Comments on: India and South Asian resources

India and South Asian resources

nickyskye — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:22:27 -0800

Dr. Frances W. Pritchett, Professor of Modern Indic Languages at Columbia University, New York, has created a superb online collection of resources, all about India and South Asia, its art, history, literature, architecture and culture. Her Indian Routes section (the Index page) is a particularly rich resource. Her vast, colorful and informative site also has many great images. Check out her "scrapbook pages" on the Princes l the Ghaznavids l British Rule l Women's Spaces l Perspectives on Hinduism.

Photos of Professor Pritchett and her encyclopedic page of links about India/South Asia, Morningside Mix.

By: strixus

strixus — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:15:06 -0800

Seriously cool!

By: manny_calavera

manny_calavera — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:33:51 -0800

Thanks for the site. Time to learn about my history now.

By: adamvasco

adamvasco — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:13:23 -0800

Wow nickyskye another great post. Thank you so much. I'll be here for the rest of the day.

By: Guy_Inamonkeysuit

Guy_Inamonkeysuit — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:44:55 -0800

This is a wonderful resource, and thank you very much for this post.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:24:47 -0800

This is great! Thanks, nickyskye.

By: whimsicalnymph

whimsicalnymph — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:10:44 -0800

Very Informative, but a warning: Comic Sans ahead!

By: bluefly

bluefly — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:21:18 -0800

Wow! This is amazing. How did you find this nickyskye?

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:59:40 -0800

Comic Sans ahead! give me Comic Sans anyday, ahead of that annoying fake westernised Devanagari script that is almost de rigeur in Indian-related design.

By: mds35

mds35 — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:43:10 -0800

I had the good fortune to learn Urdu from Prof. Pritchett. I must have been her worst student ever, but she was great.

By: mds35

mds35 — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:49:56 -0800

Holy moly! This really is quite an online treasure trove. Thanks for the links!

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:52:15 -0800

Home from work at last. Oh YAY, so pleased visitors to this thread are happy with the links. That's so satisfying. I worried about the comic sans thing, thanks for being gracious about it. I expect users of the font intend to put others at ease, make the place look friendly but it always embarrasses me a bit, like a shag rug that I try not to notice but somehow is always an eyesore. the site deserves a good Helvetica. bluefly, I found Pritchett's site by accident while looking up links for a post I made a while back on Indian royalty. Her web creation was so vast, it seemed like a waste to use the site link merely for just one topic. Having lived in India for a decade, I always felt daunted by the complexity of its history and never learned it, except in odd snippets. Pritchett's site is so well organized the big brocade of Indian history is much more manageable. mds35, wow, so you studied Urdu with Pritchett? I am so jealous of that privilege. Urdu (or its relative, Hindustani) comes quite in handy all the time on any given day in NYC.

By: junebug

junebug — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:14:54 -0800

mds35, I'm pretty sure the title of Prof. Pritchett's Worst Student went to me, circa '98-ish. she visibly shuddered every time I strolled into her classroom, (inevitably) late and unprepared. sigh.

By: mds35

mds35 — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:59:30 -0800

junebug, I think I was in the class just before you. I took Hindi/Urdu with Pritchett and Bedi from 2005 to 2007, then a third year of Hindi with Dr. Bedi (I think I actually cried at the final) and a 20th Century South Asian lit class with Pritchett that was phenomenal. I was one of two videshi's in the class. The other guy was a pretty good student. I felt a bit disadvantaged since most of the other students grew up hearing it as a child, but I think I still got a lot out of the class. I have never been to India or Pakistan, but my Hindi has been put to good use in NY, Boston and Rome.

By: mds35

mds35 — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:08:32 -0800

I took Hindi/Urdu with Pritchett and Bedi from 1995 to 1997... how time flies!