Vaidehi
We begin with the translator’s note on the change in title from Asprushyaru in Kannada to Vasudeva’s Family in English —itself an interesting conceptual and methodological exercise.
Reviewed by: Padmini Mongia
Nirad C. Chaudhuri
CLIVE OF INDIA
1976
1976
Nirad Chaudhuri has been quiet of late. A new book from him is, therefore, a welcome sight, for a remarkable control of the English language has given Chaudhuri a position in Indo-English literature similar to that of Mohammed Ali in international boxing. He is the greatest, especially at telling…
Reviewed by: Kiran Doshi
H.K. Paranjape & V.A. Pai Panandikar
It is difficult to do full justice to the quality of the massive effort culminating in this diligent compilation of published material on the title of the book. The survey induces sadness at what appears to be a near total lack of (a) research into the more fundamental issues of public administration, (b) depth and penetration in such studies as have been made or come to notice…
Reviewed by: T.C.A. Ramanuja Chari
Ira Valeria Sarma
Why is the short story called the short story when the long story is called not the long story but the novel? Why could it not be called simply the story? Following the illogical English usage,
Reviewed by: Harish Trivedi
Richard Gombin
Leftism, as commonly understood, is a blanket term covering everything from reformism to the more eccentric reaches of the New Left. What Gombin means by it, however, is those sections to the Left of the Communist parties which do not claim to be within the Marxist-Leninist tradition…
Reviewed by: Sumit Guha
Eugenia W. Herbert
A book written about the British influence on the Indian garden is bound to elicit curiosity in the minds of botanical aficionados and students of imperial history:
Reviewed by: Malavika Karlekar