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Filmi Jagat: A Scrapbook: Shared Universe of Early Hindi Cinema

This book proposes a methodological framework for an ethical reading of Old Testament narrative and demonstrates its benefits and validity by provi...

Hailed by the poet Paul eluard as an ‘absolute masterpiece’ upon its first appearance in 1946, René char’s hypnos is both a remarkable work of lite...

Throughout her distinguished career, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has sought to locate and confront shifting forms of social and cultural oppression....

‘‘यदि वाणी की शक्ति ईश्वर का सबसे उत्तम प्रसाद है; यदि भाषा की उत्पत्ति बहुत-से विद्वानों द्वारा ईश्वर से मानी गयी है? यदि शब्दों द्वारा अन्तःकरण क...

Mainstream feminist discourse has failed to fully engage with commercial sex work. In a series of essays, this book corrects this lacuna. Moving be...

This book is a study of the shifts in historical context of ritual observances from Vedic to Puranic traditions. It looks into the representations ...

This book is a philosophical analysis of ordinary concepts like human action and consciousness, along with an exploration of their representation i...

Ashapurna Devi, one of the foremost Indian women writers, was born in colonial Bengal in 1909. She lived until 1995, witnessing the transitions and...

Goans have long been a mobile community and helped to shape the contours of empires and the modern world. But the story of their migrations has not...

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Beyond the Private World explores the status of Indian women, through the ages, in the framework of the private-public dichotomy, as reflected in t...

Light of Asia: Indian Silent Cinema, 1912- 1934 in its new avatar celebrates the centenary of Indian cinema and the release of Dadasaheb Phalke and...

The architecture created in southern Asia under the patronage of the great Mughals (1526-1858) is one of the richest and most inventive of the Isla...

Broad in scope, Semantic Multimedia Analysis and Processing provides a complete reference of techniques, algorithms, and solutions for the design a...

"Himalayan Cities: Settlement Patterns, Public Places and Architecture marks the culmination of extensive documentation and research on the cities ...

A fascinating account of British reporter Willem Marx's travels in Balochistan, a largely forgotten province of Pakistan, along with some spectacul...

Meditative essays and mesmerising photographs capture the essence of Bombay/Mumbai in this travelogue. Piquant restiveness, personal stories and po...

A collection of work from a prolific and well-respected contemporary Indian artist.

Cycling into rarely visited northern Rajasthan’s tiny desert towns author discovers impressive buildings, their walls covered with vibrant painting...

India's eastern-most state of Arunachal Pradesh, moulded out of the mountainous regions of Assam, is incomparable to any other place in the world d...

Aamir Actor, Activist, Achiever. An acclaimed actor who became the thinking man's superstar. An ardent activist who highlighted complex social issu...

For Honour Honour means different things to different people. For the Khimjas honour is the purity of their race, the continuity of their orthodox ...

The Ekkos Clan

The Blue-necked God (Nilakantha Braja), published in 1976, is one of Indira Goswamis early novels and the first time that a writer highlighted the ...

Sarvapalli Radhakrishana

In this Very Short Introduction, Robert Eaglestone provides a clear and engaging exploration of the major themes, patterns, and debates of contempo...

There is no denying that thinking comes naturally to human beings. But what are thoughts? How is thought realized in the brain? Does thinking occur...

Rhetoric is often seen as a synonym for shallow, deceptive language, and therefore as something negative. But if we view rhetoric in more neutral t...

To consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and how may it be used (or ab...

Anand is a suspicious, slightly obsessive, eleven-year-old child who thinks that adults are more often than not more crazy and irresponsible than c...

Happiness is an everyday term in our lives, and most of us strive to be happy. But defining happiness can be difficult. In this Very Short Introduc...

The country is on the brink of erupting into nation-wide communal riots. Seven people, supposedly strangers, take refuge in an off-the-highway Chri...

Blood Sweat and Tears is a novel guaranteed to appeal to the romantic readers, irrespective of their age or the generation or era they belong to. I...

The century-old Hotel Calcutta run by an Englishman, is under threat from land sharks who want to raze it and build a shopping mall. As the staff s...

his publication of one hundred and twelve select songs of Tagore, is primarily for those Indian and non-Indian listeners who have no access to the ...

Laila Ke Khutoot: The Letters of Laila

A collection of stories steeped in the flavour and texture of life in Lucknow. The author belongs to an old family of Awadh and was the first Musli...

This remarkable and unique record is the outcome of seven years of careful research enhanced by sensitive photographs that not only portray all asp...

In 1900, Dutch art historians Andre Jolles and Aby Warburg constructed an experimental dialogue in which Jolles supposed he had fallen in love with...

A personal narrative surfaces in splinters and shards. Every word from Bonnefoy is multifaceted, like the fragmented figures seen from different an...

Ahmed Ali (1910-1994), multitalented, bilingual writer, poet, scholar, translator, critic, and anthologist, is one of the stalwarts in the South As...

Anthologies provide ready, expansive insights into specific forms of literature. In the genre of poetry, nuptial poetry is singularly under-represe...

Balochistan at a Crossroads is a fascinating account of Willem Marx’s travels in Balochistan. He narrates his experiences here as he goes into the ...

The pastoral tribal community of the Jad Bhotiyas inhabit the Uttarkashi region of the Himalayas. For survival, they were engaged in trade across t...

Religious Tradition and Culture in Eighteenth Century Northern India contends that the ‘decline’ in the political scenario of eighteenth century In...

Early one morning in Montreal, an all night party still raging at his PR company, Jack leaves to be alone. Looking down the tunnel of his future, t...