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15PARH103 Deities, devotion and the arts of Hinduism - Assignment 1 guidelines

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Background reading

Branfoot 2015 - Making Space for the Sacred: Hindu Art and Material Religion (chapter)

1. Deities, devotion and the arts of Hinduism: an introduction (12th January)

Deities, devotion and the arts of Hinduism: an introduction (recorded lecture)

1. Deities, devotion and the arts of Hinduism: an introduction (PP as pdf)

2. Darshan and devotion in Hindu visual culture (19th January)

2. Darshan and devotion in Hindu visual culture (p/p as pdf)

2. Darshan and devotion in Hindu visual culture - lecture recording

3. Painting the Ramayana in 17th-century Mewar (26th January)

Aitken 2010 - Chapter 1 'An Introduction t the Court Paintings of Rajasthan'

3, Painting the Ramayana (lecture)

3. Painting the Ramayana in 17th-century Mewar (pp as pdf)

4. Divine kings, heroic gods: portraiture at court and temple (2nd February)

4. Divine kings, heroic gods: portraiture at court and temple

4. Divine kings, heroic gods (p/p as pdf)

5. Pilgrimage and sacred landscape (9th February)

5. Pilgrimage and sacred landscape (p/p as pdf)

5. Pilgrimage and sacred landscape (recorded lecture)

6. Myth, modernity and colonial Hindu visual culture (23rd February)

6. Myth, modernity and colonial Hindu visual culture (p/p as pdf)

6. Myth, modernity and colonial Hindu visual culture - introduction (part 1)

6. Myth, modernity and colonial Hindu visual culture (part 2)

Julie Codell and Cristin McKnight Sethi, "Raja Ravi Varma, A Galaxy of Musicians," in Smarthistory

7. Painting and pilgrimage (2nd March)

Reunion of Krishna icons: A painting of the Festival of the Seven Svarups in the Johnson Album

7. Painting and pilgrimage (p/p as pdf)

Williams 1988

Nardi 2009 article

7. Painting and pilgrimage (recorded lecture)

8. Narrative storytelling, scroll-painting and performance in Rajasthan and Bengal (9th March)

The Epic of Pabuji

8. Narrative storytelling, scroll-painting and performance in Rajasthan and Bengal (pp as pdf)

8. Narrative storytelling, scroll-painting and performance in Rajasthan and Bengal

9. Mass reproduction and the Hindu image (16th March)

9. Mass reproduction and the Hindu image (pp as pdf)

Inglis 1999 chapter - Master, Machine and Meaning

10. Hinduism, Hindutva and contemporary Hindu visual culture (23rd March)

10. Hinduism, Hindutva and contemporary Hindu visual culture (lecture recording)

10. Hinduism, Hindutva and contemporary Hindu visual culture (p/p as pdf)

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15PARH103-A22/23 Deities, Devotion and the arts of Hinduism A22/23

SOAS UG & PG marking criteria