Indira Viswanathan Peterson
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Indira Viswanathan Peterson's Degrees
- PhD Indology Delhi University
- Masters Sanskrit Delhi University
- Bachelors Sanskrit Delhi University
Why Is Indira Viswanathan Peterson Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Indira Viswanathan Peterson is a literary critic and the David B. Truman Professor of Asian Studies at Mount Holyoke College. She is a specialist in South Asian Studies. Background Peterson was born and raised in Mumbai, India. She came to the United States as an AFS exchange high school student in the late 1960s. She returned to Mumbai and received her B.A. in English literature from The University of Mumbai and her Ph.D. in Sanskrit from Harvard University in 1976. She has been a professor at Mount Holyoke since 1982, with a period at Columbia University from 2002 to 2004.
Indira Viswanathan Peterson's Published Works
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Published Works
- Poems to Siva: The Hymns of the Tamil Saints (1989) (60)
- Symbols of Substance: Court and State in Nayaka Period Tamilnadu. (1995) (23)
- Tamil geographies : cultural constructions of space and place in South India (2008) (20)
- Performing pasts : reinventing the arts in modern South India (2008) (18)
- Poems to Siva (2014) (17)
- Theater of Memory: The Plays of Kālidāsa . Edited by Barbara Stoler Miller. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. xiv, 387 pp. Notes to the Introduction, Notes to the Plays, Selected Bibliography. $30 (cloth); $12 (paper). (1986) (13)
- Multilingual Dramas at the Tanjavur Maratha Court and Literary Cultures in Early Modern South India (2011) (13)
- Singing of a Place: Pilgrimage as Metaphor and Motif in the Tēvāram Songs of the Tamil Śaivite Saints@@@Singing of a Place: Pilgrimage as Metaphor and Motif in the Tevaram Songs of the Tamil Saivite Saints (1982) (11)
- Design and Rhetoric in a Sanskrit Court Epic: The Kiratarjuniya of Bharavi (2003) (11)
- For the Lord of the Animals, Poems from the Telugu: The Kāḷahastīśvara Śatakamu of Dhūrjạti@@@For the Lord of the Animals, Poems from the Telugu: The Kalahastisvara Satakamu of Dhurjati (1992) (10)
- Lives of the Wandering Singers: Pilgrimage and Poetry in Tamil Śaivite Hagiography (1983) (10)
- The cabinet of King Serfoji of Tanjore: A European collection in early nineteenth-century India (1999) (9)
- The Evolution of the Kuravañcidance Drama in Tamil Nadu: Negotiating the 'Folk' and the 'Classical' in the Bhārata Nātyam Canon (1998) (7)
- Fires of Love, Waters of Peace: Passion and Renunciation in Indian Culture . By Lee Siegel. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1983. xi, 109 pp. Notes. $12.50. (1985) (4)
- The Great Temple at Thanjavur: One Thousand Years, 1010-2010 (2011) (2)
- Sanskrit in Carnatic music: The songs of Muttusvāmi Dīkita (1986) (2)
- Lustful Maidens and Ascetic Kings: Buddhist and Hindu Stories of Life (1981) (1)
- John Carmen and Vasudha Narayanan, The Tamil Veda: Pillān's Interpretation of the Tiruvāymoli (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989) xviii, 323 pp. Paper $19.95 (1991) (0)
- The Sequence of King Śarabhendra’s sacred places:: Pilgrimage and Kingship in a Marathi text from 19th century Thanjavur (2016) (0)
- Yākka Sālēre Kathe: Tuḷu Texts of Dravidian Folk Poetry from the South of IndiaYakka Salere Kathe: Tulu Texts of Dravidian Folk Poetry from the South of India (1983) (0)
- Rama Sundari Mantena. The Origins of Modern Historiography in India: Antiquarianism and Philology, 1780–1880. (2013) (0)
- Book Reviews : John Carmen and Vasudha Narayanan, The Tamil Veda: Pillān's Interpretation of the Tiruvāymoli (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989) xviii, 323 pp. Paper $19.95 (1991) (0)
- Richard S.Weiss: The Emergence of Modern Hinduism: Religion on the Margins of Colonialism . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2019; pp. xi + 203. (2020) (0)
- Sanskrit in Carnatic music: The songs of Muttusvāmi Dīk $$\underset{\raise0.3em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\cdot}$}}{s} $$ ita (1986) (0)
- Note on Transliteration (1989) (0)
- PART TWO. An Anthology of Hymns from the Tēvāram (1989) (0)
- INDEX OF POEMS (1989) (0)
- The Lord of the Meeting Rivers: Devotional Poems of Basavaṇṇa@@@The Lord of the Meeting Rivers: Devotional Poems of Basavanna (1987) (0)
- Book Review:Songs of Experience: The Poetics of Tamil Devotion Norman Cutler (1988) (0)
- illustrations and map (1989) (0)
- PART ONE. Introduction: Poetry and Religion in the Songs of the Tamil Śaiva Saints (1989) (0)
- Unfinished gestures: devadāsīs, memory and modernity in South India, by Davesh Soneji (2013) (0)
- Singing the Body of God: The Hymns of Vedāntadeśika in Their South Indian Tradition. By Steven Paul Hopkins. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xx+344. $80.00 (cloth). (2005) (0)
- GUIDE TO TAMIL PRONUNCIATION (1989) (0)
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