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Of the progresse of the bodhisattva
the bodhisattvamārga in the Śikṣāsamuccaya
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
ABSTRACT
The Buddha is credited with clearly and succinctly expounding the Buddhist path (mārga). Despite the eloquence and brevity of the Buddha’s exposition, the corpus of Buddhist scriptures explaining the path is prolix.
It is generally thought that the moral precepts (śikṣāpadas),...
Light of the Himalayas
A Research-Based Novel on Buddha
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
To those who associate Siddharthas enlightenment with magical happenings, Light of the Himalayas is an answer. The novel traces the gradual development of Siddhartha from an inquisitive child to a serious explorer on a trajectory of science and objectivity, until his discovery of the elixir of life,...
by Ashok Kumar Kundu
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
In most of his novels Rushdie is concerned with the problem of human identity in the postmodernist and postcolonial context characterized by hvbridity, displacement and multiculturalism. Rushdie believes that a human being does not exist in isolation; human consciousness is a conglomeration of his...
Dissenters and Mavericks
Writings About India in English, 1765-2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2002
Dissenters and Mavericks reinvigorates the interdisciplinary study of literature, history, and politics through an approach to reading that allows the voices heard in writing a chance to talk back, to exert pressure on the presuppositions and preferences of a wide range of readers. Offering fresh...
Rabindranath Tagore
A Retrospection
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Rabindranath Tagore is one of the greatest geniuses produced by India. He is a poet, dramatist, novelist, short-story writer, painter and musician, all rolled into one. His every work of art has a characteristic mark called 'Tagore'. He made the whole world feel the unique 'soul' of India. Life, love,...
Postcolonial Biology
Psyche and Flesh after Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Although the body has been a vast subject for postcolonial studies, few theorists have attempted to go beyond the simple mixing of races in examining the impact of colonialism on the colonized body. However, as Deepika Bahri argues, it is essential to see the postcolonial body in a variety of forms:...
Ghalib
Innovative Meanings and the Ingenious Mind
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Mirza Asadullah Khan (1797–1869), popularly, Ghalib, is the most influential poet of the Urdu language. He is noted for the ghazals he wrote during his lifetime, which have since been interpreted and sung by different people in myriad ways. Ghalib’s popularity has today extended beyond the Indian...
Of Gardens and Graves
Kashmir, Poetry, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
In Of Gardens and Graves Suvir Kaul examines the disruption of everyday life in Kashmir in the years following the region's pervasive militarization in 1990. Kaul's autobiographical and analytical essays, which were prompted by his yearly visits to Kashmir, are a combination of political analysis,...
The Indian Ladies' Magazine, 1901–1938
From Raj to Swaraj
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This book examines the varied influences and accomplishments of the Indian Ladies’ Magazine, the first Indian magazine established and edited by an Indian woman—Kamala Satthianadhan—in English, written by women, for women. Influences include Victorian, Edwardian, and Modern literature and culture...
by Prasanta Chakraborty, G. A. Ghanshyam
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Creative writing in English finds a steady growth in the post-colonial India and both its quantity and variety are so huge that literature in any other Indian language fails to compete with it. One of the reasons behind this is contribution to this variety by litterateurs from all the major linguistic...
K. V. Dominic's Write My Son, Write--Text and Interpretation
An Exercise in Close Reading
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
"Write My Son, Write" is K. V. Dominic's longest poem, in 21 sections taken from his collection of poems entitled Write Son, Write. Dominic unabashedly tackles every-day issues of India such as the social injustice of poverty, man's crass exploitation of natural resources that ought to belong...
by Melody Chee
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
A broken family was what Jenn grew up to know. Separated from her beloved mother by her jealous step-father, she grew up with her only other family member - her grandma. Longing for love, she stumbled through life but suffered from one heartbreak after another. Her frail body finally could no longer...
The San Francisco System and Its Legacies
Continuation, Transformation and Historical Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
In September 1951, Japan signed a peace treaty with forty-eight countries in San Francisco; in April 1952, the treaty came into effect. The San Francisco Peace Treaty is an international agreement that in significant ways shaped the post–World War II international order in the Asia-Pacific. With...
The Quest for Statehood
Korean Immigrant Nationalism and U.S. Sovereignty, 1905-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
Honorable Mention, Book Award in History of the Association for Asian American Studies. In this book, Richard S. Kim examines the central role played by immigrants in the independence movement that sought to liberate Korea from Japanese colonization. Regarding Japanese rule as illegitimate, Koreans...