Asia: Art Gallery of New South Wales: The Lost Buddhas

The Lost Buddhas: Chinese Buddhist Sculpture from Qingzhou
29 August - 23 November 2008
Asian Gallery, Ground Level

For more information of the current display, please visit the Art Gallery of New South Wales direct link http://www.asianart.com.au/exhibitions/current/lost_buddhas
Additional information such as brochures (which includes information about bodhisattvas) and displays about the exhibition are also available as well links to past exhibitions.

Gandhi's Speehes

If you want to read any of Gandhi's speeches, see chornologies of his life or read an enormous collection of quotations....then click here: http://www.gandhimuseum.org/sarvodaya/speeches/speechMain.htm

Sarahb

Critique of Edward Said's "Orientalism" - Quadrant Online Journal

http://www.quadrant.org.au/magazine/issue/2008/9/wrong-from-first-to-last

The weblink above will direct you to an article published in the Quadrant journal on September 2008 by Michael Warby. This article has been reprinted from the journal online and offers a critique on Edward Said's, "Orientalism". There is a printable version icon at the bottom of the article if you wish to make a hard copy which you can use for your essay relevant to the appropriate topic.

SBS tonight 8.30: Subhas Chandra Bose

What a fortuitous coincidence that our exploration of Indian nationalism and the anti colonial struggle coincides with the screening tonight of the documentary about Subhas Chandra Bose, a leader in the Indian Independance movement, twice leader of the Indian Congress but also an ideological opponent of Gandhi's technique of satyagraha (non-violent resistance).
See tonight (Friday 10 October), SBS, at 8.30 pm, As it happened.....

A small note about next week's reading and the Partha Chatterjee site

Thanks Greg.
Sorry to say, but we are running behind.
Week 11's reading (i.e. next week is Chatterjee, P. (1986) Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World : A Derivative Discourse, Zed, Avon, U.K. Chap. 1, pp. 1 – 39 (also see class handout), and
week 12's reading is Metcalf, B&T. (2006), 2nd Ed., ‘The crisis of the colonial order, 1919-1939’ in, A Concise History of Modern India, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Also check out the following link for further information about Chatterjee, http://www.thecore.nus.edu.sg/post/poldiscourse/chatterjee/holden1.html

Week 10 reading

Is everybody nice and refreshed after their break?

This week's reading is another big document divided into three parts.

Crisis of the colonial order, 1919-1939 (Part 1)

Crisis of the colonial order, 1919-1939 (Part 2)

Crisis of the colonial order, 1919-1939 (Part 3)

For those industrious people the further reading item by Robin Jeffrey can be found here:-

India: independence and the rich peasant - part 1

India: independence and the rich peasant - part 2

Speak to you next week.

Polyester -Just Can't Get Enough

Dear everyone, How's your holiday?
I've been to a few interesting events including an evening at 44 Errol St where I found very amazing. And I saw someone from our class as well. She was in the group performance, together gave so much joy to the audiences. Very sorry that I had to leave early as having to attend a meeting soon after that. But here I have photos and Video to show you. Cheers!