Making India : colonialism, national culture, and the afterlife of Indian English authority / Makarand R. Paranjape. by Paranjape, Makarand R., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Sri Aurobindo and the Renaissance in India --…”
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Translating India. by Kothari, Rita

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Recalling: English Translations in Colonial India; Phenomenon: Old and New; Knowing the Orient; The Indian Intervention; Gitanjali; 3 The Two Worlds Theory; Mother Tongue; Other Tongue; A.K. …”
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Writing India anew : Indian-English fiction 2000-2010 / editted by Krishna Sen and Roy Rituparna.

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- Editors' Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Re-writing India -- 2 Roots and Routes -- 3 Revisiting Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide -- 4 Nation, 'No-Nation' and 'Desh' -- 5 Tributes or Travesties? …”
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Lustful Maidens and Ascetic Kings : Buddhist and Hindu Stories of Life. by Amore, Roy C.

Table of Contents: “…Contents; Introduction: Storytelling in India; 1 Family Roles; 2 Social Roles; 3 Lay Values; 4 Monastic Values; Conclusion; Story Sources; Selected Bibliography.…”
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Musical resilience : performing patronage in the Indian Thar desert / Shalini R. Ayyagari. by Ayyagari, Shalini R., 1978-

Subjects: “…Music Social aspects India Rajasthan.…”
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Singing the classical, voicing the modern : the postcolonial politics of music in South India / Amanda J. Weidman. by Weidman, Amanda J., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Travels of the violin in South India -- From the palace to the street : staging "classical" music -- Gender and the politics of voice -- Can the subaltern sing? …”
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Filming horror : Hindi cinema, ghosts and ideologies / Meraj Ahmed Mubarki. by Mubarki, Meraj Ahmed

Table of Contents: “…Preface; Acknowledgements; INDIAN CINEMA AND IDEOLOGY; Hindi Cinema and Ideology; Cinema in the Colonial Context; GENRE, CODES AND THE HORROR CINEMA; Genre and Its Functionality; Horror Genre and Spectatorship; Freud and the Uncanny; Robin Wood's Return of the Repressed; Julia Kristeva and the Abject; Generic Codes of the Hindi Horror; Conjunctions and Departures with Hollywood; Generic Features of the Hindi Horror; Horror Cinema as Project of/for the 'Nation'; Nature of the Hindi Horror Genre; SECULAR CONSCIOUS NARRATIVE; Secularism in the Indian Context; Mahal: The Inaugural Moment of the Secular Consciousness; Madhumati; Kohraa; Bhool Bhulaiyaa; RETURN OF TRADITIONAL-CULTURAL NARRATIVE; Jadu Tona; Gehrayee; Phoonk; The Horror in Science Fiction: Between Morals and Mad Scientists; Historicity of the Monstrous Narrative; India and the Discourse of Science; Monstrosities from Science or Monstrous Science?…”
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Music and society. produced by Bernard Queenan ; a Deben Bhattacharya production ; introduced by Yehudi Menuhin.

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Speaking for Buddhas : scriptural commentary in Indian Buddhism / Richard F. Nance. by Nance, Richard F.

Subjects: “…Buddhist literature India History and criticism.…”
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Contemporary women's writing in India / edited by Varun Gulati and Mythili Anoop.

Table of Contents: “…Producing Nation: Gender and the Idea of India /…”
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Words from India in the West. by Pinaki, Roy

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Editor's Introduction -- Re-Structuring the Diaspora Imaginary: A Critique -- Theorising Indian Diasporic Writings: A Brief Reflection -- Carving out Niches for Themselves: An Overview of Select Indian Novelists of the Diaspora -- Coolie Diaspora: A Trans-Oceanic Border Crossing -- Portrait of India in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Fictional World -- 'The Forgotten Voices': Indian Indentured Women in Select Diasporic Novels -- Curry Nation/Carry Nation: Indian Diasporic Cuisine…”
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The character of the self in ancient India : priests, kings, and women in the early Upaniṣads / Brian Black. by Black, Brian, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The Character of the Self in Ancient India; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; OPENING STATEMENT; WHAT ARE THE UPANISADS?…”
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Gender and story in South India / edited by Leela Prasad, Ruth B. Bottigheimer, Lalita Handoo.

Table of Contents: “…Anklets on the Pyal: women present women's stories from South India / Leela Prasad -- The son-in-law story: gender and genre / Lalita Handoo -- The role of gender in tale-telling events / Saraswathi Venugopal -- Voiced worlds: heroines and healers in Muslim women's narratives / K.V.S. …”
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Bollywood / Ashok Banker. by Banker, Ashok

Subjects: “…Motion picture industry India.…”
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Managing monks : administrators and administrative roles in indian Buddhist monasticism / Jonathan A. Silk. by Silk, Jonathan A.

Subjects: “…Buddhist monasticism and religious orders India Government History.…”
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Tracking modernity : India's railway and the culture of mobility / Marian Aguiar. by Aguiar, Marian

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In another country : colonialism, culture, and the English novel in India / Priya Joshi. by Joshi, Priya

Table of Contents: “…The poetical economy of consumption -- The circulation of fiction in Indian libraries, ca. 1835-1901 -- Readers write back : the Macmillan colonial library in India -- By way of transition : Bankim's will, or indigenizing the novel in India -- Reforming the novel : Krupa Satthianadhan, the woman who did -- The exile at home : Ahmed Ali's Twilight in Delhi -- The other modernism, or the family romance in English.…”
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When borne across : literary cosmopolitics in the contemporary Indian novel / Bishnupriya Ghosh by Ghosh, Bishnupriya

Subjects: “…Politics and literature India.…”
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Adaptations : some journeys from words to visuals / edited by Shri Krishan Rai, Anugamini Rai.

Subjects: “…Film adaptations India History and criticism.…”
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What are you reading? : the world market and Indian literary production / Pavithra Narayanan. by Narayanan, Pavithra

Table of Contents: “…Speaking in Tongues: The Politics of Language in India; 2. The Disease of Gigantism: Global Plans and Local Consequences; 3. …”
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