Formation of the Indic World: From the Perspective of Frontiers (jrp000252)
Keywords
South Asia
Frontiers
Cultural contacts
Regional Identities
Areas
South Asia
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About the Project
Project term: April, 2019–March, 2022
This research project aims to investigate various phenomena of cultural contacts and acculturations that occurred in the frontiers of South Asia, including Bengal, Assam, Nepal, Trans-Himalaya, Kashmir, East Afghanistan, Sind, and South India, from the ancient period to the modern period. The focus is on cultural encounters of transregional Sanskrit and Persianate cultures and local cultures in various frontiers. Through a comparative study on cases of frontier areas, this project attempts to verify the possibility of combining the separate regional identities in each frontier and their development into the sense of belonging to “the Indic World.”
Satoshi OGURA, Project Coordinator (Associate Professor, ILCAA)
Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Joint Research Project “Formation of the Indic World: From the Perspective of Frontiers”, Joint Research Project "Studies on the cultures and societies in Premodern Inner Asia and its adjacent areas", Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
Satoshi OGURA (ILCAA)
“1000 Years of Indigenous Groups in Northern Punjab”