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Author: Vijay Poolakkal
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2014-03-10
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 1329501772
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of articles and memoirs from those who loved the legendary Hindi playback singer Mohammed Rafi
Author: Dennis Dalton
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2023-05-25
Total Pages: 479
ISBN-13: 9356290075
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'[A] work of great scholarship as well as of deep humanity' - From the Foreword by Ramachandra Guha Indian Ideas of Freedom is an illuminating study of the lens through which freedom was perceived by thinkers such as Swami Vivekananda, Aurobindo Ghose, Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, B.R. Ambedkar, M.N. Roy and Jayaprakash Narayan. It examines how, for this 'group of seven', the pursuit of freedom was both individual and political; how their ideas and arguments, drawing heavily on indigenous cultural resources, were far from imitative and thus distinct. In that, it explores their contribution to an intellectual tradition that braced an extraordinary nationalist movement. And while the differences among these seven are apparent, their similarities are less recognized; they are presented here as parallel. Dennis Dalton's reading of the extensive writings and speeches of these thinkers is critical but compassionate. Moreover, as James Tully observes in his Afterword to the book, Dalton 'participates in the dialogue' in which he places the theorists-a method of studying political thought Tully deems 'as original and important as the tradition of freedom it brings to light'. This is an exemplary work about political thought for both the scholar and those interested in history and politics.
Author: Vaidehi Ramanathan
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2018-09-07
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 0429772866
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores issues of memory, remembering and language in late colonial India. It is the first systematic historical sociolinguistic study of English private and public citizens who lived in and/or worked for India and the Indian cause from the 1920s to the 1940s. While some of the English have lived as common citizens and were committed to India, their voices and contributions have remained on the margins of Indian collective memory. This book offers microhistorical readings of extended language forms generally underexplored in sociolinguistics (such as letters, telegrams, missives, and oral histories) to reorient facets of individual memories, lives, and endeavours against larger officialised understandings of the past. Using previously unpublished corpus of archival material and interviews with English private citizens from that period, this volume on historical sociolinguistics will be of interest to scholars and researchers of language and linguistics, South Asian studies, post-colonial literary studies, culture studies, and modern history.
Author: Manek Premchand
Publisher: Notion Press
Published: 2018-12-27
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13: 1644298775
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYesterday’s Melodies Todays Memories is a rare collection of profiles of all important music-makers of the Hindi Film Industry between 1931 and 1970. It not only gives a biographical background of each music artiste, but it goes further to interview many of the surviving giants and completes the task by listing some of the best songs with which that person is associated. Here are singers that include the whole gamut from KL Saigal to Asha Bhosle, lyricists that include Sahir and Gulzar, music composers from Naushad to RD Burman, artistes that were part-time singers and full time actors like Ashok Kumar, melody queens like Noor Jahan and Lata Mangeshkar, gentlemen lyricists like Prem Dhawan and gentlemen singers like Manna Dey, mischief-makers like Kishore Kumar and rebels without pause like OP Nayyar and Majrooh Sultanpuri. In fact, this book is a house in which all these great talents live happily, each in a separate room, given space for self-expression. The serious research that has gone into this book is evident as you move from one chapter to another, opening layers after layers presented non-seriously. Over 100 music makers are presented this way and many more in a huge single chapter.
Author: Tarun K. Saint
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2019-08-13
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 0429560001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book interrogates representations – fiction, literary motifs and narratives – of the Partition of India. Delving into the writings of Khushwant Singh, Balachandra Rajan, Attia Hosain, Abdullah Hussein, Rahi Masoom Raza and Anita Desai, among many others, it highlights the modes of ‘fictive’ testimony that sought to articulate the inarticulate – the experiences of trauma and violence, of loss and longing, and of diaspora and displacement. The author discusses representational techniques and formal innovations in writing across three generations of twentieth-century writers in India and Pakistan, invoking theoretical debates on history, memory, witnessing and trauma. With a new afterword, the second edition of this volume draws attention to recent developments in Partition studies and sheds new light as regards ongoing debates about an event that still casts a shadow on contemporary South Asian society and culture. A key text, this is essential reading for scholars, researchers and students of literary criticism, South Asian studies, cultural studies and modern history.
Author: Kinnigoli Ganesh Mallya
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 148
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dimple Titra
Publisher: Dimple Titra
Published: 2022-11-23
Total Pages: 286
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIndeed, love is the most beautiful feeling in life. But when the same love becomes a victim of deceit and lies, then no human being can imagine any experience worse than that. Every human being is different. Every person's thinking about life and relationships is different. What if someone falls in love with someone for whom that relationship is only a means of spending time? What if for a partner, having fun in life is more important than maintaining the relationship? What happens when we fall in love with someone whom any thing or person gets bored after some time? These are the same people who become the cause of wounds in the chest of those who are in true love. The lives of the characters in this story revolve around many similar incidents. In which the perfect mix of lies, deceit, pain and self-indulgence is seen. There are many ups and downs in the story which is capable of keeping the reader hooked to himself. In today's modern era, where today's youth does not understand the seriousness of relationships, this story can be past of many people.
Author: Bobby Sing
Publisher: Notion Press
Published: 2018-10-08
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 164429611X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDo you eat, drink, sleep, think Hindi Cinema all the time like an obsession? Then we are already friends and sure going to have a great time together discovering many hidden and interesting facts about Hindi Cinema. Facts that are not just two-line trivia but studied in depth along with other finer details about the subject. For instance: • The ageless Guide and its English version • The spiritual connect in Silsila and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi • Bertrand Russell & Jagjit Singh in a Hindi film cameo • A bold film suggesting castration for rapists in 1988 • Utpal Dutt - not just a comedian • The two Hindi film songs that won the Grammy Award • Amitabh-Bally Sagoo’s Aby Baby and Adalat • The lost art of riddle-based songs in Hindi film music • Three unusually sensual movies by Hrishikesh Mukherjee • Shocking Hindi films made on the subject of Incest And if this all sounds interesting, then do give it a try as ‘Picture Abhi Baaki Hai, Dost”
Author: B. S. Kesavan
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Published: 2017
Total Pages: 902
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Luzia Savary
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-27
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1351010069
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides an in-depth exploration of South Asian readaptations of race in vernacular languages. The focus is on a diverse set of printed texts, periodicals and books in Hindi and Urdu, two of the major print languages of British North India, written between 1860 and 1930. Imperial raciology is a burgeoning field of historical research. So far, most studies on race in the British Empire in South Asia have concentrated on the writings of Western-educated elites in English. The range of Hindi and Urdu sources analyzed by the author provides a more varied and complex picture of the ways in which South Asians reinterpreted racial concepts, thereby highlighting the importance of scrutinizing the vernacular dimensions of global entanglements. Part I of the book centers on the debates on "civilization" and "civility" in Hindi and Urdu periodicals, travelogues and geography books as well as Hindi literature on caste. It asks if and in what respect the discussions changed when authors appropriated racial concepts. Part II revolves around the "science" of eugenics. It scrutinizes more popular genres, namely, early twentieth century advisory literature on "fit reproduction." It highlights how the knowledge promoted there was different from "eugenics" as the (mainly English-writing) founders of the Indian eugenic movements endorsed it. A fascinating analysis of the ways in which colonized elites have adopted and readapted racial concepts and theories, this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of Modern South Asian History, History of Science, Critical Race Studies and Colonial and Imperial History.
