Symposium on American Understanding of India : Library of Congress
American understanding of India : a symposium / Compiled and Edited by Louis A. Jacob.
. – New Delhi : Manohar Publishers & Distributors,, 2001
189 p. ; 22cm.
"Papers read at a conference held at the Library of Congress, 23-25 October, 1986, convened in conjunction with the Festival of India 1985-1986."
Machine generated contents note: SECTION I -- AMERICAN UNDERSTANDING OF CONTEMPORARY INDIA --American Perspectives on India: Voices in the Social Sciences -- SUSANNE HOEBER RUDOLPH -- Some Views of the State of Indo-American Relations -- ROBERT I. CRANE --Approaches to Indian Studies, Recruitment and Access -- JOSEPH W. ELDER -- Approaches to Indo-Muslim Studies -- BARBARA DALY METCALF -- American Scholarly Understanding of India -- M.N. SRINIVAS --SECTION II -- AMERICAN UNDERSTANDING OF TRADITIONAL INDIA --American Understanding of Indian Tradition: -- Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow -- KARL H. POTTER -- The Contribution of American Scholars to the -- Study of Indian Religions -- WENDY DONIGER O'FLAHERTY --South Asian Studies in 1986 -- GEORGE L. HART -- The Bhagavad-Gita: Translating across Cultures -- BARARA STOLER MILLER --American Historical Scholarship on pre-Moder India -- BURTON STEIN -- The Status of Medieval Hindi Studies in North America -- CHARLES S.J. WHITE --SECTION III -- CULTURAL INTERCHANGE AND AMERICAN PERCEPTIONS OF INDIAN CULTURE --American Understanding of Indian Art -- PRAMOD CHANDRA --American Understanding of India: A Historical Perspective -- N. GERALD BARRIER --An Ethnography of the American Experience of Indian Music, -- DANIEL M. NEUMAN --Indian Literatures in the U.S. 1957-1987 -- A.K. RAMANUJAN --American Understanding of Indian Culture: -- The Festival of India -- TED M.G. TANEN --Concluding Remarks -- STANLEY J. HEGINBOTHAM.
ISBN8173044082 (hbk) : Rs. 400.00
1. Public opinion – United States.
1. India – Congresses. – Foreign public opinion, American
I. Jacob, Louis A., Editor