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Asian Studies CentreTravelling Santas, Circulation and Formation of ‘the Multilingual Local’ of World Literature in the early modern MarathiPart of the International conference on Maharashtra in September 2021 - Sachin Ketkar, MS University, Vadodara Though bhakti is often understood as criticism of rituals like the pilgrimages, travelling as part of pilgrimage (tirth-yatra) or religious travel (parikrama or bhrman) has played an essential role in circulation of bhakti tropes, ideological beliefs, genres, and texts in the trans-regional vernacular sphere in South Asia. While the nativist understanding of bhakti assumes that it was as assertion and celebration of monolingual desi identities in opposition to the hegemony of Sanskrit ‘margiya’ traditions, South Asian scholars like Sheldon Pollock see it as a part of t...2021-12-2124 minAsian Studies CentrePersian Cosmopolis and World Literature in Precolonial Marathi Literary HistoriographySachin Ketkar gives the second presentation on the second day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.2021-04-2846 minAsian Studies CentrePersian Cosmopolis and World Literature in Precolonial Marathi Literary HistoriographySachin Ketkar gives the second presentation on the second day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.2021-04-2846 min
SynTalk#TVVS (The Very Very Slow) --- SynTalkAre younger systems faster? Do elephants mate slowly? Is a plastic ruler always ageing? Is only glass glassy? Why are processes slow or fast, & how do they speed up or slow down? Do all systems have an internal clock? Is water fast because it acts like a large correlated spring? Is there such a thing as fully-dissolved? Are certain social systems stable because they remain ‘useful’? How does fashion change fast? Is slowness a sign of highly connected groups? ‘How’ does inter-caste marriage happen? Is the past more important only for systems that are undergoing change? Do external disruptions lead to a rev...2018-09-301h 12