Raj Kahini

Raj Kahini PDF Author: Abanindranath Tagore
Publisher: Vij Books India Pvt Ltd
ISBN: 9382652485
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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Book Description
An unforgettable historical novella that leads you to the flowing sand dunes of Rajasthan, the clash of swords, to the courtyard of kings and queens. The book captures the spirit of a heroic past that never fails to move readers even today.

Raj Kahini

Raj Kahini PDF Author: Abanindranath Tagore
Publisher: Vij Books India Pvt Ltd
ISBN: 9382652485
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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Book Description
An unforgettable historical novella that leads you to the flowing sand dunes of Rajasthan, the clash of swords, to the courtyard of kings and queens. The book captures the spirit of a heroic past that never fails to move readers even today.

Raj Kahini

Raj Kahini PDF Author: Abanindranath Tagore
Publisher: Katha
ISBN: 9788187649786
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Though A Painter, Abanindranath Tagore Loved Writing For Children. Perhaps That Is Why His Uncle Rabindranath Tagore Had Urged Him To Write. When Abanindranath Finally Did, These Unforgettable Stories Were Born. Now For The First Time In English.

Rajkahini

Rajkahini PDF Author: Abanindranath Tagore Translated By Monimala Dhar
Publisher: books catalog
ISBN: 9788129109026
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Rajput hero has always held a special place in India's cultural landscape. Legend, myth, history and literary imagination combined to present the Rajput as the ultimate embodiment of heroism, honour and chivalry, capable of inspiring the most profound sacrifices among his dependants and clan. History is his source, and imagination and language are his tools to infuse characters with vitality. Each of the stories in Abanindranath Tagore's Rajkahini, dealing with the lives and events of a dynasty of warriors of ancient Mewar of erstwhile Rajputana, is superbly singular. Yet they have a common vein running through them - gripping accounts of Rajput courage and valour. Abanindranath Tagore's lyrical style of narration weaving oral tales and history, has helped characters like Shiladitya, Goha, Bappaditya, Padmini, Chanda and others live a life beyond the pages of history books.

Sarama and Her Children

Sarama and Her Children PDF Author: Bibek Debroy
Publisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 9780143064701
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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The Most Recognized Dog In Indian Myth Is The Dog In The Mahabharata That Accompanied The Pandavas Not Actually A Dog But Dharma In Disguise. There Are, However, Several More References To Dogs In The Classical Texts. Mentioned For The First Time In The Rg Veda, The Eponymous Sarama Is The Dog Of The Gods And The Ancestor Of All Dogs. In Sarama And Her Children, The Evolution Of The Indian Attitude Towards Dogs Is Traced Through The Vedas, Epics, Puranas, Dharmashastras And Niti Shastras. The Widespread Assumption Is That Dogs Have Always Been Looked Down Upon In Hinduism And A Legacy Of That Attitude Persists Even Now. Tracing The Indian Attitude Towards Dogs In A Chronological Fashion, Beginning With The Pre-Vedic Indus Valley Civilization, Bibek Debroy Discovers That The Truth Is More Complicated. Dogs Had A Utilitarian Role In Pre-Vedic And Vedic Times. There Were Herd Dogs, Watchdogs And Hunting Dogs, And Dogs Were Used As Beasts Of Burden. But By The Time Of The Mahabharata, Negative Associations Had Begun To Creep In. Debroy Argues Convincingly That The Change In The Status Of The Dog In India Has To Do With The Progressive Decline Of The Traditional Vedic Gods Indra, Yama And Rudra (Who Were Associated With Dogs), And The Accompanying Elevation Of Vishnu, Associated With An Increase In Brahmana Influence. Debroy Demonstrates That Outside The Mainstream Caste Hindu Influence, As Reflected In Doctrines Associated With Shiva And In Buddhist Jataka Tales, Dogs Did Not Become Outcasts Or Outcastes. Drawing References From High And Low Literature, Folk Tales And Temple Art, Sarama And Her Children Dispels Some Myths And Ensures That The Indian Dog Also Has Its Day.

Can the Subaltern Speak?

Can the Subaltern Speak? PDF Author: Rosalind C. Morris
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231143851
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Book Description
Acknowledgments p. ix Introduction Rosalind C. Morris p. 1 Part 1 Text "Can the Subaltern Speak?" revised edition, from the "History" chapter of Critique of Postcolonial Reason Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak p. 21 Part 2 Contexts and Trajectories Reflections on "Can the Subaltern Speak?": Subaltern Studies After Spivak Partha Chatterjee p. 81 Postcolonial Studies: Now That's History Ritu Birla p. 87 The Ethical Affirmation of Human Rights: Gayatri Spivak's Intervention Drucilla Cornell p. 100 Part 3 Speaking of (Not) Hearing Death and the Subaltern Rajeswari Sunder Rajan p. 117 Between Speaking and Dying: Some Imperatives in the Emergence of the Subaltern in the Context of U.S. Slavery Abdul Janmohamed p. 139 Subalterns at War: First World War Colonial Forces and the Politics of the Imperial War Graves Commission Michèle Barrett p. 156 Part 4 Contemporaneities and Possible Futures: (Not) Speaking and Hearing Biopower and the New International Division of Reproductive Labor Pheng Cheah p. 179 Moving from Subalternity: Indigenous Women in Guatemala and Mexico Jean Franco p. 213 Part 5 In Response In Response: Looking Back, Looking Forward Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak p. 227 Appendix: Can the Subaltern Speak? From Marxism and the Interpretation of History Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak p. 237 Bibliography p. 293 Contributors p. 309 Index p. 313.

The Survivors

The Survivors PDF Author: Gurdial Singh
Publisher: Katha
ISBN: 9788189020248
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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A carpenter's son, winner of practically every literary award in the country, including the Padma Shri for literature, and the Jnanpith for lifetime achievement, Gurdialji has been and done so many things in his life: He has made wheels for bullock carts, been a college professor for a living, painted for leisure, moulded water tanks out of iron sheets. He's lived life and so can write life. His writings function in the realm of human creativity, hovering between the private and the public, the individual and the social.

The Refugee Woman

The Refugee Woman PDF Author: Paulomi Chakraborty
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199095396
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 399

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The Refugee Woman examines the Partition of 1947 by engaging with the cultural imagination of the ‘refugee woman’ in West Bengal, particularly in three significant texts of the Partition of Bengal—Ritwik Ghatak’s film Meghe Dhaka Tara; and two novels, Jyotirmoyee Devi’s Epar Ganga, Opar Ganga and Sabitri Roy’s Swaralipi. It shows that the figure of the refugee woman, animated by the history of the political left and refugee movements, and shaped by powerful cultural narratives, can contest and reconstitute the very political imagination of ‘woman’ that emerged through the long history of dominant cultural nationalisms. The reading it offers elucidates some of the complexities of nationalist, communal, and communist gender-politics of a key period in post-independence Bengal.

Love in the Time of Insurgency

Love in the Time of Insurgency PDF Author: Birendra Kumar Bhattacharyya
Publisher: Katha
ISBN: 9788187649069
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Book Description
This Sahitya Akademi award winning novel is a vivid and evocative account of the Naga people during the Second World War.

Storytellers @ Work

Storytellers @ Work PDF Author: Nandita Bhardwaj
Publisher: Katha
ISBN: 9788189020019
Category : Cultural pluralism in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Book Description
A celebration of words. An explosion of ideas. The joy of storytelling. From writers, translators and philosophers to storytellers, filmmakers and economists each of them wield the power of story to offer a glimpse into their art and craft, thoughts and ideas. Twenty one stimulating talks and essays that invite the reader to dip where they choose, to take the book's challenge where they please.

New Urdu Fictions

New Urdu Fictions PDF Author: Jogindar Pāl
Publisher: Katha
ISBN: 9788187649854
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Book Description
Selected by celebrated author Joginder Paul, this is a compilation of 36 short stories that explore the diverse strands of Urdu short fiction in the last three decades.