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The definitive English translation of the classic Sanskrit epic poem-now available in a one-volume paperbackThe Ramayana of Valmiki, the monumental Sanskrit epic of the life of Rama, ideal man and incarnation of the great god Visnu, has profoundly...

'An indispensable companion for all interested in yoga, both scholars and practitioners' Professor Alexis G. J. S. SandersonDespite yoga's huge global popularity, relatively little of its roots is known among practitioners. This compendium includes a...

This selection of poetry and prose by Ghalib provides an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the preeminent Urdu poet of the nineteenth century. Ghalib's poems, especially his ghazals, remain beloved throughout South Asia for their arresting...

Rabindranath Tagore published his first volume of poetry at the age of thirteen. He went on to become a towering figure in Bengali and world literature.Tagore was remarkably productive over his long life; his complete works fill 32 large volumes and...

'Gloriously provocative... female sexuality within a patriarchal world is Chughtai's central concern' Kamila Shamsie, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018, from the introduction Lifting the Veil is a bold and irreverent collection of writing from...

From one of India's finest writers, thinkers and commentators, a memoir of a love affair with cricket. As a fan, player, writer, scholar, controversialist and administrator, Ram Guha has spent a life with cricket. In this book, Guha...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789386702166Author Ralph RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Speaking Tiger BooksPublisher Speaking Tiger BooksWeight(grams) 422g

From one of India's finest writers, thinkers and commentators, a memoir of a love affair with cricket. As a fan, player, writer, scholar, controversialist and administrator, Ramachandra Guha has spent a life with cricket. In this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590173794Author KabirFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 200mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143448990Author Ray SatyajitFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 200mm * 130mm * 20mm

One of India's greatest epics, the Ramayana pervades the country's moral and cultural consciousness. For generations it has served as a bedtime story for Indian children, while at the same time engaging the interest of philosophers and theologians...

Karahee from the Cane Fields: Writing from the Coolie Diaspora unifies the literature and culture of the global South Asian Labor Diaspora and how writers live within this identity. From the history of indenture in the 1830s to the 1920s, this racialized...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356404120Author Ritwick BhattacharjeeFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Bloomsbury Academic IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury India

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

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...

The Kathasaritsagara is a combination of simultaneously innocent and sophisticated folk stories bringing forth both common sense and highly sophisticated Sanskrit writing. It paints a vivid picture of a most particular part of India at one moment in...

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 Kathasaritsagara is a combination of simultaneously innocent and sophisticated folk stories bringing forth both common sense and highly sophisticated Sanskrit writing. It paints a vivid picture of a most particular part of India at one moment in...

The first English translation of these tales, some written in prison, provides new insights into contemporary Indian culture as well as Yashpal's own fascinating life.Book InformationISBN 9780812276015Author Corinne FriendFormat HardbackPage Count...

Gaban, first published in 1931, five years before Premchand's death, gives us a fascinating glimpse of north Indian society, and especially of the author's own Kayasth community. But this novel also serves to put forth his own deeply-held views of the...

The latest book in the acclaimed series of literary travel guides brings together a delightful sampling of short fiction from one of the world's most diverse, multicultural, and storied civilizations. India: A Traveler's Literary Companion features 14...

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...

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...

The Making of Indian English Literature brings together seventeen well-researched essays of Subhendu Mund with a long introduction by the author historicising the development of the Indian writing in English while exploring its identity among the many...

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...

The Gadayuddham (The Duel of the Maces) is a kavya (poetry) composed in classical Kannada literary style at the turn of the eleventh century. It is written in campu, 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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789393715814Author Nikhil GovindFormat HardbackPage Count 172Imprint Bloomsbury Academic IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury India

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354356841Author Susan VisvanathanFormat HardbackPage Count 330Imprint Bloomsbury Academic IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury IndiaWeight(grams) 520gDimensions(mm)...

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...

The greatest classic of Sindhi literature presented here in an authoritative and vivid modern English translation.Shah Abdul Latif's Risalo is acknowledged across Pakistan and the wider diaspora as the greatest classic of Sindhi literature. In this...

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 stories collected in this volume reflect the rich tradition of medieval Jain storytelling between the seventh and fifteenth centuries, from simple folk tales and lives of famous monks to sophisticated narratives of rebirth. They describe they ways in...

A richly diverse collection of classical Indian terms for expressing the many moods and subtleties of emotional experienceWords for the Heart is a captivating treasury of emotion terms drawn from some of India's earliest classical languages. Inspired by...

The finest ghazals of Mir Taqi Mir, the most accomplished of Urdu poets.The prolific Mir Taqi Mir (1723-1810), widely regarded as the most accomplished poet in Urdu, composed his ghazals-a poetic form of rhyming couplets-in a distinctive Indian style...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358520286Author Pandit Gauri DuttPage Count 438Imprint Primus BooksPublisher Primus Books

"John Stratton Hawley miraculously manages to braid the charged erotic and divine qualities of Krishna, the many-named god, while introducing us-with subtle occasional rhyme-to a vividly particularized world of prayers and crocodile earrings, spiritual...

A richly diverse collection of classical Indian terms for expressing the many moods and subtleties of emotional experienceWords for the Heart is a captivating treasury of emotion terms drawn from some of India's earliest classical languages. Inspired by...