Author: Premacanda
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
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Premchand (1880-1936) was a pioneering figure in modern Hindi literature. This omnibus edition of his works gathers together two distinguished novels (Nirmala and Gaban) and two short-story collections (The World of Premchand and Widows, Wives and Other Heroines). It also includes an introduction by Premchand scholar Francesca Orsini.
Author: Ulka Anjaria
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019764791X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 745
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"The Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures is a compilation of scholarship on Indian literature from the 19th century to the present in a range of Indian languages. On one hand, because of reasons associated with national academic structures, publishing resources, and global visibility, English writing gets privileged over all the other linguistic traditions in the scholarship on Indian literatures. On the other hand, within the scholarship on regional language literary productions (in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, etc.), the critical works and the surveys focus only on that particular language and therefore frequently suffer from a lack of comparative breadth and/or global access. Both reflect the paradigm of monolingualism within which much literary scholarship on Indian literature takes place. This handbook instead focuses on the multilingual pathways through which modern Indian literature gets constituted. It features cutting-edge literary criticism from at least seventeen languages, and on traditional literary genres as well as more recent ones like graphic novels. It shows the deep connections and collaborations across genres, languages, nations, and regions that produce a literature of diverse contact zones, generating innovations on form, aesthetics, and technique. Foregrounding themes such as modernity and modernism, gender, caste, diaspora, and political resistance, the book collects an array of perspectives on this vast topic"--
Author: Munshi Premchand
Publisher: Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
ISBN: 9350830698
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Author: Premacanda
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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For children.
Author: Amrit Rai
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Premchand, 1881-1936, Hindi and Urdu litterateur.
Author: Meenakshi Mukherjee
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Extract from review: '...Mukherjee's book is valuable as an original, insightful commentary upon the Indian regional novel. Further, it suggests a methodology for examining the means by which other derivative literatures within the colonized world reconciled the demands of western realism with the representation of indigenous realities.' Modern Fiction Studies
Author: M. Asaduddin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317205715
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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This volume explores the reception of Premchand’s works and his influence in the perception of India among Western cultures, especially Russian, German, French, Spanish and English. The essays in the collection also take a critical look at multiple translations of the same work (and examine how each new translation expands the work’s textuality and annexes new readership for the author) as well as representations of celluloid adaptations of Premchand’s works. An important intervention in the field of translation studies, this book will interest scholars and researchers of comparative literature, cultural studies and film studies.
Author: Mehr Afshan Farooqi
Publisher: OUP India
ISBN: 9780198069171
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Covering 100 years of literary production, this volume includes poems, essays and sketches, autobiography, drama, humour and satire, and letters by some of the leading lights of modern Urdu literature. The volume also includes interesting anecdotes on well-known literary personages like Ghalib.
Author: Munshi Premchand
Publisher: Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
ISBN: 935083720X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 405
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'Sevasadan' is one of the most representative novels of Munshi Premchand. Soon after it was published, the novel kicked up national debates on such pertinent social issues as prostitution and the place of women in the Indian society. Social taboos dominated the scenario as much as reformers' zeal to tight the rot in the social value system. The story oscillates round a glamour-struck young girl's life. who was brought up with utmost love and care but whose father had to suffer ignominy at the hands of his adversaries for taking a once-in-lifetime bribe and being jailed for that. Her prospective engagement was broken because her mother, now made a destitute with her daughters, failed to meet the demand of dowry from the bridegroom's family. Hapless and stranded, she. along with her mother and sibling sister, was under care of her maternal-uncle. gets married to a middle-aged pauper and pushed to life-long poverty. She failed to get what she had been dreaming for since her childhood. She fought continual battles between aspiration for a respected prosperous lifestyle, and the existing value system which forced her to live with poverty. By the turns of events she ends up into a life of a tawaif, hatefully tries to come out of the nuisance but the irony of fate makes her the centre-point of all debates on how prostitutes could be rescued and rehabilitated. 'Sevasadan' exposes the time Premchand lived in. It also reflects how seriously the author had waged a battle, which is being fought in the Indian society even today.
Author: Verrier Elwin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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From presenting, in Elwin's own words, the account of his going to work among the tribal peoples of central India, to affording glimpses of his seminal work on the unique institution of the ghotul among the Murias of Bastar, or relating Elwin's attempts at understanding the high incidence of murder and suicide among the Bison-horn Marias of Bastar, The Oxford India Elwin looks beyond the general and the oft-repeated to include within its covers the many fascinating discoveries that Verrier Elwin made while working among the different tribal communities in India. While the Introduction to Folk Songs of the Maikal Hills discusses the principles of translating folk poetry, the importance of the elements of nature, magic, the supernatural, and song and dance in tribal life is highlighted through selections from The Myths of Middle India. Whether providing glimpses of Elwin's travels in the remote Northeast, or discussing the effects of 'civilization' on tribal art, or describing the Naga people and their customs, or presenting the myths of the NEFA region, the effort is to bring the man, his thoughts and actions, the contributions he made towards upholding and preserving the cultural diversity of the Subcontinent, closer to readers through a single volume which will be both accessible and affordable. The book will be a valuable addition to the Oxford India Collection which includes the writings of Ghalib, Premchand, Ramanujan, Nehru, and Gandhi. Armed with a useful and perceptive Introduction by G.N. Devy, this edition will appeal to all those who know and adore Elwin, as also students and researchers of anthropology, cultural studies, and Indian history.
