ILCAA Joint Research Group

Dynamism of Cultural Contact in South Asia

Keywords

• cultural contact
• boundaries
• acculturation

Areas

• South Asia

Website

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About the Project

Project term: 2021–2023

This project picks up processes and consequences of contacts between things / people having different cultural and social background in South Asia where diverse religions, languages and human groups coexist. It aims to deliberate on a variety of contacts between things / people of different religions, languages, social origins, classes, regions, or intellectual traditions, and to explore power relationship affecting those contacts in South Asia from Early Modern period up to the present day. Formations and reformations of “boundaries” as premises / consequences of cultural contacts will be one of its main topics.

Members

Coordinator

• Nobuhiro OTA (ILCAA)

ILCAA Staff

• Nobuaki KONDO
• Satoshi OGURA
• Masahiko TOGAWA

The project Members

• Jun TAKASHIMA
• Toshie AWAYA
• Sanderson Alexis

Outputs

Meetings

The 2nd meeting

[open]

• Date/Time: Wed 11 Mar 2022 17:00–18:30
• Venue: Online meeting
• Language: English
• Pre-registration is needed. Please contact: ogura[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (please change [at] to ＠) .
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (B)) “Studies on Cultural Pluralism in Early Modern South Asia: With Special Reference to Translation” (Principal Investigator: Nobuhiro OTA (ILCAA) Project number: 18KK0013), ILCAA Joint Research Group “Dynamism of Cultural Contact in South Asia”

• Jean ARZOUMANOV (JSPS)

  “Ethnography and hagiography of Indian sects in Indo-Persian texts from the colonial period”

The 1st meeting

[open]

• Date/Time: Sun 27 Mar 2022 14:00–18:00
• Venue: Online meeting
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required. For registration, contact: ota-n[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp　(please change [at] to @). Registration deadline is 24th Mar.
• Jointly Sponsored by ILCAA, Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (B)) “Studies on Cultural Pluralism in Early Modern South Asia: With Special Reference to Translation” (Principal Investigator: Nobuhiro OTA (ILCAA) Project number: 18KK0013)

• 1. All participants

  All Co-investigators of KAKENHI, Report of investigation / Discussion on future course of research

  2. Shinsaku KATO (ILCAA Research Associate)

  “Dutch Encounter with the Mughal Court in the Mid-seventeenth Century”

  3. Ai KURAHASHI (Independent Researcher)

  “Encounter with India by Officials of British East India Company: Indian Language Education at Fort William College”

  4. All participants

  General Discussion