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		<description><![CDATA[International Law and Social Sciences Research Network Conference University of Peradeniya &#8211; Sri Lanka. December 14 to 16, 2012 The inaugural Law and Social Sciences Research Network (LASSnet) conference was held at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi in 2009. A subsequent conference was held at the Foundation for Liberal and Management Education in Pune in 2010. These conferences identified a number of priorities for the research, study and practice of law in South Asia. A key concern was to interrogate how law is [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center"><strong>University of Peradeniya &#8211; Sri Lanka.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center"><strong>December 14 to 16, 2012</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify">The inaugural Law and Social Sciences Research Network (LASSnet) conference was held at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi in 2009. A subsequent conference was held at the Foundation for Liberal and Management Education in Pune in 2010. These conferences identified a number of priorities for the research, study and practice of law in South Asia. A key concern was to interrogate how law is conventionally taught, practiced, and researched as an autonomous and self-sufficient phenomenon. Those who regard law as autonomous believe it is capable of giving an account of itself. Law teachers, legal scholars, practitioners, and judges tend to treat the law as a discipline that can furnish principles to decide &#8216;hard cases&#8217; by drawing on internal logics of consistency and coherence, with inbuilt protocols for determining legislative intent, fair procedures, and natural justice ensuring access to courts. What is &#8216;law&#8217;, properly so called, also tends to be narrowly conceived as what judges, legislators, or the police &#8216;do&#8217; – ignoring the diffuse structures of power and governance, and practices of regulation, normalisation, and biopolitics that penetrate bodies and condition behaviour.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">The notion that law is autonomous (legal formalism or legal positivism) has been subjected to sustained challenge over many decades by scholars who draw on social science methodologies. Broadly conceived, these scholars draw on epistemologies and pedagogies from the social sciences in order to explain that law is a social, anthropological, historical, and economic artifact which should be understood and studied as such. In South Asia, the research, teaching and practice of law that draws on the social sciences has been relegated to the margins.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">LASS was constituted to consolidate the work done so far, to map the field of Law and Social Sciences in South Asia, and to build scholarly bridges between disciplines across the region. Its objective is to begin conversations, develop research, and create an archive of legal praxis that draws on the social sciences. In doing this, LASS seeks to be innovative in its deployment of social science methodologies, challenging existing socio-legal approaches that have almost exclusively focused on revealing hidden social determinants of the legal. LASS calls into question this social constructivist approach. It promotes research that examines how specific practices and relations of knowledge and power are constituted. If law a site where power/knowledge is constituted or exercised, how do we know this? If law is not the only site, then what sustains economic and political connections as seemingly disparate as the splicing of a gene and the growing of rice in a rural village? What research methods can be drawn from the social sciences to identify and explain the link between knowledge production, techniques of government, and the ever transforming multiple ways of being in the world?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">Alongside these general priorities and questions which LASS has grappled with – we also recognise that Sri Lankan law, society, and economy gives rise to specific questions and problems. These are not unique to Sri Lanka, and are of wider significance to South Asia, and regions beyond in what is an increasingly globalised world. The conference in Sri Lanka seeks to promote research and discussion on a broad list of themes. The panels might focus on a particular theme listed below, including comparative discussions across South Asia. However, we are open to panels and papers that range beyond the listed themes:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><strong>1. Development</strong> – Development is seen as the solution to most woes in Sri Lanka, and in other postcolonial, post-war, and newly industrializing economies. Most critiques of development have merely stated that the process is one-sided, and that it enables yet more incipient forms of imperialism to emerge. Others have done discourse analyses focused on how development has become discursively and ideologically prominent. We encourage papers that are specifically focused on the particular processes through which &#8216;development&#8217; unfolds and the forms of accumulation and dispossession characteristic of neoliberal capitalism.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><strong>2. Land –</strong> In addition to rights based approaches, we encourage papers that draw from recent debates in Sri Lanka and other South Asian settings about how &#8216;land grabs&#8217; for special economic zones, tourism, or major infrastructure projects have impacted on local populations. What are the economic and social formations that promote and resist these patterns of appropriation?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><strong>3. Natural Resources and Mining</strong> – A key frontier of contemporary conflict is the extraction of natural resources, and the impact on local communities, economies, the environment, and political cultures. As the Indian Supreme Court put it recently in Nandini Sundar &amp; Ors v Chhattisgarh (July, 2011), the extraction of natural resources by local and multinational corporations and the state deploys violence that mirrors the horrors of European colonialism and plunder that Joseph Conrad described in the Congo in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. How do social movements, and existing juridical structures resist or facilitate resource extraction? How do we break down the modern binary between the &#8216;natural&#8217; and the &#8216;social&#8217; to re-conceive and democratise the relation between community and the material world?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><strong>4. Trauma, Memory, Witnessing</strong> – Sri Lanka and numerous other countries grapple with the problem of the &#8216;truths&#8217; of the past when seeking to attend to legacies of state and non-state violence, exile, dispossession, and displacement. Commissions of inquiry challenge the limits of conventional judicial approaches. But all acts of bearing witness grapple with the problem of re-presentation. What forms of witnessing and memory attend to trauma and conscious and unconscious legacies of the past? What are the memory practices of the law itself? Beyond juridical measures, what aesthetic and archival practices of writing, cinema, theatre, and visual arts attend to and breach memorial practices?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><strong>5. The State</strong> – While many discussions around globalisation marginalised the contemporary role of the state and its sovereignty – Sri Lanka, like many other countries, exemplifies the persistence and expansion of sovereign power. How does the state proliferate and mutate in the context of development economics, war, and conflict? What are the limits of liberal democratic constitutionalist approaches to the state? What are the limits of liberal democracy? How do the political theologies of sovereignty intersect with religious formations in the postcolonial state?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><strong>6. Struggles for Social Justice</strong> – How has law engaged with struggles of trade unions, student movements and other constituencies challenging state policies? How does trade union action in contemporary times relate to ideas of the working class and class formation? How do struggles around education relate to broader conceptions of democracy and social welfare?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><strong>7. Nationalism</strong> – Both Tamil and Sinhala Buddhist nationalism have been the midwives of social and economic disasters in Sri Lanka. Simplistic claims of rights to self-determination or federalism do not grapple with the underlying crisis of plural political existence. Nonetheless, sub-national selfdetermination, and national sovereignty continue to be asserted by progressive and reactionary political movements as a bulwark against social and political marginalization at the nation-state level &#8211; and the hegemony of capital, or the power of regional and international powers beyond the level of the nationstate. What are the underlying conditions and reasons for the persistence of nationalism over other forms of political mobilisation?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><strong>8. Feminist debates</strong> – While feminist interventions need to continue to tackle violence against women – LASS has consistently promoted approaches beyond analytics of victimisation. Papers considering questions of women&#8217;s labour in special economic zones and as migrant labour; women in war and in a militarised setting; and explorations of forms of women&#8217;s resistance are especially welcome.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><strong>9. Sexuality –</strong> what is the impact of nationalism on LGBT people? What lessons might Sri Lanka draw from the Indian experience and the advances made through debates on Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code or the Nepal Supreme Court decision on recognition of same sex orientation? What are the links between neoliberal capital and emergent forms of sexual citizenship in South Asia?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><strong>10. Subaltern –</strong> How can we begin a discussion on the ways in which the dominant theories/narratives of the law, the state and capitalism excludes discussion and access to subaltern classes? What has been the varying impact of law on caste structures in South Asia and what processes have over determined law&#8217;s engagement on caste issues?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><strong>11. Rethinking Civil Society</strong> – What constitutes civil society and what kind of role is there for civil society in relation to post-war reconciliation in Sri Lanka? What is civil society&#8217;s relationship to social movements, grass roots networks and public intellectuals? What are the local discourses of reconciliation, how do they engage questions of gender, class, caste and ethnicity, and how do they understand processes of reconciliation elsewhere in the world. How do approaches and critiques of human rights relate to the process of reconciliation? And what impact do interventionist international discourses such as Responsibility to Protect (R2P) have on the local political process?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><strong>12. Rule of Law</strong> – The rule of law in Sri Lanka was undermined by the armed conflict, militarization, Emergency and the Prevention of Terrorism Act. While there have been calls for a return to the rule of law in the post-war context, what are the challenges as well as limitations of constitutional propriety and rule of law with respect to social change and post-war transformation?<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify"><strong>Abstracts of 250 words should be submitted to reach <a href="mailto:lassnetsri@gmail.com" target="_blank">lassnetsri@gmail.com</a> by 30th June 2012</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify">The Law and Social Sciences Research Network (LASSnet) is anchored at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance (CSLG) at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><strong>Organising Committee</strong><br />
Mala Liyanage &#8211; Chair/Anchor, Law and Society Trust, Sri Lanka<br />
Pratiksha Baxi – Anchor, LASSnet, CSLG, JNU, Delhi<br />
Deepika Udagama – School of Law, University of Peradeniya<br />
Ahilan Kadirgamar – Graduate Center, City University of New York<br />
Stewart Motha – School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London<br />
Gehan Gunatilleke &#8211; Centre for the Study of Human Rights, University of Colombo<br />
T. Shanaathanan – Faculty of Arts, University of Jaffna<br />
Sumathy Sivamohan – Faculty of Arts, University of Peradeniya<br />
Liyanage Amarekeerthi – Faculty of Arts,Univesity of Peradeniya<br />
Priya Thangaraja &#8211; Women&#8217;s Action Network<br />
Kamala Sankaran – Faculty of Law, Delhi University<br />
Siddharth Narrain – Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore<br />
Neloufer de Mel – Department of English, University of Colombo<br />
Jagath Weerasinghe &#8211; Postgraduate Institute of Archaeology, Colombo</p>
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		<title>South India under the Cholas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 08:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[South India Under the Cholas by Y. Subbarayalu This book explores different aspects of state-society interactions in medieval south India under the reign of the Cholas. Divided into two parts-Epigraphy and History, and State and Society-the first provides an in-depth analysis of Tamil epigraphy and inscriptions. While interpreting inscriptional terminology, it discusses the socio-economic milieu, merchant guilds, and other sociological aspects. The next section traces the evolution of the medieval state, economy, and society. It discusses land surveys, Chola revenue system and sale deeds, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2 style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: small">South India Under the Cholas by Y. Subbarayalu</span></h2>
<p><a href="http://f.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/439/files/2012/04/24oeb_cholas_jpg_1062256e.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-809" src="http://f.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/439/files/2012/04/24oeb_cholas_jpg_1062256e-192x300.jpg" alt="" width="192" height="300" /></a> This book explores different aspects of state-society interactions in medieval south India under the reign of the Cholas. Divided into two parts-Epigraphy and History, and State and Society-the first provides an in-depth analysis of Tamil epigraphy and inscriptions. While interpreting inscriptional terminology, it discusses the socio-economic milieu, merchant guilds, and other sociological aspects. The next section traces the evolution of the medieval state, economy, and society. It discusses land surveys, Chola revenue system and sale deeds, and property rights. The author examines, in detail, the emergence of new organizations like Urar, Nattar, and Periyanattar, and maritime trade guilds, and social classes like landholders, cultivators, slaves, and the left and right hand divisions. The introduction contextualizes these essays in current research scenario and historiography and also provides a brief overview of the evolution of the Chola state and society.</p>
<p>OUP India c. 272 pages | 13 tables, 5 maps | 215x140mm</p>
<div>978-0-19-807735-0 | Hardback | 22 December 2011</div>
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<p>For a review by of Subbarayalu&#8217;s book by the historian R. Champakalakshmi in The Hindu (24/04/2012), read <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/arts/books/article3346426.ece">here</a>.</p>
<p>For a review by of Subbarayalu&#8217;s book by the historian Kesavan Veluthat in Frontline (11-24/02/2012), read <a href="http://www.flonnet.com/fl2903/stories/20120224290307500.htm">here</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="font-size: small">Table of content:</span></span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: small"><strong><strong>Part I: Epigraphy and History</strong></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small"> <strong>1: </strong> Tamil Epigraphy: Past and Present</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small"> <strong>2: </strong> The Social and Economic Milieu of the Pulangurichi Inscriptions</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small"> <strong>3: </strong> The Merchant Guild Inscription at Barus in Sumatra</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small"> <strong>4: </strong> Sociological Aspects of the Personal Names and Titles</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small"> <strong>5: </strong> Interpreting Inscriptional Terminology</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: small"><strong><strong>Part II: State and Society</strong></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small"> <strong>6: </strong> Measurement and Classification of Land</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small"> <strong>7: </strong> An Overview of the Chola Revenue System</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small"> <strong>8: </strong> Quantifying Land Revenue of the Chola State</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small"> <strong>9: </strong> Sale Deeds and Property Rights</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small"> <strong>10: </strong> Urar, Nattar, and Periyanattar</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small"> <strong>11: </strong> Alunganam and Mulaparudai: Two Early Village Bodies</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small"> <strong>12: </strong> Landholders, Cultivators, and Slaves</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small"> <strong>13: </strong> Social Change and the Right and Left Hand Divisions</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small"> <strong>14: </strong> Anjuvannam: A Maritime Trade Guild of Medieval Times</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small"> <strong>15: </strong> Erivirapattinam: Warriors and the State</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small"> <strong>16: </strong> The Chola State</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small"> <strong>17: </strong> Characterizing the Chola State</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: small"><strong><em>Appendices</em></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small"> <strong><em>Index.</em></strong></span></p>
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		<title>How do you destroy Indian history?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Our past is being moth-eaten&#8221; article by Dinyar Patel Dinyar Patel, a Ph.D. candidate from the Department of History of Harvard University, published an article in The Hindu (19/04/2012) on the alarming situation in Indian archives. &#8220;India&#8217;s archives and libraries are in a state of ruin. We would lose our history and heritage if the government does not act to save them. [...] India is a country that is justifiably proud of its illustrious past. But this pride does not always translate into proper custodianship and preservation. [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify">Dinyar Patel, a Ph.D. candidate from the Department of History of Harvard University, published an article in The Hindu (19/04/2012) on the alarming situation in Indian archives.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">&#8220;India&#8217;s archives and libraries are in a state of ruin. We would lose our history and heritage if the government does not act to save them. [...] India is a country that is justifiably proud of its illustrious past. But this pride does not always translate into proper custodianship and preservation. Most Indians would cringe at how sources of Indian history are treated in government institutions. In spite of the plethora of capable administrators and skilled archivists in this country, many institutions do not follow clear, up-to-date, and verifiable standards for document preservation.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">Read more <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/article3328939.ece">here</a>.</p>
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		<title>Classical Tamil Summer Seminar 6-13 August 2012</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[10th Classical Tamil Summer Seminar 6-13 August &#8211; EFEO Puducherry &#160; &#160; The study of Classical Tamil is not widespread or prominent in the West. The EFEO Centre can offer the opportunity of approaching the difficult material by reading and discussing texts and commentaries both with Indian and Western scholars. For the time being the EFEO still employs three Indian scholars of Tamil: R. VARADADESIKAN for Vaishnava literature, G. VIJAYAVENUGOPALas an epigraphist and T.RAJESWARI as a manuscriptologist. Western Tamil scholars have few opportunities to [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify">The study of Classical Tamil is not widespread or prominent in the West. The EFEO Centre can offer the opportunity of approaching the difficult material by reading and discussing texts and commentaries both with Indian and Western scholars. For the time being the EFEO still employs three Indian scholars of Tamil: R. VARADADESIKAN for Vaishnava literature, G. VIJAYAVENUGOPALas an epigraphist and T.RAJESWARI as a manuscriptologist. Western Tamil scholars have few opportunities to meet &#8211; for them the CTSS provides an occasion of intensive exchange and collaboration. The CTSS is intended to ensure, along with some basic philological training, the transmission of some of the ancient knowledge and literary vision of the pandits. Even though several institutions have manuscripts, collected with the intention of preserving Tamil cultural patrimony, this is not to say that these manuscripts have been studied or published. There is a need for researchers to do this work. This course is thus in a position to make an important contribution to the training of future generations of scholars, being centrally placed at the meeting point between continuity and renewal in Tamil studies.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">For more practical information and the application, please read <a href="http://www.efeo.fr/base.php?code=726">here</a>.</p>
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		<title>International Workshop on Tamil Epigraphy 6-17 august 2012</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NINTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON TAMIL EPIGRAPHY Tamil Nadu, India, 6 to 17 August 2012 &#160; We are glad to announce our Ninth International Workshop on Tamil Epigraphy, to be held from 6 to 17 August 2012. Please note that the workshop will be held in Pondicherry and in Tanjavur in Tamil Nadu, India. No registration fees are required, but each participant has to bear the cost of practical works and travelling to different sites. The workshop will be held from Monday to Friday: morning [...]]]></description>
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<p align="center"><strong>Tamil Nadu, India, 6 to 17</strong> <strong>August 2012</strong></p>
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<p>We are glad to announce our Ninth International Workshop on Tamil Epigraphy, to be held from <strong>6 to </strong><strong>17 August 2012</strong><strong>. </strong><strong>Please note that the workshop will be held in </strong><strong>Pondicherry</strong><strong> and in Tanjavur in Tamil </strong><strong>Nadu</strong><strong>, </strong><strong>India</strong><strong>.</strong><strong></strong></p>
<p><strong></strong>No registration fees are required, but each participant has to bear the cost of practical works and travelling to different sites.</p>
<p>The workshop will be held from Monday to Friday: morning 9.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. (lunch break), afternoon 2 to 4 p.m.</p>
<p>The participants have to arrange themselves their travel to India. The organisers will be pleased to help the participants to find accommodation in Pondicherry and in Tanjavur on request. We would be thankful to you if you could inform your colleagues and students about this workshop.</p>
<p>If you need more information, please contact: <a href="mailto:a.murugaiyan@wanadoo.fr" target="_blank">a.murugaiyan@wanadoo.fr</a></p>
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		<title>EAP 458 progress report</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[EAP 458 Constituting a Digital Archive of Tamil Agrarian History 6 month progress report addressed to the Endangered Archives Programm &#160; This report -which covers the first six month of our digital archives project (August 2011-January 2012)- was sent to our funding institution the EAP (British Library/Arcadia). &#160; Recruitment, training and equipment &#160; When the project began, we focused on the recruitment of our team. Unlike the pilot project, where we chose people we already knew to work with, we decided to send a [...]]]></description>
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<h2 align="center">6 month progress report addressed to the Endangered Archives Programm</h2>
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<p style="text-align: center"><em>This report -which covers the first six month of our digital archives project (August 2011-January 2012)- was sent to our funding institution the EAP (British Library/Arcadia).</em></p>
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<p><strong>Recruitment, training and equipment</strong></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>When the project began, we focused on the recruitment of our team. Unlike the pilot project, where we chose people we already knew to work with, we decided to send a recruitment announcements for the three positions to different teaching and research in Pondicherry and Chennai. We interviewed some 10 candidates and recruited three young men: Selvakumar, Muthukumar and Chandran. We also are recruited Krishnasami who was part of the EAP 314 team.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Since there were three new members to the project, time was spent making them familiar with what was accomplished during the pilot project, the objectives and requirements of EAP and of course training them to the specificities of our project. Training was given to the three new members in the field of digital photography, Tamil epigraphy, handling palm-leaves</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>In terms of equipment, we have acquired a Nikon D-90 camera, two Dell laptops, a stand, a measuring unit, one external hard-disk. The concept of our stand (purpose built wooden tripod) has attracted the interest of four research projects who asked us to share its blue print with them: EAP project 454 on Mizoram, Nolaham Foundation (a Srilankan based project on Tamil Manuscripts), EAP 191 on French Publications and a Unesco funded project on food and nutrition in India.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Progress of digitization</strong></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>During these six months, we have largely focussed on digitization. Presently 13 collections have been digitized. The details of each collection are given in table below. These 13 collections amount to a total of 25 637 images. However, within 7 of the collections, some documents are not directly relevant to the scope of our project. These documents concerns issues related to literature, folk tales, traditional medicine, astrology. We decided to digitize them along with the documents of relevance since, if taken as a whole, they constitute indeed a collection. We therefore have to make the decision whether to discard them from the archive and therefore ‘tamper’ with the integrity of the original collection. Should the EAP ask us to remove them, we would give them over to relevant institutions or scholars without going through the process of identification (listing template). Our personal feeling is that these documents should be included. They have been till now preserved by their owners and are, in the same way as our ‘relevant’ documents, clearly vulnerable and rapidly deteriorating. Though beyond the scope of our ‘topic’, these documents inform us on other areas of cultural life and social representation. We wait for the decision of the EAP to handle this issue.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<table width="451" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="43">
<p align="center"><strong>Coll. No</strong></p>
</td>
<td width="108">
<p align="center"><strong>Location</strong></p>
</td>
<td width="168">
<p style="text-align: center" align="center"><strong>Type of Documents</strong></p>
</td>
<td width="60">
<p align="center"><strong>No.of Photos</strong></p>
</td>
<td width="72">
<p align="center"><strong>No.of photos on other topics</strong></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43">
<p align="center">11</p>
</td>
<td width="108">
<p align="center">Erode</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="168">-98 palm leaves  bundles : land deeds, EIC records, pattayams</td>
<td width="60">
<p align="center">4 343</p>
</td>
<td width="72">
<p align="center">3 431</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43">
<p align="center">12</p>
</td>
<td width="108">
<p align="center">Erode</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="168">-39 palm leaves bundles: land deed, pattayams</td>
<td width="60">
<p align="center">908</p>
</td>
<td width="72">
<p align="center">884</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43">
<p align="center">13</p>
</td>
<td width="108">
<p align="center">Madurai</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="168">8 palm leaves bundles:    EIC records</td>
<td width="60">
<p align="center">148</p>
</td>
<td width="72">
<p align="center">&#8212;</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43">
<p align="center">14</p>
</td>
<td width="108">
<p align="center">Madurai,</p>
<p align="center">
</td>
<td valign="top" width="168">-44 paper files &amp; 10 notebooks-835 Palm leaves :land deeds, TCL, auctions, judgments, temple documents, loans</td>
<td width="60">
<p align="center">12 151</p>
</td>
<td width="72">
<p align="center">1002</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43">
<p align="center">15</p>
</td>
<td width="108">
<p align="center">Theni</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="168">-1 note book (judgement copy)</td>
<td width="60">
<p align="center">152</p>
</td>
<td width="72">
<p align="center">&#8212;</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43">
<p align="center">16</p>
</td>
<td width="108">
<p align="center">Madurai</p>
<p align="center">
</td>
<td valign="top" width="168">-1 paper file-1 bundle of palm leaves :land deeds</td>
<td width="60">
<p align="center">61</p>
</td>
<td width="72">
<p align="center">&#8212;</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43">
<p align="center">17</p>
</td>
<td width="108">
<p align="center">Erode</p>
<p align="center">
</td>
<td valign="top" width="168">-50 Bundles of palm leaves, -176 paper documents and 3 note book :sanjaram, land deed</td>
<td width="60">
<p align="center">1 250</p>
</td>
<td width="72">
<p align="center">554</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43">
<p align="center">18</p>
</td>
<td width="108">
<p align="center">Madurai</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="168">-paper documents: land deeds</td>
<td width="60">
<p align="center">382</p>
</td>
<td width="72">
<p align="center">272</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43">
<p align="center">19</p>
</td>
<td width="108">
<p align="center">Madurai</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="168">-2 notebooks: TCL-1 copper plate : land rights</td>
<td width="60">
<p align="center">77</p>
</td>
<td width="72">
<p align="center">&#8212;</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43">
<p align="center">20</p>
</td>
<td width="108">
<p align="center">Madurai</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="168">-1 copper plate: land deed</td>
<td width="60">
<p align="center">2</p>
</td>
<td width="72">
<p align="center">&#8212;</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43">
<p align="center">21</p>
</td>
<td width="108">
<p align="center">Madurai</p>
<p align="center">
</td>
<td valign="top" width="168">-14 paper files-11 notebooks-6 bundles of palm leaves: land deeds, TCL, auctions, judgements, temple documents, loans</td>
<td width="60">
<p align="center">4 993</p>
</td>
<td width="72">
<p align="center">1 788</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43">
<p align="center">22</p>
</td>
<td width="108">
<p align="center">Madurai</p>
<p align="center">
</td>
<td valign="top" width="168">-8  paper files-1 notebook : land deeds, TCL</td>
<td width="60">
<p align="center">1 128</p>
</td>
<td width="72">
<p align="center">1 108</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43">
<p align="center">23</p>
</td>
<td width="108">
<p align="center">Madurai,</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="168">-1 bundle palm leaves :land deeds, TCL</td>
<td width="60">
<p align="center">42</p>
</td>
<td width="72">
<p align="center">&#8212;</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43">
<p align="center"><strong> </strong></p>
</td>
<td width="108">
<p align="center"><strong>Total</strong></p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="168"><strong> </strong></td>
<td width="60">
<p align="center"><strong>25 637</strong></p>
</td>
<td width="72">
<p align="center"><strong>9 039</strong></p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
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		<title>Discovery of 2,200-year-old Tamil-Brahmi inscription</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Muthukumar (CLAC) participates in the discovery of  a 2200 year-old Jain inscription A short Tamil-Brahmi inscription carved out over 2200 years ago on a boulder in Samanamalai (Madurai district) was discovered recently by V. Vedachalam (Tamil Nadu Archaeology Department) and V. Muthukumar, one of our team members. To read more about the inscription and its signification, please read here V. Muthukumar is pursuing his PhD in Epigraphy and Archaeology at Tamil University (Thanjavur). He has gained good experience in the field of archeology (Adhichanallur, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2 style="text-align: right"><a href="http://f.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/439/files/2011/06/410_Muthukumar-V.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-345 alignleft" src="http://f.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/439/files/2011/06/410_Muthukumar-V.jpg" alt="" width="106" height="160" /></a>Muthukumar (CLAC) participates in the discovery of  a 2200 year-old Jain inscription</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify">A short Tamil-Brahmi inscription carved out over 2200 years ago on a boulder in Samanamalai (Madurai district) was discovered recently by V. Vedachalam (Tamil Nadu Archaeology Department) and V. Muthukumar, one of our team members. To read more about the inscription and its signification, please <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/arts/history-and-culture/article3220674.ece">read here</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify">V. Muthukumar is pursuing his PhD in Epigraphy and Archaeology at Tamil University (Thanjavur). He has gained good experience in the field of archeology (Adhichanallur, Porunthal, Thandikudi) as well as epigraphy while working with the Saraswati Mahal library for the National Mission for Manuscripts.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">Another Tamil-Brahmi inscription was found by other researchers in the Edakal cave (Kerala&#8217;s Wayanad district) at the beginning of the month of February. For now, opinions differ as to the possible date of the inscription. To read more, <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/arts/history-and-culture/article2872568.ece">click here</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">The IFP, which is hosting the CLAC project, also has an ongoing research project on Jaina Temples in Tamil Nadu:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">Even though important on a historical point of view and still alive today, the Jain presence in Tamil Nadu, consisting on the one hand of ancient Digambara communities of the South, and on the other hand of immigrant merchant communities from Western India, is badly assessed. Temples of this region make up for a rich heritage still unrecognised. We wish to make a CD-ROM that presents the temples in their artistic and religious dimension, as an architectural heritage and living place, and that sheds light on the uniqueness of Jainism in Tamil Nadu. <a href="http://www.ifpindia.org/Jaina-Temples-of-Tamil-Nadu.html">Read more&#8230;</a></p>
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		<title>Tamil Summer School 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 05:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tamil Summer School in Puducherry 30 July 2012 to 8 September 2012 What is the TSS? The Tamil Summer School is an intensive six-weeks course in spoken Tamil organised by the Puducherry Institute of Linguistics and Culture(PILC), a Govt. of Puducherry institution, known for its research activities, training programmes and workshops. The course was initiated in 1998 by the Department of Social Sciences, French Institute, Puducherry to offer training to language researchers in Humanities and Social sciences. The Faculty of Linguistics, PILC has been [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1 style="text-align: center">Tamil Summer School in Puducherry</h1>
<h1 style="text-align: center">30 July 2012 to 8 September 2012</h1>
<p><strong>What is the TSS?</strong></p>
<p>The Tamil Summer School is an intensive six-weeks course in spoken Tamil organised by the Puducherry Institute of Linguistics and Culture(PILC), a Govt. of Puducherry institution, known for its research activities, training programmes and workshops.</p>
<p>The course was initiated in 1998 by the Department of Social Sciences, French Institute, Puducherry to offer training to language researchers in Humanities and Social sciences. The Faculty of Linguistics, PILC has been organising this course since 2004.</p>
<p>The TSS is conducted every year in July-August. The medium of teaching is English as well as Tamil.</p>
<p>The TSS focuses on Spoken Tamil rather than on the classical and written forms being taught in European Universities. The level of spoken Tamil courses are offered: BASIC and INTERMEDIATE.</p>
<p><strong>Why Spoken Tamil?</strong></p>
<p>Tamil is an international language spoken in different countries like India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Singapore. It shows significant social and regional variations and is known for its diglossic nature, in as much as it possesses distinct written and spoken forms, affecting syntax, lexicon and phonetics. The TSS primarily aims at filling this important gaps in Tamil studies by offering students and scholars a summer programme stressing the spoken variety.</p>
<p>The TSS provides an opportunity</p>
<p>- for scholars to acquire linguistic tools to do field studies in Tamil.</p>
<p>- for those who are trained in the written form of Tamil and others to be able to efficiently communicate in Tamilnadu and other Tamil-speaking areas.</p>
<p>The TSS programme will be conducted for six days per week during a period of six weeks (i.e. from 30 July 2012 to 8 September 2012).</p>
<p>The course is based on materials both in English and Tamil designed specially for TSS 2012.</p>
<p><strong>Basic level:</strong></p>
<p>At the basic level spoken Tamil is introduced. Drills in pronunciation will be given by experienced professors. Basic vocabulary, grammar and conversational materials will be provided in the second phase. Tamil scripts and simple sentences are taught enabling the students to speak and read Tamil.</p>
<p><strong>Intermediate level:</strong></p>
<p>Spoken Tamil is taught with conversational materials throughout the course. Lessons in Modern Tamil Grammar will be given stage by stage with structures of Tamil sentences. Students will be trained to read primary level lessons, short stories and songs. Vocabulary lists will be provided for practice.</p>
<p>Fieldwork activities:</p>
<p>During the TSS, the participants will be taken out for field experience once in a week, so that they can interact with the local populance.</p>
<p>Lecture series:</p>
<p>Lecture-cum-demonstration related to Tamil Fine Arts and Culture will be arranged once in a week.</p>
<p>Eligibility- Basic level</p>
<p>Eligible participants are students or researchers from foreign or Indian universities or institutions, who have not studied Tamil. Preference will be given to research scholars.</p>
<p>Eligibility- Intermediate level</p>
<p>Eligible participants are students or researchers from foreign or Indian universities or institutions, who have studied written Tamil for atleast one year and have a good knowledge of basic grammar. Otherwise, they may be considered for</p>
<p>Basic level</p>
<p>N.B: According to the number, background and standard of participants, the appropriate level of the course will be adopted.</p>
<p>Enrolment</p>
<p>Enrolment starts on 1 March, 2012 and registration will be closed on the 30 April, 2012. Registration may be possible beyond 30 April under special circumstances.</p>
<p>For registration, particulars are required in the prescribed format and may preferably be sent by e.mail.</p>
<p>Kindly send it in advance to reserve your seat.</p>
<p>Registration fees for TSS 2012 will be Rs. 18,000 (Rs. Eighteen Thousand only). This includes the cost of the materials and field visits provided by us. Participants have to arrange for their accommodation. However, PILC will assist the scholars in finding the type of accommodation they prefer.</p>
<p>Your stay in Puducherry</p>
<p>Puducherry is a small Tamil speaking territory and city, 140 km from Chennai International airport and well-connected by rail and road. It has a very good tourist infrastructure with more than forty hotels and lodges. Cost of living is extremely moderate by European and even Indian standards.</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><strong>For Information Contact:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center">The Director,</p>
<p style="text-align: center">Puducherry Institute of Linguistics and Culture (PILC)</p>
<p style="text-align: center">Women’s Polytechnic College Campus, Lawspet,</p>
<p style="text-align: center">Puducherry 605 008, India</p>
<p style="text-align: center">Tel: 0413-2255817 (Dir) 0413-2255827 (Off)</p>
<p style="text-align: center">E.mail: pilc@vsnl.com, pilc@md3.vsnl.net.in</p>
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		<title>Collections 11 to 23 digitised !!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Collections 11 to 23 (August 2011- January 2012) &#160; Coll. No Location Type of Documents No.of Photos No.of photos on other topics 11 Erode -98 palm leaves  bundles : land deeds, EIC records, pattayams 4 343 3 431 12 Erode -39 palm leaves bundles: land deed, pattayams 908 884 13 Madurai 8 palm leaves bundles:    EIC records 148 &#8212; 14 Madurai, -44 paper files &#38; 10 notebooks-835 Palm leaves : land deeds, TCL, auctions, judgments, temple documents, loans 12 151 1002 15 Theni -1 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2 style="text-align: center">Collections 11 to 23 (August 2011- January 2012)</h2>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<table width="527" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="43">
<p align="center"><strong>Coll. No</strong></p>
</td>
<td width="108">
<p align="center"><strong>Location</strong></p>
</td>
<td width="187">
<p align="center"><strong>Type of Documents</strong></p>
</td>
<td width="94">
<p align="center"><strong>No.of Photos</strong></p>
</td>
<td width="95">
<p align="center"><strong>No.of photos on other topics</strong></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43">
<p align="center">11</p>
</td>
<td width="108">
<p align="center">Erode</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="187">-98 palm leaves  bundles : land deeds, EIC records, pattayams</td>
<td width="94">
<p align="center">4 343</p>
</td>
<td width="95">
<p align="center">3 431</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43">
<p align="center">12</p>
</td>
<td width="108">
<p align="center">Erode</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="187">-39 palm leaves bundles: land deed, pattayams</td>
<td width="94">
<p align="center">908</p>
</td>
<td width="95">
<p align="center">884</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43">
<p align="center">13</p>
</td>
<td width="108">
<p align="center">Madurai</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="187">8 palm leaves bundles:    EIC records</td>
<td width="94">
<p align="center">148</p>
</td>
<td width="95">
<p align="center">&#8212;</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43">
<p align="center">14</p>
</td>
<td width="108">
<p align="center">Madurai,</p>
<p align="center">
</td>
<td valign="top" width="187">-44 paper files &amp; 10 notebooks-835 Palm leaves :</p>
<p>land deeds, TCL, auctions, judgments, temple documents, loans</td>
<td width="94">
<p align="center">12 151</p>
</td>
<td width="95">
<p align="center">1002</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43">
<p align="center">15</p>
</td>
<td width="108">
<p align="center">Theni</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="187">-1 note book (judgement copy)</td>
<td width="94">
<p align="center">152</p>
</td>
<td width="95">
<p align="center">&#8212;</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43">
<p align="center">16</p>
</td>
<td width="108">
<p align="center">Madurai</p>
<p align="center">
</td>
<td valign="top" width="187">-1 paper file-1 bundle of palm leaves :</p>
<p>land deeds</td>
<td width="94">
<p align="center">61</p>
</td>
<td width="95">
<p align="center">&#8212;</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43">
<p align="center">17</p>
</td>
<td width="108">
<p align="center">Erode</p>
<p align="center">
</td>
<td valign="top" width="187">-50 Bundles of palm leaves, -176 paper documents and 3 note book :sanjaram, land deed</td>
<td width="94">
<p align="center">1 250</p>
</td>
<td width="95">
<p align="center">554</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43">
<p align="center">18</p>
</td>
<td width="108">
<p align="center">Madurai</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="187">-paper documents: land deeds</td>
<td width="94">
<p align="center">382</p>
</td>
<td width="95">
<p align="center">272</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43">
<p align="center">19</p>
</td>
<td width="108">
<p align="center">Madurai</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="187">-2 notebooks: TCL-1 copper plate : land rights</td>
<td width="94">
<p align="center">77</p>
</td>
<td width="95">
<p align="center">&#8212;</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43">
<p align="center">20</p>
</td>
<td width="108">
<p align="center">Madurai</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="187">-1 copper plate: land deed</td>
<td width="94">
<p align="center">2</p>
</td>
<td width="95">
<p align="center">&#8212;</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43">
<p align="center">21</p>
</td>
<td width="108">
<p align="center">Madurai</p>
<p align="center">
</td>
<td valign="top" width="187">-14 paper files-11 notebooks</p>
<p>-6 bundles of palm leaves: land deeds, TCL, auctions, judgements, temple documents, loans</td>
<td width="94">
<p align="center">4 993</p>
</td>
<td width="95">
<p align="center">1 788</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43">
<p align="center">22</p>
</td>
<td width="108">
<p align="center">Madurai</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="187">-8  paper files-1 notebook : land deeds, TCL</td>
<td width="94">
<p align="center">1 128</p>
</td>
<td width="95">
<p align="center">1 108</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43">
<p align="center">23</p>
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<td width="108">
<p align="center">Madurai,</p>
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<td valign="top" width="187">-1 bundle palm leaves :land deeds, TCL</td>
<td width="94">
<p align="center">42</p>
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<td width="95">
<p align="center">&#8212;</p>
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<td width="43">
<p align="center"><strong> </strong></p>
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<td width="108">
<p align="center"><strong> </strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong>Total</strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong> </strong></p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="187"><strong> </strong></td>
<td width="94">
<p align="center"><strong>25 637</strong></p>
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<td width="95">
<p align="center"><strong>9 039</strong></p>
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<p>TCL:Tamil Customary Law</p>
<p>EIC: East India Company</p>
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		<title>Fragile Prospects of Epigraphy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘Epigraphy staring at an uncertain future&#8217; &#160; article by R.Krishna Kumar published in The Hindu (Mysore edition) 12/02/2012 &#160; Reckoned to be the bedrock of ancient Indian historical studies, epigraphy is at the crossroads and stares into an uncertain future given societal preference for remunerative career choices rather than academic and scholarly pursuits [...] Speaking to The Hindu , Director (Epigraphy) T.S. Ravishankar said it was time to review the present scenario related to epigraphic studies and called for intensive and extensive surveys to [...]]]></description>
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<h1 style="text-align: center">‘Epigraphy staring at an uncertain future&#8217;</h1>
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<p>article by R.Krishna Kumar published in The Hindu (Mysore edition) 12/02/2012</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify">Reckoned to be the bedrock of ancient Indian historical studies, epigraphy is at the crossroads and stares into an uncertain future given societal preference for remunerative career choices rather than academic and scholarly pursuits [...]</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">Speaking to <em>The Hindu</em> , Director (Epigraphy) T.S. Ravishankar said it was time to review the present scenario related to epigraphic studies and <strong>called for intensive and extensive surveys to record, document and copy the epigraphic material</strong> [...]</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">Read more <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article2887483.ece">here</a>.</p>
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		<title>40th IIS World Congress</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; The 40th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology will take place in Delhi, India, on Thursday, 16 February &#8211; Sunday, 19 February, 2012. The theme of the congress is: After Western Hegemony: Social Science and its Publics. To read more about the theme of the congress, click here. &#160; 5 sessions will be addressing related issues of memoryand archive: &#160; Anamnesis: Memory, Time and Recital Session Conveners: Claudia Tazreiter and Helen Pringle, University of New South Wales &#160; The Archive [...]]]></description>
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<p>The 40th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology will take place in Delhi, India, on Thursday, 16 February &#8211; Sunday, 19 February, 2012. The theme of the congress is:</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: large"><strong>After Western Hegemony: Social Science and its Publics.</strong></span></p>
<p>To read more about the theme of the congress, <a href="http://www.scasss.uu.se/iis/iis2012/about2012">click here</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>5 sessions will be addressing related issues of memoryand archive</strong>:</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.scasss.uu.se/iis/iis2012/pdf/tazreiter_2.pdf">Anamnesis: Memory, Time and Recital</a></p>
<p>Session Conveners: Claudia Tazreiter and Helen Pringle, University of New South Wales</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.scasss.uu.se/iis/iis2012/pdf/bhattacharya_2.pdf">The Archive and Its Afterlives</a></p>
<p>Session Convener: Baidik Bhattacharya, University of Delhi</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.scasss.uu.se/iis/iis2012/pdf/fujiyoshi_2a.pdf">Archives for Maintaining Community and Society in the Digital Age I</a></p>
<p>Session Convener: Keiji Fujiyoshi, Koyasan University, Wakayama</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.scasss.uu.se/iis/iis2012/pdf/fujiyoshi_2b.pdf">Archives for Maintaining Community and Society in the Digital Age II</a></p>
<p>Session Convener: Keiji Fujiyoshi, Koyasan University, Wakayama</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.scasss.uu.se/iis/iis2012/pdf/chopra_2.pdf">Shards of Memory: Memorials, Commemorations, Remembrance</a></p>
<p>Session Convener: Radhika Chopra, University of Delhi</p>
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		<title>History speaks many languages</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interview with Sanjay Subramanyam by Thomas Grillot &#38; Anne-Julie Etter published in La vie des Idees (27-01-2012). &#160; History cannot be written as if nations had always been around, and as if men had not found countless ways to ignore their frontiers. Historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam invites his peers to make use of the riches that lie in the multilingual archives of humanity to reveal connections that were once relevant to huge areas of the world. A polyglot and an historian, Sanjay Subrahmanyam has [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center">by Thomas Grillot &amp; Anne-Julie Etter</p>
<p style="text-align: center">published in La vie des Idees (27-01-2012).</p>
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<p style="text-align: center"><em>History cannot be written as if nations had always been around, and as if men had not found countless ways to ignore their frontiers. Historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam invites his peers to make use of the riches that lie in the multilingual archives of humanity to reveal connections that were once relevant to huge areas of the world.</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify">A polyglot and an historian, Sanjay Subrahmanyam has placed at the center of his research connections between sources and historiographies in different languages (Persian, Urdu, Telugu, Tamil, Portuguese, English, Spanish, German, French, Italian and Dutch). He gracefully submitted to a French and English interview, the Gallic part of which can be accessed on <em>La Vie des Idées</em>. Answers to the same questions turned out to be largely complementary. We invite our readers to read both interviews as a whole.</p>
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<p>For the interview in English, please <a href="http://www.booksandideas.net/History-Speaks-Many-Languages.html?lang=fr">click here</a>.</p>
<p>For the interview in French, please <a href="http://www.laviedesidees.fr/Le-gout-de-l-archive-est.html?lang=fr">click here</a>.</p>
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		<title>Interview of N. Karashima by P.Menon</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an interview, Japanese scholar Noboru Karashima speaks on his recent work, the state of historical research in universities and government institutes in India, and his deep concern over the uncertain future of the discipline of epigraphy in India. By Parvathi Menon Published in The Hindu 02/12/2010 It is now over 50 years since Noboru Karashima, now Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo, published his first study on the medieval economic history of South India – a small essay on land control in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2 style="text-align: left">In an interview, Japanese scholar Noboru Karashima speaks on his recent work, the state of historical research in universities and government institutes in India, and his deep concern over the uncertain future of the discipline of epigraphy in India.</h2>
<p><strong>By Parvathi Menon</strong></p>
<p>Published in The Hindu 02/12/2010</p>
<p><span style="text-align: justify">It is now over 50 years since Noboru Karashima, now Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo, published his first study on the medieval economic history of South India – a small essay on land control in Allur and Isanamangalam villages in the Cauvery delta, based on a study of Chola inscriptions. With that he pioneered a methodological framework for studying inscriptions, and for interpreting the mass of information that this historical source contains. He is today a pre-eminent scholar on the medieval history of south India. He has also contributed significantly to a rich tradition of Japanese social science research on India, with his hallmark of careful empirical research. In this interview given to </span><span style="text-align: justify">Parvathi Menon</span><span style="text-align: justify"> in Bangalore, the Japanese scholar speaks on his recent work, the state of historical research in universities and government institutes in India, and his deep concern over the uncertain future of the discipline of epigraphy in India.</span></p>
<p>To read the article from The Hindu <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/interview/article925942.ece">click here</a>.</p>
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		<title>Epigraphical Study of Tamil Villages</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 10:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent publication by Noboru Karashima A new article by Noboru Karashima  &#8220;Epigraphical Study of Ancient and Medieval Villages in the Tamil Country&#8221; was recently published in Review of Agrarian Studies, Volume 1, Number 2 (July-December, 2011). Abstract: In­scrip­tions on stones or cop­per-plates, which occur in sub­stan­tial num­bers, are the basic source-ma­te­r­ial for the an­cient and me­dieval his­tory of India, as much of India lacks his­tory books com­piled in these pe­ri­ods. For pre-mod­ern vil­lage stud­ies as well, there­fore, we have to de­pend on in­scrip­tions. In [...]]]></description>
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<p>A new article by Noboru Karashima  &#8220;Epigraphical Study of Ancient and Medieval Villages in the Tamil Country&#8221; was recently published in <em>Review of Agrarian Studies, </em>Volume 1, Number 2 (July-December, 2011).</p>
<p><strong>Abstract:</strong> In­scrip­tions on stones or cop­per-plates, which occur in sub­stan­tial num­bers, are the basic source-ma­te­r­ial for the an­cient and me­dieval his­tory of India, as much of India lacks his­tory books com­piled in these pe­ri­ods. For pre-mod­ern vil­lage stud­ies as well, there­fore, we have to de­pend on in­scrip­tions.</p>
<p>In this paper I ex­plain how the re­mains of in­scrip­tions can be used for vil­lage stud­ies by re­fer­ring to my ex­am­i­na­tion of Tamil in­scrip­tions of the Chola pe­riod (10th to 13th cen­turies). Through their ex­am­i­na­tion I have at­tempted to clar­ify the changes that oc­curred in the land­hold­ing sys­tem in the mid­dle Chola pe­riod, and the great so­cial change and up­heaval that these rep­re­sented.</p>
<p>I also demon­strate the im­por­tance of <em>sta­tis­ti­cal</em> analy­sis of in­scrip­tional data, of tech­niques that I in­tro­duced into this field of study. Many in­ter­est­ing and im­por­tant fea­tures of an­cient and me­dieval vil­lages can be known from in­scrip­tions, in­clud­ing in­for­ma­tion on vil­lage types, cul­ti­va­tion prac­tices, taxes on vil­lages, and the peo­ple who lived in the vil­lages.</p>
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<p>The online version of the Review of Agrarian Studies is available for free at <a href="http://www.ras.org.in/index.php?id=HomePage">www.ras.org.in</a> or <a href="http://ras.org.in/">www.reviewofagrarianstudies.org</a>.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Indian peer-reviewed journal &#160;   The Review of Agrarian Studies is a new bi-annual peer-reviewed journal of the Indian Foundation for Agrarian Studies, a charitable trust based in India and established in 2003. The journal is published from Kolkata and appears both in electronic and printed form – the latter in collaboration with Tulika Books, one of India’s most important publishers of books in the social sciences. The Review of Agrarian Studies invites articles on agrarian studies – on the forces and relations of production in [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify"><a href="http://f.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/439/files/2012/01/agrarreview.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-641" src="http://f.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/439/files/2012/01/agrarreview.jpg" alt="" width="268" height="145" /></a>  The Review of Agrarian Studies is a new bi-annual peer-reviewed journal of the <a href="http://www.agrarianstudies.org/">Indian Foundation for Agrarian Studies</a>, a charitable trust based in India and established in 2003. The journal is published from Kolkata and appears both in electronic and printed form – the latter in collaboration with Tulika Books, one of India’s most important publishers of books in the social sciences. The Review of Agrarian Studies invites articles on agrarian studies – on the forces and relations of production in agriculture and in rural areas, on living standards, and on different aspects of social formations in the countryside. It also carries theoretical and empirical articles on social, economic, historical, political and scientific and technological aspects of agriculture and rural societies.</p>
<p>The online version is available for free at <a href="http://www.ras.org.in/index.php?id=HomePage">www.ras.org.in</a> or <a href="http://ras.org.in/">www.reviewofagrarianstudies.org</a>.<br />
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