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3.00 Credits
Staff. We will read South Asian lyrical poetry in translation, ranging over a span of time of some three thousand years, from the Vedas via classical Sanskrit and Prakrit to medieval and modern vernacular literature, and exploring also the range of emotions from delicate descriptions of the seasons and nature to passionate outpourings of love and both erotic and religious ecstacy.
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Behl. This course will address the literary tradition of the romance in South Asia, focusing on Indian narratives of love, their articulation in different poetic and social contexts, and the fantasy structures attached to the ideal of romantic love. We will also consider current critical approaches to the romance: psychoanalytic, folkloric, feminist, and Marxist. Readings include Kalidasa'a Sakuntala, the love-story of UrvasiandPururavas, Niami's Laya Majnun, Sufi love-stories from Islamic India, colonial romances, postcolonial and diasporic fictions, and modern Hindi films.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. This class will deal with the main periods of Urdu writing: (1) early beginnings 1200-1500; (2) Dekkani Urdu; (3) the "Golden Tradition" (18th century); (4) 19th century; (5) 20th century. In all these periods important trends and the foremost authors will be presented in biographical and poetical examples. The changes of literary genres will be discussed and due importance will be given to the social and historical developments of the times.
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3.00 Credits
Gambhir, V. This course focuses each year on one of several topics which include the genesis of the South Asian linguistic area, the social implications of multilingualism, language development, language policy and education, and language in the political process.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. This course uses ethnography and documentary film to examine religious practice in India, looking at daily rituals and habits associated with religionand special moments in collective religious life, such as festivals, pilgrimageand "rites of passage." We'll also investigate ways that religious life intersects with secular life, the state, the nation, and media.
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3.00 Credits
Behl/Staff. This course is designed to introduce students to the wide array of devotional and mystical literatures of pre-modern South Asia. We will focus on the texts, practices, and discourses of the religious and literary communities which create these forms of literature, placing them within social and historical contexts. Topics covered include the formation of Sufi silsilahs in India, Krishna bhakti and the Vais_ava sects, Kabir, Guru Nanak and the Sikhs, Tulsidas's Ramcaritmanas, and other texts in translation.
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3.00 Credits
Behl. The aim of this course is to cover the history, sources, techniques, and exemplary biographies of Sufis in the Indian subcontinent. Attention will be paid to particular chains of instruction as well as principles of piety and and spiritual improvement. We will also read poetic works by members of the different silsilahs or orders which pioneered the regional literary traditions of South Asia. Also included are performance traditions (qawwali) attached to shrines.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. A critical examination of selected problem areas in the interpretation of religious texts, traditions, and practices in South India and Southeast Asia.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. This course will offer an unusual perspective on pre-modern India. Over a period of nearly two millennia from its origins in the fourth or fifth century BC Buddhism played an important role in Indian religious practice and philosophical thought, as well as in politics and in the court, and it is often not realized that Buddhists made important contributions to the arts, literature, and the sciences as well. In addition to studying key works writtenby Indian Buddhists, we will read accounts of Chinese and Tibetan pilgrims to what they saw as the holy land of the founder of their faith.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. From the Buddha and Mahavira, the founder of Jainism, to Ramakrishna and even modern times: India's religions are full of holy men and women, and their biographies, often colorful and full of supernatural incident, have inspired devotees and played a key part in communicating moral and philosophical values. In this course we will read a wide range of these tales of saints and sainthood, some of high literary sophistication and some moving in their simplicity, and consider the roles that religious biography andhagiography has played in the complex traditions of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.
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