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.
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.
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.
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.
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Kaleidoscopic
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Translated from the Gujarati by Rita Kothari
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Taking Charge Of Our Bodies
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The Land Of The Naked People:
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The Repentance of Nussooh
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Indian Army and The Making of Punjab by Rajit K. Mazumder
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
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
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
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
Come Brother, Lie Down!:
Multicultural Short Stories by Moin Ashraf
Abdul
Naseeb Khan
Short Stories from Pakistan
edited by Intizar Husain & Asif Farrukhi. Translated
from Urdu by M. Asaduddin
Taqi
Ali Mirza
The Heart Divided by
Mumtaz Shah Nawaz
M. Asaduddin
A Letter from India:
Contemporary Short Stories from Pakistan edited by Moazzam
Sheikh
Rakhshanda
Jalil
The Oxford India Premchand; Courtesan's
Quarter by Munshi Premchand. Translated by Amina Azfar
Thapar's point is that
to privilege a source that looks at the raid on Somanatha
as just an act of breaking an idol with a single agenda,
to the point of denying all else, will be to miss the
complexities of the past.
Rajan
Gurukkal
This up-dated and significantly
expanded edition of Thapar's most widely read book, Early
India, is now available in paperback. Incorporating the
essentials of new data and fresh explanations besides
retaining the relevant among older arguments, the book
is yet structured mostly within the original edition's
framework of worldwide recognition.
Meena
Bhargava
This volume is an anthology
of valuable essays by Professor Satish Chandra, published
earlier in different journals and books. Since the earliest
of these essays was written in 1946, the shape and direction
of history writing have undergone a tremendous change.
The essays in this collection reflect - and have also
been responsible for determining - new currents in history
writing over the last five decades.
Ranjeeta
Dutta
The book under review
is a monographic study of the madad-i-ma'ash grant holders
in Awadh during the seventeenth and eighteenth century.
Literally meaning, "aid for subsistence", the
term was applied to the land granted by the state, in
which it alienated its right to collect revenue.
Amiya
P. Sen
This compilation of
essays is dedicated to the memory of an individual whose
life and work, at least for his numerous students, colleagues
friends and admirers, hold ample material for creating
enduring legends.
Nasir
Tyabji
The two books under
review attempt to address the causes of this violence
in Ahmedabad in different ways. The first is an academic
book, which analyses as the title signifies, both the
making and the destruction of the cotton textile industry
working force in the period from the First World War to
the 1990s.
D.K.
Srivastava
The contributors are
drawn from poverty researchers of non-poor countries,
largely from the faculty of Cornell University, the World
Bank, the Overseas Development Institute in London, the
Institute of Development Studies in Sussex, and the Centre
for International Studies in Toronto. The QN approach
was almost exclusively represented by economists while
the spokespersons for the QL approach came from a variety
of other disciplines.
Vikas
Chitre
The book under review
has put together selected essays presented at the Commemorative
International Conference on Income and Wealth organized
in November 1998. The reading of the essays, both stimulating
and sobering, vividly brings out the limitations and the
gaps in our data base, and the difficulty of intepreting
the available information for evaluating the development
experience.
Girish
Karnad
Now OUP has brought
out The Oxford India RAMANUJAN, a compilation of his entire
body of poems and translations, complete with the notes
and introductions which did so much to explain the philosophical
and religious traditions that gave birth to these works.
It is a tribute, richly deserved and avidly awaited, to
the memory of a great scholar-poet.
Sobhana
Bhattacharji
Transplanted Man uses
a lot of that old-fashioned device called recurring motifs
to subtly bind the story into patterned coherence. One
group of motifs is sleep, insomnia, sleep walking, sleep
related diseases, hypokineticism (a new word for me),
doctors and quacks dealing in them, and a narrative style
that, in the best realist traditions without the unrealistic
coincidence-and closure-laden conclusions of well-made
realistic novels, makes one believe everything in this
novel is history, it really happened.
M. Asaduddin
My Little Boat is a
promising first novel that offers a delightful read. Set
in contemporary India, it is primarily concerned with
its female protagonist's search for selfhood and subjectivity.
It is also about post-Babri Masjid demolition and post-Pokhran
India where an aggressive Hindu nationalism seems to chip
away at the composite civilizational heritage, compelling
the minorities to take an absurdly defensive position
on matters of nationality and the notion of national pride.
G. Sampath
The story revolves around
a group of "dope-smoking, bell-bottom-wearing, vaguely
idealistic" final year architecture students - Anand
Grover (Annie), Arjun, Radha, Kasozi, a student from Kampala,
and their assorted batchmates - all of whom are gearing
up to present their final year thesis before the 'jury'.
Nandini
Chandra
Since the late 19th
and early twentieth centuries, when the essay was the
genre of the man of letters, a jack of all trades who
dabbled a little in politics, a little in culture, and
was not necessarily trained in either field, it seems
that we are witnessing the advent of the same species
albeit with a difference.
Satyajit
Sarna
Benjamin Disraeli could
well have had Sir Richard Francis Burton in mind when
he remarked in his novel Tancred that the East is a career.
Following his expulsion from Oxford for unruly behaviour,
the young Burton headed East under the auspices of the
East India Company, to become at various points of time
an explorer, diplomat, soldier, translator, poet, writer,
linguist, Sufi mystic and a most remarkable Victorian.
Namita
Gokhale
Michael Madhusudan Dutt
was a Romantic poet by instinct and persuasion. These
twin volumes, Lured by Hope and The Life of a Rebel Poet
expose and portray the ragged contours of his extraordinary
life with passion, scholarship and insight. The intensity
and tragedy of his life make the book a compelling read.
The conflicts, both internal and social, that dogged him
with such notoriety were in time to become emblems of
later schisms in attitude and sensibility that were to
develop from the clash of Indian and Eurocentric cultures.
Gautam
Chakravarty
Translating Caste is
a significant addition to the literature of caste now
available in English.
Latika
Padgaonkar
Pilgrims of time and
space, the jacket tells us, is what these characters are.
But their 'in-between-ness', their quandary, their social
isolation and loss of context and meaning are trapped
in a language that rarely rises, moves away from the workaday.
Ella
Datta
What does strike the
reader of this anthology is the number of essays and articles
on the need for women's education. This was clearly a
driving aspiration. References to the ticklish issue of
purdah have been addressed.
Kunal
Chakrabarti
This scholarly and imaginative
study of the Upanishads makes a significant point: It
argues that the Upanishadic texts have been traditionally
viewed as consisting of two distinct and separable parts-"metaphysics"
and "story". This has resulted in "abstraction"
and over-valuation of the metaphysical message and, more
importantly, neglect and consequent "under-reading"
of the stories.
Malabika
Majumdar
This set of three volumes
aims to cover the salient features of God and God-alike
appearing in different religions, Hindu, Muslim and Sikh.
The contributors have given a comprehensive bird's eyeview
of their origins along with anecdotes that manifest their
awesome personality.
Ramu
Katakam
Heta Pandit's passion
for keeping the Goan identity intact is very much visible
as she goes through many aspects of design, craft and
the building process. Her book is a great tribute to the
people of goa who have been able to generate a unique
way of life especially blending a flamboyant european
style with a pragmatic indigenous architecture.
Jasleen
Dhamija
These two well illustrated
slim books on the living cultural heritage of India are
easy to handle and priced modestly. Asha Rani Mathur writes
with felicity. In her book on the Indian Shawls she covers
some of the major shawl making areas.
Saugata
Bhaduri
Theory and Praxis: Curriculum,
Culture and English Studies edited by Prafulla C. Kar,
Kailash
C. Baral and Sura P. Rath
M.S.
Ganesh
Autobiography and memoir-are
they the same? In the subtitle the book is an autobiography,
in the author's preface it is "a memoir"….
But Seth transcends publisher's punctilio and editor's
emendation and strikes her own misericord. For she is
"Leila, the playful one, engaged in the play of universal
energy" (p.3).
Gopi
Arora
In the two books under
review, B.G. Deshmukh and T.S.R. Subramanian, both distinguished
civil servants, tell us how the Service shaped their worldview,
how it made them into what they became and how they in
turn influenced the course of events.
P.R. Chari
Old soldiers like Monty
Palit do not fade away. They become prolific writers and
lead active lives, both physically and mentally, after
retirement
Soviet Russia &
Tibet: The Debacle of SecretDiplomacy,1918-1930s by Alexandre
Andreyev
C.V.
Ranganathan
China and India: Cooperation
or Conflict by Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu and Jing-dong
Yuan
Pamela
Philipose
Breaking the Big Story:
Great Moments in Indian Journalism edited by B.G. Verghese;
War and the Media - Reports conflict 24/7 edited by Daya
Kishan Thussu and Des Freedman; Satish Jacob from Hotel
Palestine Baghdad: Pages from a War Diary by Satish Jacob
Mariam
Dossal
Western India in Historical
Transition, Seventeenth to Early Twentieth Centuries by
Hiroyuki Kotani
M/ Rajivlochan
The Khalsa and the Punjab:
Studies in Sikh History to the 19th Century edited by
Himadri Banerjee; Punjab Then and Now, 1846-1999 by Sahdev
Vohra
Raja
Rajamnna
So Spake Kabira Translated
by K.S. Duggal
S. Anandhi
The Other Half of the
Coconut: Women Writing Self-Respect History edited by
K. Srilata
Kanchana
Natarajan
Feminism in Search of
an Identity:The Indian Context edited by Meena Kelkar
and Deepti Gangavane
Tiplut
Nongbri
Family and Gender: Changing
Values in Germany and India edited by Margrit Pernau,
Imtiaz Ahmad and Helmut Reifeld
Lakshmi
Subramanian
Mirrors and Gestures:
Conversations with Women Dancers by C.S. Lakshmi
Navina
Jafa
From Sacred to Profane
Prostitute: A History of the Changing Legal Status of
the Devadasis in India, 1857-1947 by Kay.K. Jordan
Anamika
Tense Past, Tense Present:
Women Writing in English edited by Joel Knortti
Imrana
Qadeer
The Burden of Justifying
the Unjust Strategies by Stuart Gillespie and Lawrence
J. Haddad
K. Saradamoni
Home Truths: Stories
of Single Mothers by Deepti Priya Mehrotra; Stepping Out:
Life and Sexuality in Rural India by Mrinal Pande
Bunny
Suraiya
Her Story So Far: Tales
of the Girl Child in India edited by Monica Das
Roomi
Naqvi
Antastha by Girdhar
Rathi
Anamika
Loktantra Ke Sat Adhyay;
Adhunikta Ke Aine Mein Dalit edited by Abhay Kumar Dubey
Madhu
Joshia
Visham Raag by Arun
Prakash
Prabhat
Ranjan
Lucknow Mera Lucknow; Raghuvir Sahai: Rachnaon Ke Bahane
Ek Smaran by Manohar Shyam Joshi
Sushma
Bhatnagar
Geetanjali by Rabindranath
Tagore. Translated from the Bangla by Prayag Shukla; Desh
by Harprasad Das. Translated from the Oriya by Shankarlal
Purohit and Girdhar Rathi; Sampurna Kavitayen by Paash.
Translated from the Punjabi by Chaman Lal
Sushma
Bhatnagar and Manu Vikraman
Raag Viraag by Shrilal
Shukla; Justjoo-e-Nihaan urf Rooniyabaas Ki Antarkatha
by Jitendra Bhatia
Nomaan
Shauque
Ek Janam Mein Sab by
Anita Verma; Jaadu Nahin Kavita by Katyayni; Tatrakushalam
by Vinay Dubey; Usar by Ajit Kumar
Saugata
Bhaduri
Theory and Praxis: Curriculum,
Culture and English Studies edited by Prafulla C. Kar,
Kailash
C. Baral and Sura P. Rath
Simi
Malhotra
English Studies in India:
Widening Horizons by C.D. Narasimhaiah
Rita
Joshi
Vikram Seth: An Anthology
of Recent Criticism edited by G.J.V. Prasad
Ashok
Vohra
Red Poppies by Alai.
Translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia
Li-chun Lin
G. Sampath
Mila in Love by Dina
Mehta
M. Mukundan
Asreekaram by V.K. Madhavankutty
Ravi
Vira Gupta
Technology of Indian
Milk Products by R.P. Aneja, B.N. Mathur, R.C. Chandan
and A.K. Banerjee
Nehru:
The Invention of India by Shashi Tharoor; The Un-Gandhian
Gandhi: The Life and Afterlife of the Mahatma by Claude
Markovits
A.K.
Damodaran
Nehru
Revisited edited by M.V. Kamath
Biswamoy
Pati
Azad
Hind: Writings and Speeches, 1941-1943 edited by Sisir
K. Bose and Sugata Bose; The Maverick Republic: Thirty
Years of Coverage by Jawid Laiq; Indian Freedom Struggle
by B. Krishna
Sucheta
Mahajan
From
Movement to Government: The Congress in the United Provinces,
1937-42 by Visalakshi Menon
T.N.
Madan
Witness
to Partition: A Memoir by B.R. Nanda
Sabyasachi
Bhattacharya
Earl
Mountbatten Report on the Last Viceroyalty: 22 March-12
August, 1947 edited by Lionel Carter
Irfan
Habib
The
Scientific Edge: The Indian Scientists from Vedic to Modern
Times by Jayant V. Narlikar
Achin
Vanaik
The
Myth of 1648: Class, Geopolitics and the Making of Modern
International Relations by Benno Teschke
G.K.
Arora
The
Burden of Democracy by Pratap Bhanu Mehta; Does Civil
Society Matter? edited by Rajesh Tandon and Ranjita Mohanty
Vidhu
Varma
Marxism
and Social Revolution in India and Other Essays by P.C.
Joshi
Sudipto
Mundle
A
Fiscal Domain for Panchayats by Indira Rajaraman
Surinder
S. Jodhka
The
Retreat to Unfreedom: Essays on the Emerging World Order
by Prabhat Patnaik
Sunanda
Sen
Taming
Global Financial Flows: A Citizen's Guide by Kavaljit
Singh
Bharat
Ramaswami
Globalization
and Development Studies: Challenges for the 21st Century
edited by Frans J. Schuurman; Globalization Unmasked:Imperialism
in the 21st Century by James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer
Manoj
Pant
Markets
and Governments by Kaushik Basu, Pulin B. Nayak and Ranjan
Ray
Nasir
Tyabji
Lockouts
in India by Ruddar Dutt; Labour Market and Institution
in India: 1990s and Beyond edited by Shuji Ichikawa
Rajeswari
Raina
Agrarian
Studies: Essays on Agrarian Relations in Less-Developed
Countries edited by
V.K. Ramachandran and Madhura Swaminathan
Laila
Tyabji
The
Sari by Mukulika Banerjee & Daniel Miller; Silk Brocades
by Yashodhara Agrawal; Uncertain Identities: Craftwork,
Women & Patriarchy in a Village of Eastern Uttar Pradesh
by Sayantani Jafa
Narendra
Panjwani
Montage:
Life, Politics, Cinema by Mrinal Sen
Shirshendu
Chakravarti
Calcutta
Conversations edited by Lina Fruzzetti and Akos Ostor
Soumitra
Das
Banglar
Kather Kaaj by Tarapada Santra
Harish
Trivedi
Folktales
from Northern India by William Crooke and Pandit Ram Gharib
Chaube
Sadhana
Naithani
Print,
Folklore and Nationalism in Colonial South India by Stuart
Blackburn
Archana
Prasad
Casting
the Evil Eye: Witch Trials in Tribal India by Archana
Mishra
Savyasaachi
Against
Ecological Romanticism: Verrier Elwin and the Making of
Anti Modern Tribal Identity
by Archana Prasad
Pradip
Bhattacharya
Jatakamala
translated from the Sanskrit by A.N.D. Haksar
Partho
Datta
Rajasthan,
An Oral History: Conversations with Komal Kothari by Rustom
Bharucha; Rajasthan:
A Musical Journey, Audio, CD
