Maharashtra Studies Group

The MSG has periodically arranged conferences and published the papers that were presented, as well as holding occasional meetings at large conferences such as the Association of Asian Studies and the Annual Conference on South Asia held in Madison, Wisconsin. The group also promotes the biannual International Conference on Maharashtra, and many members regularly participate. A partial list of past events, based on available records, is given below. We welcome information that could fill out these lists further.

MSG Conferences & Publications

1968 - Philadelphia

1971 - Minneapolis

1972 - Philadelphia

1973 - Ann Arbor

1975 -

1976 - Toronto (with AAS)

1977 - New York (with AAS)

1978 - Indiana PA

1997 - Chicago (with AAS)

2005 - Chicago (with AAS)

2007 - Los Angeles

2009 - Chicago (with AAS)

Selected papers from early conferences were published in NK Wagle, ed., Images of Maharashtra: a Regional Profile of India. London: Curzon, 1980.

International Conferences on Maharashtra

1984 March - Toronto - papers published in:

M Israel & NK Wagle, eds., Religion and Society in Maharashtra. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto, 1987

AR Kulkarni & NK Wagle, eds., Region, Nationality and Religion. Mumbai: Popular Prakashan, 1999

1987 January - Pune

DW Attwood, M Israel & NK Wagle, eds., City, Country and Society in Maharashtra. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto, 1988

1988 June - Heidelberg - Folk Component in Maharashtrian Culture & 19th-century Social Reform

GD Sontheimer, ed., Folk Culture, Folk Religion and Oral Traditions as a Component of Maharashtrian Culture. New Delhi: Manohar, 1995

NK Wagle, ed., Writers, Editors and Reformers: Social and Political Transformation of Maharashtra, 1830-1930. New Delhi: Manohar, 1999

1991 April - Tempe - Images of Women and the Feminine

A Feldhaus, ed., Images of Women in Maharashtrian Literature and Religion. Albany: SUNY, 1996

A Feldhaus, ed., Images of Women in Maharashtrian Society. Albany: SUNY, 1998

1992 December - Mumbai - Continuities and Discontinuities

M Kosambi, ed., Intersections: Socio-Cultural Trends in Maharashtra. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2000

1995 - Moscow - Ghar: House & Home

I Glushkova & A Feldhaus, eds., House and Home in Maharashtra. Delhi: Oxford, 1998

I Glushkova & R Vora, eds., Home, Family and Kinship in Maharashtra. Delhi: Oxford, 1999

1997 - Pune

1999 - Sydney - The Body

2001 - St. Paul, Minnesota - Inside & Outside

2003 August - Pune - Paise: Money

2005 August - Tokyo - Marga

M Naito, I Shima & H Kotani, eds., Marga: Ways of Liberation, Empowerment and Social Change in Maharashtra. Delhi: Manohar, 2008

2007 - Pune - Man: Heart/Mind

2010 July - Bratislava - Environments

D Deak & D Jasper, eds., Rethinking Western India: The Changing Contexts of Culture, Society and Religion. Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan, 2014

Executive Committee