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Indian English Literature
Indian Women Novelists
an anthology of critical essays in 18 vols.
R.K. Dhawan, ed.
Set I, Vols. 1-5
Focus on Feminist and Women’s Studies and
detailed discussions on the fiction of Anita
Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Bharati Mukher-
jee, Shobha De, Rama Mehta and Gita Mehta
ISBN: 81-85218-38-2 Rs. 2000 (5 vols.)
Set II, Vols. 6-11
Focus on Feminist movement and detailed
discussions on the fiction of Kamala Mar-
kandaya, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Nayantara
Sahgal, Namita Gokhale, Kamala Das, Jai
Nimbkar, Nina Sibal and others.
ISBN: 81-85218-39-0 Rs. 2500 (6 vols.)
Set III, Vols. 12-18
Detailed discussions on the fiction of Nergis
Dalal, Dina Mehta, Attia Hosain, Tara Ali
Baig, Shourie Daniels, Santha Rama Rau,
Meena Alexander, Raji Narasimhan, Uma
Vasudev, Anita Desai, Shobha De, Shashi
Deshpande, Bharati Mukherjee, Gita Mehta,
Githa Hariharan, and Jai Nimbkar. The last
two volumes are devoted to regional women
writers: Indira Goswami (Assamese), Rajee
Seth, Mridula Garg and Krishna Sobti
(Hindi), Ismat Chughtai and Qurratulain Hy-
der (Urdu), Lakshmi Kannan (Tamil), Malati
Chendur (Telugu), Amrita Pritam, Ajit Cour
and Daleep Kaur Tiwana (Punjabi), Sita
Devi, Ashapurna Debi and Mahasweta Devi
(Bengali), Gauri Deshpande and Kamal Desai
(Marathi).
ISBN: 81-85218-40-4 Rs. 3000 (7 vols.)
Parsi Fiction (2 vol. set)
Novy Kapadia, R.K. Dhawan & Dodiya, ed.
This critical anthology explores the distinc-
tive character of the Parsi novels of the cur-
rent era, as is reflected in the works of Rohin-
ton Mistry, Bapsi Sidhwa, Dina Mehta, Fir-
daus Kanga, Keki Daruwalla and Boman
Desai. Also discussed are the works of the
latest Parsi writers, Ardashir Vakil, Meher
Pestonji and Farishta Murzban Dinshaw.
ISBN: 81-7551-107-9 Rs. 1000 (2 vols.)
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Parsee Novel
Narendra Kumar
The Parsee novel in English is postcolonial in
its range. Steeped in rich Zoroastrian myths
and legends, young promising Parsee novel-
ists like Firdaus Kanga, Rohinton Mistry,
Farrukh Dhondy, Bapsi Sidhwa, Ardashir
Vakil and Boman Desai use English as an in-
strument of self-assertion. The book exam-
ines major thematic preoccupations of both
the expatriate & stay-at-home Parsee novel-
ists in relation to the Zoroastrian worldview.
ISBN: 81-7551-115-X Rs. 400
Self and Identity in Indian Fiction
S.P. Swain
The novels analyzed in this book focus on the
protagonists’s quest for identity on the socio-
logical as well as on the philosophical plane.
Among the novelists discussed are: Anita
Desai, Bharati Mukherjee, Arun Joshi, Sal-
man Rushdie, R.K. Narayan, Raja Rao and
Amitav Ghosh.
ISBN: 81-7551-162-1 Rs. 400
Voice of the Voiceless:
Mulk Raj Anand and Jayakanthan
Dominic Savio
Mulk Raj Anand, the renowned Indian Eng-
lish novelist, and D. Jayakanthan, the best
known contemporary Tamil novelist, bear es-
sentially the same social consciousness. The
life of the poor is the subject matter of most
of their novels. Their art is an instrument for
social transformation. The comparative study
of the two authors is innovative and makes a
rich contribution to literature.
ISBN: 81-7551-167-2 Rs. 500
Modern Indian Fiction:
History, Politics and Individual in the
Novels of Salman Rushdie, Amitav
Ghosh and Upamanyu Chatterjee
P.S. Ravi
Indian English novel has undergone a signifi-
cant development in keeping with recent
trends in contemporary fiction worldwide.
The book explores these developments in
terms of themes and techniques through a se-
lection of novels by three leading contempo-
rary writers: Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh
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and Upamanuy Chatterjee. It focuses on the
emergence of a new cosmopolitan conscious-
ness through the study of a close interaction
between the historio-political contexts and
the individual and the resultant search for
identity in a complex world.
ISBN: 81-7551-117-6 Rs. 400
Class and Caste in Literature
The Fiction of Stowe and Mulk Raj Anand
J. Bheemaiah
It is an interesting comparative study of Afri-
can-American novelist Harriet Stowe and In-
dian novelist Mulk Raj Anand. It makes an
in-depth study of slaves in America and un-
touchables in India, projected by the two
writers in their works.
ISBN: 81-7551-161-3 Rs. 400
Theme of Protest in Indian Fiction
H.A. Singh
The book discusses the theme of protest in
the fiction of Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao,
R.K. Narayan, Kamala Markandaya, Nayan-
tara Sahgal and Anita Desai. Important issues
like imperialism, exploitation of the poor and
suppression of women constitute the subject
of the book.
ISBN: 81-7551-150-2 Rs. 400
Indian Women Writers
R.K. Dhawan, ed.
India has contributed significantly to the
world literature. This contribution of India
has been chiefly through the Indian writing in
English, women novelists in the forefront in
this respect. The book comprises critical es-
says on contemporary writers, especially
Arundhati Roy, Nayantara Sahgal, Ruth
Jhabvala and Kamala Markandaya.
ISBN: 81-7551-109-5 Rs. 500
Comparative Indian Literature
C.R. Visweswara Rao & R.K. Dhawan
The first part of the book is devoted to the-
ory: the definition of comparative Indian lit-
erature, feministic comparative approach,
cross-cultural studies, Indian aesthetics of
translation and other such areas. Rest of the
book contains comparative studies of the
Mahabharata, Malayalam and Oriya poetry,
Marathi and Kannada fiction as well as spe-
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cific works of R.K. Narayan, M.R. Anand,
Raja Rao, Vikram Seth, Bhisham Sahni, Sri
Aurobindo, T.S. Eliot and other writers.
ISBN: 81-7551-011-7 Rs. 500
Writers of the Indian Diaspora
R.K. Dhawan, ed.
In the recent years, a great body of fiction,
written by writers of Indian origin, has
emerged on the world literary scene. A large
number of these diasporic writers have given
expression to their creative urge and have
brought credit to the Indian English fiction as
a distinctive force. The volume comprises
critical essays on some of the most signifi-
cant writers, namely Salman Rushdie, Meena
Alexander, Jhumpa Lahiri and Stephen Gill.
ISBN: 81-7551-111-7 Rs. 400
Discussing Indian Women Writers
Some Feminist Issues
Alessandro Monti and R.K. Dhawan, ed.
The central objective of the book is to discuss
the theoretical investigations carried out by
Indian women writers in their works and to
arrive at a deeper understanding of feminist
contentions. It discusses major Indian women
writers including Anita Desai, Nayantara
Sahgal, Shashi Deshpande, Rama Mehta,
Arundhati Roy, Manju Kapur, Kamala Das,
Mahasweta Devi, who have given a graphic
picture of Indian woman in their works.
ISBN: 81-7551-128-1 Rs. 500
History-Fiction Interface: M.R. Anand,
Nayantara Sahgal, Salman Rushdie,
Shashi Tharoor and O.V. Vijayan
T.N. Dhar
The book studies the Indian English novel-
ist’s involvement with history. It is based on
the assumption that history-fiction connection
is fascinating as well as culturally significant.
The first two chapters discuss theoretical,
methodological and historical issues related
to the history-fiction interface. Later chapters
provide a detailed analysis of the novels of
M.R. Anand, Nayantara Sahgal, Salman
Rushdie, Shashi Tharoor and O.V. Vijayan,
to illustrate the whole range of the variety in
the novelist’s use of history.
ISBN: 81-7551-059-5 Rs. 500
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History and Fiction:
Salman Rushdie, Shashi Tharoor,
Khushwant Singh & Mukul Kesavan
Sudhendu Shekhar
The book examines how the novelists under
discussion have drawn on history as the raw
material of fiction. It offers a postmodernist
approach to the novels of these writers.
ISBN: 81-7551-154-0 Rs. 400
Travel Writing and Colonialism
Sachidananda Mohanty
In recent years, new developments in theory
have elevated travel writing to the forefront
of literary studies. Basing itself on some of
these developments in an interdisciplinary
framework, the book shows that a study of
colonial travel can help us define some of our
vexing postcolonial identities. The book
makes a rich contribution to the domain of
literature, travel writing and cross-cultural
studies.
ISBN: 81-7551-146-X Rs. 400
Narrating Colonialism:
Postcolonial Images of the British in
Indian English Fiction
D. Maya
The book is an investigation into postcolonial
reactions to the colonial experience as mir-
rored in the images of the British presented in
Indian English fiction. Almost the entire
range of post-Independence Indian English
fiction from the works of Mulk Raj Anand to
Salman Rushdie is brought within the canvas
of the study.
ISBN: 81-7551-029-3 Rs. 400
Kanthapura to Malgudi
S. Xavier Alphonse
The book makes a scholarly attempt to exam-
ine 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 cul-
tural values and assumptions such as the roles
of womanhood, relationship, myths and pu-
ranas, the guru, religion, bhakti and proverbs.
ISBN: 81-7551-030-7 Rs. 400
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Major Indian Novelists
K. Venkata Reddy
The book contains illuminating critical stud-
ies 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
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 Chaud-
hari, 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
Five Great Indian Novels:
A Discourse Analysis
Ashok Thorat
The main objective of the study is to show
how discourse analysis is primarily an analy-
sis 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 in-
teraction, with reference to five major Indian
novels, namely, Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouch-
able, Raja Rao’s Kanthapura, Khushwant
Singh’s Train to Pakistan, Rama Mehta’s In-
side the Haveli and Chaman Nahal’s Azadi.
ISBN: 81-7551-073-7 Rs. 500
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 novel-
ist and the winner of prestigious Sahitya
Akademi award for his novel Azadi.
ISBN: 81-7551-075-7 Rs. 400
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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 Mar-
kandaya, Sri Aurobindo, V. Satyanarayana
are discussed with reference to specific texts.
ISBN: 81-85218-64-1 Rs. 400
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 Markan-
daya, Manohar Malgonkar, Salman Rushdie.
ISBN: 81-85218-26-9 Rs. 200
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 ques-
tion, in the works of A.K. Ramanujan, Ka-
mala Das, Rabindranath Tagore, Badal Sir-
car, Girish Karnad, R.K. Narayan, Raja Rao,
Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, K. Markan-
daya, Nayantara Sahgal & Shashi Deshpande.
ISBN: 81-85218-35-8 Rs. 300
New Perspectives on Indian Writing
Narendra Kumar, ed.
In the post-Independence era, Indian English
poetry and fiction have won universal recog-
nition. 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
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
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India and elsewhere in the 1990s. The rich-
ness and diversity of the new writing is repre-
sented in the fiction of Vikram Seth, Amitav
Ghosh, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Gita Mehta,
Shobha De, Rohinton Mistry, Bharati Muk-
herjee, Yasmine Gooneratne, Bapsi Sidhwa,
Miles Franklin and others.
ISBN: 81-85218-90-0 Rs. 400
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 re-
ceived 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 ma-
jor literary figures on the international scene.
Likewise, Indian literature in regional lan-
guages has registered a remarkable growth,
and several writers like U.R. Anantha
Murthy, Mahasweta Devi, Quarratulain Hy-
der and Girish Karnad have been adequately
translated into English.
ISBN: 81-7551-090-0 Rs. 400
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 estab-
lished order of society that discriminates one
man from another on the basis of caste, col-
our and religion.
ISBN: 81-7551-116-8 Rs. 400
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
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Man-Woman Relationship in
Indian Fiction
Seema Suneel
The book critically examines the treatment of
the theme of man-woman relationship in In-
dian 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 Ra-
jendra Awasthy’s The Creeping Shadows.
ISBN: 81-85218-98-6 Rs. 300
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 il-
lustrative 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
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 lan-
guage teaching which have long been ne-
glected by the curriculum planners, syllabus
designers, text book writers and evaluators.
ISBN: 81-7551-008-0 Rs. 200
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
Recent Indian Fiction
R.S. Pathak, ed.
The volume aims at evaluating thematic pre-
occupations, fictional form and narrative
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techniques of the Indian novel of the 1980s
and the 1990s in a systematic way. The writ-
ers 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 Gok-
hale.
ISBN: 81-85218-81-1 Rs. 400
Charles Dickens and Premchand:
Novelists with a Social Purpose
Pramila Batra
Both Premchand and Dickens felt inspired by
a humanitarian zeal and their reformative fer-
vour to combat the injustice and the oppres-
sion to which certain individuals and seg-
ments of society were subjected, in their re-
spective times. The book makes a compara-
tive study of Dickens and Premchand, the
two great writers known for their passion and
compassion for humanity.
ISBN: 81-7551-101-X Rs. 300
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 inter-
esting new cross-cultural findings.
ISBN: 81-7551-015-3 Rs. 300
Jhumpa Lahiri:
The Master Storyteller
Suman Bala, ed.
Jhumpa Lahiri, recipient of the coveted Pulit-
zer 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 In-
dian diaspora. Through her characters, she
tells us about the human conditions that have
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universal resonance in her immigrant identity
that forms the core of her stories.
ISBN: 81-7551-125-7 Rs. 400
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 exam-
ines the theme of man-woman relationship,
homosexuality, lesbianism and the third sex
in her major novels.
ISBN: 81-7551-062-5 Rs. 300
Shashi Deshpande’s Fiction:
A Study in Women Empowerment
and Postcolonial Discourse
P.G. Joshi
The status of women all over the world has
undergone a rapid change in the recent dec-
ades. The book aims at analyzing Shashi
Deshpande’s novels in the light of postcolo-
nial and feminist theories. It takes into ac-
count all the novels of Deshpande.
ISBN: 81-7551-133-8 Rs. 400
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
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 ar-
ticulate the feelings of the contemporary, ur-
ban, educated upper-middle-class woman
who is caught in the transitional period be-
tween tradition and modernity.
ISBN: 81-7551-103-6 Rs. 400
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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 fic-
tion, women’s studies and sociology.
ISBN: 81-86256-07-5 Rs. 300
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
The Novels of Shashi Deshpande
Sarabjit K. Sandhu
The book makes an exhaustive study of the
depiction of the image of woman in her nov-
els The Dark Holds No Terrors, Roots and
Shadows, That Long Silence.
ISBN: 81-85218-28-5 Rs. 100
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
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 es-
says, 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
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The Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee
R.K. Dhawan, ed.
Bharati Mukherjee is at her best in the depic-
tion 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
The Position of Woman in
Kamala Markandaya’s Novels
Lakshmi Kumari Sharma
Kamala Markandaya is known for an authen-
tic 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 or-
der 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
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, adopt-
ing a comparative approach, all the major
novels including Kamala Markandaya’s A Si-
lence 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 Continents.
ISBN: 81-85218-15-3 Rs. 400
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
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sex and violene and is precursor of modern
Indian novel.
ISBN: 81-7551-170-2 Rs. 400
Arundhati Roy:
The Novelist Extraordinary
R.K. Dhawan, ed.
Arundhati Roy has emerged as the most sig-
nificant 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, It-
aly, Germany, Australia, Sri Lanka, and from
all parts of India have contributed to the rich-
ness and variety of the volume.
ISBN: 81-7551-060-9 Rs. 500
The Fiction of Anita Desai (2 vols.)
Suman Bala & D.K. Pabby, ed.
Anita Desai is the most popular of the con-
temporary Indian women novelists. This an-
thology covers a critical response to the en-
tire 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
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 charac-
ters in the light of Third Force Psychology.
ISBN: 81-85218-01-3 Rs. 400
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
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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 au-
thors belonging to different ages & different
cultures but having striking similarities.
ISBN: 81-85218-07-2 Rs. 100
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 Sid-
hwa. 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
Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy-Man
Rashmi Gaur
The the first part by the editor offers a com-
prehensive 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 crit-
ics on various aspects of the novel.
ISBN: 81-7851-011-1 Rs. 400
Anantha Murthy’s Samskara:
A Critical Study
Rashmi Gaur
In Samskara, a modern classical novel, Anan-
tha Murthy has skilfully portrayed Brahmin-
Dalit conflict, problems of sperstitions
amongst uneducated Indian villagers, and
marginalisation of women in Indian social
system. The novel raises some important is-
sues in this context and explores the psyche
of the Indian mind. The present volume
makes an innovative attempt at explicating
the theme and technical aspects of this ex-
traordinary Indian novel.
ISBN: 81- Rs. 400
The Novels of Mulk Raj Anand
R.K. Dhawan, ed.
The book provides a critical survey of re-
sponses to the novels and short stories of
Mulk Raj Anand, regarded as one of the pio-
neers of the Indian English fiction. In this re-
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freshingly new assessment, the attempt is not
to label but to elucidate and interpret the fic-
tion of Mulk Raj Anand and assess his con-
tribution to the Indian English fiction.
ISBN: 81-85218-63-3 Rs. 400
The World of Malgudi:
A Study of R.K. Narayan’s Novels
A. Hariprasanna
The book is the first attempt to write a full-
fledged account of the World of Malgudi as
depicted in the novels of Narayan. It takes up
for detailed discussion Swami and Friends,
The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The
English Teacher, The Financial Expert, Wait-
ing for the Mahatma, The Guide, The Man-
Eater of Malgudi, The Vendor of Sweets, A
Tiger for Malgudi, The World of Nagaraj and
Grandmother’s Tale.
ISBN: 81-85218-93-5 Rs. 400
The Use of Myth in
R.K. Narayan’s Novels
D.S. Dewari
The book studies three Narayan novels, The
English Teacher, The Man-Eater of Malgudi
and The Painter of Signs, in the light of three
popular Indian myths—the Savitri-Satyavan
myth, the Bhasmasura myth and the Santanu-
Ganga myth. It reveals how Narayan has trans-
formed Indian history and myth into fascinat-
ing fiction by the alchemy of his genius.
ISBN: 81-7551-100-1 Rs. 300
The Novels of R.K. Narayan
Ramesh Dnyate
The book is a reappraisal of Narayan’s craft
of fiction with special reference to the char-
acterization in Malgudi novels. Finding
Western critical parameters inadequate to
measure the typical and predetermined char-
acters in Narayan’s novels, the book suggests
a viable approach to consider Narayan’s
characterization from a new perspective.
ISBN: 81-7551-001-3 Rs. 300
Vikram Seth: The Literary Genius
Pramod K. Nayar and R.K. Dhawan
The volume offers a wide spectrum of critical
response by eminent scholars to the entire
range of Seth’s writings including The
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Golden Gate, A Suitable Boy and An Unequal
Music.
ISBN: 81-7851-168-0 Rs. 400
Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy:
Search for an Indian Identity
Shyam Agarwalla
The book is the first full-length study of A
Suitable Boy, the novel for which Vikram
Seth was awarded the 1994 Commonwealth
Writer Prize. This book closely examines the
theme and technique of the novel, revealing
his penetrating insight and wide knowledge
of Indian-English literature, English literature
and also the history of India and England.
ISBN: 81-85218-97-8 Rs. 200
The Novels of Raja Rao
Esha Dey
The book makes an in-depth critical study of
the fiction of Raja Rao. It makes an illumi-
nating elucidation of all the works of Raja
Rao, including Kanthapura, The Serpent and
the Rope, The Chessmaster and His Moves
and On the Ganga Ghat and Other Stories.
ISBN: 81-85218-34-X Rs. 400
The Fiction of Rohinton Mistry
Jaydipsinh Dodiya, ed.
Rohinton Mistry, an Indian-born novelist set-
tled in Canada, is a powerful chronicler of
contemporary social and political life. He
shot into fame on being shortlisted for the
prestigious Booker Prize for his novel Family
Matters. Earlier he published a collection of
short stories Tales from Firozsha Baag and
the critically-acclaimed novel Such a Long
Journey, which was a runner up for the 1991
Booker Prize. The book makes a pioneering
attempt at the evaluation of the entire range
of Mistry’s fiction.
ISBN: 81-7551-046-3 Rs. 300
Manjeri Isvaran:
The Man and the Writer
John E. Abraham
Manjeri S. Isvaran (1910-66) is one of the
pioneers of Indian Writing in English. The
wide range of his publications includes po-
ems, plays, short stories, translations and
criticism. The book makes an exhaustive
study of the mind and art of Manjeri Isvaran
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and evaluates his contribution to the rise of
Indian writing in English.
ISBN: 81-7551-074-9 Rs. 400
The Short Stories of Manjeri Isvaran
N. Gopalakrishnan Nair
Manjeri S. Isvaran is one of the best-known
short story writers of India. His contribution
to Indian literature is significant. He is per-
haps the only Indian writer of the colonial era
to have chosen the ancient medium of short
story and an alien language to render indige-
nous life and Indian experience into an artis-
tically realizable entity. The book is a critical
study of the thematic concerns and technical
virtuosities of Isvaran’s stories.
ISBN: 81-7551-005-6 Rs. 200
Rabindranath Tagore’s The Home
and the World: Critical Perspectives
Rama Kundu, ed.
In the recent years, there has been a revival of
interest in Tagore’s fiction, especially the
novel The Home and the World. Set on a
Bengali zamindar’s estate in 1908, it is both a
love story and a novel of political awakening.
The present book throws fresh light on The
Home and the World and adds to our aware-
ness of the intrinsic value of Indian fiction.
ISBN: 81-7851-000-6 Rs. 400
Rabindranath Tagore’s The Home
and the World: New Dimensions
D.K. Pabby and Alpana Neogy, ed.
Tagore was a prolific writer and multi-
faceted genius. Among his major fictional
works, the novel The Home and the World
(Ghare-Baire) has attained immense popular-
ity in recent years. The first part offers a
comprehensive introduction to the novel and
an in-depth analysis of the text; the second
part carries scholarly articles by eminent crit-
ics on various aspects of the novel.
ISBN: 81-7851-003-0 Rs. 400
The Novels of Amitav Ghosh
R.K. Dhawan, ed.
The new Indian writing, published in the
1980s and 1990s, has ushered in a literary
renaissance. Amitav Ghosh is one of the most
distinguished contemporary Indian novelists.
His popularity graph has been rising ever
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since he published his first novel The Circle
of Reason in 1986. The book, comprising
critical essays by eminent scholars, is a pio-
neering attempt at the evaluation of the entire
range of fiction written by Amitav Ghosh.
ISBN: 81-7551-011-0 Rs. 500
Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines:
Critical Perspectives
Novy Kapadia, ed.
While Amitav Ghosh has written a number of
novels, his best known is The Shadow Lines,
a novel on the theme of Partition, that has
been translated into many languages of the
world. The volume aims at an overall as-
sessment of this classic novel of Ghosh.
ISBN: 81-7851-001-4 Rs. 500
The Novels of Salman Rushdie
G.R. Taneja and R.K. Dhawan, ed.
Salman Rushdie has emerged as one of the
most powerful novelists of the world. His
work, especially Midnight’s Children, is
complex and his narrative intricate. The book
is a collection of critical papers by interna-
tional scholars on various aspects of Rush-
die’s thematic and technical art.
ISBN: 81-85218-61-7 Rs. 400
Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children
A Reader’s Companion
Tapan Kumar Ghosh
The first section introduces Salman Rushdie,
the novelist, and his work Midnight’s Chil-
dren, with an exhaustive commentary on the
novel by Tapan Ghosh. The second section,
comprising exploratory essays by eminent
academics, offers a wide spectrum of views
on the modern classic Midnight’s Children
and is thus a useful addition to the existing
corpus of Rushdie criticism.
ISBN: 81-7551-010-3 Rs. 500
Arun Joshi’s Fiction:
The Labyrinth of Life
Tapan Kumar Ghosh
Arun Joshi is one of the distinguished Indian
English novelists. His fiction delineates the
modernity of human condition and explores
some fundamental problems of human exis-
tence. The book is a comprehensive study of
his fiction including his short stories.
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ISBN: 81-7551-003-X Rs. 400
The Novels of Arun Joshi
R.K. Dhawan, ed.
The book provides a critical survey of all the
novels and short stories of Arun Joshi. It fo-
cuses attention not only on Joshi’s thematic
concerns but also on his narrative techniques,
and more significantly on the psychological
overtones of his work.
ISBN: 81-85218-62-5 Rs. 400
The Novels of Bhabani Bhattacharya
Balram S. Sorot
Bhabani Bhattacharya is one of the major In-
dian novelists who have laid the foundations
of the novel in English. The book discusses
all his novels and short stories with a focus
on the theme of modernity and tradition and
the contribution the novelist makes to the
technique of fiction-writing. It also makes a
comparative assessment of Bhattacharya and
R.K. Narayan.
ISBN: 81-85218-32-3 Rs. 300
The Novels of Manohar Malgonkar
M. Rajagopalachari
Malgonkar is one of the most significant In-
dian novelists writing in English. The book
demonstrates the complexity of human exis-
tence in his fiction and brings out the novel-
ist’s vision of life. It discusses in detail his
novels Distant Drum, Combat of Shadows,
The Princes, A Bend in the Ganges, The
Devil’s Wind and The Garland Keepers.
ISBN: 81-85218-16-1 Rs. 200
Khushwant Singh: The Man and Writer
R.K. Dhawan, ed.
Khushwant Singh is perhaps India’s best
known journalist and critic of life, literature,
sex and politics. His novel Train to Pakistan
is considered an Indian classic and his latest
novel The Company of Women has been
hailed as a landmark in the history of Indian
English fiction. The present book covers
various aspects of the writer’s literary career
as also his daring and controversial views,
giving new insights into the man and the
writer that Khushwant Singh is.
ISBN: 81-7551-028-5 Rs. 500
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M.V. Rama Sarma: His Mind and Art
K. Venkata Reddy, ed.
Divided into three sections, the book makes a
critical assessment of M.V. Rama Sarma.
Section A contains articles on Shakespeare
and Milton, areas of profound interest to
Rama Sarma. Section B concerns itself with
the themes and techniques of his novels and
plays. Section C contains his articles on Mil-
ton, Shakespeare and Heywood.
ISBN: 81-85218-37-4 Rs. 300
Vivekananda: Speeches & Writings
A Critical Study
C.L. Khatri
Vivekananda is one of the greatest religious
leaders and thinkers of the modern India. The
present book is a pioneering study of the
speeches and writings of Vivekananda in a
literary perspective. It makes a critical
evaluation of his prose style and oratorial
skill.
ISBN: 81-7551-086-2 Rs. 400
Nirad C. Chaudhari
The Scholar Extraordinary
R.K Dhawan, ed.
Nirad Chaudhari, who died on 1 August
1999, at the age of 101, was one of the great-
est thinkers of the 20th century. He wrote ten
books including the famous work The Auto-
biography of an Unknown Indian. The book
is a fitting tribute to his genius.
ISBN: 81-7551-087-0 Rs. 400
Indian Poetry
Trends and Techniques in
Contemporary Indian English Poetry
Rama Nair, ed.
The anthology makes a survey of the trends
and techniques in contemporary Indian Eng-
lish poetry. A critical perspective of the po-
etic development over the last two decades is
essential to promote a greater self-awareness,
a more accurate knowledge of native tradi-
tions and a greater insight into their modern
transformations. A comparative perspective
can lead to further insights into the well-
known cultural traits of Indian history and
literature such as eclecticism, multi-
lingualism and multi-culturalism.
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ISBN: 81-7551-114-1 Rs. 500
The Poetry and Translations of
A.K. Ramanujan
Rama Nair
A.K.Ramanujan holds a unique position in
modern Indian poetic scene. His original po-
etry in English has its roots in his transla-
tions. A comparative study of Ramanujan’s
translation and his original poetic work in
English affirms a contextualisation in terms
of themes, motifs and structures. The influ-
ence of his translated works on his poetry has
been assimulated to such a degree that one
can speak of analogies and relational studies.
The book attempts a study of this relationship
ISBN: 81-7551-119-2 Rs. 300
Six Women Poets:
A Cross-Cultural Study
Mina Surjit Singh
The book examines the works of six repre-
sentative poets—from India and America—
who in their writings reflect a desire for free-
dom from gender oppression as also from
age-old stifling traditions. The book studies
cross-culturally the poetry of Emily Dickin-
son and Sarojini Naidu, Sylvia Plath and
Kamala Das, Adrienne Rich & Mamta Kalia.
ISBN: 81-7551-143-5 Rs. 500
Indian Renaissance and
Indian English Poetry
Subhas Chandra Saha
Indian Renaissance took birth in the 19th
century Bengal. Indian English poetry origi-
nated from Calcutta. The author discusses
and analyses the connections and interactions
between the two phenomena and establishes
that Indian English poetry originated as an
inevitable outcome of the historical situation
in India at that particular point of time.
ISBN: 81-7551-035-8 Rs. 300
The Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra
Rabindra K. Swain
Jayanta Mahapatra is one of the foremost po-
ets writing in English today. The present
book makes a pioneering attempt to trace the
socio-cultural forces that have gone into the
shaping of the poet’s language and vision.
ISBN: 81-7551-085-4 Rs. 400
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Jayanta Mahapatra: The Poet
R. Shankar
The book shows that a characteristic trait of
Jayanta Mahapatra’s poetry is the depiction
of India and Hindu religion, with its various
rituals and myths. The book argues that Ma-
hapatra is humanist in the trinity of religion,
culture and time. In exploring these themes,
he makes an indefatigable quest, rendering
his poetry a harmonious whole.
ISBN: 81-7551-145-1 Rs. 400
Indian Drama
Indian Drama Today
M. Sarat Babu
The book makes an in-depth study of the
theme of cultural deformity in its variegated
aspects as revealed in the plays of Mohan
Rakesh, Girish Karnad, Vijay Tendulkar and
Badal Sircar. The focus is on six cultural de-
formities: gender, social, political, physical,
mental and spiritual, and a full-length chapter
is devoted to each.
ISBN: 81-7551-026-9 Rs. 300
Flowering of Indian Drama:
Growth and Development
K.V. Reddy and R.K. Dhawan, ed.
The book makes an innovative attempt at of-
fering a wide and comprehensive gallery of
Indian playwrights, evaluating their signifi-
cant works. Included in the volume are writ-
ers like Tagore, Asif Currimbhoy, Girish
Karnad, Vijay Tendulkar, Mahasweta Devi
and Mahesh Dattani.
ISBN: 81-7551-152-4 Rs. 400
Three Indian Playwrights: Tagore,
Badal Sircar and Mahasweta Devi
R.K. Dhawan, ed.
Indian drama in English and regional lan-
guages is characterized by a rich variety in
themes and technique. Tagore, Sircar and
Mahasweta Devi are Bengali writers who
have contributed to the growth of Indian
drama. The book discusses some major plays
by these writers, highlighting their character-
istic traits.
ISBN: 81-7551-159-1 Rs. 400
New Directions in Indian Drama
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Sudhakar Pandey and Freya Barua, ed.
The anthology is designed to introduce to a
wider audience India’s most important con-
temporary dramatists Vijay Tendulkar, Badal
Sircar and Girish Karnad and to give analytic
and critical assessments of their work.
ISBN: 81-85218-78-1 Rs. 300
Studies in
Contemporary Indian Drama
Sudhakar Pandey & Taraporewala, ed.
The volume brings together a series of schol-
arly papers on contemporary Indian drama
and theatre. It includes perceptive studies on
Girish Karnad, Vijay Tendulkar, Nissim Eze-
kiel, Badal Sircar and Mohan Rakesh.
ISBN: 81-85218-18-8 Rs. 300
Jayashankar Prasad’s Chandragupta:
A Study
Sanjeev Kumar
The book offers a comparative study of
Chandragupta, a play written by Hindi play-
wright Jayshankar Prasad and also by Bengali
writer Dwijendralal Roy. There are several
affinities and differences between the two
versions of the same play, making great con-
tribution to Indian literature.
ISBN: 81-7851-021-9 Rs. 400
The Plays of Mahasweta Devi
E. Satyanarayana
Mahasweta Devi is one of the few writers in
India with an unflinching commitment and
passion for the underdog. She is an activist-
writer and has been awarded the Jnanpith
Award, the highest literary prize in India. The
book, while making a close study of the the-
matic concerns in Mahasweta Devi’s five
plays, attempts to show the uniqueness of her
dramatic vision and her artistic excellence.
ISBN: 81-7551-081-1 Rs. 400
The Plays of Girish Karnad:
Critical Perspectives
Jaydipsinh Dodiya, ed.
Karnad is regarded as one of the three great
writers of the contemporary Indian drama,
the other two being Vijay Tendulkar and
Badal Sircar. His significant plays include
Yayati, Tughlaq, Naga-Mandala, Tale-Danda
& Hayavadana. The book, comprising more
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than thirty scholarly papers, offers a critical
appraisal of Karnad as a dramatist and pro-
vides varied perspectives on his major plays.
ISBN: 81-7551-061-7 Rs. 500
The Indian Imagination of
Girish Karnad
P. Dhanavel
The book critically examines various themes
viz. humanism, identity crisis, literary genet-
ics, condensation and desire for recognition
in the plays of Girish Karnad, with a focus on
his most representative play Hayavadana.
The analysis reveals that Karnad’s plays are
steeped in an imagination which is truly In-
dian in character.
ISBN: 81-7551-077-3 Rs. 300
Three Plays of Girish Karnad:
A Study in Poetics and Culture
Vanashree Tripathi
The book critically examines Girish Karnad’s
concern as a playwright with poetics and cul-
ture. It offers a close reading of the three
plays—Hayavadana, Tale-Danda and The
Fire and the Rain—testifying the play-
wright’s growth from being an experimenter
to a consummate theorist of drama.
ISBN: 81-7551-151-6 Rs. 400
Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana:
A Critical Study
L.S. Gill
Hayavadana is one of the best plays of Kar-
nad. The book offers a thorough study of the
play covering all aspects.
ISBN: 81-7851-020-0 Rs. 400
The Plays of Mahesh Dattani
R.K. Dhawan and Tanu Pant, ed.
Mahesh Dattani is the foremost Indian Eng-
lish dramatist today. The pioneering study
makes an attempt at evaluating the major
plays of Dattani in terms of themes and tech-
nique.
ISBN: 81-7551-160-5 Rs. 400
Vijay Tendulkar’s Ghashiram Kotwal:
A Reader’s Companion
M. Sarat Babu
Vijay Tendulkar has dominated Indian liter-
ary scene for more than three decades. His
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popular play Ghashiram Kotwal is based on
the historical conflict between Nana Phad-
navis and his henchman Ghashiram Kotwal.
The book offers an exhaustive critical com-
mentary on the play, followed by scholarly
essays by eminent scholars.
ISBN: 81-7851-008-1 Rs. 400
Vijay Tendulkar’s GhashiramKotwal:
Critical Perspectives
Vinod Bala Sharma, ed.
In the first section, the editor introduces the
playwright and his works with a focus on his
famous play Ghashiram Kotwal; the second
section contains critical perspectives on the
play by eminent drama critics.
ISBN: 81-7851-002-2 Rs. 400
Mohan Rakesh’s Halfway House
Critical Perspectives
Subhash Chandra, ed.
Mohan Rakesh, recipient of Sangeet Natak
Akademi Award twice, was a versatile writer
who experimented with many genres: short
stories, novels and plays. His plays Aashadh
Ka Ek Din, Lehron Ke Rajhans and Aadhe-
Adhure lent a new dignity to the Hindi thea-
tre. The present book explores the mystique
of Rakesh, taking up Halfway House (Aadhe-
Adhure) for a detailed critical analysis.
ISBN: 81-7851-004-9 Rs. 500
Women’s Studies
Feminism and the Individual
Kalpana R.J.
The focus of the book is on woman as an in-
dividual. It discusses, in context with the
given theme, the fiction of Anita Desai, Ka-
mala Markandaya, Shashi Deshpande, Na-
mita Gokhale and Suniti Namjoshi.
ISBN: 81-7551-156-7 Rs. 400
Feminism and Family
Kalpana R.J.
The book discusses the boundaries and meth-
odologies of Feminist Consciousness. It high-
lights the cultural oppressiveness of the state
of motherhood with reference to the novels of
Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, Nayantara
Sahgal and Shashi Deshpande.
ISBN: 81-7551-155-9 Rs. 400
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Feminism and Sexual Poetics
Kalpana R.J.
The focus of the book is on women poets
who have portrayed the struggle between tra-
ditional strictures and raised feminist con-
sciousness of the women today. The poets
discussed are: Kamala Das, Sujata Bhatt,
Mamta Kalia, Imtiaz Dharker, Suniti Nam-
joshi and Eunice de Souza.
ISBN: 81-7551-157-6 Rs. 400
The Feminine Voice in Indian Fiction
S.P. Swain
The volume highlights feminine voice articu-
lated in the recent fiction by writers like
Shashi Deshpande, Anita Desai, Bharati
Mukherjee, Shobha De and Arundhati Roy.
The book projects the awakening, ushered in
by the feminist movement in India.
ISBN: 81-7551-157-6 Rs. 400
Recent Trends in Women’s Poetry
Manju Jaidka
The book attempts a survey of some of the
important themes and ideas that emerged in
women’s poetry of the twentieth century. A
close study of the works of five major women
writers—Anne Sexton, Margaret Atwood,
Sylvia Plath, Kamala Das, Anna Akhma-
tova—reveals that in each individual poet,
the effort is to focus on one main theme
which becomes representative of a large con-
cern with the position of women viewed
against diverse cultural & social background.
ISBN: 81-7551-091-9 Rs. 300
Patterns of Feminist Consciousness in
Indian Women Writers
Anuradha Roy
The book is a significant comparative study
of five selected novels on the basis of differ-
ent patterns of evolving feminist conscious-
ness depicted in the narratives. It makes a
rich contribution to the growing corpus of
feminist criticism on the fiction of Anita
Desai, Nayantara Sahgal, Attia Hosain, Rama
Mehta and Shashi Deshpande.
ISBN: 81-7551-064-1 Rs. 400
Nayantara Sahgal and Doris Lessing:
A Feminist Study in Comparison
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Neena Arora
The book attempts a fresh and revealing
comparative study of the selected works of
Nayantara Sahgal and Doris Lessing from the
feminist stance. Both Lessing and Sahgal de-
pict women suffering due to sexist bias in the
patriarchal society, and they envision a world
which should be based on equality and har-
mony between the two sexes.
ISBN: 81-85218-31-5 Rs. 300
Feminism & American Literature
R.K. Dhawan, ed.
The anthology makes a comprehensive sur-
vey of feminism and the woman’s question in
terms of contemporary literary writing in
America. The focus of the book is on the No-
bel Laureate Toni Morrison. There are per-
ceptive articles on Sylvia Plath, Tennessee
Williams, Adrienne Kennedy, Maria Irene
Fornes, John Steinbeck, J.D. Salinger, Joyce
Carol Oates, Alice Walker and Willa Cather.
ISBN: 81-7551-025-0 Rs. 300
Feminism & Modern American Poetry
Annamma Joseph
The book attempts a critical analysis of the
poetry of three significant modern American
poets Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton and Adri-
enne Rich from a feminist perspective. These
women poets transcend the conventional lit-
erary and ideological norms in order to create
a woman-centered universe. The study ex-
plores the different routes through which they
arrive at a poetics of feminist experience.
ISBN: 81-7551-009-9 Rs. 300
Black Women’s Writing:
Quest for Identity
Y.S. Sharadha
Black women’s writing has registered a phe-
nomenal growth in the recent years. Lorraine
Hansberry and Ntozake Shange are out-
standing black women playwrights whose
portraits of black life and culture are charac-
terized by a vision distinctively feminine and
different from that of many black male
dramatists of the period. The focus is on a re-
assessment of black literature in an attempt to
discover multiple black feminine styles.
ISBN: 81-7551-038-2 Rs. 400
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Women’s Voices: The Novels of
Indian Women Writers
K. Meera Bai
The book is a brilliant study of feminine sen-
sibility at work in the fiction of Indian
women writers, with a focus on Anita Desai,
Kamala Markandaya, Nayantara Sahgal and
Ruth Jhabvala.
ISBN: 81-7551-004-8 Rs. 300
A Feminist Perspective on the
Fiction of Virginia Woolf
Sulabha Naik
The book offers a feminist critique on the fic-
tion of Virginia Woolf, one of the most sig-
nificant novelists of the 20th century. Vir-
ginia Woolf is the first major novelist in Eng-
lish who deals with what may now be termed
as the ‘woman’s question.’ The book makes
an assesssment of the contribution made by
Virginia Woolf to the realm of English fic-
tion, from the feminist viewpoint.
ISBN: 81-7551-052-8 Rs. 200
Commonwealth Literature
Essays on the New Literatures
R.K. Dhawan, ed.
The volume offers new insights into the fic-
tion of Commonwealth writers, especially
Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, Manju Ka-
pur, Shashi Tharoor and Chinua Achebe.
ISBN: 81-7551-139-7 Rs. 400
New Commonwealth Writing:
A Critical Response
M.L. Pandit
A collection of essays in the areas of Indian,
West Indian, Nigerian and Canadian writing,
the book includes a special section on Salman
Rushdie. An exclusive interview with Salman
Rushdie is published for the first time.
ISBN: 81-7551-007-2 Rs. 400
Critical Studies in
Commonwealth Literature
K. Venkata Reddy
Chapters are devoted to specific writers like
Katherine Mansfield of New Zealand; Mar-
garet Atwood and Margaret Laurence of
Canada; David Williamson of Australia;
Wole Soyinka and Nadine Gordimer of Af-
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rica; Derek Walcott of West Indies; Tagore,
A.K. Ramanujan, Harindranath Chat-
topadhyaya, T.P. Kailasam, Manoranjan Das,
Badal Sircar, Salman Rushdie, Chaman Na-
hal and S. Radhakrishnan of India.
ISBN: 81-85218-7-0 Rs. 400
Recent Commonwealth Literature
Dhawan, Dhamija, Shrivastava, ed.
The book studies elaborately the genesis and
bearing of Commonwealth literature. It con-
tains critical studies on Rushdie, Anand,
Arun Joshi, M. Malgonkar, R.K. Narayan,
Nina Sibal, Anita Desai, Nayantara Sahgal,
Ruth Jhabvala, Nergis Dalal, Rama Mehta,
Keki Daruwalla, Earle Birney, Judith Wright,
Katherine Mansfield, Hugh MacLennan,
Lamming, Naipaul, John Masters, Soyinka,
Achebe, Ngugi, Plomer and Flora Nwapa.
ISBN: 81-85218-09-9 Rs. 800 (2 vols.)
Commonwealth Writing:
A Study in Expatriate Experience
R.K Dhawan and L.S.R.K. Sastry, ed.
The first section defines and discusses the
theme of expatriation and immigration as
dealt in Commonwealth writing. This is fol-
lowed by critical studies on specific writers:
Vikram Seth, Ruth Jhabvala, Bharati Muk-
herjee, Anita Desai, Attia Hosain (India),
Udaya Meddegama (Sri Lanka), Farhana
Sheikh (Pakistan), George Lamming, Naipaul
(West Indies) & Margaret Laurence (Canada)
ISBN: 81-85218-82-X Rs. 300
Centering the Margins:
Perspectives on Literatures in
English from India, Africa, Australia
Cynthia vanden Driesen
The book, comprising 11 perceptive essays,
reveals the new directions postcolonial criti-
cism is taking. The author confronts the most
complex writers: R.K. Narayan in India,
Achebe in Africa, Patrick White in Australia.
She focuses on women’s studies in the post-
colonial context through her study of
Emecheta and on immigration and multicul-
turalism through her essay on Asian writing
in Australia.
ISBN: 81-85218-99-4 Rs. 300
Commentaries on Commonwealth
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Poetry and Drama
S. Ramaswamy
This volume of essays covers a wide range of
subjects. It has articles on Obi Egbuna (Af-
rica), Douglas Stewart, Patrick White, Ray
Lawler (Australia), George Woodcock,
Sharon Pollock, Michel Tremblay (Canada),
Claude McKay (West Indies), Arthur Ja-
wodimbari (New Zealand).
ISBN: 81-85218-79-X Rs. 300
Commentaries on
Commonwealth Fiction
S. Ramaswamy
This volume of essays on Commonwealth
fiction covers a wide range of subjects. It has
articles on Wole Soyinka (Africa), Henry
Handel Richardson, Patrick White (Austra-
lia), Hugh MacLennan, Morley Callaghan,
Anne Hebert (Canada), Wilson Harris (West
Indies), Katherine Mansfield (New Zealand),
James Goonewardane (Sri Lanka).
ISBN: 81-85218-80-3 Rs. 300
Caribbean Literature
The West Indian Fiction
R.K. Dhawan, ed.
West Indian literature is best known for the
fiction it has produced. George Lamming,
Wilson Harris, Samuel Selvon and V.S. Nai-
paul are amongst the most significant novel-
ists of the twentieth century. The volume
highlights the contribution made by these
writers and also discusses the work of other
writers including Jean Rhys, Roger Mais,
Cyril Dabydeen and Jamaica Kincaid.
ISBN: 81-7551-044-7 Rs. 400
V.S. Naipaul: A Literary Response to
the Nobel Laureate
Suman Bala, ed.
Naipaul is one of the best-known Englih nov-
elists of the modern times; his popularity
reached its zenith when he received the No-
bel Prize for literature. The volume, a collec-
tion of recent essays on his writings, aims at
paying the fittest tribute to the great novelist.
ISBN: 81-7551-136-2 Rs. 500
The Novels of V.S. Naipaul
Shashi Kamra
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The study makes an inquiry into Naipaul’s
fiction as an experimental recreation of the
third-world consciousness. It is one of the
pioneering studies on the mind and art of
Naipaul. It has detailed chapters on The Mys-
tic Masseur, The Suffrage of Elvira, The
Mimic Men, A House for Mr. Biswas, Mr.
Stone, The Knight’s Companion, Guerrillas,
A Bend in the Ganges and In a Free State.
ISBN: 81-85218-12-9 Rs. 300
The Novels of V.S. Naipaul:
Quest for Order and Identity
N. Rama Devi
The book analyzes Naipaul’s quest for order
and identity in his novels with the third world
setting, namely The Mystic Masseur, The Suf-
frage of Elvira, A House for Mr. Biswas, The
Mimic Men, In a Free State, Guerrillas, A
Bend in the River and A Way in the World.
ISBN: 81-85218-006-4 Rs. 300
Canadian Literature
The Fiction of Margaret Laurence and
Anita Desai: Discourse in Alienation
D.K. Pabby
The volume on the fiction of Canadian writer
Margaret Laurence and Indian English writer
Anita Desai is conceived as a project in com-
parative framework. It interrogates and cri-
tiques significant questions relating to iden-
tity, ethnicity, multiculturalism, immigration,
globalization, alienation and affirmation that
confront the Canadian and Indian society and
the literary world..
ISBN: 81-7551-158-3 Rs. 500
Trishanku and Other Writings
Uma Parameswaran
Trishanku is a cycle of poems consisting of
about fifteen voices that cumulatively reflect
the first quarter century of Indo-Canadian ex-
perience in Manitoba.
ISBN: 81-7551-019-6 Rs. 300
Land Where the Trees Talk and
Other Plays
Rahul Varma
The four plays included in this volume show
the evolution of Rahul Varma’s art and his
commitment to challenging the inequities
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imposed on new immigrants in Canada. In
the title play, he enters new but related terri-
tory the encroachment of commercial tech-
nology on the rights of the First Nations.
ISBN: 81-7551-022-6 Rs. 400
Five or Six Characters in Search of
Toronto and Other Plays
Rana Bose
Rana Bose is an intellectual dissenter. All his
plays highlight the theme of protest, not spe-
cific injustices or individual incidents of suf-
fering so much as the systemic shortcomings
that give rise to and perpetuate an unjust so-
ciety. His plays have a Canadian setting but
their implications have global relevance.
ISBN: 81-7551-021-8 Rs. 300
Sons Must Die and Other Plays
Uma Parameswaran
Sons Must Die and Other Plays reflects both
the evolution of the Indo-Canadian commu-
nity and the evolution of the writer. At one
level, these plays deal with the demands and
experiences of such universals as mother-
hood, bhakti, transplantation etc. while at the
level of specifics, they delineate the growth
of theatre in the Indo-Canadian community.
ISBN: 81-7551-020-4 Rs. 300
Multiculturalism: Canada and India
R.K. Dhawan and D.K. Pabby, ed.
Immigrant literature, native writing and
cross-cultural studies are the upcoming areas
of contemporary Canadian writing and these
truly represent the face of multicultural Can-
ada. The rich diversity has similarity with lit-
erary and cultural scenario in India. The book
makes a comparative study of the rich inter-
racial, ethnic literatures of the two countries.
ISBN: 81-7551-166-4 Rs. 400
Commentaries on Canadian Literature
S. Ramaswamy
Contemporary Canadian literature has re-
ceived a worldwide response. The book of-
fers detailed commentaries on the major Ca-
nadian texts and authors—a book that really
helps to understand and appreciate Canadian
literature.
ISBN: 81-7551-173-7 Rs. 500
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India in Canadian Imagination
R.K. Dhawan, D.K. Pabby and S.S. Sharma
The book explores the heritage of Indian
thought and the image of India depicted in
Canadian literature. Writers like Uma Pa-
rameswaran, Rohiton Mistry, Anita Rau Bad-
ami and Shauna Singh Baldwin have con-
structed an image of India in their works as
they imagine it to be. The book adds to the
literature of Indian diaspora.
ISBN: 81-7551-138-9 Rs. 400
Canadian Literature Today
R.K. Dhawan, ed.
The volume contains essays on Nature in Ca-
nadian poetry, the poems of Irving Layton,
the plays of Robertson Davies, the autobiog-
raphies of Claire Martin and Sharan-Jeet
Shan, the literary criticism of George Whal-
ley and the novels of Michael Ondaatje,
Mordecai Richler, Vassanji, Alice Munro,
Marie Clair Blais, Joan Barfoot, Beatrice
Culleton, Margaret Atwood and Rudy Wiebe.
ISBN: 81-85218-95-1 Rs. 400
Perspectives on Indo-Canadian Studies
Jacob George, ed.
The twenty-three articles in this volume pre-
sent the varied encounters of the colonial,
migratory, cross-cultural, constitutional and
multilingual kind which forge the identity of
India and Canada. Such an attempt highlights
the multicultural mosaic of present-day Can-
ada and India.
ISBN: 81-7551-105-2 Rs. 400
Perspectives on Canadian Fiction
Sudhakar Pandey, ed.
The volume contains exploratory critical
studies on various aspects of Canadian fic-
tion. Feminism and women’s writing consti-
tute the bulk of the volume. Writers like
Margaret Atwood, Sinclair Ross, Sally Mor-
gan and Rudy Wiebe are discussed with ref-
erence to specific texts.
ISBN: 81-85218-77-3 Rs. 400
Australian Literature
Diaspora:
The Australasian Experience
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Cynthia vanden Driesen & Ralph Crane, ed.
The perennially engaging theme of diaspora
has acquired an increasing, even an alarming
resonance in the contemporary world. This
collection of writings from Australia, New
Zealand, India and Singapore straddles disci-
plines ranging from Literature, Media, and
the Social Sciences to Computing and Li-
brary Studies. The medley of voices combine
to illuminate a topic which must surely be
one of the most challenging in current intel-
lectual debates the world over. It is aerated
also with insightful contributions from crea-
tive artists. The varied issues are probed with
unusual depth and perspicacity, partly be-
cause while some of the contributors are rec-
ognized experts in the field, others are excit-
ing new talents testing their strengths in the
field of international scholarship.
ISBN: 81-7551-176-1 Rs. 900
Multiculturalism in
Australian Literature
R.K. Dhawan, ed.
Australian society, like American and Cana-
dian, is characterized by multiculturalism.
Contemporary Australian literature is quite
representative of this quality. The volume
contains indepth studies of various literary
works written by Asian-Australian writers
and other works written by white Australians
who are truly multicultural.
ISBN: 81-7551-159-1 Rs. 400
Austral-Asian Encounters:
From Literature and Women’s
Studies to Politics and Tourism
Cynthia Driesen & Satendra Nandan, ed.
This collection of papers signals the emer-
gence of innovative developments in Austra-
lian Studies. In the area of cultural theory
some of the brightest talents from Australia,
New Zealand and India theorize the fresh in-
sights emerging through exploration of the
commonalties of the shared colonial and
postcolonial experience of these regions. The
addition of perspectives from New Zealand to
this Second-World/Third-World dialogue is
another of the highlights of this volume.
While on the literary scene new figures move
into focus, fresh developments in other disci-
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plines are highlighted: politics, diplomacy,
tourism and even science show interactions
across a whole range of areas.
ISBN: 81-7551-131-1 Rs. 700
Australian Literature Today
R.K Dhawan and David Kerr, ed.
The book includes essays that deal with some
significant texts and themes in Australian
writing. Writers like Patrick White, David
Malouf, Peter Carey, C.J. Koch, Christopher
Brennan and Vincent Buckley are discussed
with reference to specific texts.
ISBN: 81-85218-70-6 Rs. 400
States of Imagination: Nationalism
and Multiculturalism in Australian
and Southern Asian Literature
John McLaren
The nation states of Asia and the South Pa-
cific that were formerly ruled by Britain or
the United States have in common their colo-
nial past and the civil institutions inherited
from it, the widespread use of the English
language and the problem of building new
nations amid cultural, ethnic, religious and
linguistic diversity. This study examines the
ways writers in English have dealt with these
problems in India, Pakistan, Malayasia, Sin-
gapore, Philippines and Australia.
ISBN: 81-7551-120-6 Rs. 500
New Directions in Australian Studies
Cynthia Driesen and Adrian Mitchell
This collection of papers refracts new trends
in Australian studies over a range of disci-
plines—literature, cultural theory, education,
women’s studies, children’s studies. Focus-
sing on the innovative and the creative, these
papers articulate perceptive insights from
several eminent Australian academics and
also record the burgeoning interest of Asian
scholars in Australian culture.
ISBN: 81-7551-084-6 Rs. 700
Australian Poetry and Fiction
R.K. Dhawan, ed.
In the recent years, a number of Australian
writers have received international recogni-
tion: Patrick White, Peter Carey, A.D. Hope,
Les Murray, Judith Wright, David Malouf
and Elizabeth Jolley. Also, Australian women
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writers have produced sufficient work to
merit worldwide attention. The volume,
comprising critical responses, amply testifies
to the view that present-day Australian writ-
ing has acquired a breadth and diversity that
it did not possess before.
ISBN: 81-7551-032-3 Rs. 300
Australian Literature and Indian Lit-
erature: Studies in Mutual Response
David Kerr and R.K. Dhawan, ed.
While the first section has scholarly papers
by eminent Indian academics on contempo-
rary Australian literature, the second section
has scholarly papers by Australian academics
on Indian English literature. The book con-
tains illuminating studies on Patrick White,
A.D. Hope, Judith Wright, Les Murray, Sal-
man Rushdie, Anita Desai, R.K. Narayan,
Nayantara Sahgal, Shashi Deshpande,
Upamanyu Chatterjee and Nissim Ezekiel.
ISBN: 81-85218-24-2 Rs. 400
A.D. Hope: Questions of Poetic Strength pendence through the sacrifices of heroes like
Walter Tonetto
The book makes a detailed discussion of the
poetic quality of major works of A.D. Hope,
a leading Australian poet. The study places
Hope as a precursor of a genius that has im-
bibed its possibilities from the spirit of land
and people.
ISBN: 81-85218-74-9 Rs. 400
New Zealand Literature
New Zealand Literature Today
R.K Dhawan and Walter Tonetto, ed.
The book is a pioneering attempt to foster
reader’s interest in New Zealand literature
and to highlight its significance as a major
component of World literature. It has exhaus-
tive critical studies on Katherine Mansfield,
Frank Sargeson, Maurice Gee, Janet Frame
and Keri Hulme.
ISBN: 81-85218-69-2 Rs. 400 assertion. All the contributors to the volume
African Literature
African Literature Today
R.K. Dhawan, ed.
The book gives a panoramic look at the con-
temporary African literature. It includes gen- women writers like Nadine Gordimer, Buchi
eral discussions on African writing and criti- Emecheta, Mariama Ba and Ama Ata Aidoo.
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cal studies on prominent writers like Achebe,
Wole Soyinka, Ngugi, Alex La Guma, J.P.
Clark, Alan Paton, Cyprian Ekwensi, Gabriel
Okara, Camara Laye, Flora Nwapa, Nadine
Gordimer, Doris Lessing and Bessie Head.
ISBN: 81-85218-83-8 Rs. 400
Indian Response to African Writing
A. Ramakrishna Rao, C.R.V. Rao, ed.
The articles included in this volume cover
various aspects of African writing—cultural,
generic and theoretical. Evaluations of
Achebe, Soyinka, Ngugi and other major Af-
rican writers bring to central focus the Indian
reader’s interaction with the African texts.
ISBN: 81-85218-71-4 Rs. 300
Ngugi’s The Trial of Dedan Kimathy:
A Reader’s Companion
Nandita Sinha, ed.
The Trial of Dedan Kimathy is an important
African protest play. It is based on historical
facts and depicts how Kenya won its inde-
Dedan Kimathy. The present book offers a
comprehensive study of the play, covering
thematic and technical aspects.
ISBN: 81-7851-013-8 Rs. 400
African Poetry and Drama
Shyam S. Agarwalla, ed.
The volume represents first the poets, sec-
ondly the playwrights, and thirdly all regions
of Africa and the diaspora. Particular empha-
sis is placed on Nigerian gender poetry,
Yoruba Theatre, Eastern African Traditional-
ism, African-American movement and Afri-
can-Canadian writing.
ISBN: 81-7551-070-6 Rs. 400
African Fiction
Shyam S. Agarwalla, ed.
All African writing is at once a literary piece,
a social protest and medium of political re-
share the same objective while examining the
works of writers like Achebe, Ngugi, Ayi
Kwei Armah, Ben Okri and Gabriel Okara.
The book also highlights the fast-growing
women’s writing and discusses work of
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ISBN: 81-7551-071-4 Rs. 400
Nadine Gordimer’s My Son’s Story:
A Critical Study
Nandita Sinha
Gordimer, the Nobel Laureate, has written
the famous novel My Son’s Story which of-
fers a graphic picture of anti-apartheid strug-
gle in South Africa. The book offers a de-
tailed analysis of the novel and opens up rich
insights into Gordimer’s mind and art.
ISBN: 81-7851-018-9 Rs. 400
The Novels of Wole Soyinka
M. Rajeshwar
Wole Soyinka is the only African writer to
have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. His
fictional, dramatic and poetical works are
representative of African reality and sensibil-
ity today. The book is a perceptive study of
Soyinka’s fictional heroes in their role as
leaders of the struggle against colonial and
neo-colonial forces.
ISBN: 81-85218-21-8 Rs. 200
The Plays of Wole Soyinka:
A Socio-Psychological Study
M. Pushpa
Wole Soyinka, the black African writer, won
the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. The
book makes a socio-psychological study of
his protagonists who are caught in the web of
conflict between will and tradition. This is
evident in his plays like The Road, Death and
the King’s Horseman, Kongi’s Harvest, The
Swamp Dwellers and The Lion and the Jewel.
ISBN: 81-7551-051-X Rs. 400
Chinua Achebe: A Study of His Novels
S.A. Khayyoom
Chinua Achebe, the doyen of African writing,
is the major exponent of modern African
novel. Beginning with the advent of the
European power, his novels span a series of
political crises that beset Nigeria, the collapse
of the native power structures in Things Fall
Apart, total subjugation of the natives and the
establishment of colonial power in Arrow of
God, transfer of power to the native elite in
No Longer at Ease, fall of the first Republic
in A Man of the People and the failure of the
military regime in Anthills of the Savannah.
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ISBN: 81-7551-050-1 Rs. 400
South Asian Responses to
Chinua Achebe
B. Lindfors & B. Kothandaraman, ed.
The book is an anthology of critical studies
on the novels of Chinua Achebe. It provides a
critical survey of Achebe’s fiction, especially
his social obligations as a writer.
ISBN: 81-85218-66-8 Rs. 400
The Novels of Ayi Kwei Armah
K. Damodar Rao
Armah is an articulate spokesman of African
history and identity. In his fiction, there is a
true fusion of individual and communal wel-
fare, national realities and pan-African ideal,
contemporary situation and historical vision.
All his major works, including The Beautyful
Ones Are Not Yet Born, Fragments, Why Are
We So Blest, and The Healers, are compre-
hensively discussed.
ISBN: 81-85218-75-7 Rs. 300
English Literature
Shifting Paradigms:
Essays on Literature and Theory
A. Raghu
The volume stands out for its astonishing
thematic range—from Advaita to postmod-
ernism, from Philip Sidney to Nissim Eze-
kiel, from pornography to nation theory, from
Manonmaniya Sundaram Pillai to George
Bernard Shaw, from Indian Writing in Eng-
lish to Australian literature, from the life of
C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar to the love of W.B.
Yeats for Maud Gonne.
ISBN: 81-7551-175-3 Rs. 400
Post-War English Novel:
A Study in Humanism
Rudra Prasad Mahto
The novel today stands around a humanistic
concept of the world. The present book deals
with the fiction of William Golding, John
Wain, Iris Murdoch, Doris Lessing and An-
gus Wilson who share an anxiety about man
and his position in the world.
ISBN: 81-7551-112-5 Rs. 400
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The Jew in Literature
Sanjeev Kumar
The book makes a comparative study of the
treatment of the Jew in Shakespeare’s Mer-
chant of Venice and Arnold Wesker’s The
Merchant. It enhances our awareness of ra-
cial literature that defends marginalized sec-
tions of society.
ISBN: 81-7551-164-8 Rs. 400
English Language and
Literature Teaching
Wadgaonkar, Sawant, Gandhi, ed.
The book focuses attention on some signifi-
cant aspects of language & literature teaching
such as grammar, phonology, teaching tech-
niques, stylistics and approaches to literature.
It critically examines the role of language in
evaluating and appreciating literature. The
book covers a wide range of subjects from
the grammatical items to classroom-tested
principles and methods of teaching.
ISBN: 81-7551-069-2 Rs. 400
Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook:
A Critical Study
Tapan K. Ghosh
Feminism is the most significant cultural and
literary movement today. Lessing’s The
Golden Notebook is a major literary work
that has contributed immensely to the area of
feminism, highlighting women’s identity.
The book offers a detailed commentary on
the text.
ISBN: 81-7551-174-5 Rs. 500
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein:
A Reader’s Companion
Santwana Haldar
Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, now
considered a novel of ideas, has made a great
contribution to the women’s writings. The
present book offers a serious study on the
theme, technique and narrative of the novel,
highlighting its significance as a classic.
ISBN: 81-7851-012-X Rs. 400
The Novels of Huxley and Hemingway
Sanjukta Dasgupta
The book makes a comparative study of the
works of the British novelist Huxley and the
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American novelist Hemingway. The novels
examined are Huxley’s Those Barren Leaves,
Eyeless in Gaza and Island, and Heming-
way’s A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the
Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea.
ISBN: 81-7551-002-1 Rs. 300
The Novels of Evelyn Waugh
A. Clement
Waugh is one of the prominent men of letters
of the twentieth century. The book is a warm
and perceptive analysis of his major novels in
terms of the quest motif. It devotes a chapter
each to Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, Black
Mischief, A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Re-
visited, Helena, Men at Arms, Officers &
Gentlemen, Unconditional Surrender.
ISBN: 81-85218-89-7 Rs. 400
Ivy Compton-Burnett and
English Domestic Novel
T. Asoka Rani
Ivy Compton-Burnett, a significant twentieth
century novelist, follows the tradition of Do-
mestic Novel in England. The book traces the
development of this form of fiction from the
eighteenth century in a chronological order,
evaluating the contributions of the major fig-
ures in the field. It gives in-depth analyses of
all the twenty novels of Ivy Compton-
Burnett, focussing attention on their features
in common with the standard masterpieces as
well as on the points of deviation.
ISBN: 81-85218-60-9 Rs. 400
The Novels of Joseph Conrad
V.T. Girdhari
Joseph Conrad is considered, by common
consent, one of the most significant novelists
of the world. Various interpretations of his
work have been offered by scholars, leading
to stimulating discussions. The book presents
Conrad, not as a pessimist or a nihilist, but as
a positive philosopher having infinite faith in
human existence.
ISBN: 81-7551-043-9 Rs. 400
Joseph Conrad’s Fiction
Suman Bala
The book makes an exhaustive study of exis-
tential humanism in the novels of Joseph
Conrad in the light of modern existential
theories propounded by Camus and Sartre.
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Such an approach makes the reading of Con-
rad’s novels more rewarding and brings out
the full scope of Conrad’s art and meaning,
not sufficiently apprehended hitherto.
ISBN: 81-7076-029-1 Rs. 400
Kipling’s Vision
Sukeshi Kamra
Rudyard Kipling, the Nobel Laureate, is a
significant figure in the history of the English
novel. The book shows that in analysing and
presenting the moral and spiritual abyss
within man, Kipling was attempting to do
something rather new with fiction, hundred
years ago. The book presents Kipling, popu-
larly regarded as a prophet and a seer, as an
existential humanist.
ISBN: 81-85218-04-8 Rs. 200
Fictional Theories and
Three English Novels
Asha Kanwar
The book deals with the fictional theories of
two English critics, Arnold Kettle and Ray-
mond Williams and the application of these
theories to the three great English novels,
namely, Wuthering Heights, Middlemarch
and Tess of the D’Urbervilles.
ISBN: 81-85218-23-4 Rs. 400
The Novels of Virginia Woolf
B. Sudipta
This study makes an assessment of the novels
of Virginia Woolf, including Mrs. Dalloway
and To the Lighthouse. It investigates into a
new area of ‘group-consciousness’ through
which the novelist offers a unique vision of
the world.
ISBN: 81-85218-14-5 Rs. 400
Graham Greene: Language and Style
K. Durga Bhavani
The book demonstrates and describes the
ways in which linguistic techniques can be
applied to a literary text. A practical analysis
of Greene’s style with reference to his three
novels, namely The Power and the Glory,
The Heart of the Matter and Doctor Fischer
of Geneva, leads to a deeper perception of the
novelist’s modes of literary expression.
ISBN: 81-7551-066-8 Rs. 300
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The Novels of Graham Greene
P.N. Pandit
The book makes an extensive study of the
impact of childhood on adult life, a recurrent
theme in the fiction of Graham Greene. In-
deed a host of characters emanate from
Greene’s childhood traumas and memories
anti-heroes with dual personalities obsessed
with a sense of failure and sexual guilt.
ISBN: 81-85218-17-X Rs. 400
Thomas Hardy’s Novels:
A Feminist Perspective
Isam M. Shihada
The book aims at studying the feminist as-
pects of Thomas Hardy’s major novels. A
close analysis of his novels like Far from the
Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native,
The Mayor of Casterbridge and Tess of the
D'Urbervilles reveals that Hardy may be con-
sidered a liberal humanist and a true precur-
sor of the modern feminist movement.
ISBN: 81-7551-095-1 Rs. 300
Thomas Hardy:
A Collection of Critical Essays
Subhash Chandra, ed.
This anthology offers a multipolar view of
Hardy as a novelist, poet and dramatist. A sa-
lient feature of the book is the in-depth stud-
ies of Hardy’s major novels—Far from the
Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure, The Re-
turn of the Native, Tess of the d’Urbervilles,
The Mayor of Casterbridge.
ISBN: 81-7551-037-4 Rs. 400
The English Drama
K.S. Iyer, ed.
The English drama has a rich and long tradi-
tion spanning the period from the Elizabethan
to the most modern. The volume includes ar-
ticles on outstanding figures in theatre—
Marlowe, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Sheri-
dan, Congreve, Shaw, Galsworthy, Beckett,
Pinter, Osborne, Eliot, Robert Bolt.
ISBN: 81-7551-080-3 Rs. 400
Shakespeare in the Twentieth Century
N.M. Aston, ed.
The volume brings together a series of schol-
arly papers on William Shakespeare who is
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regarded the greatest dramatist of the world.
A special feature of the book is perceptive
analyses of Indian responses to Shakespeare,
assessing his position in the 21st century.
ISBN: 81-7551-034-X Rs. 300
Shakespeare: New Dimensions
K. Dwarakanath
The book explores the multiple possibilities
for the study of Shakespeare. It approaches
Shakespeare’s plays from both literary and
linguistic point of view. The study focuses on
the four soul-stirring tragedies, namely Ham-
let, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth.
ISBN: 81-7551-072-2 Rs. 500
Harold Pinter
Pradip Lahiri
In the plays of Harold Pinter, the amazing po-
tentiality of the verbal-visual projection has
been very effectively demonstrated. The book
examines how Pinterian absurdistic drama
works on us through its dialogue design,
showing the playwright’s deeper insight into
his characters.
ISBN: 81-7551-012-9 Rs. 300
Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist:
A Reader’s Companion
Santwana Haldar
Accidental Death of an Anarchist, by the No-
bel Laureate writer Dario Fo, is a modern
classic play. A satire on police in Italy, it
makes a significant contribution to theatre
and drama. The book offers a detailed com-
mentary and critical evaluation of the play.
ISBN: 81-7851-014-6 Rs. 400
Goldsmith and Sentimental Comedy
B.S. Pathania
The book makes a close and systematic ex-
amination of Goldsmith’s comedies in the
context of sentimental comedy which was a
popular form of drama in the eighteenth cen-
tury. This book is a study of the unsentimen-
talism of Goldsmith as a playwright.
ISBN: 81-85218-00-5 Rs. 400
Ben Jonson: His Dramatic Art
K. Venkata Reddy
The book makes a close and objective study
of Jonson’s dramatic theory and practice re-
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lated to his comedies with a view to showing
that Jonson is essentially a dramatic artist.
ISBN: 81-85218-86-2 Rs. 400
Romantic Drama and Charles Lamb
M.N. Chatterjee
The book seeks a re-appraisal of the English
Romantic period in the context of drama. It
focusses on Charles Lamb who etched his
name as a critic of Shakespearean Tragedy
and Restoration Comedy.
ISBN: 81-7551-049-8 Rs. 300
G.B. Shaw: A Critical Response
Sudhakar Pandey & Freya Barua, ed.
The book comprises scholarly wide-ranging,
critical papers on Shaw’s plays, esp. Major
Barbara, Man and Superman, Saint Joan and
Arms and the Man.
ISBN: 81-85218-36-6 Rs. 300
George Bernard Shaw
Vinod Bala Sharma
The book evaluates Shaw’s prefaces and
plays as works of literature. These reveal
Shaw as an artist-philosopher and a prophet-
biologist.
ISBN: 81-85218-20-X Rs. 300
Samuel Beckett
Nishi Chawla
Samuel Beckett, best known for his play
Waiting for Godot, is one of the foremost
writers of the twentieth century. Nishi
Chawla explores in her study Beckett’s ines-
capable involvement with the fundamental is-
sues of existence and of identity.
ISBN: 81-7551-063-3 Rs. 400
Romanticism: A Reconsideration
N.M. Aston, ed.
Romanticism heralded a new era of golden
age for mankind. Wordsworth, Coleridge,
Keats, Shelley, Lamb and Hazlitt are the true
representatives of the romantic movement.
The volume makes a fresh evaluation of ‘ro-
manticism’ as a concept and its application to
significant works of the romantic era.
ISBN: 81-7551-068-4 Rs. 400
Robert Browning: Character and
Motive in The Ring and the Book
P. Hannah Padma
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Robert Browning is the most significant poet
of the Victorian era. His magnum opus The
Ring and the Book is based on a Roman mur-
der case. Choosing monologue and blank
verse as his medium, Browning takes care
that each version of the talk has an authentic-
ity in tune with the motives of the speaker.
ISBN: 81-7551-023-4 Rs. 200
Robert Browning: The Later Poetry
Nandita Sinha
The period following The Ring and the Book
has been ignored by critics on the assumption
that Browning’s best work had been com-
pleted by then. The astonishing range and
versatility of the later poems are a refutation
of this view and the book establishes the im-
portance of the mature phase in assessment of
Browning’s artistic development.
ISBN: 81-85218-72-2 Rs. 300
W.B. Yeats
Rajeshwari Patel
W.B. Yeats occupies a central place in mod-
ern literature—so central that one cannot un-
derstand the age without a proper apprecia-
tion of his work.
ISBN: 81-85218-13-7 Rs. 400
W.H. Auden:
The Commissar and the Yogi
M.K. Raju
Auden’s poetic career spanning four signifi-
cant decades was virtually synonymous with
progress of poesy in English. Igniting the po-
etic revolution at Oxford, he fueled and sus-
tained it by sheer force of his genius. If the
English Auden drew upon psychological
theories and Marxian dialectics for his poetic
ideas, the American Auden structured his
long poems on existential ethics. The book
makes an in-depth study of this paradox in
his art as in his personality.
ISBN: 81-85218-25-0 Rs. 400
Milton Today
M.V. Rama Sarma
The study deals with Milton’s justification of
God’s ways to men as expressed in his three
major poems Paradise Lost, Samson Ago-
nistes and Paradise Regained. The last chap-
ter shows the relevance of Milton’s political
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ideology and philosophical views to the pre-
sent-day world, especially India.
ISBN: 81-7551-093-5 Rs. 200
Milton and the Indian Epic Tradition
M.V. Rama Sarma
The book is an attempt to place Paradise Lost
in the epic tradition of Ramayana and the
Mahabharata.
ISBN: 81-85218-11-0 Rs. 300
Travel, Autobiography and
D.H. Lawrence
A.B. Apana
The book examines the nature of travel writ-
ing of the Twenties and Thirties and focuses
on D.H. Lawrence. In the first four chapters,
the book examines the nature of travel writ-
ing, the nature of the traveller, the uniquely
idiosyncratic style of travel writing, and fi-
nally brings together these various elements
in a chapter on autobiography. The book is a
novel approach to the study of Lawrence.
ISBN: 81-7551-053-6 Rs. 400
American Literature
Ethnic Literatures of America
Somdatta Mandal and Himadri Lahiri, ed.
The stupendous volume is devoted to dias-
poric writing in America and intercultural is-
sues in contemporary ethnic literatures of the
States. The essays deal with wide range of
themes—Theoretical Paradigms, Indian
American, Chinese American, African
American Voices and Intercultural Studies.
ISBN: 81-7551-163-X Rs. 600
Afro-American Literature
R.K. Dhawan, ed.
Afro-American writing is essentially a human
and social document which deals with the
experience of Americans of African ancestry.
A section of the book is devoted to Toni
Morrison, the Nobel Prize winner, and has a
chapter each on The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of
Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved and Jazz. Other
writers discussed include the novelists Zora
Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor,
Ralph Ellison, Alex Haley, and the dramatists
Alice Childress, Marsha Norman, Ntozake
Shange and Lorraine Hansberry.
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ISBN: 81-7551-110-9 Rs. 400
New Directions in American Literature
K.S. Iyer, ed.
This collection of articles is divided into four
parts: general, poetry, novel and drama.
While the introductory section provides a
general introduction to American literature
today, subsequent sections include explora-
tory papers on Robert Frost, Emily Dickin-
son, Sylvia Plath, Melville, Hemingway, Ed-
gar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, Toni Mor-
rison, Gloria Naylor and Edward Albee.
ISBN: 81-7551-130-3 Rs. 400
Indian Views on American Literature
A.A. Mutalik-Desai, ed.
The book presents critical response of Indian
scholars to the contemporary American lit-
erature. With a diversity of themes and ap-
proaches, the essays in this anthology exhibit
the scholars’s awareness and perceptions of
all the cross-currents in the Anglo-American
world of academia, literary studies and the
latest Theory Wars. The essays pay a discern-
ing attention to American poetry, fiction and
drama with special consideration of Afro-
American writers.
ISBN: 81-7551-054-4 Rs. 400
Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the U.S.
Anil Raina, Manju Jaidka, et al, ed.
The authors discussed include Toni Morrison,
Richard Wright, Rudolfo Anaya, Bernard
Malamud, Amy Tan, D’Arcy McNickle,
Alexei Sherman, Maxine Hong Kingston,
Claude Mckay. The anthology has essays on
Afro-American, Native American, and Asian
American literature.
ISBN: 81-7551-124-9 Rs. 500
Asian American Writing (3 vols.)
Somdatta Mandal, ed.
Asian American literature reflects the Asian
experience in the United States—right from
the beginning of Chinese immigration in the
mid-nineteenth century to the present. As
both social document and mirror of memory,
myth, dreams and desires, Asian American
literature provides unique access to under-
standing the social history and sensibilities of
this emerging minority group. This anthology
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in three volumes tries to break new ground by
emphasizing upon the Asian American ex-
perience in all possible genres—interviews,
creative writing, criticism, mass media. Writ-
ers of Indian diaspora—Bharati Mukherjee,
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Meena Alexan-
der and Jhumpa Lahiri are widely discussed.
ISBN: 81-7551-096-X Rs. 1200
American Literature Today
Suman Bala, ed.
The writings of Arthur Miller, Sam Shepard,
Saul Bellow, J.D. Salinger, Ernest Heming-
way, Norman Mailer, Sylvia Plath, Kate
Chopin, Toni Morrison and some others are
recognized throughout the world as master-
pieces of world literature. The book, a collec-
tion of 26 essays, attempts to review and
evaluate contemporary American literature.
ISBN: 81-7076-067-1 Rs. 400
Indian Perspectives on the U.S.:
Literature and Foreign Affairs
P.M. Kamath, A.A. Mutalik-Desai, ed.
The essays deal with American literary fig-
ures: Willa Cather, Ellen Glasgow, Flannery
O’Connor, Toni Morrison, Ann Petry, Ayn
Rand, Norman Mailer, J.D. Salinger, Jo-Anne
Akalaitis and Rechel Rosenthal.
ISBN: 81-85218-76-5 Rs. 400
American Literature and
Indian English Literature:
Studies in Cultural Contiguity
A.M Geevarghese, Varghese John, ed.
The volume brings together articles on two
areas of literature generally perceived as
separate identities. The essays cover perspec-
tives on American Literature and Indian Lit-
erature, and often lead to scholarly discourses
on poetry and poetics, fiction, women’s stud-
ies, drama and dramaturgy.
ISBN: 81-7551-065-X Rs. 400
American Studies in India
P.M. Kamath, ed.
The importance of American Studies is in-
creasingly being realized and it is growing
into a major area of study and research.
American Studies is essentially a multi-
disciplinary program built on subjects drawn
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from Humanities and Social Sciences. The
volume is a collection of fourteen essays by
Americanists in the field of literature, history,
politics and foreign affairs.
ISBN: 81-85218-84-6 Rs. 400
American Literature and Culture
Laxmi Parasuram, ed.
The book represents a wide spectrum of criti-
cal responses by eminent scholars to Ameri-
can literature and culture. The first section is
devoted to critical studies on major writers
like Ernest Hemingway, Salinger, Norman
Mailer, Pearl Buck, Sam Shepard and Arthur
Miller. The second section covers subjects
like multiculturalism, Americanism, films,
crime fiction and the woman question as
handled by Toni Morrison and Maria Forbes.
ISBN: 81-85218-94-3 Rs. 400
Contemporary American Drama
Abha Singh
The twentieth century American drama has
registered a phenomenal growth. The funda-
mental contention of the book is that Tennes-
see Williams, Arthur Miller and Edward Al-
bee map the contours of the contemporary
American consciousness.
ISBN: 81-7551-045-5 Rs. 400
American Drama
D. Venkateswarlu
The book establishes a perspective on some
major themes in Jewish American drama and
Jewish literature itself. It tries to systematize
the audience’s response to the dialectics of
prejudice, the problem of Americanization,
the Holocaust and the other related themes.
ISBN: 81-85218-19-6 Rs. 400
Perspectives on
Post-War American Drama
D. Venkateswarlu et al
The book focuses on some of the exciting
moments of Post-War American Drama duly
recognising the contribution of playwrights
such as O’Neill, Neil Simon, Arthur Miller,
Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, among
many others. Inevitably, ethnic theatre, femi-
nist drama, avant-garde theatre ambience of
the sixties and the culture of theatre criticism
also occupy the attention of the book.
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ISBN: 81-7551-014-5 Rs. 400
Edward Albee:
Towards a Typology of Relations
Rana Nayar
The book offers new insights into conceptual
understanding of a subject as complex as re-
lationships in human life. The author ex-
plores the psycho-dynamics of human rela-
tions as evidenced in the plays of Edward Al-
bee, one of the greatest American dramatists.
ISBN: 81-7551-140-0 Rs. 500
The Plays of Lillian Hellman
Tenneti Nagamani
The plays of Lillian Hellman have been ap-
proached mostly from the social, political and
psychological angles. The book, divided into
ten chapters, seeks to examine her plays from
a moral point of view since Hellman writes
with a sense of righteous indignation and
what is more, interprets both action and fail-
ure in terms of good and evil.
ISBN: 81-7551-102-8 Rs. 400
Jewish American Writers &
Intellectual Life in America
D. Venkateswarlu
The first part contains a series of interviews
with prominent Jewish writers; the second
part is devoted to a detailed discussion of the
twentieth century literary criticism and some
specific texts. There are the author’s lively
interviews with Saul Bellow, Noam Chom-
sky, Norman Podhoretz, Wayne C. Booth,
David Perkins, Richard Stern, Elie Wiesel,
Marshal Sklare and others.
ISBN: 81-85218-67-6 Rs. 400
The Plays and Novels of
Thronton Wilder
Vrinda Mathur
The book critically examines the various
themes and techniques employed by Thorn-
ton Wilder in his plays and novels, and inter-
prets them in relation to their thought, style
and structure.
ISBN: 81-85218-59-5 Rs. 250
Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Study in the Theme of Morality
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Rosy Misra
The book offers a comprehensive analysis of
moral concerns of Hawthorne, one of the
greatest novelists of America. Also, it makes
a thorough examination of Hawthorne’s alle-
gorical and symbolic techniques offering new
insights and interpretations.
ISBN: 81-7551-141-9 Rs. 300
The Fiction of Carson McCullers:
Quest for Love
Pratibha Nagpal
Carson McCullers is a major American nov-
elist who in her fiction probes the issues of
loneliness and quest for love. She empha-
sized on the importance of human values and
humanistic philosophy.
ISBN: 81-7551-142-7 Rs. 400
Feminist Consciousness in
Toni Morrison’s Fiction
Sandip Pathak
Toni Morrison is one of the foremost 20th
century African-American women novelists.
In 1993, she was awarded the Nobel Prize for
her outstanding contribution to literature. She
is best known for discussing in her fiction the
issues of gender, class and race. The book
highlights the theme of feminist conscious-
ness in all her novels.
ISBN: 81-7551-172-9 Rs. 400
The Novels of Toni Morrison:
A Study in Race, Gender & Class
K. Sumana
The book, the first of its kind by an Asian
scholar, makes an in-depth study of the inter-
relationship of race, gender and class in her
novels The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solo-
mon, Tar Baby, Beloved and Jazz. It reveals
that Morrison is essentially a fictional artist
combining political consciousness with aes-
thetic sensibility.
ISBN: 81-7551-048-X Rs. 400
Toni Morrison’s Beloved:
A Reader’s Companion
Ayesha Irfan, ed.
Toni Morrison is one of the foremost con-
temporary African-American women novel-
ists. In 1988, she won Pulitzer Prize for Fic-
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tion for her novel Beloved. The present book
makes a detailed study of Toni Morrison as a
novelist with a focus on her novel Beloved.
ISBN: 81-7851-006-5 Rs. 500
Alice Walker’s The Color Purple
A Reader’s Companion
Nandita Sinha, ed.
The book offers a detailed study of Alice
walker as a novelist, focusing on her novel
The Color Purple. The first section intro-
duces Alice Walker, with an exhaustive
commentary on the novel The Color Purple.
ISBN: 81-7551-007-3 Rs. 500
Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Santwana Haldar
It discusses Marquez’s contribution to Latin
American literature & offers a detailed analy-
sis of his unique mystery novel Chronicle of
a Death Foretold. The work is a social satire
on contemporary Latin American society.
ISBN: 81-7851-009-X Rs. 400
William Faulkner: A Centennial Tribute
Somdatta Mandal, ed.
William Faulkner’s novels The Sound and the
Fury, Absalom, Absalom! and As I Lay Dying
are regarded the modern classics. The wide-
ranging anthology offers a critical appraisal
of Faulkner as a novelist on the 100th anni-
versary of his birth by international scholars.
ISBN: 81-7551-056-0 Rs. 500
F. Scott Fitzgerald:
Centenary Essays from India
Mohan Ramanan
The volume comprises papers presented at an
All-India seminar on Scott Fitzgerald, held in
Hyderabad. Several of Fitzgerald’s novels are
discussed and the insights gained from the
growing critical theories have been put to
good use in the analyses of Fitzgerald’s
works in these articles.
ISBN: 81-7551-041-2 Rs. 400
F. Scott Fitzgerald:
A Centennial Tribute (in 2 vols.)
Somdatta Mandal, ed.
Fitzgerald is one of the most colourful, sig-
nificant and cherished talents that brought
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American literature to world prominence.
This wide-ranging anthology presents Fitz-
gerald as the literary giant of the Roaring
Twenties whose works ushered in and chris-
tened the Jazz Age. The contributors to the
volume comprise an august group of Fitzger-
ald scholars of international repute.
ISBN: 81-7551-039-0 Rs. 600 per set
The Novels of John Gardner
T. Bharathi
John Gardner is America’s most important
spokesperson of moral and cultural values in
literature. He takes up the cause of traditional
values and wages a battle against man’s ten-
dency to shirk personal and moral responsi-
bility. The book studies the prominent theme
of affirmation which recurs in his novels.
ISBN: 81-7551-118-4 Rs. 400
The Novels of William S. Burroughs
Ranjeet Singh Gill
The works of Burroughs span both the mod-
ernist as well as the postmodernist phase of
the American novel. In his treatment of form
and technique, especially the depiction of
character, plot, theme and imagery,
Burroughs defines himself as a hardcore
practitioner of unorthodox techniques. The
book takes up for discussion all his major
novels.
ISBN: 81-7551-149-4 Rs. 400
American Women Novelists
Rajyashree Khushu-Lahiri
The book is a study of the male protagonist
and the man-woman relationship in the se-
lected novels of Edith Wharton, Ellen Glas-
gow and Willa Cather from the feminist per-
spective.
ISBN: 81-7551-092-7 Rs. 400
The Novels of Bernard Malamud
M. Rajagopalachari
The book presents a perceptive study of Ma-
lamud’s novels considered in terms of the
theme of compassion which is of central con-
cern in Jewish literature. With a chapter ex-
clusively on his short stories, it provides an
integrated view of the novelist’s entire work.
ISBN: 81-85218-02-1 Rs. 400
The Fiction of J.D. Salinger
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Subhash Chandra
Salinger, a major post-Second World War
American novelist, exercised deep and wide-
ranging influence on the American society.
The book examines his fiction with a view to
ascertaining the concept of man in its totality
as it emerges from the corpus of his writings.
ISBN: 81-7551-082-X Rs. 400
The Novels of William Styron
S. Laxmana Murthy
The book presents a perceptive study of Sty-
ron’s concern with the tragic fact of human
existence as a constant endeavour to affirm
love and compassion despite the nihilistic ter-
ror caused by ubiquitous violence in modern
world. It has chapters on Lie Down in Dark-
ness, The Long March, Set This House on
Fire and The Confessions of Nat Turner.
ISBN: 81-85218-03-X Rs. 400
Sylvia Plath: The Complete Poet
Keya Majumdar
The book presents an honest appraisal of the
whirlpool of Plath’s powerful poetry from the
biographic, thematic, stylistic & spiritual per-
spectives. The book will be of immense use
to feminists & lovers of American literature.
ISBN: 81-7551-122-2 Rs. 500
The Poetry of Theodore Roethke
P. Hannah Padma
Theodore Roethke is one of the most signifi-
cant American poets. The book reveals that in
Roethke’s poetry, there is a fusion of psycho-
logical strength, intellectual depth, complex-
ity and stylistic originality.
ISBN: 81-7551- 016-1 Rs. 250
Critical Theory/Translation
Literary Theory Today
Pramod Nayar
Theory is perhaps the most important area of
study in the academic curriculum today. Both
students and teachers are bewildered by the
plethora of theories and baffling criticism
constantly pouring in. The book gives a com-
prehensive introduction to this fast-growing
discipline of Literary and Cultural Theory. It
elaborates concepts & explains the arguments
of principal thinkers and specific schools.
ISBN: 81-7851-005-7 Rs. 500
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Marxism and Literary Value
Anil Raina
Literary Theory is perhaps the most debated
subject in academic circles today. The theo-
rists discussed include Karl Marx, Georg
Lukács, Lucien Goldmann, T.W. Adorno,
Herbert Marcuse, Louis Althusser, Pierre
Macherey, Terry Eagleton and Mikhail Bak-
htin.
ISBN: 81-7551-121-4 Rs. 400
Literature and Culture
Sachidanand Mohanty
The book brings together a set of essays on
literature, culture and literary conversations
that have appeared in some of the leading fo-
rums in the country. Straddling many worlds
—from Cairo to Cambridge, from Sandra
Gilbert to Sri Aurobindo—the perspectives
aim at the creation of a cultured community.
ISBN: 81-7551-113-3 Rs. 500
Postcolonial Discourse:
A Study of Contemporary Literature
R.K. Dhawan, ed.
As a critical ideology, postcolonialism has
acquired various interpretations. Postcolonial
literature generally deals with the literature of
those countries once ruled or colonized by
the British. The book offers a hot and stimu-
lating debate on the term postcolonial and
discusses how passionately Indian English,
African and Caribbean literatures have re-
sponded to colonialism & post-Independence.
ISBN: 81-7551-033-1 Rs. 300
Literary Theory and the New Critics
N.D.R. Chandra
The book examines the nature of the tradi-
tional criticism vis-a-vis modern criticism.
The new in America is represented by J.C.
Ransom, Cleanth Brooks, W.K. Wimsatt, Al-
len Tate and R.P. Blackmur who were highly
influenced by critics like T.E. Hulme, Ezra
Pound, T.S. Eliot and I.A. Richards. The
book enumerates the different faces of the
new criticism of the new critics in general
and Cleanth Brooks in particular.
ISBN: 81-7551-076-5 Rs. 400
Western and Eastern Poetics
K.M. Tharakan
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The East and the West meet at many points,
especially in the field of literary criticism.
The book is a psychological as well as phi-
losophic study of the similarity between the
aesthetic principles of I.A. Richards and Ab-
hinavagupta. By establishing a close relation-
ship between Western and Eastern poetics,
the book makes a rich contribution to the dis-
ciplines of Comparative literature, Indologi-
cal studies and literary criticism.
ISBN: 81-7551-36-6 Rs. 300
Literary Theory and F.R. Leavis
M. Sridhar
This book places the contribution of F.R.
Leavis, one of the most controversial and in-
fluential critics of this century, in the context
of the rise of English studies as a University
discipline in England and subsequent devel-
opments in criticism and theory.
ISBN: 81-7551-058-7 Rs. 300
Trends in the Twentieth Century
Literary Criticism
N.M. Aston, ed.
The volume brings together a series of schol-
arly papers on trends in the twentieth century
literary criticism. Various issues have been
considered in depth by these theories viz. the
functions of criticism, deconstruction, struc-
turalism, the female identity, feminist criti-
cism and multiculturalism.
ISBN: 81-7551-056-0 Rs. 300
Surviving Postmodernism
Ron Shapiro
This book is concerned with some of the dif-
ficulties posed by postmodernism. It argues
that there have been both gains and losses in
the widespread acceptance of postmodernist
ideas within universities and Western society.
ISBN: 81-7551-042-0 Rs. 400
Studies in Translation:
Theory & Practice
T.Vinoda & V. Gopal Reddy, ed.
Translation has a significant role to play in a
multilingual and multicultural country like
India. It can help build strong bridges be-
tween regions, languages and cultures. The
book stresses on the need to develop a theory
of translation that would go a long way in en-
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suring standards of excellence and profes-
sionalism in this field.
ISBN: 81-7551-083-8 Rs. 300
Translation:
From Periphery to Centrestage
Tutun Mukherjee, ed.
Translation of literary texts has led to both
the globalization of culture and the promotion
of inter and intra culture bonding. The book
is divided into three sections: 1. The setting
forth of the theoretical parameters of transla-
tion studies; 2. The problematic space of
praxis, representing different language and
text types; 3. Interviews with famous creative
writers in different genres who have done
considerable translation work themselves.
The issues discussed present a broad spec-
trum of theoretical, textual and contextual
specifics in the field of translation.
ISBN: 81-7551-031-5 Rs. 400
Biography
CP: A Short Biography of
C.P. Ramaswami Iyer
A. Raghu
Dr. Sachivottama Sir C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar
is one of the most controversial, yet fascinat-
ing figures in the history of the Kerala region.
This monograph is the first-ever objective bi-
ography of CP. This little book not only gives
a vivid chronicle of the public life of CP but
also attempts to come to grips with the inner
man. Written in a succinct and lucid style, the
book is remarkable as a biography as also a
piece of literary art.
ISBN: 81-7551-055-2 Rs. 100
Creative Writing
The Songs of Daya Bai
Daya Bai ki Bani
Harry Aveling & Peter Friedlander
The poet-mystic, Daya Bai, wrote in Hindi in
Delhi during the eighteenth century. Osho
Rajneesh has called her “A little cuckoo,”
meaning that she was “a sweet singer like the
Indian koyal.” The book offers her voice in
simple English prose translation. It will be of
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interest to students of literature and religion,
and to those who seek a deeper understanding
of Indian society & the place of women in it.
ISBN: 81-7551-169-9 Rs. 200
Song of a Bard and Other Poems
Dilip Sankar Reddy
The anthology of poems, in three parts, con-
tains fascinating poems, with a wide range of
themes: from love to mundane realities, fic-
tion to facts, and the essential truths of life.
ISBN: 81-7551-165-6 Rs. 200
Cracks in the Wall: A Collection of
Poems with a comprehensive introduc-
tion to Contemporary Indian Poetry
P.V. Dhamija
The volume contains 36 poems by the author,
with a preface by the renowned poet Shiv K.
Kumar. A special feature of the book is the
introductory chapter that makes a compre-
hensive study of modern Indian poetry.
ISBN: 81-85218-06-4 Rs. 100
Cross and Creation
An Anthology of Poems
Pashupati Jha
The collection deals with the eternal themes
of love, life, suffering and hope for salvation.
In addition, it incorporates the contemporary
complex problems like incresing individual-
ity and the resultant isolation, growing ten-
sion in man-woman relationship, fragmenta-
tion of society and family, the plight of old
men and Indian women, militancy and com-
munal violence.
ISBN: 81-7551-135-4 Rs. 150
Girls Go Wild
Kiran Pallod
A fantastic maiden novel by the teenager Ki-
ran Pallod, a new star on the literary horizon.
Set in the USA, this is the story of Kim, an
American girl from a middle-class family,
who because of the attitude of the people
around her is made to believe that her parents
are going to get divorced. A must for all
youngsters who love to read, especially for
girls. Tomboys for sure will love it.
ISBN: 81-7551-106-0 Rs. 100
Shattered Hopes: A novel
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Daya de Silva
An excellent novel by an eminent Sri Lankan
writer. The protagonist Nelu, who had begun
to build a successful academic career in Chi-
cago, hears that her mother is in hospital after
a tragic traffic accident. As the story unfolds,
Nelu reflects on her father, a professor from
Sri Lanka, who had failed to secure an ap-
pointment in an American university. In the
concluding pages, Nelu reflects upon the
challenges faced by contemporary career
women and the choices she herself made.
ISBN: 81-7551-104-4 Rs. 250
A Story of True Love: A Novel
Omesh Mathur
An English translation of Urdu novel, Sam-
rhae Naykie (Reward of Kindness) written in
1928, it tells the story of a rich young Eng-
lishman, Nevlin Lane. Family conflicts and
harassment drive him from a life of luxury
and material comforts to a life of poverty and
hard labor in an Australian gold mine. By co-
incidence, he meets Sylvia Bond, a cultured
and talented girl whose parents were at one
time wealthy and well respected. The story
reveals the true love that binds the two.
ISBN: 81-7551-089-7 Rs. 500
Beyond the Tunnel: a novel
P.V. Dhamija
The novel delineates two distinct levels of re-
sponse to Evil in society. The story undulates
through the lives and careers of two friends,
Jagdeesh and Ajeet, different in respect of
age and attitude but tied together by unbreak-
able bonds of mutual concern and affection.
ISBN: 81-7551-024-2 Rs. 120
Dark Passion: a novel
Sarala Barnabas
The novel presents a gripping tale of love,
passion, and dark secrets hidden for decades.
The central character in the novel is Piyali,
the descendant of the former ruling house of
Chandravats of Divyasthala, a beautiful, tall,
regal girl with blue eyes. A narrative simply
irresistible.
ISBN: 81-7551-013-7 Rs.120
Following the Game
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A Collection of Stories
John Cailes
The nineteen stories in the volume are of
varying length, each having little in common
with its neighbours. The stories range from
the comic to the tragic to the downright cruel.
There’s a ghost story, a fantasy, satire and at
the end a cautionary tale to conclude this di-
verse collection.
ISBN: 81-7551-148-6 Rs. 250
Games They Play and Other Stories
Ramesh K. Srivastava
The stories in the volume have a great appeal
and the reader is irresistibly drawn by the
sheer force of the narrative. A special feature
of the book is the introductory chapter on
contemporary Indian short story.
ISBN: 81-85218-08-0 Rs. 100
Love and Lust: a novel
P.V. Dhamija
The novel delineates a society where people
of influence thrive at the cost of their poor &
unfortunate brethren. Woman in this society
is a victim of masculine rapacity and vio-
lence.
ISBN: 81-85218-05-6 Rs. 100
The Encounter: a novel
P.V. Dhamija
Yet another novel from the author of Love
and Lust. It depicts an exciting encounter be-
tween two cultures, Indian & West European,
and focuses on their sparkling interface.
ISBN: 81-85218-68-4 Rs. 100
Social Studies
The Long Walk:
Indian Plantation Labour in Sri
Lanka in the Nineteenth Century
Ian Driesen
A number of scholars have undertaken de-
tailed studies on Indian labour in Africa,
Mauritius, Fiji, Southeast Asia and the West
Indies, but its history in Sri Lanka has never
been investigated. The book by Ian vanden
Driesen fills that gap and the mosaic is now
complete. The study, highly stimulating and
refreshing, has a great appeal to the general
reader. It makes a rich contribution to the
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scholarly areas of Economic Growth, Immi-
grant Studies, Indo-Sri Lankan Relations,
South Asian Studies, and Inter-disciplinary
Studies.
ISBN: 81-7551-047-1 Rs. 500
Divine Akbar and Holy India
Farzana Moon
This is an excellent work of historical fiction.
Akbar is the child of India, nurtured by its
God and Goddesses. A devotee of truth, wis-
dom and knowledge, he embraced and ex-
plored the beauty of all religions in an effort
to weave the tapestry of one united whole.
This saga unfolds such a tapestry in colours
warm and exquisite. The theme itself was a
journey toward unity in time and timeless-
ness. On the path to truth, Akbar invited pa-
dres and theologians from all over the world
to discover similarities in religions, not dis-
parities. On the path to love, he became the
disciple of his Hindu and Muslim brides, pay-
ing homage to the sanctity in beauty, both
physical and spiritual.
ISBN: 81-7551-088-9 Rs. 800
Growing from Within:
A Study in Self-Actualization
N.E. Bhagyavathi
An exhaustive discussion of the concept of
Self-Actualization which is posited as a cen-
tral motivating force that impels human be-
haviour and determines the course of devel-
opment and expression of human personality.
ISBN: 81-85218-30-7 Rs. 300
Religion/Indology
Episodes from Uttara Ramayana:
Stories for the Modern Man
V.V. Sarma
Rama is an embodiment of virtue and right-
eousness. His attributes expound an exem-
plary behaviour for mankind of the succeed-
ing ages. Ramayana, a great monumental
work composed by Valmiki, is his life story.
The book is very useful and interesting com-
pilation of Sarma’s translation of a few mar-
vellous and hitherto unearthed stories.
ISBN: 81-7551- Rs. 200
Higher Education
Funding Higher Education
Joy Job Kulavelil
The book discusses one of the most contro-
versial topical issues of higher education—
should universities and institutions of higher
learning conform to the traditional pattern
based on support from the government or
should the students fund their education.
Keeping in mind the contemporary para-
digms of education, the author offers a prag-
matic solution to the problem being discussed
in educational curriculum.
ISBN: 81-7551-147-8 Rs. 400
Dictionary
Chang-English English-Chang
Dictionary
Achilla Imlong Erdican
Chang is one of the most important languages
spoken and written in the state of Nagaland.
The dictionary makes a pioneering attempt at
presenting a standard spelling system and de-
finitive meanings of the words in this lan-
guage. The book makes a rich contribution to
language and linguistic studies in Asia.
ISBN: 81-7551-132-X Rs. 500

JUST RELEASED!
Expatriate Writing in English (3-vol. set)
T. Vinoda and Sailaja
The writers examined in the first two volumes include Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, Vikram
Seth, Vassanji, Bharati Mukherjee, Chitra Divakaruni, Rohinton Mistry, Shashi Tharoor, Anita
Desai, Jhumpa Lahiri, Meera Syal, Amit Chaudhury, Meena Alexander, Sunetra Gupta, Gita
Mehta, Suniti Namjoshi, Shani Mootoo, Anurag Mathur, Amulya Malladi, Vineeta
Vijayaraghavan, Anita Rau Badami, Abraham Verghese, Peter Nazareth, and a few Indo-

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Guyanese writers. In an effort to enhance the referential value of this critical offering, the edi-
tors have included in the third volume a bibliography with helpful annotations.
ISBN: 81-7551-181-8/ 182-6/ 183-4 3-vol. set Rs. 1800

Amrita Pritam: Life as Literature

Bhagyashree S. Varma
The entire gamut of Amrita Pritam’s writings, especially her autobiography Raseedi Ticket and
her classic Partition novel Pinjar, deals with woman’s role and position in Indian society. The
present volume is a literary tribute to the versatile genius whose writings truly reflect her life
and literature.
ISBN: 81-7551-185-0 Rs. 400

Rohinton’s Mistry’s Such a Long Journey: A Critical Study

Santwana Haldar
Mistry’s Such a Long Journey has been regarded as a landmark in the history of Indian fiction.
The novel overtly socio-political, vividly depicts Bombay and the Parsi world. The present vol-
ume, first of its kind, offers a critical and insightful commentary on this complex novel
ISBN: 81-7551-025-1 Rs. 500

Rushdie, Kureishi, Syal: Essays in Diaspora

Esterino Adami
The book aims at exploring the world of diasporic fiction in Britain, with a special focus on
Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi and Meera Syal. Through an interdisciplinary approach, Ad-
ami deals with a wide variety of critical issues such as the impact of ethnic communities, the re-
invention of Englishness against the backdrop of intercultural negotiations, the rise of diasporic
cinema and the literary experience of hybridity.
ISBN: 81-7551-184-2 Rs. 500

Divergent Trends in Indian Fiction in English

K.K. Khurana
The post-Independence era has witnessed the emergence of a large number of great novelists
like Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry and Arundhati Roy. Their novels reveal divergent
trends; they deal with complex themes related to gender, caste, colour, diaspora, feminism and
same-sex relationship.
ISBN: 81-7551-180-X Rs. 500

August Strindberg’s Miss Julie: A Study

Nandita Sinha
August Strindberg (1849-1912) ranks as one of the great masters of modern European drama
and a major influence on many innovative writers of the twentieth century. Miss Julie (1888)
belongs to Strindberg’s naturalistic period in which his own violent conflicts and anxieties
about class and sexual relationships are given powerful dramatic expression.
ISBN: 81-7851-026-X Rs. 500

The Poetry of Philip Larkin

K. Rajamouly
Philip Larkin is one of the leading post-War British poets. His poetry focuses on time in which
the entire human world is caught up. Time has disruptive nature and destructive power to cor-

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rode our desires and turn life futile and mortal. In the journey of time, love often becomes a
failure and life leads to inevitable death. Larkin extensively deals with love, marriage, life and
death, themes which have great human significance and universal appeal.
ISBN: 81-7551-187-7 Rs. 500

Australian Aboriginal Women’s Autobiographies

K. Suneetha Rani
Australian Aboriginal women’s autobiographies function as vehicles to convey the writers’
protest against colonisation and oppression. They deconstruct the history and Aboriginal iden-
tity created by the colonisers and come up with alternative histories in the form of autobiogra-
phies thus writing not only their stories but also the life stories of people like them.
ISBN: 81-7551-179-6 Rs. 500

Raja Rao’s Kanthapura: A Critical Study

Suman Bala and Ranu Uniyal, ed.
Raja Rao, a pioneer of Indian English fiction, published his classic novel Kanthapura in the
1930s. This socio-political novel since then, has been a front-ranking favourite of the readers.
This volume provides a most comprehensive study of the novel, offering new interpretations
and foresights.
ISBN: 81-7851-027-8 Rs. 500

The Novels of Ngugi wa Thiong’o: A Study in the Theme of Exploitation

P. Padma
Ngugi .
ISBN: 81-7551-186-9 Rs. 400

Bharati Mukherjee’s Fiction

Vandana Singh
Bharati Mukherjee.
ISBN: 81-7551-190-7 Rs. 500

Representations of India in British Writing 1757-1857

Sindhu Menon
ISBN: 81-7551-189-3 Rs. 500

Forthcoming Publications
Bernard Malamud
S. S. Gill

Contemporary Postcolonial and Post-imperial Literatures

Nilufer Bharucha, ed.

Rabindranath Tagore’s Muktadhara: A Critical Study

Beena Agarwal

Kalidasa’s Shakuntala: A Critical Study

Sangeeta Das

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Arundhati Roy’s God of Small Things: A Critical Study

Satish Barbuddhe

Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence: A Critical Study

Vandana Dutta

R.K. Narayan: A Centennial Tribute

Suman Bala, ed.

Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye: A Critical Study

Pratibha Mukherjee Sahukar

Wounded Past: A Study of the Partition Literature (3-vol. set)

Neena Arora and R.K. Dhawan, ed.

Indian Literature in English: New Insights

Pramod Nayar

Gandhi and Indian Fiction

Suman Bala

Dalit Literature
D. Savio and R.K. Dhawan, ed.

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