Delhi Comparatists

Delhi Journal of Comparative Studies

Volume II (2022-23)

• • Editorial (Volume II)

    TS Satyanath, Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta

  • Transmediality and Three Scroll Painting Narrative Traditions

    Nilza Angmo

    The paper presents issues related to narrativity in picture storytelling traditions taking up the Phad of Rajasthan, the Patas of West Bengal, and the narrative Thangka of the Manipa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.

  • Intermediality in Medieval Indian Literary Culture: Understanding the Musicological Canon, Ragamala Paintings and Bhakti Compositions

    TS Satyanath

    The paper explores formalistic and social epistemologies in medieval Indian literary culture with reference to the musical canon, Ragamala paintings and Bhakti compositions while also focusing on the interconnectedness of scripto-centric, phono-centric and body-centric traditions.

  • Mapping Campus Theatre Traditions: Shift from Colonial to Desi on the University of Delhi Campus

    Kuljeet Singh

    A history of theatre practice on the University of Delhi campus including vibrant debates related to various movements and the gradual shift from colonial to desi has been presented in this paper.

• • Intermediality of Sensibilities: Reinforcement of Navodaya Poetry/Song in Kannada

    Shashikantha Koudur

    This paper attempts to show how Navodaya, the earliest modern literary phase in the history of Kannada literature, was transformed into song and reinforced at different junctures even when poetry of a very different kind flourished.

  • Rhythm as a Mode of Discipline: History of an Idea in Intermedial Scholarship

    Shubhasree Bhattacharyya

    This paper attempts a reading of “rhythms” through the interconnectedness of the registers of the aesthetic, the historical, and the political, focusing on the labouring body and calling for a deeper analysis of seemingly formative features of work song practices.

  • Multimedial Archives: Contributions by Arnold Bake 1938

    S.A. Krishnaiah, Tr. Kamalakar Bhat

    An attempt has been made in this paper to introduce Arnold Bake and his contributions, in particular his documentation of Indian classical and folk performances in audio and video format specifically in Karnataka.

  • An In-Betweenness of Being: Assembling Media in an Archive of the Senses

    Moushumi Bhowmik

    Written from the perspective of practice-led research, this paper looks at the dynamics of intermedial archiving across space. Cultures, and time with reference to Arnold Bake’s 1930s recordings of kirtan in Bengal.

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