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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"South Asian History"”.
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Lifting the Veil on Hindi Film Song Sequences: An Approach to Analysis
… text, and music) are connected to the context of South Asian history and culture to demonstrate how scholarly approaches to music, film, and cultural studies can be united to create a more interdisciplinary approach to analysis. The approach also incorporates principles of semiotics: in the case …
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The Colonizers and Their Colonized
… dichotomy, originally formulated by scholars of South Asian history in the context of European imperialistic treatments of the peoples whom they colonized for centuries, as applied to Mexican history. I have chosen some visual, cinematic, and literary representations of indigenous and other …
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Lalkar: Migrant Internationalism Among Punjabis in Twentieth Century Britain
… and labour movement. As a contribution to South Asian history, this dissertation pursues a deterritorialized study of South Asian and Punjabi history -- as a history of people rather than a place. By bridging the historiographical divide of partition and independence, this project explores …
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Museum Collecting and Constructions of Identity in Indian Punjab,1947-1970
… takes an original approach to twentieth century south Asian history by linking long established research on partition and postcolonial nation building, with a new domain of enquiry and material: museum historiography and practice. If unpacking colonial museums and collecting practices revealed …
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Communication, Disability, and Scientific Interventions in South Asia, c. 1860-1970
… treating and understanding speech and hearing in South Asia from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century. It argues that instructors, specialists and medical practitioners envisaged diverse solutions to what they considered to be the ‘problem’ of disabled language. These groups broached …
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Praise, Politics, and Language: South Indian Murals, 1500-1800
This study of mural painting in southern India aims to change the received narrative of painting in South Asia not only by bringing to light a body of work previously understudied and in many cases undocumented, but by showing how that corpus contributes vitally to the study of South Indian art and …
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The Horse: Conspicuous Consumption of Embodied Masculinity in South Asia, 1600-1850
… horse and horse culture played in early modern South Asia through the lens of the genre of horse treatises (<italic>farasnama</italic>) produced in the Subcontinent in Persian. My analysis of the <italic>farasnama</italic> ties in directly with the new analyses of the Mughal Empire as a dynamic …