Seventeen images of Indian manuscripts, archives, and archivists taken by Anthony Cerulli as part of his “Manuscriptistan” project are featured in the book Manuel du Prince Indien: L’Arthashastra de Kautilya, a French translation of Kautilya’s Arthasastra. The book also features an afterword by Professor Cerulli.Watch a short presentation by Professor Cerulli on the bookRead more about the book
“Our Libraries are Colonial Archives: South Asian Collections in Western and Global North Libraries” by Dr. Todd Michelson-Ambelang, Senior Academic Librarian for Scandinavian Humanities and South Asian Studies, was published in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies.Read the article here
Congratulations to Prof. Anthony Cerulli, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, on the publication of The Practice of Texts: Education and Healing in South India with the University of California Press on March 15. The book will also be available open access on UCP’s Luminos.Read more about the book here.
Amrita Chowdhury (Ph.D. Student, Asian Languages and Cultures) and Ujaan Ghosh (Ph.D Candidate, Art History) translated two essays of Sacchidananda Mishra and Krushnachandra Panigrahi from Odia to English. The essays are now published from Routledge India under the title, Critical Discourse in Odia, a volume edited by Jatin Nayak and Animesh Mohapatra.Read about the book here
Please join us in congratulating the following South Asia Studies Faculty and Affiliate Faculty in their recent accomplishments! Rikhil Bhavnani (Associate Professor, Political Science, UW-Madison) and Bethany Lacina (Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Rochester) announce their recent book, Nativism and Economic Integration across the Developing World: Collision and Accommodation, published by Cambridge University Press. …