Pensum er separat for hver forelesning.
Leaders
Forelesningen er over boken Price and Ruud, eds. Power and Influence in India, som publiseres 31. august 2010, og tar for seg følgende kapitler:
- Banerjee: Leadership and Political Work
- Ruud: To Create a Crowd
- Brass: Leadership and the Power of Honour
- Manor: Beyond Clientilism
- Alm: Creating followers, gaining patrons
- Jeffrey: Contradictory Youth Politics
- Price: Campaign Rhetoric, Development Policy and Drought
Bakgrunnspensum: Morris-Jones, W.H. 1963. ‘India’s Political Idioms’ in C.H. Philips (ed), Politics and Society in India, pp. 133-54. London: Allen and Unwin.
Emnet forutsetter at pensum fra SAS1504 Politisk kultur i Sør-Asia er kjent.
Les gjerne også en eller flere av følgende (eller andre) politikerbiografier:
- James Manor om Bandaranaike (The Expedient Utopian)
- Judith Brown om Nehru (Nehru: A Political Biography)
- Stanley Wolpert om Zulfikar Bhutto (Zulfi of Pakistan)
- Sankarshan Thakur om Lalu Prasad (The Making of Laloo Yadav: The Unmaking of Bihar)
Religion and Politics
Oberoi, Harjot (1997). The Construction of Religious Boundaries. Delhi.
Van der Veer, Peter (1994) Religious nationalism. Hindus and Muslims in India. Princeton.
Tambiah, Stanley R. (1992) Buddhism betrayed? Religion, politics and violence in Sri Lanka. Chicago.
Gender
Anna Lindberg 2005 Modernization and Effiminization in India
Buddhist nuns
Karma Lekshe Tsomo Bhiksuni (ed.): Sakyadhītā, daughters of the Buddha, 1988. Snow Lion Publications. ISBN: 0-937938-72-6.
Ute Hüsken and Petra Kieffer-Pülz: Ordination into the Buddhist Sangha as Initiation Ritual and Legal Procedure, not yet published. The pdf file of the article is available in the Fronter Room.
Ute Hüsken: ‘Gotamī, do not wish to go from home to homelessness!’ Patterns of objections to female asceticism in Theravāda Buddhism, 2006. In: As¬ceticism and Its Critics: Historical Accounts and Comparative Perspectives, ed. Oliver Freiberger; New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 211-233.. ISBN: 978-0-19-530791-7, ib., 0-19-530791-7, ib.. The pdf file of the article is available in the Fronter Room.
Ute Hüsken: "The Legend of the Establishment of the Buddhist Order of Nuns in the Theravāda Vinaya-Piṭaka" i Journal of the Pali Text Society 26, 2000. The pdf file of the article is available in the Fronter room.
Folklore, public sphere and civil society
M.D. Muthukumarasvamy and Molly Kaushal (eds.): Folklore, public sphere and civil society, 2004. Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts. ISBN: 81-901481-4-1. ten copies of the book will be sent to the IKOS for the students.