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Author : Saʻādat Ḥasan Manṭo
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 0143418319
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (434 download)
Download or read book Mottled Dawn written by Saʻādat Ḥasan Manṭo and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2011 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Saʻādat Ḥasan Manṭo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (654 download)
Download or read book Mottled Dawn written by Saʻādat Ḥasan Manṭo and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ira Valeria Sarma
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110896524
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Laghukatha written by Ira Valeria Sarma and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presented here is the first work of Western literary criticism to examine the Hindi laghukathā - a modern Indian prose genre that has been published since the 1970s in Hindi newspapers and magazines and is characterised by its concise form (500 words on average) and socio-political agenda. The importance of the genre within the Hindi literary scene lies in the fact that the laghukathā is based on indigenous genres which have been modernised, whereas the Hindi short story and the novel are Western genres that have been appropriated and Indianised. A thorough investigation of around 280 primary texts accompanied by an evaluation of the relevant Hindi criticism gives a comprehensive literary analysis of this genre and its historical development. This allows, in conclusion, to delineate an "ideal type" of laghukathā, suggesting a range of compulsory, desirable and optional features. English translations of almost 50 representative Hindi texts complete the picture and thus provide an insight into this genre so far unknown to a Western audience.
Author : Haimanti Roy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199093822
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Partition of India written by Haimanti Roy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-16 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was the Partition of India inevitable? Was it a ‘clash of civilizations’ between Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs of the Indian subcontinent? Was the Partition a momentous event or a long-drawn-out messy process? Were the experiences of uprooting, violence, and rehabilitation in the divided provinces of Bengal and Punjab the same? What are the multiple legacies and memories of the Partition? More than 70 years have passed since this upheaval, yet we continue to grapple with such questions. The Partition remains in the memories of those families and individuals who lived through the trauma of violence and uprooting, the loss of life, and the travails of survival. This short introduction provides a comprehensive account of the causes, experience, and aftermath of this division and acquaints its readers with major debates in a succinct manner. It situates the history and politics of the division within the broader histories of colonial and postcolonial South Asia and draws attention to the multiplicity of meanings of 1947 and their relevance in framing and understanding contemporary challenges in South Asia.
Author : Pippa Virdee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108606342
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book From the Ashes of 1947 written by Pippa Virdee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book revisits the partition of the British Indian province of Punjab, its attendant violence and, as a consequence, the divided and dislocated Punjabi lives. Navigating nostalgia and trauma, dreams and laments, identity(s) and homeland(s), it explores the partition of the very idea of Punjabiyat. It was Punjab (along with Bengal) that was divided to create the new nations of India and Pakistan. In subsequent years, religious and linguistic sub-divisions followed - arguably, no other region of the sub-continent has had its linguistic and ethnic history submerged within respective national and religious identity(s). None paid the price of partition like the pluralistic, pre-partition Punjab. This work analyses the dissonance, distortion and dilution witnessed by Punjab and presents a detailed narrative of its past.
Author : Christos Hadjiyiannis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108840523
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth Century Literature and Politics written by Christos Hadjiyiannis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many twentieth-century literary writers were directly involved in political parties and causes, and many viewed their writing as part of their activism. This book explores literature's direct relationship to politics, offering new ways of thinking about the troubled relationship between literature and politics.
Author : Harris Roy Harris
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 147446890X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Linguistics of History written by Harris Roy Harris and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The task of the historian would be impossible without verbal resources for dating and describing past events. Historians from Herodotus onwards traditionally relied uncritically on their own native languages (including Greek, Latin and English) to provide all they needed. In so doing, they also took over a traditional Western view of the relationship between language, the world and the passage of time. This determined for them the rational limits of historical knowledge. Their 'histories' could not go beyond these limits without straying into the realms of myth or imagination. Their philosophy of history was circumscribed by their (often unstated) philosophy of language.This book is the first comprehensive attempt to trace the relationship between Western philosophy of history and Western philosophy of language. It spans the whole development of education from the ancient Greeks down to the present day. It examines the impact on history of modern movements, including structuralist and postmodern approaches, as well as the recent advent of television history.Features:*The first comprehensive attempt to relate Western philosophy of history to Western philosophy of language*The author is a leading authority on linguistics and the philosophy of language*The book is written in an accessible style for all levels of reader.
Author : Aamir R. Mufti
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400827663
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Enlightenment in the Colony written by Aamir R. Mufti and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enlightenment in the Colony opens up the history of the "Jewish question" for the first time to a broader discussion--one of the social exclusion of religious and cultural minorities in modern times, and in particular the crisis of Muslim identity in modern India. Aamir Mufti identifies the Hindu-Muslim conflict in India as a colonial variation of what he calls "the exemplary crisis of minority"--Jewishness in Europe. He shows how the emergence of this conflict in the late nineteenth century represented an early instance of the reinscription of the "Jewish question" in a non-Western society undergoing modernization under colonial rule. In so doing, he charts one particular route by which this European phenomenon linked to nation-states takes on a global significance. Mufti examines the literary dimensions of this crisis of identity through close readings of canonical texts of modern Western--mostly British-literature, as well as major works of modern Indian literature in Urdu and English. He argues that the one characteristic shared by all emerging national cultures since the nineteenth century is the minoritization of some social and cultural fragment of the population, and that national belonging and minority separatism go hand in hand with modernization. Enlightenment in the Colony calls for the adoption of secular, minority, and exilic perspectives in criticism and intellectual life as a means to critique the very forms of marginalization that give rise to the uniquely powerful minority voice in world literatures.
Author : Saʻādat Ḥasan Manṭo
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Pvt.Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780143430117
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Stars from Another Sky written by Saʻādat Ḥasan Manṭo and published by Penguin Random House India Pvt.Limited. This book was released on 2010 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unforgettable reminiscences about the eccentric, glamorous, yet angst-ridden Hindi film world of the 1940s. Saadat Hasan Manto, one of the greatest short story writers of the Urdu language, was also a film journalist and story-writer for the Hindi film industry in Bombay. As an insider he was privy to the most private moments of the men and women who have dazzled generations of audiences. In this series of sketches, Ashok Kumar, the screen idol of yore, emerges as a shy, yet brilliant actor, forever looking to flee the eager advances of his female fans; Nargis comes across as just another young girl looking for companionship among her peers before she steps on the ladder that will forever take her away from the comforts of an ordinary middle-class life; and Shyam-the dashing, handsome hero-is portrayed as a straightforward, flirtatious young man pining for the woman he loves. Manto also describes in detail the obsessions of Sitara Devi; the unfulfilled desires of Paro Devi; and the intriguing twists and turns which transform Neena Devi from an ordinary housewife into a pawn in the hands of film companies. He writes with relish about the bunglings of the comedian V.H. Desai and the incredible dedication of Nawab Kaashmiri to the art of acting. There are also stories about the rise of Nur Jehan as the greatest singer of her times; and the various peccadilloes of the musician, Rafiq Ghaznavi. With subjects ranging from film journalism to the sexual eccentricities of these stars, Manto brings to life a generation with his characteristic verve and honesty.
Author : Dana Spiotta
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743216709
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Lightning Field written by Dana Spiotta and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-01-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *A New York Times Notable Book and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year* From the National Book Award nominated author of Innocents and Others and Wayward, a “wonderfully funny, accomplished, and far-reaching first novel about our consumer colossus and the human products it makes and shapes” (Don DeLillo). In her bold and lyrical first novel, Dana Spiotta evokes Los Angeles as a land of Spirit Gyms and Miracle Miles, a great centerless place where chains of reference get lost, or finally don't matter. Mina lives with her screenwriter husband and works at her best friend Lorene's highly successful concept restaurants, which exploit the desires and idiosyncrasies of a rich, chic clientele. Almost inadvertently, Mina has acquired two lovers. And then there are the other men in her life: her father, a washed-up Hollywood director living in a yurt and hiding from his debtors, and her disturbed brother, Michael, whose attempts to connect with her force Mina to consider that she might still have a heart—if only she could remember where she had left it. Between her Spiritual Exfoliation and Detoxification therapies and her elaborate devotion to style, Lorene is interested only in charting her own perfection and impending decay. Although supremely confident in a million shallow ways, she, too, starts to fray at the edges. And there is Lisa, a loving mother who cleans houses, scrapes by, and dreams of food terrorists and child abductors, until even the most innocent events seem to hint at dark possibilities. Lightning Field explores the language tics of our culture—the consumerist fetishes, the self-obsession, and the possibility that you just might have gotten it all badly wrong. Playful and dire, raw and poetic, Lightning Field introduces a startling new voice in American fiction.
Author : Sharlie M Pickering
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1493136755
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (931 download)
Download or read book The Engine Drivers Daughter written by Sharlie M Pickering and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-04-02 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Engine Drivers Daughter is an honest and challenging story of a girl growing up in a country of political unrest and change. A country trying to shake of Colonialism, fighting for freedom and facing riots with many violent deaths. This little island struggles to find identity within its own culture, away from Colonial influences. As the eldest daughter of a staunch Roman Catholic, her life is filled with religious ritual. Through difficult situations she finds strength and emerges as strong and determined, believing for a better future. Sometimes funny, often sad, her journey will enthrall the reader. From a little girl to a young teenager with hopes and dreams, she faces injustice, but shows courage and survives the subtle bullying of small minded people. It is written candidly and with human fragility, giving an inside story to the subject of immigration. This book will surprise and entertain.
Author : Ian Copland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317877853
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book India 1885-1947 written by Ian Copland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The establishment of the Indian National Congress in 1885 marked a turning point in modern South Asian history. At the time, few grasped the significance of the event, nor understood the power that its leader would come to wield. From humble beginnings, the Congress led by Gandhi would go on to spearhead India s fight for independence from British rule: in 1947 it succeeded the British Raj as the regional ruling power. Ian Copland provides both a narrative and analysis of the process by which Indians and Pakistanis emancipated themselves from the seemingly iron-clad yoke of British imperialism. In so doing, he goes to the heart of what sets modern India apart from most other countries in the region its vigorous democracy.
Author : Dr. Chandan Kumar Jha
Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Echoes of the Grim Horror of Partition in Indian English Fiction written by Dr. Chandan Kumar Jha and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2020-12-24 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Partition is an enduring subject of Indian writers in English. The event was an unparalleled catastrophe of recent history which ravaged Indian and Pakistani and affected the Sikhs, Sindhis, Hindus, Punjabis and Bengal is in particular many hart rending stories and accounts of partition continue to be written and discussed and the blame game is still not over. It has been a favourite topic of many authors, artists, journalists, film makers and even writers of memoirs. The present Book discusses the highly complex subject of partition which deals with politics of greed, the abdication of the authorities and the sufferings of males and females during and after Partition. Numerous books have been written on the subject in regional and English language. For the purposes of present book entitled only four novels written in different decades, say 50s, 70s, 80s and 90s have been taken up and the novels like Train to Pakistan, Azadi, The Ice Candy Man and What the Body Remembers have been taken up for serious critical discussion in order to highlight the similarities and dissimilarities of approach and view points from both male and female points of view.
Author : Deepti Misri
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252096819
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Beyond Partition written by Deepti Misri and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communal violence, ethnonationalist insurgencies, terrorism, and state violence have marred the Indian natio- state since its inception. These phenomena frequently intersect with prevailing forms of gendered violence complicated by caste, religion, regional identity, and class within communities. Deepti Misri shows how Partition began a history of politicized animosity associated with the differing ideas of ""India"" held by communities and in regions on one hand, and by the political-military Indian state on the other. She moves beyond that formative national event, however, in order to examine other forms of gendered violence in the postcolonial life of the nation, including custodial rape, public stripping, deturbanning, and enforced disappearances. Assembling literary, historiographic, performative, and visual representations of gendered violence against women and men, Misri establishes that cultural expressions do not just follow violence but determine its very contours, and interrogates the gendered scripts underwriting the violence originating in the contested visions of what ""India"" means. Ambitious and ranging across disciplines, Beyond Partition offers both an overview of and nuanced new perspectives on the ways caste, identity, and class complicate representations of violence, and how such representations shape our understandings of both violence and India.
Author : Alvin Casey Beal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Sweet-pea Studies written by Alvin Casey Beal and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 926 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (971 download)
Download or read book Bulletin of the Agricultural Experiment Station written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : New York (State). Dept. of Agriculture
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1412 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Report written by New York (State). Dept. of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
