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Richard Barz, BA (Arizona), MA (Chicago), PhD (Chicago)

Senior Lecturer, School of Culture, History & Language

Email: richard.barz@anu.edu.au

Research interests

January 1991 to present - Production of distance education package for introductory Hindi as a part of the National Asian Languages Project. (Australian government funded) January 1996 to present - Analysis of the Islamic Avadhi terminology in Manjhan's Madhumalati. Filming and editing of video-taped description of the Himalayan Hindu pilgrimages to Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri-Gomukh and Yamunotri in Uttaranchal, India.

Key publications

  • "Hagiography" in Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism vol. 2: Sacred Texts, Ritual Traditions, Arts, Concepts ed. K. A. Jacobsen et al., Brill, Leiden, pp. 237-248 (2010).
  • "ख्वाबबाज का स्वागत" in पूर्वापर: सृजनशील अनुसंधानपरक पत्रिका vol. 5:July-September, p. 28 (2008)
  • "Kumbhandas: The Devotee as Salt of the Earth" in Krishna: A Sourcebook ed. E.F. Bryant, Oxford University Press, New York, pp.477-504 (2007)
  • Year-in-India at Aligarh Muslim University written and produced in Hindi and English by Richard Barz and edited by Paul Maclay for the Faculty of Asian Studies, Canberra (2006).
  • गंगोत्री-गोमुख की यात्रा written and produced in Hindi with English subtitles by Richard Barz and edited by Patrick Byrnes and Paul Maclay for the Faculty of Asian Studies, Canberra (2005).
  • "हिन्दी क्यों सीखना" in Humaara Bhavish 1, pp.18-19 (November 2003)
  • "Mathura Janmashtmi, 1967" in Unfinished Journeys: India File from Canberra eds. Debjani Ganguly and Kavita Nandan, Centre for Research in New Literatures in English, Adelaide, pp.219-230 (1998)
  • "Satyajit Ray, Premchand and a game of chess: variations on the theme of India's freedom" in South Asia XXI: 1, pp.153-166 (1998)8. "The Caurasi Vaishnavan ki Varta and the hagiography of the Pushtimarg" in According to tradition eds. W.M. Callewaert and R. Snell, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, pp.43-64 (1994)
  • Hindi Exercise Manual Richard K. Barz and Y.K. Yadav, Canberra (1994)
  • Hindi Exercise Manual Richard K. Barz and Y.K. Yadav, Set of Audio Cassette Recordings, Canberra (1994)
  • An Introduction to Hindi and Urdu Richard K. Barz and Y.K. Yadav, Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi, (fifth edition) (1993)
  • The Bhakti sect of Vallabhacarya Richard K. Barz, Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi, (reprint) (1992)

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