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by Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
A terrifying sound disturbs the peace of Hansuli Turn, a forest village in Bengal, and the community splits as to its meaning. Does it herald the apocalyptic departure of the gods or is there a more rational explanation? The Kahars, inhabitants of Hansuli Turn, belong to an untouchable "criminal...
Greek Fortifications of Asia Minor 500–130 BC
From the Persian Wars to the Roman Conquest
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Sandwiched between the heart of ancient Greece and the lands of Persia, the Greek cities of Western Anatolia were the spark that ignited some of the most iconic conflicts of the ancient world. Fought over repeatedly in the 5th century BC, their conquest by the Persians provided a casus belli for Alexander...
Out of the East
Reveries and Studies in New Japan
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
This book, first published in 1903, is an account of Lafcadio Hearn’s insights and experiences of Japan. Hearn, known also by the Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo, was an international writer who was best known for his books about Japan and Japanese culture. This book will be of interest to students of history and Asian Studies.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Sources of Vietnamese Tradition provides an essential guide to two thousand years of Vietnamese history and a comprehensive overview of the society and state of Vietnam. Strategic selections illuminate key figures, issues, and events while building a thematic portrait of the country's developing territory,...
Central Asia
Aspects of Transition
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
The five central Asian States of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan stand at the crossroads of world civilization. Influenced by South Asia, Iran, China and Russia, this region which has recently burst onto the world stage once again, guards a distinct identity. This collection by...
The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate.
Mesopotamia, Persia, and Central Asia from the Moslem Conquest to the Time of Timur.
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Elibron Classics. Replica of 1905 edition by the University Press, Cambridge.
The edition comes with PDF maps available as a free download.
In the book Guy Le Strange (1854 - 1933) collected information from the works of the medieval Arab, Persian, and Turkish geographers, who described...
by Mudita Agnihotri, Rachel Bari, Sutapa Biswas
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
doyenne signifies the various expressions of female, feminine, and feminist aspects of contemporary literature in India, through multiple theoretical frameworks. Contemporary Women’s Writing in India is an edited collection dealing with a range of these issues set in the society of Indian culture....
The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes
The Ancient World Economy & the Empires of Parthia, Central Asia & Han China
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
A fascinating history of the intricate web of trade routes connecting ancient Rome to Eastern civilizations, including its powerful rival, the Han Empire.
The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes investigates the trade routes between Rome and the powerful empires of inner Asia, including the Parthian...
Booker's Books in India
(A Study of Four Booker Prize Winning Novels by Indian Novelists)
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
This book presents a detailed study of four Booker Prize winning novels written by Indian novelists. Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss and Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger have won the prestigious Man Booker Prize in...
Mourning the Nation
Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2009
What remains of the “national” when the nation unravels at the birth of the independent state? The political truncation of India at the end of British colonial rule in 1947 led to a social cataclysm in which roughly one million people died and ten to twelve million were displaced. Combining film...
Indian Imagination
A Critical Study of Fiction, Autobiography and Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
The anthology comprising twenty two papers is an attempt to study the select representative writers and some canonical works from different perspectives like narrative, stylistic, ecocritical and thematic. The areas chosen are fiction particularly novel, poetry and autobiography. The fiction writers...
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala as a Novelist
A Postcolonial Study
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is a novelist of unequalled insight, grace and emotional power. Born in Germany and educated in London, Jhabvala married an Indian architect Jhabvala and lived in India for twenty four years from 1951 upto 1975. In each of her novels there is a mixed feeling of affection and impatience...
by Pandey Bechan Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2009
This volume makes available for the first time in English the work of a significant Indian nationalist author, Pandey Bechan Sharma, better known in India as “Ugra,” meaning “extreme.” His book Chocolate, a 1927 collection of eight stories, was the first work of Hindi fiction to focus on male...
by Ram Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Indian English literature is related to our country and culture. This is the field we should try to explore it more. 'Critical Explorations in Indian English Fiction'. This book tries to explore almost all the branches of Indian English Literature. In this anthology there are more than twenty papers...