Kanishka

On the 25 th anniversary of the Air India bombings, June 23, 2010, Prime Minister Stephen Harper delivered an apology at a commemorative ceremony in Toronto on behalf of the federal government to those who lost loved ones on Air India Flight 182. Yet even while pointing to an apparent crisis in multiculturalism, the text of the apology, which is analyzed here, does not put the Canadian state’s official multiculturalism policy into question. In seeking to offer redress, the official apology in effect functions as a tool of the state to manage the grief and grievance of racialized minorities, even as the state works toward increased surveillance of racialized minorities. Reading the apology in conjunction with two fictional remembrances of the Air India bombings, Bharati Mukherjee’s 1988 short story “The Management of Grief” and Anita Rau Badami’s 2006 novel Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? , this essay addresses the politics of official apology/official multiculturalism. Where the ap...

Stupa is the India's oldest object of veneration in the architectural form. Stupa and Buddhism are synonyms of each other. Oldest Known stupas are of Buddhist religion. The construction of its shape is inspired from nature itself e.g bulbulakaar, uplakaar and dhanyakaar. This is a solid structured platform in which the body relics of Buddha and his disciples were kept. Initially the stupas of mud were constructed over the bodily remains of Buddha after his Mahaparinirvana. Thereafter, the Mauryan Emperor Asoka constructed numerous stupas made of bricks all over India. During the Sungas and period that followed after the stupas were beautifully adorned by stones that covered the stupas. The remains of this stupa have been obtained from different parts of India namely Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Punjab, etc., and also from Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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The 1960 London Conference on the Date of Kanishka involved many leading scholars of Central and South Asian studies and had a profound impact on the field. This paper examines the historiography of the central problem posed at the conference: in what year did the era of Kanishka commence? It traces the advances in evidence that led to the solution of AD 127 between 2000 and 2010. The complexity of this process is often omitted in historiographical accounts, which opens the final solution to criticism and also fails to address why the field polarised after 1960 and found it so hard to reconcile new evidence. The paper suggests that eventual solution was a result of the cumulative effect of new data. It also shows that the field as a whole arrived at a solution long before it arrived at a consensus. This suggests that the failure of new evidence to bring about a solution more quickly is a major challenge to South and Central Asian studies in the future.

The author reconsiders some well-known facts about Dark Ages and offers a consistent picture of the events in the history of Eurasia. According to the received picture, the Buddhist's role in the events of The Migration Period (German loanword Völkerwanderung) was underestimated.

This article deals with hitherto unreported gold coin issued by Kaniška I, the greatest king of the Kuṣāṇ dynasty bearing the Bactrian legend "Oado". It depicts the Wind God (Oado) running to the left, holding up cloak blown in the wind. This Zoroastrian Wind god 'Oado' had hitherto been known to us only from several series of bronze coins issued by Kaniška I and Huviška. The Greek version of the Iranian Oado is known to us thanks to a unique gold coin conserved in the Hirayama Ikuo Art Museum. The Greek god(s) corresponding to the Zoroastrian Oado (or Vāta, Wind god) are known as the Anemoi (Greek: Ἄνεμοι, Latin Venti). The fundamental difference between the reverse iconography of the two gold coins is that the two large wings of the Greek Anemos are not represented on the coin showing the Oado of Zoroastrian origin.

2018 Update of the 2007 JONS 192 publication: A new Oesho/Shiva image of Sasanian " Peroz " taking power in the northern part of the Kushan Empire My interpretation of the Peroz coin as outlined in the JONS 192 publication (below) is outdated: Joe Cribb informed me in March 2015 that the Peroz coin in my coin collection is overstruck on a copper coin of Shapur I, Merv mint: See Figures 9a and 9b on page 20 of his recent publication " Numismatic evidence and the date of Kanishka I " .

Nine gold discs were collected by Dr.Samuel Eilenberg. Eight discs have a portrait of a Kushan king, probably later than Huvishka, holding a bird-tipped scepter and wearing a cloak or coat closed by a single broach. One disc has a portrait of Silenos, teacher of Dionysus.

I've made a website for my children's book 'Jaya's Golden Necklace: a Silk Road Tale' at jayasgoldennecklace.com. You will find links to excellent websites & videos on the Silk Road, the Kushan Empire, early Buddhism and much more. I hope it's useful and enjoyable. The book is the story of a young girl's empowerment and the first book for children about the cultural roots of the Buddha image in the multicultural world of the Kushan Empire.