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The Book Review Literary Trust Launches its Translation Project:
Critical Editions of Three Texts from Another Age

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Saraswativijayam by Potheri Kunhambu (a dalit writer of the 19th century). Translated from the Malayalam by Dilip Menon, pp. 128,

An arrogant Brahmin landlord causes the "death" of his slave for the crime of singing a song in his presence. However, in the time of colonial law, traditional society cannot cover up its excesses. What is remarkable about Saraswativijayam is that though the novel is written by a lower caste, the protagonist is a Brahmin who undergoes a change of heart. Moreover, Kunhambu conceives of the Brahmin and untouchable as a dyad, neither can find salvation without moving out of the master-slave relation that traps them in an unequal and unending combat. This is a profound vision of the human condition.

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Kanyasulkam by Gurajada Venkata Appa Rao, a 19th century play. Translated from the Telugu by C. Vijayasree and T. Vijay Kumar, pp. 288,
Gurajada Appa Rao's Telugu play Kanyasulkam was first staged in Vizianagaram on August 13, 1892, and even now, after more than a century, it continues to be performed occasionally in different towns and cities of Andhra Pradesh.

Kanyasulkam deals not only with the evil practice of bride-price, but also with several other, and perhaps inter-related, social issues of the time child marriage, widow marriage, and the 'nautch question'. The playwright's intent is serious, but his essential dramatic mode is comedy. In creating both situational and verbal humour, the writer traverses the whole gamut - farce, slapstick, burlesque, parody and employs a range of comic devices-disguises, mimicry, charade. Through humour and levity Gurajada foregrounds an encounter between tradition and modernity that has not lost its relevance.

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On The Threshold: Songs of Chokhamela, a collection of 54 songs of the 14th century dalit poet. Translated from the Marathi by Rohini Mokashi-Punekar, pp. 96,

Chokhamela was a fourteenth century untouchable saint poet who belonged to the varkari tradition of Maharashtra. This tradition was one of the many sects that questioned orthodox Hinduism in the grat wave of bhakti that swept over medieval India. The varkaris worship the god Vitthal, another form of Krishna who himself is an avatar of Vishnu in Hindu mythology. The temple for Vitthal is built on the banks of the river Chandrabhaga in Pandharpur. The varkari tradition is a tradition of belief and worship that is still a living part of the Marathi speaking culture. Chokhamela's importance lies not only in the fact that he is one of the first, if not the very first, dalit writers of India. It is because his poetry records a peculiar dichotomy: his poignant awareness and questioning of his outcaste marginality, simultaneously coupled with a realization of vitthal's need and love for him, an untouchable, that it assumes significance.

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KAPALKUNDALA

Is set around the 1604-1605, when the Mughal state was still subduing the newly acquired province of Bengal, and it weaves together events that take place across two cultural worlds. The first is the caste Hindu worlds of the pilgrims, of Nabakumar, Kapalakundala, the kapalika and the adhikari, and it turns on questions on questions of love, marriage, womanly virtue, priestly and tantric ritual, on the codes and conventions of Hindu marriage, and the contrast between the householder's life and that of ascetic. Alongside the insular provincial world there is the world of Agra and the imperial court, which are the space of political expediency and sexual license, of wealth, power, cunning and worldly sophistication.


   

December, 2004
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Contents :
Girish Karnad
The Oxford Companion to Indian Theatre edited by Ananda Lal

Ananda Lal Theatre Beyond the Threshold: Colonialism, Nationalism and the Bengali Stage 1905-947 by Minoti Chatterjee

Gayatri D. Acharya
India: The Definitive Images (1858 to the Present) photo editor Prashant Panjiar
Partho Datta Conversations with Pandit Amarnath by Bindu chawla

Bharati Jagannathan MS: A Life in Music by T.J.S. George

Keshav Desiraju Great Masters of Carnatic Music 1930-1965 by Indira Menon

Kesavan Veluthat The Discovery of Ancient India: Early Archaeologists and the Beginning of Archaeology by Upinder Singh
Anuradha Chenoy Trauma And The Memory Of Politics by Jenny Edkins

Raja Menon Emerging India: Diplomacy, Democracy and the Bomb by Strobe Talbott
P.R. Chari The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy and the End of the Republic by Chalmers Johnson

Nasir Tyabji

Locked in Place: State Building and Late Industrialization in India by Vivek Chibber

A.G. Krishna Menon Urbanization in India: Sociological Contributions edited by Ranvinder Singh Sandhu
Ramaswamy R. Iyer The Rule of Water: Statecraft, Ecology and Collective Action in South India by David Mosse with assistance from M. Sivan

Sudhirendra Sharma Managing Water Scarcity: Experiences & Prospects edited by A. Vaidyanathan & H.M. Oudshoom
Arjun Mahey British Satire: 1785-1840 edited by Nicholas Mason et. al

 

Eunice de Souza Moving On by Shashi Deshpande
Nalini Jain

Magic Seeds by V.S. Naipaul

Bunny Nuraiya Hello! Mister Tee! By Sudhir Thapliyal

Ashok Vajpeyi Mulkraj Anand: A Tribute

Subhoranjan Dasgupta

Narrating Partition by Suriti Paul Kumar

Tarun K. Saint Circle and Other Stories by Intizar Husain
Rohini Mokashi Punekar The Stepchild: Angaliyat by Joseph Macwan
Translated from the Gujarati by Rita Kothari
Mrinal Pande The Unheard Scream edited By Mohan Rao
Laxmi Murthy Taking Charge Of Our Bodies - A Health Handbook For Women by Veena Shatrugna, Gita Ramaswamy, Srividya Natrajan
Uma Das Gupta The Land Of The Naked People: Encounters With Stone Age Islanders by Madhusree Mukerjee
Amit Prakash Jharkhand: Environment, Development, Ethnicity by Stuart Corbridge, Sarah Jewitt And Sanjay Kumar
Divyabhanu Singh On Jim Corbett’s Trail And Other Tales From Tree Tops by A.j.t. Johnsingh

Valmik Thapar Elephas Maximus: A Portrait Of The Indian Elephant by Stephen Alter

November, 2004
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Contents :
Karuna Chanana
Fifty Years of Higher Education in India: the Role of the University Grants Commission by Amrik Singh; Higher Education in India (1781-2003) by Kuldip Kaur
Sayoni Basu Publish and Perish: The Marketing of Indian Children's Books in India
Mallika Menon and
Damini Butalia
Market Survey of Children's Literature
Arjun Mahey The Mahabharata: A Child's View (Part I & Ii) by Samhita Arni; The Golden Loaves by Rosa Vasseghi; Animals For Peace - Book One & Two by Kiser Barnes; The Light Of A Good Character Book One: A Teacher's Guide For Value Education Of Children's Ages 4-6; The Prayer To The Merciful For Little Ones; The Gardens Of Saba: Quran Stories For Little Hearts; Goodnight Stories From The Quran; Tell Me About The Prophet Mohammed by Saniyasnain Khan; The Butter Thief in The Krishna Tales; The Mountain Magic in The Krishna Tales; The Snake Fight in The Krishna Tales; The Elephant Head in The Ganesha Tales; Ganesha and the Moon in The Ganesha Tales; The Race in The Ganesha Tales retold by Sonali Pota. Illustrated by Gurmeet and F. Cooper
Barnita Bagchi The Armenian Champa Tree by Mahasweta Devi, translated by Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee; Our Non-Veg Cow and Other Stories by Mahasweta Devi, translated by Paramita Banerjee, introduction by Nabaneeta Dev Sen; 4 Heroes and a Green Beard by Narayan Gangopadhyay, translated by Swati Bhattacharji; The Colonel Investigates by Syed Mustafa Siraj, translated by Nivedita Sen.
Shobhana Bhattacharji The Opposite of Chocolate by Julie Bertagna; Boy 2 Girl by Terence Blacker; On the Seas of Troy by Caroline B.Cooney; The Gift Boat by Peter Dickinson. Illustrated by Ian Andrew; The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden; The Peacock Spring; Finding Cassie Crazy by Jaclyn Moriarty; Mouse Attack! by Manjula Padma; My Mum's from Planet Pluto by Gwyneth Rees; 101 Folktales from India by Eunice de Souza. Illustrations by Sujata Singh; Muddle Earth by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell; When Kambia Elaine Flew in from Neptune by Lori Aurelia Williams
Natasha Jog I'm Not Butter Chicken: And Other Stories for Teenagers by Paro Anand; The Mum Hunt by Gwyneth Rees; So Super Starry by Rose Wilkins; The Slightly True Story of Cedar B Hartley (who planned to live an unusual life) by Martine Murray; My Heartbeat: Two's Company, Three's Complicated by Garret Freymann-Weyr; Cannibals: It's a girl eat boy world by Cynthia D Grant; Friends 4ever by Kate Andrews.
Meera Visvanathan Stories from Kathasaritsagar by Devika Rangachari. Illustrated by Neeta Gangopadhyaya; 30 Teenage Stories Illustrated by Ankur Mitra; 5 Mystery Stories by Nilima Sinha. Illustrated by Subir Roy.
Myriam Rasiwala Wrestling Mania, a folktale from Punjab by Sandhya Rao. Illustrated by Srividya Natarajan; Sweet and Salty, a folktale from Andhra Pradesh; I am so Sleepy by Radhika Chadha. Art by Priya Kuriyan; The Very Hungry Lion by Gita Wolf. Illustrated by Indrapranit Roy; Catch That Crocodile! by Anushka Ravishankar. Illustrations by Pulak Biswas; The King and the Little Man, The Tale of the Talking Face by K. G. Subramanyan; The Third Race by Ashok Ahuja; Wingless - A Fairly Weird Fairy Tale by Paro Anand. Illustrated by Atanu Roy
Anupa Lal Give us a Goal: Football Poems, The Works 3: A Poet a Week chosen by Paul Cookson; Fairy Powers by Clare Bevan, Illustratted by Lara James; Don't Panic! 100 poems to save your life chosen by Fiona Waters; Spectacular Schools poems chosen by Paul Cookson. Illustrated by Yvonne Chambers and Maxwel Dorsey; How to Embarrass Grown-Ups poems chosen by Paul Cookson. Illustrated by David Parkins; Sardines and Other Poems by Stephen Knight; Only One of Me selected poems by James Berry; Overheard on a Salamander by Carol Ann Duffy; The Monster that Ate that Universe by Roger Stevens. Illustrated by Jane Eccles; A Little Night Music by Ruskin Bond.

Samina Mishra

A Short Walk Through Children's Books
Mitali Mishra Faridi Kisne Khai Maalpuve by Amit Pande. Illustrated by Manasi Mewari; Tales Never Told byJ oyeeta Duta Ray. Illustrated by Kanwardeep; A Present for Papa by Sharmila Kantha. Illustrated by Saurabh Pandey; Leaf Life, Babu: The Waiter, Ponni: The Flower Seller by Sirish Rao; Tails of Dilli by Bill Harvey. Illustrated by Mugdha Sethi; Scholastic Encyclopaedia of Animals by Laurence Pringle. Photographs by Norbert Wu; The Usborne Internet-linked First Encyclopedia of Seas and Oceans by Ben Denne. Illustrated by David Hancock. Designed by Nelupa Hussain & Helen Wood; The Computer in The How it Works Series by Rakesh Mohan Hallen. Design and Illustration by Ankur Mitra; The Walking Talking Vegetables by Rama Sundar; Sunshine for Amma, The Bravest Goat in the World, Little Chicken in a Hurry, The Flower's Song, Blowing Hot, Blowing Cold, The Poori that Ran Away by Zakir Husain. Translated by Samina Mishra Illustrated by Pooja Pottenkulam; Folk tales From Far and Near by Dorothy Fanthome and Daphne Chauhan; Excuse Me, is this India? By Anita Leutwiler and Anushka Ravishankar Kolaba A Marathi folktale retold by Sandhya Rao. Illustrated by Ranjan De; The Spectacular Spectacle Man by Vishakha Chanchani; Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye by Geronimo Stilton. Translated by Edizioni Piemme. Illustrated by Matt Wolf, Mark Nithael, Kat Stevens; T. Rex: The Dinosaur with the Stupid Smile by Helen Greathead. Illustrated by Mike Spoor; Look the Moon! by Sandhya Rao. Art by Trotsky Marudu; Give us a Goal: Football Poems chosen by Paul Cookson; When the Circus Came to Town by Polly Horvath; Mother Don't Be Afraid, My Silly Sister, Father and I by Rabindranath Tagore. Translated by Neeta Gangopadhyay; Oops! I Forgot!, Help! by Sumathi Sudhakar. Illustrated by Ashok Raj; I Show Respect! by David Parker. Illustrated by Gioia Fiammenghi; I Tell the Truth! by David Parker. Illustrated by Patti Goodnow; Bure din aur rupaiyyon ka ghadha, Shorba Khargosh ka wah Bhai wah!, by Kunti Ramdutt Balkaran. Illustrated by Suraj Lokre (in Hindi); Ram ki Kahaniyan by Vinita Krishna; Good Night Stories written and illustrated by Nimret Handa; Indian Tales and Folk Tales edited by Navin Menon. Illustrated by Surendra Suman; The Tiger and the Mosquito by Mrinalini Srivasatava; Kaun Bara translated by Alaka Shankar. Illustrated by Subir Roy; Kaun Bara by Mrinalini Srivasatava. Illustrated by Subir Roy; Parvat ki Pukar by Swarnlata Verma. Illustrated by Subir Roy; My Fun Book of Words & Pictures - 3Kanupriya. Illustrations Girija Singh; A Hairy Tale by Mamata Pandya; Hobby Time by Anitha Vasanth; The Ice-Cream Machine by Julie Bertagna. Illustrated by Chambers and Dorsey
Moneesha Sharma Volcanoes by Lily Wood; Science Quizzes, Puzzles & Games for Juniors by Vaishali Gupta. Illustrated by Suraj Lokare. India Quiz Book by Arundhati Deosthale and Daphne Chauhan. Illustrated by Suraj Lokare. Our States by Varsha Das; Inner Planets - More than 150 Facts by Biman Basu; My Book of Creative Writing by Deepa Agarwal; Sun - More than 150 Facts by Biman Basu; Mother Goose Math by Deborah Schecter. Illustrated by Maxie Chambliss; Comic Strip Math: Mini-Story Problems by Dan Greenberg; Easy Science Activity Journals by Mary Kay Carson. Illustrations by Patricia Wynne, Kathie Kelleher and Mike Moran; The Incredible Secret Formula Book by Shar Levine and Leslie Johnstone. Illustrated by John Manders.; Space by Ben Denne and Eileen O'Brien. Designed by Cristina Adami and Neil Francis. Additional designs by Catherine Mackinnnon. Illustrated by Andy Burton; Mathemagic by Raymond Blum. Illustrated by Jeff Sinclair; Make Fake Blood by Sandra Markle; Kids' Book of Gross Facts and Feats by Todd Strasser; Icons from the World of Science by S. Ananthanarayanan. Portraits by Sujata Bansal; 101 Amazing Things to do with your Computer; Mindstretch: Stories about Numbers, Maths, Puzzles and Games, by Debkumar Mitra.
Shantala Palat Inkheart by Cornelia Funke. Translated from the German by Anthea Bell. Cover illustration by Carol Lawson and inside illustration by Cornelia Funke.
Sunil D'Monte The Exploits of Prof. Shonku: The Diary of a Space Traveller; The Exploits of Prof. Shonku: The Unicorn Expedition and other Stories translated by Satyajit Ray and Gopa Majumdar. Illustrated by Agnatuk; The Cat Spirit by Karthika Chenthoor; The Speed of the Dark by Alex Shearer; The Tears of the Salamander by Peter Dickinson
Shaheen Choudhary Once in a House on Fire by Andrea Ashworth; The Story of Lala by Sergio Scapagnini. Translated from the Italian by Frederico Poole and illustrated by Amita Balachandran
Paro Anand Literature in Action - Putting Pain to Paper
Preeti Gill The Caterpillar Who Went on a Diet and Other Stories by Ranjit Lal. Illustrations by Rahul Datta; Rusty Goes to London by Ruskin Bond. Illustrations by Kallol Majumdar; Abol Tabol: The Nonsense World of Sukumar Ray illustrations by Sukumar Ray; Goopy Gyne Bhaga Byne: The Magical World of Upendrakishore Raychoudhury illustrations by Dipankar Bhattacharya; The Boy Who Became King by Arup Kumar Dutta. Illustrations by Viky Arya.
Sujit Thomas

Zombie Bums from Uranus by Andy Griffiths

Monisha Mukundan Current Show; Seasons of the Palm by Perumal Murugan. Translated from the Tamil by V. Geetha.
Shugato Das Gupta Flying High: Amazing Women and Their Success Stories edited by Anita Roy. Design and illustration by Shuka Jain; A to Z Problem Solver by Reena Daruwalla. Design and illustration by Anand Naorem
Deepa Agarwal Town

Books for Africa-Books for the World: The 29th IBBY Congress Cape
Sameer Thomas Sam Hawkins Pirate Detective and the Pointy Head Lighthouse by Ian Billings. Illustrated by Sarahy Nayler.
Vidur Butalia Dumb Creatures by Jeanne Willis. Illustrated by Nicola Slater
Ishaani Butalia Wrong Side of the Bed by Poojitha Prasad; Molly Moon Stops the World by Georgia Byng; Fairy Treasure by Gwyneth Rees.


October, 2004
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Contents :
Bidyut Chakrabarty
Gandhi, Bose, Nehru and the making of the modern Indian mind
by Reba Som
Atulindra Nath Chaturvedi Three Statesmen: Gokhale, Gandhi And Nehru by B.R. Nanda
Kanakalata Mukund Bullion for Goods - European and Indian Merchants in the Indian Ocean Trade 1500-1800 by Om Prakash
Peter J. Marshall Counterflows to Colonialism: Indian Travellers and Settlers in Britain 1600-1857 by Michael H. Fisher
Madhumita Roy The Trauma and the Triumph. Gender and Partition in Eastern India edited by Jasodhara Bagchi and Subhoranjan Dasgupta
Meena Bhargava Mobile and Marginalized Peoples, Perspectives from the Past edited by Rudolf C. Heredia and Shereen Ratnagar
Meena Radhakrishna Subordinate and Marginal Groups in Early India edited
by Aloka Parasher-Sen
Susan Visvanathan Kaleidoscopic Ethnicity: International Migration and the Reconstruction of Community Identities in India
by Prema A. Kurien
Rohini Mokashi Punekar The Stepchild: Angaliyat by Joseph Macwan
Translated from the Gujarati by Rita Kothari
Mrinal Pande The Unheard Scream edited By Mohan Rao
Laxmi Murthy Taking Charge Of Our Bodies - A Health Handbook For Women by Veena Shatrugna, Gita Ramaswamy, Srividya Natrajan
Uma Das Gupta The Land Of The Naked People: Encounters With Stone Age Islanders by Madhusree Mukerjee
Amit Prakash Jharkhand: Environment, Development, Ethnicity by Stuart Corbridge, Sarah Jewitt And Sanjay Kumar
Divyabhanu Singh On Jim Corbett’s Trail And Other Tales From Tree Tops by A.j.t. Johnsingh

Valmik Thapar Elephas Maximus: A Portrait Of The Indian Elephant by Stephen Alter

Gail Omvedt Multiple Marginalities: An Anthology of Dalit Writings edited by Badri Narayan and A.R. Misra; Towards an Aesthetic of Dalit Literature: History, Controversies and Considerations by Sharankumar Limbale. Translated from the Marathi by Alok Mukherjee; Journeys to Freedom: Dalit Narratives by Fernando Franco, Jyotsna Macwanand and Suguna Ramanathan
Surinder S. Jodhka Political Sociology of Dalit Assertion by Prakash Louis

Sudha Pai

Ambedkar Towards an Enlightened India by Gail Omvedt; Talisman Extreme Emotions of Dalit Liberation by Thirumaavalavan; Buffalo Nationalism A Critique of Spiritual Nationalism by Kancha Ilaiah
Seemanthini Niranjana From the land of a thousand hills: Portraits of three Kodagu women by Veena Poonacha
T.B. Subba The Kamar by S. C. Dube, with an introduction by Nandini Sundar
M.H. Ansari The End of Saddam Hussein: History Through the Eyes of the Victims by Prem Shankar Jha
Gulshan Dietl Iraq, Afghanistan and the Imperialism of Our Time
by Aijaz Ahmad
K.P. Fabian The Second Coming US War on Iraq 2003: An Indian Perspective edited by Sreedhar and S.N. Malakar
A.N.D. Haksar The 21st Century Ambassador: Plenipotentiary to Chief Executive by Kishan S. Rana; India in the Mirror of Foreign Diplomatic Archives edited by Max-Jean Zins and Gilles Boquérat
Prabhu Ghate Being Indian: The truth about why the twenty-first century will be India's by Pavan Varma
Amiya P. Sen

Siva in the Forest of Pines. An Essay on Sorcery and Self-knowledge by Don Handelman and David Shulman; A Treasury of Mystic Terms Part I (6 Vols.) edited and largely written by John Davidson with the help of an international team.

Bharati Jagannathan Singing the Body of God: The Hymns of Vedantadesika in their South Indian Tradition by Steven Paul Hopkins
M. Asaduddin The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Kalpish Ratna Transmission by Hari Kunzru
Paromita Chakravarti The Birth of the Maitreya by Bani Basu. Translated from the Bengali by Sipra Bhattacharya
Gayatri Rangachari Bergdorf Blondes by Plum Sykes
Sharon Pillai Afterwards by Jaishree Misra
Malavika Karlekar Into the High Ranges edited by Ravina Aggarwal; Footloose in the Himalaya by Bill Aitken; Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination by Robert Macfarlane; High Adventure: Our Ascent of the Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary; Trekking in the Himalaya by Hashmat Singh and Pallav Das; Everest: Summit of Achievement by Stephen Venables
Romesh Bhattacharji Travels in Kashmir and the Panjab by Baron Charles von Hügel, with an Introduction by Tony Ballantyne

September, 2004

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Contents :
Meenakshi Mukherjee
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
Shobhana Bhattacharji The Sari Shop by Rupa Bajwa
Ira Pande The Postmaster by Saad Ashraf
Kalpana Kannabira Madras on Rainy Days by Samina Ali
Mala Pandurang The Swinging Bridges by Ramabai Espinet
Saugata Bhaduri Olivia and Jai: A Novel; The Veil of
Illusion: A Novel by Rebecca Ryman
Nalini Jain The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
Meena Bhargava The Feast of Roses by Indu Sundaresan
Natasha Jog A Woman Madly in Love by Boman Desai Enakshi Ganguly Thukral Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier
Satyajit Sarna Atul’s Quest by Nader Habibi

Seetha

Whispering Generations by Manorama Mathai
Ranjana Kaul Faces, Friends & Other Stories by Anuradha Rajkumar Choudhury; On the Rocks and Other Stories by Roswitha Joshi
Kishore Thukral Kelptomania – Ten Stories by Manjula Padmanabhan
G. Sampath The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut
Dwaipayan Banerjee Lilamani: A Study in Possibilities by Maud Diver. Edited by Ralph Crane.
Namita Gokhale Mestizo: A Novel by Ricardo Feierstein; Murder in Memoriam by Didier Daeninckx; The Cardamom Club by Jon Stock; The Village of Widows by Ravi Shankar Etteth
Sudhanva Deshpande The Dreams of Tipu Sultan; Bali: The Sacrifice by Girish Karnad
Jane Bhandari Bare Face by Jayanta Mahpatra; He Who Was Gone Thus by Thachom Poyil Rajeevan; English Poems by Jeet Thayil
Anoop Verma

Vijitatma by B.K. Karanjia; The Creation of Wealth by R.M. Lala

Swapan Chakravorty Poetry and Community: Lectures and Essays 1991-2001 by William Radice
Radha Chakravarty Talking of Power: Early Writings of Bengali Women From the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century edited by Malini Bhattacharya and Abhijit Sen
Kshama Rangarajan In the Beginning is Desire: Tracing Kali’s Footsteps in Indian Literature by Neela Bhattacharya Saxena
G.J.V. Prasad Writing from the Margin and Other Essays; Collected Stories Volume II by Shashi Deshpande
N. Kamala Translation as Discovery by Sujit Mukherjee
Sambudha Sen D.H. Lawrence and ‘Difference’ by Amit Chaudhuri
Siddharth Chowdhury The Bus Stopped by Tabish Khair
P.A. Krishnan The Unhurried City by C.S. Lakshmi
William Radice The Virgin Fish of Babughat (Babughater Kumari Maachh) by Lokenath Bhattacharya. Translated from the Bangla by Meenakshi Mukherjee
Mahasweta Sengupta Pratham Pratistruti by Indira Choudhury. Translated from the Bangla by Ashapurna Devi.
Amalan Das Gupta When the Earth was Young: Reincarnation Stories by Saradindu Bandopadhyay. Translated by Monimala Dhar; The Scarlet Dusk: Stories by Saradindu Bandopadhyay. Translated by Malobika
Chaudhuri; House of Cards and Other Stories by Tarashankar Bandopadhyay. Translated by Sanchayita Chatterjee; Datta by Saratchandra Chattopadhyay. Translated by Sukhendu Ray
Nivedita Sen The Uprooted Vine (Snehalata Ba Palita) by Swarnakumari Debi. Translated from the Bengali by Rajul Sogani and Indira Gupta
N.S. Jagannathan Suraa: JJ: Some Jottings by Sundara Ramaswamy. Translated from the Tamil by A.R. Venkatachalapathy
Gagan Gill Sand & Other Stories; My Years With Boss at Gemini Studios by Ashokamitran
Mohan Rao Birthright by Vaasanthi
B. Manglam Place to Live edited by Dilip Kumar. Translated by Vasantha Surya
K.S. Sachidananda Murthy When Stone Melts & Other Stories by P. Lankesh
Matthew Angus Cooking Like Mummyji—Real British Asian Cooking by Vicky Bhogal
Rishi Srinivas Iyengar Rude Food: The Collected Food Writings of Vir Sanghvi

August, 2004

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Contents :

Maithreyi Krishnaraj

Gender Relations in Forest Society in Asia: Patriarchy at Odds edited by Govind Kelkar, Dev Nathan and Pierre Walter
Sudha Vasan Livelihood and Gender: Equity in Community Resource Management edited by Sumi Krishna
Sumi Krishna A Time for Tea: Women, Labor and Post-Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation by Piya Chatterjee
Vasanth Kannabiran The Scandal of the State-Women, Law, and Citizenship in Postcolonial India by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
Kumud Sharma Democratisation and Women's Grassroots Movements edited by Jill M. Bystydzienski and Joti Sekhon
Asha Achutan Narratives from the Women's Studies Family: Recreating Knowledge edited by Devaki Jain and Pam Rajput; Key Concepts in Feminist Theory and Research by Christina Hughes
Geetika Bapna Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory Practicing Solidarity by Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Nilika Mehrotra Sociology of Gender: The Challenge of Feminist Sociological Knowledge edited by Sharmila Rege
Achin Vanaik Incoherent Empire by Michael Mann; Contours of Descent: US Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity by Robert Pollin
Bidyut Chakrabarty A Time of Coalitions: Divided We Stand by Paranjoy Guha thakurta, Shanker Raghuraman

Pralay Kanugo

Political Parties and Party Systems edited by Ajay K. Mehra, D.D. Khanna and Gert W. Kueck
Sarah Joseph The Bonfire of Creeds by Ashis Nandy
Amiya Kumar Bagchi Lost Worlds: Indian Labour and its Forgotten Histories by Chitra Joshi; India working: Essays on Society and Economy by Barbara Harriss-White; Work and Social Change in Asia: Essays in Honour of Jan Breman edited by Arvind N. Das and Marcel van der Linden
Satish Jain Rationality & Freedom by Amartya Sen
Ashish Bhattacharya The Future of Competition-Co-creating Unique Value with Customers by C.K. Prahalad and Venkat Ramaswamy
Ashwini Deshpande Global Ffinance at Risk: On Real Stagnation and Instability by Sunanda Sen
Praveen Jha Active Social Capital by Anirudh Krishna
Jyotsna Jha Educating the Nation: Documents on the Discourse of National Education in India 1880-1920 edited by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Joseph Bara and Chinna Roa Yagati
Eunice de Souza

Pliable Pupils and Sufficient Self-Directors: Narratives of Female Education by Five British Women Writers 1778-1814 by Barnita Bagchi

Shobhana Bhattacharji JaneAusten: Introdctions and Interventions by John Wiltshire
Gayatri D. Acharya Privacy by Dayanita Singh
Debasish Chakrabarty Fire and Other Images by Paritosh Sen
Abhik Majumdar Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan-His Life and Music by Malti Gilani and Quratulain Hyder

Sulochana Subrahmanyam Kunjamma-Ode to a Nightingale by Lakshmi Viswanathan
Sudhamahi Reghunathasn The Story of a Dance: Bharata Natyam by Krishna Sahai

July, 2004

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M.S. Ganesh

Women, Gender and Human Rights: A Global Perspective edited by Marjorie Agosin

Usha Ramanathan Woman versus Man: Socio-Legal Gender Inequality in Pakistan by Rashida Patel; The dispensation of Justice in Pakistan edited by Mohammad Yasin and Tariq Banuri

Furqan Ahmad Knowing our Rights: Women, Family, Laws and Customs in the Muslim World by Women Living under Muslims Laws
Vasanthi Srinivasan Hindu Law: Beyond Tradition and Modernity by Werner Menski
Bhagwan Josh Hindu Nationalism and Indian Politics with an introduction by Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Hiranmay Karlekar Will Secular India Survive? edited by Mushirul Hasan
Father Joseph Gispert-Sauch Christians of India by Rowena Robinson
Amar Farooqui Charisma and commitment in South Asian History: Essays Presented to Stanley Wolpert edited by Roger D. Long
Narayani Gupta Zakaullah of Delhi by C.F. Andrews with introduction by Mushirul Hasan and Margrit Pernau
Visalakshi Menon Chaukhandi Tombs: Funerary Art in Sind and Baluchistan by Salome Zajadacz-Hastenrath. Translated byMichael Robertson; Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde by Henry Pottinger with an introduction by Rosie Vaughan; Travels, Tales and Encounters in Sindh and Balochistan 1840-1843 with an introduction by R.A. Raza by Marianne Postans; Sindh: Ways and Days Shikar and Other Memories by Pir Ali Muhammad Rashdi; A Testament of Sindh: Ethnic and Religious Extremism a Perspective by M.S. Korejo

Kumkum Roy
Is the Goddess a Feminist? The Politics of South Asian Goddesses edited by Alf Hiltebeitel and Kathleen M. Erndl; Jewels of Authority: Women and Textual Tradition in Hindu India edited by Laurie L. Patton

Ritu Menon Bearing Witness: Partition, Independence, End of Raj by Sukeshi Kamra
Rupa Bajpai No Woman's Land: Woman from Pakistan , India ,Bangladesh Write on the partition of India edited by Ritu Mennon.
Urvashi Bhutalia HDivided Countries , Separated Cities: The Modern Legacy of Partition edited by Ghislaine Glasson Deschaumes and Rada Menon
Vivek Kumar Social Science in Pakistan in the 1990s edited by S. Akbar Zaidi
S. Akbar Zaidi Pakistan National Human Development Report 2003: Poverty, Growth and Governance by Akmal Hussain
I.N. Mukherji Mahbub-Ul-Haq Development Centre, Human Development in South Asia, 2002
Nagesh Kumar Globalization and South Asia: Multidimensional Perspectives edited by Achin Vanaik
Nandini Chandra Unfamiliar Relations: Family and History in South Asia edited by Indrani Chatterjee
G.J.V. Prasad India's Literary History: Essays on the Nineteenth Century edited by Stuart Blackburn and Vasudha Dalmia

Rana Nayar Language Policy Planning & Practice: A South Asian Perspective edited by Sabiha Mansoor, Shaheen Meraj, Aliya Tahir

Shanta Gokhale Ratanbai-A High-Caste Child Wife by Shevantibai Nikambe. Edited by Chandani Lokuge; A Marathi Saga-The Story of Sir Moropant and Lady Yashodabai Joshi by Yashodabai Joshi. Translated from the Marathi by V.V. Bhide

Gillian Wright The Repentance of Nussooh (Taubat-Al-Nasuh): The Tale of a Muslim Family a Hundred Years Ago by Mazir Ahmad. Translated from the Urdu by M. Kempson.

Antara Datta The Repentance of Nussooh (Taubat-Al-Nasuh): The Tale of a Muslim Family a Hundred Years Ago by Mazir Ahmad. Translated from the Urdu by M. Kempson.

Mala Panduang Chinnamani's World by Mukunda Rao
Jaya Bhattacharji Children's Literature in South Asia

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Nehru: A Political Life by Judith M. Brown
Excerpt The Last Liberal and Other Essays by Ramachandra Guha
Ravi Sundaram At Home in diaspora: South Asian Scholars and the West by Jackie AssayagAnd Veronique Benei
Upinder Singh The Archaeology of Seafaring in Ancient South Asia by Himanshu Prabha Ray
Kanakalatha Mukund Land, Politics and Trade in South Asia edited by Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Partho Datta SoutModernh Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy (Second Edition) by Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal; From Plassey to Partition: A History of Modern India by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay
Kaushik Roy Tulsi Leaves and the Ganges Water: The Slogan of the First Sepoy Mutiny at Barrackpore, 1824 by Premansu Kumar Bandyopadhyay; The Indian Army and The Making of Punjab by Rajit K. Mazumder
Anirudh Deshpande Reporting the Raj: The British Press and India C. 1880-1922 by Chandrika Kaul
A.R. Venkatachalapathy Print Areas: Book History in India edited by Abhijit Gupta and Swapan Chakravorty
Vijaya Ramaswamy Religious Movements in South Asia 600-1800 edited by David Lorenzen

Amiya P. Sen
Negotiating the Divine: Temple Religion and Temple Politics in Contemporary India by Ursula Rao
Harish Khare The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India by Paul Brass
Purushottam Agrawal Violence/Non-Violence: Some Hindu Perspectives edited by Denis Vidal, Gilles Tarabout and Erich Meyer
Tania Mehta The Gujarat Carnage edited by Asgar Ali Engineer
Manjari Katju Hindutva: Exploring the Idea of Hindu Nationalism by Jyotirmaya Sharma; Social and Religious Reform: The Hindus of British India edited by Amiya P. Sen
Satish Saberwal Islamic Contestations: Essays on Muslims in India and Pakistan by Barbara D. Metcalf
Khaled Ahmed Lived Islam in South Asia: Adaptation, Accommodation & Conflict edited by Imtiaz Ahmed & Helmut Reifeld
Seema Alavi Discovering Islam: Making Sense of Muslim History and Society by Akbar Ahmed; Islam Under Siege by Akbar Ahmed; On the Boundaries of Theological Tolerance in Islam: Abu Haimd Al Ghazali's Faysal Al Tafriqa by Sherman A. Jackson
Kalim Bahadur The Origins and Development of the Tablighi Jama'at (1920-2000) by Yoginder Sikand; Prophecy Continuous: Aspects of the Ahmadi Religious Thought and its Medieval Background by Yohanan Friedmann; Mullahs on the Mainframe: Islam and Modernity among the Daudi Bohras by Jonah Blank
S.K. Singh Memoirs of a Rebel Princess by Abida sultaan
T. Ananthachari Diplomatic Divide by Humayun Khan and G. Parthasarathy; Pakistan at the Millennium edited by Charles H. Kennedy, Kathleen McNeil, Carl Ernst and David Gilmartin
General Jehangir Karamat Power and Civil Society in Pakistan edited by Anita M. Weiss and S. Zulfiqar Gilani
D. Suba Chandran South Asia: A Historical Narrative by Mohammed Yunus and Aradhana Parmar; Historical Dictionary of Pakistan by Shahid Javed Burki; Liaquat Ali Khan: His Life and Work by Muhammad Reza Kazimi; The Pakistan People's Party: Rise to Power by Philip E. Jones
Eric Gonsalves The Emergence of Bangladesh: Class Struggles in East Pakistan (1947-1958) by Badruddin Umar
K.V. Rajan Resistance and the State: Nepalese Experiences edited by David Gellner; Translating Development: The Case of Nepal edited by Manfred Domroes
Malavika Karlekar The Gendered Nation-Contemporary Writings from South Asia by Neluka Silva
Sumathy Sivamohan Gender in the Hindu Nation: RSS Women as Ideologues by Paola Bacheta; Shifting Body Politics: Gender, Nation, State in Pakistan by Shahnaz Rouse
Gargi Chakravartty Selected Columns by Taslima Nasreen. Translated into English from Bengali by Debjani Sengupta
Salman Haidar Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects by Mridu Rai
Chandrashekhar Dasgupta Kashmir-Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace by Sumantra Bose; Languages of Belonging: Islam, Regional Identity and the Making of Kashmir by Chitralekha Zutshi
Stephen P. Cohen The Armed Forces of Pakistan by Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema
Raja Menon Nuclear Risk Reduction in South Asia edited by Michael Krepon and Chris Cagne
Michael Krepon Nuclear Stability in Southern Asia edited by P.R. Chari, Sonika Gupta and Aripit Rajain
K. Santhanam Lethal Games: Nuclear Security, Arms Control and Leadership in Indo-Pak Relations by Anindyo J. Mazumdar
Anuradha M. Chenoy Power Games in War and Peace: The Tragic Impact of Corruption, Violence and Impunity on the Sri Lankan Child by Harendra de Silva
V.R. Raghavan Environmental Security: Internal and External Dimensions and Response by Colonel (Retd.)P.K. Gautam; Environment and Human Security edited by Purusottam Bhatacharya and Sugata Hazra
S. Kalyanaraman Terrorism in South Asia edited by Adluri Subramanyam Raju
Major General Dipankar Inside an Elusive Mind-Prabhakaran by M.R. Narayan Swamy Banerjee (Retd)
Mallika Joseph Karachi: A Terror Capital in the Making by Wilson John
Jyotindra Jain "Official"Chronicle of Mayo School of Art: Formative Years Under J.L. Kipling (1874-94) edited by Samina Choonara
Catherine B. Asher Islamic Architecture in South Asia: Pakistan-India-Bangladesh by Ahmad Nabi Khan
Jasleen Dhamija Living Fabric: Weaving Among the Nomads of Ladakh, Himalaya by Monisha Ahmed; Agile Hands and Creative Minds: A Bibliography of Textile Traditions in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka by Dr. Donald Clay Johnson

Fakrul Alam Making of a Nation: Bangladesh: An Economist's Tale by Nurul Islam
Ramaswamy R.Iyer Water Management in Rural South India and Sri Lanka: Emerging Themes and Critical Issues, Proceedings of the Indo-French Round Table at the French Institute of Pondicherry, 31 October 2001 edited by Patrice Cohen and S. Janakarajan
Helen R. Sekar Small Hands in South Asia-Child Labour in Perspective edited by G.K. Lieten, Ravi Srivastava and Sukhadeo Thorat
Manjima Bhattacharjya No Shame for the Sun: Lives of Professional Pakistani Women by Shahla Haeri
Meenkashi Thapan Migration, Modernity and Social Transformation in South Asia edited by Filippo Osella and Katy Gardner
K.S. Mohammad Hussain The Elsewhere People: Cross-border Migration, Refugee Protection and State Response edited by Omprakash Mishra and Anindyo J. Majumdar
Uzma Aslam Khan Shifting Borders
Bill Aitken Between Heaven and Hell: Travels through South Asia
by Akhil Bakshi
Radha Chakravarty Under The Krishnachura: Fifty Years Of Bangladeshi Writing Edited By Niaz Zaman
Niaz Ali Zaman Ghumkaturey Iswar (The Sleeping God) by Selina Hossain
V. Suryanarayana Playing Lions And Tigers By Rohini Hensman; The Last Kingdom of Sinhalay by Elmo Jayawardena
Minoli Salgado Selected Sri Lankan Short Stories (1989-1999) Vol. II edited By Kusuma Karunaratne, Kulathilaka Kumarasinghe, Sarath Wijesooriya and Tennyson Perera; Essays on Sri Lankan Literature and Culture by A.V. Suraweera
B. Mangalam Out of the Darkness by Gunadasa Amarasekara. Translated by Vijita Fernando
Eunice de Souza Turtle Nest by Chandani Lokuge
Muneeza Shamsie Purdah: An Anthology edited by Eunice de Souza
Shobhana Bhattacharji Trespassing by Uzma Aslam Khan
Neeraj Malik </