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.

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.

Shadow States

Shadow States
Author: Bérénice Guyot-Réchard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107176794

This book explores Sino-Indian tensions from the angle of state-building, showing how they stem from their competition for the Himalayan people's allegiance.

The Church of the East and the Church of England

The Church of the East and the Church of England
Author: J. F. Coakley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 438
Release: 1992
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

In the years before the First World War the Church of England maintained a mission of help to the Assyrian Church of the East (popularly known as the Nestorian Church) in its homeland, a corner of eastern Turkey and northwestern Persia. Its ideal was to restore this body to its ancient vitality and its place as an independent branch of the true church. The Mission faced many problems. At home there was the difficulty of justifying support of a "heretical" church. In the field, the confidence of the Assyrians proved difficult to gain, especially in competition with other missions: French Catholic and American Presbyterian. Still, it had notable accomplishments. Archbishop Benson, the founder, strictly ruled out any proselytizing to the Anglican church, and in this respect his Assyrian Mission withstands scrutiny in modern eyes better than some other missions of the Victorian era. The first study to cover this history, Coakley's book will be of interest to scholars concerned with oriental churches and church history, as well as students of Middle Eastern history.