Himmat Shah

Himmat Shah

Author: Himmat Shah

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13:

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Collection of photoreproductions of the sculptures by a 20th century sculptor from India; includes articles on his work.


Performing, Teaching and Writing Theatre

Performing, Teaching and Writing Theatre

Author: Sanjay Kumar

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2022-11-29

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1527591174

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Drawing on the writer’s experience of three and a half decades of performing, teaching and writing theatre, this book explores the performance practice of a theatre group (pandies’ theatre, Delhi) by placing this practice in a frame of international activist theatre movements. The teaching aspect provides a historical backdrop and the writing of plays adds depth and sharpens the political position. It identifies theatre as a force for changing society across the centuries and beyond national borders. The book examines a large variety of theatrical experiences, including well-known forms of proscenium, workshop and street theatre.


The Dog of Tithwal

The Dog of Tithwal

Author: Saadat Hasan Manto

Publisher: Archipelago

Published: 2021-09-14

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1953861008

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“[Manto’s] empathy and narrative economy invite comparisons with Chekhov. These readable, idiomatic translations have all the agile swiftness and understated poignancy that parallel suggests." ---Boyd Tonkin, Wall Street Journal Stories from "the undisputed master of the modern Indian short story" encircling the marginalized, forgotten lives of Bombay, set against the backdrop of the India-Pakistan Partition (Salman Rushdie) By far the most comprehensive collection of stories by this 20th Century master available in English. A master of the short story, Saadat Hasan Manto opens a window onto Bombay’s demimonde—its prostitutes, rickshaw drivers, artists, and strays as well probing the pain and bewilderment of the Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs ripped apart by the India-Pakistan Partition. Manto is best known for his dry-eyed examination of the violence, horrors, and reverberations from the Partition. From a stray dog caught in the crossfire at the fresh border of India and Pakistan, to friendly neighbors turned enemy soldiers pausing for tea together in a momentary cease fire—Manto shines incandescent light into hidden corners with an unflinching gaze, and a fierce humanism. With a foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Vijay Seshadri, these stories are essential reading for our current moment where divisiveness is erupting into violence in so many parts of the world.


In the Time of Trees and Sorrows

In the Time of Trees and Sorrows

Author: Ann Grodzins Gold

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780822328209

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A collaborative ethnography that collects ordinary persons' recollections of everyday life, politics, and the environment in Rajasthan from when the state was a kingdom and since independence.


Politics, Poetry, and Sufism in Medieval Iran

Politics, Poetry, and Sufism in Medieval Iran

Author: Chad Lingwood

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013-12-11

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9004255893

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In Politics, Poetry, and Sufism in Medieval Iran Chad Lingwood offers new insights into the political significance of poetry and Sufism at the court of Sulṭān Ya‘qūb (d. 896/1490), leader of the Āq Qoyūnlū. The basis of the study is Salāmān va Absāl, a Persian allegorical romance ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 898/1492), the great Timurid belletrist and Naqshbandi Sufi, dedicated to Ya‘qūb. Lingwood demonstrates that Salāmān va Absāl, which modern critics have dismissed as ‘crude’ and ‘grotesque,’ is a sophisticated work of political and mystical advice for a Muslim ruler. In the process, he challenges received wisdom concerning Jāmī, the Āq Qoyūnlū, and Perso-Islamic advice literature. Significantly, the study illustrates the extent to which Jāmī’s compositions integrated the Timurid and Āq Qoyūnlū realms.


Scenes from an Executive Life

Scenes from an Executive Life

Author: Anurag Mathur

Publisher: Penguin Books India

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780140293579

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A Delightfully Irreverent Account Of Corporate Affairs In The White Collar World. From The Author Of The Best-Selling The Inscrutable Americans, Comes A Hilarious Novel About The Roller-Coaster Career Of An Enterprising Marketing Executive. It Is The Story Of Gambhir Kumar, Human Resource Development Manager In The Y Corporation, Whose Life Is Never The Same Again After He Is Transferred To The Tissues And Toothpicks Division. As He Travels Up And Down The Corporate Ladder, Gambhir Redefines The Role Of The Young Urban Professional Who Must Strike A Delicate Balance Between His Heady Ambitions And The Lustful Demands Of His Heart. The Novel Also Features Some Unforgettable Cameos: Gambhir'S Wife Draupadi (Dd To Her Friends), Who Fights The Ennui Of Yuppie Life With Boyfriends In The Afternoons; Kapila, Gambhir'S Passionate Bedfellow From The Bombay Office; 'Smiley' Chatterjee, The Adman With A Three-Word Vocabulary; And Kumar, A Self-Styled Entrepreneur Intent On Selling The Sword Of Gautam Buddha To American Tourists. Scenes From An Executive Life Is An Immensely Entertaining Exploration Of Ambition, Lust, Envy And Intrigue In A Typical Corporate Set-Up In Post-Liberalization India.


The Anglo-Maratha Campaigns and the Contest for India

The Anglo-Maratha Campaigns and the Contest for India

Author: Randolf G. S. Cooper

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9780521824446

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This is a cross-cultural study of the political economy of war in South Asia. Randolf G. S. Cooper combines an overview of Maratha military culture with a battle-by-battle analysis of the 1803 Anglo-Maratha Campaigns. Building on that foundation he challenges ethnocentric assumptions about British superiority in discipline, drill and technology. He argues that these campaigns, in which Arthur Wellesley served with distinction, represent the military high-water mark of the Marathas who posed the last serious opposition to the formation of the British Raj. Dr Cooper asserts that the real contest for India was never a single decisive battle for the subcontinent. Rather it turned on a complex social and political struggle for control of the South Asian military economy. The author shows that victory in 1803 hinged as much on finance, diplomacy, politics and intelligence as it did on battlefield manoeuvre and war itself.