English Literature

Seventy-year-old Temsula Ao is a pioneer of northeastern Indian literature, who was recognized with India’s highest civilian honor in 2007 for her work. The author of many volumes of poetry and short stories, Ao returns in this book to her belo

The last decade saw the emergence andassertion of separate Dalitbahajun women's organizations both at the nationaland regional levels. This assertion against their exclusion from political andcultural spheres sought to transform Dalit and feminist...

About the Book In The Song Seekers , the debut novel by Saswati Sengupta, the monsoon rains wash over the city of Kolkata while four women sit and read and talk in the kitchen of Kailash, the old mansion of the Chattopadhyays where Uma comes to li...

About the Book In Suki, Suniti Namjoshi weaves a witty and delightful tapestry from threads of longing, loss, memory, metaphor, and contemplation. Taken as a whole, the picture she draws is a stunning evocation of the love and friendship shared be...

Life, writings of a prominent Gujarati woman, 19th Century. with critical introd. and notes.

Like homeless wanderers, Indo-English women writers are constantly yearning for a home. Be it a nation, a house, a community, an identity- to call their own. Gender, generation and cultural values shape Indian lifestyles at home and abroad even, a...

About the Book One of the most dynamic feminist movements in the world, Indian feminisms are seldom given the recognition they deserve, not only for the essential work they do but for the successes they've had. This collection of essays, written b...

Women played a major role in the building and patronage of the stepwells in Gujarat, unique structures that linked three worlds: the subterranean, the earthly and the celestial. Women not only commissioned many of the stepwells as patrons and done...

About the Book Ila Arab Mehta is an award-winning Gujarati author most noted for her explorations of feminist thinking. In this new translation of her beautiful and skillfully crafted novel Fence , we meet Fateema Lokhandwala, a young Muslim woman...

About the Book The first woman to practice law in India and Britain, Cornelia Sorabji founded the League for Infant Welfare, Maternity and District Nursing and helped hundreds of Indian women and children during her career as one of the country's ...

This magnificent, sprawling novel, a classic of Hindi literature, spans almost an entire century in the lives of several families and generations of Kashmiri Hindus and Muslims. As it opens, Lalli, in her seventh month of pregnancy, is preparing t...

This book brings you a wealth of stories, in words and images, from a part of India known as the Northeast, a term that is widely contest for the ways in which it homogenizes a region of great diversity. It is also a term that has come to be a mar...

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Published in 1899, Muhammad Hadi Ruswa's famous novel "Umrao Jaan Ada" created a sensation when it came out. But few know that a month after the author wrote "Umrao Jaan Ada", he penned a sly novella entitled "Junun-e-Intezar". This title features...

Tales of Historic Delhi is the perfect guidebook for families visiting the city, and a whole new way to bring history alive. A Children’s Bookshelf Selection: Each month our editor’s pick the best books for children and young adults by age to be ...

A quarter century after the war that was meant to bring liberation to Bangladesh, Mukti, a researcher, comes into Mariam's life, calling up memories that continue to haunt her. She remembers the wetlands, with their mystery and darkness, across wh...

This book is an offering―of prose, poetry, musical lyrics, and visual art―by the women of Meghalaya in Northeast India. One of the smallest states in the country, but also, one of the most beautiful, Meghalaya is blessed with landscapes that mesme...