Mirza Ghalib (1797-1869), nobleman, wit, poet and literateur, was the last great literary figure produced by Mughal India. This biography has two main motifs - the poet's destiny and his creative work.
The Other Side of Terror
The Other Side of Terror brings together writings based on terrorism from India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. The volume addresses issues of wide interest: from the Maoist insurgency in Nepal and the Tamil militancy in Sri Lanka to the Indian manifestations ranging from the militant wing of the Independence movement to the various post-Independence terrorist movements, such as separatism in Kashmir, the insurgency in Assam, and the Naxalite movement in Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, and Madhya Pradesh....
A convincing argument for the modern significance of Sanskrit literature. Sanskrit texts have usually been discussed either within the frames of anthropology and religious studies or with a veneration that has substituted for analysis. Going beyond such approaches, Simona Sawhney argues that only a literary approach that resists the closure of interpretation can reveal the fragility, ambivalence, and tension that mark the canonical texts.
Material Devotion in a South Indian Poetic World (Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion)
by Dr Leah Elizabeth Comeau
Material Devotion in a South Indian Poetic World contributes new methods for the study and interpretation of material religion found within literary landscapes. The poets of Hindu devotion are known for their intimate celebration of deities, and while verses over a thousand years old are still treasured, translated, and performed, little attention has been paid to the evocative sensorial worlds referenced by these literary compositions. This book offers a material interpretation of an understudi...
Writing Indians and Jews: Metaphorics of Jewishness in South Asian Literature
by Anna Guttman
Indian English Novel: A Critical Casebook
by Ramendranath Datta and Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal
This book is a compilation of Faiz Ahmad Faiz's important English writings. Some of the articles spell out Faiz's well-known predilection for the progressive canons of literature. he could not conceive of art, literature, and culture without relating to the social, political and cultural tensions of the society they seek to portray. He has emphasized the relationship between super-structure and the scoio-politico-economic structure. One may not agree with him on certain points but the tone a...
Provocations
Contributed articles on the history and criticism, and aesthetics of Indic literature in English.
On the life and works of A.K. Ramanujan, b. 1929, Indian author.
R.K. Narayan (1906-2001) is one of the most influential and respected Indian writers. This book is a critical study of Narayan's novels of the common people, their aspirations and struggles, their pieties and rituals, their myths and superstitions. The fictional town of Malgudi in pre-industrial Southern India is the setting for these timeless stories. The book presents a holistic view of Malgudi and its people from multiple perspectives, such as social, cultural, religious, and economic. In Nar...