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Die Festschrift zu Ehren von Professor Dr. Gita Dharampal-Frick vereint eine Vielzahl an innovativen Beiträgen von Freunden, Kollegen und ehemaligen Studierenden zu den vielschichtigen Forschungsgebieten der Geschichte Südasiens, die Gita Dharampal-Frick in den letzten Jahrzehnten bereichert hat. Der Band deckt mehrere Jahrhunderte und facettenreiche Themen ab, die von transkulturellen Begegnungen zwischen Südasien und Europa, über Aspekte des kolonialen Diskurses (wie etwa der kolonialen Wissensproduktion oder der Aushandlung von Identitäten), wegweisende Ansätze der maritimen Geschichte des Indischen Ozeans bis hin zu vielfältigen Perspektiven auf M. K. Gandhi reichen.

Swami Sahajananda (1781-1830), the founder of the Swaminarayan Movement, considered by his followers as an embodiment of Krishna, let Swami Shatananda write the Satsangijivanam in order to vouchsafe that his presence and teaching live on among his followers in and through this text. The extensive work is composed in Sanskrit and is here presented in an English summary. The text describes the biography of Swami Sahajananda and is an important document for the religious situation in the Gujarat of its time; it testifies to the religious practices (festivals, norms and values for private and public life) by which Swaminarayan wanted to replace practices (like animal sacrifice) that were considered as abuses. The content of the text is made accessible through a detailed index.

»Das Weltall, die Gesamtheit des in der Welt Vorhandenen, wird in den Br¿hmäas gewöhnlich mit dem Ausdruck idä sarvam ¿das alles hier¿ bezeichnet¿«, heißt es in der Doktorarbeit von Konrad Klaus Die altindische Kosmologie (1986). Die Vollendung seines 65. Lebensjahres ¿ zugleich die Vollendung von zwei Jahrzehnten als Universitätsprofessor in Bonn ¿ ist uns willkommener Anlass, Konrad Klaus mit der vorliegenden Festschrift zu ehren. »Das alles hier« darf gerne auch im Hinblick auf das bisherige Lebenswerk des Geehrten gedeutet werden: Ein reiches akademisches Wirken mit vielfachen Aktivitäten in Lehre, Forschung und Wissenschaftsmanagement mit einer großen Zahl brillanter Publikationen zu philologischen und kulturgeschichtlichen Fragestellungen als sichtbare Zeichen. Konrad Klaus hat einen würdigen Platz in der wissenschaftlichen Traditionslinie der Indologie, die in Deutschland institutionell mit der Einrichtung des ersten der indischen Philologie gewidmeten Lehrstuhls an der neugegründeten Universität Bonn 1818 begann. Es wäre verfehlt, zu glauben, die 200-Jahr-Feier 2018 sei eine Art vorgezogenes Begräbnis gewesen. Der Übergang zur Südasienkunde mit einem erneuerten Profi l gehört mit zum Lebenswerk von Konrad Klaus, der, obwohl selbst klassischer Indologe, diese Neuausrichtung voll unterstützte und wohlwollend begleitete. DE

This book examines the Bhadrakar¿tr¿-s¿tra, an important representative of early Buddhist rak¿¿ literature, and thereby contributes to the investigation of this literary genre. This work ultimately presents an edition, partial reconstruction, and translation of the two extant Sanskrit manuscripts found in Central Asia, as well as a critical edition and translation of the Tibetan version of this text. Special focus is also given to the Chinese and Tibetan variants of the mantras. Moreover, it highlights specific rak¿¿ elements, formal features, and linguistic and semantic patterns of the Bhadrakar¿tr¿-s¿tra. These are crucial for the understanding of the peculiarities of its language, as well as its textual development and classification among rak¿¿ literature.

Religion is commonly perceived as an unequivocally defined concept. However, a historic perspective raises questions about this understanding and reveals religion as a concept that developed only in a process of negotiation with other religions. In particular, the 19th century is of special interest in this regard, as the colonial encounter intensifies tremendously in South Asia. The religions of South Asia are scrutinised, categorised and compared to Christianity by Europeans, which leads to the development of religion as abstractum. Missionary and orientalist critique as well as modern science pose to be an entirely new confrontation for the Muslims of South Asia. This book aims to analyse Muslim responses to this confrontation, which imply a translation of Islam as a religion as well as an adaption of the concept of religion itself. The Aligarh Movement is of particular interest in this regard, as it intensively engages in these debates, trying to integrate a re-interpretation of Islam in these discourses.

With the threat and emergence of monotonous cityscapes in a rapidly urbanizing China, the pressure to preserve local characteristics has taken centre stage. Central and local governments at the beginning of the 1980s responded by prioritizing 24 cities with historical value and cultural relics. Drawing on international standards and experiences of early Chinese architects such as Liang Sicheng, the concept of ¿Historically and Culturally Famous Cities¿ begins to take shape. The study delineates three revitalized residential areas in the Jiangnan region, two of them characterized by splendid private gardens, Ming and Qing period mansions of historical figures, ceremonial archways, historic wells and trees. Strictly adhering to international conservation guidelines, the development of the Pingjiang Historic and Cultural Block in Suzhou came about in the conservation of its central road. As a pilot site for UNESCO¿s Historic Urban Landscape management approach, Tongli Ancient Water Town explores its own ¿Tongli model¿ for an integration of its residential and scenic areas. Contrastingly, the transformation of factory buildings and lilong architecture into a creative crucible in Tianzifang, Shanghai, is remarkable for its bottom-up approach. Based on these three areas which now serve as exemplars for integrated conservation and development, the study argues and demonstrates how ¿Historically and Culturally Famous Cities¿ developed from their initial concept into a multi-layered conservation system.

Kannada (also known as Canarese) is one among the few great living Indian literary languages that have received the status of 'classical language' from the Government of India on account of their historical importance and literary richness It is spoken by roughly 65 million people and is the sole official language of the south Indian state of Karnataka. This manual was especially written for the teaching of this Dravidian language in an academic setting, but is also suitable for private self-learning.

This book aims at investigating changes and continuities in Chinese perceptions of Russia and the West during the 20th century, paying heed to the fact that the respective ascriptions and ¿frontlines¿ were historically contingent: who and what represented ¿Russiä or ¿the West¿ at a given time and at a given place? Was ¿Russiä part of ¿the West¿, or not? And if it was, in which regard? Which factors ¿ foreign or indigenous ¿ led to changes in Chinese perceptions and representations and why? With such questions in mind, this book was taking shape, growing out of a German-Russian project funded by the DFG-RFBR. The German-Russian research team from Heidelberg University and St. Petersburg State University worked on exploring the topic together with colleagues from mainland China and Taiwan, concentrating on three major areas: 1. The field of socialization via a look into normative descriptions of Russia and ¿the West¿ in Chinese school textbooks which define images of the ¿other/s¿ from childhood on; 2. The field of literature and Chinese fictional representations of Russia and ¿the West¿ consumed by a Chinese reading public; 3. The field of visual and material manifestations which define images of the ¿other/s¿ in their own medial way and make them accessible also to a public far from purely discursive levels and to those who do not actively look for them.

Wege durchs Labyrinth ist eine Festschrift zu Ehren von Professor Dr. Rahul Peter Das. Sie enthält deutsch- und englischsprachige Beiträge von Kollegen und Kolleginnen, Schülern und Schülerinnen sowie Weggefährten von Professor Das. Die hier versammelten Aufsätze bilden verschiedene thematische Schwerpunkte ab, die auch Professor Das in seinem umfangreichen wissenschaftlichen Oeuvre bearbeitet hat. Dazu gehören Sanskrit-Studien, historische Sprachwissenschaft, Texteditionen in neuindoarischen Sprachen, Soziolinguistik, südasiatische Religionsgeschichte, bengalische und Hindi-Literatur, Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Indologie/Südasienstudien sowie auch Tamilistik. Einige der Beiträge knüpfen direkt an Rahul Peter Das¿ Werk oder bestimmte Schriften an, während die Gesamtheit der Aufsätze seine verschiedenen Forschungsinteressen und unterschiedlichen methodischen Ansätze widerspiegeln. Beitragende zu dieser Festschrift sind Carmen Brandt, Renata Czekalska, Ines Fornell, Eli Franco, Ratul Ghosh, Olav Hackstein, Hans Harder, Martin Kämpchen, Klaus Karttunen, Makoto Kitada, Frank J. Korom, Agnieszka Kuczkiewicz-Frä, Halina Marlewicz, Ulrike Niklas, Tatiana Oranskaia, Felix Otter, Adapa Satyanarayana, Britta Schulze-Thulin, Sabine Franziska Strich, Heinz Werner Wessler und Benjamin Zachariah. DE

This book presents recent scholarly research on one of the most important literary and historical periods of the Early Modern era from a wide range of approaches and perspectives. It contains a selection of contributions presented at the 12th International Conference on Early Modern Literatures of North India which provide new material as well as innovative methods to approach it.¿The organizing principle of the volume lies in its exploration of the links between a multiplicity of languages (Indian vernaculars, Persian, Sanskrit), media (texts, paintings, images) and traditions (Hindu, Jain, Sikh, Muslim). The role of the Persian language and the importance of translations from Sanskrit into Persian are discussed in light of the translational turn. The relations between various yogic traditions, especially of Nath origin, from Kabir and other sampradayas, are also reconsidered.

In M¿ndh¿tr¿durga ¿ A Preliminary Catalogue of the Historic Monuments at O¿k¿re¿var¿M¿ndh¿t¿ Jürgen Neuß offers for the first time a comprehensive survey of the extant historic monuments at O¿k¿re¿var-M¿ndh¿t¿, the most important place of pilgrimage in the Narmad¿ valley. Although the place is known as an archaeological site since the middle of the 19th century, it has till date been overlooked that the remains are much more extensive and coherent than the rarely published archaeological notes, that deal with only a few monuments, suggest. This book provides a long overdue survey of the whole area which in essence represents a conglom¬eration of three historic settlements. At the center lies a thoroughly structured fortification, M¿ndh¿tr¿durga, which represents the only preserved fortified city of the Param¿ras of Dh¿ra in the Narmad¿ valley presently known to us.