Alaka Atreya Chudal

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Dr. Alaka Atreya Chudal holds a PhD (2014) in Modern South Asian Studies from the University of Vienna, an MA in Nepali Literature and Linguistics (2007) from Tribhuvan University, an MA in Sanskrit Grammar (1992) from Sampurnananda Sanskrit University, and an MA in Eastern Philosophy (Sanskrit) (1994) from Nepal Sanskrit University, where she later worked as a lecturer in the Department of Eastern Philosophy (1995-2007). 

A scholar of South Asian Studies, Alaka Atreya Chudal's research is situated within an interdisciplinary paradigm. It integrates anthropology, literary studies, history, religious studies, cultural studies, print culture, intellectual history, masculinity and gender studies with a focus on Nepal and India from the late nineteenth century to the present. Her monograph, A Freethinking Cultural Nationalist: A Life History of Rahul Sankrityayan (Oxford University Press, 2016), which won the Savitri Chandra Shobha Memorial Prize for 'Book on History of Indian Literature and Culture (2013-18)' at the 80th session of the Indian History Congress, deals with the intellectual history of North India and Nepal, focusing on the Indian intellectual Rahul Sankrityayan and his multifaceted personality. Her other book is Gorkhāli yudddhabandīkā lokbhākā ra kathā, [ A study and transcription of the Nepali voice recordings of Gurkha prisoners of war in the First World War]. (Kathmandu: Nepal Academy, 2021).  Her work has also been published in numerous journals. Some of her other selected works are Rāmro Nepālī: Einführung in Nepali I (Nepali language book in German) (Bremen: Hempen Verlag, 2019), Nināda Vallarī, [an Elegy in Nepali] (Kathmandu: Nepalaya, 2021) and Auf der Suche nach dem eigenen Sein: Frauen aus Nepal erzählen. [A German translation of selected personal Narratives by Nepali writers] (Heidelberg: Draupadi Verlag, 2018) etc.

She is currently working on a book project using the audio recordings of Indian prisoners of war in World War I in various Indian languages as primary sources, drawing on her wider interests in colonial history, vernacular literature, print history and anthropology. She is also working on The Secret Vow to the Goddess, an English translation of the Svasthanivratakatha, a project supported by an NEH Scholarly Editions and Translations Grant and under contract with Oxford University Press.

 

 

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Chudal, A. (2023). śikhar stutikār. In Sankathan Kathmandu (pp. 13-14)

Chudal, A. (2023). śivrānī devī ke strī praśn. In Shāhitya meṃ strī praśn (pp. 24-25). Sahitya Akademi.

Chudal, A., (TRANS.) (2023). Vandanā. Racanā , 184(3), 13-14.




Chudal, A. (2021). Bhāgsu (Dharmaśālā) ra Deharādūnko Nepālī Sāhityako Itihās. In M. Pokhrel (Ed.), Uttar Bhāratko Nepālī Sāhityako Itihās (Vol. 3, pp. 445–452). Kamalmani Prakashan. Jagadambā Nepālī Sāhityako Itihās

Chudal, A. (2021). Campārankā kavi Gopāl Siṃha Nepālī. In M. Pokhrel (Ed.), Uttar Bhāratko Nepālī Sāhityako Itihās (Vol. 3, pp. 441–444). Kamalmani Prakashan. Jagadambā Nepālī Sāhityako Itihās Vol. 3


Chudal, A. (2021). Nepālī Sāhityako Itihāsmā Kāśī. In M. Pokhrel (Ed.), Uttar Bhāratko Nepālī Sāhityako Itihās (Vol. 3, pp. 402–431). Kamalmani Prakashan. Jagadambā Nepālī Sāhityako Itihās


Chudal, A. (2021). Nināda Vallarī. Nepalaya .


Chudal, A. (Ed.) (2021). Smṛtimā Prā. Dā. Viṣṇurāj Ātreya: Lāto Sāthī. Prā. Dā. Viṣṇurāj Ātreya Lāto sāthī smṛiti pratiṣthān.

Chudal, A. (Ed.) (2021). Uttar Bhāratko Nepālī Sāhityako Itihās. Kamalmani Prakashan. Jagadambā Nepālī Sāhityako Itihās Vol. 3





Chudal, A. (2019). Ramro Nepali: Nepali für Deutschsprachige . (1 ed.) Ute Hempen Verlag.

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

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

17 Dec 2023

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

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

28 Sep 2023

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

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

27 Jul 2023

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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

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

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

31 Jan 2023

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Migration, Journey, Travelling and Nostalgia

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

27 May 202228 May 2022

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

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

19 Nov 202120 Nov 2021

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Vedanā ko josilo āvāj: Pratham viśva yuddha ka gorkhālī yuddhabandī

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18 Jul 2021

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Why do they recite the story?

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

27 May 202128 May 2021

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

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4 May 2021

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Kashi Kavya Yatra: Banarasma Nepali Prakashanko itihas

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4 Sep 2019

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

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10 Aug 2019

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

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

25 May 2019

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Oral Transmission of Vetālapañcaviṃśati to Europe

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

21 Sep 2018

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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

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

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

7 Jun 20188 Jun 2018

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

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

14 Mar 201816 Mar 2018

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An Observation on the School System in Federal Republic of Austria

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

24 Feb 2018

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Oral Performance of Folklores by Gurkha WWI Prisoners in Germany

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

4 Dec 2017

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

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

6 Jul 20179 Jul 2017

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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

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Hindī kā ek rūp: Bihārī Hindī

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

27 Jan 2017

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

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25 Sep 2016

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Observations on Hindi Conversation

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14 Sep 201616 Sep 2016

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

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

27 Jul 201630 Jul 2016

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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

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Nepali Voices in WWI

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6 May 20167 May 2016

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Hindi in Prague, Wien und Heidelberg

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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

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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

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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

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

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

22 Sep 2014

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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

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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

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

Alaka Chudal (Speaker)

30 May 20131 Jun 2013

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Observations on Hindi conversation

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14 Dec 2012

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vienā meṃ hindī: itihās aur vartmān

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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

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Hinglish: A New Form of Hindi

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13 May 2011

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Gubbare: The Use of Hinglish in Bollywood

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10 May 2011

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Teaching Compound Verbs in Hindi through Bollywood Songs

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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

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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

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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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alaka.chudal@univie.ac.at