Bibliography on Darsan
Compiled by Ginni
Ishimatsu
Many thanks to Mark
Elmore, Doug Berger and everyone else for the great
references.
Babb, Lawrence. "Glancing: Visual Interaction in
Hinduism." Journal of Anthropological
Research 37 (1981): 387-401.
Babb, Lawrence A., Susan
S. Wadley, Joint Committee on South Asia, and
American Council of Learned Societies.
Media and the Transformation of
Religion in South Asia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 1995.
Cort, John.
"The Jina as King."
In Vasantagauravam: Essays
in Jainism Felicitating
Professor M. D. Vasantha Raj of Mysore on the
Occasion of His Seventy-Fifth Birthday, ed. Jayandra Soni (Mumbai:
Vakils, Feffer and Simons, 2001). --deals with contextualizing
darsan both in terms of time and place.
Davis, Richard H.
Lives of Indian Images. Princeton,
NJ: Princeton University,
1997.
Eck, Diana L.
Darsan: Seeing the
Divine Image in India. 3d ed.
New York: Columbia
University, 1998.
Grimes, John A.
"Darsana," in The Hindu World, ed. Sushil Mittal &
Gene Thursby. New
York: Routledge, 2004.
Halbfass, Wilhelm.
India and Europe: An Essay in Understanding.
Albany: State
University of New York, 1988. Chap. ?:
"Darsana, Anviksiki, Philosophy,” pp. 263-287; Chap. 16:
"The Adoption of the
Concept of Philosophy in Modern Hinduism," especially
section 17-24, pp. 300-306.
**see note at end of list.
Inglis, Stephen.
"Suitable for Framing: The Work of a Modern Master." In Media and the Transformation of Religion in South Asia,
ed. Lawrence Babb and Susan
Wadley. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.
Jain, Kajri. "The
Efficacious Image: Pictures and Power in Indian Mass Culture." Polygraph 12 (2000): 159-86.
---. "More Than Meets
the Eye: The Circulation of Images and the
Embodiment of Values." Contributions to Indian Sociology 36,
no. 1 (2002).
---. "Producing the
Sacred: The Subjects of Calendar Art."
Journal of Art and
Ideas 30-31 (1997): 63-88.
Pinney, Christopher.
Camera Indica: The Social Life of Indian
Photographs. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
---. Photos of the Gods: The Printed Image and Political Struggle
in India. New Delhi: Oxford
University Press, 2004.
Pinney, Christopher and
Rachel Dwyer, eds. Pleasure
and the Nation: The
History, Politics and Consumption of Public Culture in India.
Oxford: Oxford
University Press: 2001.
Ramaswamy, Sumathi.
Beyond Appearances? Visual Practices and
Ideologies in Modern India. Contributions
to Indian Sociology Occasional
Studies 10. New Delhi; Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2003.
Smith, H. Daniel.
"Impact of 'God Posters' on Hindus and Their
Devotional Traditions." In Media and the Transformation of
Religion in South Asia, ed.
Lawrence Babb and Susan Wadley. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.
Yocum, Glenn.
"The Vision of Shiva: The Strange Case of
Kannappanayanar and His Eyes." Dialogue and Alliance 3, no. 2
(Summer 1989): 41-51.
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