The India Centre
Research
As enunciated in the objectives, the Center's research mandate is to study various aspects of Indian cultural traditions, including artistic heritage, artist and artisanal communities, socio-economic-religious-ecological traditions, and historical and epistemological knowledge. It has the directive to undertake advanced research of select projects of the student-driven Discover India Program (DIP). While the centre has been recently established and new projects are currently being conceptualised and initiated, a sample of the publications of the members affiliated with the centre, given below, provides a brief glimpse of their research and allied interests.
Prof. Pankaj Jain
Modern Jainism: A Historical Approach. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer, 2023
Jain, Pankaj, and Jeffery D. Long. Indian and Western Philosophical Concepts in Religion. Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.
“Interpreting and Responses to Pandemics in Indian Philosophical Traditions and Films,” in Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology, 27.2, 2023.
“‘Children of the Earth’ to ‘Dark Wind’: Nature, Environment, and Climate in Indian Films,” in Journal of Visual Anthropology, 36.1, 2023.
“Ecocritical Analysis of Classics by Three Indian Film Maestros,” in Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology, 26.3, 2022, pp. 267-280.
Anuradha and Anupama: Gender Issues through Nussbaum’s Capabilities Approach
Publisher: Visual Anthropology, 2021This article analyzes the movies Anuradha and Anupama reflecting the protagonists' capabilities to create a just society. The analytical framework is based on Martha Nussbaum’s capabilities approach.
Springer Encyclopedia of Hinduism
This volume offers an overview of Hinduism in India and the diaspora. This volume fills the need felt by Hindus both in India and the diaspora for more knowledge about modern-day Hinduism, Hindu history, and traditions.
Discover India Podcast
This venture is about Indian Culture, Indian classical music, Sustainability, Hindu/Buddhists/Jain studies, Film studies, Diaspora studies which are discussed with the respective experts. Episodes include presentations at various conferences and webinars as well.
Prof. Maya Dodd
Exploring Digital Humanities in India
This book explores the emergence of digital humanities in the Indian context. It looks at how online and digital resources have transformed classroom and research practices.
Media Culture in Transnational Asia
Media Culture in Transnational Asia: Convergences and Divergences examines contemporary media use within Asia, where over half of the world's population resides.
Understanding Taste in India: Social Systems to Digital Spaces
Food studies includes ideas on the environment, constructions of regional identity and culinary history. Pierre Bourdieu said “taste is the basis of all that one has—people and things—and all that one is for others, whereby one classifies oneself and is classified by others.”
Prof. Viraj Shah
2020 Patterns of Patronage in the Jaina Caves of Maharashtra in Rock-Cut Caves of Maharashtra: Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Archaeology of Maharashtra International Conference in honour of Prof. Walter M Spink, pp. 89-102 Mumbai: India Study Centre Trust
2020 Rock-cut Caves of Western India in Dilip Chakrabarti ed. History of Ancient India- VIII: Sculpture, Painting, Terracottas, Performing Arts and Architecture, New Delhi: Vivekananda International Foundation/Aryan Books International
