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Bornet, Philippe and Cattoni, Nadia (Eds.): Significant Others, Significant Encounters: Essays on South Asian History and Literature, Heidelberg: Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2023. https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1155

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07/24/2023

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Philippe Bornet (Ed.), Nadia Cattoni (Ed.)

Significant Others, Significant Encounters

Essays on South Asian History and Literature

This volume is dedicated to Maya Burger, professor emerita at the Faculty of Arts, University of Lausanne. It gathers contributions by friends, colleagues, and former students that echo the multiple dimensions of her work. Organised in four parts, Indology, History of Religions, History of Orientalism, and Hindi and Translation, these contributions explore different examples of encounters with “significant others”. Analysing original historical and literary sources and reflecting on the methodological dimensions, the authors offer innovative perspectives on various processes of interaction and exchange between the Indian subcontinent and the wider world and within the subcontinent itself.

Philippe Bornet is a senior lecturer in the Study of Religion and South Asian Studies at the University of Lausanne. His work focuses on the history of cultural exchanges between South Asia and Europe, and more specifically, on missionaries in South India, in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Nadia Cattoni is a senior lecturer in South Asian studies at the University of Lausanne. Her research area is early modern North Indian literature, with a focus on court poetry, erotics, aesthetics, and women’s writing.

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Table of Contents
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Front matter
Contents
v-vii
Acknowledgements
ix
Note on Transliteration
xi
List of Tables
xiii
List of Figures
xv-xvi
Philippe Bornet, Nadia Cattoni
Introduction
xvii-xix
Bibliography of Maya Burger
ix-xvii
PART I - INDOLOGY
Mary Brockington
When Rāma Met Viṣṇu
Problems of Transforming a Heroic Narrative into a Devotional Text
3-16
Basile Leclère
Devabodha and the Jain Scholars
Friendships and Rivalries at the Chalukya Court
17-27
Olga Serbaeva
Significant Otherness
Reinterpreting Some Well-Known Meetings with the Yoginīs in the Light of Vidyāpīṭha Texts
29-53
PART II - HISTORY OF RELIGIONS
Philippe Bornet
Visual Encounters with a Significant Other
The Travels of Maria Bambina from Italy to India (and Beyond)
57-76
Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz
News from the Phe reng ki
The Pilgrim-Merchant Pūraṇ Giri as Cultural Mediator between Tibet, India, and the British
77-92
Florence Pasche Guignard
Without Violence
Frédérick Leboyer’s Significant Encounters in and with India
93-113
Zhang Minyu
Yoga's Reintroduction to Modern China via the West
115-133
PART III - HISTORY OF ORIENTALISM
John Brockington
Force Majeure
Alexander Hamilton and the Start of Sanskrit Studies in Continental Europe
137-149
Nadia Cattoni
Alice Boner (1889-1981) and Pramoda Charan Mittra (1901-1976)
A Forgotten Significant Encounter
151-168
Angelika Malinar
“The Great Unveiling”
Annie Besant and the Bhagavadgītā
169-190
Galina Rousseva-Sokolova
Unlikely Encounters
Ideas about India in Two Nineteenth-Century European Nationalist Narratives (Joseph Méry and Georgi Sava Rakovski)
191-208
Ekaterina Velmezova
The “Ancient Indian Language” in the 1950 Linguistic Discussion in the USSR
The Significance of a “Missed Encounter”
209-217
PART IV - HINDI AND TRANSLATION
Hiroko Nagasaki
Encounter with the Hagiographies of the Poet-Saint Tulsīdās
221-235
Rosina Pastore
“Mar gayā hai śaihanśāh-e-hind”
An Indian Woman Commemorates King Edward VII in the Hindi Women’s Periodical Strī Darpaṇ
237252
Nicola Pozza
The Elusive Double
Mirror Effects and Perplexity on the Roads of India
253-275
Biljana Zrnić
Language Hybridity in Midnight’s Children
A Comparative Study of the Croatian and Czech Versions of the Text
277-298
About the Contributors
299-304
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