Personal And National Destinies In Independent India

Author : Rositta Joseph Valiyamattam
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144381430X
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Personal and National Destinies in Independent India written by Rositta Joseph Valiyamattam and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal and National Destinies in Independent India is an innovative analysis of the interface between individual lives and national history, between citizen and state in modern India, as reflected in contemporary fiction. It critiques the selected works of a host of distinguished Indian English novelists such as Gurcharan Das, Arun Joshi, Rohinton Mistry, Arundhati Roy, Meher Pestonji, Kiran Desai, Vikas Swarup, David Davidar, Aravind Adiga, Manjula Padmanabhan and Tarun Tejpal. The author offers a new interpretation of twelve major novels with reference to the enormous framework of nearly seventy years of the history and politics, culture and economy of independent India. This is a study of fiction that re-writes the grand Indian narrative from a genuine, subaltern point of view and pays tribute to the heroism of ordinary Indians in times of extraordinary transformation. In these times of conflict and disparity which threaten democratic values, these novelists advocate an inclusive and humane India with a strong moral core instead of aggressive or elitist nationalism. They represent an era of painful introspection, an attempt to keep the soul of the nation alive. This unique project would be of interest to students and scholars of Literature, Political Science and History, especially Post-colonial studies. The vast scope of the time period, geographical expanse, social groups, writers and works covered here makes the work comprehensive and contemporary; very few such works on recent Indian history and fiction exist as of now.

Author : Manju Jaidka
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000933229
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English written by Manju Jaidka and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, Indian writing in English is a fi eld of study that cannot be overlooked. Whereas at the turn of the 20th century, writers from India who chose to write in English were either unheeded or underrated, with time the literary world has been forced to recognize and accept their contribution to the corpus of world literatures in English. Showcasing the burgeoning field of Indian English writing, this encyclopedia documents the poets, novelists, essayists, and dramatists of Indian origin since the pre-independence era and their dedicated works. Written by internationally recognized scholars, this comprehensive reference book explores the history and development of Indian writers, their major contributions, and the critical reception accorded to them. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English will be a valuable resource to students, teachers, and academics navigating the vast area of contemporary world literature.

Author : Urvashi Kuhad
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000415864
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Science Fiction and Indian Women Writers written by Urvashi Kuhad and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction, as a literature of fantasy, goes beyond the mundane to ask the question: what if the world were different from the way it is? It often challenges the real, builds on imagination, places no limits on human capacities, and encourages readers to think outside their social and cultural conditioning. This book presents a systematic study of Indian women’s science fiction. It offers a critical analysis of the works of four female Indian writers of science fiction: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Manjula Padmanabhan, Priya Sarukkai Chabria and Vandana Singh. The author considers not only the evolution of science fiction writing in India, but also discusses the use of innovations and unique themes including science fiction in different Indian languages; the literary, political, and educational activism of the women writers; and eco-feminism and the idea of cloning in writing, to argue that this genre could be viewed as a vibrant representation of freedom of expression and radical literature. This ground-breaking volume will be useful for scholars and researchers of English literature. It will also prove a very useful source for further studies into Indian literature, science and technology studies, women’s and gender studies, comparative literature and cultural studies.

Author : Om Prakash Dwivedi
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031068173
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Representations of Precarity in South Asian Literature in English written by Om Prakash Dwivedi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes precarious conditions and their manifestations in recent South Asian literature in English. Themes of disability, rural-urban division, caste, terrorism, poverty, gender, necropolitics, and uneven globalization are discussed in this book by established and emerging international scholars. Drawing their arguments from literary works rooted in the neoliberal period, the chapters show how the extractive ideology of neoliberalism invades the cultural, political, economic, and social spheres of postcolonial South Asia. The book explores different forms of “precarity” to investigate the vulnerable and insecure life conditions embodied in the everyday life of South Asia, enabling the reader to see through the rhetoric of “rising Asia”.

Author : M. N. Gulati
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book What America Did for India's Independence written by M. N. Gulati and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What America Did for India's Independence.

Author : Jon Hegglund
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199796106
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book World Views written by Jon Hegglund and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Views examines literary representations of spatial form within the contexts of the emerging disciplines of geography, geopolitics, and international relations, positing that modernism's experimental engagements with space intended to imagine alternatives to the new world order.

Author : Kishor Gandhi
Publisher : Allied Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9788177649321
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book India's Date with Destiny written by Kishor Gandhi and published by Allied Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranbir Singh Chowdhary, b. 1914, politician from Haryana, India; contributed articles.

Author : Hans van de Ven
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804793115
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Negotiating China's Destiny in World War II written by Hans van de Ven and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negotiating China's Destiny explains how China developed from a country that hardly mattered internationally into the important world power it is today. Before World War II, China had suffered through five wars with European powers as well as American imperial policies resulting in economic, military, and political domination. This shifted dramatically during WWII, when alliances needed to be realigned, resulting in the evolution of China's relationships with the USSR, the U.S., Britain, France, India, and Japan. Based on key historical archives, memoirs, and periodicals from across East Asia and the West, this book explains how China was able to become one of the Allies with a seat on the Security Council, thus changing the course of its future. Breaking with U.S.-centered analyses which stressed the incompetence of Chinese Nationalist diplomacy, Negotiating China's Destiny makes the first sustained use of the diaries of Chiang Kai-shek (which have only become available in the last few years) and who is revealed as instrumental in asserting China's claims at this pivotal point. Negotiating China's Destiny demonstrates that China's concerns were far broader than previously acknowledged and that despite the country's military weakness, it pursued its policy of enhancing its international stature, recovering control over borderlands it had lost to European imperialism in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, and becoming recognized as an important allied power with determination and success.

Author : Sonia Sikka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108331122
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Heidegger, Morality and Politics written by Sonia Sikka and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heidegger has often been seen as having no moral philosophy and a political philosophy that can only support fascism. Sonia Sikka's book challenges this view, arguing instead that Heidegger should be considered a qualified moral realist, and that his insights on cultural identity and cross-cultural interaction are not invalidated by his support for Nazism. Sikka explores the ramifications of Heidegger's moral and political thought for topics including free will and responsibility, the status of humanity within the design of nature, the relation between the individual and culture, the rights of peoples to political self-determination, the idea of race and the problem of racism, historical relativism, the subjectivity of values, and the nature of justice. Her discussion highlights aspects of Heidegger's thought that are still relevant for modern debates, while also addressing its limitations as reflected in his political affiliations and sympathies.

Author : Muna Abu Eid
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786730138
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Mahmoud Darwish written by Muna Abu Eid and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mahmoud Darwish is the poet laureate of the Palestinian national struggle. His poems resonate across the entire Arab world and, more than any other single figure perhaps since the death of Yasser Arafat, he represents a unifying figurehead for Palestinian national aspirations. In this, the first comprehensive biography of Darwish in English, Muna Abu Eid examines the poet's intellectual status on two fronts - both national and public - and offers a critical assessment of Darwish's national and political life. Based on Darwish's own writings and interviews with people who worked with him and situating Darwish's poetry within the wider context of Palestinian struggles inside Israel, this book explores the influence of Darwish's life and work in the Palestinian territories and in the diaspora: from the destruction of his Galilee village and displacement of his family during the 1948 Nakba; to his return and 'infiltration' back into the homeland and the struggle for survival inside Israel; to his internal and external exiles in Haifa, Moscow, Cairo, Beirut, Tunisia, Paris and even Ramallah.