The Clever Sheikh of the Butanand Other Stories

The Clever Sheikh of the Butanand Other Stories
Author: Kate W. Harris
Publisher: Interlink Books
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1999
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Includes tales from Iceland, Sudan, Palestine, Lebanon, Tibet, amongst others. This series contains volumes which include 20 to 30 tales, accompanied by an introduction and a historical overview which give readers insights into the culture, the folk literature, and the lives of the people in the region.

Handbook of Twentieth-Century Literatures of India

Handbook of Twentieth-Century Literatures of India
Author: Nalini Natarajan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 451
Release: 1996-09-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 031303267X

India has a rich literary assemblage produced by its many different regional traditions, religious faiths, ethnic subcultures and linguistic groups. The published literature of the 20th century is a particularly interesting subject and is the focus of this book, as it represents the provocative conjuncture of the transitions of Indian modernity. This reference book surveys the major regional literatures of contemporary India in the context of the country's diversity and heterogeneity. Chapters are devoted to particular regions, and the arrangement of the work invites comparisons of literary traditions. Chapters provide extensive bibliographies of primary works, thus documenting the creative achievement of numerous contemporary Indian authors. Some chapters cite secondary works as well, and the volume concludes with a list of general works providing further information. An introductory essay overviews theoretical concerns, ideological and aesthetic considerations, developments in various genres, and the history of publishing in regional literatures. The introduction provides a context for approaching the chapters that follow, each of which is devoted to the literature of a particular region. Each chapter begins with a concise introductory section. The body of each chapter is structured according to social and historical events, literary forms, or broad descriptive or analytic trends, depending on the particular subject matter. Each chapter then closes with an extensive bibliography of primary works, thus documenting the rich literary tradition of the region. Some chapters also cite secondary sources as an aid to the reader. The final chapters of the book address special topics, such as sub-cultural literatures, or the interplay between literature and film. A list of additional sources of general information concludes the volume.

The Apprentice

The Apprentice
Author: Arun Joshi
Publisher: Orient Paperbacks
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2018-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8122206514

The Apprentice is a novel totally different in tone from all other novels and writings of Arun Joshi. The protagonist, Ratan Rathor, represents the quintessence Everyman — a contrast to other protagonists in so far as his intellectual level is much lower. An unsophisticated youth, jobless, he comes to the city in search of a career; unscrupulous and ready to prostitute himself for professional advancement. Seduced by materialistic values, he takes a bribe to clear a large lot of defective weapons. As a consequence, a brigadier, who is also his friend, has to desert his post and, to escape ignominy, commit suicide. A penitent Rathor, avoids confessing his guilt, but, tries to achieve redemption by cleaning the shoes of devotees, every morning, at a temple.

Coolie

Coolie
Author: Mulk Raj Anand
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1994
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780140186802

Coolie portrays the picaresque adventures of Munoo, a young boy forced to leave his hill village to fend for himself and discover the world. His journey takes him far from home to towns and cities, to Bombay and Simla, sweating as servant, factory-worker and rickshaw driver. It is a fight for survival that illuminates, with raw immediacy, the grim fate of the masses in pre-Partition India.

The Indian Imagination

The Indian Imagination
Author: K. D. Verma
Publisher: MacMillan
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2000
Genre: Imperialism in literature
ISBN: 9780333915226

This work examines the work of six 20th-century Indian writers who experienced both the colonial and postcolonial waves in Indian culture, and have explored this theme in their writings in English. It reads the work of Sri Aurobindo, Mulk Raj Anand, Balachandra Rajan, Nissim Ezekiel, Arun Joshi, and Anita Desai, examining issues of representation and identity, colonial and post colonial India, gender, power, and imperialism under a post structuralist and sociohistorical lens.

The Mahatma Misunderstood

The Mahatma Misunderstood
Author: Snehal Shingavi
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2014-11-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1783083298

“The Mahatma Misunderstood” studies the relationship between the production of novels in late-colonial India and nationalist agitation promoted by the Indian National Congress. The volume examines the process by which novelists who were critically engaged with Gandhian nationalism, and who saw both the potentials and the pitfalls of Gandhian political strategies, came to be seen as the Mahatma’s standard-bearers rather than his loyal opposition.

A Gardener in the Wasteland

A Gardener in the Wasteland
Author: Srividya Natarajan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2016
Genre: Equality
ISBN: 9788189059767

Graphic novel based on Gulāmagirī by Jotīrāva Govindarāva Phule.