In this episode of the podcast, Eric Chopra narrates his poem dedicated to history.Background Music: [FREE] SPOKEN WORD INSTRUMENTAL | SPOKEN WORD BEATS 2020 | @Produced By Vinc On The Beat.
Dr. Kavita Singh is an art historian with an interest in the history of museums in colonial and post-colonial India; the global art museum; repatriation; religious objects and secularization of art; religious revivalism and its cultural forms; heritage discourse; historiography of art history; history of Indian courtly painting; Mughal-Rajput artistic interactions and painterly style as vehicle of meaning. In today’s podcast episode with Dr. Singh, we talked about her entry into the field of Indian art-history, the scope of this domain, perceptions of art, the politics of aesthetics and the many ways in which art adds nuance to our understanding of our shared and complicated histories.The article Dr. Singh is talking about at the end of the podcast is; Contemplating the Face of the Master: Portraits of Sufi Saints as Aids to Meditation in Seventeenth-Century Mughal India by Murad Khan Mumtaz.
In this episode of Itihas-Shala, Eric Chopra explores the tantalizing connection of the Persian language with the subcontinent. Tracing its history back to the 3rd quarter of the 9th century, Eric weaves an interesting narrative and explores the significance Persian attained under the patronage of the Mughal Emperor Akbar. This episode also sheds light on the role that munshis (general secretaries) and kayasthas (scribes) played in popularizing the language. Sources:1) The Culture and Politics of Persian in Precolonial Hindustan by Muzaffar Alam in Sheldon Pollock (edited), Literary Cultures in History2) Illustrations of Persian Classics in Persian and Imperial Mughal Painting by Som Prakash Verma in Muzaffar Alam, Francoise ‘Nalini’ Delvoye, Marc Gaborieau (edited), The Making of Indo-Persian Culture; India and French Studies.3) The Languages of Political Islam in India (c. 1200-1800), Muzaffar Alam.4) The Making of a Munshi by Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam.5) Writing Self, Writing Empire: Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo-Persian State Secretary by Rajeev Kinra. 6) India in the Persiante Age (1000-1765), Richard M. Eaton.7) Fisher, Michael H. “The Office of Akhbār Nawīs: The Transition from Mughal to British Forms.” Modern Asian Studies, vol. 27, no. 1, 1993, pp. 45–82. JSTOR
