ILCAA Joint Research Project

Reconsidering Intermediate Social Groups in Premodern South Asia

Keywords

• Premodern South Asia
• Social History

Areas

• South Asia

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About the Project

Project term: April, 2012–March, 2015

This project aims at reconsidering the roles and functions of various intermediate groups in South Asia during the pre-colonial period. It investigates how these groups were formed and developed in their respective historical contexts. It has been pointed out that in premodern South Asia there were various intermediate social groups enjoying a certain degree of autonomy and independence, such as villages, unions of villages (<<regional communities>>), cities, merchant associations, religious orders or cults, and <<castes>>. By paying special attention to the conflicts and negotiations among the groups and between these groups and their states, the project will arrive at a new understanding of the historical development of South Asian society. It examines various types of social groups of premodern South Asia and seeks to reveal the diversity in the forms of societal ties underlying their formation and integration by making comparative studies of different groups.

Members

Coordinator

• Nobuhiro OTA (ILCAA)

ILCAA Staff

• Jun TAKASHIMA
• Nobuaki KONDO

Joint Researchers

• Akiko SUEHIRO
• Akio TANABE
• Atsushi NONOGAKI
• Ayako NINOMIYA
• Eiko UEHARA
• Hiromu NAGASHIMA
• Hiroyuki KOTANI
• Hiroyuki MASHITA
• Ikuko WADA
• Jae-Eun SHIN
• Kan ISHIKAWA
• Masahiko MITA
• Michihiro OGAWA
• Minoru INABA
• Ryosuke FURUI
• Satoshi OGURA
• Shinji SHIGEMATSU
• Shinkichi TANIGUCHI
• Shunsuke SAITO

Outputs

Meetings

The 4th meeting

• Date/Time: 22 June 2013 (Sat.) 13:30-19:00
• Venue: Hongo Satellite 7F
• Language: Japanese and English

• Ryosuke FURUI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, The University of Tokyo)

  “Formation of Brāhmaṇas: the Case of Early Medieval Bengal”

  Satoshi OGURA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University)

  “Incompatible Outsiders or Believers of a Darśana?: Representations of Muslims by Three Brahmans of Šāhmīrid Kašmīr”

  Jae-Eun SHIN (ILCAA Joint Researcher, ILCAA)

  “Satra in Assam between the 16th and the 18th Centuries: from a Venue of Popular Bhakti Movement to the Orthodox Brahmanical Institution”

The 3rd meeting ：Report (Japanese)(187KB)

• Date/Time: 24 March 2013 (Sun.) 14:00-18:30
• Venue: Hongo Satellite 5F

• Hiroyuki KOTANI (ILCAA Joint Researcher)

  “The Dropouts from Communities in Premodern India”

  Shinkichi TANIGUCHI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  “Tribes and Castes in Bengal: A Historical Perspective”

The 2nd meeting ：Report (Japanese)(177KB)

• Date/Time: 1 December 2012 (Sat.) 14:00-18:30
• Venue: Hongo Satellite 7F

• Michihiro OGAWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Yokohama City University)

  “Merchant and artisan communities in the late 18th century-Indapur Pargana, Pune Subha under the Marathas: the selection and the initial analysis of primary sources”

  Shunsuke SAITO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Daito Bunka University)

  “Structural Analysis of Human Network in the Portuguese Empire: a prosopographical study of the Estado da India’s clerks”

The 1st meeting ：Report (Japanese)(95KB)

• Date/Time: 23 June 2012 (Sat.) 13:00-18:00
• Venue: Hongo Satellite 7F

• Nobuhiro OTA (ILCAA)

  “A review of studies on social groups in pre-modern South Asia”

  All members

  Discussion about how to forward the project

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