Padma Kaimal
Biographic Data
| ID | 1057360 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Padma Kaimal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Padma |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaimal |
| SIGNATURE | KAIMAL P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colgate University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Adivasi Art and Activism
The uneasy alliance of tribal art and the museum movement As India consolidates an aggressive model of economic development, indigenous tribal people known as adivasis continue to be overrepresented among the country’s poor. Adivasis make up more than eight hundred communities in India, with a total population of more than a hundred million people who speak more than three hundred different languages. Although their historical presence is acknowl…
Collecting as Ordering or Scattering; Scattering as Destruction
Collecting and scattering may seem like opposites, but they are in fact complementary, interdependent actions. To collect religious art and other objects is also to scatter them. Though collecting can sometimes be virtuous, it is always disruptive to some previous order. Reversing that kind of disruption, which occurred on a grand scale during European explorations and colonization of much of the world, is not always possible, but telling the sto…
A Secular Need
Whether from the perspective of Islamic law’s advocates, secularism’s partisans, or communities caught in their crossfire, many people see the relationship between Islamic law and secularism as antagonistic and increasingly discordant. In the United States there are calls for “sharia bans” in the courts, in western Europe legal limitations have been imposed on mosques and the wearing of headscarves, and in the Arab Middle East conflicts between s…
Secular Need
The Ends of Kinship
Bhakti and Power
Bhakti , a term ubiquitous in the religious life of South Asia, has meanings that shift dramatically according to context and sentiment. Sometimes translated as “personal devotion,” bhakti nonetheless implies and fosters public interaction. It is often associated with the marginalized voices of women and lower castes, yet it has also played a role in perpetuating injustice. Barriers have been torn down in the name of bhakti, while others have bee…
History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200–2000
Climate Change and the Art of Devotion
In the enchanted world of Braj, the primary pilgrimage center in north India for worshippers of Krishna, each stone, river, and tree is considered sacred. In Climate Change and the Art of Devotion , Sugata Ray shows how this place-centered theology emerged in the wake of the Little Ice Age (ca. 1550–1850), an epoch marked by climatic catastrophes across the globe. Using the frame of geoaesthetics, he compares early modern conceptions of the envir…
High-Tech Housewives
Introduction to special issue "To My Mind"
Learning to See the Goddess Once Again
All scholarship on the famous Kailāsanāth temple, a stone complex built by a king of the Pallava dynasty during the early eighth century at his capital city in southeastern India, assumes that it was dedicated to Śiva alone. Surveys of Indic art presume that most Hindu temples—and all of those built of stone, in cities, by royal patrons—were built for male deites. I propose that the Kailāsanāth is instead two conjoined temples of equal significan…
Indian subcontinent
The Problem of Portraiture in South India, Circa 970-1000 A.D
The Problem of Portraiture in South India, circa 870-970 A.D
L'A aborde ici la question du portrait en Inde du Sud vers 970-1000 ap. J.-C. Dans une etude anterieure, il evoque les qualites particulieres qui caracterisent le portrait dans la region de Tamil au debut du regne de la dynastie Chola. Ainsi il affirme que ces gravures en relief decorant les temples rejoignent une definition semiotique du portrait. Quant a la fonction des portraits, elle est liee au contexte culturel. Vers 970, un changement appa…
Early Cola Kings and "Early Cola Temples"
Etude du role des premiers rois de la dynastie Cōla (apres 850-1014) dans le financement et la construction de temples hindous dans le Tamil Nadu, grâce a l'etude de l'architecture, de la sculpture, de l'iconographie et des inscriptions des temples patrones par ces rois et des projets realises par leurs epouses
The Problem of Portraiture in South India, circa 870-970 A.D
L'A aborde ici la question du portrait en Inde du Sud vers 970-1000 ap. J.-C. Dans une etude anterieure, il evoque les qualites particulieres qui caracterisent le portrait dans la region de Tamil au debut du regne de la dynastie Chola. Ainsi il affirme que ces gravures en relief decorant les temples rejoignent une definition semiotique du portrait. Quant a la fonction des portraits, elle est liee au contexte culturel. Vers 970, un changement appa…
The Ends of Kinship
Adivasi Art and Activism
The uneasy alliance of tribal art and the museum movement As India consolidates an aggressive model of economic development, indigenous tribal people known as adivasis continue to be overrepresented among the country’s poor. Adivasis make up more than eight hundred communities in India, with a total population of more than a hundred million people who speak more than three hundred different languages. Although their historical presence is acknowl…
Learning to See the Goddess Once Again
All scholarship on the famous Kailāsanāth temple, a stone complex built by a king of the Pallava dynasty during the early eighth century at his capital city in southeastern India, assumes that it was dedicated to Śiva alone. Surveys of Indic art presume that most Hindu temples—and all of those built of stone, in cities, by royal patrons—were built for male deites. I propose that the Kailāsanāth is instead two conjoined temples of equal significan…
Early Cola Kings and "Early Cola Temples"
Etude du role des premiers rois de la dynastie Cōla (apres 850-1014) dans le financement et la construction de temples hindous dans le Tamil Nadu, grâce a l'etude de l'architecture, de la sculpture, de l'iconographie et des inscriptions des temples patrones par ces rois et des projets realises par leurs epouses
The Problem of Portraiture in South India, circa 870-970 A.D
L'A aborde ici la question du portrait en Inde du Sud vers 970-1000 ap. J.-C. Dans une etude anterieure, il evoque les qualites particulieres qui caracterisent le portrait dans la region de Tamil au debut du regne de la dynastie Chola. Ainsi il affirme que ces gravures en relief decorant les temples rejoignent une definition semiotique du portrait. Quant a la fonction des portraits, elle est liee au contexte culturel. Vers 970, un changement appa…
The Problem of Portraiture in South India, Circa 970-1000 A.D
Indian subcontinent
Learning to See the Goddess Once Again
All scholarship on the famous Kailāsanāth temple, a stone complex built by a king of the Pallava dynasty during the early eighth century at his capital city in southeastern India, assumes that it was dedicated to Śiva alone. Surveys of Indic art presume that most Hindu temples—and all of those built of stone, in cities, by royal patrons—were built for male deites. I propose that the Kailāsanāth is instead two conjoined temples of equal significan…
Introduction to special issue "To My Mind"
High-Tech Housewives
Bhakti and Power
Bhakti , a term ubiquitous in the religious life of South Asia, has meanings that shift dramatically according to context and sentiment. Sometimes translated as “personal devotion,” bhakti nonetheless implies and fosters public interaction. It is often associated with the marginalized voices of women and lower castes, yet it has also played a role in perpetuating injustice. Barriers have been torn down in the name of bhakti, while others have bee…
History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200–2000
Climate Change and the Art of Devotion
In the enchanted world of Braj, the primary pilgrimage center in north India for worshippers of Krishna, each stone, river, and tree is considered sacred. In Climate Change and the Art of Devotion , Sugata Ray shows how this place-centered theology emerged in the wake of the Little Ice Age (ca. 1550–1850), an epoch marked by climatic catastrophes across the globe. Using the frame of geoaesthetics, he compares early modern conceptions of the envir…
A Secular Need
Whether from the perspective of Islamic law’s advocates, secularism’s partisans, or communities caught in their crossfire, many people see the relationship between Islamic law and secularism as antagonistic and increasingly discordant. In the United States there are calls for “sharia bans” in the courts, in western Europe legal limitations have been imposed on mosques and the wearing of headscarves, and in the Arab Middle East conflicts between s…
Secular Need
The Ends of Kinship
Adivasi Art and Activism
The uneasy alliance of tribal art and the museum movement As India consolidates an aggressive model of economic development, indigenous tribal people known as adivasis continue to be overrepresented among the country’s poor. Adivasis make up more than eight hundred communities in India, with a total population of more than a hundred million people who speak more than three hundred different languages. Although their historical presence is acknowl…
Collecting as Ordering or Scattering; Scattering as Destruction
Collecting and scattering may seem like opposites, but they are in fact complementary, interdependent actions. To collect religious art and other objects is also to scatter them. Though collecting can sometimes be virtuous, it is always disruptive to some previous order. Reversing that kind of disruption, which occurred on a grand scale during European explorations and colonization of much of the world, is not always possible, but telling the sto…
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