Jaroslav Strnad. "Searching for the Source or Mapping the Stream? Some Text-Critical Issues in the Study of Medieval Bhakti." Text and Tradition in Early Modern North India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2018, 143-158.
PhDr. Jaroslav Strnad, Ph.D.
AREAS OF INTEREST
- history of India, Indoaryan languages (Hindī, Sanskrit)
- political and economic history of medieval and modern India; premodern Hindī literature; Hindī lexikography
EDUCATION
- 1999 Ph.D. (history and cultures of Asia and Africa)
- 1987 PhDr. (languages and literatures of Asia and Africa)
- 1979 absolutorium Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague
ACADEMIC CAREER
- 2016- intern teacher (half-time) at the Institute of South and central Asia, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague
- 2001-2006 intern teacher (half-time) at the Institute of South and central Asia, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague
- 1990- Oriental Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (senior research fellow, dept. of South Asia)
- 1985-1990 State School of Foreign Languages, Prague (intern teacher - Hindī, Sanskrit)
- 1980-1985 Oriental Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (research assistant)
OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
- 2016 organized and participated in 10-day international "Fourth Early Hindi / Braj Bhasha Workshop-Retreat" in Třešť, Czech Republic
- 2016 24th European Conference on South Asian Studies, Warsaw; paper "Remote survey of two Rajasthani Dadupanthi manuscripts"
- 2015 International Rajasthani Workshop, Warsaw
- 2014 Third Internationa Braj Bhasha / Early Hindi Workshop, Bansko, Bulgaria
- 2012 International Conference on Early Modern Literatures of North India (ICEMLNI), Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, India
- 2012 International Conference "The Concept of Identities in Indian Thinking: Classical, Modernist, Postcolonial". Department of Asian Studies, Metropolitan University, Prague
- 2011 Second Internationa Braj Bhasha / Early Hindi Workshop, Miercura Ciuc, Romania
- 2006 CEENIS Conference „New Perspectives in Education about India“. Center of Oriental Studies, Vilnius University, Vilnius (LT)
- 2006 dtto, Heidelberg session, Department of History, Südasien Institut, Universität Heidelberg
- 2005 International Conference "The Exchange of Ideas and Culture Between South Asia and Central Europe", Harvard session, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., USA
- 2003 Josef Hlávka Prize for the Humanities (Dějiny Indie [History of India])
- Study visits and attachments
- 1979 - India: Central Hindi Directorate, New Delhi (6 months)
- 1987 - India: CASS, Univ. of Poona; Banaras Hindu University; Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore (3 months)
- 1992 - Great Britain: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (2 months)
