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    Study days - Asia

    The Idea of South Asia

    South Asia, another name for the Indian Subcontinent, is a recent concept (only about six decades old), forged outside the region in the wake of the establishment of area studies by American universities. While it may be preferred to Indian subcontinent for its political neutrality, it is nonetheless a contested concept, both externally and internally. Whether in South Asia itself or in international institutions or research centres outside the region, there is no general consensus about the countries the concept encompasses: it primarily refers to India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, the Maldives, as per the definition of the SAARC, which has however included Afghanistan lately (2005) among its members. Some would also include Burma (Myanmar) as it was a province of British India till 1937. Internally, the concept is contested on the political level but in a fairly paradoxical way: on the one hand, as a concept closely associated with India, it is in some contexts rejected by its neighbours; on the other hand, neighbouring countries (especially Nepal and Sri Lanka) have been instrumental in making the concept exist through the creation of journals, associations, and websites that mobilise the term.

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    Conference, symposium - Early modern

    Cosmopolitismes de la première modernité

    Le cas de l’Asie du Sud (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle). Sources, itinéraires, langues

    Ce colloque entend retracer les contours du cosmopolitisme en tant que pratique (rencontre avec d’autres polis) et Weltanschauung (valorisation de la pluralité vécue, définition de soi en lien avec cette pluralité) dans une région du monde – l’Asie du Sud – qui, au cours des XVIe-XVIIIe siècles, constitua non seulement un pôle majeur de l’espace de circulation de l’Asie musulmane mais aussi un nœud des flux humains, matériels et immatériels reliant l’Occident à l’Orient. Terre d’accueil pour de nombreuses élites en quête de patronage, terre d’ancrage pour d’autres que diverses contraintes appellent ailleurs ou encore simple étape au sein de parcours transocéaniques en quête de richesses ou de savoirs, l’Asie du Sud de la première modernité apparaît dans tous les cas comme un terrain particulièrement propice à la construction d’identités et de visions cosmopolites, tant au niveau individuel qu’à celui de la polis.

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