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Walser, Robert
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• Author(s): Walser | Robert • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Music, Theatre & Films • BISAC: GeneralFew writers have ever experienced such a steady rise in their reputation and public profile as Swiss ...
View full detailsThe Elephant in the Room: Women Draw Their World
Spring Col.
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• Author(s): Spring Col. • Publisher: Zubaan • Publisher Imprint: Zubaan • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: GeneralThis book brings together sixteen comic artists, all women, from India and Germany to explore how women see the world and themselves, an...
View full detailsThe Saga of Satisar
Chandrakanta
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• Author(s): Chandrakanta • Publisher: Zubaan • Publisher Imprint: Zubaan • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: LiteraryThis magnificent, sprawling novel, a classic of Hindi literature, spans almost an entire century in the lives of several fami...
View full detailsSadhana: The Realisation of Life
Rabindranath Tagore
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• Author(s): Rabindranath Tagore • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: English LiteratureSadhana: The Realisation of Life *Sadhana* is a concise introduction to the spiritual heritage of ancient India by Rabindranat...
View full detailsGlobal Nepalis: Religion Culture and Community in a New and Old Diaspora
Gellner David N ; Hausner Sondra L.(Eds.)
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• Author(s): Gellner David N ; Hausner Sondra L.(Eds.) • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialReading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is...
View full detailsA Poetics of Modernity: Indian Theatre Theory 1850 to the Present
Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker
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• Author(s): Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismThe urban theatre which emerged under Anglo-European and local influences in col...
View full detailsSamuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
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• Publisher: Bloomsbury • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Acad Indi • Subject: Music, Theatre & Films"An impressively complete survey of the play in its cultural, theatrical, historical and political contexts." - David Bradby, co-editor of Con...
View full detailsThat Which Is Not Drawn
William kentridge
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• Author(s): William kentridge • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull • BISAC: AfricanWilliam Kentridge is one of most prominent contemporary artists in the world, best known for his animated films based on charcoal drawings and ...
View full detailsBrass Baja: Stories from the World of Indian Wedding Bands
D. BoothGregory
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• Author(s): D. BoothGregory • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: EthnomusicologyMost Indians are familiar with the sights and sounds of a wedding procession led by musicians clad in...
View full detailsThe Archaeoastronomy Of A Few Megalithic Sites Of Jharkhand
Subhashis Das
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• Author(s): Subhashis Das • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBookThe Archaeoastronomy of a Few Megalithic Sites of Jharkhand discards the belief that megaliths are only sepulchral monuments and illustrates that they also served...
View full detailsIqbal: A Selection of his Urdu and Persian Verse
David J. Matthews
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• Author(s): David J. Matthews • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: PoetryThis book provides a fresh English translation of a selection of Allama Iqbal's Urdu and Persian poetry in a form th...
View full detailsAt the Burning Abyss: Experiencing the Georg Trakl Poem
Franz Fuhmann
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• Author(s): Franz Fuhmann • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: PoetryAt the Burning Abyss is Franz Fuhmann’s magnum opus a gripping and profoundly personal encounter with the great ...
View full detailsFear Reverence Terror
Carlo Ginzburg
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• Author(s): Carlo Ginzburg • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - GeneralWe are surrounded by images, fairly drowning in them. From our cell phones to our computers, from o...
View full detailsAjmer Sharif: Awakening of Sufism in South Asia
Reema Abbasi
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• Author(s): Reema Abbasi • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyAjmer Sharif, the heart of homage for thousands of all faiths, welcomes a tidal wave of humanity for the saint known as Gharib N...
View full detailsRemains Of Spring : A Naga Village in the No Mans Land
Goswami Jibon Krishna, Jibon Krishna
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• Author(s): Goswami Jibon Krishna | Jibon Krishna • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Asian - IndicAn idyllic Naga village surrounded by misty hills, Hoyat is located in the No Man...
View full detailsDrawings To Murder Magic
Evelyne Grossman, Donald Nicholson-Smith
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• Author(s): Evelyne Grossman | Donald Nicholson-Smith • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: European - FrenchA poet, philosopher, essayist, playwright, actor and director, Antonin Artaud was ...
View full detailsTahir Tales: Plays from the Egyptian Revolution
Mohammed Albakry, Rebekah Maggor
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• Author(s): Mohammed Albakry | Rebekah Maggor • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Music, Theatre & Films • BISAC: GeneralMohammed Albakry is professor of English and applied linguistics at Middle Tennesse...
View full detailsUnraveling Farmer Suicides in India :
Nilotpal Kumar
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• Author(s): Nilotpal Kumar • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Violence in SocietyThe earliest cases of farmers’ suicides in India were reported in 1998 among cotton cultivators in...
View full detailsMohammed Rafi
Korti, Raju
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• Author(s): Korti | Raju • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: Music, Theatre & FilmsBefore Mohammed Rafi there can only be a Zero and after him there can be only Two. That should succinctly describe the legend...
View full detailsNatyacharya Sisir Kumar Bhaduri: Pioneer of Modern Indian Theatre
Amal Mitra
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• Author(s): Amal Mitra • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: Music, Theatre & FilmsThis ultimate collection on Natyacharya Sisir Kumar Bhaduri includes snippets of history from 19th century Bengali theatre and ...
View full detailsOxford Handbook Of Sikh Studies
Edited By Pashaura Singh And Louis E. Fenech
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• Author(s): Edited By Pashaura Singh And Louis E. Fenech • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy
Shikhandi: And Other Tales They Don't Tell You
Devdutt Pattanaik
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• Author(s): Devdutt Pattanaik • Publisher: Zubaan • Publisher Imprint: Zubaan • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Gender StudiesPatriarchy asserts men are superior to women, Feminism clarifies women and men are equal, Queerness questi...
View full detailsTreasures: Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad
Shobita Punja
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• Author(s): Shobita Punja • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThis book highlights treasures of the Salar Jung Museum, showcasing the extraordinary personal collection of the Sal...
View full detailsMegha Meets Vishwakarma: The Story of Indian Crafts
Harsha V. Dehejia
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• Author(s): Harsha V. Dehejia • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: Fine Arts
Contestation and Compliance :
Jaya Tyagi (Iias)
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• Author(s): Jaya Tyagi (Iias) • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralThis book is a study of the shifts in historical context of ritual observances from Vedic to Pu...
View full detailsBuddhism At Sarnath
Anand Singh
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• Author(s): Anand Singh • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaThis book is an attempt to discuss the status of Buddhism in Sārnāth on the basis of all th...
View full detailsLight of Asia
Suresh Chabria
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• Author(s): Suresh Chabria • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: Music, Theatre & FilmsLight of Asia: Indian Silent Cinema, 1912- 1934 in its new avatar celebrates the centenary of Indian cinema and the release...
View full detailsBombay Mumbai Immersions
Priya Sarukkai Chabria
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• Author(s): Priya Sarukkai Chabria • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: Photography • BISAC: Pictorials (see also Photography - Subjects & Themes - RegioMeditative essays and mesmerising photographs capture th...
View full detailsRabindranath Tagore: His World Of Art
Rabindranath Tagore
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• Author(s): Rabindranath Tagore • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Individual Artists - MonographsA collection of work from a prolific and well-respected contemporary Indian artist.
Rajasthan: Exploring Painted Shekhawati
Ilay Cooper
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• Author(s): Ilay Cooper • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: Photography • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaCycling into rarely visited northern Rajasthan’s tiny desert towns author discovers impressive buildin...
View full detailsFida-E-Lucknow: Tales of the City and Its People
Parveen Talha
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• Author(s): Parveen Talha • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: English LiteratureA collection of stories steeped in the flavour and texture of life in Lucknow. The author belongs to an old family of Awadh and was ...
View full detailsHeaven On Earth
Pepita Seth
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• Author(s): Pepita Seth • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Buildings - ReligiousThis remarkable and unique record is the outcome of seven years of careful research enhanced by se...
View full detailsNicholas Roerich: A Quest & A Legacy
Manju Kak
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• Author(s): Manju Kak • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Artists, Architects, PhotographersNicholas Roerich continues to arouse the interest of extensive scholarship, both adulatory and critic...
View full detailsFire Flies
Tagore, Rabindranath
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• Author(s): Tagore | Rabindranath • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: Hindi LiteratureWhen death comes and whispers to me, “Thy days are ended,” let me say to him, “I have lived in love and not in mere time". A T...
View full detailsGitanjali
Tagore, Rabindranath
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• Author(s): Tagore | Rabindranath • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: English LiteratureOne of the greatest works of poetry in the modern times, Tagore’s Gitanjali was originally published in Bengali on August 14...
View full detailsIndia's Culture :
Singh B.P.
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• Author(s): Singh B.P. • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Art & PoliticsThis book explores fascinating aspects of India's diversified cultural base-monuments, art tradition, r...
View full detailsYahan Vitasta Bahti Hai
Chandrakanta
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• Author(s): Chandrakanta • Publisher: Vani Prakashan • Publisher Imprint: VaniPrakas • Subject: Hindi LiteraturePersonalty Development
Rabindranath Tagore: A Pictorial Biography
Nityapriya Ghosh
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• Author(s): Nityapriya Ghosh • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Literary FiguresA tribute to one of India’s greatest personalities on the occasion of his hundred and fiftieth birth an...
View full detailsM.F. Husain: A Pictorial Tribute
Pradeep Chandra
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• Author(s): Pradeep Chandra • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyIn this richly photographed tribute to MF Husain, Pradeep Chandra celebrates the life of the man behind the artist in an atte...
View full detailsAlong The Red River: A Memoir
Sabita Goswami
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• Author(s): Sabita Goswami • Publisher: Zubaan • Publisher Imprint: ZubaanAbout the Book: Along the Red River: A Memoir This unique autobiography by veteran BBC and Associated Pressjournalist Sabita Goswami documents the extraordinary,single-han...
View full detailsPandit Nehru Aur Anya Mahapurush (Hindi) Hardcover – 1 January 2008
Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
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• Author(s): Ramdhari Singh Dinkar • Publisher: Rajkamal Prakashan • Publisher Imprint: RajkamalP • Subject: Hindi LiteraturePandit Nehru Aur Anya Mahapurush
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Bela Mukherjee
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• Author(s): Bela Mukherjee • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyHow many faces does a woman have? A question that has always puzzled mankind and Professor Kumar is no exception. This intr...
View full detailsPlays Of Mahesh Dattani A Critical Response
R.K. Dhawan
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• Author(s): R.K. Dhawan • Publisher: Prestige Books • Publisher Imprint: Prestige B • Subject: English LiteratureMahesh Dattani is the foremost Indian English dramatist today. The pioneering study makes an attempt at evaluating the major plays o...
View full detailsWomen's Voices :
De Souza Eunice, Lindsay Pereira
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• Author(s): De Souza Eunice | Lindsay Pereira • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Women AuthorsIn this anthology Eunice de Souza brings together the writings of women whose contributions in various areas social and li...
View full detailsBitter Soil
Mahasweta Devi
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• Author(s): Mahasweta Devi • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English LiteratureMahasweta Devi is widely acknowledged as one of India's foremost writers. Her trenchant, powerful, satiric fiction has won her ...
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Tendulkar Vijay, Priya Tendulkar, Kumud Mehta
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• Author(s): Tendulkar Vijay | Priya Tendulkar | Kumud Mehta • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThis is the first Oxford India Paperback printing...
View full detailsArt of Sound: Creativity in Film Sound and Electroacoustic Music
Knight-Hill, Andrew
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• Author(s): Knight-Hill | Andrew • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Focal Pr • Subject: Music, Theatre & Films • BISAC: Genres & Styles - ElectronicBringing together a diverse group of world leading professionals acro...
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Crawford, Lizabeth A.
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• Author(s): Crawford | Lizabeth A. • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralUnlike other texts for undergraduate sociological social psychology courses, In...
View full detailsAnother Lens: Photography and the Emergence of Image Culture
Rahaab Allana
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• Author(s): Rahaab Allana • Publisher: Tulika Books • Publisher Imprint: Tulika Books • Subject: Photography • BISAC: Asian - Indian & South AsianAnother Lens: Photography and the Emergence of Image Culture, volume 4 in the India Since the 9...
View full detailsStudiolo - PB
Giorgio Agamben
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• Author(s): Giorgio Agamben • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: AestheticsA brief study of select Western art from Italy’s foremost philosopher. In Renaissance palaces, the studio...
View full detailsThe Sociological Quest
Aarons, Haydn
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• Author(s): Aarons | Haydn • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Social WorkStarting sociology can be daunting. This user-friendly introduction takes the reader on a quest...
View full detailsThe Psychology of Teaching and Learning Music
McClellan, Edward R.
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• Author(s): McClellan | Edward R. • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Music, Theatre & Films • BISAC: Educational PsychologyThe Psychology of Teaching and Learning Music introduces readers to the key t...
View full detailsSomnath Hore Art of Wounds
Atanu Bhattacharya
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• Author(s): Atanu Bhattacharya • Publisher: Mapin Publishing • Publisher Imprint: MapinPub • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: History - 20th & 21st Century• Documents artist Somnath Hore's paper-pulp prints series titled Wounds, its inception and...
View full detailsThe Bleeding Border: Stories of Bengal Partition
Joyjit Ghosh, Mir Ahammad Ali
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• Author(s): Joyjit Ghosh | Mir Ahammad Ali • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyWhen Mr Radcliffe was asked by the British rulers with tacit concurrence of the Indian leaders to draw a li...
View full detailsConnected Places: Region, Pilgrimage, and Geographical Imagination in India
Anne Feldhaus
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• Author(s): Anne Feldhaus • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyConnected Places is a study in the religious geography of India. It explores ways in which people live in and understand their w...
View full detailsReligious Reading And Everyday Lives In Devotional Hinduism
Emilla Bachrach
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• Author(s): Emilla Bachrach • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy
The Language of Languages
Wa Thiong'o, Ngugi
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• Author(s): Wa Thiong'o | Ngugi • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Foreign Languages • BISAC: AfricanWith clear, conversational prose, this is the first book dedicated entirely to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s writing...
View full detailsConcealing Caste: Narratives of Passing and Personhood in Dalit Literature
Satyanarayanan, Kusuma
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• Author(s): Satyanarayanan | Kusuma • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: GeneralConcealing Caste opens a window into the experience of women and men in India who, though born into c...
View full detailsRamanujar: The Life and Ideas of Ramanuja
Dr Indira Parthasarathy
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• Author(s): Dr Indira Parthasarathy • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: ReligiousIndira Parthasarathy's Tamil play 'Ramanujar' was awarded the Saraswati Samman by the K.K. Birla Found...
View full detailsWe Come From Mist: Writings from Meghalaya
Janice Pariat
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• Author(s): Janice Pariat • Publisher: Zubaan • Publisher Imprint: Zubaan • Subject: English LiteratureThis book is an offering―of prose, poetry, musical lyrics, and visual art―by the women of Meghalaya in Northeast India. One of the smalles...
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