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    Indonesia: Evicted Community in Jakarta Moves Forward

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    Standing together, Bukit Duri evicted residents are steadfast with their class action suit demanding full compensation and damages. Court declares eviction illegal

    Killing Fields und Volkskrieg in den Philippinen

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    Kein anderer Präsident der Philippinen hat binnen weniger Monate im Amt dermaßen sozial und politisch polarisiert und antagonisiert, wie das im Falle des 72-jährigen Rodrigo R. Duterte der Fall ist. Für seine Gefolgschaft ist der abwechselnd »Rody« oder »Digong« genannte Präsident ein lang ersehnter Messias, der sich endlich anschickt, die »Bastionen des imperialen Manila« zu schleifen. Für seine Gegner ist er ein »soziopathischer Serienkiller« (so jüngst die inhaftierte Senatorin Leila de Lima) und jemand, der billigend den Tod von Tausenden in Kauf nimmt, von denen er annimmt, dass sie seinem erklärten Kreuzzug gegen »Drogen, Kriminalität und Korruption« im Wege stehen

    Ein Jahr NLD-geführte Regierung in Myanmar – Eine Bilanz

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    »We can do nothing without peace in our country«, sagte Aung San Suu Kyi in ihrer Rede zum Unabhängigkeitstag am 4. Januar 2016 in der Parteizentrale der National League for Democracy (NLD) in Yangon, Myanmar. Die Partei und deren Vorsitzende Aung San Suu Kyi, international als Ikone der Demokratie gelabelt, errangen einen erdrutschartigen Sieg bei den landesweiten Parlamentswahlen am 8. November 2015. Nach Jahrzehnten der Militärherrschaft sieht sich die erste zivile Regierung, die am 30. März 2016 ihre Arbeit aufnahm, mit großen Hofnungen und übertrieben hohen Erwartungen, sowohl national als auch international, konfrontiert

    Achieving Sustainable Development Goals in Sri Lanka: Prospects and Challenges

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    This paper is based on the text of the Inaugural Lecture delivered on the occasion of the institution of the Sri Lanka Chair at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg on 20 February 2017. After introducing the concept of Sustainable Development Goals as defined by the United Nations, the paper discusses the process of implementing changes to achieve these goals in Sri Lanka as well as exposing the challenges this faces. The selected areas that the author examines in particular are poverty, income inequality, employment, social security, education and public finance

    Demontierte Demokratie

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    Kambodschas Regierung verkommt zur Diktatur. Der Westen, der jahrzehntelang Gelder in das verarmte, einst von Krieg und Konflikten zerrissene Land pumpte, scheint wenig dagegen unternehmen zu können, debattiert aber über weitere konkrete Schritte. Indes hat Machthaber Hun Sen längst einen anderen Unterstützer gefunden – nämlich China

    Andaman Loves: Marriage Practices, Secularism, and Alternative Modernities in the Age of Globalization

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    Love has the potential to transform. Not only individuals, but whole societies. How is that possible? This article discusses the transformative agency of love as a means of solemnizing marriages – as opposed to the concept of an ‘arranged marriage’ – at the hands of an ethnographic example: the contemporary society of the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal, which may be described as an amalgamation of descendants of colonial convicts and laborers, postcolonial refugees and internal migrants from the Indian subcontinent. In popular discourse, these 500.000 people are represented as a ‘Mini-India’, a nomenclature for the pluralist local society that supposedly replicates the ‘unity in diversity’ of India in ‘miniature form’; since 1858, this diasporic assemblage encompasses various religions and sects, linguistic and ethnic groups, castes and classes of South and Southeast Asia. It is an ‘India beyond India’, where empirically observable values of everyday solidarity, collaboration, conviviality, and friendship lead to cultural creolization, inter-religious and inter-caste marriages, among others between Hindus and Muslims. Indian officials and academics continue to describe these secular dispositions and cosmopolitan practices as evidences of a ‘model society’, which has the potential to transcend and dissolve rigid boundaries of caste, sect or religion, especially through the prominent practice of ‘love marriages’. This broad social change may be traced back by investigating the ways in which the British colonizers produced families in the Andaman penal colony by solemnizing convict unions. However, apart from a historical genealogy, there is also a ‘modernist twist’ to this narrative: Until a decade ago, the islands were relatively cut off from Indian mainstream culture due to the distance of more than one thousand kilometers by sea from the Indian mainland and the absence of proper mass communication. The introduction of mass media has increased the presence of communicative capitalist ideas and values, a transculturation in which both elements from the Indian subcontinent and the transnational global sphere are appropriated. Moreover, the introduction of several low-cost airlines since the devastating Tsunami on Boxing Day 2004 has speeded up the development of domestic as well as international tourism and extended the islanders’ mobility. These processes have transformed local perceptions from inhabiting a rather remote space to a place within the globalized world. As a result, one can observe societal change rapidly unfolding: transnational ideas of consumption, fashion, and liberalism are appropriated. In this process, many islanders tend to align their local customs and traditions with that of the Indian metro cities, which they view in opposition to ‘backward’ rural areas elsewhere on the subcontinent. Inter-caste and inter-religious marriages, which have been practiced by settlers since several generations, have now become a symbol of an alternative ‘island modernity’

    Bhūtis Svabodhasiddhi

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    Es gehört zu den reizvollen Seiten der Sanskritphilologie, dass man auch zwei Jahrhunderte nach Beginn der wissenschaftlichen Erforschung dieser Literatur noch immer wichtige Texte entdecken kann, die ungedruckt in Handschriftenbibliotheken liegen. Nicht immer sind ausgedehnte Feldstudien oder Manuskripttouren - auch wenn diese das Forscherherz höher schlagen lassen - nötig: die einzige bekannte Handschrift des hier edierten Werks lag lange Zeit in einer Sammlung in Kölner Privatbesitz und wurde dann von der Berliner Staatsbibliothek angekauft. Über die Bedeutung der Sammlung für die Forschung kann sich der Beobachter angesichts der großen Zahl an bekannten Werken leicht hinwegtäuschen. Sie enthält einige literaturgeschichtlich wertvolle Unikate, zu denen auch das hier beschriebene Werkchen aus dem Bereich des kaschmirischen Śivaismus gezählt werden muss

    Das Verlangen nach wissenschaftlichem Austausch - Über den Briefwechsel zwischen August Wilhelm Schlegel und Wilhelm von Humboldt

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    »Ein junger Dichterling, mit dem ich ziemlich viel umgehe«, so beschreibt Wilhelm von Humboldt am 30.11.1788 brieflich seinen Göttinger Studienfreund August Wilhelm Schlegel. Da Humboldt – anders als das Zitat vermuten lässt – im selben Jahr wie Schlegel geboren ist, soll in diesem Schlegel-Jahr, welches zugleich ein Humboldt-Jahr ist, an den späteren wissenschaftlichen Austausch der beiden Studienfreunde erinnert werden

    Generating Empathy, Restoring Dignity: The Curious Case of Sri Lanka

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    At a time in history marked by the emergence of extreme right-wing movements around the globe assumed by individuals, communities or societies, Sri Lanka has a different story to tell. This paper will tell that story. The analysis is benchmarked on two historic moments witnessed in Sri Lanka: the conclusion of the war in 2009 and the democratic awakening that emerged in 2015. The paper will begin with an engaging exploration of the historical and current contextual narratives in Sri Lanka, both of which are critical to its reconciliation process. It will then provide an account of Sri Lanka’s progress in so far as the national reconciliation agenda. Thereafter, the paper will discuss key existing challenges to the process of national reconciliation. The paper makes the case for a genuine and real approach towards achieving reconciliation, one that is sustainable and meaningful in its essence

    SAI-Newsletter, no.10 (May 2017)

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    The SAI-Newsletter presents what the South Asia Institute offers: A fascinating unity in a variety of academic topics on South Asia, a unique group of highly qualified academics, numerous best practice examples for research and teaching and last but not least a sound degree of public attention. Apart from looking back at what has happened at the institute the newsletter will also point at upcoming activities and events. By doing so the SAI-Newsletter combines the important task of documentation while at the same time looking ahead to what the future will bring

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