Figurations of Time in Asia

The experience and the ensuing structuring of time forms a constitutive part of human cultures. There are many ways of coming to terms with time, calendars and historiographies being its most common cultural representations. The contributions to this volume deal with lesser known figurations that result directly from the various perceptions about time and phenomena related to time. Diachronous investigations in various parts of Asia (predominantly South Asia) reveal a broad spectrum of such visual and literary figurative manifestations. While Hinduism recognizes a divine personification of time and allocates the ominous factor time in an ontological proximity to death, other cultures of Asia have developed their own specific concepts and strategies. This collection of essays combines perspectives of various disciplines on figurations in which time congeals, as it were. These figurations result from local time regimes, and beyond demonstrating their diversity of forms this volume offers coordinates for a comparison of cultures. The topics include chronograms as well as early Buddhist topoi of the vastness of time, the Indian Jaina representation of both temporality and non-temporality and the teachings of a Mediaeval Zen master hinting at the more stationary aspects of time

Juliane Anna Lia Molitor, Portraits in sechs Fürstenstaaten Rajasthans vom 17. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert.

Bautze Joachim. Juliane Anna Lia Molitor, Portraits in sechs Fürstenstaaten Rajasthans vom 17. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert.. In: Arts asiatiques, tome 41, 1986. pp. 129-130

Rosa Maria Cimino, Vita di Corte nel Rajasthan. Miniature Indiane dal XVII al XIX Seculo

Bautze Joachim. Rosa Maria Cimino, Vita di Corte nel Rajasthan. Miniature Indiane dal XVII al XIX Seculo . In: Arts asiatiques, tome 41, 1986. pp. 128-129

Texte. Noten. Bilder. Neuerwerbungen, Restaurierungen, Konservierungen 1977-1983. Ausstellung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, Prunksaal, 8 Juni-13 Oktober 1984

Bautze Joachim. Texte. Noten. Bilder. Neuerwerbungen, Restaurierungen, Konservierungen 1977-1983. Ausstellung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, Prunksaal, 8 Juni-13 Oktober 1984. In: Arts asiatiques, tome 40, 1985. pp. 137-138

Rosa Maria Cimino, Vita di Corte nel Rajasthan. Miniature Indiane dal XVII al XIX Seculo

Bautze Joachim. Rosa Maria Cimino, Vita di Corte nel Rajasthan. Miniature Indiane dal XVII al XIX Seculo . In: Arts asiatiques, tome 41, 1986. pp. 128-129

L’India nella musica e nella cultura pop. Cronologia di un’utopia transculturale

L'influsso della cultura e delle tradizioni musicali indiane sulla musica afroamericana e sulla popular music degli anni Cinquanta-Sessanta del XX secolo ha prodotto numerose esperienze di interculturalità, fallendo però quasi sempre i propri obiettivi sul piano della transculturalità. Il fenomeno viene storicizzato a partire dalla ricostruzione delle influenze diffuse dai grandi divulgatori del pensiero e della musica indostana nel Novecento euroamericano, e degli incontri, anche personali, tra maestri indiani come Ravi Shankar e artisti europei e afroamericani come i Beatles e John Coltrane

Political players: Courtesans of Hyderabad

Important recent works on the Mughal state and women in the Indo-Muslim world have not considered courtesans or tawa’ifs, the singing and dancing women employed by Indo-Muslim states and nobles, to be significant participants in politics and society. Drawing on detailed archival data from late nineteenth century Hyderabad state and other historical materials, I argue that courtesans were often elite women, cultural standard-setters and wielders of political power. Women whose art and learning gained them properties and alliances with powerful men, they were political players in precolonial India and in the princely states. They successfully negotiated administrative reforms in princely states like Hyderabad, continuing to secure protection and patronage while in British India they began to be classified as prostitutes. Colonial and modern India have been less than kind to courtesans and their artistic traditions, and more research needs to be done on the history of courtesans and their communities