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This book maps the journey of the Indian poetic imagination--in Hindi, Panjabi and Indian English--from its original quasi-spiritual longings to its activist interventions in the public domain. As Indian poetry of the post-1990s gravitates towards a non-Orientalised postcolonial nationalism, it seeks to rewrite and disseminate the shifting coordinates of nationalist imagination in terms of the dissent of the subaltern discontents of the nation.

The book is interdisciplinary: it studies Indian poetry from the new emerging imperatives of postcolonialism, new historiography (subaltern,...

India has often been at the centre of debates on and definitions of the postcolonial condition. Offering a challenging new direction for the field, this Critical Reader confronts how theory in the Indian context is responding in vital terms to our understanding of that condition today.

The Indian Postcolonial: A Critical Reader is made up of four sections looking in turn at:

• visual cultures
• translating cultural traditions
• the ethical text
• global/cosmopolitan worlds.

Each section is prefaced with a short introduction by...

Adventure, conquest, romance, comedy, suspense, and tragedy are just a few of the themes woven together by the range of styles represented in this set of classical Sanskrit literature. The set brings together classics like the Aesop s fables which originated in Vishnu.sharman s Five Discourses on Worldly Wisdom with the less traditional, such as the adventures of Dandin s What Ten Young Men Did, written uncharacteristically in prose rather than verse.

Included in this set: The Emperor of the Sorcerers Volume 1 By Budha.svamin. Edited and translated by Sir James Mallinson. 452 pages /...

This set of plays provides an array of Sanskrit drama and satire, with plots that vary from the strikingly Shakespearian (as H. H. Wilson described it ) Little Clay Cart to a dramatization of and amendment to the Ramayana in Rama s Last Act. In addition to its scope of genre, the set covers a large period of time (the Three Satires by Bhallata, Kshemendra, and Nila.kan alone were written over a period of nearly a thousand years) and also includes several works traditionally given less modern attention, such as Malavika and Agni.mitra by Kali.dasa, in order to provide a multifaceted view of...

Including poetry whose masterful artistry addresses themes such as love, Indian epic and religion with as much aesthetic appeal as thematic, the poetry included in this set contains the poetry of well-known poets such as Vedanta Deshika while giving a voice to the work of other important writers such as Bhanu.datta who have been given less modern attention.

Included in this set:

Bhatti s Poem: The Death of Ravana By Bhatti. Translated by Oliver Fallon. 550 pages / 978-0-8147-2778-2

The Birth of Kumara By Kali.dasa. Translated by David Smith. 360 pages / 978-0-8147-4008-8

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Religion

A diverse set, the religion set includes works from the biographical narratives of Buddha and stories of his past rebirths, to the lyrical account of love affair between gods, to a play that satirized religions to make a laughingstock of their followers and their tenets.

Included in this set:

The Epitome of Queen Lilavati By Jina.ratna. Edited and translated by Richard Fynes. Volume 1 543 pages / 978-0-8147-2741-6

The Epitome of Queen Lilavati Volume 2 By Jina.ratna. Edited and translated by Richard Fynes. 650 pages / 978-0-8147-2742-3

Garland of the Buddha s Past...

The Ramayana epic centers around Rama, the crown prince of the city of Ayodhya, providing a profound meditation on the paradox of the hero as both human and divine. After rescuing a sage from persecution by demons. Rama attends a tournament in the neighboring city of Mithila where he wins the prize and the hand of Sita, the princess of Mithila. But a court intrigue involving one of the king s junior wives and a maidservant forces Rama into a fourteen-year banishment to the jungle with his wife, Sita, and his loyal brother Lakshmana. When Sita is abducted by the demon king Ravana, Rama goes...

Epic: Maha.bharata

The Maha.bharata tells the tale of the epic battle between the Pandavas and the Kauravas for the thrown. It begins with the famous game of dice between the Pandavas and the Kauravas, which sets the scene for the war that will lie at the center of the Maha.bharata epic. But even after the war is ostensibly over when the heroic but flawed king of the Kauravas is dishonorably defeated in battle by his arch enemy, the extended family is still wracked in conflict leaving survivors, victors and vanquished struggling to comprehend their loss. Perhaps the most enigmatic...