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Connecting Southasian Archives
As part of this initiative, we are working on creating and maintaining an active network of localised archives across the region. The aim is to garner greater recognition of the individual archives, as well as the importance of archiving in general. The ever-growing online database listing private archives and collections of Southasia is a rich resource, especially for historians, scholars, researchers and students.
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Forbidden love: The Love Legends of southasia
Researching and documenting the love legends of Punjab, is an attempt to simultaneously address the geopolitical as well as social contradictions that afflict Southasia in a mass scale today. There has been a need felt for a cultural project in Southasia which brings issues of cross-national and cross-cultural to a level where the mass public can empathise.
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Music on the move: The Gandharva of Nepal
Research on the specific musical styles and techniques of five Gandharva communities across the country, focusing on the modes of diffusion; the barriers to the traditional modes of transmission; and the study of new methods that can be utilized to allow the Gandharva community to pass down their musical knowledge as a means of livelihood.
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Starting this week, we are excited to bring to you articles from the online edition of ‘Archives of Southasia’, a project pursued jointly with our sister organization Himal Southasian in the first issue of Himal’s pioneering quarterly. The first one: 'Caring for History' by Dinyar Patel.
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A linguist’s views on the prehistoric habitation of the Himalaya and the Nepali
26 February 2014 |
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Feeling flustered by celebration of ‘love’ or making ‘peace’? This Valentine’s
14 February 2014 |
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The last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar’s tomb in Yangon weaves threads
17 December 2013 |
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Hri weaves magic with love legends in Burkina Faso, recounts Laxmi Murthy.
11 December 2013 |
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Why does Sohni-Mahiwal or Heer Ranjha get bypassed in favour of Romeo and Juliet
28 November 2013 |
