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The Bhagavad Gita by Gavin Flood 9780393912920
$22.60A devotional, literary and philosophical work of unsurpassed beauty and relevance, the universal themes of The Bhagavad Gita-life and death, war and peace and sacrifice-resonate in a West increasingly interested in Eastern religious experiences and the... -
The Village in the Jungle Leonard Woolf 9780907871293
RRP: $16.76$11.09This classic novel of colonial Ceylon (Sri Lanka), was first published in 1913 and is written by a prominent member of the Bloomsbury group, husband of Virginia Woolf. It reads as if Thomas Hardy had been born among the heat, scent, sensuality and... -
The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
RRP: $14.18$10.02'A landmark, bringing together a lifetime's work on Lewis Carroll by writer and mathematician Martin Gardner. He dazzles on Carroll's puzzles and games of logic and entertains on everything from Alice's influence on the Beat poet Jack Kerouac to... -
Shakespeare's Language by Frank Kermode
RRP: $14.18$10.02The true biography of Shakespeare - and the only one we really need to care about - is in the plays. Sir Frank Kermode, Britain's most distinguished literary critic, has been thinking about them all his life. This book is a distillation of that... -
The Flight of Love: A Messenger Poem of Medieval South India by Vedantedesika by Steven P. Hopkins 9780190495183
RRP: $118.68$94.53After a sleepless night spent longing for his absent wife Sita, Rama, god-prince and future king, surveyed his army camps on a clear autumn morning and spied a white goose playing in a pond of lotus flowers. Seeing this radiant creature who so resembled... -
Wisdom as a Way of Life: Theravada Buddhism Reimagined by Steven Collins
RRP: $38.70$30.04This 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... -
Redeeming the Kamasutra by Wendy Doniger
RRP: $23.85$18.02The Kamasutra, composed in the third century CE, is the world's most famous textbook of erotic love. There is nothing remotely like it even today, and for its time it was astonishingly sophisticated. Yet, it is all but ignored as a serious work in its... -
A Letter to a Hindu by Leo Tolstoy
RRP: $6.45$5.70Dated the 14th of December 1908, A Letter to a Hindu was a letter written by Leo Tolstoy to Tarak Nath Das, a Bengali revolutionary and scholar, in response to a request for support for India's separation from British rule, which argued that the Indian... -
Kamasutra by Vatsyayana Mallanaga 9780199539161
RRP: $12.89$9.17'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... -
Tamil: A Biography by David Shulman 9780674059924
RRP: $39.93$32.02Spoken by eighty million people in South Asia and a diaspora that stretches across the globe, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother tongue for so many speakers. David Shulman presents a... -
Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire Priyasha Mukhopadhyay 9780691257709
RRP: $45.15$38.83How ordinary forms of writing—including manuals, petitions, almanacs, and magazines—shaped the way colonial subjects understood their place in empire In Required Reading, Priyasha Mukhopadhyay offers a new and provocative history of reading that centers... -
Basti by Intizar Husain
RRP: $21.92$14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590175828Author Intizar HusainFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" by Norbert Schurer 9780826415752
$22.10Continuum Contemporaries give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed, and most influential novels of recent years. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been... -
The Quatrains of Omar Khayyam: Three Translations of the Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam 9780974566719
$18.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974566719Author Omar KhayyamFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Bardic PressPublisher Bardic PressWeight(grams) 318g -
Archaeology of Babel: The Colonial Foundation of the Humanities by Siraj Ahmed 9781503604025
RRP: $32.24$27.95For more than three decades, preeminent scholars in comparative literature and postcolonial studies have called for a return to philology as the indispensable basis of critical method in the humanities. Against such calls, this book argues that the... -
For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India by Anjali R. Arondekar
RRP: $27.08$23.70Anjali Arondekar considers the relationship between sexuality and the colonial archive by posing the following questions: Why does sexuality (still) seek its truth in the historical archive? What are the spatial and temporal logics that compel such a... -
V. S. Naipaul's Journeys: From Periphery to Center by Sanjay Krishnan
RRP: $38.70$30.04The author of more than thirty books of fiction and nonfiction and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, V. S. Naipaul (1932-2018) is one of the most acclaimed authors of the twentieth century. He is also one of the most controversial. Before settling... -
India's Forests, Real and Imagined: Writing the Modern Nation Alan Johnson 9781350353923
$37.86As they seek to explore evolving and conflicting ideas of nationhood and modernity, India’s writers have often chosen forests as the dramatic setting for stories of national identity. India’s Forests, Real and Imagined explores how these settings have... -
Jasmine on a String: A Survey of Women Writing English Fiction in India by Margaret Paul Joseph 9780199452484
RRP: $32.24$29.05Women novelists in India who 'use' English to write fiction are, increasingly, gaining international recognition for their work. Unfortunately, there is no extensive literary history of such writers, as there is of feminist writers in the West. Existing... -
Grey Areas: An Anthology of Contemporary Indian Fiction on Ageing by Ira Raja 9780195689587
RRP: $28.37$25.71This anthology broadly focuses on the question of ageing by bringing together an impressive range of stories and poems from across the Indian languages. It constructs a comprehensive collection of representational writings on ageing from contemporary... -
Exploring Caste and Sexuality in Indian English Writing: Outcast Subcultures by Lucky Issar 9781793651709
RRP: $113.52$99.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793651709Author Lucky IssarFormat HardbackPage Count 314Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books -
Untouchable Fictions: Literary Realism and the Crisis of Caste by Toral Jatin Gajarawala 9780823245246
$104.77Untouchable Fictions considers the crisis of literary realism- progressive, rural, regionalist, experimental- in order to derive a literary genealogy for the recent explosion of Dalit ("untouchable" caste) fiction. Drawing on a wide array of... -
Indian Feminist Ecocriticism by Douglas A. Vakoch 9781666908718
RRP: $104.49$91.67Following Francoise d'Eaubonne's creation of the term "ecofeminism" in 1974, scholars around the world have explored ways that the degradation of the environment and the subjugation of women are linked. In the nearly three decades since the... -
Final Frontiers: Science Fiction and Techno-Science in Non-Aligned India by Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee 9781789620283
$143.33This is the first book-length study of the relationship between science fiction, the techno-scientific policies of independent India, and the global non-aligned movement that emerged as a response to the Cold War and decolonization. Today, we see the... -
R. K. Narayan by John Thieme 9780719059261
RRP: $103.20$73.13R.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... -
The Making of Modern Hindi: Literary Authority in Colonial North India by Dr Sujata S. Mody 9780199489091
RRP: $51.59$46.99The Making of Modern Hindi examines the politics and processes of making Hindi modern at a formative moment in India's history, when British imperialism was at its peak, and anti-colonial sentiments were on the rise. It centers the figure of Mahavir... -
Kannagi Through the Ages: From the Epic to the Dravidian Movement by Prabha Rani
$129.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354355318Author Prabha RaniFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint Bloomsbury Academic IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury India -
American Literary Studies in Postmillennial India: Critical Perspectives by Sharada Chigurupati
RRP: $99.33$87.23American Literary Studies in Postmillennial India: Critical Perspectives is a collection of critical essays on Contemporary American Literature. This book is a classic and unique collection of critical essays on various topics such as Americanness,... -
Heroic Krsna: Friendship in Epic Mahabharata Kevin McGrath 9780674073333
$22.78Heroic Krsna is a portrait of a pre-Hindu and pre-classical figure of a superhuman hero who in time became the divinity Krsna, an incarnation of Visnu. This is a picture, drawn from the epic Mahabharata, of an archaic warrior who excelled as a... -
Religion And Rabindranath Tagore: Select Discourses, Addresses, and, Letters in Translation by Amiya P. Sen
RRP: $38.69$35.59This work focuses exclusively on Rabindranath Tagore's sermons/addresses and miscellaneous prose writings in Bengali. With a substantive introduction by Amiya P. Sen identifying various stages in the evolution of Tagore's religious thoughts, beginning... -
Document Raj: Writing and Scribes in Early Colonial South India Bhavani Raman 9780226703275
RRP: $58.05$55.74Historians of British colonial rule in India have noted both the place of military might and the imposition of new cultural categories in the making of Empire, but Bhavani Raman, in "Document Raj", uncovers a lesser-known story of power: the power of... -
Mobilizing Krishna's World: The Writings of Prince Savant Singh of Kishangarh by Heidi Pauwels
RRP: $32.24$31.14Savant 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... -
Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament: Perspectives on South Asia by Carol A. Breckenridge
RRP: $36.11$31.66In his extraordinarily influential book Orientalism, Edward Said argued that Western knowledge about the Orient in the Post-Enlightenment period has been "a systematic discourse by which Europe was able to manage-even produce-the Orient politically,... -
The Indian English Novel: Nation, History, and Narration by Priyamvada Gopal 9780199544370
$50.39The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. It is often... -
The Broken Spell: Indian Storytelling and the Romance Genre in Persian and Urdu by Pasha M. Khan 9780814345993
RRP: $42.51$41.03The Broken Spell: Indian Storytelling and the Romance Genre in Persian and Urdu is a monograph on the rise and fall in popularity of ""romances"" (qissah)-tales of wonder and magic told by storytellers at princely courts and in public... -
Sanskrit Poetry from Vidyakara's Treasury by Daniel H. H. Ingalls
RRP: $42.51$34.37In this rich collection of Sanskrit verse, the late Daniel Ingalls provides English readers with a wide variety of poetry from the vast anthology of an eleventh-century Buddhist scholar.Although the style of poetry presented here originated in royal... -
Mughal Arcadia: Persian Literature in an Indian Court by Sunil Sharma
RRP: $50.25$40.36At its height in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Mughal Empire was one of the largest empires in Eurasia, with territory extending over most of the Indian subcontinent and much of present-day Afghanistan. As part of the Persianate world that... -
Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India by Antoinette Burton 9780195144253
RRP: $45.78$32.83Dwelling in the Archives uses the writing of three 20th century Indian women to interrogate the status of the traditional archive, reading their memoirs, fictions, and histories as counter-narratives of colonial modernity. Janaki Majumdar was the... -
Empire and Poetic Voice: Cognitive and Cultural Studies of Literary Tradition and Colonialism by Patrick Colm Hogan 9780791459645
$33.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791459645Author Patrick Colm HoganFormat PaperbackPage Count 299Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Narratology and Ideology: Negotiating Context, Form, and Theory in Postcolonial Narratives by Divya Dwivedi 9780814213698
$72.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814213698Author Divya DwivediFormat HardbackPage Count 292Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 621g