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OB00020 - Mathura Jaina Image of the time of Kumaragupta I
No full textMathura Jaina Image of the time of Kumaragupta
Jaina-Onomasticon by Johannes Klatt
No full textThe Sanskrit philologist and librarian Johannes Emil Otto Klatt (1852-1903) dedicated his short life to the study of the historical records of the Jainas. Klatt left behind the nearly completed manuscript of his monumental Jaina-Onomasticon of 1892, a 5338 page long anthology of proper names (Greek: onoma) and biographies of Jaina authors, texts and place names with explanatory historical notes, handwritten in English. The print edition with a historical introduction to author this unsurpassed work, a recognized classic in the fields of Indology and the History of Religion, and indispensable source of reference both for the study of Jaina social and intellectual history and of the history of Oriental Studies
Representations of migrant and nation in selected works of Rohinton Mistry and Salman Rushdie
No full textThis thesis explores the representations of, and the relationship between. the migrant and the nation in selected works of the Bombay-born novelists Rohinton Mistry and Salman Rushdie. I explore each writer's engagement with contemporary debates surrounding the material, political, social and imaginative consequences of the crisis in secularism in India during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, and consider how this engagement is informed by their
migrant positions beyond India's borders. A primary concern is the way in which Mistry's and Rushdie's representations of the nation, and of migrant and diasporic subjects, intersects with the representation of Bombay in their work.
This thesis is divided into five chapters. The first two chapters concentrate on Mistry's fiction, the remaining three on Rushdie's work. Published between 1988 and 2002, the central novels examined are situated within debates regarding the founding principles of the Indian nation, and notions of Indianness, the rise of communalism in general and Hindu nationalism in particular, and the renaming of Bombay as Mumbai. My readings foreground the necessity of a
close understanding of the historical and political transformations taking place within Bombay and India during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, but also during the 1950s and 1960s. I argue that Mistry's and Rushdie's work is informed by a deepening anxiety over these socio-political transformations, and over how reconfigurations of Indianness increasingly position minority communities, and migrant and diasporic subjects, outside of definitions of national identity.
This anxiety extends into the negotiation of their own migrant positions. My reading of the differing representations of the migrant in Mistry's and Rushdie's work engages with ideas of accountability, political responsibility, and with notions of cosmopolitanism. In doing so, I question familiar assumptions regarding the migrant condition as one of predominantly empowering political agency. I argue that, while both authors emphasise the importance of the migrant sustaining a critical engagement with India's politics, they also foreground the anxious difficulties of doing so. This difficulty informs Mistry's and Rushdie's divergent negotiation of their own position as migrant writers, and I examine how their fiction is marked by an anxiety over the adequacy of writing as a mode of political engagement with the crisis in secularism and the parochialisation of Bombay, and as a means of negotiating the politics of migrancy
The Translation of the Selected Passages of Yaśovijaya-sūri’s Jaina-tarka-bhāṣā and Jñāna-bindu-prakaraṇa
No full textThe dataset includes a text file containing the translated fragments along with their English translations. The data is encoded in three files in .docx, .odt, and .txt formats. The substantive content of all three files is identical.Data produced as part of the Sonatina 6 project entitled 'The Theory of Meaning in the Jaina Philosophy of Language (11th–17th c. CE)’, financed by National Science Centre (Poland), grant no. 2022/44/C/HS1/00097.Author: Małgorzata GlinickaData creation period: 2023-2024W zbiorze znajduje się plik tekstowy zawierający tłumaczone fragmenty wraz z ich tłumaczeniem na język angielski. Dane zakodowano w trzech plikach w formatach .docx, .odt i .txt. Zawartość merytoryczna wszystkich trzech plików jest jednakowa.Dane wytworzone w ramach realizacji projektu Sonatina 6, pt.: ‘The Theory of Meaning in the Jaina Philosophy of Language (11th–17th c. CE)’ finansowanego przez Narodowe Centrum Nauki, nr 2022/44/C/HS1/00097.Autor: Małgorzata GlinickaData wytworzenia danych: 2023-2024</p
Homology-Based Annotation of Large Protein Datasets
No full textInternational audienceAdvances in DNA sequencing technologies have led to an increasing amount of protein sequence data being generated. Only a small fraction of this protein sequence data will have experimental annotation associated with them. Here, we describe a protocol for in silico homology-based annotation of large protein datasets that makes extensive use of manually curated collections of protein families. We focus on annotations provided by the Pfam database and suggest ways to identify family outliers and family variations. This protocol may be useful to people who are new to protein data analysis, or who are unfamiliar with the current computational tools that are available
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