Andrew Amstutz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1261248 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Amstutz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Amstutz |
| SIGNATURE | AMSTUTZ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arkansas at Little Rock |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1190-1376 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
New Perspectives on Science, Medicine, and Language in Modern South Asia
Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsAndrew AmstutzAndrew Amstutz is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He received his PhD from Cornell University, and he was a member at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in 2021. He has published articles in South Asia and Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa an…
Rethinking the Second World War in South Asia
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Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women
A New Shahrazad
In 1945, Mahmooda Rizvia, a prominent Urdu author from Sindh, published a travel account of her journey across the Arabian Sea from British India to Iraq during World War II. In her travel account, Rizvia conceptualized the declining British Empire as a dynamic space for Muslim renewal that connected India to the Middle East. Moreover, she fashioned a singular autobiographical persona as an Urdu literary pioneer and woman traveler in the Muslim l…
A Partitioned Library
This article argues that the history of a damaged Urdu library in Delhi reveals new perspectives on the ways in which prominent Indian Muslim scholars dealt with the violent displacements of the 1947 Partition of British India and imagined new futures for the Urdu language across the borders of India and Pakistan. The library of the Anjuman-e Taraqqi-e Urdu (Association for the Advancement of Urdu), an influential Urdu literary association, was d…
Unpacking the Library
Many scholars have spent long hours in South Asia’s libraries, from grand institutions like Kolkata’s National Library and Mumbai’s David Sassoon Library to smaller collections belonging to local l
New histories of political violence and revolutionary terrorism in modern South Asia
This book round table discusses two recent monographs on political violence and revolutionary terrorism in late colonial India, Kama Maclean’s A Revolutionary History of Interwar India: Violence, Image, Voice and Text (2015) and Durba Ghosh’s Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919–1947 (2017). Maclean’s A Revolutionary History of Interwar India uncovers how revolutionaries in Punjab and northern India res…
A Pakistani Homeland for Buddhism
This article explores the surprising role of the ancient Buddhist past in the construction of Pakistani national histories in museum exhibits and archaeological guides from 1950 to 1969. Although Pakistan was created as a homeland for Indian Muslims during the 1947 Partition of British India, Pakistani historians struggled to forge a unifying history for the new Muslim nation-state through Islam. In response, Pakistani museum curators co-opted an…
Emerging Christian Media in Egypt
This article examines the depiction of women and gender within Coptic Orthodox video films or “hagiopics” produced between 1987 and 2010. As part of a recent religious renewal, hagiopics have expanded, altered, and reinvented traditional stories of saints and pious figures and have also generated, within this traditionally patriarchal setting, a wider space for the articulation of female voices. While their inclusion can be seen as potentially em…
Emerging Christian Media in Egypt
This article examines the depiction of women and gender within Coptic Orthodox video films or “hagiopics” produced between 1987 and 2010. As part of a recent religious renewal, hagiopics have expanded, altered, and reinvented traditional stories of saints and pious figures and have also generated, within this traditionally patriarchal setting, a wider space for the articulation of female voices. While their inclusion can be seen as potentially em…
New histories of political violence and revolutionary terrorism in modern South Asia
This book round table discusses two recent monographs on political violence and revolutionary terrorism in late colonial India, Kama Maclean’s A Revolutionary History of Interwar India: Violence, Image, Voice and Text (2015) and Durba Ghosh’s Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919–1947 (2017). Maclean’s A Revolutionary History of Interwar India uncovers how revolutionaries in Punjab and northern India res…
A Pakistani Homeland for Buddhism
This article explores the surprising role of the ancient Buddhist past in the construction of Pakistani national histories in museum exhibits and archaeological guides from 1950 to 1969. Although Pakistan was created as a homeland for Indian Muslims during the 1947 Partition of British India, Pakistani historians struggled to forge a unifying history for the new Muslim nation-state through Islam. In response, Pakistani museum curators co-opted an…
Emerging Christian Media in Egypt
This article examines the depiction of women and gender within Coptic Orthodox video films or “hagiopics” produced between 1987 and 2010. As part of a recent religious renewal, hagiopics have expanded, altered, and reinvented traditional stories of saints and pious figures and have also generated, within this traditionally patriarchal setting, a wider space for the articulation of female voices. While their inclusion can be seen as potentially em…
New histories of political violence and revolutionary terrorism in modern South Asia
This book round table discusses two recent monographs on political violence and revolutionary terrorism in late colonial India, Kama Maclean’s A Revolutionary History of Interwar India: Violence, Image, Voice and Text (2015) and Durba Ghosh’s Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919–1947 (2017). Maclean’s A Revolutionary History of Interwar India uncovers how revolutionaries in Punjab and northern India res…
A Pakistani Homeland for Buddhism
This article explores the surprising role of the ancient Buddhist past in the construction of Pakistani national histories in museum exhibits and archaeological guides from 1950 to 1969. Although Pakistan was created as a homeland for Indian Muslims during the 1947 Partition of British India, Pakistani historians struggled to forge a unifying history for the new Muslim nation-state through Islam. In response, Pakistani museum curators co-opted an…
A New Shahrazad
In 1945, Mahmooda Rizvia, a prominent Urdu author from Sindh, published a travel account of her journey across the Arabian Sea from British India to Iraq during World War II. In her travel account, Rizvia conceptualized the declining British Empire as a dynamic space for Muslim renewal that connected India to the Middle East. Moreover, she fashioned a singular autobiographical persona as an Urdu literary pioneer and woman traveler in the Muslim l…
A Partitioned Library
This article argues that the history of a damaged Urdu library in Delhi reveals new perspectives on the ways in which prominent Indian Muslim scholars dealt with the violent displacements of the 1947 Partition of British India and imagined new futures for the Urdu language across the borders of India and Pakistan. The library of the Anjuman-e Taraqqi-e Urdu (Association for the Advancement of Urdu), an influential Urdu literary association, was d…
Unpacking the Library
Many scholars have spent long hours in South Asia’s libraries, from grand institutions like Kolkata’s National Library and Mumbai’s David Sassoon Library to smaller collections belonging to local l
Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women
New Perspectives on Science, Medicine, and Language in Modern South Asia
Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsAndrew AmstutzAndrew Amstutz is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He received his PhD from Cornell University, and he was a member at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in 2021. He has published articles in South Asia and Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa an…
Rethinking the Second World War in South Asia
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
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