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Dr. Alaka Chudal, M.A.
Alaka Chudal
T: +43-1-4277-43514

Gurkha Prisoners-of-War of the First World War: A perspective on the 1923 UK-Nepal Friendship Treaty

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

17 Dec 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


We are bored of eating bread and coffee: Unintended travel narratives of Indian soldiers in WWI

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

28 Sep 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Reciting violence: Yearly performance of Svasthani-vrata-katha in Nepal

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

27 Jul 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Die Last, ein Mann zu sein: Der Konflikt zwischen dem traditionellen und dem modernen Männerbild in der jüngeren nepalischen Literature

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

13 May 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Many Ramayanas: A discussion on the Nepaliness in Bhanubhakta Acharya’s Ramayana

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

31 Jan 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Migration, Journey, Travelling and Nostalgia

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

27 May 202228 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Intellectual migration in Kashi: a history of Nepali print and publication (1884 – 1950)

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

19 Nov 202120 Nov 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Vedanā ko josilo āvāj: Pratham viśva yuddha ka gorkhālī yuddhabandī

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

18 Jul 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Why do they recite the story?

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

27 May 202128 May 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Let's Tune In. South Asian Prisoners of the First World War

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

4 May 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Kashi Kavya Yatra: Banarasma Nepali Prakashanko itihas

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

4 Sep 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Kashi ma bauddhik pravas: Nepali pustak ra prakashan itihasko mahattvapurna pato 1884-1950

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

10 Aug 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Eine kollektive (Auto-) Biographie: nepalesische Frauen in ihrer soziokulturellen Umgebung

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

25 May 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Oral Transmission of Vetālapañcaviṃśati to Europe

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

21 Sep 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Performance of a Nurse in the Years of the Maoist People;s War in Nepal: Radha Paudel’s Autobiographical Narrative

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

24 Jul 201827 Jul 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


A Collective (Auto-) Biography: Nepalese Women in their Sociocultural Surroundings

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

7 Jun 20188 Jun 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


One Cultural Soul: Sankrityayan’s Relationship with Nepal and Nepalese

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

14 Mar 201816 Mar 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


An Observation on the School System in Federal Republic of Austria

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

24 Feb 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Oral Performance of Folklores by Gurkha WWI Prisoners in Germany

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

4 Dec 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Utopian Imagination of Northern South Asia in Twenty Second Century: Rahul Sankrityayan's "Bāisvī̃ sadī"

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

6 Jul 20179 Jul 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


A Song of the ‘Language’ but the Words about the ‘Self’: Gurkha Prisoners of War in the First World War in Germany

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

18 May 201719 May 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Hindī kā ek rūp: Bihārī Hindī

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

27 Jan 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Exploring a Forgotten Archive: Gurkha Prisoners of War in World War I in Germany

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

25 Sep 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Observations on Hindi Conversation

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

14 Sep 201616 Sep 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Exploring a forgotten archive: (self-) representation of Himalayan prisoners of war in world war in Germany

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

27 Jul 201630 Jul 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


A Life of the 'other' and a story of the 'self': Shivrani Devi in "Premcand ghar mẽ"

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

19 May 201620 May 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Nepali Voices in WWI

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

6 May 20167 May 2016

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Hindi in Prague, Wien und Heidelberg

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

20 Jan 2016

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Sanskrit texts, Indian land and Nepalese readers: Religious and cultural transmission in the 19th and 20th - century Banaras

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

30 Jun 2015

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An Alternative Approach to Narrating the Past and Studying Society: Hemraj Sharma and Ram Mani Acharya Dixit’s Diary

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

8 May 2015

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Kumari: The Living Goddess of Nepal

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

9 Apr 2015

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History of Nepali Books: The Development of Print Culture and Nepali Printed Word

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

20 Feb 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


A Freethinking Cultural Nationalist: Rahul Sankrityayan in the Context of His Age

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

22 Sep 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


A Scope of Nepali Language and Literature Studies in Career Making

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

3 Sep 2014

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Nepali Publication in Varanasi: Past and Present

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

31 Aug 2014

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Rahul Sankrityayan: A Freethinking Cultural Nationalist

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

30 Aug 2014

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Observations on Public Concern for the Mother Tongue after Vice President Jha’s Oath in Hindi

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

26 Jul 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


The nature and the human body: imagery of Nepal in Nepali poetry

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

30 May 20131 Jun 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Observations on Hindi conversation

Alaka Chudal (Contributor)

14 Dec 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther



vienā meṃ hindī: itihās aur vartmān

Alaka Chudal (Contributor)

15 Mar 2012

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Vice President Jha’s Oath in Hindi: Response to Hindi in Nepal

Alaka Chudal (Contributor)

4 Sep 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Hinglish: A New Form of Hindi

Alaka Chudal (Contributor)

13 May 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Gubbare: The Use of Hinglish in Bollywood

Alaka Chudal (Contributor)

10 May 2011

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Teaching Compound Verbs in Hindi through Bollywood Songs

Alaka Chudal (Contributor)

9 May 2011

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Lyrics in Main Hoon Na: Shah Rukh Khan und Javed Akhtar

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

30 Sep 20102 Oct 2010

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Nepali in the media: The endless discourse on linguistic precision

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

25 Jun 2010

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On the complexity of swearing and other cultural idioms : A discussion of Nepali-to-English translations

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

2 Dec 2009

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Hindi Movement in India : Views and Performances of Rahul Sankrityayana

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

20 May 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Personality of Rahula Sankrityayana in the History of Literature with the Glance of His First Book "Baisavi-sadi"

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

19 May 2009

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Rahula Sankrityayana ka jivan-carit

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

18 May 2009

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Rahula Sankrityayana: Glimpse through the Window of Baisvim Sadi

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

14 Dec 2007

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Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies

Spitalgasse 2, Hof 2 (Campus)
1090 Wien
Room: 2C-O1-12

T: +43-1-4277-43514

alaka.chudal@univie.ac.at