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1	Originality and Imitation: Indianness in the Novels of Kamala Markanday more books like this by Rochelle Almeida add to wishlist "This critical study of the work of Kamala Markandaya is a comprehensive assessment of her entire canonan output that spans ten novels produced over a period of three decades. With emphasis upon the presence or absence of the quality of Indianness in her fiction, this analysis examines those aspects of her writing that reflect dependence upon ... see all copies from $9.95! new only from $15.76! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Forster's a Passage to India more books like this by Norma Ostrander add to wishlist This novel puts colonialism under the microscope and examines racism in India during the period of English colonization. Forster gives us a tale of a rare friendship and the delicate threads that keep it alive - or allow it to fall apart. This concise supplement to E.M. Forster's "A Passage to India" helps students understand the overall ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.44! \| SVS
3	After Empire: Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie more books like this by Michael Gorra add to wishlist This study explores the ways in which three novelists of empire - Paul Scott, V.S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie - have charted the perpetually drawn and perpetually blurred boundaries of identity in the wake of British imperialism. Arguing against a model of cultural identity based on race, Gorra begins with Scott's portrait, in "The Raj Quartet", ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.25! \| SVS
4	E.M. Forster's a Passage to India: A Sourcebook more books like this by Professor Peter Childs (Editor) add to wishlist This sourcebook introduces both the novel and key issues surrounding it. It will prove invaluable for students. Key features include: a contextual and biographical overview and a chronology of important dates contemporary reviews key extracts from Forster's essays, books and articles a summary of the work's critical history recent essays by ... see all copies from $26.93! new only from $26.93! \| SVS
5	Fictions of India: Narrative and Power more books like this by Peter Morey add to wishlist Fictions 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 and anxieties may be read into the texts they produce. The study combines aspects of colonial and ... see all copies from $15.98! new only from $26.65!
6	War of No Pity: The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma more books like this by Christopher Herbert add to wishlist On May 11, 1857, Hindu and Muslim sepoys massacred British residents and native Christians in Delhi, setting off both the whirlwind of similar violence that engulfed Bengal in the following months and an answering wave of rhetorical violence in Britain, where the uprising against British rule in India was often portrayed as a clash of civilization ... see all copies from $32.14! new only from $32.14!
7	In Their Own Words: British Women Writers and India 1740-1857 more books like this by Rosemary Raza add to wishlist The book analyses the growth in British women's published works about India before 1857 and uses it as the basis for an examination of various aspects of their role in India. The corpus of the work comprises of some 80 authors many of the texts were previously unknown and very few had been subjected to academic study. They extend far beyond travel ... see all copies from $18.60! new only from $18.60! \| first editions \| SVS
8	A Passage to India: Nation and Narration more books like this by Judith Scherer Herz add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.95! \| first editions
9	Vikram Seth's Suitable Boy more books like this by Angela Atkins, Angale Atkins add to wishlist The "Continuum Contemporaries" series is designed to be a source of ideas and inspiration for members of book clubs and reading groups, as well as for literature students at school, college and university. The series aims to give readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels ... see all copies from $4.88! new only from $5.99! \| SVS
10	After the Raj: British Novels of India Since 1947 more books like this by Professor David Rubin add to wishlist see all copies from $10.00! new only from $15.75! \| first editions \| SVS
11	On Writing and the Novel: Essays more books like this by Paul Scott, Shelley C. Reece (Editor) add to wishlist Delightful, witty, and revealing essays about the art of writing fiction by the heralded British author of The Raj Quartet. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| first editions
12	Secularism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel: National and Cosmopolitan Narratives in English more books like this by Neelam Francesca Rash Srivastava add to wishlist This study explores the connections between a secular Indian nation and fiction in English by a number of postcolonial Indian writers of the 1980s and 90s. Examining writers such as Vikram Seth, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, Shashi Tharoor, and Rohinton Mistry, with particularly close readings of "Midnight's Children", "A Suitable Boy", "The ... see all copies from $99.67! new only from $99.67!
13	English Writing and India, 1600-1920: Colonizing Aesthetics more books like this by K Nayar Pramod, Pramod K Nayar add to wishlist This book explores the formations and configurations of British colonial discourse on India through a reading of prose narratives of the 1600-1920 period. Arguing that colonial discourse often relied on aesthetic devices in order to describe and assert a degree of narrative control over Indian landscape, Pramod Nayar demonstrates how aesthetics ... see all copies from $103.33! new only from $103.33!
14	New Readings in the Literature of British India, C.1780-1947 more books like this by Shafquat Towheed (Editor), Koray Melikoglu (Editor) add to wishlist The 12 contributions to this book amply demonstrate the richness, vitality, and complexity of the multifaceted literary and cultural traffic between Britain and India in the colonial period. see all copies from $36.95! new only from $47.75! \| SVS
15	Exotic--Decadent Quest: A Decadent Quest more books like this by Dorothy Matilda Figueira add to wishlist see all copies from $3.99! new only from $19.91!
16	E. M. Forster's Passages to India more books like this by Robin J. Lewis add to wishlist see all copies from $2.54! first editions
17 view cover	E.M. Forster's a Passage to India more books like this by Kim Welsch, E M Forster add to wishlist - Presents the most important 20th century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature - The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism - Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index - Introductory essay by Harold Bloom see all copies from $10.95! new only from $14.68!
18 view cover	R.K. Narayan : a critical appreciation more books like this by William Walsh add to wishlist The much praised Indian novelist R.K. Narayan has to date written eleven novels, several collections of short stories, three volumes of retold legends and an autobiographical book. It is this canon of work which William Walsh weighs and evaluates. Narayan's place in literature AND THE INFLUENCE AND EVENTS WHICH HAVE SHAPED HIS LIFE ARE discussed ... see all copies from $3.00! first editions \| SVS
19	Out of India: Image of the West in Hindi Literature more books like this by Danuta Stasik add to wishlist Study based on the people from India immigrant in England, United States, and Canada. see all copies from $13.99! new only from $13.99!
20 view cover	Vrndavana in Vaisnava literature : history, mythology, symbolism more books like this by Maura Corcoran, Vrindaban Research Institute add to wishlist This book explores the essential nature of Vrndavan, analysing various Vaishnava texts, devotional and commentatirial. It identifies a notionless sequence of ideas connected with Vrndavan. The description of a magical and spiritual place. see all copies from $20.91! new only from $20.91! \| first editions
21	Vikram Seth's a Suitable Boy: Search for an Indian Identity more books like this by Shyam S. Agarwalla add to wishlist see all copies from $7.19! new only from $8.95!
22	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala more books like this by Ralph J Crane add to wishlist To view a society as both outsider and insider - this is the rare quality infusing the fiction of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Forced at age 12 to flee her native Germany to escape Nazi persecution, Jhabvala settled in England, later married an Indian architect and spent the next quarter-century in India, and still later relocated to the United States. ... see all copies from $3.21! new only from $38.92!
23 view cover	R. K. Narayan more books like this by Geoffrey R Kain (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $28.76! new only from $28.77! \| SVS
24	The Novels of Arun Joshi more books like this by R. K. Dhawan add to wishlist see all copies from $13.27! new only from $13.27!
25	Chronicles of the Raj: A Study of Literary Reaction to the Imperial Idea Towards the End of the Raj more books like this add to wishlist see all copies from $18.00! first editions

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