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
Pakistan: A Select Political Chronology, 1947-2008, Complied 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")
Democracy & the Indian Polity. Vinay Lal
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
