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The Mahatma Misunderstood: The Politics and Forms of Literary Nationalism in India by Snehal Shingavi 9781783083299
RRP: £25.00£23.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783083299Author Snehal ShingaviFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem Press -
Globalization, Nationalism and the Text of `Kichaka-Vadha': The First English Translation of the Marathi Anticolonial Classic, with a Historical Analysis of Theatre in British India by Rakesh Herald Solomon 9781783082650
RRP: £70.00£67.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783082650Author Rakesh Herald SolomonFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g -
Philology and Criticism: A Guide to Mahabharata Textual Criticism by Vishwa Adluri 9781783085767
RRP: £120.00£115.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783085767Author Vishwa AdluriFormat HardbackPage Count 568Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g -
Global Migrancy and Diasporic Memory in the work of Salman Rushdie by Stephen J. Bell 9781793615893
RRP: £85.00£74.51Global Migrancy and Diasporic Memory in the Work of Salman Rushdie examines Salman Rushdie’s major works for the ways that they consistently affirm the power of memory to construct a concrete, rooted identity for characters and nation-states despite the... -
Multispecies Modernity: Disorderly Life in Postcolonial Literature by Sundhya Walther 9781771125208
£79.48Multispecies Modernity: Disorderly Life in Postcolonial Literature considers relationships between animals and humans in the iconic spaces of postcolonial India: the wild, the body, the home, and the city. Using a diverse range of texts, including... -
Diasporic Inquiries into South Asian Women's Narratives: Alien Domiciles by Shilpa Daithota Bhat 9781498591768
RRP: £85.00£74.51The South Asian women's diaspora engages in spatio-temporal interactions and power differentials in a variety of narratives, articulating agency, multiplicities of belonging and culturally integrative practices, highlighting homing paradigms. The sense... -
Secularism and the Crisis of Minority Identity in Postcolonial Literature by Roger McNamara 9781498548939
RRP: £85.00£74.51Secularism and the Crisis of Minority Identity in Postcolonial Literature examines how writers from religious and ethnic minority communities (Anglo-Indians, Burghers, Dalits, Muslims, and Parsis) in India and Sri Lanka engage secularism through novels,... -
Contemporary Women's Writing in India by Varun Gulati 9781498502108
RRP: £92.00£80.53The word doyennes signifies the various expressions of female, feminine, and feminist aspects of contemporary literature in India, through multiple theoretical frameworks. Contemporary Women's Writing in India is an edited collection dealing with a... -
Stri: Women in Epic Mahabharata by Kevin McGrath 9780674031982
RRP: £20.95£16.88This book is a study of heroic femininity as it appears in the epic Mahabharata, and focuses particularly on the roles of wife, daughter-in-law, and mother, on how these women speak and on the kinship groups and varying marital systems that surround them... -
Mobilizing Krishna's World: The Writings of Prince Savant Singh of Kishangarh by Heidi Pauwels 9780295742229
£102.55Savant Singh (1694-1764), the Rajput prince of Kishangarh-Rupnagar, is famous for commissioning beautiful works of miniature painting and composing devotional (bhakti) poetry to Krishna under the nom de plume Nagaridas. After his throne was usurped by... -
Imagining India in Modern China: Literary Decolonization and the Imperial Unconscious, 1895-1962 by Gal Gvili 9780231205702
RRP: £100.00£77.93Beginning in the late Qing era, Chinese writers and intellectuals looked to India in search of new literary possibilities and anticolonial solidarity. In their view, India and China shared both an illustrious past of cultural and religious exchange and a... -
Wisdom as a Way of Life: Theravada Buddhism Reimagined by Steven Collins 9780231197205
RRP: £117.00£90.93This wide-ranging and powerful book argues that Theravada Buddhism provides ways of thinking about the self that can reinvigorate the humanities and offer broader insights into how to learn and how to act. Steven Collins argues that Buddhist philosophy... -
Indian Satire in the Period of First Modernity by Monika Horstmann 9783447065375
RRP: £62.00£58.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447065375Author Monika HorstmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 386g -
Speaking of the Self: Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia by Anshu Malhotra 9780822359913
RRP: £22.99£20.01Many consider the autobiography to be a Western genre that represents the self as fully autonomous. The contributors to Speaking of the Self challenge this presumption by examining a wide range of women's autobiographical writing from South Asia... -
The Splendid Vision: Reading a Buddhist Sutra by Richard S. Cohen 9780231156691
RRP: £22.00£17.36Featuring the first-ever English translation of the "Splendid Vision Sutra," a sixth-century Indian Mahayana Buddhist scripture known for its rich ritual magic and worship of bodhisattva-goddesses, this volume explicates the text's cultural... -
The Splendid Vision: Reading a Buddhist Sutra by Richard S. Cohen 9780231156684
RRP: £80.00£61.89Featuring the first-ever English translation of the "Splendid Vision Sutra," a sixth-century Indian Mahayana Buddhist scripture known for its rich ritual magic and worship of bodhisattva-goddesses, this volume explicates the text's cultural... -
Beyond Desire: Sexuality in Modern Tamil Literature by Kiran Keshavamurthy 9780199467457
£29.22Moving away from a dominant cultural equation of love, desire, and intimacy with marriage, Beyond Desire offers a radical view that reinstates the body as an enduring symbol of desire. Drawing on the works of seven twentieth-century male Tamil writers... -
The Dancing Poet - Rabindranath Tagore and Modernity in Performance by Rimli Bhattacharya 9789382381983
RRP: £48.00£38.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382381983Author Rimli BhattacharyaFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 916gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 190mm *... -
Graphic Migrations: Precarity and Gender in India and the Diaspora by Kavita Daiya 9781439920244
RRP: £91.00£78.92In Graphic Migrations, Kavita Daiya provides a literary and cultural archive of refugee stories and experiences to respond to the question “What is created?” after decolonization and the 1947 Partition of India. She explores how stories of Partition... -
Terrorism, Insurgency and Indian-English Literature, 1830-1947 Alex Tickell (University of Portsmouth, UK) 9780415745697
RRP: £53.99£46.87In this ground-breaking interdisciplinary study of terrorism, insurgency and the literature of colonial India, Alex Tickell re-envisages the political aesthetics of empire. Organized around key crisis moments in the history of British colonial rule such... -
The Postsecular Imagination: Postcolonialism, Religion, and Literature by Manav Ratti 9780415480970
RRP: £130.00£112.11The Postsecular Imagination presents a rich, interdisciplinary study of postsecularism as an affirmational political possibility emerging through the potentials and limits of both secular and religious thought. While secularism and religion can foster... -
Baba Padmanji: Vernacular Christianity in Colonial India by Deepra Dandekar 9780367503901
RRP: £39.99£35.06Baba Padmanji (1831-1906) was celebrated as the pioneer of modern Marathi literature, whose works initiated progressive ideas in Marathi society. This book examines his life in the context of the larger social milieu of nineteenth-century western India... -
Baba Padmanji: Vernacular Christianity in Colonial India by Deepra Dandekar 9780367479671
RRP: £135.00£117.28Baba Padmanji (1831-1906) was celebrated as the pioneer of modern Marathi literature, whose works initiated progressive ideas in Marathi society. This book examines his life in the context of the larger social milieu of nineteenth-century western India... -
Indian Genre Fiction: Pasts and Future Histories by Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay 9780367479138
RRP: £39.99£35.06This volume maps the breadth and domain of genre literature in India across seven languages (Tamil, Urdu, Bangla, Hindi, Odia, Marathi and English) and nine genres for the first time. Over the last few decades, detective/crime fiction and especially... -
Foucault and the Kamasutra: The Courtesan, the Dandy, and the Birth of Ars Erotica as Theater in India by Sanjay K. Gautam 9780226348308
RRP: £104.00£99.11The Kamasutra is best known in the West for its scandalous celebration of unbridled sensuality. Yet, there is much, much more to it; embedded in the text is a vision of the city founded on art and aesthetic pleasure. In Foucault and the... -
Michael Ondaatje by Lee Spinks 9780719066320
RRP: £80.00£56.69Michael Ondaatje is the first comprehensive and fully up-to-date study of Ondaatje's entire oeuvre. Starting from Ondaatje's beginnings as a poet, this volume offers an intensive account of each of his major publications, including The Collected Works of... -
Indian Genre Fiction: Pasts and Future Histories by Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay 9781138559981
RRP: £135.00£117.68This volume maps the breadth and domain of genre literature in India across seven languages (Tamil, Urdu, Bangla, Hindi, Odia, Marathi and English) and nine genres for the first time. Over the last few decades, detective/crime fiction and especially... -
Kama's Flowers: Nature in Hindi Poetry and Criticism, 1885-1925 by Valerie Ritter 9781438435657
RRP: £72.27£63.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438435657Author Valerie RitterFormat HardbackPage Count 366Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Gender and Story in South India by Leela Prasad 9780791468715
RRP: £72.27£63.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791468715Author Leela PrasadFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Mystic Modernity: Tagore and Yeats by Ashim Dutta 9781032129341
RRP: £39.99£35.06This is a transnational and bilingual investigation of the cross-fertilisation of mystical religiosity and modern poetical imagination in the works of the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore and the Irish poet W. B. Yeats. The book demonstrates how their... -
Fictions of India: Narrative and Power Peter Morey 9780748611812
RRP: £31.00£25.65Fictions of India explores the relation of narrative technique to issues of power in the work of selected writers dealing with India. It examines the imperial context in which the writers operate and suggests how historical and ideological assumptions... -
Sanskrit Poetics in the Postcolonial Space: Beyond the Canon by Sreenath V.S. 9789356402720
£93.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356402720Author Sreenath V.S.Format HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Bloomsbury Academic IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury India -
Critical Discourse in Gujarati by Sitanshu Yashaschandra 9781138504790
RRP: £135.00£117.68This volume forms part of the Critical Discourses in South Asia series, which deals with schools, movements, and discursive practices in major South Asian languages. It offers crucial insights into the making of Gujarati literature and its critical... -
Postcolonial Indian City-Literature: Policy, Politics and Evolution by Dibyakusum Ray 9781032232911
RRP: £39.99£35.06How is the city represented through literature from the post-colonies? This book searches for an answer to this question, by keeping its focus on India—from after Independence to the millennia. How does the urban space and the literature depicting it... -
The Postcolonial Indian City: Literature, Policy, Politics and Evolution by Dibyakusum Ray 9780367763008
RRP: £135.00£117.28How is the city represented through literature from the post-colonies? This book looks for an answer to this question, by keeping its focus on India -from after Independence to the millennia. How does the urban space and the literature depicting it form... -
Assured Self, Restive Self: Encounters with Crisis by Prasanta Chakravarty 9789354359927
£93.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354359927Author Prasanta ChakravartyFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Bloomsbury Academic IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury India -
R. K. Narayan by John Thieme 9780719059278
RRP: £14.99£13.64R.K. Narayan's reputation as one of the founding figures of Indian writing in English is re-examined in this comprehensive study of his fiction, which offers detailed readings of all his novels. Arguing against views that have seen Narayan as a... -
Visamapadavyakhya: A Commentary on Bhattoji Diksita's Sabdakaustubha Attributed to Nagesabhatta by James W. Benson
RRP: £43.50£41.27The study of Sanskrit grammar is widely recognized as one of Indias great intellectual traditions. The most famous school of grammar was the one based on Pa?inis A??adhyayi, a work dating from perhaps the fifth or fourth century BC and consisting of... -
Kazi Nazrul Islam's Journalism: A Critique by Arka Deb
£93.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356400085Author Arka DebFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Bloomsbury IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury India -
Reclaiming the Disabled Subject: Representing Disability in Short Fiction (Volume 1) by Someshwar Sati
£100.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354353352Author Someshwar SatiFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Bloomsbury Academic IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury India