Indology
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Prakrit languages attained the status of languages of religion, culture and communication owing to their association with the Jain spiritual guru Mahavira who is said to have preached his sermons to Jain mendicants in Prakrit.
The preference for the literary use of a particular variety of Prakrit…
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With training in Sanskrit and Prakrit and a DPhil in Jainism from the University of Allahabad, Dr Singh has spent the past 30 years of his life researching on Jain canonical literature written in Prakrit language. He exhibits a wide range of expertise across the fields of linguistics, traditional…
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The Indian subcontinent is home to a number of language families such as the Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Iranian, Austro-Asiatic and Tibeto-Burman. A sub-group of the Indo-European language family, the Indo-Aryan language group can be divided into three categories: Old Indo-Aryan, Middle Indo-Aryan, and…
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Prakrit refers to a group of languages that were meant to be natural and unsophisticated as against Sanskrit, the ‘cultured’ language of the ‘learned’. It is characterised by the pronunciation of soft consonantal sounds that once formed a part of the vocabulary of the common masses of the Indian…
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One of the foremost minds in the field of Indology and linguistics today, 69-year-old David Dean Shulman was born and brought up in Iowa in the Midwest, USA. After finishing school, Shulman immigrated to Israel and gained a BA degree in Islamic History from Hebrew University. He grew fascinated…
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Swiss artist Alice Boner (July 22, 1889 – April 13, 1981) was an Indologist, sculptor and painter who collaborated and was friends with many Indian artists, such as the dancers Uday Shankar and Shanta Rao. Boner settled in India in 1935, the start of a lifetime of study of Indian art in its formal…
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Alice Boner (1889–1981) a Swiss artist—surprisingly little known—spent her life in 20th-century India and received the Padma Bhushan from the President of India in 1974. Her paintings and sculptures were much appreciated throughout her lifetime and she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the…
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Books and articles by Alice Boner
Boner, Alice. 1933 ‘The Theatre in the Jungle’, Indian Arts and Letters 7.1:37–45.
———. 1935. ‘Kathakali’. Journal of the Indian Society of Oriental Art, 3.1:61–74
———. 1964. ‘The Mystery of Sacred Architecture’. Journal of Oriental Research, Madras 34–35:33–40…
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