The Novel With An Off Beat Is Set, Like Most Stories Of Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay, In The Red Soil Of Birbhum. On One Level The Theme Is A Clash Between The Old And The New, Between Traditional Medicine And The Western System Of Allopathy. There Is An Effort To Overcome The Fear Of Death, And All This Makes This Novel A Great Work Of Art.
This Novel Is Based Mainly On The Encounters Of A South African Born Indian Girl, Who Visits India And Is Treated To A Chain Of Ordeals Which Impair Her Vistas Around The Nature Country And People. This Novel Has Been Acclaimed As One Of The Best Contemporary Novels In Modern Tamil Literature, For Its Realism, Narrative Power, Artistic Presentation And The Deep Insight Into The Life Of Tamils In South Africa.
Presents the Indian literatures, not in isolation in one another, but as related components in a larger complex, conspicuous by the existence of age-old multilingualism and a variety of literary traditions. --
This volume explores the interconnections between culture, ideology and hegemony in an effort to understand and explain how Indians came to terms with colonial subjection and envisioned a future for the society in which they lived. The process of exploring the indigenous epistemological tradition and assessing it in the context of advances made by the west was not unilinear and undifferentiated; it was driven with contradictions, contentions and ruptures. Locating intellectual history at the intersection of social and cultural history, the eight essays in this book cover a wide range of issues, moving from an overview of religious and social ideas in colonial India to empirical studies of themes such as indigenous medicine, the family and literary fiction. Professor Panikkar contests both the imperialist and nationalist paradigms of intellectual history. Meticulously researched and lucidly argued, his analysis is illuminated by a rare sensitivity to the nature of class formation and class values, as well as to the material conditions of human existence.
