南アジア研究センター（Center for South Asian Studies, CSAS）は、人間文化研究機構プロジェクト「南アジア地域研究」の東京大学拠点（TINDAS）の設置機関として、2017年4 月にグローバル地域研究機構内に設置されました。2022年3月までは同プロジェクトのもとで、「南アジアの経済発展と歴史変動」をテーマとして掲げ、インドを中心とする南アジア諸国における現在の経済発展を長期の歴史的変動の中に位置づけ、南アジア的な発展の在り方を総合的に明らかにすることを目的に研究活動を展開してきました。2022年3月にTINDASが終了したのちは、学内の南アジア研究者を中心に、南アジア関連の研究会の組織や南アジアに関する情報発信、これまで作成・整備したGIS関連情報の紹介などを行っています。
The Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS) was founded in April 2017 as one of the research centers for the NIHU project ‘Integrated Area Studies on South Asia‘. The center has been part of the Institute for Advanced Global Studies (IAGS) from its inception. It organizes seminars and workshops on a wide range of topics related to South Asia and provides information on this region through its website.
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南アジア研究センター・セミナー：Dr. Ashok Malhotra (Queen’s University Belfast), ‘Imperial Science, the Organic Movement and the Path to Shangri-La, 1905-1969’
日時/ Date：2025年7月10日（木曜日）18:30-20:00/ 10 July 2025 (Thursday) 18:30-20:00
場所/ Venue：東京大学駒場Iキャンパス14号館4階407号室（ハイフレックス）/ Room 407, 4th Floor, Bldg No.14, Komaba Campus, The University of Tokyo/ Zoom*
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報告者/ Speaker： Dr. Ashok Malhotra (Queen’s University Belfast), ‘Imperial Science, the Organic Movement and the Path to Shangri-La, 1905-1969’
要旨/ Abstract:
This paper investigates the scientific studies undertaken in the 1920s in British India by Dr Robert McCarrison and Albert Howard and the ways in which this research was adapted in Britain and the US. Whilst scholars such as Gregory Barton and Philip Conford have noted how the work of these two scientists was deployed by the Organic movements which emerged in Britain and the US in their campaigns against industrialized farming and chemical fertilisers, they have not demonstrated the ways in which the Indian context initially shaped this research. They have also not discussed which aspects of McCarrison’s and Howard’s research was utilized or alternatively discarded by British and North American organic advocates.
In contrast, my paper demonstrates the ways in which imperial agendas and colonial stereotyping shaped McCarrison’s dietary research at his laboratories, in Tamil Nadu, and Howard’s development of the Indore Composting Process, in Madhya Pradesh. I highlight the contributions of Indian scientists, Indian princes and philanthropists in influencing the research cultures of these institutes. Crucially, I then demonstrate how the research that was carried out by these two figures was selectively interpreted by emerging organic farming advocates in Britain and the US to advocate for agricultural methods which involved returning organic matter to the soil and rejecting chemical fertilizers. My paper discusses how organic advocates in Britain and the US deployed the Hunzas, a community in British India (later Pakistan), as an example of a “tribe” whose supposed health and vigour could be ascribed to the holistic farming techniques and diets. I conclude by demonstrating how US travel writers in the 1950s and 1960s, to advance their own personal agendas, represented Hunza as a “Shangri La” where the inhabitants lived blissfully long and contented lives.
共催：環インド洋地域研究プロジェクト東京大学拠点（TINDOWS）、東京外国語大学南アジア研究センター
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東京大学大学院総合文化研究科グローバル地域研究機構南アジア研究センター
〒153-8902東京都目黒区駒場3-8-1, 14号館
Center for South Asian Studies, Institute for Advanced Global Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo
Building 14, 3-8-1, Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan.