Research Material in MANAS
Primary Documents for the Study of Indian History, c. 1890-2000. Prepared by Vinay Lal
Select
Research Bibliography on the Partition of India,
Compiled by Vinay Lal
Short Research
Bibliography on Hindi Cinema, Compiled by Vinay Lal
The Indian City, 1700 to the Present:
A Select Research Bibliography, Compiled by Vinay Lal
HISTORY AND POLITICS: British India
"The Incident of the Crawling Lane: Women in the Punjab Disturbances of 1919", Genders, no. 16 (Spring 1993):35-60.
"Surat Under the Raj", review of Douglas Haynes, Rhetoric and Ritual in Colonial India, Economic and Political Weekly 28, no. 18 (1 May 1993):863-865.
"Imperial Nostalgia", review of The Raj: India and the British 1600-1947, by C. A. Bayly et al., Economic and Political Weekly 28, nos. 29-30 (17-24 July 1993):1511-13.
"Beyond Alterity", review of Sara Suleri's The Rhetoric of English India, Economic and Political Weekly 30, no. 5 (4 February 1995):254-55.
"The Courtesan and the Indian Novel", a review-article on Hasan Shah, The Nautch Girl, and Mirza M. H. Ruswa, Umra Jan Ada, Courtesan of Lucknow, Indian Literature, no. 139 (Sept-Oct 1995):164-70.
"Masculinity and Femininity in The Chess Players: Sexual Moves, Colonial Manoeuvres, and an Indian Game", in Manushi: A Journal of Women and Society, nos. 92-93 (Jan.-April 1996):41-50.
"Good Nazis and just scholars: much ado about the British Empire", review of P. J. Marshall, ed., Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire, Race and Class 38, no. 4 (April-June 1997):89-101.
"Hill Stations: Pinnacles of the Raj." Review article on Dale Kennedy, The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 8, no. 3 (September 1997):123-132.
"John Stuart Mill and India", a review-article. New Quest, no. 54 (January-February 1998):54-64.
HISTORY AND POLITICS: Independent India
Abul Kalam Azad by Rahil Khan
Bhopal and the Crime of Union Carbide. A review article by Vinay Lal on Jamie Cassells, The Uncertain Promise of Law: Lessons from Bhopal (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994), originally published as "Sovereign Immunity: Law in an Unequal World" in Social and Legal Studies 5, no. 3 (1996):431-36. Also published, with variations, as "Reliving a Nightmare", The Book Review (June 1996):29-31, and in New Quest, no. 121 (Jan.-Feb. 1997):53-60.
SWEET, OH! NOT SO SWEET THIS WORLD CUP. Vinay LalPublished in "Humanscape" Magazine, Mumbai, September 1999 issue, as "Why Indians Should Have Supported Pakistan in the World Cup Final")
HISTORY AND POLITICS: Mahatma Gandhi
The Mother in the 'Father of the Nation'. by Vinay Lal. Originally published in Manushi: A Journal of Women and Society, no. 91 (November-December 1995):27-30.
‘Hey Ram’: The Politics of Gandhi’s Last Words. Vinay Lal [Published in Humanscape 8, no. 1 (January 2001):34-38.]
More Than a Man of Action, a review by Vinay Lal. Dalton, Dennis. Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent Power in Action. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. 279 pp. $29.50, cloth. [Originally published in Gandhi Marg 16, no. 4 (Jan.-Feb. 1995):491-96.]
Gandhi: A Select Bibliographic Guide
HISTORY AND POLITICS: Mughal India
Aurangzeb's Fatwa on Jizya [Jizyah, or Poll Tax]. Source: Al-Fatawa al-Alamgiriyyah = Al-Fatawa al-Hindiyyah fi Madhhab al-Imam al-A‘zam Abi Hanifah al-Nu‘man (Beirut: Dar al-Ma‘rifah, 1973), 2:244-245. Chapter on Jizyah The translation below is by Anver Emon of the Department of History, UCLA.
INDIAN DIASPORA
Establishing Roots, Engendering Awareness: A Political History of Asian Indians in the United States, by Vinay Lal [Published in Live Like the Banyan Tree: Images of the Indian American Experience, ed. Leela Prasad (Philadelphia: Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, 1999):42-48.]
RELIGIONS: Paths: Hinduism
Hinduism, A Basic Bibliography, by Vinay Lal
