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A two-day symposium on Human Rights and the Politics of Film Making is being hosted by the UW Jackson School’s South Asia Center in conjunction with Tasveer’s 2015 Seattle South Asian Film Festival feauturing notable film makers from South Asia. The symposium will examine issues of human rights and film making in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and

Indian IT Workers in Berlin Author: Sareeta Amrute Publisher: Duke University Press Year: 2016 Summary: Not Yet Available

A Cultural History of Saint Namdev in India Author: Christian Lee Novetzke Publisher: Columbia University Press Year: 2011 Summary: Namdev is a central figure in the cultural history of India, especially within the field of bhakti, a devotional practice that has created publics of memory for over eight centuries. Born in the Marathi-speaking region of the

Bollywood, Brotherhood, and Nation Author: William Elison, Christian Lee Novetzke, and Andy Rotman Publisher: Harvard University Press Year: 2016 Summary: A Bollywood blockbuster when it was released in 1977, Amar Akbar Anthony has become a classic of Hindi cinema and a touchstone of Indian popular culture. Delighting audiences with its songs and madcap adventures, the film

Author: Vikrramaditya Prakash Publisher: Altrim Publishers Year: 2015 Summary: Chandigarh is a unique city, besides being one of the newest city of the twentieth century that is characterized by the seal of Le Corbusier, who planned the city and was also the architect of its most emblematic buildings. In Chandigarh, you will also find the work of

Regional Political Economies of Development Author: Sunila Kale Publisher: Stanford University Press Year: 2014 Summary: Throughout the 20th century, electricity was considered to be the primary vehicle of modernity, as well as its quintessential symbol. In India, electrification was central to how early nationalists and planners conceptualized Indian development, and huge sums were spent on the

The Many Origins of the Cinema in India Author: Sudhir Mahadevan Publisher: State University of New York Press Year: 2015 Summary: In A Very Old Machine, Sudhir Mahadevan shows how Indian cinema’s many origins in the technologies and practices of the nineteenth century continue to play a vital and broad function in its twenty-first-century present. He

Artistic Practice, National Identity, and Modernism in India, 1930-1990 Author: Sonal Khullar Publisher: University of California Press Year: 2015 Summary: The purpose of art, the Paris-trained artist Amrita Sher-Gil wrote in 1936, is to “create the forms of the future” by “draw[ing] its inspiration from the present.” Through art, new worlds can be imagined into existence as

  Refugee Families and the Making of Kashmiri Jihadists  Author: Cabeiri Robinson Publisher: University of California Press Year: 2013 Summary: This book provides a fascinating look at the creation of contemporary Muslim jihadists. Basing the book on her long-term fieldwork in the disputed borderlands between Pakistan and India, Cabeiri deBergh Robinson tells the stories of people whose lives