Retirement and After

Author(s):  
Nayanjot Lahiri

This is the concluding chapter and looks at Deshapande’s retirement years. The most noteworthy aspect was his work at the Western Indian rock-cut caves, where he returned to field research with vigor, consciously attempting to fill in the research void of his director-general years. Additionally, the writings that he did and the lectures that he gave as also his own public engagement in conservation and outreach are highlighted here. He clearly stood away from the Ramjanmabhoomi movement in Ayodhya and during those years, in fact, emphasized the inclusiveness of Bhakti. His was not a vision which had visualized the modern destruction of monuments by well-organized mobs. He eventually passed away some three decades after he left the Archaeological Survey, on August 7, 2008.

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Luh Putu Sudini

This article aims at describing the role of Yayasan Karya Cipta Indonesia (YKCI) in copyright protection in Indonesia and the mechanism of royalty payment on Indonesian songs to the YKCI. The approach used in this study is normative approach as this study is conducted on secondary, primary, and tertiary legal materials, such as books, legal journals, and expert (secondary data) research results; its main legislation is Law no. 19 of 2002 on Copyright (primary data); English and Indonesia dictionaries and tertiary law which is the result of library research, supported by legal materials in the form of documents from field research results. From the collected legal materials, analysis in the method of the qualitative descriptive was conducted. The results indicated that YKCI's role as an administrator body in copyright protection is to collect royalties from parties that use songs or music commercially and help dispute resolution between creators, users or record producers of songs or music creations. Furthermore, the mechanism of royalty payments to YKCI shall be initiated by the authorization of YKCI by the creator or the copyright holder of the song, so on the basis of such power of attorney, YKCI exercises the collection or withdrawal of royalties by a percentage mechanism from the dealer's selling price through a permit saving per song at a rate for recording into a cassette, CD, VCD, and other media. Law Number 19 of 2002 on Copyright should be accompanied by the willingness and ability of the apparatus in enforcing it so that what to be achieved with the Act can be obtained. In addition, it is recommended that the government immediately issue provisions on the roles, duties and functions of the Copyright Council as well as the organic rules that explain the authority of YKCI which may be the appointment of the Director-General of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) as endorsement of a collective society in order to attract royalties. The government also needs to make a standard contract of licensing agreement between the Copyright of Songs and Music in the event of announcement. In addition, YKCI also needs to be open including to the power of attorney (Creator of the song) so that the Creator can know the frequency of their song announcement and the large royalty that must be obtained.


2021 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-250
Author(s):  
Biao Xiang

"Suspension" is the translation of the Chinese term xuanfu, which has been widely used in public discussions in China since the mid-2010s. Suspension indicates a state of being in which people move frequently, conduct intensive labour, and pause routine life—in order to benefit fast and then quickly escape. People keep moving, with no end in sight, instead of changing their current conditions, of which they disapprove. As a result, frantic entrepreneurial energy coexists with political resignation. Suspension is a life strategy, a multitude of experiences, a feeling—and now, a keyword: a crystallized consciousness with which the public problematize their experiences. This special issue develops this term into an analytical approach based on ethnographic research involving labour migrants in and from China. This approach turns migration into a basis for critical analyses on issues far beyond it; enables co-research between researchers, migrants, and the broader public; and seeks to cultivate agency for change among actors. This introductory essay, based on the author's long-term field research and public engagement, outlines why we need such an approach, and how we might develop it.


Author(s):  
Nayanjot Lahiri

This book interleaves the history of post-Independence archaeology in India with the life and times of Madhukar Narhar Deshpande (1920–2008), a leading Indian archaeologist who went on to become the director-general of the Archaeological Survey of India. Spanning nearly a century, this is a tale about the circumstances which brought men like Deshpande to this career path; what it was like to grow up in a family devoted to India’s freedom; the watershed moment that created a large cohort that was trained by Mortimer Wheeler, the doyen of British archaeology who headed the Archaeological Survey in the twilight years of the British Raj; the unknown conservation stories around the Gol Gumbad in Bijapur and the Qutb Minar in Delhi; the forgotten story of how the fabric of a historic Hindu shrine, the Badrinath temple, was saved; the chemistry shared by the prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, and the archaeologist, Deshpande at historic cave shrines like Ajanta and Ellora, and; the political and administrative challenges faced by director generals of archaeology. The story is told through a main character—Deshpande himself—some of whose writings have been included here. Equally, there are others who figure in the narrative as it reconstructs and recounts the story of Indian archaeology after 1947 through those lives as also through the institutional history of the Archaeological Survey and the processes that were central to the discoveries it made and the challenges it faced.


Author(s):  
Nayanjot Lahiri

Deshpande’s years as director-general of the Archaeological Survey (1972-1978) forms the focus of this chapter. A lot of what Deshpande presided over was familiar territory, the sort of work which he had done earlier. The direction of research of the Archaeological Survey of India in the fields of prehistory and historical research is specially highlighted because this evidently shows that it was not merely the Harappan Civilization that it concerned itself with, as is so often thought. At the same time, as the chapter demonstrates, there was much that now happened in terms of monument conservation because of the interest taken by politicians. The protection of Hari Parbat in Srinagar because of Sheikh Abdullah, the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, and the interest of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in safeguarding India’s heritage are discussed here. These were, in fact, challenging times for the Archaeological Survey in terms of its public image and in Deshpande’s tenure, there was relentless parliamentary and public scrutiny of the organization. All of this is carefully examined in this analysis of the years that Deshpande spent at the helm of the Archaeological Survey.


2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Himanshu Prabha Ray

This paper draws on my work on the maritime history of early South and Southeast Asia and the use of sea-lanes of the Indian Ocean by pilgrims for visits to sites associated with the life of the Buddha. A second perspective is provided by the rediscovery of Buddhism in Europe coinciding with the development of new disciplines, including archaeology. These disciplines were introduced into India with the government-sponsored Archaeological Survey of India, founded in 1871. Alexander Cunningham, the first Director-General, brought Buddhism to the forefront and established its study as a separate sub-discipline. This had far-reaching implications for the demarcation and archaeological investigation of many of the monuments linked to Buddhism, especially Bodh Gaya and Sanchi. This paper addresses the issue of the manifestation of a Buddhist identity in colonial India. It is often suggested that this identity owed its origins to the formation of the Mahabodhi Society and the emergence of nationalism in Sri Lanka. This paper examines political developments in India in the context of the Navayana or the Neo-Buddhist path, forged by B.R. Ambedkar on the 2500th anniversary of Buddha’s parinirvana, or demise, in 1956. To what extent did this newly formed identity become interlinked with the identification and control of archaeological sites in India and their redefinition? How did the renegotiation of Buddhist identity affect India’s relationship with Thailand?


Author(s):  
Benny Oktario ◽  
Neneng Oktarina

<p><em><span>Income Tax (PPh) is one of several types of tax, which is one of the primary sources of state revenue for development, which aims to improve the welfare and prosperity of the people. Income Tax (PPh) is regulated in Government Regulation number 34 of 2016. Where in each transfer of rights carried out by the taxpayer will be subject to Income Tax, but there is a transfer of rights excluded from the imposition and collection of Income Tax as stipulated in the Director-General of Taxes Regulation Number 30 / PJ / 2009, namely the removal of reasons due to inheritance and grants to blood families in a </span></em><em><span lang="PT-BR">straight</span></em><em><span> line. From this income tax collection, it is necessary to know some problems that arise. The issues, namely First, how is the imposition of Income Tax on inheritance and grants in the transfer of rights to land and buildings in the City of Padang. Second, is the Constraint in imposing income tax on estate and concessions in the removal of rights to land and buildings in the City of Padang. The research method used is an empirical juridical approach, and this research is descriptive-analytical as well as collecting data in the form of document studies and field research. Based on the results of the study, it was found that: The imposition of income tax on inheritance and grants in the transfer of rights to land and buildings in Padang city can be excluded from tax collection by submitting an income tax certificate for inheritance and donations between blood families in a straight line. Constraints in imposing Income Tax on estate and awards in the transfer of rights to land and or buildings in the city of Padang, are still taxpayers who have an NPWP but do not report their annual SPT and there are taxpayers who are not registered at the Tax Office and do not have NPWP, which causes the SKB application to be rejected or not granted.</span></em></p>


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-243
Author(s):  
Sisca Novalia ◽  
Khairuddin Khairuddin ◽  
Zuhraini Zuhraini

This study was made to analyze the implementation of the Decision of the Director General of Islamic Community Guidance Number DJ.II / 542 of 2013 concerning the Prenuptial Course at the Office of the Ministry of Religion in the City of Bandar Lampung and to determine the relevance of taking the Prenuptial Course to household harmony. This type of research uses Field Research, where researchers go directly to the field to obtain strong, objective and actual data. Researchers will go to the field to obtain authentic, accurate, detailed and in-depth data. The results of this study indicate that the implementation of the Decree of the Director General of Guidance for the Islamic Community Number DJ.II / 542 of 2013 concerning prenuptial courses is quite effective. couples to reduce disputes in the family, divorce and conflict, so that they become provisions for realizing a peaceful, prosperous, safe, peaceful family and truly creating a sakinah mawadah warahmah family. After fulfilling the existing procedures, the bride and groom get a foundation book for the sakinah family and a certificate. However, if viewed from the level of effectiveness there are still several weaknesses, including the lack of availability of funding to cover all training needs, the seriousness of the participants is not optimal, the lack of attendance and the level of activity of participants in taking pre-marital training courses, and the continuity of pre-marital course activities that have not been optimally scheduled.


2000 ◽  
Vol 95 ◽  
pp. 517-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
David W. J. Gill

In 1901 excavations were conducted under the auspices of the Cretan Exploration Fund at Praisos and Kato Zakro in eastern Crete. One of the members of the party was John Hubert Marshall, formerly of King's College, Cambridge. During his journey to and from the excavations, and described in the correspondence of Robert Carr Bosanquet, Marshall seems to have acquired antiquities from a number of sites which were purchased by the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge later in the year. This material included antiquities from Palaikastro which was to be become the scene of major excavations by the British School at Athens. Marshall was awarded a Craven Studentship at the British School at Athens in 1901, but in February 1902 was appointed Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India. It was Marshall's experience of excavation on Crete which was to influence the development of archaeological fieldwork in India.


1924 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 399-406
Author(s):  
Daya Ram Sahni

This is the title of an article which I have just submitted for publication in the Epigraphia Indica. As the controversy about the various problems connected with the Kushana period of the Indian History has been carried on chiefly in the pages of this Journal, I venture to present a brief note on the new details furnished by the three inscriptions concerned. All the three records were discovered by Rai Bahadur Pandit Radha Krishna, Honorary Curator of the Museum of Archæology at Mathurā (vulgo Muttra). Inscriptions Nos. 1 and 2 were brought to light in the year 1918–19 and 1920–1 respectively, and have been briefly noticed in the Annual Report of the Archæological Survey of India, Northern Circle, Hindu and Buddhist Monuments for those years. The contents of the third inscription were summarized by Dr. Vogel in the Annual Report of the Director-General of Archæology in India, part ii, for 1911–12, p. 125. In this note I propose to publish a complete transliteration of the existing portion of the record and to draw attention to one or two points which escaped Dr. Vogel's notice.


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