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1	Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the Present, V: 600 B.C. to the Early Twentieth Century more books like this by Susie J Tharu (Editor), K Lalita (Editor) add to wishlist These ground-breaking collections offer 200 texts from 11 languages, never before available in English or as a collection, along with a new reading of cultural history that draws on contemporary scholarship on women and on India. This extraordinary body of literature and important documentary resource illuminates the lives of Indian women through ... see all copies from $4.75! new only from $30.47! \| first editions
2	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
3	My Days more books like this by R K Narayan add to wishlist Narayan's wry sense of humor, coupled with compassion for his fellow creatures, is as evident in this entertaining memoir as in his fiction. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.94! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Elementary Persian Grammar more books like this by L P Elwell-Sutton add to wishlist Mr Elwell-Sutton's book provides a simple grammatical framework for contemporary written Persian. It is based on the characteristic idiom and phraseology of the language as it is used in newspapers, magazines and novels. The student is introduced to Persian script from the first lesson. Words are fully vocalized in the early lessons, but vowels ... see all copies from $25.00! new only from $38.31! \| SVS
5	The illustrated history of Indian literature in English more books like this by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (Editor) add to wishlist This illustrated history, with essays by eminent scholars, surveys English literature in India from the 1800s to the 1900s, covering not only what is considered literature proper but also other genres such as polemical, anthropological and wildlife writings. see all copies from $19.95! new only from $19.95! \| first editions
6	The Book of Love: The Story of the Kamasutra more books like this by James McConnachie add to wishlist An engaging, enlightening "biography" of the ancient Hindu manuscript that has become the world's most famous sex manual. This work tells the full story of the "Kamasutra" and explores how a way of looking at the world has come to be cradled between book covers--and survived. see all copies from $3.98! new only from $9.29! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Jataka or Stories of the Buddha's Former Births, Set more books like this by E. B. Cowell add to wishlist Jataka stories or birth-legends were widely known in the third century B.C. Each Story, narrated by the Buddha, opens with a preface relating the particular circumstances in the Buddha's life, revealing some events in the long series of his previous existence as a bodhisattva. These stories magnify the glory of the Buddha and illustrate Buddhist ... see all copies from $55.57! new only from $55.57!
8	Another Asia: Rabindranath Tagore and Okakura Tenshin more books like this by Rustom Bharucha add to wishlist Set against a panoramic background of inter-Asian cultural politics, and drawing on the intersections of the late Meiji period in Japan and the Swadeshi movement in Bengal, Another Asia elaborates on the ideals of Asia catalyzed by the meeting of Rabindranath Tagore and the Japanese art historian and curator Okakura Tenshin in Calcutta in 1902. ... see all copies from $17.60! new only from $18.20! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Modern Indian Poetry in English more books like this by Bruce King add to wishlist 'Bruce King maps uncharted territory,...provides ideas toward a poetics of Indian poetry in English, analyses poets in dialectical sets, summarizes poetic obsessions...King surveys, judges, informs, and provokes.' - Peter Nazareth, World Literature Today '...a significant book...King provides us with a detailed history of publication of poetry in ... see all copies from $11.15! new only from $13.65! \| first editions
10	Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India more books like this by Antoinette M Burton add to wishlist Dwelling 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 daughter of the first president of the Indian National Congress. Her unpublished "Family History" ... see all copies from $7.95! new only from $9.00! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Three Indian Poets: Ezekiel, Moraes, and Ramanujan more books like this by Bruce King add to wishlist 'Once in a way, one comes across a publication which stops at nothing short of excellence...it is a brilliantly crafted book...Expertly analysed and meticulously researched, this critique is impartial and balanced.' - "Indian Express Sunday Magazine". 'King organizes his discussion in a straightforward manner, opening with an introduction that ... see all copies from $6.61! new only from $13.75!
12	The Nation Across the World: Postcolonial Literary Representations more books like this by Harish Trivedi (Editor), Meenakshi Mukherjee (Editor), C Vijayasree (Editor) add to wishlist The Nation Across the World examines the present state of the 'nation' in various political and cultural formations right around the world - from Fiji, Singapore, and Trinidad to Australia, India, Sri Lanka, Great Britain, Spain, and the USA. The issues explored include empire, colony, race, resistance, liberation, national identity, migration, ... see all copies from $15.26! new only from $19.20! \| first editions
13 view cover	Rabindranath Tagore: A Biographical Study more books like this by Ernest Rhys add to wishlist CONTENTS Preface The Unknown Poet Boy and Man Some Indian Poets "The Gardener" Rabindranath Tagore's Short Stories The Babe's Paradise The Playwright "Gitanjali" and Chaitanya Deva A Spiritual Commonwealth A Book of Meditations Shanti Niketan Conclusion see all copies from $6.00! new only from $17.81! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Law Code of Manu more books like this by Patrick Olivelle (Translator) add to wishlist 'Manu was seated, when the great seers came up to him: "Please, Lord, tell us the Laws of all the social classes, as well as of those born in between..."' The Law Code of Manu is the most authoritative and the best-known legal text of ancient India. Famous for two thousand years it still generates controversy, with Manu's verses being cited in ... see all copies from $3.19! new only from $5.99! \| SVS
15 view cover	The Perishable Empire: Essays on Indian Writing in English more books like this by Meenakshi Mukherjee add to wishlist This text aims to provide a new perspective on Indian writing in English by researching its 19th-century origins and seeing its subsequent development in relation to other Indian language literatures. studies. see all copies from $7.00! new only from $9.64! \| first editions
16 view cover	God of Desire: Tales of Kamadeva in Sanskrit Story Literature more books like this by Catherine Benton (Editor) add to wishlist God of Desire presents Sanskrit tales of the Indian deity Kā madeva as he battles the ascetic god Ś iva, assists the powerful goddess Devi, and incarnates as the charming son of Krsna. Exploring the imagery and symbolism of the god of desire in art and ritual, Catherine Benton reflects on the connection of Kā madeva to parrots ... see all copies from $20.95! new only from $20.95! \| SVS
17 view cover	Landour Days: A Writer's Journal more books like this by Ruskin Bond add to wishlist see all copies from $5.00! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	A Wilderness of Possibilities: Urdu Studies in Transnational Perspective more books like this by Kathryn Hansen (Editor), David Lelyveld (Editor) add to wishlist Over the past forty years the study of Urdu literature has played a dynamic role in contemporary discourses on culture and history, reaching out to a far-flung international community of scholars. The ten essays in this volume, assembled for Professor C. M. Naim, a pioneer of Urdu studies in the United States, exemplify the changing place of Urdu ... see all copies from $14.00! new only from $15.70! \| first editions
19	Inside India more books like this by Halide Edib, Mushirul Hasan (Editor) add to wishlist First published in 1937, this magisterial account of India in the 1930s contains the impressions and thoughts of Halide Edib, a Turkish writer who is not interested in imagining, inscribing or inventing India, but rather in documenting its multifaceted personality. Edib's idea of India is firmly anchored in the historical and sociological insights ... see all copies from $8.80! new only from $11.26! \| SVS
20 view cover	Martyr as Bridegroom more books like this by Ishwar Dayal Gaur, I D Gaur add to wishlist "Martyr As Bridegroom: A Folk Representation of Bhagat Singh" seeks to understand the manner in which Punjabis have constructed the image of Bhagat Singh in their art and culture. see all copies from $17.79! new only from $18.35! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Away: The Indian Writer as an Expatriate more books like this by Amitava Kumar (Editor) add to wishlist Away brings together great writing by figures from South Asia who give voice to the experience of the exile and the emigrant. R.K. Narayan writes of his first visit to America. Rabindranath Tagore, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, writes of his first trip by airplane. Salman Rushdle's fictional hero Gabreel Farishta turns London into a ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $28.46!
22 view cover	The Collected Essays of A. K. Ramanujan more books like this by A K Ramanujan, Vinay Dharwadker (Editor) add to wishlist Poet, translator, folklorist, A.K. Ramanujan has been recognized as the world's most profound scholar of South Asian language and culture. This book brings together 30 essays on literature and culture written by him over a period of four decades. The volume also contains notes on each essay as well as a chronology of Ramanujan's books and essays. see all copies from $139.00! new only from $186.06!
23 view cover	Mahadevi Varma and the Chhayavad Age of Modern Hindi Poetry more books like this by Karine Schomer add to wishlist Mahadevi Varma was one of the leading poets of the romantic movement in Hindi poetry during the 1920s and 1930s, known as the Chhayavad phase. Besides being a poet, she was a writer of prose sketches, a translator of Sanskrit, and a literary theorist. This study combines intellectual history, biography and literary criticism, presenting the poet ... see all copies from $2.05! new only from $6.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Indo-Aryan Languages more books like this by Colin P Masica add to wishlist In his ambitious survey of the Indo-Aryan languages, Colin Masica has provided a fundamental introduction which will interest not only general and theoretical linguists but also students of one or more of these languages who want to acquaint themselves with the broader linguistic context. Generally synchronic in approach, concentrating on the ... see all copies from $63.00! new only from $75.70! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Same-Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History more books like this by Ruth Vanita (Editor), Saleem Kidwai (Editor) add to wishlist "Same-Sex Love in India" presents an array of writings on same-sex love from over 2000 years of Indian literature. Translated from more than a dozen languages and drawn from Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, and modern fictional traditions, these writings testify to the presence of same- sex love in various forms since ancient times, without overt ... see all copies from $13.53! new only from $35.62! \| first editions \| SVS

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