On the postindependence Indian writing in English and representation of British rule and England in it; a study.
Hybridity and Post Colonial 20th Century Indian Literature
by Monika Fludernik
With a backdrop of religious violence and escalating regional tensions in South Asia, Priya Kumar’s Limiting Secularism probes the urgent topic of secularism and tolerance in Indian culture and life. Kumar explores Partition as the founding trauma of the Indian nation-state and traces the consequences of its marking off of “Indian” from “Pakistani” and the positioning of Indian Muslims as strangers within the nation. Kumar unpacks the implications of the Nehruvian doctrine of tolerance-with...
The Fiction of Nationality in an Era of Transnationalism (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)
by Nyla Ali Khan
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The book traces the development of British Indian literature from the early days of the 19th century through the Victorian period. Previously unstudied poems and essays drawn from the thriving periodicals culture of British India are examined alongside novels and travel-writing by authors including Emma Roberts, Philip Meadows Taylor and Rudyard Kipling. Key events and concerns of Victorian India - the legacy of the Hastings impeachment, the Indian 'Mutiny', the sati controversy, the rise of Ben...
'When the wheel of sexual ecstasy is in full motion, there is no textbook at all, and no order.' The Kamasutra is the oldest extant Hindu textbook of erotic love. It is about the art of living - about finding a partner, maintaining power in a marriage, committing adultery, living as or with a courtesan, using drugs - and also about the positions in sexual intercourse. It was composed in Sanskrit, the literary language of ancient India, sometime in the third century CE. It combines an encyclopaed...
The book explores the religious imagination of the old Vijaynagar empire by investigating the culture of bhakti and the visionary experiences of bhakti saints.
In an ocean where myriads of rivers converge, can one sole river lend the ocean its distinct flavour? For someone who is at home with several languages, literary traditions, and disciplines, is it possible for one form to criss-cross the landscape of another? In a poet's world of mirrors, where stream and earth are sky, one may 'sometimes count every orange on a tree', but can one count 'all the trees in a single orange'? In this volume, Guillermo Rodriguez explores these possibilities by anal...
Indian English Literature: A Critical Casebook
by Ramendranath Datta, Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal, and Kanwar Dinesh Singh
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Indian English Literature: A Critical Casebook (Low-price Edition)
by Ramendranath Datta, Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal, and Kanwar Dinesh Singh
The Gopal-Rakhal Dialectic - Colonialism and Children`s Literature in Bengal
by Sibaji Bandyopadhyay, Rani Ray, and Nivedita Sen
Literature for children is a distinctive achievement of the Bengali language. In it, we get numerous illustrations of primers that are meant to initiate reading and writing among children, poems and nursery rhymes, fables and fairy tales, prose pieces and stories, plays and novels, all of which are unique in their style and content, exceptional in their taste and flavor. Innumerable books have been produced, countless magazines have been printed and the annual Puja compilations have been put tog...
Mulk Raj Anand is one of the few Indian writers to have conversed extensively with the Bloomsbury Group. This book is a record of his lively talks with writers of that group.
The Tubingen Tulu Manuscript (Neuindische Studien, #17)
by Heidrun Bruckner and Viveka Rai