Language of the Heart:
Challenges in a Modern Interpretation of the Bhagavad Gita
Professor Graham M. Schweig
Tuesday, March 26th, 6:30 pm. (Reception at 6 pm.)
Rm. 106, McCormick Hall, Princeton University
Bhagavad Gita Lecture
The Pakistan general elections will take place May, 2013. Websites providing news updates relating to the Pakistan elections are listed at my Elections in Pakistan libguide. Here is the Election Commission of Pakistan approved code of conduct. And here is the Manifesto 2013: Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians.
Three shipments arrived from the Library of Congress–New Delhi plan this week. The attached list NewAcquisitionsLCDelhi8March2013 includes newly arrived books in English, Hindi, Urdu, and Sanskrit. This batch includes some gorgeous portfolios of paintings that will be available in Marquand Library, including representations of Ganesha, a Monir art exhibition, and a Tanjore portfolio of Hindu gods in art. There is also a good selection of Hindi, Urdu, and Sanskrit literature. Other subjects in this shipment include Islamic law, social studies of science, human rights, geography, political science, Bollywood, tribal health, rural development, religion/folklore, diaspora studies, economics/finance, and other subjects. Additionally, a batch of new serials arrived this week. New approval books with a South Asia focus this week include the following list NewApprovals8March2013 of titles.
A new interdisciplinary subscription database of images, Image Quest, has been added to Princeton University Library electronic resources today. The collection includes more than two million images, all cleared for non-commercial educational use. Browse by subject, collection or keyword. For South Asia related images, keyword searching is probably the best approach on this site.
Recent Library of Congress–Islamabad office pdf files added to the LC collection include the following items:
A list of February 2013 acquisitions (most of these on the South Asia fund) is attached. March2013nonLC The list includes mostly monographs, but also a few standing orders, video recordings, and renewing serial subscriptions.
The FATA Research Center (a think tank devoted to Federally Administered Tribal Areas in Pakistan) has electronic pdf links to several reports that are out of stock in print format including:
And a recent addition to CRL (Center for Research Libraries) collections is Bihār kī khabren [microform] (from the University of Virginia archival collections). Bihār kī khabren was published in Urdu by the Indian state of Bihar’s Public Relations Department and describes contemporary events These newspapers have been microfilmed in color, so as to preserve some wonderful images such as the following:
Bihar ki Khabren
The attached spreadsheet NewBooksFeb25-2013 includes a few additional new books of relevance to South Asia.
Renewing Princeton electronic resources and serials include the following (among others!). Updates on several of these subscriptions will be provided in upcoming posts.
The Bhakti Movement and the Shadow of the Raj (lecture by Jack Hawley)
More information on tonight’s speaker is available at Jack Hawley’s website: http://johnstrattonhawley.org/