Paraja (Oip)

Paraja (Oip)
Author: Gopinath Mahanty
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 373
Release: 1993-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780195623918

Written originally in Oriya in 1945 and translated here for the first time, Paraja is a classic of modern Indian fiction. It tells on an epic scale the story of a tribal patriarch and his family in the mountainous jungles of Orissa. The slow decline in the fortunes of this family - from the quiet prosperity of a subsistence livelihood towards bondage to the local moneylender - is both poignantly individualized as well as symbolic of the erosion of a whole way of life within peasant communities. The novel, furthermore, transcends what it documents because its characters are not merely primitive tribesmen ensnared by a predatory moneylender. Mohanty's protagonists are also quintessentially men and women waging heroic but futile war against a hostile universe. As the citation of the Jnanpith Award of 1974 put it - 'in Mohanty's hands the social is lifted to the level of the metaphysical.'

Tribe, Space and Mobilisation

Tribe, Space and Mobilisation
Author: Maguni Charan Behera
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 467
Release: 2022-03-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9811900590

This book presents multidisciplinary critical engagement in Tribe-British relations, the interfacing between colonial mind and tribal worldview, and some of their contemporary implications to conceptualise tribal space and mobilisation at national, regional, and native levels. The approach, argument, and theoretical underpinnings introduce a new perspective dimension of enquiry in tribal studies and enlarge its scope as a distinct academic discipline. It provides theoretical and methodological insights and an innovative analytical frame for a grand intellectual engagement beyond the boundary of conventional disciplines but within the interactive matrix of India’s social, cultural, political, religious, and economic space. The book is a pioneering work in the emerging field of tribal studies and a vital reference point for students and academics and non-academics alike who are engaged in tribal issues.

Words, Texts and Worlds in Translation

Words, Texts and Worlds in Translation
Author: Aditya Kumar Panda
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2022-09-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1527588203

This book studies various aspects of translation. It deals with the identity of translation, its determinants, politics and translation, and the translation of scientific terminology. It also discusses some translations in the light of various theoretical approaches and strategies. The examples provided here, as well as the translations discussed and the approaches adopted for analysis will definitely add to the knowledge system of translation studies, comparative literature and applied linguistics.

Contemporary Society

Contemporary Society
Author: Georg Pfeffer
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
Total Pages: 464
Release: 1997
Genre: Ethnology
ISBN: 9788180695346

Contributed articles in honor of S. N. Ratha, former professor at Sambalpur University, Orissa.

Communities, Segments, Synonyms, Surnames and Titles

Communities, Segments, Synonyms, Surnames and Titles
Author: K. S. Singh
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 1976
Release: 1996
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Based on first-hand surveys, as well as secondary sources, Volume V111 contains a comprehensive list of communities across the country with their synonyms and segments, including allexogenous units, titles, and surnames.

Under the Bhasha Gaze

Under the Bhasha Gaze
Author: P. P. Raveendran
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2023-03-03
Genre:
ISBN: 0192871552

This book on Indian literature offers a critique of the aesthetics and politics of modernity as embodied in Indian bhasha literature of the past two centuries. It discusses the complex ways in which the bhasha imagination, even as it reshaped the history of colonial modernity, simultaneously allowed itself to be shaped by it in turn.

Legal Aid

Legal Aid
Author:
Publisher: Raman Mittal
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2012
Genre: Legal aid
ISBN: 8192120422

Papers presented at an international conference.