South Asian Culture

South Asian Culture readings are posted on Moodle.

Module 1: Early and Classical India

• Ali, Daud. Courtly Culture and Political Life. Cambridge: Cambridge UP (2004)
• A.L. Basham (ed.), A cultural History of India (1975)
• Blurton, Richard, Hindu Art, London: British Museum Press (1992)
• J. Brockington, The Sanskrit epics (1998), pp. 18-40H. Scharfe, Education in Ancient India (2002),
• Mary Cummings, Lives of the Buddha in the Art and Literature of Asia, Ann Arbor: Center for E.
  South and Southeast Asian Studies, 1982
• Lamotte, History of Indian Buddhism, Louvain: Université Catholique de Louvain, Institut Orientaliste, 1988
• Pollock, Sheldon (trans. and Introduction), The Rāmāyana of Vālmiki, Book 2, Ayodhyā. Princeton: Princeton U.P, 1986.
• Schwartzberg, Joseph, ed. An Historical Atlas of South Asia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.
• Smith, John D. (trans. and Introduction) The Mahabharata, Penguin 2009.
• Thapar, Romila. Śakuntalā: texts, readings, histories, New Delhi: Kali for Women (1999)
• Witzel, Michael, "Autochthonous Aryan? The Evidence of Old Indian and Iranian Texts" (http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/mwpage.htm).

Module 2: Sultanate and Mughal India

General Resources on Islam in South Asia and South Asian literature:

• http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00islamlinks/index.html
• Eaton, Richard M., ed. India's Islamic Traditions 711-1750. New Delhi: Oxford University Press (2003).
• Asher, Catherine B., and Cynthia Talbot. India before Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 25-52.
• Barbara Daly Metcalf, ed., Moral conduct and authority: the place of adab in South Asian Islam (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), pp. 333-56.
• Bruce B. Lawrence, Morals for the heart: conversations of Shaykh Nizam ad-Din Awliya recorded by Amir Hasan Sijzi (New York: Paulist Press, 1992),
• Ibn Battuta, The Rehla of Ibn Battuta (India, Maldive Islands and Ceylon). Translation and Commentary. Translated by Mahdi Husain. 2nd (reprint) ed, Gaekwad's Oriental Series No.122. 
• Baroda: Oriental Institute, 1953. Reprint, 1976., pp....
• Eaton, Richard M. Essays on Islam and Indian History. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000.
• Richards, J.F. "The Formulation of Imperial Authority under Akbar and Jahangir." In Kingship and Authority in South Asia, edited by J.F. Richards. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998. Reprinted in Alam, M., and Sanjay Subrahmanyam, eds. The Mughal State, 1526-1750. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 126-167.
• Muzaffar Alam, ‘’The culture and politics of Persian in pre-colonial Hindustan’ in Sheldon Pollock, Literary cultures in history: reconstructions from South Asia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), pp. 131-98.
• Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, ‘A long history of Urdu literary culture, part 1: naming and placing a literary culture’ in Pollock, Literary cultures in history, pp. 805-63.
• University Press, 2006.
• John Stratton Hawley and Mark Juergensmeyer, Songs of the saints of India. Second ed. (New Delhi: OUP, 2004)
• Dalrymple, William. White Mughals. London, 2002. Chapter 1.

Module 3: Colonialism & modernity

• Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Awadh in revolt, 1857-1858: a study of popular resistance, New Delhi: Oxford University Press (1984)
• Abdul Halim Sharar, Lucknow: The Last Phase of an Oriental Culture, tr. E.S. Harcourt and F. Hussain, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1989. (essays written in early 20c)
• The Lucknow Omnibus, New Delhi: Oxford University Press (2001)
• Bernard Cohn, ‘The Command over Language and the Language of Command’, Colonialism and its forms of knowledge: the British in India (Princeton University Press, 1996
• C.A. Breckenridge and Peter van der Veer, eds., Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament. Philadelphia: U Penn Press, 1993.
  Alok Rai, Hindi Nationalism, Delhi: Orient Longman, 2001.
• Christopher King, One Language, Two Scripts: the Hindi movement in nineteenth century north India (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994, JA410 /729241
• Vasudha Dalmia, The Nationalization of Indian Traditions, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001, ch. 4.
• Tapan Raychaudhuri, ‘Europe reconsidered: perceptions of the west in nineteenth-century Bengal, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 1-25
• M.K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj and other writings, ed. J. Parel, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 39-52 and 59-74.
• Saadat Hasan Manto, ‘Black Margins’ (1948), Mottled Dawn, New Delhi: Penguin India, 1997.
• Rajinder Singh Bedi, ‘Lajvanti’, in Alok Bhalla, Stories about the Partition of India, Delhi: Indus, 1994, 4 vols.
• Urvashi Butalia, The Other Side of Silence: voices from the Partition of India, New Delhi: Penguin Books, 1998, pp. 3-26, 109-119
• Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin, Borders and Boundaries: women in India’s Partition, New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1998, JA954.04 /937567 and other copies
• Gyanendra Pandey, Remembering partition : violence, nationalism, and history in India, Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Module 4: Post-colonial South Asia

• Ian Talbot, India and Pakistan, London: Arnold, 2000
• Arjun Dangle (ed.) Poisoned bread: translations from modern Marathi Dalit literature (London: Sangam Books, 1992
• Omprakash Valmiki, Joothan: a Dalit's life (trans. Arun Prabha Mukherjee, Calcutta: Samya, 2003 JA305.568 /906510 )
• Oliver Mendelsohn and Marika Vicziany, The untouchables : subordination, poverty and the state in modern India, Cambridge University Press, 1998, ch. 4
• Rajendra Yadav, Strangers on the Roof (Sara Akash, 1952; E. trans.) New Delhi: Penguin Books, 1994
• Gloria G. Raheja and Ann G. Gold, Listen to the Heron’s Words: reimagining gender and kinship in North India (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994, JA306 /822004 and other copies)
• Tejaswini Ganti, Bollywood: a guidebook to popular Hindi cinema, London: Routledge, 2004.
• Rachel Dwyer and Divia Patel, Cinema India: the visual culture of the Hindi film (London: Reaktion Books, 2002, JA791.43 /829944 and other copies)
• N. Ali, V.S. Kalra and S. Sayyid (eds), A Postcolonial People: Asians in Britain (London: Hurst, 2006, JA305.8914 /964141 and other copies)

General histories:

• Burton Stein, A History of India (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998) JA954/76390 and other copies
• Hermann Kulke and Dietmar Rothermun, A History of India (London: Routledge, 1992)* JA954 /916888 and other copies
• Peter Robb, A History of India (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002)* JA954 /844265 and other copies
• Catherine B. Asher and Cynthia Talbot, India before Europe (Cambridge: CUP, 2006)

Also very useful:

• Francis Robinson (ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989) L J954.003 /659002 and other copies
• Benjamin Walker, Hindu World: an encyclopaedic survey of Hinduism, Vols. 1 & 2 (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1968) Ref. J294.503 /214734