Newsletter Editorial p. 1 Branch Office Colombo 1 Aims and Prospects of the SAI 2 Interview: Prof. William Sax 5 Globalization Conference 5 New Book: Ways of Dying 6 Kabir Conference 7 New Book: In Favor of Govinddevji 7 Visualized Space Project 8 Prof. Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema 10 International Cooperation 10 Report Conferences 11 Staff News 12 Forthcoming Events 12 Research Projects 13 Branch Offices 15 Lectures 16 New Publications 18 COLOMBO. At the end of 1998 the SAI particular focus on supporting younger Staff 22 proposed the opening of a branch office scholars Imprint 23 - To facilitate the exchange and Editorial in Sri Lanka. With the agreement of Heidelberg University and the State dissemination of research findings in the - by Axel Michaels - form of specific publications, workshops Government of Baden-Wuerttemberg, and conferences the SAI's Colombo office opened in This is the first newsletter of the South - To identify and provide expertise in April 1999. Asia Institute at the University of connection with the analysis of specific Heidelberg. Future editions will appear development-related problems in Sri Lanka annually, at the beginning of the winter The SAI has a permanent representative - To undertake empirical reseach on semester. who is assisted by a Sri Lankan colleague. pressing issues confronting Sri Lanka, with A newsletter should contain all that is The branch office is charged with the a view to generating quantitative and new, but given the pace of change these strengthening of institutional links between qualitative data days, such a report can never be truly up to the SAI and academic institutions in Sri The current research interests of the SAI in date. Lanka. It will also promote academic Sri Lanka are: There is no doubt that German academic cooperation with a view to facilitating joint • National Youth Survey life is changing in ways that are sometimes research projects, publications, and the • Youth employment stimulating, sometimes threatening, often exchange of ideas and experiences among • Urban development and regional amusing, and almost always too fast for Sri Lankan scholars and the SAI. A planning most of us - especially those who deal with Memorandum of Understanding has been • Disaster prevention traditions which claim that they never signed with the Department of Sociology • Food security and health change. at the University of Colombo defining the • Comparative study of political parties In any case, I hope that you find our following areas of collaboration: in South Asia research and publications to be more - To promote research on economic, • Governance and conflict resolution enduring than the "news" of the day, which political, social, and cultural affairs in Sri • Economic indicators for development briefly touches your desk on the way to the Lanka • Impact of Asian financial crisis on Sri wastebasket. After all, circulating news is - To promote academic exchange between Lanka just turning the wheel of samsara. the SAI and Sri Lanka universities with • Study of historiography in Sri Lanka

Aims and Prospects of the South Asia Institute

- by Prof. Dr. Axel Michaels - cultures a voice in the unstoppable process Germany and India work together of globalization, to review the history of a conducting fieldwork, organizing The South Asia Institute (SAI) is located region, to research and preserve rare conferences, obtaining rare literature, and at the centre of the university grounds in languages, and to keep specialized strengthening their academic networks with knowledge for future generations. each other and with other scholars of South Neuenheimer Feld. During the 37 years Asia throughout the world. of its existence, it has developed into An institute with a special profile what a board of advisors recently called Younger scholars are particularly attracted a "scientific institute unique in The SAI was founded in 1962 in a far- to the SAI because of the unique continental Europe". Teaching and sighted initiative by the government of opportunities it affords for intense research at the SAI focus on a region Baden-Württemberg. Its aim was to interdisciplinary cooperation. Many of that is important, not only because it has promote development-related basic them find employment here, because the generated a great civilization and the research relevant to the problems of the so- institute receives a significant amount of world religions of Buddhism and called third world. Germany wished to help external funding. Hinduism, but also because it is one of developing countries, but quickly realised the biggest, most populated, and most how little was known about Afghanistan, Interdisciplinary Research Partners quickly developing economic areas on Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the Maledives. It has been common practice for a long earth. time to do research on countries of the third

The basic idea of the institute - which has world instead of doing research with them. Research on South Asia therefore concerns been directly under the control of the rector The SAI by contrast, prefers cooperative living cultures as well as old traditions. At and the senate of the university since its research, especially projects that are the SAI, we do not conduct research on founding - is to coordinate research and initiated and implemented jointly with non-european countries and cultures so teaching in several different disciplines, partner countries. Many university much as we conduct research with them, in each with its own department: teachers, politicians and economic leaders a relation of partnership. This helps us to Anthropology, Development Economics, from India, Pakistan and Nepal studied at understand and respect each others' cultures International Economics, Geography, the SAI. They received scholarships from and values. Such a procedure is only History and History of Art, Classical the German Academic Exchange Service possible when it is based upon a profound Indology (ancient languages and history of (DAAD) or the Alexander von Humboldt- knowledge of each others' languages, religion), Modern Indology (modern Stiftung. cultures, social and economic structures. languages and literatures of South Asia),

and Political Science. In addition to that, the Indian government The common task of developing countries awards an annual scholarship for a six- research in so-called 'area studies' is to The institute has one of the biggest month stay in India, and in return the state communicate intercultural competence by specialized libraries in the world, with over of Baden-Württemberg established a connecting social and economic sciences 220.000 volumes and 500 specialist similar program for scholars in Heidelberg. with historically and philologically oriented journals. In January 1998, the Deutsche The Pakistani government established an cultural studies. In this way students and Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Iqbal Professorial Fellowship which gives teachers constantly remind themselves that Research Organization) recognized it as a one professor from Pakistan the they are living together with others in the special library of national importance. The opportunity to do research and teach at the house of world cultures - a house they SAI also publishes two internationally South Asia Institute. The government of didn't build alone. Such intercultural renowned series, Beiträge zur Bangladesh set up a Bangabandhu Sheikh competence will be in great demand in the Südasienforschung and South-Asian Mujibur Rahman Professorial Fellowship at next millenium when it will be essential to Studies . It currently has branch offices in the SAI. find solutions for pressing economic and India (New Delhi), Nepal (Kathmandu) and ecological problems, to give regional Sri Lanka (Colombo), where scholars from In many departments the main focus of re- search is on practical applicability which Axel Michaels) lies in its ethnoindological and their relation to political and social requires close contact and mutual dialogue orientation, i.e. the connection between developments. with local and regional authorities and philology and field work by examining representatives of state offices, as well as closely Hindu and Buddhist rituals and Economic and ecological problems broad knowledge of the economy and festivals. This requires a profound " " politics of South Asian countries. Our knowledge of the major traditions based The relation between humans and their " " scholars are also in high demand as on Sanskrit texts, but also of the minor , environment, along with processes of advisors to the German government and to local traditions, which very often were globalization with their economic and international organizations. handed down only orally. Therefore, the social consequences, are constantly gaining subject does not only concern philological importance in South Asia. The SAI has From the beginning, the SAI's language studies, but also religion and responded to this trend by increasing its interdisciplinary orientation resulted in a cultural studies. It contributes to the efforts in basic research. The Department wide range of academic of Geography of South questions, of which I will list Asia (headed by Prof. only a few. Hans-Georg Bohle) is currently working on Culture, Language and different projects History regarding questions of food security, water There is practically no other supply and waste disposal region in the world where in rural and urban regions tradition and modernity are so of India, Nepal and Sri inextricably linked as in Lanka. Important tasks South Asia. Thus, it is are survival strategies of necessary to know the history people in endangered and cultures of the countries ecosystems, e.g. Nepalese in order to cope with future mountain farmers, tasks. These cultures are forestry in the mountain proud of their age-old regions of the Himalayas, traditions and religions, their knowledge and preservation of historical and problems of young literature, art and music. Worldwide, and current events and documents as well people in Sri Lanka. One objective is to culture is developing into a factor of as to discussions of general problems work out new concepts for urban and identity of political importance. Since concerning religion, social science and regional planning, which consider the history and historiography are literature. changing conditions for development and indispensable parts of national identity, the include socially tolerable and ecologically countries of South Asia are looking for a The Department of Modern Indology sustainable perspectives to secure the lifes "usable " past. These questions are (headed by Prof. Monika Boehm- of marginal groups. addressed by the more culturally orientated Tettelbach) deals with contemporary departments of the SAI. Such questions cultural phenomena of South Asia - not The Department of International represent the main area of research in the only in language and literature, but also in Economics (headed by Prof. Oskar Gans) Department of History of South Asia more complex issues, i.e. the intellectual- deals with the integration of developing (headed by Prof. Dietmar Rothermund), cultural and religious life. The term countries and newly industrialized which focuses on the early history of South "modern" is not restricted to development countries. The central research program Asian countries, their economic history, processes such as the one in India from the ("International comparative analysis of their struggle for independence, and their 19th century onwards, but includes the economic systems in South and Southeast colonial heritage. development of neoindian languages from Asian countries ") includes research on the the 11th century onwards. The research use of natural ressources (water, ground) The distinctive feature of the Department focus is on oral traditions, and on and international competition of economic of Classical Indology (headed by Prof. premodern and modern literary traditions systems. Current subprojects of the program discuss the internationalization of power and nationalistic forces are getting relationship beween different cultural areas enterprises, the regulation of natural stronger. In Nepal (the only hindu- like religion, politics, economy and monopolies (water markets), the fiscal kingdom in the world), democracy is language. With Prof. Sax's arrival, the constitution of federal states, the exposed to many experiments. In Sri department begins a new initiative in the possibility of realizing a system which Lanka, ethnic conflicts are constantly Medical Anthropology of South Asia, controls consumption in newly flaring up. focusing not only on traditional healing industrialized countries, social security systems like Ayurveda, Siddha Medicine, systems and the international economic These tensions make an important and and Yunani, and on cultural ideas order (conditions of competition of interesting field of work for the concerning health, the body, and selfhood, ecological standards). Department of Political Science of South but also on general issues associated with Asia (headed by Prof. Subrata K. Mitra), access to health services, globalization, and The Department of Development which constantly questions classic areas of health-related social justice issues, all in Economics (headed by Prof. Clive Bell) political analysis like comparative politics, the South Asian context. Scholars in the studies the relations between department also work economic growth and the on ethnic identity, distribution of income in the gender studies, ritual agricultural sector, national and language, spatial debt and specific issues images, and oral regarding single households in performance. villages and enterprises of the industrial sector. Especially in (adapted from an article in the series "Science 2000", the field of poverty, growth published by the Rhein- and distribution, the SAI has a Neckar-Zeitung , 12/15/1999, very good data base of more translated by Angela Michel) than ten thousand households. Apart from the important Photos: The South Asia subject of national debt, the Institute in Heidelberg - economic relations in small SAI archive villages also receive special attention since they don 't have much in common with international relations, and research on economic structures in Western countries. political parties. For example, the The focus of research is on employment department analyses in extensive empirical and credit markets. studies the meaning and function of

elections in a post-colonial context. The Political and social conflicts results of these election studies have a

direct impact on questions of governance It is a well known fact that there are many and legitimacy. social and political conflicts in South Asia.

The problem of caste is a longstanding The Chair of the Department of one, and currently the nuclear arms race Anthropology has recently been taken up between India and Pakistan, exacerbated by Dr. William Sax. Anthropology studies by conflict in Kashmir, is worrying. There processes of social and cultural change in is also the question of governance and ethnic groups, castes, so-called tribes and continuity of policies in the countries of religious communities, against the South Asia. India has the "largest background of their cultural traditions. democracy in the world ", but it is more and Anthropologists are especially interested in more endangered by radical religious understanding indigenous categories of groups. In Pakistan, the military assumed thought and action, and in analyzing the

Prof. William Sax, Head of the Department of Anthropology

Professor William Sax has been on the relationship between ritual and particularly exciting in this respect, because appointed as the head of the SAI's performance; focusing particularly on a in principle it can link not only the various Department of Anthropology in July tradition of Central Himalayan ritual departments in the SAI, but also the 2000. Our editor Angela Michel spoke theatre called Pandav Lila. I have written Institute for Tropical Medicine and the several articles and edited a book on Institute for Anthropology at the with him about his experiences and various forms of ritual performance in Heidelberg University." intentions. South Asia, and by 2001 or earlier, Oxford

University Press in New York will publish "What made you decide to come to "Prof. Sax, please tell us how you became my latest monograph on performance, Heidelberg?" interested in South Asia." politics, and notions of the Self. Here at Sax: "Actually we were quite happy in Sax: "Originally I planned to study the SAI, I hope to continue my work on New Zealand, and so it was difficult for us international law, and travelled to India just ritual and performance, and also to to leave. But the SAI is a unique institution to see the Himalayas. But then I became integrate it with some new research I am with a worldwide reputation and excellent fascinated with all things South Asian: the doing in medical anthropology, by studying resources, and I found that I was unable to languages, cuisine, culture, history, music, the performative aspects of healing." pass up the opportunity to return to the and just about everything else. I suppose centre - not only the centre of South Asian you could say that I found my calling in "In which ways will your work contribute scholarship in Europe, but also one that is life. So I returned to the University of to the interdisciplinary aspects of the SAI?" located at the centre of Europe. All in all, Chicago and took up anthropology, in order Sax: "For me, interdisciplinarity is a fact of my family and I are quite happy to be here. to spend a lot of time living with the people modern academic life. I have always Our friends, colleagues and students are in India." worked in interdisciplinary groups, in lively and interesting, Heidelberg is a

Chicago and Harvard and New Zealand. beautiful city, and this is an exciting time to "What are your current areas of research?" Most contemporary anthropologists work be living in Europe. I think that once Sax: "My earlier work focussed on the cult closely with scholars from other disciplines again, after several quiet years, the of a regional Hindu goddess, particularly as such as History, Indology, Geography, and Department of Anthropology at the SAI has it reflected the lives of local women. For Political Science. Medical Anthropology is an opportunity to accomplish great things. the past several years I have been working

South Asia - The Challenge of the Globalization Process 21 st Baden-Wuerttemberg Colloquium 1999, 2 - 5 March 1999, Bad Herrenalb

Several years ago, the government of recent years as a result of economic intellectual classes are increasingly split Baden-Wuerttemberg opened discussions liberalization in South Asia. The discussion into euphoric supporters of globalization with the nine universities of the State and focussed not only on the economic and strong opponents thereof. One reaction, interested business companies, with the aim globalization process, but also on the particularly in the diaspora, has been to of giving particularly talented and involved confrontations between cultural values of launch a campaign to globalize Hinduism students the opportunity to discuss current East and West. using the internet and other means of issues involving the interrelations between In South Asia and the large South Asian communication. economy, science and politics. The SAI diaspora in the West, intellectuals have organized the 21 st Colloquium, "South been so shaken by discussions of post- The proceedings of the Colloquium will be Asia: The Challenge of the Globalization modernism that globalization might be edited by Prof. Hans-Georg Bohle and Process", on 2 - 5 March 1999 in Bad regarded as the last nail in the coffin of published in the SAI series "Beiträge zur Herrenalb. their own cultural identity. The violence Südasienforschung" (Contributions to The colloquium addressed the problems induced by this few cannot be easily South Asian Research). of structural change which have arisen in understood as fundamentalism. The

A new publication from the SAI Death and Mortality in South Asia

The SAI publishes two internationally this horizon of dying, death and the dead. It Moreover, this book does not just centre on acknowledged series : Beiträge zur combines the ethnographic point of view the study of well-known articulate and self- Südasienforschung (Contributions to that stresses the social and ritual forms projecting traditions but on cultures that South Asian Research) and South Asian related to death, and the conceptual aspects lack this dimension. It sheds light on which favour the idea of an agency of texts. conceptual systems, ritual prescriptions and Studies . Last year Elisabeth texts, and their interaction with the actual Schömbucher and Claus Peter Zoller The contributions have been organized thinking and acting of people. edited "Ways of Dying - Death and its in three sections: the first section deals with Meaning in South Asia". The book the "good " death, the second with the The great variety of approaches to this became the SAI's subject found in this volume is bestselling title in recent a reflection of the multiplicity months. and variableness of South Asian cultures. Nevertheless, Death as the basic condition there are some insights, e.g. the of life and as the ultimate idea of an interrelation between destiny of all men is also a death and violence, and decisive factor in the shaping between death and of cultures. Death 's transformation, that seem to be emergence as rupture and at the centre of a large number loss, and man 's reaction in the of South Asian cultures. form of grief and mourning are at the core of a vast The book features articles by: unfolding of belief systems and ritual practices which - Klaus-Peter Köpping aim at dealing with this - Martin Geanszle overwhelming reality - Ulrich Demmer coherently. Whether the - Shalini Randeria hereafter, into which death - Axel Michaels leads, is seen as the radical - Charles Malamoud other that either precludes the - Anne Feldhaus possibility of the continuation - Elisabeth Schömbucher of an individual existence or - Georg Berkemer the possibility of any - Hugh van Skyhawk epistemological insight, or - Claus Peter Zoller whether it is rather seen as a - Aditya Malik continuation of existence, - Heidrun Brückner allowing interactions between - Alf Hiltebeitel. this and that world, man is inevitably directed towards this horizon that is death. "untimely " or "extraordinary " death and the third focuses on the interpretation of the Schömbucher, Elisabeth and Zoller, Claus Peter (eds.): Ways of Dying: Death and its This volume aims at surveying how theme of death in textual traditions and on Meaning in South Asia. New Delhi: various cultures (tribal, regional and pan- how death is portrayed in various cultural Manohar 1999. Indian) of South Asia come to terms with performances.

The 600 th Anniversary of Kabir's Birth International Symposium, 15 - 18 June 1999

Although Kabir has played an important research is now on the reception of Kabir in Nath-milieu role in the triennial international Bhakti regional popular traditions, in the Muslim - the living Kabir tradition conferences, initiated in 1981, there has milieu, and in the works of contemporary - political and social dimensions of his been no special Kabir conference to date. authors in the political and literary scene. work Whereas priority was given earlier to the The Heidelberg symposium highlighted the - Kabirpanth authentic Kabir text and his oeuvre following tasks: - Kabir reception in the performing arts, understood basically as a heritage of - text history, textual criticism literature and literary criticism popular Hindu tradition, the focus of - Kabir in the composite Hindu-Muslim- For the programme, see page 11

The Rise of a Deity A new publication by Monika Horstmann

Sri Govinddevji, a family deity of Jaipur. The rise of the deity Amber's Kachavaha dynasty, now to the status of a symbol of dwells in Jaipur, along with his regional power also meant consort Radha. He made his first the rise of Gaudiya appearance, however, in Vaishnavism and the deity's Vrindaban where he came to custodians to power in the reside in the great temple built for Kachavaha territory. him by Raja Mansingh and The documents published consecrated in 1590. Govinddevji in this book span more than was a symbol of Mansingh's three and a half centuries. In power and became a focus of the accordance with the style of political interaction between the similar fiscal and other Mughal Emperor and the official papers, they tell of Kachavahas and, hence, an object the fortunes of Govinddevji. of imperial and royal patronage. Apart from their importance At the end of the seventeenth as testimonies of religious century, Govinddevji and Radha policy, they also permit were taken to the Amber territory insight into the in order to protect them from administrative and damage by the hands of diplomatic usage of the iconoclasts. This was late in Kachavaha chancery. Emperor Aurang-zeb's rule, when, Horstmann, Monika: In with the crisis of the Empire, Favour of Govinddevji. regional Hindu kingdoms became Historical Documents increasingly self-assertive. Thus, relating to a deity of the move from Vrindaban to Vrindaban and Eastern Amber, the patrimonial land of the Rajastan. In collaboration Kachavahas, also marked the Kachavaha eventually came to reside in the palatial with Heike Bill. New Delhi: Indira Gandhi ruler's assertion of regional power and temple in the precincts of the City Palace of National Centre of the Arts & Manohar, identity. Govinddevji and his consort Maharaja Savai Jaisingh's new capital, 1999.

Visualized Space - A new interdisciplinary project Constructions of Locality and carto-graphic Representation in Varanasi

South Asia has produced a large variety 1. The city of Varanasi as a system of discourse in the field of New Cultural of traditions of urban life. Cities are spatial interrelation Geography. often not only economic and political Varanasi city is viewed as a space of centres, but they are also defined as sensual perception, imagination, and mental 5. Constructions of Locality The project addresses the question how religious space, which can be interpreted representations. The possible variants of cognitive orientation - whether egocentric localities are represented and visualized as cosmograms. Research has focussed or sociocentric are being studied. The cartographically. Particular attention will be on traditional models of cities, but the material environment will be analysed in paid to the city's different neighbourhoods traditional setting is subject to rapid and relation to its semantic, symbolic and and quarters. How are their boundaries and fundamental change. Social systems, cognitive functions. centres marked? To what extant is locality political developments, working influenced by ethnic identity, migration and conditions and religious identification 2. Visualization of indigenous and dislocation, religious processions, symbolic lead to complex modifications of urban modern systems of orientation landmarks and local legends? life, which so far have not been Available maps and other spatial thoroughly investigated. visualizations will be collected and Projects and Researchers interpreted within an interdisciplinary Coordinators: Axel Michaels (Classical The project "Visualized Space", funded by approach. Empirical research on spatial Indology), H.-G. Bohle (Geography), Rana the DFG (German Research Council), knowledge of selected social groups (e.g., P.B. Singh involves interdisciplinary cooperation in the priests, monks, pilgrims, rickshaw drivers, fields of History of Architecture, Art beggars, scientists, politicians and Assistant Coordinators: Birgit Mayer-König History, Anthropology, Geography and architects) might reveal particular forms of (Classical Indology) Indology. The focus is on the changing visualization of the city. For this purpose, conditions of urban life, looking at forms of methods of cognitive mapping are being Varanasi Pitoresque Views - Historical locality and spatial orientation in Varanasi. applied. Views of the City (Joachim Bautze, Art The material includes historical and modern History) maps of the city, religious (cosmographical, 3. Theory of culture-specific systems of divinatory, ritual) maps, mental and spatial orientation Visualized Texts - Religious Maps and cognitive maps, pilgrim maps and historical One of the central questions is whether a Divination Charts (Axel Michaels; Jörg pictures (photographs, paintings). specific Indian or Hindu perception of Gengnagel, Classical Indology) Indigenous (emic) perspectives of space, space and nature can be deduced out of the landscape and nature will be critically materials collected. The role and function Constructed Maps (Nils Gutschow, History evaluated in the light of the approach of of planimetry, perspective, symbols, of Architecture) Cultural Studies and Cultural Geography. topographical abstractions, geographical

An investigation of the mental-spatial grid and the orientation based on the Mobility Maps of Varanasi (Hans-Georg knowledge of several groups within the city compass will be analysed. Bohle, Stefan Schütte, Geography) is being carried out with the methods of cognitive mapping. The research should 4. A teoretical and conceptual frame- Locality and Water Resources in Varanasi lead to an analysis of the social, cultural and work for interdisciplinary research on (Prof. Dr. H.-G. Bohle, Geography) ecological effects of traditional spatial cities orientation on modern surroundings. The project will evaluate and employ the Ethnical Space and Locality (Martin The project combines five leading new concepts of research on cities in Gaenszle, Anthropology) themes: cultural studies, focussing on the recent

Kà÷ãdarpaõa: Location of eight Bhairavas 1. Ruru, 2. Caõóa, 3. Asitàïga, 4. Kapàli, 5. (Kàbãkhaõóa, 72. 93: "There are eight on the periphery, beyond the circle defining Krodhana, 6. Unmattabhairava, 7. Samhàra, Bhairavas established in the eight quarters, the sacred realm (kùetra). 8. Bhãùaõa who always protect Kà÷ã, the abode goddess and glory of salvation")

Prof. Dr. Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema

From November 1996 until September Prof. Dr. i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan. 2000, Dr. Cheema was the Professorial Thereafter he joined the Ministry of Pervaiz Iqbal Iqbal Fellow at the South Asia Institute, Education, Government of Pakistan in the teaching and doing research in the Cheema, Iqbal capacity of a Director General, Academy of Department of Political Science of South Fellow, Educational Planning and Management. Dr. Asia. He left the SAI to go back to his Department of Cheema also served as the Chairman of the home-country Pakistan. Political International Relations Department as well Dr. Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema was born at as Defence and Strategic Studies Science Sialkot in 1940. He was educated at Sialkot Department for many years. Foto: SAI-Archive and then at Government College, Lahore, where he completed his Master's in History. (U.K.), and a Ph.D. at Quaid-i-Azam Dr. Cheema is a scholar of international He also obtained a Master's in Political University (Pakistan). repute. His many books and monographs Science at Punjab University, a Certificate include: A Select Bibliography of in Peace Research and International Dr. Cheema has been a teacher for some 28 Periodical Literature on India and Relations at Oslo University (Norway), a years both inside Pakistan and abroad. Pakistan 1947-1970 in three volumes, Diploma in International Relations at Until July 1995, Dr. Cheema was a Sanctuary and War , and Conflict and Vienna University (Austria), an M. Litt. in Professor of International Relations, Quaid- Cooperation in the Indian Ocean: Strategic Studies from Aberdeen University Pakistan's Interest and Choice.

International Cooperation

A Memorandum of Understanding between Prof. Dr. Ghosh (Calcutta) was appointed Prof. Bohle, Prof. Michaels, Prof. Mitra, the SAI and the Centre for Anthropological to the Baden-Würrtemberg fellowship for Dr. Gaenzsle and Dr. Malik. and Sociological Studies of the University the winter semester 1999/2000. of Colombo was signed in May 1997. Prof. Dr. Golam Hossain , Jahangirnagar Dr. Swapna Bhattacharya, Department of University Dhaka/Bangladesh and A Memorandum of Understanding between South East Asian Studies, University of Humboldt Fellow, visited the Department the Government of Bangladesh and the SAI Calcutta and Fellow of the Friedrich-Ebert- of History in January 2000. was signed in August 1999, whereby the Foundation, visited the Department of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman History in October and November 1999. Sadanda Das, M.A., Alice Boner Professorial Fellowship was created. Foundation, Zurich/Varanasi, held courses Professor Gyasuddin Molla was appointed Dr. Michael Roberts, University of in Oriya during the summer term 2000. as the first Fellow in the summer semester Adelaide, Department of History, visited 2000. the SAI in November 1999.

Dr. Wige Ali Shah visited the SAI as A Memorandum of Understanding between Humboldt fellow in the Department of the University of Heidelberg and the History for one year from September 1999. University of Delhi was signed by the rector of the University of Heidelberg and A Memorandum of Understanding between the vice-chancellor of the University of the SAI and the Centre d'Etude Delhi in December 1999. A formal Diplomatique et Strategic, Paris, was ceremony followed in February 2000. signed in October 1999. Among the guests at the official dinner were the German Embassador to India,

Conferences

Modern Sanskrit Scholarship Public Colloquium on Sri Lanka 9th Heidelberg South Asia Forum Kabir - The 600th Anniversary 29 June 1998, SAI, organized by the Sri Lanka 10 July 1998, SAI. workgroup. Welcoming Address : Hans-Georg Bohle and Oskar 15-18 June 1999, IWH, organized by Monika Boehm- Welcome Address: Monika Boehm-Tettelbach . Gans Tettelbach. Address by the Ambassador of the Democratic Eva Terberger (Heidelberg University, Alfred- Namwar Singh (New Delhi): The agony of Kabir. Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, H. E. Weber-Institute): Portrayal and possible Explanations David Lorenzen (Mexico): Marco della Tomba and Gunayavedalage Wijayasiri . of the Asian Crisis. the Kabir Panth Tilman Frasch : The Presence of the Past. Medieval Jan Peter Wogart (International Monitary Fund, Mariola Offredi (Venice): Kabir and the Nathpanth Historiography and its Modern Use. Washington D.C.): The Role of Bank Supervision in Thomas Dahnhardt (London): Contemporary legacy Sabine Klotz, M.A. : The Tamil Conflict the Asian Crisis of Kabir: A Hindu Sufi branch and their relation with Wolfgang-Peter Zingel : How to Measure Economic Clive Bell/Hans Christoph Rieger (Department of the Kabir Panth and Social Success. Development Economics): The Economic Crisis in Peter Gaeffke (Philadelphia, PA): Kabir in Muslim Dietrich Conrad : The Present State of Constitutional South East Asia from the Perspective of the Bretton literature Reform. Woods Institutions: Sadiqur Rahman Kidwai (New Delhi): Kabir and Dietmar Rothermund (Department of History): Urdu poets: Experience of mysticism with reference Sacred Landscape of the South Asia - what kind of Crisis? to Urdu and Hindi literature. A comparative approach Daniel Gold (Ithaca, NY): He came from Kashi with Himalayas The Pandit: The Future of secrets: Kabir for Rajasthani householder Naths today Nancy Martin (Orange, CA): Homespun threads of 25-27 May 1998, IWH, organized by Axel Michaels Sanskrit Scholarship dignity and protest: Songs of Kabir in rural Rajasthan and Niels Gutschow. Bahadur Sing (Hamburg): Problems of authenticity Introductory Paper: Niels Gutschow and Axel 12-14 July 1999, IWH, organized by Axel Michaels. in the Kabir texts transmitted orally in Rajasthan Michaels , Innen und außen, oben und unten - Ashok Aklujkar (Vancouver): The Pandits from a today Sakralisierung von Landschaft im Himalaya piõóabrahmàõóa Point of View Winand Callewaert (Leuven): The Millenium Niels Gutschow and Charles Ramble , Four villages Christopher Z. Minkowski (Ithaca): The Pandit as Edition of Kabir's Pad-s of Mustang: Kag, Khyinga, Dzar and Te - outline of a Public Intellectual in the 19th Century: The Stuart McGregor (Cambridge): Kabir's language: sacred landscape Controversy over Avirodha or Inconsistency in the Notes on data from selected text John Harrison , Lo Manthang - the idea of a centre of Astronomical Sciences Claus-Peter Zoller (Heidelberg): Kabir and power Madhav Deshpande (Ann Arbor): The Pandit and ritualized language Franz-Karl Ehrhard , Pilgrims in search for sacred the Professor in 19th Century Maharashtra Shukdeo Singh (Varanasi): The Sants and the places Axel Michaels (Heidelberg): The Pandit as a Legal struggle against the brahmin system Hilde Velts and Amandus Quaille , Lamayuru and Adviser in the 19th Century: On the relationship Purushottam Agrawal (New Delhi): The notion of Phutkal - two monastic settlements of Ladakh - between ràjguru, ràjpurohita and dharmàdhikàrin the individual and the critique of the varnasrama in nature, myth and architectural form Harry Falk (Berlin): The galitas of the ègveda and Kabir Kim Gutschow and Niels Gutschow , Rinam - a the Origin of samhitapàñha and padapàñh Manjulika Ghosh (Darjeeling): Kabir in Tagore's settlement in Zangskar S. Sarma Peri (Marburg): Traditional Way of translation Reinhard Herdick , Yangthang in Ladakh: patterns Sanskrit Teaching and Learning (Memorization, Lothar Lutze (Berlin): Translating Kabir's couplets and structures of an ideal spatial ordering of the Rezitation, guru ÷relationship) into German architecture and its setting Parameswara Aithal (Heidelberg): Traditional Pradeep Bandyopadhyay (Toronto): On the uses of William Sax , Sacred mountains of Kumaon Memory Techniques in Sanskrit Studies Kabir: Reflections on syncretism and identity in Marc Dujardin , Rukubji/bhutan - demolition and K. Krishna Bhat (Mangalagangotri): The Impact of missionary and contemporary writings on Kabir renewal Traditional Study Skills of Sanskrit in the Pursuit of Linda Hess (Berkeley, CA): Kabir goes global: From Ada Gansach , Diverse Expressions: Descriptions of Modern Education sadhus to CDs and the Minnesota Symphony village space in ritual procession (Nyimathang in Bettina Bäumer (Bern, Vienna, Benares): Tantrik Maren Bellwinkel-Schempp (Heidelberg): Report on Humla, Togkhyu, Braga in Manang - all in Nepal) Pandits in Benares (short communication) recent field studies on the Kabir Panthis Claus-Peter Zoller , Landscape and Sacred Places in Albrecht Wezler (Hamburg): Some Remarks on Kedarnath Singh (New Delhi): Reception of Kabir Kohistan Nirukta 1.20 sàkùàtkçtadharmàõa çùayaþ in contemporary Hindi poetry James Benson (Oxford): øamkarabhaññaØs Family Monika Boehm-Tettelbach (Heidelberg): Hazari Biography: the Gàdhivamsavarnanam Prasad Dvivedi's Kabir Monika Boehm-Tettelbach (Heidelberg): A Paõóit Kiran Nagarkar (Bombay): The arsonist: An Among the Modernists and a Modernist Among the unothodox interpretation of Kabir Paõóits J ohannes Bronkhorst (Lausanne): Traditional and (See also page 7)

10th Heidelberg South Asia Monika Boehm-Tettelbach , Umstrittene Nähe: Richard Gombrich, Buddhist Fundamentalism? Hindu-Nationalismus und Hindu-Religion Buddhist Violence? The War in Sri Lanka Forum Gita Dharampal-Frick, Die Spannungen zwischen Dieter Conrad , Religiöse Konflikte in der juristischen 7 July 2000, IWH, organized by Axel Michaels and Hindus und Christen in historischer, kultureller und Praxis Subrata K. Mitra politischer Perspektive Subrata K. Mitra , Die Anfechtung des säkularen Introduction: Axel Michaels, Fundamentalismus und Dietrich Reetz , Der radikale Islam in Südasien: Staates: Religion und Regierbarkeit in Indien die Fundamente des Hinduismus Konzept und Aktion eines Massenphänomens

Staff News

Obituary Ulrich Demmer took up an appointment as 1 December 1999: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in the Department of Marc Thomas took up an appointment as Mitarbeiter The members of the SAI are mourning Dr. Friedhelm Ethnology as successor to Elisabeth Schömbucher- in connection with the IMPULSE-project. Scholz, who died on the 2nd of June. Until his Kusterer. Adelheid Thom took up an appointment as temporary retirement in 1993, he had worked almost three Elvira Graner took up an appointment as substitute for Rosemarie Feller in the Department of decades at the Department of Anthropology. His Wissenschaftliche Assistentin for a period of three History. studies of Thailand have been influential in years in the Department of Geography. 1 January 2000: understanding the cultures of South East Asia. 30 April 1999: Birgit Mayer-König took up an appointment as Hans-Christoph Rieger, Department of Development Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin in the Department of Economics, retired. Classical Indology. Appointments, Resignations and 1 October 1999: Stefan Schütte took up an appointment as Retirements Aditya Malik took up an appointment as head of the Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter for the Varanasi branch office in New Delhi. project in the Department of Geography. 1 October 1998: Marianna Kropf took up an appointment as Marianna Kropf took up an appointment as head of Christina Oesterheld was promoted to Akademische Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin in the Department of the branch office in Kathmandu. Oberrätin in the Department of Modern Indology. Classical Indology. 1 February 2000: Maren Bellwinkel-Schempp and Martin Fuchs took Srilata Müller took up an appointment as Barbara Lotz took up an appointment as up an appointment as Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin in the Department of Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin for a DFG project in for the project Memory, Agency and Violence in the Classical Indology. the Department of Modern Indology. Department of Modern Indology. Ulrike Stark took up an appointment as 29 February 2000: Ansgar Wohlschlegel took up an appointment as Wissenschaftliche Assistentin in the Department of Ayyadurai Dhamotharan, Modern Indology, retired. Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in the Department of Modern Indology for a period of three years. 31 March 2000: Development Economics. 1 November 1999: Siegfried Schwertner , Central Library, retired. 28 February 1999: Johannes Beltz took up an appointment as Dorrit Kaufmann , secretary in the Department of Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter for a DFG-Project in Modern Indology, retired. the Department of Classical Indology. 1 April 1999:

Markus Mayer took up an appointment as head of the new branch office in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Forthcoming Events

The SAI will hold a Sanskrit Summer School from 11 A lecture series on cities in South Asia is being solar energy will be highlighted. India's oldest - 30 September 2000. planned for the summer terrm 2001. industry, the cotton textile industry, will also be taken into consideration, particularly in view of the fact that The renovation of the Library will begin in August The 11th South Asia Forum, July 2001, will be it will have to face global competition after 2004 when 2000. Access to the library will be limited until spring devoted to the theme "The Industrialization of India". the multi-fibre agreement expires. 2001. There will be contributions to the history of industrialization under colonial rule and in A seminar "India: perspectives for the new millenium" independent India, but also on current topics of will be held on 30 October 2000. advanced technology. Information technology and

Research Projects

Department of Development National Youth Survey of Sri Lanka (Hans-Georg Department of History of Arts Bohle, Mike Enskat, S.T. Hettige, Markus Mayer,

Economics Subrata Mitra) funded by FES/UNDP/Goethe Institute Documentation and Publication of Endangered

Court Wall Paintings in Rajasthan (Joachim K. Finance and Development in Post-Independence Impact of Shrimp Farming upon Coastal Bautze) India (Clive Bell and Peter Rousseau, Vanderbilt Environment in Orissa (Ujjaini Halim)

University) Picturesque and Historical Views of the City of Migration and Sustainable Development. Carpet Varanasi (Joachim K. Bautze) funded by DFG Suppliers' Credit and Related Forms of Weavers in Kathmandu (Siddi Tumbahangphe;

Interlinking (Clive Bell and Pinaki Bose, University Suresh Manandar) funded by DFG of Memphis) Department of Classical Indology Swidden Farming and Vegetation Development in Child Labour, Education and Economic Growth Northern Thailand (D. Schmidt-Vogt and T. Contested Priesthood: Conflicts of Priests at the (Clive Bell and Hans Gersbach, Heidelberg Santisuk) funded by AvH Pa÷upatinàtha-temple (Nepal) (Axel Michaels) University) funded by DFG Management of Water Resources in Southern West Rotating Savings and Credit Associations: A Bengal (Hannah Büttner, Sanjay Kumar Mahato) Religious Maps and Divination-Maps of Benares theoretical and empirical analysis (Stefan Klonner) (Axel Michaels, Jörg Gengnagel, Birgit Mayer-König) Visualized Space - constructions of locality and funded by DFG Inequality and Economic Performance in Post- cartographic representation in Benares (Stefan Independence Rural India ( Clive Bell, Stefan Schütte) funded by DFG Text and Context of the Mahimà-Dharma- Klonner) Movement in Orissa (Axel Michaels, Bettina Department of History Bäumler, Sadanada Das, Dhirendra Sahoo, Johannes Equilibria in Credit Markets: The Value of Beltz) funded by DFG

Common Information (Ansgar Wohlschlegel) Transformations of European Expansion from the Dynamics of Ritual in Traditional and Modern 15th to the 20th century. Studies in the Cognitive Corporate Sickness in India (Rahel Falk, Ansgar South Asia (Axel Michaels, Marianna Kropf) funded Interaction of European with Non-European Wohlschlegel) by Land Baden-Württemberg Societies (co-ordinator: D. Rothermund) special

programme of the German Research Council Socio-Reformic Movements in South India during Department of Anthropology the 19th: The social reformer Ramalinga Swamigal Economic Liberalization of India (D. Rothermund) (Axel Michaels, Srilata Müller) funded by DFG Rites of Possession in a South Indian Fishermen's funded by DFG Caste. A project concerning national religion in Sanskrit Manuscripts in European Libraries South Asia ( Elisabeth Schömbucher) The Industrialization of India from colonial times (Parameswara Aithal)

to the present (D. Rothermund) Ethnic Space and Locality: space orientation of The Concept of Love in Tamil Poesy (Thomas ethnic minorities - Nepalese in Benares (Martin Creation and Development of Histography in Sri Lehmann) funded by DFG Gaenszle) funded by DFG Lanka (Tilman Frasch)

Sanskrit-Syntax (Jacques Deigner) The Epigraphy of Pagan: Indices, Editions, Department of Geography Translations (Tilmann Frasch) Water Conflicts in South Asia: Issues and Department of Modern Indology Perspectives (Hans-Georg Bohle, Hannah Büttner, The Gurukul Kangri and the Education of Arya Susanne van Dillen, Markus Mayer) funded by Nation - an anticolonial educational experiment in Diffusing the Printed Word: The Newal Kishore UNESCO/ICSU/ IGU British-India (1897-1922) (Harald Fischer-Tin é) Press in Lucknow and its role in the promotion of

The Metropolitan Food System of Kathmandu (H.- White Trash? - european subalterns in early vernacular literature in Hindi and Urdu (1858- G. Bohle and Jagannath Adhikari) funded by colonial India (Harald Fischer- Tin é) 1895) (Ulrike Stark) UNESCO/ISSC/ IGU

Introductory Course in Urdu b y Christina The Metropolitan Food System of Chennai Oesterheld and Amtul Manan Tahir (Madras) (H.-G. Bohle and Prof. Dr. S. Subbiah) funded by UNESCO/ISSC/ IGU

Data bank: Indian autobiography (Monika Boehm- strategy and the management of German Pradesh, Department of Economics) and Indian co- Tettelbach) enterprises in Singapore (Stephan Gerbach) in workers] funded by Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation cooperation with ISEAS (Singapore) Economic documents of Vaishnava temples of Services exports and economic development Vrindaban: Madanamohana temple (Monika Institutional alternatives of regulating natural (Wolfgang-Peter Zingel) Boehm-Tettelbach, Gabriele Wirr) monopolies in the water supply in developing countries (Sabine Streb) The autobiography of a contemporary woman Department of Political Science saint (Monika Boehm-Tettelbach) Tax reform in newly industrialized countries: Thailand (Pilanya Niyomthai) funded by Thai Governance in India after Independency: a Memory, Agency and Violence (Monika Boehm- Government comparative study of six Indian states (Subrata K. Tettelbach, Martin Fuchs, Maren Bellwinkel- Mitra, Madhabi Roy, Peter Lehr, Mike Enskat, Evelin Schempp, Roma Chatterjji, Dipak Mehta, Javeed International comparison of federal financial Hust, Clemens Spieß, Karsten Frey, regional Alam) funded by VW-Foundation constitutions: Germany and Malaysia (Isabel coordinators in India) in cooperation with Centre for Krüger) the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi; The Militant Ramanandis of Jaipur: Past and funded by DFG present (Monika Boehm-Tettelbach) funded by DFG Pension systems, capital building and demographic change: Germany, Chile and Malaysia (Raquel Towards Naval Security in the Indian Ocean Contested areas: Construction and change of socio- Fuentes) (Subrata K. Mitra, Pervaiz I. Cheema, Peter Lehr, cultural identities in Orissa (Monika Boehm- Hendrick Lehmann, Karsten Frey, Maike Tuchner) Tettelbach, Barbara Lotz) funded by DFG Ecological standards and international trade: funded by Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation Köln

implications for foreign trade policy? (Frithjof Kilp) A Security Community for the Indian Ocean? The role of theology and theologians in the (Peter Lehr) religious policy of Savai Jaisingh (18th c.) (Monika Inflation and the efficiency of coordinating market

Boehm-Tettelbach) processes. A comparative analysis of sectoral price National Youth Survey Sri Lanka (Mike Enskat) development in mining and manufacturing funded by UNDP, Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation Department of International industries of West Germany and Malaysia from Economics 1978 to 1994 (Jutta Walz) Reform of the Indian Electric Power Market 1995- 2000 (Mike Enskat)

Decicion-making in nature protection policy: the Economic importance of co-operations in the multi-criteria-analysis - planning, ecology, The Political Participation of Women in the transformation process. People's Credit economy and ethics in the context of sustainable Panchayati Raj Institutions in Orissa, India (Evelin Associations in Vietnam (Dong P. Pham) funded by development (Felix Rauschmayer) in cooperation Hust) funded by DAAD, Landesgraduiertenförderung Deutsche Genossenschaftsbank with the Institut für Agrarökonomie of the University

of Göttingen Dominance of Single Parties in a Post-Repressive The change of agricultural co-operations, self-help Context of India and South Africa - an essay for organziations and rural financial systems in the Agricultural transformation and ecological genetic, structural and functional comparative transformation process of Vietnam (Axel Wolz) sustainability in a Western Himalayan District studies of party systems (Clemens Spieß) funded by VW-Foundation Mandi: Himachal Pradesh [Wolfgang-Peter Zingel,

Jagdish Prasad Bhati (University of Himachal Internationalization and strategic behaviour. An empirical study of market entry, competition

New Delhi Branch Office

Representative: Dr. Aditya Malik "Supplying Schoolbooks and Grey Literature". "habilitation" research on oral/visual narratives and Assistance to these projects was provided in terms of folk religion in Rajasthan. The project is supported by handling bureaucratic procedures at the governmental the UNESCO and involves close team-work with the Activities level, organizing wokships, collecting primary and Cultural Informatics Laboratory of the Indira Gandhi secondary materials and so on. National Centre of the Arts. This multimedia project is The branch office of the South Asia Institute in New part of a larger experiment of designing and presenting Delhi is situated in the centre of town in the building As part of its aim to promote academic ties between serious research in cultural studies in the form of CD- of the Max Mueler Bhavan as the Goehte Institute is the South Asia Institute and Indian scholarly ROMs for the use of both lay and specialized users. called in India. The branch office was founded forty institutions, the branch office organzied a series of The resident representative's research is also being years ago along with the establishment of the South public lectures in the areas of humanities and social revised for publication in the more traditional form of Asia Institute in Heidelberg. At present it consists of a science by visiting faculty members from Heidelberg a three volume book to be published by the University resident representative who is a faculty member from and Indian scholars known to the faculty. It was also of Texas at Austin in conjunction with Oxford Heidelberg and a local staff of four. The purpose of instrumental in negotiations leading up to the signing University Press, New York. the branch office is essentially threefold: (a) of a formal Memorandum of Understanding between coordinating research projects of the Institute in India, the University of Delhi and the University of In addition to these activities the branch office also (b) promoting and strengthening academic parnerships Heidelberg in spring 2000. There are further plans to had a large number of visitors, both of the student with individual scholars and institutions in India, and enter into a Memorandum of Understanding between body and faculty, from Heidelberg as well as other (c) conducting research in the academic discipline of the South Asia Institute and the Indira Gandhi universities in Germany, Switzerland, and U.S.A.. the resident representative. National Centre for the Arts (New Delhi) this autumn. Among these was the visit of the Minister for Science, In the spirit of this collaborative understanding, a joint Arts, and Research of the State of Baden- During the period between autumn 1999 and summer international conference on "The Transmission of Oral Württemberg. In honour of his visit the branch office 2000 a number of activities supporting these three Tradition" will be held in November 2000. This organized a reception with twenty well-known areas were undertaken by the branch office. Five large conference will also be one of the contributions of the scholars and representatives from the Indian Council research projects were attended to: "Memory, Agency, South Asia Institute to the German Festival in India for Social Science Research, Delhi University, Indira and Violence", "Visualized Space: Constructions of which is to begin in October 2000 and continue up to Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Jawaharlal Nehru Locality and Cartographic Representation in March 2001. University, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Varanasi", "Contested areas: Construction and change German Academic Exchange Service and the Cultural of socio-cultural identities in Orissa", "The militant The resident representative continued to work on the Department of the German Embassy. Ramanandis of Jaipur: History and Present", and production of a CD-ROM based on the results of his

Kathmandu Branch Office

Representative: Marianna Kropf M.A. Elvira Graner : "Migration to Carpet Manufactories Marianna Kropf : Ph.D. research since January 2000 in Kathmandu Valley"; currently working on on "Impact of Jyotisa and related Rituals within education in Nepal, on a thematical atlas of Nepal and Newar Tradition" Research Activities on labour markets Seminars and lectures Martin Raithelhuber : fieldwork in the Terai and the Martin Gaenszle : affiliated to Centre for Nepal and adjacent hills (September 1998 to August 1999), for Asia Studies (CNAS) and the Department of his Ph.D. "Urbanisation and Rural Development in Since 1998, SAI Branch Office has established a Anthropology and Sociology, T.U.; ongoing research Nepal: An Action-theoretical Analysis of the Urban monthly talk/lecture programme; depending on the projects on oral traditions/ethnicity aspects in Nepal impact on Rural livelihoods" topic it is jointly organized with CNAS, GTZ, Nepal Research Centre, Royal Nepal Academy and/or Stefanie Lotter : Ph.D. field work since 1998 on Peter Ottinger : fieldwork from September 1998 German Embassy "Urban Elites in Kathmandu and their Claim of onwards for his Ph.D. "The Impact of Landslides on Power: The Case of Ranas in the 1990s" Agriculture and Forests in Central Nepal" Co-founding of international conference of the 5th Himalayan Language Symposium (September 13-15, Silke Wolf (affiliated to SAI): from 1999 onwards Henning Koch : Ph.D. field work 1998-1999 on 1999) fieldwork for her study on "Rural Theater in Nepal" "Micro-hydro-power in Nepal". He has been working One day conference jointly organized with POLSAN for two months as an intern at REDP (Political Science Association of Nepal), December 9, Hans-Georg Bohle (in cooperation with Prof. Blum 1999. and Dr. Axel Mentler, Soil Science Wien): a Frank Woll : Ph.D. fieldwork 1998 for Ph.D. on comparative study of urban aread: Cairo and "Wild and cultivated banana trees of Nepal" Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt and Elvira Graner (Lecturer, Katmandu Geography SAI) organised an excursion in Spring Axel Michaels : fieldwork 1999 in Nepal on 1999 for twenty geography students of the University "Contested Priesthood at the Pashupathi Temple" of Heidelberg.

Selected Lectures 1999 - 2000

21.01.1999 Global Dismemberments: Afghan 23.06.1999 Hindi-Literature at the Turn of the 03.11.1999 Puer Mingens in the Art of Gandhara Refugees in International Trade (Prof. Dr. Paul Century: State of Affairs and Prospects (Prof. (Dr. Anna Maria Quagliotti, Rom) Titus, Berlin) Vishnu Khare, Delhi) 22.11.1999 Joint Ventures in India and Technology 02.02.1999 Hanuman-Verehrung in Benares 25.06.1999 Nepalese Shaman Rituals as Discursive Transfer (Marika Vicziani, Paris) (Istavan Keul, Tübingen) Practice. Excursions in a World of Total Meaning (Dr. Gregory Maskarinec, Munich) 22.11.1999 The Supreme Court of India and Public 26.01.1999 Allah's Reich auf Erden: Das politische Interest Litigation ( Oliver Mendelson, Paris) Konzept islamischer Gruppen im kolonialen 25.06.1999 Flower Power: Children and the Indien (1900-47) und die Nutzung von Urdu- Acquisition of Ritual Sense in Jaunpur (Garhwal) 02.12.1999 Apprenticeship, Trainings and the Quellen (Dr. D. Reetz, Berlin) (Nichlas Yazgi, Neuchatel) Contested Tradition of Orissa Patta Chitras (Dr. Helle Bundgaard, Kopenhagen) 19.05.1999 Aiyanar and Tyagaraja. Cultural 25.06.1999 For Conquest and Governance: Capital as a Factor in Social Change in Tamil Religion, Legitimacy and Political Culture in the 06.12.1999 Religion, Culture and the Nation: High Nadu (Prof. Dr. Lars Kjaerholm, Frankfurt/Main) Mughal State (Dr. Harbans Mukhia, Paris) Caste Hindu Converts to Christianity (Prof. Sudhir Chandra, Wien) 21.05.1999 The Transition from the Ancient to the 28.06.1999 Leftwing Politics in Indian Democracy: Medieval in South India (Prof. Dr. Kesavan Issues of Governance in Rural West Bengal (Dr. 13.12.1999 Does Development need Democracy? Veluthat, Paris) Dwaipvan Bhattacharyya, Frankfurt/Main) Experiences from Nigeria, China and India ( Prof. Dr. Robert J. Mundt, Charlotte / USA) 01.06.1999 Sanfter Feminismus hinter Schleiern: 30.06.1999 The Ancient Terracotta Art Material Die Mahbubia Girls School in Hyderabad der found from Mangalkot in Bogra District, 17.12.1999 Regional Discrepancies and the Jahrhundertwende und ihr Umfeld (Dr. Margit Bangladesh (Dr. Enamul Haque, Dhaka) Mobility of the People in India ( Prof. Amitabh Pernau-Reifeld, Paris) Kundu, Kaiserslautern) 01.07.1999 The Political Ecology of 07.06.1999 Household Environment and Health in Decollectivization in Vietnam (Thomas Sikor, 25.01.2000 Birds of Passage: The Emigration of Aligarh City (Dr. Atigur Rahman, Leipzig) Munich) Indian Labour to South-East Asia 1871-1980 (Dr. Satyanarayana, Amsterdam) 08.06.1999 Secrets of Pahari Painting (Shri Vijay 07.07.1999 Globalisierung und verwundbare Sharma, Chamba, H.P.) Lebensabsicherung in der indischen High-Tech 07.02.2000 Voluntarism, Associational Cultures Metropole Bangalore (Dr. Christoph Dittrich, and Civil Society in India 1900-1920 and Beyond 10.06.1999 An Anthropological Perspective on the Freiburg) (Dr. Carey Watt, Cambridge) Mahima Dharma in Orissa (Prof. Dr. P.K. Nayak, Bhubaneshwar) 07.07.1999 The Rathors of Marwar in the Caran 10.02.2000 Göttinnen und Könige: Tradition (Dr. Janet Kamphorst, Leiden) Interpretationen der Durga Puja in Orissa (Dr. Roland Hardenberg, Berlin) 14.06.1999 Security and Strategic Environment in the Post-test South Asia: Challenges and 08.07.1999 Pilgerpraxis der Sherpa in Nepal (Dr. 10.02.2000 The Post-Election Scenario in Sri Alternatives Futures (Dr. B.M. Jain, Eberhard Berg, Luzern) Lanka and the Implications for the Ethnic Conflict Frankfurt/Main) (Dr. C.Y. Thangarajah, London) 26.10.1999 The State Social Capital and

14.06.1999 The Metamorphosis of Caste in Hindu Democracy in India (Dr. Hans Blomkvist, Uppsala) 15.05.2000 Integrated Development in Bangladesh Trinidad (Prof. N. Jayaram, Paris) (Mahbub Islam, Heidelberg) 26.10.1999 Bhumisukta of Atharvaveda: A

18.06.1999 Nakhudas and Nauvittakas: Ship message for Ecology and Conservation (Dr. Shashi 24.05.2000 Sammlungen indischer Kunst im Owning Merchants at Ports in the West Coast of Prabha Kumar, New Delhi) Museum für Orientalische Kunst, Moskau (Dr. India (1000-1500) (Dr. Ranabir Chakravarti, Oxford) Olga Lystsova, Nürnberg) 28.10.1999 Ethnicity and Nation-Building in

21.06.1999 Lesung mit anschließender Diskussion South-East Asia (Prof. A.B. Shamshul, Duisburg) 24.05.2000 The Hindu Novel in the Late Ninetees (Kiran Nagarkar, Heidelberg) (Prof. Vishnu Khare, Paris)

02.11.1999 Natural Resource Management: 22.06.1999 Pränatale Riten (samskara) versus Decentralisation and Role of Pananchayati Raj 25.05.2000 Affect and Meaning in the Funeral Weihe (dãkùà): Zur Geschichte der Institutions ( Prof. S.B. Roy, Manchester ) Music of a South Indian Tribe (Dr. Richard Wolf, Auseinandersetzung zweier südindischer Cambridge, USA) Ritualschulen (Dr. Ute Hüsken, Göttingen)

29.05.2000 Legal Position of Muslim Women in 14.06.2000 Religion, Identity and Social Protests: 06.07.2000 The Teamwork at the Top: Saktivyuha Bangladesh (Dr. Tazeen Murshid, Berlin) The Satnamis of Narnaul (Dr. Abha Singh, New and the Pancaratra Cosmogony (Dr. Sanjukta Delhi) Gupta, Oxford) 05.06.2000 Inofficial Peace Initiatives between India and Pakistan (Dr. Dagmar Bernstorff, 15.06.2000 Ein vergleichender Blick auf das 11.07.2000 Religious Concepts of Hindutva (Prof. Frankfurt) katholische Milieu in Deutschland und die Dr. Tanika Sarkar, New Delhi) muslismische community in Indien (Dr. Margit 06.06.2000 A Variety of Shades of meaning of the Pernau-Reifeld, Frankfurt) 12.07.2000 Buddhistische Gottheiten und Mantras Word 'pandita' in the Srimad Bhagavata Purana in hinduistischen Tantras (Prof. Dr. Gudrun (Dr. Jaydev Jani, Baroda) 15.06.2000 Youth and Violence in Sri Lanka (Prof. Bühnemann, Madison, Wisconsin) Dr. S.T. Hettige, Oslo) 08.06.2000 Muslim Minorities in the Hindu Kingdom of Nepal (Dr. Mollica Dastidari, 28.06.2000 Die Siddha-Medizin: Traditionelle Dortmund) Heilkunde aus Tamil Nadu (Dr. Petra Wehmeyer, Köln)

Selected Publications 1998 - 2000

Publications of the SAI Stucco Decoration in Bengal and Pagan during the Sikh-Religion, Theologische Realenzyklopädie Pala Period. In: Journal of Bengal Art, Volume 4, XXXI, 2000: 263-266. Beiträge zur Südasienforschung 1999, Gouriswar Bhattacharya Volume, Dhaka: The Steiner Verlag Stuttgart International Centre for Study of Bengal Art, 1999: Hans-Georg Bohle 359-372.

180: Swadeshi: Der Unabhängigkeitsgedanke in with Stellrecht, I. (eds.): Transformation of Social Early Painting at Bundi. In: A. Topsfield (ed.) Court Gandhis Wirtschaftskonzept by Kirsten Sames . 1998. and Economic Relationships in Northern Pakistan. Painting in Rajasthan. Mumbai: Marg Publications, 181: Bhadrabahu, Brhatkalpaniryukti and Sangha- Culture Area Karakorum, Scientific Studies, Vol. 5, 2000: 12-25. dasa, Brhatkalpabhasya by Willem B. Boll ée. 1998. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 1998.

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