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Bina Sengar

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Department of History and AIC, Faculty Member

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Learner of history and social sciences, working on history of Indigenous peoples in South Asia and United States. Areas of research interests: History of Indigenous communities, Environmental History, History of Healing and Ethics, Pre-colonial narratives in South Asia.CV: http://bamu.ac.in/dept-of-history-ancient-indian-culture/Faculty.aspx

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Eurocentric lexicon and etymology of the term Indian BY BINA SENGAR

VISIONES INTERDISCIPLINARIAS EN LA INVESTIGACIÓN DE LENGUAS Primera edición 2023, 2023

Abstract: The term ‘Indian’, which is often identified with a person coming from India, has its s... more Abstract: The term ‘Indian’, which is often identified with a person coming from India, has its several literal and lexical meanings. It continues to remain a debate as when and why the term ‘Indian’ was first used. It was believed that the term ‘Indian’ became associated to a community when the European expansionist colonial marches went towards the so called ‘The New World’ during 15th century. Contrary to it as we delve into the Greek literature of 3rd century B.C. we come across usage of ‘term’ Indien/Indian for people living in the territory east of Indian ocean and the river Indus, based on which even an entire Ocean came to be known as ‘Indian Ocean’. So, what are the complexities inherent in the term ‘Indian’, why, and how the term ‘Indian’ became in vogue term for the people living in the Western Hemisphere? Does the term imply some cultural congruency among the ‘pagan’ cultures? Is it beyond the specifics of lexicon and denotes people of a similar heritage and ancestry? These are some of the questions sought to be explored through the etymological and ontological analysis of the term ‘Indian’.

Trade Routes and Commercial Networks in Deccan-Marathwada During Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century

Primus Publishers, 2016

The article which is part of edited book as book chapter discusses trade, culture and trade route... more

Sufism From Persia to Deccan: Some Historiographical Interpretation

Manak Publishers, 2016

The research paper which is part of the Edited volume as a book chapter discusses migrations of s... more

Seeking Rural Urban 'Space-Connect' Linkages in the Late Medieval Period of the Aurangabad Region

Emperor, Saints and People: Revisiting Deccan History, 2023

The research paper published in the edited volume discusses rural-urban connectedness in the soci... more

Seeing Transregional Historical Connection_Marathwada and Bundelkhand

History Research Journal, 2021

The article discusses historical connections between two territorial regions of Central India.

Fracturing and Formation of Cultural Spaces of Florida Seminole: From Settlements to Reservation

Indigenous Societies in the Post-colonial World, 2023

Ideas of Indigenous Resilience through Triangulated Model: Ecological Society Experiences of the United States of America and India

Indigenous Societies in the Post-colonial World, 2023

Abstract The present study in the book chapter discusses about emerging thoughts to develop a fr... more Abstract
The present study in the book chapter discusses about emerging thoughts to develop a framework for a discourse on response and resilience of Indigenous communities in postcolonial world. The study remains an empirical intervention through proposition of “TRIANGULATED MODEL” on indigenous questions in India and the United States of America (hereafter USA). The colonial legacy of India and United States of America on several common grounds conspired through the parallel policy frameworks and actions thereafter for the native or indigenous communities. What transpired shared colonial legacy in two distant colonies of British, evolved as a conglomerate of collected ideas for governance and repression. Postcolonial policies and discourse which affect global south have its equally repressive and overwhelming influence on global north as well. Indigeneity as resilient force remains the major push factor for postcolonial studies. On the contrary to it, indigenous resilience in northern nations remarkably engages itself on decolonization (Duara, 2004; Duarte and Belarde-Lewis, 2015). In the twenty-first century context, when postcolonial societies of India restructure their societies in globalized world, do they resolve to build a decolonized indigeneity? Whether the decolonial frameworks of the United States of America and India “South Asian indigeneity “constructs or deconstructs its decolonizing theoretics through indigenous rhetoric of global north? How the contesting ideas of indigeneity in two different frameworks yet, connected through terminologies, colonial legacy, settler colonialism have shown resilience in similar patterns which definitely give answers to many of the questions raised through postcolonial and decolonial constructs. The proposed chapter will discuss these questions and will glean its answers through archival, observational, and empirical interventions of theory of triangulated model of ecological cultures carried among indigenous societies of India and United States of America.

Biodiversity Habitats, People, Policies, and Problematics: Through Case Studies of Ecological Systems of Aurangabad and Beed

Indigenous Societies in the Post-colonial World, 2023

Death, Hinduism

Hinduism and Tribal Religions, 2018

Hinduism and Tribal Religions, 2022

Encyclopedia of Indian Religions, 2020

Prospects for Sustainability in Human–Environment Patterns: Dynamic Management of Common Resources

Mathematical Advances Towards Sustainable Environmental Systems

Models envisaged by policy makers and sustainability scientists cooperatively produce tools with ... more Models envisaged by policy makers and sustainability scientists cooperatively produce tools with desired practical implications. Models presented in the volume are summarized, with existing policy methods for resource management and Global perspective for resource planning methods in context. Models are discussed firstly in the framework of learning environments as an opportunity to test and practice sustainability, combining different tools from models, case studies, and scenarios. Sustainability asks for a multi-scale pragmatics; key elements of the multiple scale approach representing common ground in existing practice and frontier research have been identified. Two case studies are presented as a meta-summary of the issues presented in the book, being Rural South Asia (with special reference to India), and analysis of mega-diverse countries in Latin America, with special focus on Ecuador.

Creating spaces for indigeneity from Nizam’s Hyderabad state to Maharashtra

Spaces and Places in Western India

AHP 28: Review: Trade and Society along the Ancient Silk Road

Old and New Worlds: The Global Challenges of Rural History. Conference eBook

Rabaris of Kutch-History Through Legends

The research paper is an ethnographic study of the Rabari community of Kutch. The available studi... more The research paper is an ethnographic study of the Rabari community of Kutch. The available studies on Rabaris are based on narratives’ of life and history of Rabaris through the anthropological surveys conducted during the British colonial times. The following study is based on the field works conducted in the region of Kutch and thereafter through the primary and secondary versions of the folk memories of the Rabari community which remains the significant identity of the Rann and its regions in Kutch. [

Spaces and Places in Western India

Nidān: International Journal for Indian Studies

by Being Deepra, Matej Karásek, Jason Fernandes, Bina Sengar, mary thanpuii, Pär Eliasson, and Lisa Herrmann-Fertig

Nidān: International Journal for Indian Studies, 2019

Volume of a special issue of Christianity in India

'Colonial Landscape In A Princely State: British Land Policies In Rural Spaces Of Ajanta'

'Ajanta', for common perception is an ancient cave heritage site in the northern region of Deccan... more 'Ajanta', for common perception is an ancient cave heritage site in the northern region of Deccan plateau in South Asia. The name and place became significant in the beginning of the 19 th century when the British Officials visited the site while surveying and doing their flamboyant hunting expeditions. The communities which dominated the region were of tribal clans of Bhil, Mahadeo Koli, Malhar Koli and Banjara. Ajanta came under the 'cusp zone' of British colonial empire and the native princely state of the Hyderabad-Nizam. The hilly terrain above the Ajanta region where tribal communities dominated was used for hunting expeditions' by the authorities'. The river valley area of Ajanta village was the major trade route, where the revenue exercised from the downhill valley zone was based on trade excise and local agrarian produce. After the exploration of Ajanta, the landscape and agricultural patterns in the region were revised. Hyderabad State with the British Empire reframed the strategy of agricultural managements in the region. The research paper, therefore, mainly studies the outcomes of preliminary and revised agricultural and forest management surveys which took place in the region in 19 th and early decades of 20 th century. Second aspect of probing is the shift in the agricultural, trade and forest landscapes because of the novel 'Ajanta Cave Heritage Site' interventions in the rural regions of Ajanta. The paper will explore the problematic of framework and linearity imposed over diversified community practices of agriculture and landscapes. _____________________________________________________________________________

HISTORIOGRAPHIC REVIEW OF BHAKTI MOVEMENT IN MARATHWADA

NEW VISION MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH JOURNAL, ISSN: 2394-9996, Aug 2016

Bhakti Movement in South Asia and India per se, was a remarkable and distinct kind of socio-relig... more Bhakti Movement in South Asia and India per se, was a remarkable and distinct kind of socio-religious movement unlike the various socio-religious movements in the history of India. The movement in nature itself questioned the Brahmanism and inherently was instigated by the changed socio-political regime of the early medieval era and its religious idioms. Could the change in the religious quest determined that the people were seeking an assimilative trend in the traditions, which were influenced by the liberation of neo religious thoughts? Or was it the transcending caliber of individual saints themselves? Various studies on Bhakti movements in South Asia and those in Maharashtra have been carried by scholars to understand native, localized and trans-regional characteristics of the Bhakti movement. The present paper seeks to overview various historiographical interpretations of Bhakti movement carried forward in the region of Marathwada.

Eurocentric lexicon and etymology of the term Indian BY BINA SENGAR

VISIONES INTERDISCIPLINARIAS EN LA INVESTIGACIÓN DE LENGUAS Primera edición 2023, 2023

Abstract: The term ‘Indian’, which is often identified with a person coming from India, has its s... more Abstract: The term ‘Indian’, which is often identified with a person coming from India, has its several literal and lexical meanings. It continues to remain a debate as when and why the term ‘Indian’ was first used. It was believed that the term ‘Indian’ became associated to a community when the European expansionist colonial marches went towards the so called ‘The New World’ during 15th century. Contrary to it as we delve into the Greek literature of 3rd century B.C. we come across usage of ‘term’ Indien/Indian for people living in the territory east of Indian ocean and the river Indus, based on which even an entire Ocean came to be known as ‘Indian Ocean’. So, what are the complexities inherent in the term ‘Indian’, why, and how the term ‘Indian’ became in vogue term for the people living in the Western Hemisphere? Does the term imply some cultural congruency among the ‘pagan’ cultures? Is it beyond the specifics of lexicon and denotes people of a similar heritage and ancestry? These are some of the questions sought to be explored through the etymological and ontological analysis of the term ‘Indian’.

Trade Routes and Commercial Networks in Deccan-Marathwada During Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century

Primus Publishers, 2016

The article which is part of edited book as book chapter discusses trade, culture and trade route... more

Sufism From Persia to Deccan: Some Historiographical Interpretation

Manak Publishers, 2016

The research paper which is part of the Edited volume as a book chapter discusses migrations of s... more

Seeking Rural Urban 'Space-Connect' Linkages in the Late Medieval Period of the Aurangabad Region

Emperor, Saints and People: Revisiting Deccan History, 2023

The research paper published in the edited volume discusses rural-urban connectedness in the soci... more

Seeing Transregional Historical Connection_Marathwada and Bundelkhand

History Research Journal, 2021

The article discusses historical connections between two territorial regions of Central India.

Fracturing and Formation of Cultural Spaces of Florida Seminole: From Settlements to Reservation

Indigenous Societies in the Post-colonial World, 2023

Ideas of Indigenous Resilience through Triangulated Model: Ecological Society Experiences of the United States of America and India

Indigenous Societies in the Post-colonial World, 2023

Abstract The present study in the book chapter discusses about emerging thoughts to develop a fr... more Abstract
The present study in the book chapter discusses about emerging thoughts to develop a framework for a discourse on response and resilience of Indigenous communities in postcolonial world. The study remains an empirical intervention through proposition of “TRIANGULATED MODEL” on indigenous questions in India and the United States of America (hereafter USA). The colonial legacy of India and United States of America on several common grounds conspired through the parallel policy frameworks and actions thereafter for the native or indigenous communities. What transpired shared colonial legacy in two distant colonies of British, evolved as a conglomerate of collected ideas for governance and repression. Postcolonial policies and discourse which affect global south have its equally repressive and overwhelming influence on global north as well. Indigeneity as resilient force remains the major push factor for postcolonial studies. On the contrary to it, indigenous resilience in northern nations remarkably engages itself on decolonization (Duara, 2004; Duarte and Belarde-Lewis, 2015). In the twenty-first century context, when postcolonial societies of India restructure their societies in globalized world, do they resolve to build a decolonized indigeneity? Whether the decolonial frameworks of the United States of America and India “South Asian indigeneity “constructs or deconstructs its decolonizing theoretics through indigenous rhetoric of global north? How the contesting ideas of indigeneity in two different frameworks yet, connected through terminologies, colonial legacy, settler colonialism have shown resilience in similar patterns which definitely give answers to many of the questions raised through postcolonial and decolonial constructs. The proposed chapter will discuss these questions and will glean its answers through archival, observational, and empirical interventions of theory of triangulated model of ecological cultures carried among indigenous societies of India and United States of America.

Biodiversity Habitats, People, Policies, and Problematics: Through Case Studies of Ecological Systems of Aurangabad and Beed

Indigenous Societies in the Post-colonial World, 2023

Death, Hinduism

Hinduism and Tribal Religions, 2018

Hinduism and Tribal Religions, 2022

Encyclopedia of Indian Religions, 2020

Prospects for Sustainability in Human–Environment Patterns: Dynamic Management of Common Resources

Mathematical Advances Towards Sustainable Environmental Systems

Models envisaged by policy makers and sustainability scientists cooperatively produce tools with ... more Models envisaged by policy makers and sustainability scientists cooperatively produce tools with desired practical implications. Models presented in the volume are summarized, with existing policy methods for resource management and Global perspective for resource planning methods in context. Models are discussed firstly in the framework of learning environments as an opportunity to test and practice sustainability, combining different tools from models, case studies, and scenarios. Sustainability asks for a multi-scale pragmatics; key elements of the multiple scale approach representing common ground in existing practice and frontier research have been identified. Two case studies are presented as a meta-summary of the issues presented in the book, being Rural South Asia (with special reference to India), and analysis of mega-diverse countries in Latin America, with special focus on Ecuador.

Creating spaces for indigeneity from Nizam’s Hyderabad state to Maharashtra

Spaces and Places in Western India

AHP 28: Review: Trade and Society along the Ancient Silk Road

Old and New Worlds: The Global Challenges of Rural History. Conference eBook

Rabaris of Kutch-History Through Legends

The research paper is an ethnographic study of the Rabari community of Kutch. The available studi... more The research paper is an ethnographic study of the Rabari community of Kutch. The available studies on Rabaris are based on narratives’ of life and history of Rabaris through the anthropological surveys conducted during the British colonial times. The following study is based on the field works conducted in the region of Kutch and thereafter through the primary and secondary versions of the folk memories of the Rabari community which remains the significant identity of the Rann and its regions in Kutch. [

Spaces and Places in Western India

Nidān: International Journal for Indian Studies

by Being Deepra, Matej Karásek, Jason Fernandes, Bina Sengar, mary thanpuii, Pär Eliasson, and Lisa Herrmann-Fertig

Nidān: International Journal for Indian Studies, 2019

Volume of a special issue of Christianity in India

'Colonial Landscape In A Princely State: British Land Policies In Rural Spaces Of Ajanta'

'Ajanta', for common perception is an ancient cave heritage site in the northern region of Deccan... more 'Ajanta', for common perception is an ancient cave heritage site in the northern region of Deccan plateau in South Asia. The name and place became significant in the beginning of the 19 th century when the British Officials visited the site while surveying and doing their flamboyant hunting expeditions. The communities which dominated the region were of tribal clans of Bhil, Mahadeo Koli, Malhar Koli and Banjara. Ajanta came under the 'cusp zone' of British colonial empire and the native princely state of the Hyderabad-Nizam. The hilly terrain above the Ajanta region where tribal communities dominated was used for hunting expeditions' by the authorities'. The river valley area of Ajanta village was the major trade route, where the revenue exercised from the downhill valley zone was based on trade excise and local agrarian produce. After the exploration of Ajanta, the landscape and agricultural patterns in the region were revised. Hyderabad State with the British Empire reframed the strategy of agricultural managements in the region. The research paper, therefore, mainly studies the outcomes of preliminary and revised agricultural and forest management surveys which took place in the region in 19 th and early decades of 20 th century. Second aspect of probing is the shift in the agricultural, trade and forest landscapes because of the novel 'Ajanta Cave Heritage Site' interventions in the rural regions of Ajanta. The paper will explore the problematic of framework and linearity imposed over diversified community practices of agriculture and landscapes. _____________________________________________________________________________

HISTORIOGRAPHIC REVIEW OF BHAKTI MOVEMENT IN MARATHWADA

NEW VISION MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH JOURNAL, ISSN: 2394-9996, Aug 2016

Bhakti Movement in South Asia and India per se, was a remarkable and distinct kind of socio-relig... more Bhakti Movement in South Asia and India per se, was a remarkable and distinct kind of socio-religious movement unlike the various socio-religious movements in the history of India. The movement in nature itself questioned the Brahmanism and inherently was instigated by the changed socio-political regime of the early medieval era and its religious idioms. Could the change in the religious quest determined that the people were seeking an assimilative trend in the traditions, which were influenced by the liberation of neo religious thoughts? Or was it the transcending caliber of individual saints themselves? Various studies on Bhakti movements in South Asia and those in Maharashtra have been carried by scholars to understand native, localized and trans-regional characteristics of the Bhakti movement. The present paper seeks to overview various historiographical interpretations of Bhakti movement carried forward in the region of Marathwada.

Old and New Worlds The Global Challenges of Rural History V ENCONTRO RURAL REPORT XV CONGRESO DE HISTORIA AGRARIA DE LA SEHA Hosted by

by Bina Sengar, Margarita López Antón, Antal Berkes, Javier Calatrava-Requena, and José Guarneros

‘Ajanta’, for common perception is an ancient cave heritage site in the northern region of Deccan... more ‘Ajanta’, for common perception is an ancient cave heritage site in the northern region of Deccan plateau in South Asia. The name and place became significant in the beginning of the 19th century when the British Officials visited the site while surveying and doing their flamboyant hunting expeditions. The communities which dominated the region were of tribal clans of Bhil, Mahadeo Koli, Malhar Koli and Banjara. Ajanta came under the ‘cusp zone’ of British colonial empire and the native princely state of the Hyderabad-Nizam. The hilly terrain above the Ajanta region where tribal communities dominated was used for hunting expeditions’ by the authorities’. The river valley area of Ajanta village was the major trade route, where the revenue exercised from the downhill valley zone was based on trade excise and local agrarian produce. After the exploration of Ajanta, the landscape and agricultural patterns in the region were revised. Hyderabad State with the British Empire reframed the strategy of agricultural managements in the region. The research paper, therefore, mainly studies the outcomes of preliminary and revised agricultural and forest management surveys which took place in the region in 19th and early decades of 20th century. Second aspect of probing is the shift in the agricultural, trade and forest landscapes because of the novel ‘Ajanta Cave Heritage Site’ interventions in the rural regions of Ajanta. The paper will explore the problematic of framework and linearity imposed over diversified community practices of agriculture and landscapes.

'Historical Cartography of Deccan-Aurangabad'

SESSION-II HERITAGE MAPPING AND TOURISM THROUGH PERSPECTIVES OF HISTORICAL CARTOGRAPHY Dr. Bi... more SESSION-II
HERITAGE MAPPING AND TOURISM THROUGH PERSPECTIVES OF HISTORICAL CARTOGRAPHY

Dr. Bina Sengar, Asst. Prof.
Deptt. of History and AIC,
School of Social Sciences
Dr. B.A.M. University, Aurangabad
E.mail: binasengar21@gmail.com

Dr. Deepak Chhabra, Associate Prof.
Senior Sustainability Scientist
Global Institute of Sustainability,
Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
E.mail: Deepak.Chhabra@asu.edu

ABSTRACT

When we visualize heritage in our contemporary times we often build in our image the possibility to relive the times to which the heritage visited belongs. Historical Cartography in this context certainly helps us in reliving those moments of pasts. Other than these nostalgic moments, the value of historical mapping becomes essential also to plan our heritage conservation and to enhance the utility of the past in the present times. The most essential attribute of heritage is tourism for the general people, where experts in field of history and heritage conservation contribute to its enhanced value through a very important discipline of Historical Cartography. In the presentation two different experts have come together to impart the heritage as planned in Aurangabad-India and one in Phoenix -Arizona State in USA. The possibility of exchange of knowledge from these two prime centers of heritage cities in two different part of the world will enable us to develop a vision for AHS heritage-conservation plans.

Rural South Asian Studies

ENGAGING PRACTICES OF MENTAL HEALING IN MARATHWADA BINA SENGAR, The research paper explores dis... more ENGAGING PRACTICES OF MENTAL HEALING IN MARATHWADA
BINA SENGAR,
The research paper explores discourses about cultural understanding and availability of services to cure mental illness in the region so called as ‘Marathwada’. Further the mental illness and healing is envisaged through the interventions of indigenous healers who are engaging rural masses of the region (Wherein case studies of two villages are taken from villages of Aurangabad district). It represents an attempt to situate the issues of indigenous healing in Marathwada within a particular strand of critical discourse between two specific indigenous healing practitioners pursuing different methods of mental cure. Means of cure of these two systems encompass bridges where they complement each-other in some ways of healing and in differing situation contradict the methods of cure. The reaction of societies to their practices of healing invariably depends on the socio-political nexus of faith and mass following in comparison to the statistics available of successful healing done.

AHP 28: REVIEW – TRADE AND CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY ALONG THE SILK ROAD

by Bina Sengar and Asian Highlands Perspectives JOURNAL

Bina Spring Course_Final (3).pdf

Course I am teaching for FIU-GSS Spring Semester, 2019

‘Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and Relevance of his Ideas in Contemporary Times’

'Trans-Local and Trans-National Medical Practices in Colonial South Asia'

Healing and health care remain one of the essential structural aspects of welfare in the human so... more Healing and health care remain one of the essential structural aspects of welfare in the human societies. The practices of healing and psycho-physiological health care and cure are part of the social upbringing in the family and community practices in the wider pretexts. The community health care on various instances is marked by what is preached and practiced under the religious-cultural environment of a society. Similarly, what nature endows to the society through its territorial networks become the foundational and fundamental knowledge systems of health and wellness. The pre-colonial South Asian society largely constituted of similar kind of the religious-cultural plurality of healing and health care. These practices traversed in their healing knowledge through Ayurveda, Unani, SIddha and native practices which were imparted through medication and faith healing. These practices served their own localities and eventually broadened themselves with the formation of various political entities and their cultural spread. At the outset of the 19 th century colonial era, another important structural development in the health care system was that of the inclusion of organised 'Public Health' system both in the British Empire in India and those of the other princely and political entities which were working in accordance to the changing socio-political orders globally. With the coming of the concept of organised public health care systems in the colonial era coexistence of these localised socio-behavioural patterns of health care and organised public health systems brought both friction and exchange in the medical practices. Healing and heath care were now exchangeable terms in the societies of the colonial South Asia.

Partition of India_Punjab.pptx

Partition of India...Punjab

Community_Gender_Ecofeminism.ppt

Talk

Migration_Refugees_Indigenous.pptx

Talk

Post_modernism_Modernism_Ethnicity.pptx

Talk on theorizing indigenity

Betaal Pachisi.pptx

Unpublished draft work... in making

BINA GANRAJYA ARTICLE

The Ganrajya and the Indic Traditions of Jainism in the Gupta Era, 2022

This article discuss historical intricacies in the trade route and sacred geographies in the Indi... more

Policies for Ethnic Communities-Assimilation in India- A Gandhian Perspective

Lexington Books, 2018

Chapter -9 written by me in the book 'Gandhi and the World' Edited by: Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapa... more Chapter -9 written by me in the book 'Gandhi and the World'
Edited by: Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, Yashwant Pathak
Rowman & Littlefield, 20-Jun-2018 - Political Science - 208 pages

The book revisits Gandhi in this era of turbulence. As rigidly held notions and practices fall to pieces, and as mechanisms of violence and politicking fail, Gandhi comes to picture. If Gandhi could change the course of history, there must be elements in his thought and action, which need re-examination for the benefit of human society. This collection of essays seeks to address the question: Is it possible to generate Gandhian optimism and faith in truth and nonviolence in the contemporary world? It argues that there is a need for sustained efforts to make an in-depth study of Gandhian principles to address global problems. The book is a useful addition to the literature in political science and international relations, economics, history, sociology, conflict and peace studies, and a guide for the advocates of peaceful means of conflict resolution.