Same-Sex Love in India: A Literary History Edited by Saleem Kidwai, Ruth Vanita

Title: Same-Sex Love in India: A Literary History
Author: Saleem Kidwai, Ruth Vanita
ISBN13: 9780143102069
Binding: Paper back
Date: October 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Number of Pages:
Price: Rs 450.00

About the book

Same-Sex Love in India offers an eloquent range of writings spanning more than two thousand years of Indian literature. Drawn from Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist and contemporary fictional sources these writings convincingly demonstrate that same-sex love has flourished, evolved and been embraced in various forms since ancient times. From the Mahabharata to modern writers and artists such as Ismat Chughtai and Bhupen Khakhar, the eclectic and expressive selections in this anthology include excerpts from devotional books, legal and erotic treatises, story cycles, medieval histories and biographies to modern novels, short stories, letters, memoirs, plays and poems. This pioneering book is invaluable for gender studies, for Indian history, and for all readers interested in the fascinating development of homoerotic traditions and writings.

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The Essential Einstein: His Greatest Works-Stephen Hawking

RRP: £12.99
Special Indian Price: 395.00
Publisher: PENGUIN GROUP
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780141034621
Publishing Date: September-2008
Pages: 480

The world of physics and the way the world was viewed no longer remained the same after Einstein. Though an integral part of scientific thought at present, his theory of relativity with a curved space and a slow moving time, was fabulous a hundred years back when it was first presented. Relativity has also been judged to be the most important scientific development in explaining the cosmos. In this book, Stephen Hawking has put together the highlights of Einstein's ideas of relativity and related concepts. The book is a collection of Einstein's works on the Theory of Relativity. Yet Einstein was known not only for his landmark ideas in physics. Here too are his reflections on politics and religion, and his musings on the ultimate significance of his scientific findings.

The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga

The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
ISBN: 9788172237455
Cover Price: Rs. 395.00
Format: Hardback
Extent: 328 pages

Review

The White Tiger is a compelling first novel about the new India that is growing roots all around us, in unexpected and often ominous ways.
'Compelling, angry, and darkly humorous, The White Tiger is an unexpected journey into a new India. Aravind Adiga is a talent to watch.' Mohsin Hamid, Booker-shortlisted author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist
'In the grand illusions of a "rising" India, Aravind Adiga has found a subject Gogol might have envied. With remorselessly and delightfully mordant wit The White Tiger anatomises the fantastic cravings of the rich; it evokes, too, with startling accuracy and tenderness, the no less desperate struggles of the deprived.' Pankaj Mishra

Onitsha - J.M.G Le Clezio- Nobel Price winner's fiction

Onitsha

JMG Le Clezio

Publisher : Rupa & co.

ISBN 81-291-0939-5

Price : 295/-

Onitsha tells the story of Fintan, a youth who travels to Africa in 1948 with his Italian mother to join the English father he has never met. Fintan is initially enchanted by the exotic world he discovers in Onitsha, a bustling city prominently situated on the eastern bank of the Niger River. But gradually he comes to recognize the intolerance and brutality of the colonial system. His youthful point of view provides the novel with a notably direct, horrified perspective on racism and colonialism. In the words of translator Alison Anderson, Onitsha is remarkable for its “almost mythological evocation of local history and beliefs.” It is full of atmosphere—sights, sounds, smells —and at times the author’s sentences seem to flow with the dreamy languor of the river itself. But J. M. G. Le Clézio “never lets us forget the harsh realities of life nor the subsequent tragedy of war.” A startling account—and indictment—of colonialism, Onitsha is also a work of clear, forthright prose that ably portrays both colonial Nigeria and a young boy’s growing outrage.

The Gyanendra Pandey Omnibus

The Gyanendra Pandey Omnibus

Author(s) : Gyanendra Pandey
9780195697032, Hardback August 2008

Rs. 995

Gyanendra Pandey’s writings have profoundly influenced our understanding of anti-colonial nationalism, communal strife, and history-writing. This omnibus brings together three landmark books by him that describe an arc from a critique of nationalism to a critique of history.
By uncovering the layered character of Indian nationalism and underlining the contests between classes, communities and aspirations that went into its making, The Ascendancy of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh helps to transform the received understanding of the Indian national movement.
The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India, described as a classic of modern Indian history and sociology, re-envisions the relationship between communalism and nationalism, and argues that what is called communalism in the subcontinent gained a great deal of its force from its likeness to nationalism.
In Remembering Partition, Gyanendra Pandey turns to a more direct investigation of the matter of collective violence, and the history and memory of such violence in the making of communities and nations, in the Indian subcontinent and elsewhere.
Unified by an attention to two questions,‘Whose nation is this?’ and ‘Whose history?’ this collection raises a fundamental question about what counts as the historical – a question that is adjacent to feminist and other critiques of the declared boundaries of the political.
In his introduction, written especially for this omnibus, Gyanendra Pandey highlights the need for ongoing engagement with the ‘unpalatable’ and the ‘fragmentary’, moments that interrupt the received narratives of mainstream nationalism and standard history.

Chocolate, and Other Writings on Male-Male Desire

Chocolate, and Other Writings on Male-Male Desire

by Ruth Vanita

 Hardcover - 103 Pages (Year: 2006) 

Oxford University Press ~ ISBN: 0195674863

Our Price : Rs  375/-

The Penguin History of Latin America

The Penguin History of Latin America Edwin Williamson - Author

Price : 900/-rs

Book: Paperback 5.07 x 7.79in 640 pages ISBN 9780140125597 07 Sep 1993 Penguin 18 - AND UP

Edwin Williamson traces 500 years of history from the time of Columbus and the Spanish Conquest to the present day. By the 1750s the Spaniards and the Portuguese governed vast territories in the New World. It was not until the eighteenth century that reforms and political upheavals undermined the stability of the Iberian empires in America and led to bitter conflicts between liberals and conservatives in the independent nations that succeeded them. The author shows how this turbulent modernization continued into the twentieth century, as well as giving an overview of the last hundrerd years, looks in detail at developments within Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Cuba.