National Seminar on "Narratives of Mala Dasaris"

Department of English
University of Hyderabad
Hyderabad

A Two-Day
National Seminar on
"Narratives of Mala/Vaishnava Dasaris"
(in Honour of Professor Alladi Uma)
27-28 October 2011

Mala Dasaris are categorized as one of the sub-castes of Scheduled Castes according to the Constitution of India. Mala Dasaris have been the native / aboriginal priests (Thurston 1907) in India especially in the states such as Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamilnadu and Maharashtra. Even today these Dasaris have been holding, managing, owning temples in which Lord Chennakesava Swami, Lord Venkateswara, Lord Hanuman, Lord Rama and other deities.

The intention of the seminar is to pool up, collate and consolidate the narrations of the Dasaris’ life style, performance, culture, social status, occupation, livelihood, ownership of temples, authenticity of practices etc.

The questions that the seminar would like to raise and deliberate on are the following:

*Ramanujism and Hinduism
*Vaishnava Dasus and Mala Dasaris
*Are Mala/Vaishnava Dasaris Brahmins/Untouchables?
*How can a Vishnava/Mala Dasari be an Untouchable?
*Are Mala/Vaishnava Dasaris marginalized Priests?
*Vaishnavite Dasaris, Shavite and other Dalit Hindus
*Mala/Vaishnava Dasaris as Christian Priests/Pastors/Bishops
*Are Mala Dasaris practising other religions apart from Christianity?
*Deconstructing Dalit Status to Mala/Vaishnava Dasaris
*Re-writing of Mala/Vaishnava Dasaris’ Social Status
*Mala/Vaishnava Dasaris as temple owners and advocates of Hinduism

Call for Papers

Papers are invited from teachers, research scholars and post-graduate students and any body who has knowledge about / heard about / read about / seen them / lived with them to come, participate and share their views on the theme of the seminar. It is a promise to all the paper readers that the papers presented will be brought out in the form of a book. Hence, paper readers are requested to send full-length papers and not a rough or a working paper. It is difficult to manage to put them together after the seminar.


Submission of Abstracts

Contributors are requested to submit their detailed outlines and abstract of the paper in about 500 words to Dr. D. Murali Manohar, Department of English, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 500 046 on or before September 30, 2011. The selected participants will be intimated by e-mail and post.


Deadline for submitting the full paper


Participants are requested to send their full paper in Times New Roman, 12 point size in MS Word to the Coordinator either by post to the following address Dr. D. Murali Manohar, Department of English, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad-500 046 or by email on dmmsh@uohyd.ernet.in or dmbm_vs@yahoo.co.in or dmmpsh@gmail.com before October 15, 20011 Contact Numbers: 09908569272 (M), 040-23133406 (O).

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Kamala Das: Treatment of Love in her Poetry

This book is available witht the author. The price of this book is Rs. 180/- only. Please contact for the book and obtain as early as possible. Very few copies are available. Those scholars who are working on Kamala Das' poetry can not afford to miss reading this book with twenty page of bibliography besides notes.

Address:

Dr.D.Murali Manohar
Associate Professor
Department of English
University of Hyderabad
Hyderabad-500 046
09908569272

International/National Seminar on History of Mala Dasari

Dear Friends,
I am glad to inform you that I will be organizing an international seminar depending on the participants coming from all over the world. I am sure Mala Dasaris are spread all over the world. I hope all the Mala Dasaris are willing to participate and come over to Hyderabad. Only then I could hold this international seminar. Purely it depends how many Mala Dasari friends would express their desire to be the participants and contribute in re-writing our history be it as priests, astrologers, medicants etc.

I am pleased to inform you that I have been sanctioned a Major Research Project by the University Grants Commission, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. New Delhi. It commences from 1st April 2011 and will last on 31st March 2015.

With out all the Mala Dasaris support, I will not able to complete this prioject. Do help in elevating ourselves in the new avatar of Mala Dasaris. The seminar dates would be decided based on the response and number.

Most Important: Please spread this information to all our friends.

Do contact to make our history, please.

Dr. D.Murali Manohar
M.A.; B.Ed.; M.Phil.;Ph. D
Associate Professor
Department of English
University of Hyderabad
Hyderabad-500 046
Mobile: 09908569272
Office: 040-23133406
email: dmbm_vs@yahoo.co.in
dmmsh@uohyd.ernet.in
dmmpsh@gmail.com

Seminar Proceedings of Phonetics and Spoken English

Watch out for it soon. The Atlantic publisher is bringing it out. Final proof is being made and it will be out in one month's time, hopefully.

Introduction to Linguistics and Phonetics

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