Arts, Literature and Humanities

Samboli! means echcharike in Kannada ‘Be careful!’ Samboli! This expression is not from yesterday or the day before; it is centuries old.Manu, the ...

About the Book Salience in Second Language Acquisition brings together contributions from top scholars of second language acquisition (SLA) in a co...

“Saksham- Myriad Shades of women”, is an attempt to bring out the glimpses of the journeys of different women from different walks of life. The sto...

About the Book Based on fieldwork carried out in West Bengal, Sailing on the Sea of Love is a pioneering study of the songs of the Baul --a Bengali...

About the Book Sacrifice has always been central to the study of religion yet attempts to understand and assess the concept have usually been contr...

This play is a dramatised version of the first few chapters of Tagore’s novel Rajarshi, but the plot of the drama is a great improvement upon that ...

About the Book When families are faced with crises and challenges-- unemployment, the untimely death of a family member, natural disasters and chro...

About the Book A fascinating comparative account of sacred languages and their role in and beyond religion --written for a broad, interdisciplinary...

The battle between scientific temper and superstition has raged since ages. One may believe that unusual rituals and customs are extinct in the tim...

About the Book Twayne's United States Authors, English Authors, and World Authors Series present concise critical introductions to great writers an...

About the Book Werner Bräunig was once regarded as the great hope of East German literature—until an extract from Rummelplatz was read before th...

About the Book Praised by Paul Auster as "one of the rare poets in the history of literature to have sustained the highest level of artistic excell...

Rudali from Fiction to Performance

About the Book Rubble Flora is a selection of poems from the distinguished, half-century-long career of German poet Volker Braun. Born in the forme...

About the Book Rubble flora is a selection of poems from the distinguished, half-century-long career of German poet volker Braun. Born in the forme...

Royal Tombs of India, the first book of its kind on the Islamic royal tombs of India, focuses on the Tughluq and Lodi Tombs, Qutb Shahi Tombs and M...

About the Book The first of the UN Millennium Goals was to reduce extreme poverty and in 2014 it was halved compared to 1990, and now the goal is t...

About the Book Like any other subject, the study of religion is a child of its time. Shaped and forged over the course of the twentieth century, it...

About the Book Consumption research is burgeoning across a wide range of disciplines. The Routledge Handbook on Consumption gathers experts from ar...

This handbook explores the diversity of religious practice in tribal cultures in India. It looks at the interactive spaces where the religious prac...

About the Book Discussions of street culture exist in a variety of academic disciplines, yet a handbook that brings together the diversity of schol...

About the Book In this comprehensive, accessible handbook, acclaimed social theorist Anthony Elliott brings together internationally distinguished ...

About the Book What are we to make of our digital social lives and the forces that shape it? Should we feel fortunate to experience such networked ...

About the Book In Asia, where authoritarian-developmental states have proliferated, statehood and social control are heavily contested in borderlan...

About the Book Taking a thematic approach, this new companion provides an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and international study of American li...

The pictorial world of Rini Dhumal is an amalgam of myth and realism, where nostalgia and sombre tones meet to create powerful protagonists that ex...

This major new edition of Shakespeare's greatest tragedy of love argues that that play is ultimately Juliet's. The play text is expertly edited and...

Uniquely, this guide analyses the play's critical and performance history and recent criticism, as well as including five essays offering radically...

About the Book This book introduces students to the complex and foreign world of Roman religion and to major trends in its study. Praised in the En...

Contemporary Indian Writers in English CIWE) is a series that presents critical commentaries on some of the best-known names in the genre. With the...

Social security is an investment in human resources, which can provide overall security for a person within the family, workplace, and society. The...

Presenting the life and work of Vinodineeben Neelkanth (1907-1987), this book offers a portrait of a woman who played many roles with distinction: ...

About the Book In this series of illuminating essays, Claire Chambers explores global literature, with a special focus on texts from Pakistan and i...

Ritwik Ghatak, the famous filmmaker, is known all over India and abroad for some of the greatest films made in India, which set the scene for futur...

About the Book In this age of migration, more and more children are growing up in immigrant or transnational families. The "new second generation" ...

About the Book Sunshine plays an important role in all aspects of life but there has been little social analysis of the sun and its place in our wo...

The Rights of Man emerged out of a student-teacher relationship. It started as an educational translation project for Neilesh Bose who, in 2001, ha...

About the Book The newly updated Right and Wrong 2nd Edition is an accessible introduction to the major traditions in western philosophical ethics,...

Rhythmic Delights an Anthology of Poems (M.G.University)

This book focuses on the interFace between democracy and violence, with specific reference to revolutionary strategies and mobilisations. Revolut...

This book is the first in-depth account of the uprising in Iran that began on 16 September 2022, when a young woman, Mahsa Amini, was killed by the...

About the Book Revising and Editing for Translators provides guidance and learning materials for translation students and professional translators ...

About the Book Record-setting ticket sales. Heated controversy. Sold-out viewings for church groups. And feuding critics. Mel Gibson's The Passion ...

Reverse glass painting is a fascinating yet comparatively unknown facet of Indian art that flourished in the mid-19th century. Created by Chinese a...