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Talk:Daud Ali

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By Sachi Anjunkar


Daud Ali is an associate professor of South Asian Studies and History, Ancient and Medieval Indian History, University of Pennsylvania[1] as of June 2024. According to his university profile, his research focused on the history of mentalities and practices in pre-Sultanate South Asia, courtly and monastic discipline, mercantile practices, conventions in erotic poetry and courtship, slavery, ideas of space, time and history in inscriptions, early Southeast Asian history, and, most recently, on gardens and landscape in the medieval Deccan.

On November 5, 2017, he signed the letter submitted by the South Asia Faculty Group (SAFG) to the California State Board of Education[2] where he:

  • Misrepresented scholarship stating "Mythological terms substitute for historical ones for example the 'Indus Valley Civilization' (a fact-based geographic term) appears to be replaced with a religiously-motivated and ideologically charged term 'Indus-Saraswati/Sarasvati Civilization'. The Saraswati is a mythical river"[3][4][5]
  • Implied that Christians and Muslims existed in Ancient India, prior to their founding ​

Publications related to India or Hindu Dharma[edit]

Monographs and Edited Volumes[edit]

  1. Ali, Daud, editor, with Emma Flatt. Garden and Landscape Practices in Precolonial India: Histories from the Deccan. Routledge, 2011.
  2. Ali, Daud, editor, with Indra Sengupta. Knowledge Production, Pedagogy and Institutions in Colonial India. Palgrave, 2011.
  3. Ali, Daud, editor, with Anand Pandian. Ethical Life in South Asia. Indiana University Press, 2010.
  4. Ali, Daud. Courtly Culture and Political Life in Early Medieval India. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
  5. Ali, Daud, with Ronald Inden and Jonathan Walters. Querying the Medieval: The History of Practice in South Asia. Oxford University Press, 2000.
  6. Ali, Daud, editor. Invoking the Past: The Uses of History in South Asia. Oxford University Press, 1999.

Articles[edit]

  1. Ali, Daud. "Towards a History of Courtly Emotions in Early Medieval India, c. 300-700 CE." South Asia History and Culture, vol. 12, no. 2-3, 2021, pp. 129-45.
  2. Ali, Daud. "The Rise of Epigraphic Compacts in Medieval South India." Puruṣārtha, vol. 37, 2019, pp. 27-50.
    In this article, Daud Ali writes about the Chola Empire and it's administrative system and compares it to a made up term 'Brahminical Patriarchy'. The author makes the following unsubstantiated claim:
    1. According to the author, only Brahmins received gifts.
    "these gifts were directed either to communities of Brahman householders or to temples. Inscriptions authorized, commemorated and operationalized these economic transactions."
    1. "Copper-plate inscriptions, mostly commemorating gifts of land to communities of Brahmans or temples provide a unique picture of the operation of the royal chancellery and the rituals associated with the implementation of royal orders."
    2. "particularly those who formed the leaders of Brahman settlements (mahāsabhaiyār), came together and issued inscriptions similar in format to those mentioned above."
    3. The author spreads misinformation such as "Several (but by no means all) inscriptions mention the performance of solemnizing rituals like the licking of ghee from the abhiṣeka ceremony at the temple or invoking spirits (bhūta)"
    4. ", like imperial and Brahmanical orders, the compacts present complex temporalities that are woven together through different registers of presence effected by individual and collective voice."
    5. " The epigraphic conventions of royal and Brahmanical prerogative become appropriated by new social agents."
  3. Ali, Daud. "The Betel-bag Bearer in South Indian History: A Study from Inscriptions." Clio and His Descendants: Essays for Kesavan Veluthat, edited by Manu Devadevan, Primus Books, 2018, pp. 535-558.
  4. Ali, Daud. "The Death of a Friend: Companionship, Loyalty and Affiliation in Chola South India." Studies in History, vol. 33, no. 1, 2017, pp. 36-60.
  5. Ali, Daud. "Bhoja’s Mechanical Garden: Translating Wonder across the Indian Ocean, c. 800-1000 CE." History of Religions, vol. 55, no. 4, 2016, pp. 460-93.
  6. Ali, Daud. "The Idea of the Medieval in the Writing of Indian History: Contexts, Methods, Politics." Social History, vol. 39, no. 3, 2014, pp. 382-407.
  7. Ali, Daud. "Temporality, Narration and the Problem of History: A View from Western India c. 1100-1400." Indian Economic and Social History Review, vol. 50, no. 2, 2013, pp. 237-59.
  8. Ali, Daud. "The Early Inscriptions of Indonesia and the Problem of the Sanskrit Cosmopolis." Early Interactions between South and Southeast Asia: Reflections on Cross-Cultural Exchange, edited by P.Y. Manguin and A. Mani, Manohar, ISEAS, Nalanda-Sriwijaya series, 2011, pp. 277-297.
  9. Ali, Daud. "Padmaśrī’s Nāgarasarvasva and the World of Medieval Kāmaśāstra." Journal of Indian Philosophy, vol. 39, no. 1, 2011, pp. 41-62.
  10. Ali, Daud. "Between Market and Court: The Careers of Two Courtier-Merchants in the Twelfth-century Deccan." Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, vol. 53, no. 1, 2010, pp. 185-211.#Ali, Daud.
  11. Ali, Daud. "Connected Histories?: Regional Historiography and Theories of Cultural Contact Between Early South and Southeast Asia." Islamic Connections: Studies of Muslim South and Southeast Asia, edited by Terenjit Singh Sevea and Michael Feener, ISEAS Press, 2009, pp. 1-24.
  12. Ali, Daud. "Aristocratic Body Techniques in Early Medieval India." Rethinking a Millennium, edited by Rajat Datta, Aakar Books, 2008, pp. 25-56.
  13. Ali, Daud. "Violence, Courtly Manners and Lineage Formation in Early Medieval India." Social Scientist, vol. 35, no. 9-10, 2007, pp. 3-21.
  14. Ali, Daud. "The Service Retinues of the Chola Court: A Study of the term veḷam in Chola Inscriptions." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, vol. 70, no. 3, 2007, pp. 487-509.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Daud Ali University Profile accessed on June 21, 2024
  2. ↑ 2017 South Asia Faculty Group (SAFG) Letter to the California State Board of Education
  3. ↑ Chakrabarti, Dilip, and Sukhdev Saini. The Problem of the Sarasvati River and Notes on the Archaeological Geography of Haryana and Indian Punjab. Aryan Books International, 2009.
  4. ↑ Danino, Michel. The Lost River: On the Trail of the Sarasvati. Penguin Books, 2010.
  5. ↑ McIntosh, Jane R. A Peaceful Realm: The Rise and Fall of the Indus Civilization. Westview Press, 2002, p. 24. ​where he stated "Suddenly it became apparent that the “Indus” Civilization was a misnomer—although the Indus had played a major role in the development of the civilization, the “lost Saraswati” River, judging by the density of settlement along its banks, had contributed an equal or greater part to its prosperity. Many people today refer to this early state as the “Indus-Saraswati Civilization” and continuing references to the “Indus Civilization” should be an abbreviation in which the “Saraswati” is implied. There are some fifty sites known along the Indus whereas the Saraswati has almost 1,000. This is misleading figure because erosion and alluviation has between them destroyed or deeply buried the greater part of settlements in the Indus Valley itself, but there can be no doubt that the Saraswati system did yield a high proportion of the Indus people’s agricultural produce"
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