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Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe in a global context

The first PhD students of the Cluster’s graduate program People and Events

Research and Politics: Guest of Honour: Celebration: Cornelia Pieper, Her Excellency Meera Shankar, Ambassador of Professor Dietmar Member of Parliament, India to Germany, with Professor Bernhard Eitel, Rothermund at 75 at the “Festival of India” Rektor of the University of Heidelberg Contents Editorial

Teaching g 3 - 7 Taking stock of our activities over the past year is a pleasurable exercise indeed. The academic year 2007/08 saw Heidelberg University on an exhilarating upward trajectory  ”Festival of India” at the University into the première league of German academic excellence, a success in which the SAI’s of Heidelberg 3 national and international renown had no small role to play. More than ever before,  Student life in Delhi by Manju Ludwig 4 the SAI’s participation in the interdisciplinary research cluster on “Asia and Europe”  Languages at the SAI by M. Freier, is facilitating close co-operation with leading South Asian scholars on crucial research O. Lamers and M. Maithrimurthi 4 agendas (p.8).  ‚Chalo‘ Hindustan - let´s go to India! Other ongoing projects focus on arenas ranging from the high altitudes of Ladakh (p.6) by Peter Braun and Johannes Dahmen 5 to South Asian megacities (p.9,10), and on issues as diverse as governmental food policy  Master of Arts in health and society in (p.11), changing gender relations in Kumaon (p.12), or the development of a PÁÆinian South Asia by Gabriele Alex 5 Sanskrit simulator (p.14) which combine rigorous scholarship with imaginative creativ-  tutorien.org by Carsten Heinrich 5 ity. We have also profited from intense academic and cultural dialogue in a variety of  Exploring the high grounds by Marcus workshops and conferences, both here in Heidelberg (on Muhammad Iqbal, p.18) and in Nüsser and Susanne Schmidt 6 South Asia (on Maharaja Pratap Singh in Jaipur, p.17, and on Public Health in Kolkata  Field trip to Garhwal by Karin Polit and p.19). Our students, too, are increasingly discovering the fascination of studying at South Hans-Martin Kunz 7 Asian universities (p.4), thus serving as role models for the ambitious outreach-initiative  Summer Schools at the SAI 7 of the DAAD, which was co-launched with the SAI, and inaugurated on 6 June 2008 by Research g 8 - 13 the Indian ambassador, Meera Shankar (p.3).With developments in a globalising South Asia transforming area studies into “glocalising” fields of research, our new MA in  Conference: “Dynamics of Ritual and the Health and Society aims to provide international graduate students with the tools to criti- science of ritual“ by Alexandra Heidle 8 cally analyse these emerging realities (p.5).  Cluster of Excellence: Asia and Europe The SAI looks forward with enthusiasm to the challenges of the coming academic in a global context by Brigitte Merz 8 year, and to further building on the accomplishments of our “founding fathers”, Dietmar  Urban change and megacities by Christiane Rothermund and Lothar Lutze, who are celebrated on p.15. We invite our readers to Brosius and Marcus Nüsser 9 share our latest news, and would welcome receiving any views and comments.  Feeding a megacity by Markus Keck 10  The return of the ration card Gita Dharampal-Frick by Wolfgang-Peter Zingel 11 [email protected]  Gender relations in Kumaon by Ulrich Oberdiek 12  Childbirth goddesses in western Maharashtra by Deepra Dandekar 12 The South Asia Institute  Conflict-induced internal displacement Executive Director Prof. Dr. Gita Dharampal-Frick in Nepal by Lars Stöwesand 13  Simulating the PÁÆinian system of Executive Secretary Manfred Hake, M.A. Sanskrit grammar by Anand Mishra 14

People g 15 - 17 Dept. of Anthropology Head: Prof. William Sax, PhD (Chicago)  Professor Dietmar Rothermund 75 years Dept. of Classical Indology Head: Prof. Dr. Axel Michaels young by Hermann Kulke 15  Celebrating Lothar Lutze Dept. of Development Economics Head: Prof. Clive Bell, PhD (Sussex) by Barbara Lotz 15  Professor Aloka Parasher-Sen by Nitin Dept. of Geography Head: Prof. Dr. Marcus Nüsser Varma and Gita Dharampal-Frick 16  Staff news & Theses 16 Dept. of History Head: Prof. Dr. Gita Dharampal-Frick  Maharaja Sawai Pratap Singh: Patron, bhankta, poet by Jörg Gengnagel 17 Dept. of International Economics Head: Prof. Dr. Oskar Gans  Guests at the SAI 17

Activities g 18 - 27 Dept. of Modern South Asian Head: Prof. Dr. Hans Harder Languages and Literatures  Conference: Revisioning Muhammad Iqbal by Ali Usman Qasmi 18 Dept. of Political Science Head: Prof. Subrata K. Mitra, PhD  Research scholar at the CSH (Rochester) by Jivanta Schottli 18  Indology goes regional: New focus on Library Head: BR Dr. Eleonore Schmitt area studies by Sonja Stark-Wild 19  Conference at the IDSK by Anja Kluge 19 Academic Advisory Board:  New Delhi Book Fair by Angela Michel 19  ECMSAS in Manchester by John Zavos 20 Prof. Shahid Amin University of Delhi  Pakistan working group Prof. Barbara Harriss-White University of Oxford by Wolfgang-Peter Zingel 20 Prof. Frank Heidemann Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München  Everything you always wanted to know Dr. Christophe Jaffrelot Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, about... by Nicole Merkel 21 Paris  A night less ordinary by Angela Michel 21 Prof. Noboru Karashima University of Tokyo / Taisho University  Publications and projects 22 Prof. Hermann Kreutzmann Freie Universität Berlin  Lectures 27 Prof. William Radice School of Oriental and African Studies, London  Imprint / Impressum 27 Teaching

More junior scientists with know-how on India The “Festival of India“ at the University of Heidelberg

Guests of Honour at the Festival of India - from left: Professor Bernhard Eitel, Rektor of the University of Heidelberg; H.E. Meera Shankar, Ambassador of India to Germany; Cornelia Pieper, Member of Parliament, Vice President of the Free Democratic Party (FDP); Professor Stefan Hormuth, President of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD); Professor Gita Dharampal-Frick, Executive Director of the South Asia Institute (SAI). - Photo: Manfred Hake, SAI

The DAAD programme “A New Passage aged to go to India to study, research or Executive Director of the SAI, Manfred to India” is designed to facilitate academ- do an internship.“ Hake, things have changed significantly ic exchange with the subcontinent. The The German Academic Exchange over the last three years: “There is an in- “Festival of India“ at the University of Service supports the establishment of creased willingness for co-operation on Heidelberg from 6-7 June heralded the Centres of Excellence – for example the part of Indian universities.“ start of the new programme and present- in Madras. A German Centre of Excel- Ever since the new B.A. in South Asian ed the interested public with a variety of lence on India is located in Heidelberg. Studies was introduced in 2005 a semes- opportunities for study and research. The interdisciplinary SAI is one of the ter abroad has been obligatory. The SAI Germany’s Education and Science top names for students and researchers Branch Offices in India, Pakistan, Nepal Ministry has announced a new € 4.3 mil- with a regional focus on South Asia. and Sri Lanka play an important role lion a year package to enable German Roughly 4,500 students are currently in arranging the stay and they can also students and academics to gain more studying one of the eight disciplines at provide support locally due to their in- experience in India. Education Minis- the SAI as a major or minor subject, intensive network of contacts in the area. ter Annette Schavan said the new fund- cluding Politics, History, Geography and However, according to Manju Ludwig, ing measures were to enable study and South Asian languages. According to the a history student at the SAI who spent research stays in all subjects: “We need several months as a student in India, it is more junior scientists and scholars spe- next to impossible to meticulously plan cialising in know-how about India“. The your stay in advance: “Indian universi- reasons are obvious - according to fore- INDIENTAG ties are organised differently from Ger- casts the continent with its 1.14 billion �� man universities and things may take a inhabitants will in a few decades be one rather unexpected course.“ There was no �� of the world’s leading economies. �� need to shy away from the experience, But there is more to it than this: “India though: “to manage everyday problems �� is one of the most significant and exciting �� is what makes the country so charming �� research areas in the world“, said DAAD �� – it will definitely broaden your mind.“ �� president Stefan Hormuth. “Our inten- �� tion is to whet people‘s appetite for In- �� Based on an article in the local newspa- �� dia“, Hormuth stated, not only referring �� per “Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung” by Alexan- �� to the appetizing smell of Indian food �� der Wenisch, 10 June 2008. See http:// �� which hung in the air that day: “India is �� www.uni-heidelberg.de/presse/news08/ �� a region to be reckoned with in the near �� pm280610-9ind.html for the original �� future, up until now local developments �� version. in India have not been fully appreciated ��

in the West – one of the many reasons �� For further information on the “Festival of why young academics should be encour- �� India”, see www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de 3 Teaching

Delhi and its student life: What can it teach me?

After nine months at Delhi University’s History Department I want to share my experiences with the ‘Indian way’ of studying. But rather than stressing the apparent contrasts between German and Indian culture, which would portray living and studying in India as something completely different from what I experienced till now, I would like to emphasize that students are sharing the same pleasures and sorrows everywhere, enjoy- ing an extraordinarily inspiring teacher, impatience with old-fashioned styles of teaching and disbelief about one’s own occasional laziness. But there are, of course, some crucial lessons to learn from a course of studies in India. First of all, it is a challenge to adjust to a completely new university system. I felt as ignorant as in my first semester in Heidelberg and it really took me a while to understand the Indian edu- Manju Ludwig with her class in Delhi. - Photo: Manju Ludwig, SAI cational system. Here I received a great deal of help from my fellow students in enrichment in terms of academic teach- I would certainly recommend to any en- my class who really assisted me in the ing. The highly structured system of the terprising German undergraduate to ac- first days of confusion with affectionate M.A. scheme in India has many advan- cept the challenge of going to India and considerateness. Likewise the Professors tages when it comes to covering various experience student life there. at Delhi University helped me wherever facets of modern history, albeit with its they could and did not abide by the re- shortcomings in promoting independent Manju Ludwig strictions of Indian bureaucracy. All of thinking. Indian and German students [email protected] my classes in Modern History were an can surely learn a lot from each other and

Languages at the South Asia Institute

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Master of Arts in Health and Society “Chalo” Hindustan - let’s in South Asia go to India!

To enable students to experience a wide range of the various aspects of Indian life, the SAI Branch office in New Delhi is facilitating access towards their specific fields of interest. We therefore highly welcomed the arrival of six candidates of the B.A. in South Asian Studies course who conducted a three month internship with Indian employers in October 2007. Their stay was prepared well in advance. With the help of our large network, the branch office arranged airport pick ups, provided contact lists for aspiring researchers and job Welcome to the first class of M.A. students! - Photo: Gabriele Alex, SAI seekers, organized accommodation with internet facilities, initiated Hindi The new Master of Arts in Health and The fact that now nearly all anthropol- classes in Delhi, managed the trans- Society in South Asia started success- ogy classes at the SAI are held in Eng- port to take the interns to their work- fully in the summer semester 2008. Even lish is also very much appreciated by the ing places and compiled guides for though we had a very short lead time, we German students, who have taken on this cultural events and nightlife. received an impressive number of appli- challenge with much enthusiasm. For But the branch office is not only a cations from which we finally selected them, English as the language of instruc- student service centre - it is also an ten very promising students. tion, presentation and discusstion has international meeting point. We re- Seven of these students are from South turned out to be an advantage and is no cently established working desks for Asia (India, Nepal, Bangladesh), and of longer seen as a problem. all members of the SAI coming to the remaining three students only one In the meantime we received more than Delhi which are used frequently by is German. The students come from all 60 enquiries from students from all over our young researchers, interns and sorts of different scientific backgrounds: the world, who are interested in join- students. Visitors are invited to ask journalism, anthropology, health educa- ing the Master programme, and we are for guidance we might be able to pro- tion, political science, social science, looking forward to continuing this very vide. law, microbiology and statistics, and promising programme. Even though the Another recent highlight of the New most of them already have practical work next admission is not until 2010, we en- Delhi Branch was the organization experience in the field of health. The re- courage students who are interested to of a capacity building workshop in gional and thematic expertise these stu- contact us as soon as possible. cooperation with the Heinrich Boell dents bring in is vast and results in an Foundation and the WIDE Network. extremely interesting and stimulating Gabriele Alex Under the title “Trade Liberalization working and teaching atmosphere. [email protected] Policies and Foreign Trade Agree- ments: Social Gender Implications of EU-India Foreign Trade Agree- Student paper series and student service website ments”, the participants discussed possibilities to alleviate the negative The idea for starting a student paper se- Papers” (www.heidelberg-papers.com) consequences of international trade ries, the “Heidelberg Student Papers” provides students of different academic policies for vulnerable sections of so- and for establishing a Student Service orientations a platform to publish their ciety. Website, www.tutorien.org, came up papers online so that they are accessible because hundreds of seminar papers and world-wide. www.tutorien.org is an on- Peter Braun essays simply go unnoticed despite the line platform, which offers an opportu- Resident Representative effort that went into writing, formulating nity to make seminar presentations avail- SAI Branch Office New Delhi innovative ideas and collecting interest- able to a wider community, and supports [email protected] ing material. Similarly, a lot of seminar young scholars from the University of presentations are a ‘one-off show’ and Heidelberg, especially those studying at Johannes Dahmen there is no coherent and archival infor- the SAI. Exchange Student mation about course outlines and ser- Delhi University vices provided to students available on- Carsten Heinrich line. The refereed “Heidelberg Student [email protected] 5 Teaching

Exploring the high grounds of Ladakh Geographical excursion to the Trans-Himalayas of Northern India

connecting South and Central Asia. Af- ter independence and partition of India and especially after the Indo-China war in 1962, Ladakh lost the function of a mountainous transit route and became a region of geopolitical importance. As a result of an increasing tourism sector since 1974 the urban area of Leh has un- dergone rapid spatial and social changes. This transformation process can be iden- tified in the Main Bazaar, the historical trade centre, which has been mapped by the students. Nowadays, it is dominated by tourism facilities such as restaurants, souvenir shops and internet cafes. Our programme in Leh was mainly organized by Juliane Dame from our department who arranged a number of visits to vari- The excursion group on the trek at Kongmaru La (5150 m). ous local NGOs. We visited the Tibetan - Photo: Marcus Nüsser, SAI Heritage Fund which has been working in Ladakh since 2003 and whose targets are to conserve the old town of Leh, to im- In August and September 2007 a high thematic foci of the excursion were laid prove its infrastructure and services and mountain excursion to Ladakh was car- on development processes, land use pat- to restore important public monuments. ried out by Marcus Nüsser and Susanne terns and regional livelihood strategies. Besides, Chewang Norphel, the leader Schmidt (SAI, Department of Geogra- During the four day bus journey to La- of Leh Nutrition Project, presented his phy) together with a group of 17 geog- dakh all vegetation zones from subtropi- work on ‘artificial glaciers’ to solve the raphy students from Heidelberg and one cal forest up to the high alpine belt were problem of limited water sources. The from the University of Montana/USA. passed. Initial high altitude acclimatiza- technique is based on a network of pipes Ladakh is characterized by its peripheral tion was feasible by traversing the high to capture the runoff during wintertime, location sandwiched between the Great passes and plateaus between Manali and store it in small basins in the form of ice Himalayan and Karakorum ranges, its Leh. so that more irrigation water is available geostrategic importance and its environ- During colonial times, Leh had gained during the cultivation period. mental conditions which limit agricul- the function of a central place at the For an improved understanding of tural production and accessibility. The crossroads of important trade routes landscape structures and environmental processes of the Trans-Himalayas the group went on a 10 days trek through the The road over the Kardung La (5602 m) connects Nubra and Indus valleys. roadless Markha Valley. Due to the fact - Photo: Marcus Nüsser, SAI that the Markha trek is one of the promi- nent hiking tours of Ladakh we also in- vestigated the economic and ecological outcomes of mountain tourism. After this, the excursion went on a trip to Nu- bra Valley located 150 km north of Leh in the so-called ‘Inner Line’. The journey to Nubra over the Khardung La (5602 m) – claimed to be the highest motorable road in the world – once more demon- strated the sensitive borderland position of Ladakh.

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Field trip to Garhwal Summer schools at the Anthropology students experience development cooperation South Asia Institute

Summer School in Spoken Sanskrit 4 - 20 August 2008 The Department of Classical Indol- ogy at the SAI annually organizes the Summer School in Spoken Sanskrit under the guidance of Sadananda Das, a native Sanskrit speaker from Benares and an experienced Sanskrit teacher. The courses are designed with a view to give the participants an opportunity to listen carefully, to pro- nounce accurately and to slowly speak and recite this beautiful language.

Nepali Intensive Course 4 - 29 August 2008 Nepal is a small country in the lap of the Himalayas with an astounding geographical and cultural diversity, where only little more than a hundred kilometres separate the subtropical forests of the Terai from the world’s The anthropology students, together with the field trip organizers Hans-Martin highest mountains, where Hinduism Kunz and Karin Polit, meet with Swami Chi Madhava (GPJKS, a development meets and sometimes mingles with NGO) and Professor William Sax (SAI) in Delhi. Tantric Buddhism, and where past - Photo: Hans-Martin Kunz, SAI and present clash more forcefully than elsewhere. Nepali has increas- To hear and read about development co- work, discuss our anthropological view ingly become a lingua franca of the operation and discuss flaws and advan- on development work and visit some of Central Himalayas - more and more tages on the basis of that knowledge can their projects. of its diverse ethnic groups speak it as only be a part of scientific education as From the metropolis we turned to the a second language. Whether you are no book can replace experiences with countryside as problems of people in a interested in contemporary Nepal or real people and their everyday lives. megacity like Delhi are naturally dif- ancient South Asia, whether you want On September 9th, sixteen students ferent to those living in a more remote to go trekking or to experience the from the South Asia Institute who had location. The second part of the excur- busy live in the streets of Kathman- attended courses in development anthro- sion thus took us to rural Garhwal in Ut- du - the Nepali language will open a pology in the previous year met in New tarakhand, where we visited projects of door to a fascinating culture. To help Delhi with their lecturers Hans-Martin NGOs working in the fields of education, you walking through this door, Laxmi Kunz and Karin Polit to find out about organic farming, health and infrastruc- Nath Shrestha has come all the way to the realities of development cooperation tural development. the SAI. He is an experienced teacher in India in the following three weeks. As the interaction with local people is who has taught Nepali to generations The first stop was Delhi University always limited in a big group the excur- of both students and researchers and where Tulsi Patel from the Delhi School sion ended in three days of fieldwork has proven that he can make you start of Economics had organized a joint experience in different villages. Alone speaking Nepali in just one week. workshop with her sociology students in or in pairs the students spent time with Starting from the first day, this course which thoughts and ideas about develop- rural families, observed and participated will be held in Nepali only: Sipping a ment in India and the involvement of for- in their everyday life and got a deeper cup of ciya, you will discuss the latest eign countries within development were understanding of the problems they had political developments - as one does exchanged and discussed. only read about in books. every morning in the streets of Kath- Following this we met several govern- mandu. ment and non-government organizations, Hans-Martin Kunz such as the GTZ, the Heinrich-Böll Foun- [email protected] For further information, see also: dation, Navdanya, the Environmental http://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/ Action Group, Chintan, the Hope-Project Karin Polit abt/IND/studium/summerSchool.html and FIAN to get a brief insight into their [email protected] 7 Research

Ritual Dynamics and the Cluster of Excellence: science of ritual Asia and Europe in a global context International Conference 29 September - 2 October 2008 Heidelberg

The Collaborative Research Center 619 “Dynamics of Ritual” (SFB 619) at Heidelberg University is holding an international conference “Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual” from 29 September till 2 October 2008. Experts from around the world have been invited to Heidelberg to discuss their current findings and present them to a wider audience. With this conference, SFB 619 aims to consolidate and expand its interdisciplinary approach. Apart from creating theories with an interdisciplinary perspective, contributers will have Asia as a major regional focus of the conference. The range here extends from Hindu The Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, the new institution monarchies of southern India from for the cluster’s work. - Photo: Brigitte Merz, Cluster of Excellence the early Middle Ages to the Colonial era, and from historical to contempo- The Cluster of Excellence entitled “Asia political ideologies, or systems of medi- rary China and Japan. and Europe in a Global Context: Shift- cine or healing. Asia specialists such as Johannes ing Asymmetries in Cultural Flows”, is The direction of the Cluster is in the Bronkhorst (Lausanne), Jan Heester- an interdisciplinary research centre for hands of three Heidelberg scholars who man (Leiden), Hermann Kulke (Kiel), cultural studies. It was approved by the take turns in being the speaker in charge: Alexis Sanderson (Oxford), Freder- Wissenschaftsrat (German Science and Axel Michaels, Professor of Classical ick M. Smith (Iowa), and Frits Staal Humanities Council) and the Deutsche Indology at the SAI, Madeleine Herren- (Berkeley), together with renowned Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Re- Oesch, Professor of Modern History at specialists from the world of ritual search Council) on 19th October 2007 the Department of History, and Rudolf research, such as Ronald Grimes as part of the “Excellence Initiative“ of Wagner, Professor at the Institute of Chi- (Nijmegen/Ontario), Bruce Kapferer the German state and the federal länder. nese Studies. On 1st April 2008 Rudolf (Bergen), and James Laidlaw (Cam- With this approval, the Cluster has been Wagner will take over for six months bridge), have confirmed their partici- granted 35 Million euros funding for an from Axel Michaels. pation. initial period of five years. The Cluster brings together various The interdisciplinary teamwork The main thrust of the research to be methodologies, scholarly traditions and will first be conducted in 21 panels undertaken by the cluster focuses on the epistemologies. They are grouped in four lasting, in some cases, several days. dynamics of asymmetries in the cultural research areas: Governance and Adminis- Around 250 experts will give brief exchanges between Asia and Europe, tration, the Public Sphere and the Media, talks on their findings and put them both past and present. This interdisciplin- Health and the Environment, and Histo- up for discussion. ary venture is concerned not only with ricities and Heritage. Each area consists The official period for registration historical questions in the relationship of a number of separate interdisciplinary has begun on 15 February 2008. All between Asia and Europe - dating back projects: January 2008 saw the first se- those interested can find the relevant as far as the Bronze Age - but also with lection of the project proposals that had information at www.rituals-2008. burning topical issues. Central to all of been submitted for these research areas, com and sign up for the conference the avenues of research are the asymme- and work on the first research projects newsletter. Please also note the SFB tries that arise in the exchanges between has already started in March 2008. 619 website www.ritualdynamik.uni- cultures – and the ways in which these In keeping with the breadth of the hd.de. are dealt with. These may express them- Cluster’s vision, a large number of the selves as migration movements or con- institutes and facilities at the Univer- Alexandra Heidle flicts, or equally in transfer mediated by sity of Heidelberg are actively involved, [email protected] people, economic commodities, or ideas ranging from South and East Asian Stud- – such as for example religious beliefs, ies, Classical Studies and History, to the 8 Research

Social Sciences, as well as Art History (Paris), Dipesh Chakrabarty (Chicago), These databases will draw on various ex- and Philosophy. The Cluster has already Monica Juneja (Hanover), Jean Coma- isting archives, visual databases and por- attracted an impressive list of cooper- roff (Chicago), Aihwa Ong (Berkeley), tals and develop into a large-scale plat- ating partners from around the world, Shalini Randeria (Zurich), and Gayatri form that will provide access to and link including Harvard University and the Spivak (New York). the central themes of the Cluster. University of Chicago among others in Another important part of the Cluster Currently in the process of refur- the USA, the Centre National de la Re- is the Graduate School for Transcultural bishment, The Karl Jaspers Center in cherche Scientifique in Paris, Peking Studies, which will award each year ap- Voßstrasse 2 close to the Bismarckplatz in University in China, the Indira Gandhi prox. 16 grants to postgraduate students the centre of Heidelberg will shortly be- National Centre for the Arts and SARAI, for a period of three years each. Half of come the heart of the Cluster. The build- both New Delhi, and the Universities of these grants will be allocated to students ing should be ready to receive the Clus- Kyoto and Tokyo in Japan. from Asia. ter’s main office by the summer. It will An initial meeting attended by repre- Furthermore, the Cluster will develop provide facilities for the five new profes- sentatives of the cooperating partners two databases as part of its so-called Hei- sorships established by the Cluster in the was held in December 2007 at the Inter- delberg Research Architecture, which fields of Intellectual History, Visual and nationales Wissenschaftsforum (IWH), serves the dual purpose of facilitating Media Anthropology, Global Art History, University of Heidelberg, and already in research, and preserving and presenting Buddhist Studies, and Cultural Economic the summer semester 2008 a number of existing research results: the Transling- History. In addition, it will be home to guest scholars, including Miho Fukuda ual Concepts Database (TCD) aimed at several Junior Research Groups, provide (Osaka) and Gérard Colas (Paris), will analysing the development of globally office space for approx. 30 research fel- participate in the life of the Cluster in and translingually shared concepts and lows and the grant-holders, as well as the Heidelberg. associated rhetorical features in differ- offices of the three directors and the scien- The summer semester also sees the ent languages, together with the forms tific project manager. It also has facilities first series of public lectures under the of social action and institutions to which for conferences and meetings. title “Transculturality - Theories and Ex- they relate. And the Transcultural Im- For more information please visit plorations“. These weekly lectures taking ages Database (TID) aimed at facilitat- www.vjc.uni-hd.de/ place from 6 May to 15 July 2008 in Hör- ing the analysis of visual, audio-visual saal 10 at the Neue Universität will fea- and sound records, which are central to Brigitte Merz ture speakers such as Maurice Godelier over half of the planned Cluster projects. [email protected]

Urban change and megacities in India and China A pioneering research field

Several interdisciplinary and transre- of public space and publicity. The focus a pioneering research platform entitled gional project ideas have emerged at the of research is two-fold and spread across Virtual Shanghai (http://virtualshanghai. South Asia Institute in the context of diachronic and synchronic levels: mar- ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/), based on a combined the Cluster “Europe and Asia“; related ginalised and untapped material from (of- use of textual records, photographs and to the various research areas, such as ficial and unofficial) archives in Europe, GIS. A third party member in discussion governance and administration, public China and India is complemented by em- is the Bauhaus University at Weimar spheres, health and environment and his- pirical fieldwork and change detection where research is undertaken on various toricity and heritage. One of the projects analyses using high-resolution satellite issues related to urbanisation in Chinese is entitled ,Transcultural Topographies imagery and Geographical Information megacities. of Urban Sensoriums and Events’. Still a Systems (GIS). This integrated approach Asian megacities appear to be shaped start-up initiative, the research involved reveals challenging and innovative trans- by similar global forces and aesthetics: explores the practicalities of a new ap- cultural research dimensions at the in- central business districts, satellite town- proach towards the experience of urban- terface of spatial development dynamics scapes, urban spaces for leisure and con- ism as a glocalised process that is con- and socioeconomic change. sumption and staged mega-events turn stantly reshaped through large-scale in- The pilot project focuses on New them into magnets of prosperity, confi- frastructural interventions, media flows Delhi and the Commonwealth Games dence and growth. Global cities such as and micro-level agency. Centre-stage, of 2010. Collaboration is already dis- Delhi or Shanghai are driven by narra- and intertwined, are globalised mega- cussed, with Sarai: The Media Initiative tive, performance and hyper-technologi- events (e.g. World Expositions, Asian at CSDS (New Delhi), and with scholars cal spectacle, by an urge to create and or Commonwealth Games, Olympics) of the History Department at the Institut maintain a particular image to, and of, and the shaping of urban sensoriums by d‘Asie Orientale, Lyon. In collaboration the public. Yet, key tensions and prob- means of creating spatial modes of con- with the Institute of Chinese Studies at lems of urbanisation can be found in in- trol (CCTV) and property issues (e.g. the University of Heidelberg, the latter tense social segregation, fragmentation, censorship) that imbue on the perception have for many years been involved in the transformation of public space into 9 Research

Construction site of the Commonwealth Games village with Akshardham complex in the background. - Photo: Marcus Nüsser, SAI closed space and a heightened notion of development paths resulting from differ- as they emerge at crucial sites and times. security and hygiene on the local level. ent urban sensoriums, notions of public On the research side, the platform will We argue that a particular focus on the (and private) and events structuring ur- offer various ways to step into the history staging and experience of this new, high- ban space in the respective locations. of the city and follow its course at dif- ly symbolic urbanism as event enables a Mega-events pose a special challenge to ferent levels over time. On the resource new look at asymmetries between cities planners and give the potential of innova- side, apart from providing original tex- of the global south (and north) and within tive, expensive and radical restructuring tual and visual documents, it develops a a particular locality, region and nation. of city spaces. Tracing transformations powerful cartographic tool for both ob- Yet it would be misleading to con- of populations and sites over a historical servation and creation. clude that such seemingly ‘universal’ stretch of a hundred years and transna- processes refer us to a standardised prac- tionally, by means of creating various Christiane Brosius tice of urbanisation and thus experience topographies and cartographies of urban [email protected] of urbanism. Over the past century, ur- space, our project enables a differenti- ban planning and life in Western Europe, ated look at and understanding of shifts Marcus Nüsser China and India has followed diverging and fractions of public spheres and sites [email protected]

Feeding a megacity Investigating the food systems of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Over the last decades huge agglomera- etables, fruits and meat need to be deliv- agricultural seasons smoothly. Redun- tions have emerged, assigning planners ered to Dhaka every day in order to keep dant contacts to suppliers strengthen and politicians enormous tasks. Every up the functioning of urban life. The bulk their bargaining power and widen their day vast numbers of migrants are washed of these items comes by truck and enters network. Natural disasters like the flood- ashore the banks of the “cities of hope” the city via the arterial roads in the north- ings in 2007 or the cyclone Sidr led to and challenge the urban infrastructure, ern, southeastern and western fringe. increased prices, but did not lead to an labour markets and institutional frame- From there, the goods are distributed to acute shortage in terms of food availabil- works. In many of these megacities the a vast number of markets, to wholesale ity in Dhaka. Mostly internal disturbanc- provision of water supply, sanitation and and retail shops, to restaurants, hotels es like low pay-back rates of customers waste disposal can hardly be guaranteed. and street food stalls, to finally reach the endanger the wholesale business. For most of the immigrants making a liv- consumer. Interestingly, this system in- In terms of efficiency Dhaka’s food ing means a daily struggle for survival. heres a remarkable degree of resilience. supply suffers from Bangladesh’s an- In this context the issue of food se- By the means of numerous ties to vari- tiquated traffic system. Freight trains, curity is yet rarely discussed. Immense ous districts and to neighbouring India, barques and trucks are in a bad condi- amounts of foodgrain, fish, spices, veg- Dhaka’s wholesalers are able to handle tion; the national transport network is 10 Research

rarely developed. In Dhaka, the limits of regulating the traffic are reached; permanent severe jams turn every move into a nightmare. The recent revolution in telecom- munication, i.e. the rapid circulation of currently 38 million mobile phones in Bangladesh, added to the efficiency and flexibility in distributing food, while the mass of cheap labour is the decisive force that makes the system work. Thousands of low paid workers are responsible for loading and unloading the trucks, re- stocking the storages and for delivery to the customers. These day-labourers liter- ally carry the megacity’s entire food supply on their shoulders. One could assume that these informally employed are most vulnerable regarding food insecurity, when they are forced to abstain a third meal in case of sickness or other unpre- dictabilities. Wolfgang-Peter Zingel and Markus Keck are currently investigating “The Informal rice storages under the 2nd Buriganga Bridge at Babubazar, Old Dhaka Megaurban Food System of Dhaka/Ban- - Photo: Markus Keck, SAI gladesh”. This joint project of the Depart- ment of Geography, University of Bonn, ics of Global Change”. In collaboration reveal the basic mechanisms of Dhaka’s and the Department of International Eco- with counterparts of the Departments highly self-organized food systems. nomics, South Asia Institute, is part of of Economics, of Geography and Envi- the DFG Priority Programme “Megaci- ronment, and of Public Administration, Markus Keck ties – Megachallenge: Informal Dynam- Dhaka University, the project tries to [email protected]

The return of the ration card Food policy in Bangladesh, Pakistan and India

Food prices, more than food availability, already in the 1980s and in Bangladesh ing incomes and a prudent food policy. all of a sudden have become a major is- the system has been maintained only for The question, however, is whether yields sue all over the world and governments the benefit of public employees and, es- will rise in step with population numbers are careful not to embarrass the elector- pecially, the army. Pakistan announced and personal incomes. Relying on food ate with the basic needs out of the reach the re-introduction of the ration cards imports has become punishing as world of the lower middle class when the econ- shortly before the recent elections. Ban- market prices have risen to unprecedent- omies have just started to take off. South gladesh may have the elections finally ed heights. Forcing farmers to sell cheap- Asia has ceased to be the home of hunger late in the year and the Indian national ly and rationing food has proved to be a and starvation, food no longer is a prob- elections are up in 2009. solution only in the cases of emergency. lem – or at least that is what it seemed to Presently, there is more food available Ongoing research in Dhaka (see Markus be: Only a few years ago India was sit- per capita in the subcontinent than at any Keck’s report, page 10) shows that South ting on the largest food-grain reserves in time since Independence and most prob- Asia is quite efficient in bringing food to the world, more than 60 m tons, and was ably also before – the region even has be- the consumer; what he needs, however, advised to reduce the reserves by half, or come a net food exporter. Going by life are the financial means to buy it. A sys- even better by two thirds, and save half a expectancy or infant mortality even the tem of intra-familial transfers has made billion US-Dollar in interest a year while poorer sections of the population have to people less vulnerable and family net- freeing useless dead capital. It retained eat more. With the exception of Bangla- works more resilient. Surprisingly little its system of government procurement, desh in 1974 there have been no famines work has been done on this aspect that storage, trading and retailing with the after Independence, although one sixth to becomes more important with families help of half a million stores of the public one third of the people remained in ab- becoming smaller and more risk-prone. distribution system (PDS), more for po- solute poverty and still go hungry. This litical than for economic reasons. Paki- major achievement is mainly due to an Wolfgang-Peter Zingel stan had given up its system of rationing increased productivity in agriculture, ris- [email protected] 11 Research

Gender relations in Kumaon: Women of the AgravÁls

This proved to be the case and was vis- ibly expressed by 1) lesser than average appearance of women in public (and if so, it took place in a ‘sheltered’ way: in groups of two or more women, or transport in cars); 2) stronger than average use of the ghÚÉghat (veil covering head and face) sign; 3) the (only) in-group activ- ity (‘ladies sangeet’ – meetings in the or- ganizationally AgravÁl-dominated Ïiva temple for singing). But behavior also depended on family traditions (strict, traditional, or rather liberal), so there were a few women who moved more freely. The photograph shows the bhang-in- toxicated (a traditional cannabis prepa- ration) pouring of water over AgravÁl “Controlled abandonment”: An AgravÁl family celebrating the “Saturnalian” women by their husbands, supposedly to part of Holi on a private porch. - Photo: Ulrich Oberdiek, SAI remove the red color applied during the spring festival of Holi, in a long-drawn- In the course of anthropological fieldwork tions towards men and in public life and out ‘ceremony’ in a private space of this among the merchant caste of AgravÁls in women‘s ‘voice(s)’ and concerns are joint family of four sons with their wives, a Kumaon market town - to be published discussed in this DFG-funded project. If children, and mother. The (unnecessar- as a monograph - gender was one of the analyzed in certain ways the – sometimes ily) prolonged pouring of buckets full of topics of inquiry, for which, besides the seemingly ‘stereotype’ – ethnographic water reminds of all the Bollywood films men of this caste, 28 of their women material does yield attitudes, needs and where in an eroticized enactment hero- have been interviewed, too. New posi- ‘political’ potential. ines are soused with, or immersed in, tions in the gender discourse relating to The approx. 50 AgravÁl families in this water - under waterfalls, in rains, rivers, India (like Sarah Lamb) state that women town live - although interacting in busi- or else. there do not speak ‘with one voice’ but ness with the whole population – some- many instead – if one listens to them. what isolated, and people say AgravÁl Ulrich Oberdiek Particularly seclusion (pardah) and rela- women are more secluded than others. [email protected]

Childbirth goddesses in western Maharashtra

Childbirth and women’s fertility are very childbirth in the village in contrast to of women’s fertility and the dangers of important aspects of society in western the Maulya, who are worshipped only unexpressed sexuality. Furthermore, Maharashtra. At the religious level, the on affliction. Further, the Maulya are whereas there is only one Satvai within problems encountered with them are considered to be closer to humans since the village, signifying its territorial unity, expressed through the two ambivalent they are also described as belonging to there can be many a Maulya thikan in a goddesses that preside over this aspect of seven different castes. Neither the Satvai village, signifying the many kin groups community life- the Satvai and the Mau- nor the Maulya have husbands; they both and castes living in that village. lya. Although they are referred to by one have brothers who are known to be frus- Both the Satvai and the Maulya afflict name, both these goddesses are seven in trated souls of boys from other castes and women in a similar manner although the number. The Satvai shrine (with its sev- communities. Maulya never afflict children. The Satvai en stones) is always located at village pe- While the Satvai worship focuses more and Maulya affliction of women results ripheries while the Maulya thikan or spot on the children rather than on women’s in hormonal problems that lead to men- is always located near waterholes, wells fertility, the Maulya worship does quite strual difficulties, an inability to con- or streams in the form of seven red lines the opposite. The worship of the Mau- ceive, repeated miscarriages and mental on an adjoining stone. Although both lya is more concerned with the fertility harassment (a woman with Maulya af- goddesses have to do with childbirth, of women and their sexuality. While the fliction is known to suffer from familial there is a subtle difference and hierarchy Satvai worship endorses the kin rela- and conjugal maladjustment). The Satvai between them, while both co-exist within tionship and regional membership in may further afflict children both indi- the same village. the village through the birth of children, rectly and directly. She harms the child The hierarchy between the two cults the Maulya worship brings to the fore- indirectly by harming the mother so that is linked to the Satvai worship at every front concerns regarding the importance the latter is unable to breastfeed and di- 12 Research

rectly, by afflicting the infant with various health problems such as milk intol- erance, bronchial difficulties, digestive difficulties, skin eruptions and mental harassment (a child with Satvai affliction is known to cry continuously). Both these sets of deities are worshipped by food offerings. The worship of Satvai that happens after every childbirth in the village, has as a part of the ritual offering, everyday food with a few sweat meats. After the ritual is over, this food is fed to pre-pubescent young girls as it is considered to reach the deity through these girls. The offerings made to the Maulya on the other hand, include seven types of fancy foods, seven types of fruits, flow- ers and cosmetic items. Further, the af- flicted woman is required to abstain from the foods made in the offerings till such a time when she conceives. Worship of the Satvai and her brothers is performed with the ritual offering of The Satvai and the Maulya worship everyday food: bread, vegetable, rice and pulses. There is also a thread kept on deconstruct the medical exclusives of the stones (deities) to make a roof for the impromptu shrine unifying all of them mental, biological and adjustmental dif- into one deity. The leaf signifies the feminine presence and the dry fruit fertility ficulties while describing the barriers while the betel nut and coin signifies the male presence (village Ghodegaon, Am- some women may face within the process begaon Taluka, Pune district, Maharashtra) - Photo: Deepra Dandekar, SAI of community integration in the village. Instead, the cults reinforce a sense of in- divisibility and fluidity between the lived The goddesses then, stand at the cross- tion that stands for community strength. version of the three medical categories roads of defining the importance of wom- above, fusing together the emotional, en and children, further fusing their iden- Deepra Dandekar bodily and familial experience into one. tity into one fluid metaphor of reproduc- [email protected]

Conflict-induced internal displacement in Nepal

Beginning in 1996 a decade-long in- neighbouring countries are referred to as governmental IDP definition excluded surgency disrupted Nepal and uprooted refugee, those staying inside the borders many. Only persons who had been forced a large proportion of its population. of their country of origin are labelled in- to leave their homes by Maoist actions Treated as a law and order problem by ternally displaced persons (IDPs). The were entitled to financial compensation the government the situation worsened majority of the displaced crossed the bor- and succour. This was a highly selec- when King Gyanendra acceded to the der to India and their number is estimated tive measure privileging the ones closely throne and deployed the army to solve as high as 2.6 million. Out of a total of 27 linked to the ruling parties, turning the the conflict in 2001. Until 2006 and the million this affects almost 10 percent of term IDP itself into a negative one. In the signing of the Comprehensive Peace the entire population in Nepal. Follow- meantime, the government even stopped Agreement on November 21st more than ing traditional migration routes across a registering any IDPs. 14,000 people had lost their lives and long, open border no monitoring could Since 2006, different NGOs and IN- many had been displaced through activi- be conducted. In 2006, Caritas surveyed GOs have been engaged in setting up re- ties from both sides, the Maoists insur- that up to 272,600 IDPs were living in turn and reintegration programmes. Nev- gents as well as the security forces. Since district headquarters alone. On the other ertheless, one might wonder if and how there was neither systematic monitoring hand, the newly established Ministry of many IDPs are willing to return after of population movements by any author- Peace and Reconstruction put the num- years of displacement to villages where ity or organisation nor any comprehen- ber, based on compensation applications, the same people who made them flee are sive registration of internally displaced at 25,000. still in charge. Is this place still the home persons by the government no accurate Despite the fact that many IDPs did people had left? Is resettlement an option displacement figures are available until not know that they could apply for aid, or do they just want to stay where they today. Hence estimates vary greatly. many preferred to remain unidentified are at the moment? Politically, there are two terms relat- fearing further violence or were unable ing to people displaced due to armed to register with the government. Restric- Lars Stöwesand conflicts. While the ones crossing into tive registration norms and a one-sided [email protected] 13 Research

Simulating the PÁÆinian System of Sanskrit Grammar

The AÒÔÁdhyÁyÍ of PÁÆini (ca. 5th cent. B.C.) provides an elegant and compact description of the Sanskrit language which remains unexcelled till today. It consists of some four thousand pithy rules, a lexicon of verbal roots together with a (partial) list of nominal stems. The rules (formulated in sÚtra style) de- scribe Sanskrit, the object language, as well as the meta-language of description. The generative nature of the grammar, presented as a complex combinatorics of linguistic constituents, stimulates its computer simulation. Under the guidance of Axel Michaels (Department of Classical Indology), Anand Mishra developed a model for a computer representation of the PÁÆin- ian system of sanskrit grammar. Based on this model, a database of grammatical components is prepared, and using it, the rules of AÒÔÁdhyÁyÍ are simulated on the computer. These simulated rules are then further employed for the generation of morpho-syntactical components of the language. These generated components are stored in a p-subsequential automata which is then used to develop a lexicon on PÁÆinian principles. The general grammatical process of AÒÔÁdhyÁyÍ is considered as consisting Snapshot of the PÁÆinian Sanskrit Simulator (PaSSim) of the following three basic steps: - Screenshot: Anand Mishra, SAI

1. Prescription of the fundamental components which constitute the language. attribute keys. The middle layer, which is is applied and the change is stored in a a list of sound-sets, represents language modified state. 2. Characterization of these fundamental expressions at every level (phonemes, An internet based web interface is pro- components by assigning them a number morphemes, lexemes, words, sentences). vided where a user can search a Sanskrit of attributes. The top-layer modeled as a process-strip word (pada) and the simulator furnishes simulates the grammatical process. its detailed step-by-step PÁÆinian de- 3. Specification of grammatical opera- There are two basic operations defined scription. One can click the various links tions based on the fundamental compo- on the above data structure: for grammatical information. In the first nents and their attributes. phase, the verbal conjugation is being 1. Addition of attributes, which is imple- implemented. A database is created in which the fun- mented as set union of attribute-sets with The theoretical and implementational damental constituents of the language sound-sets. aspects of the PÁÆinian Sanskrit Simula- (phonemes/morphemes/lexemes etc.) as tor (PaSSim) were presented by Anand well as their grammatical attributes (i.e. 2. Augmentation of language-expression Mishra at the First Inter-national Com- various technical terms introduced in by appending one or more sound-sets. putational Linguistics Symposium at the grammar) are stored and assigned a INRIA Rocquencourt, Paris (Oct. 29-31, unique key. Based on the above two fundamental 2007) and at XXX. Deutscher Orientali- The entries are then used to design a operations, the rest of PÁÆinian grammat- stentag, Freiburg (Sept. 24-28, 2007). special three-layered data structure for ical operations like substitution, redupli- You can try the PÁÆinian Sanskrit representation of the PÁÆinian process. cation, elision etc. are implemented. Simulator online at http://sanskrit.sai. The first layer is modeled as a sound-set Given a particular state in the process uni-heidelberg.de/ which corresponds to a phoneme or one of generation, the system provides for sound unit, but stores additional informa- checking the applicability of a rule, and Anand Mishra tion as entries of respective morpheme/ if the conditions are fulfilled, the rule [email protected] 14 People

Dietmar Rothermund 75 years young

Born in 1933, Dietmar Rothermund, Pro- litical objectives in India in 1965 and is his foundation and editing of “Periplus. fessor Emeritus of South Asian History of his most recent (and certainly not the Jahrbuch für außereuropäische Geschich- at the SAI, dedicated nearly two thirds last!) one “India: The Rise of an Asian te”, Germany’s leading annual journal on of his life to research on India where he Giant” in 2008 depict the trajectory of non-European history. stayed altogether eight years during 28 his own research and his vast publica- Since 1988 Dietmar Rothermund has visits. After studying History and Phi- tion programme. They encompass a wide been a Fellow of the Royal Historical losophy at the universities of Marburg, range of topics from detailed analyses of Society, London, and a Honorary Mem- Munich and Philadelphia (Ph.D. 1959), various aspects of modern Indian politi- ber of the Humboldt University at Ber- he began his own “Passage to India” in cal and economic and cultural history to lin since 1994. He was Chairman of the 1960 as a Research Fellow of the Ger- more general studies on India in Asia and European Association for South Asian man Academic Exchange Service. Hav- in the context of a globalizing world. Studies, was nominated by the German ing met Jawaharlal Nehru twice already Equally impressive are Dietmar Ro- Foreign Office as Member of the Indo- in 1961, he joined the newly founded thermund’s activities as an untiring ini- German Consultative Group and received SAI in 1962 as a junior staff member tiator of academic institutions providing a Gold Medal of the Asiatic Society in and became Professor of South Asian a forum for various kinds of dialogue on Kolkata in 1994. History only six years later in 1968 for South Asia. Suffice it to mention that he Ad multos annos! We, the friends, col- thirty-three years until 2001. Throughout is rightly honoured as founder of the bi- leagues, and former students of Dietmar this period he was an inspiring teacher annual “European Conference of Modern Rothermund congratulate him on all of and “doctor father” (Ph.D. Supervisor) South Asian Studies” (see page 20). Its these achievements. Retired but not at all of several generations of students. For 17th session was organized in his honour tired of pursuing research and teaching about one and half decades he was Di- at Heidelberg in 2002. In 1991 he initi- with his habitual commitment and en- rector of “his” South Asia Institute which ated and henceforth organized the “Hei- ergy – may he be able to inspire us for has been frequently referred to in India delberger Südasiengespräche”, an annual many years to come. as “Dietmar’s Institute”. workshop for scholars of contemporary Titles and contents of his first major South Asia, politicians, economists and Hermann Kulke publication on the development of po- journalists. Another major achievement [email protected]

Living literature and beyond: Celebrating Lothar Lutze

After welcome addresses by Dr. Drey- er, Director of MMB New Delhi and Peter Braun, Director of the SAI branch office New Delhi, Vishnu Khare and Barbara Lotz honoured Lutzeji as a scholar and teacher. A discussion panel of eminent Hindi authors exchanged their experiences during various common translation projects. The screening of an interview with Lothar Lutze, conducted by Uday Prakash, emphasized his lifelong activities in promoting Indian literatures. To highlight the impact he had made, seven recently published books translated from Hindi to German were publicly released. In conclusion, poetry and prose readings were presented by twelve Indian authors, Authors honouring Lothar Lutze. - Photo: Barbara Lotz, Würzburg University followed by translations. The evening, organized by Vishnu On 22nd September 2007, Lothar Lutze, some of his most fruitful and intense Khare and Barbara Lotz, in collaboration professor emeritus, was honoured on the years here, heading the SAI branch of- with the SAI branch office New Delhi, occasion of his 80th birthday with a col- fice in New Delhi three times. By orga- the Max Mueller Bhavan and the Kopal loquium and poetry reading held at Max nizing lectures and literary programs at Art Foundation New Delhi, ended with a Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi. Authors, the Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi, he reception. publishers, critics, students and friends introduced Indian writers to the German were invited to speak on their interac- audience. In 2006, he was awarded the Barbara Lotz tions with Lothar Lutze, who had come prestigious Padmashree Award by the [email protected] to New Delhi first in 1960, and spent Indian Government. 15 People

Staff news Professor Aloka Parasher-Sen

Pratibha KHANAL will take up her in January 2008. The interdisciplinary new position as head of the SAI nature of her work and research inter- Branch Office in Kathmandu on est was reflected in her interaction and 1 July 2008. wide-ranging discussions with the departments of History, Indology, Social Christoph ZOTTER and Heike Anthropology and Political Science. MOSER took up appointments as Apart from her active participation in the Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter in the colloquia and guest lectures of various Department of Classical Indology. departments, she contributed to seminars from the History Department (dealing, Mirjam DUBBERT took over from for instance, with the historiography of Elfrun LINKE as secretary in the De- 1857, Gender History, Medical Science partment of Classical Indology. in historical perspective, Theory of His- tory, etc.), conferences (such as on Re- Marco VESELKA, Department of visioning Muhammed Iqbal, November International Economics, took up a 2007) and special events (such as the position as economist at CropEner- Professor Aloka Parasher-Sen. most successful Visitors’ Night) orga- gies Mannheim, a leading European - Photo: Manfred Hake, SAI nized by the institute. During her stay, producer of bioethanol. she was able to visit, in early February From October 2007 until March 2008, 2008, the Humboldt University of Ber- Sandra JOOST took up an appoint- the SAI was delighted to host Aloka lin, and the Zentrum Moderner Orient, ment as secretary in the Department Parasher-Sen, an historian of early India Berlin, where she spoke on the “Notion of Anthropology. from the Central University Hyderabad, of the others in India, in a historical per- as recipient of the Government of India spective”. Students and members of the Juliane DAME, Department of Ge- sponsored Chair in Indian Studies. She academic community of the SAI greatly ography, took up an appointment as presented several well-attended lectures benefited from the stimulating presence Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin in and talks in the institute, sharing her re- of Parasher-Sen, and we hope to build the DFG project “Food security in cent research findings in the socio-cul- upon this association in the future. Ladakh”. tural processes of ancient and medieval India with students and faculty alike. Nitin Varma Thomas LENNARTZ took up an ap- A rich and stimulating paper titled [email protected] pointment as Wissenschaftlicher Mit- ‘Women, Ritual Death and the Jaina arbeiter in the Department of Geog- Sangha in the Deccan’, was presented Gita Dharampal-Frick raphy. by her in the Institute’s Colloquium [email protected]

Martin BRANDTNER took up an appointment as Wissenschaftlicher An- Doctoral and post-doctoral (Habilitation) gestellter in the collaborative research centre “Dynamics of Ritual”. theses at the SAI

Ellen JENSEN is the new secretary of The South Asia Institute is proud to an- Harald Fischer-Tiné, Department of the Department of History. nounce the completion of three post-doc- History, wrote on “Low and Licentious toral (Habilitation) theses: Europeans: White Subalterns in 19th Justin SIEFERT, Nitin VARMA and Elvira Graner, Department of Geogra- Century Colonial India”. After six years Hanna WERNER took up positions phy, completed her thesis on “Globalisa- as lecturer in Modern South Asian His- as Wissenschaftliche Angestellte in tion and Institutional Conflicts in Carpet tory and Society at the Humboldt-Uni- the Department of History. Manufacturing in Nepal”. versity in Berlin, Fischer-Tiné is now The work of Christiane Brosius, De- Professor of History at the School of Hu- Julia HEGEWALD was appointed to partment of Anthropology, is titled manities and Social Sciences at Jacobs- a permanent lectureship at the School “When a Great Tradition Glocalises. University Bremen. of Arts, Histories and Cultures, Uni- Cosmopolitan Pleasures of India’s New In addition, there are more than 25 versity of Manchester. Middle Classes.” In 2005, Brosius was PhD theses in progress. For ongoing Associate Professor at the School of and recently completed doctoral theses, Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru please visit the homepage of the different University, New Delhi. She is currently departments. Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the SAI. 16 People / Activities

Patron, bhakta, poet Staff News (continued) Workshop “Maharaja Sawai Pratap Singh” Lila HÜTTEMANN was appointed senior lecturer at the Department of South and Southeast Asian Languag- es, University of California, Berke- ley.

Pia HOLLENBACH resigned as representative of the SAI Branch Office in Colombo (due to the political situation in Sri Lanka, the office remains closed until further notice).

Guests at the SAI

Qazi Afzal HUSAIN, Aligarh Mus- lim University, Aligarh, Baden- Württemberg-Fellow (Department of Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures)

Gérard COLAS, Centre d’Études de Music composed at the court of Sawai Pratap Singh. Recital by Suman Yadav, ac- l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud (Depart- companied by Ustad Japhar Mohammad (tabla), Alok Bhatt (harmonium), Kan- ment of Classical Indology and Clus- can Gupta (tanpura) - Photo: Jörg Gengnagel, SAI ter of Excellence)

The workshop held in Jaipur in Novem- Director General of the JKK, Mr Ashok Wiqar Ali SHAH, Quaid-i-Azam ber 2007 focussed on the regnal period of Shekhar, IAS presided over the inaugural University, Islamabad, Humboldt- Sawai Pratap Singh (1778-1803), Maha- function. Fellow for three month (Department raja of the princely state of Jaipur during Two public events accompanied the of History) the last decades of the 18th century. Al- workshop: the opening of the exhibi- though Sawai Pratap Singh shaped Jaipur tion of Jateen Lad’s photographic es- Naseem HUSSAIN, DAAD visting and its culture in his own way, notably say “Labyrinths, Jalis and the Gaze. Professor from Jahangirnagar Uni- through his patronage of the visual and The Changing Zenana of Royal Jaipur” versity, Bangladesh (Department of performing arts, literature and religion, and the music recital by the renowned Political Science) his achievements were overshadowed by singer Mrs Suman Yadav who presented the commanding historical presence of compositions based entirely on poems P. K. NAYAK, Utkal University Sawai Jai Singh (1700–1743). The event by Maharaja Sawai Pratap Singh. The (Cluster of Excellence and Depart- served the objective of informal intellec- photographs by the architect, writer and ment of Political Science) tual exchange on Pratap Singh’s time and photographer Jateen Lad explored the strengthened long-standing collaboration changing architecture of the zenana, with with noted Indian scholars. a special focus on the concealed court- Awards The workshop formed part of the on- yards, layered enclosing walls, and long going research project “Court Ritual in secret passages linked to the “Palace of the Jaipur State” of the Collaborative Re- the Winds” (Hawa Mahal) constructed Axel MICHAELS was elected search Centre “Ritual Dynamics” funded by Sawai Pratap Singh in 1799. The mu- spokesperson of the Academic Coun- by the Deutsche Forschungsgemein- sic recital at the auditorium of the JKK cil 106 (Anthropology, Religious schaft (German Research Foundation). by Suman Yadav provided an exception- Studies and Non-European Cultures) The meeting was organized jointly with al and memorable conclusion to one day of the German Research Foundation. the Jawahar Kala Kendra (JKK) by Mon- and a half of fruitful exchange on Sawai ika Boehm-Tettelbach and Jörg Gengna- Pratap Singh’s influence on Jaipur’s cul- Willem BOLLEE was awarded the gel (both Department of Modern South ture. Prakrit Jnanabharati International Asian Studies) in collaboration with R. Award of the Shrutakevali Education S. Khangarot, Agrawal P. G. College Jörg Gengnagel Trust and the National Institute of (Jaipur). Mrs Usha Punia, State Minis- [email protected] Pakrit Studies. ter of Tourism, Art & Culture and the 17 Activities

Revisioning Muhammad Iqbal: Poet and Muslim political thinker Conference organised by the Department of History on 9-10 November 2007 to mark the centenary of Iqbal’s stay in Heidelberg The Department of History, with funding deconstruct Iqbal as the founding father denigrating accretions of Persian influ- from the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan and to unveil the processes ence and religious tradition. of Pakistan and the German Research leading to such a construction. Kamran’s As for the poetics of Iqbal, Stephan Foundation, arranged a two-day interna- critique was supplemented by Qazi Afzal Popp presented a pioneering post-struc- tional conference to mark the centenary Husain’s Derridian reading of various turalist ‘methodology’ for reading and of Muhammal Iqbal’s stay in Heidel- texts by Iqbal without involving his per- appreciating Iqbal’s Persian verse. berg. The conference was not solely a sonage as such and avoiding as much as Christina Oesterheld likewise desisted commemorative event but was also an possible the honorific titles and epithets from a more traditional rendering of one academic exercise aimed at probing into associated with him. of Iqbal’s poems, “Ek sam Nekar ke kin- diverse discursive paradigms and new With regard to Iqbal’s ‘prophetic vi- are”. Instead, her paper presented a nar- epistemological patterns, with an aim to sion’ of the future envisaging the pos- rative of interesting details about Iqbal’s outlining hitherto unexplored vistas of sibility of a clash between Islam and the stay in Heidelberg, including a review research and theoretical frameworks on West, the panelists carefully avoided of his reading and understanding of various aspects of Islamic studies. Huntington’s bi-polar opposition. Striv- Goethe’s works. The reference to Goethe Unlike the practice exemplified by the ing at a dialogue with the West, and not figured more prominently when Axel majority of conventional Iqbal scholars, bringing about a clash with Western Monte discussed the question as to who the panelists did not adopt a hagiographi- civilization, was, according to Shamim deserves the honorific epithet of the In- cal tone in discussing a personage widely Hanfi and Abul Kalam Qasmi, a more dian Goethe: Tagore or Iqbal? The paper revered for his literary and political con- appropriate description of Iqbal’s ap- alluded to the serious information gaps in tributions; in refreshing contrast, they proach towards the West. Further, as German academia on both Islam as well focused sharply on deconstructing those Inayatullah Baloch’s paper pointed as on literature about Muhammad Iqbal, constrictions placed on Iqbal’s thought out, there was a visible discrepancy a fact that could be held responsible for aimed at associating him with a particu- between Iqbal’s writings and actions, neglecting to accord due significance to lar set of thoughts or ideology. Inam-ul- as exemplified by the fact that he him- his works. All in all, the panelists and Haq Javed’s paper indicated the extent to self refrained from challenging colonial the audience unanimously appreciated which state resources have been used in authority when it came to safeguarding the timely organization of a conference ‘promoting’ the poetic works of Muham- Muslim political interests during the which was welcomed as a major contri- mad Iqbal in every major and minor lan- Khilafat movement in India. The issue bution towards remedying this state of guage of Pakistan, and thereby ‘exposed’ of Muslim revitalisation was taken up affairs. the appropriating agency of the state for rather differently by Hans Harder who instrumentalising Iqbal, for its own pur- suggested that Iqbal linked the idea of Ali Usman Qasmi pose as the ideologue of Pakistan. For ‘original’ Islam and its ‘invigorating- [email protected] his part, Tahir Kamran endeavoured to egalitarian spirit’ with Arabia, whilst

Research scholar at the CSH

A memorandum of understanding be- I was able to get in touch with local pro- cal archives and provide you with sup- tween the South Asia Institute and the fessors as well as take advantage of the port for fieldwork. Members of the CSH Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH) in ‘in-house’ academic community which occasionally organize joint seminars New Delhi enables a scholar each year regularly organises seminars, workshops with Jawaharlal Nehru University. One to conduct research in India. As a CSH and small conferences. The CSH has particular project at the time aimed at fellow I spent the months of August and at any time between four to six French making ‘French’ political science more September, 2007, doing archival work scholars in residence and an equal num- accessible to Indian students and schol- and consulting Delhi based academics. ber of Indian scholars so there is always ars. This included extensive visits to the Neh- a good chance of finding someone who Thanks to my supervisor at the CSH, ru Memorial Library and the Lok Sabha shares your field of interest. In addition, Stephanie Rewa-Tawal, I had a fruit- library and interaction with analysts the CSH provided a desk, computer and ful stay in Delhi. Being in residence at based at the Centre for Policy Research access to their library and in return one is the CSH is an excellent opportunity to and the Institute for Peace and Conflict expected to organise a workshop where I meet both Indian scholars as well as our Studies. gained valuable criticism and advice on French colleagues in the field! It was a unique experience to be lo- my thesis topic, Jawaharlal Nehru and cated in the heart of the capital at a re- policy-making in the 1950s. Jivanta Schottli search institution with excellent contacts In addition to providing introductions, [email protected] to the academic community. As a result, the CSH can help you gain access to lo- 18 Activities

Indology goes regional or Lectures & conferences the new focus on area studies Interdisciplinarity as a challenge to Fitting to the motto of the XXX. Deutsche ects. As all these alterations are still in the study of high mountains Orientalistentag 2007 “Oriental Studies progress close attention to all the diverse 23-25 January 2009, Heidelberg in the 21st Century: Which Past - Which changes is mandatory. Future” one panel dealt with Indology The special subject collection on South Dieter Conrad Lecture: “Dietmar Ro- and South Asian studies. Participants of Asia at the Library of the SAI provides thermund and the history of South all the major universities with a depart- just such a tool to efficient research on Asia” ment of Indology or other disciplines South Asia. Therefore, in our presenta- 26 June 2008, Heidelberg focussing on South Asia discussed the tion we were keen to draw attention to perspectives of their departments within our various services. Particularly the a wider frame of regional studies. One of virtual library Savifa which is accessible the main issues consisted of the chang- world wide will be highly useful to keep New Delhi Book Fair ing conditions for students and academic in touch with all ongoing research. Thus staff due to the newly developed Bach- the mutually agreed on exchange of in- Aware of the possibility to spread the elor and Master programmes within the formation and the build up of a commu- SAI‘s activities, the Branch Office to- Bologna process. The challenging ques- nication network could easily start with gether with its partner D.K. Agencies tion arouse if Indology could continue to Savifa and the newly developed blog was present at the “18th New Delhi exist or develop into a variety of cultural at the suedasien-info website at http:// World Book Fair 2008” with its own and religious studies with diverse region- www.blog.suedasien.info/roles/24/ information point. Thanks to the great al focal points. support of the Heidelberg guest stu- Thus zealous debates concentrated on Sonja Stark-Wild dents Johannes Dahmen, Manju Lud- exchange in different study programmes [email protected] wig and the recent intern of the Branch as well as in academic research proj- Office, Joerg Hornung, they received a very positive feedback from the In- dian public for their contributions to The Kolkata conference at the IDSK the Indo-German relationship. The nine day long fair is the second largest Book Fair in the world and attended by more than 1200 publishers from 23 countries. It is sponsored by the National Book Trust with the in- tention to help Indian authors place their works before a wider circle of Indian and international publishers. The highlights of the book fair included an International Rights Exhi- bition on the works on and by Ma- hatma Gandhi.

Angela Michel Discussing health transition in India. - Photo: Anja Kluge, SAI [email protected]

The initial cornerstone for a collaboration fields of the participants ranged from of the IDSK in Kolkata and the SAI was Public Health and Economics to History Frankfurt Book Fair laid when the Conrad Memorial Lecture and Political Science. The focus of the “Modernity, Malady and Medicine: Poli- conference was on the social and eco- tics, Health Policy and Implementation nomic determinants of health, the region- Please mark your calendars for in India after Independence” took place al variations and the politics and policies the next Frankfurt Book Fair from at the SAI in June 2007. In 2008 a sec- behind the outcome factor “health”. This 15-19 October 2008 where the South ond conference under the title “Health wide range of research fields is neces- Asia Institute will - as in previous Transition in India: Public Health, Gov- sary and important for a scientifically years - have a booth in the Interna- ernance, and the Market” followed in well-founded comprehension of health tional Centre in Hall 5.0. This year Kolkata supported by the DFG. in the process of permanent changes and Turkey will be the guest of honour. The structure of the conference con- challenges. tinued the idea of an interdisciplinary Angela Michel understanding of research in the field Anja Kluge [email protected] of Public Health. The different research [email protected] 19 Activities

20th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies

The 20th European Conference on Mod- Academic Committee. Examples of the an illustrated talk on the Manchester ern South Asian Studies will take place panels to be held are: – India textiles trade, to be hosted by the between July 8th – 11th 2008 in Man- - Visual Cultures in South Asia Whitworth Art Gallery, a reception in chester, UK. This conference is the of- - Indian Foreign Policy in the 21st Cen- Manchester’s historic Town Hall, and a ficial conference of the European Asso- tury: Prospects and Challenges range of other events. We will hold our ciation of South Asian Studies (EASAS), - Lived Islam in Contemporary South conference dinner in the heart of South held every other year in a European city. Asia Asian Manchester, on the famous ‘curry The 19th conference was held in Leiden, - Management of Development Projects mile’ of Rusholme. And of course, a ses- the Netherlands, and we are delighted to in South Asian Countries sion in Manchester would not be com- bring the conference to the University - Writing the Cities of the South Asian plete without a club night, celebrating of Manchester for the 20th session. The Diaspora the city’s recent association with musical University has a range of specialists in - Legal pluralism and tribal politics in innovation. We hope that delegates will South Asian Studies across the Humani- South Asia enjoy our city and the stunning country- ties and Social Science disciplines, and it - Slavery and the Raj: Representing un- side of the Peak and Lake Districts which has recently launched an MA programme free labour in colonial South Asia are within easy reach. Accommodation in South Asian Studies which draws on - Religion, Literature and Film in South will be provided at reasonable rates with- this expertise. Asia and the South Asian Diaspora in the University, although you can also Preparations for the conference are - Citizenship and education in South take advantage of the range of hotels the well under way, and you can visit the Asia city offers. Again, please check the web- conference website at http://www.arts. - Disease, possession and healing in site for details on this. manchester.ac.uk/ecmsas/. The keynote South Asia We look forward to meeting many speaker will be Professor Sanjay Subrah- For a full list of panels, please visit the colleagues and friends. If you have any manyam of UCLA. Professor Subrah- conference website, where you will also further questions, do consult the website manyam will address the conference on find abstracts explaining panel themes or contact us on ecmsas@manchester. the theme of “Cultures of Travel between and details of the panel convenors. ac.uk. Anjou and Agra: Europe and Asia in the As well as the academic programme, Early Modern World”. A list of 40 pan- we are planning a lively cultural pro- John Zavos els has been selected by the Conference gramme in Manchester. This will include [email protected]

Beyond partitions: The Pakistan Working Group at the SAI

On the fourth of April 1979 I crossed of the „unfinished partition“ (of India in life again after the nuclear tests of 1998. into Pakistan at Wagah/Atari. Indian 1947). My encounter of 1979 showed Activities can be seen from the website newspapers had predicted that Zulfikar how closely events in Pakistan are being (linked on the SAI homepage). Ali Bhutto, the leader of the Pakistan followed in India and vice versa and how The Working Group is not only inter- Peoples Party (PPP), former Chief Mar- mutual distrust does not keep people disciplinary (co-ordinated by an econo- tial Law Administrator, President and from trusting information from across mist and a linguist), but also very much Prime Minister, would be hanged that the border. This phenomenon is surpris- trans-national: If we consider, that there very day. Expecting unrest and the bor- ing for outsiders who tend to deal with is still only one major overland crossing der to be closed, I was the first to cross in the two quarrelling neighbours separate- from Southwest Asia into South Asia the morning. The health officer greeted ly and deal with them jointly only when between China and the Indian Ocean, i.e. me with the words „They did it!“ I asked: discussing conflicts and war. the one described above, we understand „How did you know?“ He answered „All This was evident already in 1971. The that developments in the lands south of India Radio!“ Pakistan military government refused the Himalayas have to be seen within the Relations with countries went from to accept the result of the first national wider regional context. Present Pakistan bad to worse, Pakistan was excluded elections and put the Army’s boots on is an outcome of more than one parti- from US aid and angry students burnt East Pakistan, the beginning of another tion, Pakistan’s future will be as much down the US embassy in Islamabad. partition. Hans Christoph Rieger of the linked with South Asia as with the world Relations improved once the Soviets in- Economics Department took the initia- around. vaded Afghanistan. There was a certain tive and organized a first meeting of deja-vu when 9/11 saved Pakistan from what became the Pakistan Arbeitskreis Wolfgang-Peter Zingel being declared a „terrorist state“, instead as a truly interdisciplinary endeavour. [email protected] it again became a frontline state in the There were weekly meetings with well- „War on Terror“. Both times, 1979 and known speakers from the academia, For further information. please see 2001, events in Southwest/Central Asia politics, diplomacy, and the media, re- http://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/ overshadowed the very strained relations sulting in a number of publications. The workgroups/pak/ between India and Pakistan, the legacy oldest working group of the SAI came to 20 Activities

Everything you always wanted to know about …

… the ongoing work of your colleagues? You might find it in the “Directory of South Asia Scholars” on www.savifa.de This new bi-lingual database (German and English) aims at promoting the com- munication and exchange of information among scholars with a research focus on South Asia and contains information on scholars as well as research projects.

- Various search and browsing options, e.g. “language”, “country” or “subject” allow for a specific search for persons and research topics. - Links to project websites or online publications of individual scholars provide direct access to more specific information. - Currently the database contains nearly 200 entries from scholars worldwide with research interests ranging from comparative mythology to informal sector economy in India. - Descriptions of more than 40 current projects inform you on ongoing research.

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Nicole Merkel [email protected] The Directory of South Asia Scholars online - Screenshot: Nicole Merkel, SAI

A night less ordinary The first Visitors’ Night at the University of Heidelberg on 11 November 2007

Could a night on campus possibly hold an impression of the research progress pendence on 14 August 1947 rang out the same fascination as a night at a muse- being made and its repercussions on our and the audience in the seminar room got um? That was probably the question the everyday lives.” an inkling of the emotionally laden atmo- authorities asked themselves before they The SAI also took part and although sphere of the event. decided on the ingredients for a most the Institute is sometimes considered After the “resounding success“ of this successful recipe to create a spin-off for somewhat exotic in the Neuenheimer first Visitors‘ Night it can safely be as- the popular annual Long Night of Muse- Feld – surrounded as it is by chemists, sumed that we may be in for a sequel in ums: take 60 university institutes, facul- physicists and other scientists – we man- the not too distant future. ties, hospitals and companies, open them aged to attract more than 350 visitors from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m., mix an interesting who came to see Indian dance, took part See also the Commentary on the Visitors’ programme, shake well and you will get in a variety of language taster courses Night by journalist Ingeborg Salomon 23,000 people up on their feet and enjoy- and attended lectures and presentations from the local newspaper Rhein-Neckar- ing themselves at the dead of night. on topics such as “Beyond 9/11“ and Zeitung: http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/ “We want to show our visitors the ex- “Performance and Ritual“. press/news/press541e.html citing and important topics addressed by At the stroke of the midnight hour our scientists and scholars,” said Rector Jawaharlal Nehru’s famous Midnight Angela Michel Bernhard Eitel. “This way they can get Speech on the granting of Indian Inde- [email protected] 21 Activities

Publications and research projects

Anthropology India: a comparison”, in The Anthropol- als”. In Hüsken, Ute (ed.). When Rituals ogy of Values edited by Peter Berger, go Wrong: Mistakes, Failure, and the Projects Roland Hardenberg, Ellen Kattner und Dynamics of Ritual. Leiden: Brill, 2007: - Healing practices, health explanatory Michael Prager, New Delhi: Pearson- 291-324. models and the articulation of identity Longman, 2008. - “‘Indien scheint’: Neu Delhi als Welt- of the Narikorava (Vagri) in Tamil Nadu - “Healing Practices and Health Explana- klasse-Stadt”. [India Shining. New Delhi (Gabriele Alex) tory Models of the Narikuravar (Vagri) as World-Class City]. Archplus 186 (In- - Public, private and virtual places: in Tamil Nadu”, Societies and Medicines dian Island-Urbanism in India), 2007: South Indian youth and their meeting in South Asia, Newsletter Nr. 2, 2007. 66-69. grounds (Gabriele Alex) - The Tamil diaspora in Germany William Sax (Gabriele Alex) - “The Royal Procession of the Goddess Classical Indology - Agency and Territorial Rituals in India Nanda”. In Jörg Gengnagel, Monika (Christiane Brosius, Karin Polit; Ritual Horstmann and Gerald Schwedler (eds. ), Dynamics A4) Prozessionen, Wallfahrten, Aufmärsche: Projects - Lifestyle aesthetics in postliberalisation Bewegung zwischen Religion und Politik - Initiation, priestly ordination, temple India (Christiane Brosius) in Europa und Asien seit dem Mittelalter. festivals - ritual traditions in the south - Soziokultureller Kontext von Krank- Menschen und Kulturen. Beihefte zum Indian temple city of Kancipuram (Ute heiten und HIV/Aids - Einfluss auf die Saeculum (Band 3, 4 od. 5). Weimar: Hüsken, Ritual Dynamics A3) Aidsprävention in Afrika. Am Beispiel Böhlau, 2007: 277-87. - Life-cycle rituals in Nepal (Axel Mi- von Mosambique im Kontext Sub-Sa- - “Heilen Rituale?” In Axel Michaels chaels, with N. Gutschow, N. Sharma, Chr. hara Afrika (Sophie Kotanyi) (ed.), Die neue Kraft der Rituale. Hei- Zotter, K. Goegg, and A. Mishra; Ritual - Consuming theatre: the economics and delberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, Dynamics A2) politics of Jatra in West Bengal (India) 2007: 213-236. - Editio princeps of the so-called Wright (Martin Kunz) - “Healing” and “The Himalayas”. In chronicle (Axel Michaels) - Exploring the spiritual: a study on the Cush, Denise, Catherine Robinson and - Staging Religion (Axel Michaels) role of practice and belief in contemporary Michael York (eds)., Routledge Curzon health seeking behaviour in Lakamega Encyclopedia of Hinduism. 2007. Publications district of Western Province (Scholar- - “Pandav Lila” and “Religion and Tradi- ship from Catholic Academic Exchange tional South Asian Theatre”. In Samuel Axel Michaels Service, Germany) (Ferdinand Okwaro) Leiter (ed.), Encyclopedia of Asian The- - Ïiva in Trouble. Festivals and Rituals - Local concepts of the integration of atre. at the PaÐupatinÁtha Temple of Deopa- Ayurveda in Kerala: between tradition tan (Nepal). Oxford, New York: Oxford and globalization (Mihaela Paina) Christiane Brosius University Press, 2008. - The evolving context of patronage and - “The enclaved gaze: Exploring the - with Jan Assmann und Franz Maciejew- performance of a ritual art in Kerala Visual Culture of ‘world class-living’ ski (eds.): Der Abschied von den Toten. (South India) (Marianne Pasty) in urban India”. In Jyotindra Jain (ed.), Trauerrituale im Kulturvergleich. 2. rev. - Sickness and healing amongst the Gad- India’s Popular Culture: Iconic Spaces ed. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2007. di of northwest India: cultural concepts and Fluid Images. MARG Special Issue. - “Macht und Ritual im Hinduismus“, and global influences (Anja Wagner) Mumbai, 2008. In R. Butz, J. Hirschbiegel (eds.), Hof - Ritual healing and its critics (William - “Parading Violence: The Politics of und Macht. Dresdner Gespräche II zur S. Sax, Ferdinand Okwaro; Ritual Dy- Spectacle in a Hindu Nationalist Pro- Theorie des Hofes. Berlin: LIT, 2007, namics A5) cession”. In Jörg Gengnagel, Monika 197-208. Horstmann, Gerald Schwedler (eds). - “Den Tod in die Hand nehmen. Todes- Publications Prozessionen, Wallfahrten, Aufmärsche: bewältigung im Hinduismus“. In B. Bewegung zwischen Religion und Politik Heller, F. Winter (eds.), Tod und Ritual. Gabriele Alex in Europa und Asien seit dem Mittel- Interkulturelle Perspektiven zwischen - Good Deaths, Bad Deaths. Dilemmas alter. Band 4 der Reihe Menschen und Tradition und Moderne. Wien: LIT, of Death in Comparitive Perspective. Kulturen der Saeculum-Beihefte. Köln 2007, 75-90. Edited with Suzette Heald, special issue & Weimar: Böhlau, 2008: 312-335. - “Wenn Götter tanzen – Zum Verhältnis of Curare Vol. 31.1 2008 - with Nicolas Yazgi: “Is There No Place von Ritual und Tanz”. In G. Brandstetter - “When you are feeling of no use any Like Home? Contesting Cinematograph- and Chr. Wulf (eds.), Tanz als Anthro- more: explaining suicide in rural Tamil ic Constructions of Indian Diasporic pologie, München: Wilhelm Fink Ver- Nadu”, in Good Deaths, Bad Deaths. Ed- Experiences”. Contributions to Indian lag, 2007, 146-158. ited by Gabriele Alex and Suzette Heald, Soci¬ology 41(3) 2007: 41, 353–84. - “Perfection and Mishaps in Vedic Ritu- Curare Vol 31.1, 2008. - “The Unwanted Offering. Ubiquity and als“. In Ute Huesken (ed.), When Rituals - “Rituals of first menstruation in South Success of Failure in Hindu Right Ritu- Go Wrong: Mistakes, Failure, and the 22 Activities

Dynamics of Ritual. Leiden and Boston: East Africa (Marcus Nüsser) nar on Biogeography and Biodiversity. Brill, 121-132. - Transcultural topographies of urban 3-4.5.2007. Srinagar (Garhwal), India. - “Blutopfer in Nepal”. In Christina von sensoriums and events (Christiane Bro- Braun, Christoph Wulf (eds.), Mythen sius & Marcus Nüsser) Martin Gerwin, Christoph Bergmann, des Blutes. Frankfurt/Main: Campus, - Food security in Ladakh (Jammu and Marcus Nüsser and William Sax 2007, 91-107. Kashmir, India) between subsistence-ori- - Strategien der Ressourcennutzung im - “Ritual and Meaning”, and “Sanskrit”. ented resource utilisation and socio-eco- Wandel: Die Bhotiyas des Hochgebirgs- In M. Stausberg (ed.), ’Ritual’: A Lexi- nomic transformation (Juliane Dame) Grenzraums von Uttarakhand (Indien). cographic Survey of Some Related Terms - Forest councils (van panchayats) in the AK-Hochgebirge. Passau 2008, p. 35. from an Emic Perspective, both in Jens Uttarakhand-Himalayas, India: commu- Kreinath, Jan Snoek, and Michael Staus- nity forestry between local utilization Elvira Graner berg (eds.), Theorizing Rituals. Issues, strategies and external influences (Mar- - “Bildung in Nepal. Neue Chancen Topics, Approaches, Concepts. Leiden: tin Gerwin) und steinige Wege”. Nepal Information Brill, 2006, 86-90 and 247-261 (Chines. - Repatriation of internally displaced 2007(99), 56-60. (Education in Nepal. Transl. in Ritual and Belief. New Per- persons in Nepal (Lars Stöwesand) New chances and stony paths) spectives for Modern Cultural Anthro- - Water scarcity and availability in La- - “Education in Nepal. Meeting or Miss- pology (in Chinese), ed. Xiaobing Wang- dakh: Fluctuating glaciers and challenging the Millennium Development Goals”, Riese, Peking 2008, pp. 35-64.) es for irrigation systems (Northern India) Contributions to Nepalese Studies 2007 (Susanne Schmidt) (31), 153-176. Online at http://www.the Development Economics - Glacier response to regional climate freelibrary.com/Contributions+to+Nepal change in the Nanga Parbat Region ese+Studies/2006/July/1-p5289 (Northern Pakistan) (Marcus Nüsser & - Globalisation and Institutional Con- Projects Susanne Schmidt) flicts in Carpet Manufacturing in Nepal, - Child labour, education and economic - International labour migration from Faculty of Chemistry and Geosciences, growth (Clive Bell) Nepal (Elvira Graner) Heidelberg, 2007. Habilitation thesis. - Economic growth and premature adult - Education and gender in Nepal (Elvira mortality: the long-run economics of Graner) Marcus Nüsser AIDS (Clive Bell) - “Erschließung und Entwicklung am - Dealing with natural shocks in a nomad- Publications Nanga Parbat: Regionale Herausforde- ic economy: the case of winter droughts rungen im pakistanischen Himalaya”. in Mongolia (Natsagdorj Enkhjargal) Jürgen Clemens and Marcus Nüsser In S. Chaudhry et al. (eds.), 60 Jahre - The economic effects of HIV/AIDS in - “Animal Husbandry and Utilization Pakistan: Aufbruch, Errungenschaften Ethiopia (Anastasios Koukoumelis) of Alpine Pastures in the Nanga Parbat und Herausforderungen (Deutsch Paki- - Selected aspects of the economics of an Region of Northern Pakistan: Compari- stanisches Forum), Bonn, Berlin 2007: aging population (Jochen Laps) son of Raikot and Rupal Valleys”. In- 112-119. Israr-Ud-Din (ed.), Proceedings of the Publications Third International Hindu Kush Cultural Susanne Schmidt Conference. Karachi: Oxford University - Die reliefabhängige Schneedecken- Sona Sykorova Press, 2008: 71-81. verteilung im Hochgebirge – ein multi- - Measures to improve the access of the skaliger Methodenverbund am Beispiel least developed countries to the markets Juliane Dame des Lötschentals (Schweiz). Diss. Univ. of the European Union and the USA and - Food security in Ladakh: subsistence- Bonn, 2007. http://hss.ulb.uni-bonn. their development impact. PhD thesis, oriented resource utilisation and socio- de/diss_online/math_nat_fak/2007/ completed September 2007. economic transformation. International schmidt_susanne Association for Ladakh Studies, 13th - “Analyses of Glacier Changes and Wa- International Colloqium, 7.-11.09.2007. ter Availability in Ladakh (Northern In- Geography Rom. p. 8. dia)”. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 2008, Vol. 10. SRef-ID: 1607-7962/gra/ Juliane Dame and Marcus Nüsser EGU2008-A-10591 Projects - Agrare Ressourcennutzung als primäre - Land use and landscape changes in the Nahrungsmittelbasis im Hochgebirge? Susanne Schmidt and Marcus Nüsser northwestern Himalayas (Northern Paki- Untersuchungen am Beispiel der Region - “Glacier Changes in the Nanga Parbat- stan) (Marcus Nüsser) Ladakh. Deutscher Geographentag 2007, Himalayas (Northern Areas of Pakistan) - Large dams: contested environments 29.09.-05.10.2007. Bayreuth. over the last 70 Years”. Geophysical Re- between hydro-power and resistance search Abstracts, 2008, Vol. 10. SRef- (Marcus Nüsser & Gita Dharampal- Martin Gerwin ID: 1607-7962/gra/EGU2008-A-10557 Frick) - Transformation of Land Use and Moun- - Semi-arid areas in transition: livelihood tain Livelihoods in the Gori Valley: The Susanne Schmidt, B. Weber and M. security, socio-ecological variability and Importance of Heterogeneity. Interna- Winiger the role of development interventions in tional Geographical Union (IGU): Semi- - “Filling the Gap - The Potential of 23 Activities

Terrestrial Images to Monitor the Snow - Evaluation of the Board’s Collection, lag, 2008. Cover Distribution in Mountains”. Geo- 1784-1858 - ed. with Chandi Prasad Nanda: Frag- physical Research Abstracts, 2007, Vol. - Ritual transfer between South Asia and ments in Focus – The Jayapura Raja- 9, SRef-ID: 1607-7962/gra/EGU2007- the West (1500-200) (Gita Dharampal- vamsavali. New Delhi: Manohar Publi- A-07746 Frick & Martin Brandtner) cations, 2008. - Shifting cultural asymmetries through - ed. with Hermann Kulke: Centre and Susanne Schmidt and B. Weber political cartoons: A study of Indian Periphery in Orissa and Beyond. Studies - The Dilemma of Resolution and Punch magazines (1877-1947) (within a in Orissan History, Religion and Anthro- Seasonality of Snow Cover in Alpine Joint Project on Asian Satire in the Hei- pology. New Delhi: Manohar Publica- Environments. Proceedings of the delberg “Cluster of Excellence”, RA B; tions, 2008. Alpine*Snow*Workshop, Munich, Octo- Project leader, Hans Harder, Modern In- - Orissa Publication Database, 1980- ber 5-6, 2006, Germany. Berchtesgaden dology) 2007. http://www.savifa.uni-hd.de/ National Park research report, 2008, 53, - Large dams: contested environments home_en.html Berchtesgaden: 103-110. between hydro-power and resistance - Edition of texts from Mackenzie Un- (Joint project in the Heidelberg “Clus- bound Translations. OIOC, British Li- ter of Excellence”, RA C, with Marcus brary, 2008. History Nüsser, Geography, Project leader, ) Gita Dharampal-Frick Publications - with Jos Gommans and Bhaswati Bhat- Projects tacharya: “Spatial and Temporal Conti- -“South Asian Modernity: A Network of Georg Berkemer nuities of Merchant Networks in South Historical and Contemporary Studies“ - Max Weber und Indien. Ed. by Vera Asia and the Indian Ocean (1500-2000),” (SAM) Höke. Heidelberg: Christian Weiss-Ver- JESHO 50/2-3, Leiden 2007

Axel Michaels: Ïiva in Trouble Festivals and Rituals at the PaÐupatinÁtha Temple of Deopatan

The town of Deopatan, three kilometers northeast of Kathmandu, is, above all, famous for its main sanctum, the temple of Panullupati, the “lord of the animals”, a form of Ïiva and the tutelary deity of the kings of Ne- pal since ancient times. By its name alone, the temple attracts thousands of pilgrims each year and has made itself known far beyond the Kathmandu Valley. However, for the dominant Newar population the town is by no means merely the seat of Ïiva or PaÐupati. It is also a city of wild goddesses and other deities. Due to this tension between two strands of Hinduism -- the pure, veg- etarian Smarta Hinduism and the Newar Hinduism which implies alcohol and blood sacrifices -- Ïiva/PaÐupati has more than once been in trouble, as the many festivals and rituals described and analyzed in this book reveal. Deopa- tan is a contested field. Different deities, agents, social groups, ritual specialists, and institutions are constantly seeking dominance, challenging and even fighting each other, thus contribut- ing to social and political dynamics and tensions that are indeed distinct in South Asia. It is these aspects on which Axel Michaels concentrates in this new book.

Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2008 312 pages ISBN13: 978-0-19-534302-1 - ISBN10: 0-19-534302-6

The Pashupatinath temple in Deopatan. - Photo: Axel Michaels, SAI

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29 January 2007 26 October 2007 4 December 2007 Old Agendas, New Guises: Changing Military and Society in Pakistan Hannah Arendt, Education and Libera- Landuse in the Mountain Frontiers of the Ayesha Siddiqa, Islamabad tion: A Comparative South Asian Femi- Kumaon Himalaya nist Perspective. Emmanuel Theophilus, Munsiari, 30 October 2007. Barnita Bagchi Uttaranchal, India Locality and Region in the Making of the Indian State. 22 January 2008 9 July 2007 Aloka Parasher-Sen Coalition Politics in India: Cultural Syn- Rheinland-Ethnographie und Pakistani ergy or Political Expediency? Reflexivity 4 November 2007 Bidyut Chakrabarty Mohamad Azam Chaudhary, Islamabad, Sites of Power and Ritual: The Early Quaid-i-Azam University Temple in Peninsular India 25 January 2008 Himanshu Prabha Ray, Jawaharlal Panel discussion: Pakistan after Benazir 12 July 2007 Nehru University (JNU) and before the elections: What way? Naturkatastrophen und Katastrophen- hilfe in Südasien 6 November 2007 6 February 2008 Jürgen Clemens, Malteser International, Rabindranath Tagore and his Encounters The Indian Uprising of 1857 and its lega- Köln with Western Intellectuals, 1912-1941. cies Michael Collins Crispin Bates, Centre for South Asian 19 July 2007 Studies, University of Edinburgh Medieval Ports in the Bengal Delta: His- 15 November 2007 torical and Environmental Perspectives Sectarian militancy in Pakistan 16 May 2008 Rila Mukherjee, University of Hyder- Tahir Kamran, Government College Militancy in Swat: Historical Perspec- abad University, Lahore tive, Mismanagement and the Role of International Agents 26 October 2007 20 November 2007 Altaf Qadir, University of Peshawar Sacred Terrorism - Theirs and Ours Between India, China and Burma: the Pervez Hoodbhoy, Islamabad Transformation of Arunachal. Barbara Harriss-White, University of Oxford

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