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Author : Arun Bhatnagar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789356114777
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Orphaned at Freedom written by Arun Bhatnagar and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arun Bhatnagar
Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book ORPHANED AT FREEDOM - A SUBCONTINENT'S TALE written by Arun Bhatnagar and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2022-07-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the middle of August, 1947, two nations – the Dominion of India and the Dominion of Pakistan – came into being through a Partition of the British Indian Empire. The Princely States, which owed their existence to the British, acceded to either of the two Dominions. Jinnah, as Governor-General of Pakistan, and Nehru, as Prime Minister of India, took the oath of office swearing allegiance to George VI, who was still the King of both the Dominions but no longer the Rex Imperator or King-Emperor. The Dominions eventually emerged as the Republic of India in 1950 and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in 1956. Twenty-five years on, in 1972, a third country – the People’s Republic of Bangladesh – was born out of the liquidation of East Pakistan. A United India – if it had been preserved – may have been an equal, militarily and economically, of the People’s Republic of China. Arun Bhatnagar’s Book is an engaging and absorbing account of a Subcontinent that passed through the High Noon of Empire, saw unity dissolving into division and experienced euphoria and despair, progress and tragedy, victory and defeat. The narrative, during the years 1911-1999, traverses (by way of the life-story of an Indian member of the ICS, later a practicing Barrister and Politician) various dimensions of history, politics, economy, culture and administration. The Afterword conveys the reader into the twenty-first century when unfriendly neighbours are in alliance to thwart New Delhi’s interests.
Author : Nile Green
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324002425
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Empire's Son, Empire's Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah written by Nile Green and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rollicking story of two literary fabulists who revealed the West’s obsession with a fabricated, exotic East. In the highbrow literary circles of the mid-twentieth century, a father and son spread seductive accounts of a mystical Middle East. Claiming to come from Afghanistan, Ikbal and Idries Shah parlayed their assumed identities into careers full of drama and celebrity, writing dozens of books that influenced the political and cultural elite. Pitching themselves as the authentic voice of the Muslim world, they penned picaresque travelogues and exotic potboilers alongside weighty tomes on Islam and politics. Above all, father and son told Western readers what they wanted to hear: audacious yarns of eastern adventure and harmless Sufi mystics—myths that, as the century wore on and the Taliban seized power, became increasingly detached from reality. Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan follows the Shahs from their origins in colonial India to literary London, wartime Oxford, and counterculture California via the Levant, the League of Nations, and Latin America. Nile Green unravels the conspiracies and pseudonyms, fantastical pasts and self-aggrandizing anecdotes, high stakes and bold schemes that for nearly a century painted the defining portrait of Afghanistan. Ikbal and Idries convinced poets, spies, orientalists, diplomats, occultists, hippies, and even a prime minister that they held the key to understanding the Islamic world. From George Orwell directing Muslim propaganda to Robert Graves translating a fake manuscript of Omar Khayyam and Doris Lessing supporting jihad, Green tells the fascinating tale of how the book world was beguiled by the dream of an Afghan Shangri-La that never existed. Gambling with the currency of cultural authenticity, Ikbal and Idries became master players of the great game of empire and its aftermath. Part detective story, part intellectual folly, Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan reveals the divergence between representation and reality, between what we want to believe and the more complex truth.
Author : Neel Mukherjee
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473523109
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)
Download or read book A State of Freedom written by Neel Mukherjee and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature What happens when we attempt to exchange the life we are given for something better? Five people, in very different circumstances, from a domestic cook in Mumbai, to a vagrant and his dancing bear, and a girl who escapes terror in her home village for a new life in the city, find out the meanings of dislocation, and the desire for more. Set in contemporary India and moving between the reality of this world and the shadow of another, this novel delivers a devastating and haunting exploration of the unquenchable human urge to strive for a different life.
Author : Jaydipsinh Dodiya
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9788176257152
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (571 download)
Download or read book Parsi English Novel written by Jaydipsinh Dodiya and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2006 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study conducted in Kanchipuram, Dindigul, Tirunelveli districts of Tamil Nadu, India.
Author : Simon Weightman
Publisher : NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Indian Subcontinent written by Simon Weightman and published by NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A literary guidebook containing over 200 extracts from novels, poems, travel writing, and short stories.
Author : Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443857882
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Tabish Khair written by Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume approaches Tabish Khair’s writings (both his theoretical proposals and his novels) from numerous different perspectives. Contributors engage from varied critical stances with Khair’s academic writings in a fruitful dialogue, analyze his social, political and religious concerns, and elucidate his characteristics as a novelist and his literary powers. Furthermore, this volume is highly enriched by the presence of a hitherto unpublished play by Khair, entitled The One Percent Agency, which focuses on a tourism agency specializing in bringing “Bollywood”-style Indian weddings to foreign tourists. In the process, it becomes a satirical commentary on the packaging of international tourism as well as the ability of common Indians to adapt and thrive. It depicts the “metropolitan” India of the new millennium and inter-community relations in subtle and powerful ways.
Author : Ananya Mukherjee
Publisher : One Point Six Technology Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9352017064
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Ardh - Satya The Half Truth and other stories written by Ananya Mukherjee and published by One Point Six Technology Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2016-12-07 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Howard J. Booth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521199727
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Rudyard Kipling written by Howard J. Booth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of Kipling's work, his career and postcolonial views on his often controversial position on imperialism.
Author : Rosemary Marangoly George
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107729556
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Indian English and the Fiction of National Literature written by Rosemary Marangoly George and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the twentieth century, at the height of the independence movement and after, Indian literary writing in English was entrusted with the task of consolidating the image of a unified, seemingly caste-free, modernising India for consumption both at home and abroad. This led to a critical insistence on the proximity of the national and the literary, which in turn, led to the canonisation of certain writers and themes and the dismissal of others. Examining English anthologies of 'Indian literature', as well as the establishment of the Sahitya Akademi (the national academy of letters) and the work of R. K. Narayan and Mulk Raj Anand among others, Rosemary Marangoly George exposes the painstaking efforts that went into the elaboration of a 'national literature' in English for independent India even while deliberating the fundamental limitations of using a nation-centric critical framework for reading literary works.
Author : Chhanda Chatterjee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000849767
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Partition of the Indian Subcontinent (1947) and Beyond written by Chhanda Chatterjee and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-24 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a comprehensive study of border-related issues arising from the 1947 Partition of India. It looks at various cases of border disputes and affrays such as disputes related to the incorporation of princely states like Kashmir and Jaunpur, the agitation for the creation of new political entities, post-partition reconstruction of Punjab and old pre-partition Punjabi leaders losing their relevance, the Kamtapuri movement, Khasi and Mizo and Chin dissatisfactions, as well as the secession of East Pakistan in 1971. An important contribution to the study of borders, the volume will be useful for students and researchers of modern Indian history, colonial India, Partition studies, borderland studies, refugee studies, minority studies, political science, film studies, postcolonial studies, and South Asian studies.
Author : Emmanuel Besa
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 136575362X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (657 download)
Download or read book Tales of Intramuros written by Emmanuel Besa and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of short stories which fictionalizes history - the 16th to the19th century of Spanish rule and Christianity in Philippines - as a means to explore religious faith and cultural difference and tells the stories of different characters during the Spanish era of colonial rule far from the mother country ruled by the Governor Generals appointed by the King of Spain to represent the state and the Bishop representing the Friars who originally help bring the natives into the fold and a constant battle between church and state kept the country under siege most of the time.
Author : Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451695691
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Oleander Girl written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beloved bestselling author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni has been hailed by Abraham Verghese as a “gifted storyteller” and by People magazine as a “skilled cartographer of the heart.” Now, Divakaruni returns with her most gripping novel yet, a sweeping, suspenseful coming-of-age tale about a young woman who leaves India for America on a search that will transform her life. THOUGH SHE WAS ORPHANED AT BIRTH, the wild and headstrong Korobi Roy has enjoyed a privileged childhood with her adoring grandparents, spending her first seventeen years sheltered in a beautiful, crumbling old mansion in Kolkata. But despite all that her grandparents have done for her, she is troubled by the silence that surrounds the circumstances of her parents’ death and clings fiercely to her only inheritance from them: the love note she found, years ago, hidden in a book of poetry that had belonged to her mother. As she grows, Korobi dreams of one day finding a love as powerful as her parents’, and it seems her wish has finally come true when she meets the charming Rajat, the only son of a high-profile business family. Shortly after their engagement, however, a sudden heart attack kills Korobi’s grandfather, revealing serious financial problems and a devastating secret about Korobi’s past. Shattered by this discovery and by her grandparents’ betrayal, Korobi decides to undertake a courageous search across post-9/11 America to find her true identity. Her dramatic, often startling journey will ultimately thrust her into the most difficult decision of her life. With flawless narrative instinct and a boundless sympathy for her irrepressible characters, in Oleander Girl Divakaruni brings us a perfect treat of a novel— moving, wise, and unforgettable. As The Wall Street Journal raves, “Divakaruni emphasizes the cathartic force of storytelling with sumptuous prose. . . . She defies categorization.”
Author : Pakistan Historical Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book A History of the Freedom Movement written by Pakistan Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hassan S. Khalilieh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108481450
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Islamic Law of the Sea written by Hassan S. Khalilieh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering research brings into focus the Islamic contribution and influence in the development of the modern law of the sea.
Author : Ulrich Marzolph
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 085773265X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book Oral Literature of Iranian Languages: Kurdish, Pashto, Balochi, Ossetic, Persian and Tajik: Companion Volume II written by Ulrich Marzolph and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new History of Persian Literature in 18 Volumes. Persian literature is the jewel in the crown of Persian culture. It has profoundly influenced the literatures of Ottoman Turkey, Muslim India and Turkic Central Asia and been a source of inspiration for Goethe, Emerson, Matthew Arnold and Jorge Luis Borges among others. Yet Persian literature has never received the attention it truly deserves. A History of Persian Literature answers this need and offers a new, comprehensive and detailed history of its subject. This 18-volume, authoritative survey reflects the stature and significance of Persian literature as the single most important accomplishment of the Iranian experience. It includes extensive, revealing examples with contributions by prominent scholars who bring a fresh critical approach to bear on this important topic. This companion volume deals with two of the most under-researched areas of study in the Modern Iranian field: the Persian oral and popular literature of Iran, Tajikistan and Persian-speaking Afghanistan on the one hand; and the written and oral literatures of the Kurds, Pashtuns, Baloch and Ossetians on the other.
Author : Sharon Biggs Waller
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101614412
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book A Mad, Wicked Folly written by Sharon Biggs Waller and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Edwardian London, a girl dreams of being an artist, despite her family's disapproval. Welcome to the world of the fabulously wealthy in London, 1909, where dresses and houses are overwhelmingly opulent, social class means everything, and women are taught to be nothing more than wives and mothers. Into this world comes seventeen-year-old Victoria Darling, who wants only to be an artist—a nearly impossible dream for a girl. After Vicky poses nude for her illicit art class, she is expelled from her French finishing school. Shamed and scandalized, her parents try to marry her off to the wealthy Edmund Carrick-Humphrey. But Vicky has other things on her mind: her clandestine application to the Royal College of Art; her participation in the suffragette movement; and her growing attraction to a working-class boy who may be her muse—or may be the love of her life. As the world of debutante balls, corsets, and high society obligations closes in around her, Vicky must figure out: just how much is she willing to sacrifice to pursue her dreams?
