About
particular places...
=="ARAMPUR"==
"A Virtual Village," a great site for educational use, with much input
by real North Indian villagers: [site]
==AURANGABAD== James
Traub, "Keeping Up With the Shidhayes: India's New Middle Class" (an exceptionally
thoughtful look at Aurangabad), New York Times Magazine, April 15,
2001: [on this site]
==BAMIAN, AFGHANISTAN==
Site of the (now-destroyed) 'Great Buddhas' and their dozens of surrounding
cave temples-- an art-historical overview and tour: [site]
==BANARAS== A
ZOOM-able map of Varanasi, drawn in 1876 by Kailashnath Shukla, called
"Kashidarpana": [site]
==BANARAS ==
Sandria B. Freitag, ed., Culture and Power in Banaras: Community, Performance,
and Environment, 1800-1980 (Berkeley: University of California Press,
1989): [site]
==BANARAS== Nita
Kumar, Friends, Brothers and Informants: Fieldwork Memoirs of Banaras
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992): [site]
==BANGALORE==
"City of Boiled Beans," an unusually candid and lively travelogue about
Bangalore, Indo-American adjustments, and so much more: [site]
==BANGLADESH==
Beth Roy, Some Trouble with Cows: Making Sense of Social Conflict
(Berkeley : University of California Press, 1994): [site]
==BHOPAL== A
group called "Students for Bhopal" provides context for the 1984 disaster:
[site]
==BIHAR== Anand
A. Yang, Bazaar India: Markets, Society, and the Colonial State in Bihar
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998): [site]
==CALIFORNIA==
The Ghadar Movement (1913-15), and other facets of early Indian (especially
Sikh) immigration: [site];
and a photo gallery: [site]
==CENTRAL PROVINCES==
Philip F. McEldowney, Colonial Administration and Social Developments
in middle India: The Central Provinces, 1861-1921:
most of a Univ.
of Virginia dissertation: [site]
==KATARAGAMA==
"Kataragama," an unusual sacred site in Sri Lanka with Hindu/Buddhist/Muslim
strands: [site]
=="KARIMPUR"==
"Looking Behind Mud Walls: The Village of Karimpur, 1925-1998": [site]
==KASHMIR== An
overview site from the Univ. of California library: [site]
==KASHMIR== "Kashmir
Retextured," a gorgeous photo gallery on the people and culture of the
area: [site]
==KASHMIR==
Pankaj Mishra, a thorough and candid three-part article on Kashmir: "Death
in Kashmir (Part 1)," New York Review of Books 47,14 (Sept. 21,
2000) [site];
"The Birth of a Nation (Part 2)," NYRB 47,15 (Oct. 5, 2000) [site];
"Kashmir: The Unending War (Part 3)," NYRB 47,16 (Oct. 19, 2000)
[site]
==KERALA== "Poor
but Prosperous," from the Atlantic, 1998: [site]
==NEPAL== "The
Huntington Archiveof Buddhist and Related Art," with many special features
devoted to Nepali art, festivals, and culture: [site]
==NURISTAN==
Richard Strand's site on Nuristan, in the Hindu Kush mountains: [site]
==PAKISTAN==
"Photographs of Pakistan," an exceptionally beautiful group of images:
[site]
==PRINCELY STATES==
On the Indian "princely states": [site]
==PUNJAB== Ram
Narayan Kumar and Cynthia Mahmood, "Disappearances in Punjab and the Impunity
of the Indian State: A Report on Current Human Rights Efforts," Oct. 1,
1998: [site]
==PUNJAB== Amnesty
documents a continuing "cycle of impunity and torture," a report issued
in January 2003: [site]
==RAJASTHAN==
Ann Grodzins Gold, "Khyal: Changing Yearnings in Rajasthani Women's Songs"
Manushi
95 (July-August 1996): [site]
==RAJASTHAN==
Lindsey Harlan. Religion and Rajput Women: The Ethic of Protection in
Contemporary Narratives (Berkeley : University of California Press,
1992): [site]
==RAJASTHAN==
Gloria Goodwin Raheja and Ann Grodzins Gold. Listen to the Heron's Words:
Reimagining Gender and Kinship in North India (Berkeley : University
of California Press, 1994). About women's lives and storytelling traditions
in Rajasthan: [site]
==SIGIRIYA==
The late-fifth-century Buddhist mountaintop site in Sri Lanka: [site]
==SIKHS IN CALIFORNIA==
An excellent history of the Ghadar Movement, and much more besides: [site]
==SIND== A vividly
presented set of resources and information about Sind: [site]
==SOUTHEAST ASIA==
A great (and scholarly) image site, for comparisons: [site]
==SURAT== Douglas
E. Haynes, Rhetoric and Ritual in Colonial India: The Shaping of a Public
Culture in Surat City, 1852-1928 (Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1991): [site]
==TAMILNADU==
Sumathi Ramaswamy. Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil
India, 1891-1970 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997):
[site]
==TAMILNADU==
David West Rudner, Caste and Capitalism in Colonial India: The Nattukottai
Chettiars (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994): [site]
==TIBET== A gorgeous
website devoted to Tibetan Buddhist art: [site]
==UNITED STATES== The Diaspora: a
Symposium on Indian-Americans and the motherland, in Seminar 538
(June 2004): [site]
==A VIRTUAL VILLAGE == An excellent
website by Peter Gottschalk of Wesleyan University and Matthew Schmalz
of Holy Cross, with much input from real North Indian villagers, both Hindu
and Muslim: [site]
==YAMUNA RIVER==
"A walk beside the Yamuna," an educational site, well designed, about Mughal
monuments, including the Taj Mahal: [site] |