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Emergent Voices: Pakistan in the 21st Century The University ofSeptember TexasFALL 21-22,at Austin 2013 2012 South Asia InstituteAVAYA Auditorium ACES 2.302 NEWSLETTER 2012, digital print, 24” x 34” x 24” digital print, 2012, Asma Mundrawala, by Around” “I’ll Be This workshop brings together recent scholarship on Pakistan from a range of disciplines. The discussion will open up new avenues of dialogue and debate based on themes from urban history, The South Asia Institute, Universitycultural of Texas politics, at to Austin art and aesthetics and social movements. While rethinking the dominant paradigm in presents: Pakistan studies, the workshop will introduce new perspectives that showcase the dynamic and changing North indiannature of Pakistani society. Musical folk theaterParticipants: • Asad Ahmed, Harvard University • Aamir Mufti, UCLA • Iftikhar Dadi, Cornell University • Tahir Naqvi, Trinity University NAUTANKI INDAL• Will Glover, HARAN University of Michigan • Paula Newberg, Georgetown University • Matthew Hull, University of Michigan • Sameera Raja, Gallerist and Curator (THE ABDUCTION • OFHumeira INDAL) Iqtidar, Kings College London • Nada Raza, Curator, Iniva Performance by Devendra Sharma’s Swang• Naveeda and Khan, Nautanki Johns Hopkins Mandali University • Cabeiri Robinson, University of Washington • Rochona Majumdar, University of Chicago • Sadia Shirazi, Architect and Curator Directed by Dr. Devendra• Farina Sharma Mir, University of Michigan • Karin Zitzewitz, Michigan State University Under the guidance of Guru Pandit Ramdayal Sharma south asia institute South Asia Institute • voice: 512.471.3550 • fax:the university 512.471.3336 of texas at austin • www.utexas.edu/cola/insts/southasia/ Swang-Nautanki is one of the most popular operatic Friday April 26, 2013 performance traditions of northern India. Before the advent of Bollywood (Indian film industry), Nautanki was the biggest entertainment medium in the villages 7:00 pm and towns of northern India. Often, 25,000 to 30,000 people would gather to watch Nautanki performances. Texas Union Theater Nautanki’s rich musical compositions and humorous, (UNB 2.228)- UT Austin entertaining storylines hold a strong influence over rural 2247 Guadalupe St, Austin, TX 78713 people’s imagination, and even after the spread of mass media, a crowd of 10,000 to 15,000 can be seen at the top Nautanki performances. Free and open to the public South Asia Institute • voice: 512.471.3550 • fax: 512.471.3336 • [email protected] • http://www.utexas.edu/cola/insts/southasia/ Letter from the Director Dear Colleagues, Students and publishing articles and books, receiving grants and Friends, international recognition has made the South Asia program one of the best in the country. It can all be Another eventful year for attributed to the combined hard work and dedication the South Asia Institute and we that the faculty and students bring to the study of South keep on remaining busy with Asia at UT Austin. seminars, talks, outreach events This past year we have again been successful in and grant applications. Our receiving another one million dollar Federal Grant. 2012-2013 year started with Housed at the South Asia Institute, the grant allows two major conferences, one for a three year exchange program between UT’s on Pakistan and the other on Buddhism in South Asia. Butler School of Music and the National Academy of The Fall 2012 seminar series was dedicated to Professor Performing Arts (NAPA) in Karachi, Pakistan. The Patrick Olivelle’s contribution to South Asian studies, program will bring students from NAPA to UT to learn Religion and Society in Traditional India. This was aspects of the Western Classical tradition with a focus followed in the Spring semester with a series, Discourses on music theory, voice training and conducting. This on Masculinity and Violence in South Asia. Both these is in addition to the ongoing exchange program with series were well attended and brought senior and junior the Fatima Jinnah Women’s University in Rawalpindi. scholars from a range of disciplines to UT, Austin. The In addition to these two large grants we have received year ended with an amazing Nautunki performance ample funds from various supporters in the community of the play, Indal Haran, for the community at large. to conduct K-12 workshops on India and South Asia. Unfortunately two of our senior colleagues and stalwarts Looking ahead SAI will be applying for the Title in the field of South Asian studies, Patrick Olivelle and VI grant this year. We all need to work together to make Katherine Hansen, decided to call it a day in May of this a successful grant and I am looking forward to your 2013. Luckily both will remain in Austin during their support. Lastly, let me thank our staff colleagues for retirement and we will be blessed with their continued their dedication, hard work and enthusiasm for all that presence in our community. they do for South Asia Institute. Thank you. South Asian studies at UT has added four new senior faculty members in Government (Newberg), Regards, History (Chatterjee and Guha) and Asian Studies (Davis) to its roster. We have the good fortune to have another South Asian Studies Librarian, Mary Rader, who has an added portfolio of global studies coordinator. Kamran Asdar Ali The new hires, students receiving fellowships, colleagues In this Issue... Letter from the Director ...........................................1 Kathy Hansen’s Curtain Call .................................. 10 Faculty, Student & Alumni News ............................2 Newly Emeritus Patrick Olivelle ........................... 11 SAI Welcomes New Faculty ......................................4 K-12 Outreach ......................................................... 15 Recent Publications by Faculty ................................6 SAI Collaborates with Other UT NRCs ............... 15 Ayesha Jalal’s new book on Manto ...........................6 K-12 Educator Workshops..................................... 15 Rethinking Gandhi ....................................................7 SAI to partnership with NAPA ............................. 17 Emergent Voices .........................................................8 Boundaries of Buddhism ....................................... 17 Hindi Urdu Flagship Report .....................................9 Call for Papers: SAGAR ........................................ 18 1 South Asia Institute Newsletter Fall 2013 Faculty, Student & Alumni News Faculty and a six-month fellowship from by Houston’s biggest South Indian the International Institute for Asian language school, the Greater Houston Prof. David J. Eaton, of the Studies in Leiden, the Netherlands. Tamil School. LBJ School of Public Affairs continued Both fellowships will support his Prof. Martha Ann Selby, the partnership between UT-Austin writing of the results of his fieldwork. the Chair of the Department of and the United Nations’ Institute for Prof. Keeler has also written an essay Asian Studies, received a Fulbright- Training and Research (UNITAR) for an edited collection about using Nehru Senior Research Fellowship by sponsoring two graduate courses fiction, memoirs, and film to teach for the 2013-14 academic year. She through the UT-Austin University anthropology is spend eight months in Chennai, Extension and the UNITAR where she will translate the fiction of Afghanistan Fellowship Program Dr. Afsar Mohammad’s new contemporary Tamil writer D. Dilip for Afghan-national executives in book, entitled “The Festival of Pirs: Kumar. Selby will also assess the government, universities, and civil Popular Islam and Shared Devotion current literary scene in Chennai and society. The two courses were held in South Asia”, was published by the write a brief history of post-1947 Tamil in April-November 2011 and April- Oxford University Press in 2013. literature. November 2012, respectively. In Dr. Mohammad is a lecturer in the addition, Prof. Eaton was the co- Department of Asian Studies. His book recipient of the American Society for deals with localized forms of Islam and Dr. Jishnu Shankar Public Administration’s 2012 James offers a theoretical perspective on the contributed a chapter titled “From W. McGrew Research Award for the making of new Muslim groups that Liminal to Social in the Modern Age: policy analysis and policy impact of define themselves as “true” Muslims. Transcendent Sacrality and Social his edited monograph, Title Insurance Science in the Aghor Tradition,” in Regulation in Texas: Challenges and Dr. Patrick Olivelle’s new the book “Lines in Water: Religious Opportunities. volume, King, Governance, and Law Boundaries in South Asia”, Syracuse in Ancient India, was published by the University Press (2013. The book is Prof. Lalitha Gopalan, of Oxford University Press in 2013. Dr. edited by Eliza F. Kent and Tazim R. the Department of Radio, Television, Olivelle is an Emeritus Professor of the Kassam. Film, received three prestigious grants Department of Asian Studies. for the next two years: the Tagore Prof. Cynthia Talbot, of the Fellowship from The Ministry of Dr. Sankaran Department of History, received a UT Culture, Government of India; the Radhakrishan was the chief guest Humanities Research Award for 2013- Senior Long Term Research Fellowship for an annual day event organized 15 for a new project, entitled ‘Noble from AIIS; and the Fulbright-Nehru SAI Mourns the Loss of Public Affairs Professor Shama Gamkhar Senior Fellowship. Shama Gamkhar, an associate professor at the