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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783088638Author Mary Ellis GibsonFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 153mm *...

As stories of Indian dance's renaissance span almost a full century, there has emerged a globally dispersed community of Indian dancers, scholars and audiences who are deeply committed to keeping these traditions alive and experimenting with traditional...

The book deals with the long and rich scholarship on India in France since the beginning of 19th Century, with particular reference to the work of Louis Dumont. It considers the works of scholars and the essayists, poets, or esotericists who published on...

Radice, himself a recognized English poet and erudite scholar, delved into the deeper meaning of Tagore’s poems and songs, and discussed his ideas on education and the environment with an insight probably no other Westerner has. He also translated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356400238Author YaminiFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Bloomsbury Academic IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury India

The Buffalo Century is a keen exploration of satire and its role in society and politics. Written in praise of a buffalo, Vanchesvara Diksita's Mahisasatakam is timeless in its treatment of power, and its subversion. In resurrecting eighteenth-century...

This book examines the theory of consciousness developed by the school of Recognition, an Indian philosophical tradition that thrived around the tenth c. CE in Kashmir, and argues that consciousness has a linguistic nature. It situates the doctrines of...

First published in 1909, this book presents an English translation of chapters 25-42 of the Bhishma Parva from the epic Sanskrit poem Mahabharata — better known as the Bhagavad-Gita, reckoned as one of the "Five Jewels" of Devanagari literature. The plot...

This book is the English version of Chandi Purana, written in Odia by Sarala Das. Indigenous and secular, the Chandi Purana is a shastra for laymen, a bold step towards fulfilling their right to knowledge. Based on the legend of Durga's incarnation of...

The Gadāyuddham (The Duel of the Maces) is a kāvya (poetry) composed in classical Kannada literary style at the turn of the eleventh century. It is written in campū, a genre that developed in the tenth century as a mixture of poetry and prose. Ranna’s...

This is the fourth volume of a translation of India's most beloved and influential epic tale--the Ramayana of Valmiki. As befits its position at the center of the work, Volume IV presents the hero Rama at the turning point of his fortunes. Having...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356400184Author Margaret L. PachuauFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Bloomsbury IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury India

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789393715814Author Nikhil GovindFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Bloomsbury IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury IndiaWeight(grams) 135g

Śivakōṭyācārya’s Vaḍḍārādhane (Veneration to the Elders) is the earliest extant prose work in Kannada language written by Śivakōṭyācārya during 940 CE. This classical text reflects the oral tradition of narrating stories of legendary religious ascetics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354356841Author Susan VisvanathanFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Bloomsbury Academic IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury IndiaWeight(grams) 135g

The book deals with the long and rich scholarship on India in France since the beginning of 19th Century, with particular reference to the work of Louis Dumont. It considers the works of scholars and the essayists, poets, or esotericists who published...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789389165616Author Rita KothariFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Bloomsbury Academic IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury India

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. What are the pleasures of reading translations of South Asian literature, and what does it take to enjoy a translated text? This volume provides opportunities to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356404182Author Debashish BanerjiFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Bloomsbury Academic IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury India

This book is the English version of Chandi Purana, written in Odia by Sarala Das. Indigenous and secular, the Chandi Purana is a shastra for laymen, a bold step towards fulfilling their right to knowledge.

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures refutes the Anglocentrism of much literary criticism of the global South by examining "Indian Literature" as a multilingual, dialogic, and plural space constituted by both continuities and divergences. In...