co-author
of the book as a whole although his name appears,
as the interviewer points out, in akshara's of
the same size as J. Laine.  

Jan E.M. Houben,
Directeur d'Etudes,
Sources et Histoire de la Tradition Sanskrite
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes,
A la Sorbonne,
45-47, rue des Ecoles,
75005 Paris -- France. 
J_E_M_Houben at yahoo.com
Homepage: http://home.planet.nl/~j.e.m.houben
Website: www.jyotistoma.nl

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From j_e_m_houben at YAHOO.COM  Mon Jan 16 14:21:05 2006
From: j_e_m_houben at YAHOO.COM (Jan E.M. Houben)
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 06 06:21:05 -0800
Subject: new episode in Laine-Bahulkar epic ...
In-Reply-To: <20060116140923.1124.qmail@web30105.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <161227077342.23782.5596830965558279189.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

please delete "new" in the second sentence of my
message; from the articles it seemed to me to be
a new book but I now believe it is a new
complaint on the old book of 2001. 

--- "Jan E.M. Houben" <j_e_m_houben at YAHOO.COM>
wrote:

> For those interested .... 
> The Telegraph, Calcutta, of 12 January 2006
> discusses the reactions of J. Laine on the
> recent
> ban of the new book The Epic of Shivaji
> (published a few years back, I think 2001) and
> the November 2005 request of Shivaji?s
> descendants to the Maharashtra government to
> get
> him arrested through Interpol. See
>
http://www.telegraphindia.com/archives/archive.html
> for 12 January. 
> The Maharashtra Times of 10 January showed an
> article in Marathi
>
(http://maharashtratimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1366560.cms)
> with an interview with S.S. Bahulkar where the
> latter accepts authorship of only limited
> sections of the book and denies to be co-author
> of the book as a whole although his name
> appears,
> as the interviewer points out, in akshara's of
> the same size as J. Laine.  
> 
> Jan E.M. Houben,
> Directeur d'Etudes,
> Sources et Histoire de la Tradition Sanskrite
> Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes,
> A la Sorbonne,
> 45-47, rue des Ecoles,
> 75005 Paris -- France. 
> J_E_M_Houben at yahoo.com
> Homepage: http://home.planet.nl/~j.e.m.houben
> Website: www.jyotistoma.nl
> 
>
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From plamen at ORIENTALIA.ORG  Mon Jan 16 09:49:40 2006
From: plamen at ORIENTALIA.ORG (Plamen Gradinarov)
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 06 11:49:40 +0200
Subject: Buddhist Philosophy Forum - Moderators needed
Message-ID: <161227077336.23782.17873178774925980746.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear fellow Indologists and Buddhologists,

Anyone interested in showing one's metta and intrinsic mahasattva nature by volunteering for the post of moderator of the world's largest Buddhist Philosophy Forum at e-Sangha (10,000 members, more than 330,000 posts for two years, and growing)?

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Please, contact me in private.

Best Regards,

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Ph.D., D.Litt.




From adheesh at OCF.BERKELEY.EDU  Mon Jan 16 20:41:31 2006
From: adheesh at OCF.BERKELEY.EDU (adheesh sathaye)
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 06 12:41:31 -0800
Subject: bIbhatsa rasa
Message-ID: <161227077345.23782.10612452863372780234.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear Colleagues,

I am wondering if anyone might be able to provide references on  
scholarly studies of the bIbhatsa rasa in Skt drama and poetics. I am  
particularly interested in discussions of genre--why (and when and by  
whom) this and certain other rasas were sometimes considered  
inappropriate to be represented on stage.

Thanks and best regards

--
Adheesh Sathaye
Asian Studies
University of British Columbia
UBC Asian Centre
1871 West Mall
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
604.822.5188
adheesh at interchange.ubc.ca




From tccahill at LOYNO.EDU  Mon Jan 16 21:22:36 2006
From: tccahill at LOYNO.EDU (Timothy C. Cahill)
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 06 15:22:36 -0600
Subject: bIbhatsa rasa
In-Reply-To: <EA9614C5-E0B0-4D44-BE19-BB5B99C12D3F@ocf.berkeley.edu>
Message-ID: <161227077350.23782.14311997988471648109.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

>
> I am wondering if anyone might be able to provide references on scholarly 
> studies of the bIbhatsa rasa in Skt drama and poetics. I am particularly 
> interested in discussions of genre--why (and when and by whom) this and 
> certain other rasas were sometimes considered inappropriate to be represented 
> on stage.
>
> Thanks and best regards
>
> --
> Adheesh Sathaye
> Asian Studies
> University of British Columbia
> UBC Asian Centre
> 1871 West Mall
> Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
> 604.822.5188
> adheesh at interchange.ubc.ca
>




From somadevah at AOL.COM  Mon Jan 16 21:13:57 2006
From: somadevah at AOL.COM (somadeva vasudeva)
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 06 21:13:57 +0000
Subject: bIbhatsa rasa
In-Reply-To: <EA9614C5-E0B0-4D44-BE19-BB5B99C12D3F@ocf.berkeley.edu>
Message-ID: <161227077348.23782.10053707625963658436.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

B. K?lver has some very interesting remarks on this in:

Zur Fruehgeschichte der Rasa-Lehre, Berliner Indologische Studien,  
Vol. 6 (1991).

See especially ?4 pp. 26--29, where he evaluates N"S 6.39 biibhatsaac  
ca bhayaanaka.h and finds the common translation of biibhatsa-  
(desid. of baadh) as 'repugnant, repellent' etc. too narrow and often  
misleading.

Somadeva Vasudeva


On 16 Jan 2006, at 20:41, adheesh sathaye wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I am wondering if anyone might be able to provide references on  
> scholarly studies of the bIbhatsa rasa in Skt drama and poetics. I  
> am particularly interested in discussions of genre--why (and when  
> and by whom) this and certain other rasas were sometimes considered  
> inappropriate to be represented on stage.
>
> Thanks and best regards
>
> --
> Adheesh Sathaye
> Asian Studies
> University of British Columbia
> UBC Asian Centre
> 1871 West Mall
> Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
> 604.822.5188
> adheesh at interchange.ubc.ca




From newman at NCF.EDU  Wed Jan 18 15:25:43 2006
From: newman at NCF.EDU (Newman, John)
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 06 10:25:43 -0500
Subject: Hindustani slurs on British
Message-ID: <161227077353.23782.9873339499103114940.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

I don't know if it goes back to the early 20th century, but I recall "laal bandar" (red monkey) being current in Banaras in the 1970s.
 
best wishes,
 
John Newman
New College of Florida
Sarasota, Florida
 
 
Date:    Mon, 16 Jan 2006 01:54:20 -1000
From:    Ramdas Lamb <rlamb at HAWAII.RR.COM>
Subject: Re: Punjabi or Hindustani slurs on British?

Allen W Thrasher wrote:

>A film-maker is doing a film on the Komagatu Maru incident (the turning back of a ship of Indian immigrant farm workers from Vancouver, BC in 1914).  She needs to know what slurs, slang, or derogatory words the Indians involved would have applied to the  British or to the employees of the Immigration offices.  I already suggested Ferenghi and Gora (log), but does anyone know any others?
> 
>
Angrej or Vilayati

rl

------------------------------




From cohens at MISSOURI.EDU  Fri Jan 20 20:12:38 2006
From: cohens at MISSOURI.EDU (Cohen, Signe)
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 06 14:12:38 -0600
Subject: Punjabi or Hindustani slurs on British?
Message-ID: <161227077358.23782.13849650736337577783.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

This may be a little far-fetched, but I'll throw the idea out there anyway: Could this term have become a swearword through tensions that arise in the encounter (and intermarriage?) bertween a patrilineal Indo-Aryan society and matrilineal tribes (Khasi, Garo, etc.), where the wife's brother would claim to have more authority over his sister than the sister's husband? 
 
Signe Cohen
University of Missouri-Columbia

________________________________

From: Indology on behalf of Valerie J Roebuck
Sent: Fri 1/20/2006 8:24 AM
To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Punjabi or Hindustani slurs on British?



Does anybody actually know *why* brother-in-law (actually, wife's
brother) is a swearword?  I have heard different explanations: either
(1) that the speaker is implying that he has had sex with the
addressee's sister or (2) that such a relative is deemed to be a
nuisance because he is liable to turn up, stay for ages and eat all
your food, and you can't throw him out because he's family.
McGregor's Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary offers no explanation;
Hobson-Jobson seems to hint at the former one.

Valerie J Roebuck
Manchester, UK

At 7:48 pm -0500 12/1/06, Stella Sandahl wrote:
>Dear Allen,
>Your knowledge of Hindi "gros mots" is touchingly innocent! Of course the
>British and other enemies would have been called saalaa/saalee (latter
>correct vocative, lit. 'brother-in-law'), haraamzaade kahiiM kaa (bastard
>from God knows where), bahinchod or maaMchod (sister resp. mother-fucker),
>laundebaaz ( bugger). Dafaa ho! "bugger off!
>This is all I can think of   for the time being, but there are tons of slurs
>out there. Hindi and Panjabi are very rich languages!
>Best
>Stella
>
>--
>Professor Stella Sandahl
>Department of East Asian Studies
>University of Toronto
>130 St. George Street, Room 14087
>Toronto, ON M5S 3H1
>Phone: (416) 978-4295
>Fax: (416) 978-5711
>
>stella.sandahl at utoronto.ca
>
>on 01/11/2006 17:20,     Allen W Thrasher at athr at LOC.GOV wrote:
>
>>  A film-maker is doing a film on the Komagatu Maru incident (the turning back
>>  of a ship of Indian immigrant farm workers from Vancouver, BC in 1914).  She
>>  needs to know what slurs, slang, or derogatory words the Indians involved
>>  would have applied to the  British or to the employees of the Immigration
>>  offices.  I already suggested Ferenghi and Gora (log), but does anyone know
>>  any others?
>>
>>  Thanks,
>>
>>  Allen Thrasher
>>
>>




From vjroebuck at MACUNLIMITED.NET  Fri Jan 20 14:24:26 2006
From: vjroebuck at MACUNLIMITED.NET (Valerie J Roebuck)
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 06 14:24:26 +0000
Subject: Punjabi or Hindustani slurs on British?
In-Reply-To: <BFEC6303.9DA7%stella.sandahl@utoronto.ca>
Message-ID: <161227077355.23782.14518081070458786885.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Does anybody actually know *why* brother-in-law (actually, wife's 
brother) is a swearword?  I have heard different explanations: either 
(1) that the speaker is implying that he has had sex with the 
addressee's sister or (2) that such a relative is deemed to be a 
nuisance because he is liable to turn up, stay for ages and eat all 
your food, and you can't throw him out because he's family. 
McGregor's Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary offers no explanation; 
Hobson-Jobson seems to hint at the former one.

Valerie J Roebuck
Manchester, UK

At 7:48 pm -0500 12/1/06, Stella Sandahl wrote:
>Dear Allen,
>Your knowledge of Hindi "gros mots" is touchingly innocent! Of course the
>British and other enemies would have been called saalaa/saalee (latter
>correct vocative, lit. 'brother-in-law'), haraamzaade kahiiM kaa (bastard
>from God knows where), bahinchod or maaMchod (sister resp. mother-fucker),
>laundebaaz ( bugger). Dafaa ho! "bugger off!
>This is all I can think of   for the time being, but there are tons of slurs
>out there. Hindi and Panjabi are very rich languages!
>Best
>Stella
>
>--
>Professor Stella Sandahl
>Department of East Asian Studies
>University of Toronto
>130 St. George Street, Room 14087
>Toronto, ON M5S 3H1
>Phone: (416) 978-4295
>Fax: (416) 978-5711
>
>stella.sandahl at utoronto.ca
>
>on 01/11/2006 17:20,     Allen W Thrasher at athr at LOC.GOV wrote:
>
>>  A film-maker is doing a film on the Komagatu Maru incident (the turning back
>>  of a ship of Indian immigrant farm workers from Vancouver, BC in 1914).  She
>>  needs to know what slurs, slang, or derogatory words the Indians involved
>>  would have applied to the  British or to the employees of the Immigration
>>  offices.  I already suggested Ferenghi and Gora (log), but does anyone know
>>  any others?
>>
>>  Thanks,
>>
>>  Allen Thrasher
>>
>>




From mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU  Fri Jan 20 20:57:22 2006
From: mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU (Matthew Kapstein)
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 06 14:57:22 -0600
Subject: Punjabi or Hindustani slurs on British?
In-Reply-To: <a06110402bff69fcbd959@[80.47.146.96]>
Message-ID: <161227077360.23782.17512603479253194214.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

In Darjeeling one hears bho.tesaalaa, "brother-in-law of a Tibetan."
This suggests that saalaa, when used alone as a malediction,
has the implication that the person to whom it is addressed
has a sister who has married in violation of caste regulations.
Compare, in American slang, the use of "mother" alone.

Matthew Kapstein




From slaje at T-ONLINE.DE  Sun Jan 22 09:04:00 2006
From: slaje at T-ONLINE.DE (Walter Slaje)
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 06 09:04:00 +0000
Subject: [Indo-Eurasia] Hindutva Wolves in Dalit Clothing: Phony Dalit              Websites (fwd)
Message-ID: <161227077363.23782.3099493644410067797.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

  ---Urspr?ngliche Nachricht---


Absender:	"Steve Farmer" <saf at safarmer.com>
Empf?nger:
<Indo-Eurasian_research at yahoogroups.com>
Betreff:	[Indo-Eurasia] Hindutva Wolves in Dalit
Clothing: Phony Dalit Websites
 ***Feel free to repost this message on the Dalit
Lists or elsewhere on 
the Web, so long as the post is cited in full; for
print use, contact 
saf at safarmer.com ***

HINDUTVA WOLVES IN DALIT CLOTHING

Would the Hindutva groups involved in the
California textbook 
controversy set up phony Dalit websites?

They would and they just have, and it is one of
the biggest Hindutva 
scams ever. The anti-Witzel and anti-Harvard hate
campaign is just the 
tip of the iceberg: Now the Dalits are a prime
target.

-- First the California campaign run by the Vedic
Foundation (VF) and 
Hindu Education Foundation (HEF), aided by the
Hindu American 
Foundation (HAF), tried to strip references to
Dalits out of California 
textbooks; indeed, the retired Hindutva academic
recommended by the 
Department of Education to vet their own proposed
edits, claimed in 
recent edit notes ascribed to him by the Hindutva
press that "Dalit is 
a Marxist term"...; 

See here edit #86 at <http://tinyurl.com/86bsm>

-- When the Dalits complained to the California
Board of Education, the 
Dalits were accused by well-known Hindutvavadis
Kalavai Venkat and 
Koenraad Elst and others on the main Hindutva List
(IndianCivilization) 
as being pawns of Christian missionaries. (Point
of fact, not that it 
should matter: not one of the Dalits who spoke
before the Board of 
Education on January 12th was a Christian.) 

-- And now, sinking to new depths, Hindutva
activists are pretending to 
be Dalits.

The phony Dalit website set up in the middle of
the California campaign 
is run by a Hindutva activist in Texas who runs a
long list of other 
Hindutva sites, some quite notorious (discussed
with links below).

Those sites include Hindutva-run anti-Christian
and anti-missionary 
sites; anti-Muslim sites; *fake* Christian sites
aimed at Muslims; and 
at least three phony Human Rights sites.

The phony Human Rights websites are especially
interesting, since they 
feature people or groups diirectly involved in the
California textbook 
campaign, including Yvette Rosser, who works with
the Vedic Foundation, 
and the Hindu American Foundation. (All this is in
Internet cache, so 
if they change this stuff will just post the cache
versions.)

But let's start with the story of the phony Dalit
site -- of "Hindutva 
Wolves in Dalit Clothing", or to use the alternate
title proposed by a 
clever Indian friend, "Little Saffron Riding
Hood".

*********************

The story began late afternoon yesterday, when I
received the following 
email. The email came after all the publicity
surrounding the global 
distribution by Google of the Dalit video over the
last few days:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3966452794541360953

The email made it clear that it was sent in
response to events in 
California.

> From: Dalit Human Rights <dalit.human.rights at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri Jan 20, 2006  4:33:13  PM US/Pacific
> To: saf at safarmer.com
> Subject: Dalit Human Rights
>
> Dear Dr. Farmer,
>
> We are very impressed by your efforts to accurately portray the plight 
> of the Dalits in the California syllabus.  We would very much 
> appreciate if you could promote our website on your site and 
> discussion lists.  Please let us know if there are any additional ways 
> in which we can work together.
>
> Regards,
>
> The team at Dalit Human Rights (DHR)
> www.dalithumanrights.com

At first I fell for it. I wrote back saying that
I'd be happy to help.

But then an Indian-American friend noticed
something odd about the 
website. At first sight it looks like a
sophisticated news portal that 
focuses on Dalit interests.

The oddity is that mixed in with the usual stories
found on such sites 
("Dalit woman raped", etc.), you'll also find in
their carefully 
manufactured "Archives" (started just three weeks
ago) stories of an 
obvious Hindutva cast (no pun intended), taken
from Hindutva newspapers 
that no Dalit would ever cite favorably.

The Archives contain stories from _The Pioneer_,
the same rightwing 
paper that ran the hate article against Michael
Witzel on Christmas 
day). Other stories are taken from the RSS-run
_Organizer_ or other 
rightwing sources.

Moreover, the Archives only go back three weeks.
The site itself was 
registered on December 19th, exactly one day after
we published a long 
post that underlined the Hindutva orgins of the
Hindu American 
Foundation (HAF) -- which likes to call itself a
"Human Rights 
Organization".

The very next day, the HAF put out a press-release
shedding tears for 
four Dalit women who were denied entry to a temple
in Orissa -- the 
first such tears they had ever shed of this sort
-- and the same day 
the dalithumanrights.com domain name was
registered.

No data are found on the Website that identifies
the "team at Dalit 
Human Rights (DHR)". (But see below!)

But do check out the stories in their "Archives",
e.g., the story on 
how Dalits and upper caste Hindus joined together
to kill Muslims in 
Gujarat.

Or the provocative story entitled "Hours of
Anti-India, Anti-Hindutva 
Rhetoric at 'Indian' Muslim Meet":

http://www.dalithumanrights.com/archives.php?time=1135926508

Also check out the story attacking the "Aryan
Invasion" theory and 
extolling the beauties of the ancient caste
system, which "was based on 
the unfoldment of the consciousness within each
individual through the 
chakras":

http://www.dalithumanrights.com/archives.php?time=1135926555

**************

Not believing that this was a "Dalits for
Hindutva" site -- that would 
be an historical first -- we became curious about
who owned the domain 
name "dalithumanrights.com".

That's easy enough to check: Go to the Whois data
base at Network 
solutions at

http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jhtml

and type in "dalithumanrights.com" in the search
field. You'll be taken 
to a page where you'll find that the owner
carefully registered the 
name by "proxy" in order to hide his identity. But
you *will* find the 
IP address of the site listed -- 66.226.242.126 --
at the bottom of the 
page.

When you investigate IP 66.226.242.126 further,
using the Whois data 
base, you'll discover that the same IP address
hosts at least 22 
extremist Hindutva webpages owned by Hinduworld,
Inc., in Houston, 
Texas -- run by a well-known Hindutva activist
named Rajiv Varma.

I say "at least", since many more websites
registered by "proxy" may 
also use that address.

Here's a List of these 22 other Hindutva sites,
some of which are quite 
well-known:

http://whois.webhosting.info/66.226.242.126

To see the owner's name and address, click on the
links. You'll find 
that the owner of all of them (and hence of the
fake Dalit webpage) is:

Rajiv Varma
Hinduworld, Inc.
10592-A Fuqua St. #174
Houston, Texas 77089
530-239-7548

(If you call the Hinduworld, Inc., telephone
number listed here, all 
you'll get is a robot voice asking you to leave a
message.)

Hinduworld, Inc., also runs other Hindutva sites,
but let's just focus 
on the ones I've mentioned above, put in some kind
of order:

1. Our fake Dalit Human Rights site, which as
noted above was 
registered right after we began publicly
complaining about the removal 
of references to Dalits in California textbooks.
You have to study this 
website a bit before you notice its Hindutva
origins, which is revealed 
in the mix of Hindutva stories mixed in with
legitimate Dalit stories; 
we have to assume that the mix would get more
obvious as time went on 
--  if we did indeed publicize the site:

http://www.dalithumanrights.com/

Besides the other stories in their carefully
pruned "Archive", noted 
earlier, check out this one on why Anti-Conversion
Laws are needed; it 
is taken from the far-right RSS newspaper, _The
Organizer_!

http://www.dalithumanrights.com/archives.php?time=1135926484

2. The Hindutva.org site, which is among the
craziest Hindutva sites on 
the Web. This one takes the extreme Hindutva line
currently favored by 
Koenraad Elst: that the BJP isn't Hindutva
enough:

http://www.hindutva.org/

The craziest of the crazy material is in the
"frame" story on the left, 
which is worth reading in full. It is signed at
the end:

> - Hindutva Team
> on behalf of hindutva.com

which is interesting to compare with the similar
final line of the 
phony Dalit email I got yesterday:

> The team at Dalit Human Rights (DHR)
> www.dalithumanrights.com

Same author? Who at hindutva.com may be the main
Hindutva Wolf in Dalit 
Clothing?

We're not sure, but one of the main Webmasters of
hindutva.com is 
Sudheer Birodkar, who you can easily look up on
the Web. Besides his 
work here, Birodkar also runs forums on the
Hindunet.com Website with 
fellow Hindutvavadis deeply involved in the
California campaign and the 
closely related anti-Witzel issue -- including
Vishal Agarwal, NS 
Rajaram, and David Frawley.

I particularly love Sudheer Birodkar's nutty
"Hindutva pledge" posted 
at Hindutva.com -- tolerant and anti-casteist and
atheistic at points 
and viciously anti-Muslim and anti-Christian at
others: your average 
Hindutva intellectual at work:

http://www.hindutva.org/pledge.html

3. Two identical anti-Christian sites, which pay
special attention to 
anti-conversion issues in India, well worth
exploring:

http://www.christianaggression.com/
http://www.christianaggression.org/

3. Further anti-Christian and anti-conversion
sites, all three 
identical but with different URLs; a lot of work
and money went into 
creating these:

http://www.conversionwatch.org/
http://www.crusadewatch.com/
http://www.crusadewatch.org/

4. Phony human rights sites; note Yvette Rosser's
name prominently 
displayed on the home page of these sites. (Rosser
is deeply involved 
with the Vedic Foundation, one of the two groups
to offer Hindutva 
edits in California.)

Click on the button that carries her name on any
of the pages and 
you'll be taken directly to Rosser's biography,
given quite extensively:

http://www.hinduvigil.com/
http://www.hinduvigil.net/
http://www.hinduvigil.org/

If you click on the "links" page, you'll find
Hindutva misinformation 
at its finest.

Here you'll find links to legitimate Human Rights
groups, like Amnesty 
International, mixed in with phony Human Rights
groups like 
hinduhumanrights.org, which glorifies the
destruction of Ayodhya -- the 
great mythical moment in recent Hindutva history
during which Hindu 
mobs destroyed Babri Mosque in December, 1992:

http://www.hinduhumanrights.org/  (watch out for
popup ads when you 
play with the links!)

We also find on the page direct links to the Hindu
American Foundation 
(HAF), which as we found out in the California
case claims to speak for 
2 million Hindu-Americans -- which according to
the US State Department 
is over 500,000 more Hindu Americans than exist.
(And certainly all 
those who exist aren't Hindutvavadis!)

The President of HAF, as noted previously on the
List, is Mihir 
Meghani, who is also deeply involved in the
California campaign. 
Meghani is the author of the famous manifesto at
the BJP website in 
India:

http://bjp.org/history/htvintro-mm.html

5. Straight anti-Muslim hate sites:

http://www.historyofjihad.org

6. Anti-Muslim site with a heavy focus on Kashmir,
etc. To see all 
this, you have to explore the links. You'll also
find links here to 
Koenraad Elst's site, to Hindu Unity (another
famous Hindutva website: 
go to http://hinduunity.org/aboutus.html ), and
more:

http://www.islamreview.org/

7. Still another anti-Islam site. This one is of
special interest since 
it pretends to be written by Christian activists:
the Hindutvavadis not 
only are fake Dalits, when the need arises, but
like to pretend to be 
Christian's as well. The site at times is quite
funny:

http://www.islamreview.com/

To see the faux Christianity, click on "About Us",
which talks about 
their supposed "Ministry", which doesn't exist:

http://www.islamreview.com/aboutus.htm

There is a lot more of interest here to explore on
this site: take some 
time with the links.

8. Another anti-Islam site apparently aimed this
time at Americans. 
Click on the flag icons and you'll find links to
rightwing sites around 
the world. Do click on the flags, which take you
to odd and scary 
places -- but also watch out again for the popup
ads!

http://www.newsonterror.com/

9. News site (minimally working) meant to follow
anti-Hindu news 
stories; this one is apparently a project
underway, or one that never 
fully made it:

http://www.hindumediawatch.com/
http://www.hindumediawatch.org/

10. Under construction or not working, but
presumably stay tuned:

http://www.dharmaeducation.com/
http://www.dharmaeducation.org/
http://www.jesusreview.com
http://www.jesusreview.org
http://www.vhs-net.com/
http://www.vhs-net.org/
http://www.hindurenaissance.com/
http://www.hindurenaissance.org/

11. I should mention that Hinduworld, Inc., runs
other Hindutva sites 
as well, some with overlapping content. I didn't
search for their IP 
addresses. Some of these other sites include:

http://www.waronjihad.org
http://www.historyofjihad.com

But the worst of the worst is the phony Dalit
website.

Presumably, our Dalit friends will have something
to say publicly -- 
and loudly -- all over the Web about this newest
Hindutva deception. 
Will the Indian press pick it up?

And how long before this site, and much that I
talk about above, goes 
down the ever deepening Hindutva 'memory hole'?
(Well, we have it all 
downloaded, so no problem!)

Best,
Steve Farmer
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From rhayes at UNM.EDU  Tue Jan 24 21:13:23 2006
From: rhayes at UNM.EDU (Richard P. Hayes)
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 06 14:13:23 -0700
Subject: Another summer course in Sanskrit
Message-ID: <161227077365.23782.16150503372577498379.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

With apologies to those who subscribe to other lists to which this is
posted:

The Department of Philosophy at University of New Mexico will be
offering an intensive summer course in beginning Sanskrit this June and
July. Details on the dates, tuition fees, housing arrangements and
registration process are given on the web page at
http://www.unm.edu/~thinker/NMSSI.html

Please pass this information on to anyone you think may be interested.

-- 
Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico




From mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU  Wed Jan 25 17:22:31 2006
From: mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU (mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU)
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 06 06:22:31 -1100
Subject: Eli Franco
Message-ID: <161227077370.23782.10530262677726669559.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

I am looking for the current e-mail
address of Prof. Eli Franco at Leipzig.
The address found through a google search
does not function.

Please respond off list.

thank you,

Matthew T. Kapstein
Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies
The University of Chicago Divinity School

Directeur d'?tudes
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris




From J.L.Brockington at ED.AC.UK  Wed Jan 25 12:10:37 2006
From: J.L.Brockington at ED.AC.UK (John Brockington)
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 06 12:10:37 +0000
Subject: contents of Rasika-Bharati
In-Reply-To: <1F0b8z-2Dcye00@fwd27.sul.t-online.de>
Message-ID: <161227077367.23782.7592105039325795913.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear Colleagues,

Some of you may come across the recently published volume, 
Rasika-Bharati (Prof. R. C. Parikh Commemoration Volume) ed. Bharati 
Shelat (Sanskrit Sahitya Academy, Gandhinagar, 2005). If so, you will 
find a statement in the editorial which indicates that J.L. Brockington 
(Adinburg) [sic] responded to an invitation to submit an article and you 
will indeed find one by me in the volume. However, the first that I knew 
about this was an e-mail (on another matter -- registration for the 13th 
World Sanskrit Conference) from Bharati Shelat which I received on 5th 
of this month (i.e. AFTER the book's publication) and which stated: "I 
have recently published your article ?The name Ram Chandra? in the book 
entitled ?Rasik-Bharati-? ?Prof. R.C. Parikh Commemoration volume edited 
by me and published by Sanskrit Sahitya Academy, Gujarat Govt. India." 
The article involved was originally published as "The name Ramacandra" 
in _Lex et Litterae: Studies in honour of Professor Oscar Botto_, ed. 
Siegfried Lienhard and Irma Piovano, Edizioni dell' Orso, Alessandria, 
1997, pp. 83-93 [please supply the correct diacritics]. This 
unauthorised reprint (of which I received a copy in the post today) 
contains a number of misprints, which of course I have had no 
opportunity of correcting.

Yours

John Brockington


Professor J. L. Brockington
Secretary General, International Association of Sanskrit Studies
Asian Studies
7-8 Buccleuch Place
Edinburgh EH8 9LW




From e.demichelis at DIVINITY.CAM.AC.UK  Wed Jan 25 18:04:46 2006
From: e.demichelis at DIVINITY.CAM.AC.UK (Elizabeth De Michelis)
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 06 18:04:46 +0000
Subject: Eli Franco
Message-ID: <161227077372.23782.17594102780712499720.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

I have been corresponding with him recently at:

Eli Franco <franco at rz.uni-leipzig.de>

Best regards

Elizabeth De Michelis
Faculty of Divinity
University of Cambridge

--On Wednesday, January 25, 2006 06:22 -1100 mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU wrote:

I am looking for the current e-mail
address of Prof. Eli Franco at Leipzig.
The address found through a google search
does not function.

Please respond off list.

thank you,

Matthew T. Kapstein
Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies
The University of Chicago Divinity School

Directeur d'?tudes
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris




From arlo.griffiths at LET.LEIDENUNIV.NL  Thu Jan 26 14:23:52 2006
From: arlo.griffiths at LET.LEIDENUNIV.NL (Arlo Griffiths)
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 06 15:23:52 +0100
Subject: Tenure-track faculty position in Hinduism/Cultural History of              India at Stony Brook University, USA
Message-ID: <161227077375.23782.3653152500460800264.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

I am forwarding hereby a message which reached me via the  
International Institute for Asian Studies.

Arlo Griffiths


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ssridhar at notes.cc.sunysb.edu  
> [mailto:ssridhar at notes.cc.sunysb.edu]
>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 19:34
> To: IIAS
> Subject: Tenure-track faculty position in Hinduism/Cultural History of
> India at Stony Brook University, USA
>
> I am writing to solicit your help in recruiting the most suitable
> candidate to fill a new tenure-track faculty position in our  
> department
> in the area of Hinduism/Cultural History of India, to begin Fall 2006.
> I have reproduced the job announcement below.  I will greatly  
> appreciate
> it if you would bring this to the attention of promising candidates  
> you
> know and encourage them to apply, as well as forward it to your
> colleagues and friends.
>
> The successful candidate will be joining a world-class university and
> new department that already has excellent scholars in Islam (Sufism),
> Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism and in India Studies.  The Center  
> for
> India Studies and the Charles B. Wang Asian American Center are
> additional dynamic resources.  Stony Brook is also close to New York
> city and its rich intellectual and cultural opportunities.
>
> If you or potential applicants would like further details about this
> position or resources for India Studies at Stony Brook, please feel  
> free
> to call me at (631) 632-4041 or email me at s.sridhar at stonybrook.edu.
>
> With many thanks in advance for your help and best wishes for a happy
> New Year,
>
> Sincerely yours,
> S.N. Sridhar
> Professor of Linguistics and India Studies Chair, Department of Asian
> and Asian American Studies Stony Brook University
> 1046 Humanities Building, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5343
> Telephone: (631) 632-4041  Fax: (631) 632-4098
> Email: s.sridhar at stonybrook.edu. Internet: www.sunysb.edu/aaas
>
>
> HINDUISM/CULTURAL HISTORY OF INDIA
>
>
> State University of New York at Stony Brook The Department of Asian  
> and
> Asian American Studies invites applications for an assistant  
> professor,
> tenure-track, in Hinduism/Cultural History of India to start Fall  
> 2006.
> Qualified candidates will have a Ph.D and expert knowledge of Hinduism
> and the Cultural History of India.  A solid grounding in the basic  
> texts
> of Classical Hinduism, and knowledge of Sanskrit is required.
> Additional expertise in Indian Philosophy, Indian Literature, and
> knowledge of one or more modern Indian languages is highly desirable.
> The successful candidate must be able to teach broad undergraduate and
> graduate courses in the area of Hinduism and Cultural History of  
> India,
> instruct graduate students conducting original work in India Studies,
> and contribute to the growth of the Center for India Studies on  
> campus.
> Applicants should apply by February 15, 2006. Complete dossiers,
> including a CV, sample publications and a statement of research
> interests should be sent to: Professor S.N.
> Sridhar, Chair, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, 1046
> Humanities Building, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY   
> 11794-5343
> email: s.sridhar at stonybrook.edu  For details, visit www.sunysb.edu/ 
> aaas
> and www.sunysb.edu/india Candidates should also arrange for three
> confidential letters of reference to be sent to the above address. The
> Stony Brook University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action
> Employer. Women and minority candidates are encouraged to apply.
>
>
>
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From wmcox at UCHICAGO.EDU  Sat Jan 28 19:01:30 2006
From: wmcox at UCHICAGO.EDU (Whitney Cox)
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 06 13:01:30 -0600
Subject: U. Wisconsin Summer Sanskrit
Message-ID: <161227077377.23782.5446215961369394224.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear friends,

I'm forwarding the following to the list on behalf of my 
colleague Ethan Kroll.

Best,
Whitney Cox


Dear All:

I ask that you encourage any interested parties to 
consider taking elementary or intermediate Sanskrit at the 
University of Wisconsin-Madison's South Asia Summer Language 
Institute from June 19 to August 11, 2006.

Elementary Sanskrit will provide a knowledge of Sanskrit 
sufficient to permit students to enter any Second-Year 
Sanskrit course in the United States or Europe.  
Intermediate Sanskrit will endow students with the ability 
to enter any Third-Year Sanskrit course in the United States 
or Europe.

For further information and online registration please go to:

http://www.wisc.edu/sasli

Best,

Ethan Kroll
University of Chicago




From stella.sandahl at UTORONTO.CA  Sun Jan 29 01:53:28 2006
From: stella.sandahl at UTORONTO.CA (Stella Sandahl)
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 06 20:53:28 -0500
Subject: U. Wisconsin Summer Sanskrit
In-Reply-To: <d17f3788.81d6ab31.81f9200@m4500-03.uchicago.edu>
Message-ID: <161227077379.23782.16356420802936701530.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

I am somewhat surprised that the advertised Sanskrit courses do not seem to
qualify students to take Intermediate or Advanced Sanskrit in Canada. Or do
you believe that Canada is just one of the United States? (The latter
happens frequently - Ronald Reagan called Canada "Acidrainia - a totally
owned US subsidiary").
Best
Stella Sandahl

-- 
Professor Stella Sandahl
Department of East Asian Studies
University of Toronto
130 St. George Street, Room 14087
Toronto, ON M5S 3H1
Phone: (416) 978-4295
Fax: (416) 978-5711
 
stella.sandahl at utoronto.ca
on 01/28/2006 14:01,  Whitney Cox at wmcox at UCHICAGO.EDU wrote:

> Dear friends,
> 
> I'm forwarding the following to the list on behalf of my
> colleague Ethan Kroll.
> 
> Best,
> Whitney Cox
> 
> 
> Dear All:
> 
> I ask that you encourage any interested parties to
> consider taking elementary or intermediate Sanskrit at the
> University of Wisconsin-Madison's South Asia Summer Language
> Institute from June 19 to August 11, 2006.
> 
> Elementary Sanskrit will provide a knowledge of Sanskrit
> sufficient to permit students to enter any Second-Year
> Sanskrit course in the United States or Europe.
> Intermediate Sanskrit will endow students with the ability
> to enter any Third-Year Sanskrit course in the United States
> or Europe.
> 
> For further information and online registration please go to:
> 
> http://www.wisc.edu/sasli
> 
> Best,
> 
> Ethan Kroll
> University of Chicago
> 




From tony_stewart at NCSU.EDU  Sun Jan 29 13:33:41 2006
From: tony_stewart at NCSU.EDU (Tony K. Stewart)
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 06 08:33:41 -0500
Subject: South Asia Summer Language Institute
In-Reply-To: <C0018A48.9EFA%stella.sandahl@utoronto.ca>
Message-ID: <161227077390.23782.5158901710255073222.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear Prof. Sandahl:

I am quite certain that excluding Canada was an innocent oversight.   
And yes, I think it safe to say that the course would qualify  
students to the next level at the University of Toronto or any of the  
other Canadian universities offering Sanskrit.  One student who  
successfully completed first year Sanskrit (offered for the first  
time at South Asia Summer Language Institute this last summer),  
matriculated into third year Sanskrit at a prominent school that  
ranks among the ten US Department of Education Title VI National  
Resource Centers for South Asia.

In addition, you have brought to my attention the fact that Canadian  
students do not seem to be taking advantage of the tremendous course  
offerings of SASLI.  We have now served more than 300 students in the  
last three years and a quick (but admittedly unsystematic) search of  
the records available to me does not yield a single Canadian (I will  
ask the staff to double-check for me since the primary records are  
kept in Wisconsin and I am in North Carolina).  So perhaps you can  
help us by advertising our programs and encouraging other Canadian  
university faculty to do the same.  I will instruct our staff to send  
you printed literature as well.

We offer intensive elementary and intermediate Bangla/Bengali,  
Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam, Nepali, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu,  
Tibetan, and Urdu in an eight week course that is the equivalent of  
an academic year.  We plan to add Sinhala next year, and possibly  
Punjabi.  It should also be noted that students (from any country)  
may qualify for partial financial aid, especially in undersubscribed  
languages.

Please look at our website:  http://www.wisc.edu/sasli/ for more  
details.

We redirect our Pashtu students to the University of Indiana's summer  
program:  http://www.indiana.edu/~iuslavic/swseel/languages.shtml.

Students who wish to study in the subcontinent and/or have reached  
the advanced levels, we refer to the American Institute of Indian  
Studies (http://www.indiastudies.org/), to the Berkeley Urdu Language  
Program in Pakistan (currently operating in Lucknow in collaboration  
with the AIIS because of government restrictions in Pakistan:  http:// 
ias.berkeley.edu/southasia/bulpip.html and http://www.pakistanstudies- 
aips.org/en/berkeley_urdu_language.htm).  We anticipate a new program  
to be launched by the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies for  
studying Bangla, perhaps as early as  this coming summer 2006.

We also serve as a clearing house for information regarding other  
summer language programs, whether regular or one off.  We invite and  
are happy to disseminate any information about other programs in the  
US, Canada, or the rest of the world.

Also please note that the South Asia Summer Language Institute is an  
independent educational cooperative of the ten US Department of  
Education's Title VI NRCs that is hosted by the University of  
Wisconsin.  Ongoing faculty instruction in second language  
acquisition and classroom pedagogy and evaluation is directed by the  
South Asia Language Resource Center located at the University of  
Chicago (http://salrc.uchicago.edu/).

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or the  
SASLI offices.

All the best,
tony

Tony K. Stewart
Chair, Board of Trustees, and Executive Director
South Asia Summer Language Institute
http://wisc.edu.edu/sasli/
  &
Professor of South Asian Religions and Literatures
Dept. of Philosophy and Religion
Box 8103
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-8103 USA
ph. 919.515.6335
email <tony_stewart at ncsu.edu>

On Jan 28, 2006, at 8:53 PM, Stella Sandahl wrote:

> I am somewhat surprised that the advertised Sanskrit courses do not  
> seem to
> qualify students to take Intermediate or Advanced Sanskrit in  
> Canada. Or do
> you believe that Canada is just one of the United States? (The latter
> happens frequently - Ronald Reagan called Canada "Acidrainia - a  
> totally
> owned US subsidiary").
> Best
> Stella Sandahl
>
> -- 
> Professor Stella Sandahl
> Department of East Asian Studies
> University of Toronto
> 130 St. George Street, Room 14087
> Toronto, ON M5S 3H1
> Phone: (416) 978-4295
> Fax: (416) 978-5711
>
> stella.sandahl at utoronto.ca
> on 01/28/2006 14:01,  Whitney Cox at wmcox at UCHICAGO.EDU wrote:
>
>> Dear friends,
>>
>> I'm forwarding the following to the list on behalf of my
>> colleague Ethan Kroll.
>>
>> Best,
>> Whitney Cox
>>
>>
>> Dear All:
>>
>> I ask that you encourage any interested parties to
>> consider taking elementary or intermediate Sanskrit at the
>> University of Wisconsin-Madison's South Asia Summer Language
>> Institute from June 19 to August 11, 2006.
>>
>> Elementary Sanskrit will provide a knowledge of Sanskrit
>> sufficient to permit students to enter any Second-Year
>> Sanskrit course in the United States or Europe.
>> Intermediate Sanskrit will endow students with the ability
>> to enter any Third-Year Sanskrit course in the United States
>> or Europe.
>>
>> For further information and online registration please go to:
>>
>> http://www.wisc.edu/sasli
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Ethan Kroll
>> University of Chicago
>>




From stella.sandahl at UTORONTO.CA  Sun Jan 29 14:41:01 2006
From: stella.sandahl at UTORONTO.CA (Stella Sandahl)
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 06 09:41:01 -0500
Subject: South Asia Summer Language Institute
In-Reply-To: <9E9F2AFE-C3E8-4676-A92F-9E81698FA642@ncsu.edu>
Message-ID: <161227077392.23782.16993152829361527107.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear Professor Stewart,
I have always shown them the poster you usually send me and put it up on the
board, and I have tried to encourage them to take advantage of your very
varied programme. I think the problem is that they find the fees too high.
Remember that we have another university ,  somewhere in-between private and
public (very Canadian).
All the best
Stella Sandahl
on 01/29/2006 08:33, Tony K. Stewart   at tony_stewart at NCSU.EDU wrote:

> Dear Prof. Sandahl:
> 
> I am quite certain that excluding Canada was an innocent oversight.
> And yes, I think it safe to say that the course would qualify
> students to the next level at the University of Toronto or any of the
> other Canadian universities offering Sanskrit.  One student who
> successfully completed first year Sanskrit (offered for the first
> time at South Asia Summer Language Institute this last summer),
> matriculated into third year Sanskrit at a prominent school that
> ranks among the ten US Department of Education Title VI National
> Resource Centers for South Asia.
> 
> In addition, you have brought to my attention the fact that Canadian
> students do not seem to be taking advantage of the tremendous course
> offerings of SASLI.  We have now served more than 300 students in the
> last three years and a quick (but admittedly unsystematic) search of
> the records available to me does not yield a single Canadian (I will
> ask the staff to double-check for me since the primary records are
> kept in Wisconsin and I am in North Carolina).  So perhaps you can
> help us by advertising our programs and encouraging other Canadian
> university faculty to do the same.  I will instruct our staff to send
> you printed literature as well.
> 
> We offer intensive elementary and intermediate Bangla/Bengali,
> Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam, Nepali, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu,
> Tibetan, and Urdu in an eight week course that is the equivalent of
> an academic year.  We plan to add Sinhala next year, and possibly
> Punjabi.  It should also be noted that students (from any country)
> may qualify for partial financial aid, especially in undersubscribed
> languages.
> 
> Please look at our website:  http://www.wisc.edu/sasli/ for more
> details.
> 
> We redirect our Pashtu students to the University of Indiana's summer
> program:  http://www.indiana.edu/~iuslavic/swseel/languages.shtml.
> 
> Students who wish to study in the subcontinent and/or have reached
> the advanced levels, we refer to the American Institute of Indian
> Studies (http://www.indiastudies.org/), to the Berkeley Urdu Language
> Program in Pakistan (currently operating in Lucknow in collaboration
> with the AIIS because of government restrictions in Pakistan:  http://
> ias.berkeley.edu/southasia/bulpip.html and http://www.pakistanstudies-
> aips.org/en/berkeley_urdu_language.htm).  We anticipate a new program
> to be launched by the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies for
> studying Bangla, perhaps as early as  this coming summer 2006.
> 
> We also serve as a clearing house for information regarding other
> summer language programs, whether regular or one off.  We invite and
> are happy to disseminate any information about other programs in the
> US, Canada, or the rest of the world.
> 
> Also please note that the South Asia Summer Language Institute is an
> independent educational cooperative of the ten US Department of
> Education's Title VI NRCs that is hosted by the University of
> Wisconsin.  Ongoing faculty instruction in second language
> acquisition and classroom pedagogy and evaluation is directed by the
> South Asia Language Resource Center located at the University of
> Chicago (http://salrc.uchicago.edu/).
> 
> If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or the
> SASLI offices.
> 
> All the best,
> tony
> 
> Tony K. Stewart
> Chair, Board of Trustees, and Executive Director
> South Asia Summer Language Institute
> http://wisc.edu.edu/sasli/
> &
> Professor of South Asian Religions and Literatures
> Dept. of Philosophy and Religion
> Box 8103
> North Carolina State University
> Raleigh, NC 27695-8103 USA
> ph. 919.515.6335
> email <tony_stewart at ncsu.edu>
> 
> On Jan 28, 2006, at 8:53 PM, Stella Sandahl wrote:
> 
>> I am somewhat surprised that the advertised Sanskrit courses do not
>> seem to
>> qualify students to take Intermediate or Advanced Sanskrit in
>> Canada. Or do
>> you believe that Canada is just one of the United States? (The latter
>> happens frequently - Ronald Reagan called Canada "Acidrainia - a
>> totally
>> owned US subsidiary").
>> Best
>> Stella Sandahl
>> 
>> -- 
>> Professor Stella Sandahl
>> Department of East Asian Studies
>> University of Toronto
>> 130 St. George Street, Room 14087
>> Toronto, ON M5S 3H1
>> Phone: (416) 978-4295
>> Fax: (416) 978-5711
>> 
>> stella.sandahl at utoronto.ca
>> on 01/28/2006 14:01,  Whitney Cox at wmcox at UCHICAGO.EDU wrote:
>> 
>>> Dear friends,
>>> 
>>> I'm forwarding the following to the list on behalf of my
>>> colleague Ethan Kroll.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Whitney Cox
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Dear All:
>>> 
>>> I ask that you encourage any interested parties to
>>> consider taking elementary or intermediate Sanskrit at the
>>> University of Wisconsin-Madison's South Asia Summer Language
>>> Institute from June 19 to August 11, 2006.
>>> 
>>> Elementary Sanskrit will provide a knowledge of Sanskrit
>>> sufficient to permit students to enter any Second-Year
>>> Sanskrit course in the United States or Europe.
>>> Intermediate Sanskrit will endow students with the ability
>>> to enter any Third-Year Sanskrit course in the United States
>>> or Europe.
>>> 
>>> For further information and online registration please go to:
>>> 
>>> http://www.wisc.edu/sasli
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> 
>>> Ethan Kroll
>>> University of Chicago
>>> 
> 




From tony_stewart at NCSU.EDU  Sun Jan 29 15:00:15 2006
From: tony_stewart at NCSU.EDU (Tony K. Stewart)
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 06 10:00:15 -0500
Subject: South Asia Summer Language Institute
In-Reply-To: <C0023E2D.9F09%stella.sandahl@utoronto.ca>
Message-ID: <161227077394.23782.2669546038330778977.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear Professor Sandhal and others who have potential students for SASLI.

With respect to the costs ($2700 program fee plus living expenses,  
very modest by most US university standards), we do offer both  
partial and full program fee remission for deserving students,  
especially in undersubscribed languages.

Cheers,
tony


Tony K. Stewart
Chair, Board of Trustees, and Executive Director
South Asia Summer Language Institute
http://wisc.edu.edu/sasli/
  &
Professor of South Asian Religions and Literatures
Dept. of Philosophy and Religion
Box 8103
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-8103 USA
ph. 919.515.6335
email <tony_stewart at ncsu.edu>


On Jan 29, 2006, at 9:41 AM, Stella Sandahl wrote:

> Dear Professor Stewart,
> I have always shown them the poster you usually send me and put it  
> up on the
> board, and I have tried to encourage them to take advantage of your  
> very
> varied programme. I think the problem is that they find the fees  
> too high.
> Remember that we have another university ,  somewhere in-between  
> private and
> public (very Canadian).
> All the best
> Stella Sandahl
> on 01/29/2006 08:33, Tony K. Stewart   at tony_stewart at NCSU.EDU wrote:
>
>> Dear Prof. Sandahl:
>>
>> I am quite certain that excluding Canada was an innocent oversight.
>> And yes, I think it safe to say that the course would qualify
>> students to the next level at the University of Toronto or any of the
>> other Canadian universities offering Sanskrit.  One student who
>> successfully completed first year Sanskrit (offered for the first
>> time at South Asia Summer Language Institute this last summer),
>> matriculated into third year Sanskrit at a prominent school that
>> ranks among the ten US Department of Education Title VI National
>> Resource Centers for South Asia.
>>
>> In addition, you have brought to my attention the fact that Canadian
>> students do not seem to be taking advantage of the tremendous course
>> offerings of SASLI.  We have now served more than 300 students in the
>> last three years and a quick (but admittedly unsystematic) search of
>> the records available to me does not yield a single Canadian (I will
>> ask the staff to double-check for me since the primary records are
>> kept in Wisconsin and I am in North Carolina).  So perhaps you can
>> help us by advertising our programs and encouraging other Canadian
>> university faculty to do the same.  I will instruct our staff to send
>> you printed literature as well.
>>
>> We offer intensive elementary and intermediate Bangla/Bengali,
>> Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam, Nepali, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu,
>> Tibetan, and Urdu in an eight week course that is the equivalent of
>> an academic year.  We plan to add Sinhala next year, and possibly
>> Punjabi.  It should also be noted that students (from any country)
>> may qualify for partial financial aid, especially in undersubscribed
>> languages.
>>
>> Please look at our website:  http://www.wisc.edu/sasli/ for more
>> details.
>>
>> We redirect our Pashtu students to the University of Indiana's summer
>> program:  http://www.indiana.edu/~iuslavic/swseel/languages.shtml.
>>
>> Students who wish to study in the subcontinent and/or have reached
>> the advanced levels, we refer to the American Institute of Indian
>> Studies (http://www.indiastudies.org/), to the Berkeley Urdu Language
>> Program in Pakistan (currently operating in Lucknow in collaboration
>> with the AIIS because of government restrictions in Pakistan:   
>> http://
>> ias.berkeley.edu/southasia/bulpip.html and http:// 
>> www.pakistanstudies-
>> aips.org/en/berkeley_urdu_language.htm).  We anticipate a new program
>> to be launched by the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies for
>> studying Bangla, perhaps as early as  this coming summer 2006.
>>
>> We also serve as a clearing house for information regarding other
>> summer language programs, whether regular or one off.  We invite and
>> are happy to disseminate any information about other programs in the
>> US, Canada, or the rest of the world.
>>
>> Also please note that the South Asia Summer Language Institute is an
>> independent educational cooperative of the ten US Department of
>> Education's Title VI NRCs that is hosted by the University of
>> Wisconsin.  Ongoing faculty instruction in second language
>> acquisition and classroom pedagogy and evaluation is directed by the
>> South Asia Language Resource Center located at the University of
>> Chicago (http://salrc.uchicago.edu/).
>>
>> If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or the
>> SASLI offices.
>>
>> All the best,
>> tony
>>
>> Tony K. Stewart
>> Chair, Board of Trustees, and Executive Director
>> South Asia Summer Language Institute
>> http://wisc.edu.edu/sasli/
>> &
>> Professor of South Asian Religions and Literatures
>> Dept. of Philosophy and Religion
>> Box 8103
>> North Carolina State University
>> Raleigh, NC 27695-8103 USA
>> ph. 919.515.6335
>> email <tony_stewart at ncsu.edu>
>>
>> On Jan 28, 2006, at 8:53 PM, Stella Sandahl wrote:
>>
>>> I am somewhat surprised that the advertised Sanskrit courses do not
>>> seem to
>>> qualify students to take Intermediate or Advanced Sanskrit in
>>> Canada. Or do
>>> you believe that Canada is just one of the United States? (The  
>>> latter
>>> happens frequently - Ronald Reagan called Canada "Acidrainia - a
>>> totally
>>> owned US subsidiary").
>>> Best
>>> Stella Sandahl
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Professor Stella Sandahl
>>> Department of East Asian Studies
>>> University of Toronto
>>> 130 St. George Street, Room 14087
>>> Toronto, ON M5S 3H1
>>> Phone: (416) 978-4295
>>> Fax: (416) 978-5711
>>>
>>> stella.sandahl at utoronto.ca
>>> on 01/28/2006 14:01,  Whitney Cox at wmcox at UCHICAGO.EDU wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear friends,
>>>>
>>>> I'm forwarding the following to the list on behalf of my
>>>> colleague Ethan Kroll.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Whitney Cox
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Dear All:
>>>>
>>>> I ask that you encourage any interested parties to
>>>> consider taking elementary or intermediate Sanskrit at the
>>>> University of Wisconsin-Madison's South Asia Summer Language
>>>> Institute from June 19 to August 11, 2006.
>>>>
>>>> Elementary Sanskrit will provide a knowledge of Sanskrit
>>>> sufficient to permit students to enter any Second-Year
>>>> Sanskrit course in the United States or Europe.
>>>> Intermediate Sanskrit will endow students with the ability
>>>> to enter any Third-Year Sanskrit course in the United States
>>>> or Europe.
>>>>
>>>> For further information and online registration please go to:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.wisc.edu/sasli
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>>
>>>> Ethan Kroll
>>>> University of Chicago
>>>>
>>




From pf at CIX.CO.UK  Sun Jan 29 11:43:00 2006
From: pf at CIX.CO.UK (pf)
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 06 11:43:00 +0000
Subject: European Scholarship for Jain Studies in India
Message-ID: <161227077382.23782.10582467407513134851.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

European Scholarship for Jain Studies in India
(International Summer School for Jain Studies)

The World Council of Jain Academies (WCJA) sponsors annually five students 
or staff members from European Universities which are committed to Jain 
Studies to spend one-two months in India to study or research the Jain 
tradition at the place of its origin. The value of each scholarship is 
?1000.

Students or staff members can either join the International Summer School 
for Jain Studies organized by the North American Chapter of the World 
Council of Jain Academies, which is recommended, or pursue an Independent 
Study Project. Information on the International Summer School for Jain 
Studies can be requested from Professor Cromwell Crawford of the 
University of Hawaii: szabocrawf at aol.com

Suitable candidates will be selected by the Board of the Centre of Jaina 
Studies at SOAS according to their academic merit on the basis of e-mailed 
applications, accompanied by a letter of recommendation by the supervisor 
or head of department, and a CV. 

The money will only be made available to candidates who are studying or 
working at a fully accredited European University, and who can demonstrate 
how the project to be conducted during the study period in India fits into 
their respective degree or teaching programme (e.g. letter of supervisor 
on method of examination).

The awards are granted by the Centre of Jaina Studies at SOAS. They are 
sponsored by the World Council of Jain Academies to promote the academic 
study of Jainism.

Inquiries and applications should be addressed to the Chair of the Centre 
of Jaina Studies at the Department of the Study of Religions of the School 
of Oriental and African Studies, University of London:

jainastudies at soas.ac.uk
http://www.soas.ac.uk/jainastudies



Dr Peter Fluegel
Chair of the Centre for Jaina Studies
Department of the Study of Religions
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
School of Oriental and African Studies
University of London
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London WC1H OXG
Tel.: +44 (+20) 7898 4776
E-mail: pf8 at soas.ac.uk
http://www.soas.ac.uk/jainastudies




From pf at CIX.CO.UK  Sun Jan 29 11:43:00 2006
From: pf at CIX.CO.UK (pf)
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 06 11:43:00 +0000
Subject: Jain Studies MA Scholarship 2006
Message-ID: <161227077384.23782.4859412351522374779.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Jain Studies MA Scholarship 2006

This award is sponsored by the Jain Spirit Magazine. The total value of 
this scholarship is ?5000, and it is awarded to students registered at 
SOAS for an MA degree with a major in Jaina Studies. Applications by 
letter, accompanied by a short CV, should be submitted by e-mail to the 
Centre of Jaina Studies at the Department of the Study of Religions at 
SOAS, University of London.

Inquiries: jainstudies at soas.ac.uk


Dr Peter Fluegel
Chair of the Centre for Jaina Studies
Department of the Study of Religions
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
School of Oriental and African Studies
University of London
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London WC1H OXG
Tel.: +44 (+20) 7898 4776
E-mail: pf8 at soas.ac.uk
http://www.soas.ac.uk/jainastudies




From pf at CIX.CO.UK  Sun Jan 29 12:05:00 2006
From: pf at CIX.CO.UK (pf)
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 06 12:05:00 +0000
Subject: Jainism and Society: 8th Jaina Studies Workshop at SOAS March              23-24
Message-ID: <161227077387.23782.4571475086535829571.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

8th Jaina Studies Workshop: Jainism and Society
School of Oriental and African Studies, 23rd-24th March 2006


The 6th Annual Jain Lecture 
Thursday 23rd March 2006, 18.00-19.30, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre


Johannes Bronkhorst (University of Lausanne) 
Jainism, window on early India


Friday 24th March 2006, SOAS, 9.00, Russell Square, Brunei Gallery Lecture 
Theatre


Satya Ranjan Banerjee (University of Calcutta)
Jain society in the reigns of Jain kings

Robert J. Del Bonta (San Francisco)
>???From Herodotus to the late 18th century: Descriptions of unidentified 
Jainas

Peter Fl?gel (SOAS)
Jaina law and the Jaina community

Julia Hegewald (University of Heidelberg)
Domes, tombs and minarets: Islamic influences on Jaina architecture

Dharma Chandra Jain (University of Jodhpur)
The concept of society in Jainism

Ravindra K. Jain (JNU, New Delhi)
Religious response to social unrest: 
The rise of the Kanji Svami Panth in contemporary Jainism

Sushil Jain (Assumption University, Windsor/Ontario)
Jaina contribution to the science of polity with respect to Somadeva's 
Nitivakyam?tam

Kornelius Kr?mpelmann (University of M?nster)		
The Sthana?gasutra: An encyclopaedic text of the Svetambara canon

Werner Menski (SOAS)
Jainism as natural law

Hampa Padmanabaiah Nagarajaiah (University of Bangalore)
The concept of Sastradana in Jainism: Socio-cultural dimensions

Ulrich Oberdiek (Freiburg)
Caste identity of the Agravals in an Uttaranchal market town 

Jitendra B. Shah (L.D. Institute of Indology Ahmedabad)
Jain Societies in Ahmedabad

Anne Vallely (University of Ottawa)
You are what you eat: Negotiations of identity among contemporary Jains


ALL WELCOME!


Inquiries:

Dr Peter Fluegel
Chair of the Centre for Jaina Studies
Department of the Study of Religions
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
School of Oriental and African Studies
University of London
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London WC1H OXG
Tel.: +44 (+20) 7898 4776
E-mail: pf8 at soas.ac.uk
http://www.soas.ac.uk/jainastudies