Kanthapura to Malgudi

S. Xavier Alphonse

The book makes a scholarly attempt to examine the portrayal of South Indian culture in thirty-seven Indian English novels written by seven eminent authors: K.S. Venkataramani, K. Nagarajan, K. Markandaya, Raja Rao, R.K. Narayan, B. Rajan and Santha Rama Rau. The book evaluates critically the cultural values and assumptions such as the roles of womanhood, relationship, myths and puranas, the guru, religion, bhakti and proverbs.

ISBN: 81-7551-030-7                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Major Indian Novelists

K. Venkata Reddy

The book contains illuminating critical studies on the pioneers of the modern English novel namely, Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, R.K. Narayan, Bhabani Bhattacharya and Kamala Markandaya.

ISBN: 81-85218-29-3                      Rs. 200 | USD 10


50 Years of Indian Writing

R.K. Dhawan, ed.

Several writers through Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh, Anita Desai, Arundhati Roy, Girish Karnad, Nirad Chaudhari, Mahasweta Devi hold centrestage in the contemporary scenario. The post-1947 period indeed has registered a remarkable growth, especially in the area of fiction. The volume is a tribute to the post-independence Indian writing, in its multi-faceted aspects.

ISBN: 81-7551-067-6                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Five Great Indian Novels: A Discourse Analysis

Ashok Thorat

The main objective of the study is to show how discourse analysis is primarily an analysis of language in use. This implies that the analysis is done at two levels: linguistic and pragmatic. An attempt is made to analyse the language of the characters in their social interaction, with reference to five major Indian novels, namely, Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable , Raja Rao's Kanthapura , Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan , Rama Mehta's Inside the Haveli and Chaman Nahal's Azadi .

ISBN: 81-7551-073-7                      Rs. 500 | USD 25


Gandhian Ideology & Indian Novel

A.V. Subba Rayudu

Mahatma Gandhi has been regarded, by common consent, the greatest man of the twentieth century. Major writers like Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, Bhabani Bhattacharya, Manohar Malgonkar and Nayantara Sahgal have given expression to Gandhian thought and philosophy in their fiction. The present book examines the impact of Gandhi on Chaman Nahal, eminent contemporary novelist and the winner of prestigious Sahitya Akademi award for his novel Azadi .

ISBN: 81-7551-075-7                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Comparative Perspectives on Indian Literature

A. Ramakrishna Rao, ed.

The volume deals with some significant texts and themes in Indian writing. A few of the critical assessments have a comparative bias. Writers like Gandhi, Raja Rao, M.R. Anand, R.K. Narayan, Ruth Jhabvala, Kamala Markandaya, Sri Aurobindo, V. Satyanarayana are discussed with reference to specific texts.

ISBN: 81-85218-64-1                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Studies in Indian Writing in English

P. Bayapa Reddy

The focus of this study is on Indian Drama in English, with special reference to Nissim Ezekiel, Asif Currimbhoy and Girish Karnad. The novelists discussed are Kamala Markandaya, Manohar Malgonkar, Salman Rushdie.

ISBN: 81-85218-26-9                      Rs. 200 | USD 10


Indian Writing Today

C.R. Visweswara Rao

The book offers perspectives on a number of contemporary writers. The approaches range from psychoanalysis to stylistic analysis, from political allegory to the women's question, in the works of A.K. Ramanujan, Kamala Das, Rabindranath Tagore, Badal Sircar, Girish Karnad, R.K. Narayan, Raja Rao, Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, K. Markandaya, Nayantara Sahgal & Shashi Deshpande.

ISBN: 81-85218-35-8                      Rs. 300 | USD 15


New Perspectives on Indian Writing

Narendra Kumar, ed.

In the post-Independence era, Indian English poetry and fiction have won universal recognition. Ezekiel, Ramanujan and Kamala Das in poetry, and M.R. Anand, Raja Rao, R.K. Narayan, Anita Desai and Salman Rushdie in fiction are being assessed both at home and abroad. The novels of promising writers like Shashi Tharoor, Vikram Seth, Indira Ganesan and Firdaus Kanga offer fresh perspectives.

ISBN: 81-7551-027-7                      Rs. 300 |  USD 15


Fiction of the Nineties

Veena Noble Dass & R.K. Dhawan, ed

The book introduces to the wider audience some of the significant novels published in India and elsewhere in the 1990s. The richness and diversity of the new writing is represented in the fiction of Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Gita Mehta, Shobha De, Rohinton Mistry, Bharati Mukherjee, Yasmine Gooneratne, Bapsi Sidhwa, Miles Franklin and others.

ISBN: 81-85218-90-0                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Indian Writing in the New Millennium

R.K Dhawan, ed.

Indian writing in English, including literature in translation, has come of age. Since 1981 when Rushdie's Midnight's Children received the Booker prize, Indian novelists have achieved spectacular success. A number of them, including Anita Desai, Vikram Seth, Shashi Tharoor, Vikram Chandra, Arundhati Roy and Manju Kapur have emerged as major literary figures on the international scene. Likewise, Indian literature in regional languages has registered a remarkable growth, and several writers like U.R. Anantha Murthy, Mahasweta Devi, Quarratulain Hyder and Girish Karnad have been adequately translated into English.

ISBN: 81-7551-090-0                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Dalit Literature and African-American Literature

N.M. Aston, ed.

The book deals with the literature of two marginalized groups of people, namely, the Indian Dalits and the American Blacks. Both Dalit writers in India and African-American writers in the US have given expression in their writings to the protest against the established order of society that discriminates one man from another on the basis of caste, colour and religion.

ISBN: 81-7551-116-8                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Point of View: A Personal Response to Life, Literature and Politics

Nayantara Sahgal

The book brings together Nayantara Sahgal's public addresses at literary conferences, and a varied selection of her published articles, her novels, her personal life and her comments on the Indian scene.

ISBN: 81-7551-017-X                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Man-Woman Relationship in Indian Fiction

Seema Suneel

The book critically examines the treatment of the theme of man-woman relationship in Indian fiction, with special reference to three contemporary novels—Shashi Deshpande's The Dark Holds No Terrors , Syed Abdul Malik's The Tale of a Nomadic Soul and Rajendra Awasthy's The Creeping Shadows .

ISBN: 81-85218-98-6                      Rs. 300 | USD 15


Style in Indian English Fiction

Z.N. Patil

The book analyzes some Indian novelists in terms of the operation of the principles of textual and interpersonal pragmatics. The illustrative material is drawn from the novels of Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, R.K. Narayan, Khushwant Singh, Ahmed Ali, Humayun Kabir, Bhabani Bhattacharya, Rama Mehta, Chaman Nahal, Manohar Malgonkar, Sasthi Brata, Jai Nimbkar, Balraj Khanna, Salman Rushdie and others.

ISBN: 81-85218-85-4                     Rs. 400 | USD 20


Indian English Phonology

N. Gopalakrishnan Nair

Teaching the skills of oral communication is an important aspect of language teaching. The book focuses on certain aspects of language teaching which have long been neglected by the curriculum planners, syllabus designers, text book writers and evaluators.

ISBN: 81-7551-008-0                      Rs. 200 | USD 10


Indian English Literature since Independence

K. Ayyappa Paniker, ed.

Indian English literature since Independence reflects a rich diversity. The book makes an intensive study of the works of the writers like Kamala Markandaya, Anita Desai and Salman Rushdie who have helped in shaping the modern Indian Writing in English.

ISBN: 81-85218-33-1                     Rs. 300 | USD 15


Recent Indian Fiction

R.S. Pathak, ed.

The volume aims at evaluating thematic preoccupations, fictional form and narrative techniques of the Indian novel of the 1980s and the 1990s in a systematic way. The writers discussed are: Amitav Ghosh, Rohinton Mistry, Vikram Seth, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Shashi Tharoor, Amit Chaudhuri, Allan Sealy, Farrukh Dhondy, Nina Sibal, Shashi Deshpande, Bharati Mukherjee, Namita Gokhale.

ISBN: 81-85218-81-1                      Rs. 400 |USD 20


Charles Dickens and Premchand: Novelists with a Social Purpose

Pramila Batra

Both Premchand and Dickens felt inspired by a humanitarian zeal and their reformative fervour to combat the injustice and the oppression to which certain individuals and segments of society were subjected, in their respective times. The book makes a comparative study of Dickens and Premchand, the two great writers known for their passion and compassion for humanity.

ISBN: 81-7551-101-X                      Rs. 300 | USD 15


The Political Novels of Milan Kundera and O.V. Vijayan: A Comparative Study

C. Gopinathan Pillai

The book compares the fiction of Milan Kundera and O.V. Vijayan in an illuminating and original manner. Both Kundera and Vijayan are concerned with problems posed by societies, exposed to totalitarianism. Abuse of political power was endemic to both post-Stalinist Czechoslovakia and post-Nehruvian India. The method of juxtaposition adopted by the author while analysing the novels of Kundera and Vijayan leads to interesting new cross-cultural findings.

ISBN: 81-7551-015-3                      Rs. 300 | USD 15


Jhumpa Lahiri: The Master Storyteller

Suman Bala, ed.

Jhumpa Lahiri, recipient of the coveted Pulitzer award for her collection of short stories Interpreter of Maladies , and the writer of the novel Namesake , is a voice of Indo-American origin. She may be considered a writer of Indian diaspora. Through her characters, she tells us about the human conditions that have universal resonance in her immigrant identity that forms the core of her stories.

ISBN: 81-7551-125-7                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Image of the New Woman in the Presentation of Love and Sex in the Novels of Ruth Jhabvala

Hilda David

Ruth Jhabvala, the eminent Indian English novelist, is best known for her novel Heat and Dust . The present book critically examines the theme of man-woman relationship, homosexuality, lesbianism and the third sex in her major novels.

ISBN: 81-7551-062-5                      Rs. 300 | USD 15


Shashi Deshpande's Fiction: A Study in Women Empowermentand Postcolonial Discourse

P.G. Joshi

The status of women all over the world has undergone a rapid change in the recent decades. The book aims at analyzing Shashi Deshpande's novels in the light of postcolonial and feminist theories. It takes into account all the novels of Deshpande.

ISBN: 81-7551-133-8                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


The Novels of Shashi Deshpande in Postcolonial Arguments

Mrinalini Sebastian

This book analyses some of the arguments of major postcolonial thinkers such as Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Homi K. Bhabha. It discusses the possibility of postcolonial readings of literary texts and presents the novels of Shashi Deshpande in a postcolonial framework.

ISBN: 81-7551-078-1                      Rs. 500 | USD 25


A Feminist Perspective on the Novels of Shashi Deshpande

Y.S. Sunita Reddy

The book presents Shashi Deshpande as a feminist writer focussing on all her novels. It reveals Deshpande's instinctive ability to articulate the feelings of the contemporary, urban, educated upper-middle-class woman who is caught in the transitional period between tradition and modernity.

ISBN: 81-7551-103-6                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Women in the Novels of Shashi Deshpande

Suman Bala, ed.

In her works, Shashi Deshpande depicts woman in myriad roles—wife, mother, daughter and an individual in her own right. The anthology brings together articles by eminent scholars on the subject and makes a rich contribution to the areas of Indian fiction, women's studies and sociology.

ISBN: 81-86256-07-5                      Rs. 300 | USD 15


Shashi Deshpande's That Long Silence : A Study

Santwana Haldar

Shashi Deshpande is the best-known Indian novelist today. The book discusses in detail her award-winning novel That Long Silence , covering all aspects.

ISBN: 81-7851-021-9                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


The Novels of Shashi Deshpande

Sarabjit K. Sandhu

The book makes an exhaustive study of the depiction of the image of woman in her novels The Dark Holds No Terrors , Roots and Shadows, That Long Silence .

ISBN: 81-85218-28-5                      Rs. 100 | USD 5


Novels of Shobha De

L. Sonia NIngthoujam

Shobha De is a contemporary novelist who presents the modern Indian woman at the centre of her fiction. This woman is bold, daring and ambitious. It is the image of this new woman that Shobha De presents in all her novels.

ISBN: 81-7551-171-0                      Rs. 400 | USD 20

Shobha De: Critical Studies

Jaydipsinh Dodiya

Shobha De has emerged as a major novelist on the Indian literary scene. From her first novel, Socialite Evenings , to the recently-published autobiographical work Speedpost , she has evolved as a sensitive writer. The book, comprising more than thirty critical essays, makes a pioneering attempt at exploring De's fictional world that has aroused so much curiosity and interest amongst the readers.

ISBN: 81-7551-079-X                      Rs. 500 | USD 25


The Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee

R.K. Dhawan, ed.

Bharati Mukherjee is at her best in the depiction of cultural clash between the East and the West. She has indeed become a celebrity for her distinctive approach to expatriatehood as a metaphysical experience of exile. The book, the first of its kind on the novelist, makes a comprehensive attempt at evaluating various aspects of Mukherjee's fiction and her contribution to the study of immigrant writing and modern fiction.

ISBN: 81-7551-010-2                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


The Position of Woman in Kamala Markandaya's Novels

Lakshmi Kumari Sharma

Kamala Markandaya is known for an authentic portrayal of Indian social milieu and the woman's position in the Indian society. A study of her female protagonists reveals how the distortions in the economic and social order affect women more adversely than men. Her women emerge out of darkness, throwing off their legacy of humiliation, dependence & resignation, and reaching out for an equitable share of man's worldly and spiritual good.

ISBN: 81-7551-094-3                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


The Novels of Kamala Markandaya and Ruth Jhabvala

Rekha Jha

The book discusses the East-West encounter in all its ramifications in the writings of the two novelists. The study encompasses, adopting a comparative approach, all the major novels including Kamala Markandaya's A Silence of Desire, Possession, A Handful of Rice, Nectar in a Sieve and Ruth Jhabvala's Esmond in India, A Backward Place, Heat and Dust and Three Contin ents.

ISBN: 81-85218-15-3                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Sex and Violence in the Novels of Kamala Markandaya

Jyotsna Sahoo

Kamala Markandaya is commonly regarded as a traditional novelist who depicts the poor and rustics of rural India. Here is a book that absolutely demolishes this view. It reveals that Markandaya is best in her depiction of sex and violene and is precursor of modern Indian novel.

ISBN: 81-7551-170-2                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Arundhati Roy: The Novelist Extraordinary

R.K. Dhawan, ed.

Arundhati Roy has emerged as the most significant novelist on the contemporary literary scene. Perhaps no other Indian writer has reached won such enthusiastic response. Her novel The God of Small Things , the Booker Award winner, has been hailed as a modern classic. It is both interesting and rewarding to observe how readers situated in the wider world have responded to the novel. Eminent scholars from America, Canada, England, Italy, Germany, Australia, Sri Lanka, and from all parts of India have contributed to the richness and variety of the volume.

ISBN: 81-7551-060-9                      Rs. 500 | USD 25


The Fiction of Anita Desai (2 vols.)

Suman Bala & D.K. Pabby, ed.

Anita Desai is the most popular of the contemporary Indian women novelists. This anthology covers a critical response to the entire corpus of Anita Desai's fiction—from Cry, the Peacock to the recently-published collection of short stories Diamond Dust.

ISBN: 81-7551-126-5                      Rs. 1000 per set |USD 50


The Novels of Anita Desai

Usha Bande

Anita Desai is the foremost Indian novelist of the post-Independence era. A close reading of her novels reveals that her concern is with the exploration of human psyche. The book is the first study of its kind that assesses her characters in the light of Third Force Psychology.

ISBN: 81-85218-01-3                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Form and Vision in the Novels of Anita Desai

Sandhyarani Dash

The book is an interpretative study of Anita Desai's novels from Cry, the Peacock to Baumgartner's Bombay . It examines various formal attributes of her novels vis-à-vis their themes and messages.

ISBN: 81-7551-000-5                      Rs. 200 | USD 10


Virginia Woolf and Anita Desai A Comparative Study

Asha Kanwar

Virginia Woolf and Anita Desai are two great artists in the realm of fiction. It is rewarding to investigate into the works of the two authors belonging to different ages & different cultures but having striking similarities.

ISBN: 81-85218-07-2                      Rs. 100 | USD 5

The Novels of Bapsi Sidhwa

R.K. Dhawan and Novy Kapadia, ed.

The book is a collection of lively and deeply researched essays on the novels of Bapsi Sidhwa. There is multiplicity of themes in her novels, The Crow Eaters, Ice-Candy-Man, The Bride and An American Brat .

ISBN: 81-85218-65-X                      Rs. 400 | USD 20

Bapsi Sidhwa's Ice-Candy-Man

Rashmi Gaur

The the first part by the editor offers a comprehensive introduction to Bapsi Sidhwa and her partition novel Ice-Candy Man along with an in-depth analysis of the text; the second part carries scholarly articles by eminent critics on various aspects of the novel.

ISBN: 81-7851-011-1                      Rs.