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From the author of a masterpiece such as Devdas, comes another story that is widely read and appreciated by readers and critics alike. Charitraheen explores the misogyny and patriarchy of the Indian……続きを見る

Saratchandra Chattopadhyay' s Devdas is a heartbreaking love story, told and retold since its release in 1917. It depicts the Bengali society in the early 1900s, shedding a light on social concerns ……続きを見る

Sandhya is the daughter of an upper-class Brahmin and she is proud to be one. That is why she loathes Arun, who is educated and well-mannered, but a lower-class man. But the tables turn when Sandhya……続きを見る

A small village called Chandigarh is plagued by the atrocities of the landlord Jivananda. Jivananda and some clever people of the village come together to grab the property of the innocent people of……続きを見る

This is the story of Kamal--a bold, remarkable, and confident woman who never hesitates to be her own person. She travels on her own, finds work for herself, has liaisons with multiple men, and unab……続きを見る

Badi Didi is the first novel written by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay--one of the most popular Bengali writers of all time, the creator of iconic works such as Devdas and Parineeta. Madhavi, affection……続きを見る

Path ke Davedar attacks social parochialism and explains the path of love and Revolution. It presents Revolution in a way in which life and death and sin and virtue all disappear and what remains is……続きを見る

Set in Calcutta, India, in the early twentieth century, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay' s Parineeta is a bittersweet tale of love, which explores social issues related to religion and class and how the……続きを見る

Experience the enchantment of Rudyard Kipling's classic, The Jungle Book, with this convenient pocket-sized edition. Join Mowgli and his animal companions on a captivating journey filled with advent……続きを見る

Life Goes Beyond The Quest In Avalon is an insightful book dedicated to understanding and advocating for the LGBTQIA+ community, particularly within the Indian context. It begins with an exploration……続きを見る

This book explores narratives of nationalism in the Hindi novel (1940s–80s), engaging with mainstream, populist, political conceptualisation of a postcolonial nation and local, cultural, often margi……続きを見る

Initially created to counteract broadcasts from Nazi Germany, the BBC’s Eastern Service became a cauldron of global modernism and an unlikely nexus of artistic exchange. Directed at an educated Indi……続きを見る

Writing about poetry follows models provided either by academic scholarship or literary journalism, each with its pitfalls. The former distances the reader from the poem and effaces the critic’s per……続きを見る

Print Modernity in Colonial Assam considers the historical context of colonial Assam and traces literary trends which were subject to acknowledgment and evasion in the (over)emphasized periodicals a……続きを見る

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay's 'Bengali Literature' is a seminal work that delves into the rich and vibrant literary tradition of Bengal. The book meticulously examines the evolution of Bengali lite……続きを見る

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, also known as Chattopadhyay (1838-1894) was an Indian novelist, poet, essayist and journalist. Born in the village of Kanthalpara, Naihati, in an orthodox Bengali Brahmin ……続きを見る

How does a reader learn to read an unfamiliar genre? The Novel in Nineteenth-Century Bengal answers this question by looking at the readers of some of the first Bengali novelists, including Bankimch……続きを見る

Writing about poetry follows models provided either by academic scholarship or literary journalism, each with its pitfalls. The former distances the reader from the poem and effaces the critic’s per……続きを見る

Following Françoise d’Eaubonne’s creation of the term “ecofeminism” in 1974, scholars around the world have explored ways that the degradation of the environment and the subjugation of women are lin……続きを見る

A very basic way of thinking about literary theory is that these ideas act as different lenses critics use to view and talk about art, literature, and even culture. These different lenses allow crit……続きを見る

William Butler Yeats is regarded as the most important Irish poet and as one of the major poets of the twentieth century poetry in English. But readers and researchers often complain that the books ……続きを見る

Creative writing in English finds a steady growth in the post-colonial India and both its quantity and variety are so huge that literature in any other Indian language fails to compete with it. One ……続きを見る

The terms ¯literary theory and ¯critical theory refer to essentially the same fields of study. They both address ways of looking at literature beyond the typical plot-theme-character-setting studies……続きを見る

The book rereads the historiography of the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971 documented by Bangladeshi, Indian, and Western historians to trace the position of women who share a negligible place ……続きを見る

How is the city represented through literature from the post-colonies? This book searches for an answer to this question, by keeping its focus on Indiaーfrom after Independence to the millennia. How……続きを見る

Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction brings together three strains of detective fiction: British, American, and Bengal. The import of detective fiction from Britain has influence……続きを見る

Focusing on the historical and contemporary narration of the Partition of India, Violent Belongings examines transnational South Asian culture from 1947 onwards. Spanning the Indian subcontinent and……続きを見る

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is one of the most pre-eminent postcolonial theorists writing today and a scholar of genuinely global reputation. This collection, first published in 1993, presents some o……続きを見る

Composed between 800 and 950 AD, Narayana's Hitopadesa is one of the best-known of all works in Sanskrit literature. A fascinating collection of fables, maxims and sayings in verse, it combines a wi……続きを見る

What India’s founders derived from Western political traditions as they struggled to free their country from colonial rule is widely understood. Less well-known is how India’s own rich knowledge tra……続きを見る