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Hindi-Intensive Course in Jaipur 2011
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Date: Tuesday, 19.10.2010
Location: South Asia Institute, Room 316
Time: 4 pm

An East-West Encounter: The Relevance Today of the Poet and Philosopher Muhammad Iqbal
Date:Friday, 8.10.2010
Location: Frankfurt Book Fair, Messegelände, 5.0 E953, Weltempfang - Salon
Time:11.30h – 12.30h

Literary encounter with Geetanjali Shree
Date: Sontag, 10.10.2010
Location: Frankfurt Book Fair, Messegelände, 5.0 E953, Weltempfang - Salon
Time: 13-14 Uhr

Hans Harder (ed.): Literature and Nationalist Ideology : Writing Histories of Modern Indian Languages. Delhi: Social Science Press 2010.

Prof. Dr. Hans Harder has edited the book "Literature and Nationalist Ideology. Writing Histories of Modern Indian Languages".
It gives a significant insight into the literary modernity in South Asia. "This volume takes on big questions, making a sophisticated and significant contribution to the great tradition of assessing the emergence of literary modernity in South Asia", comments Vasudha Dalmia, Professor of Hindi and Chair of the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California.

Date: Friday, 17.September 2010,
Location: Karl Jasper Center, Room 112
Time: 14.00-17.00