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• 30 oct 2016

  Call for papers - Geography

  The iconography of India - a cultural approach to an unusual new form

  Géographie et cultures journal

  Ce numéro de Géographie et cultures porte sur l’iconographie de l’Inde dans le contexte de la mondialisation. Les textes pourront aborder les représentations de l’Inde dans une perspective à la croisée de la culture, de l’économie et de la politique ou traiteront de tel ou tel aspect de la culture indienne, dans ses aspects les plus contemporains comme dans une optique géo-historique, à l’échelle nationale, régionale ou locale. 

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• 13 nov 2012

  Paris

  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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