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Title:
The book of Indian essays: two hundred years of English prose / Arvind Krisna Mehrotra, editor.
Publisher:
Black Kite,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
xvi, 446 pages ; 23 cm
Subject:
English essays--India.
English literature--India.
English prose literature--India.
Indian literature.
English essays.
India.
Essays.
Creative nonfiction.
Other Authors:
Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna, 1947- writer of introduction. writer of introduction.
Qurratulʻain Ḥaidar, 1927-2007, contributor, IaU
Jussawalla, Adil, 1940- contributor, IaU
Notes:
Essays.
Contents:
Another Booker flop / Chit-chat. Scandal. Tea parties. / Pankaj Mishra (1069- ). The colonization of India / Anon. Hindu youth (Floruit 1830) -- The confessions of a young Bengal / Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (1838-1894) -- The street-music of Calcutta / Shoshee Chunder Dutt (1848-1964) -- The nation / Rabindrath Tagore (1861-1964) -- The tribal folk / Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) -- Tagore at Oxford / Hasan Shahid Suhrawardy (1890-1965) -- The Indian house-crow / Sálim Ali (1896-1987) -- Apologia pro scripta sua / Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897-1999) -- Calcutta / Sudhindranath Datta (1901-1960) -- Do we really want to keep them in a zoo? / Verrier Elwin (1902-1964) -- Elephant in the pit / R.K. Narayan (1906-2001) -- To remembver is to live again / Buddhadeva Bose (1908-1974) -- The Benares that was / G.V. Desani (1909-2000) -- My grandmother and the dirty English / Aubrey Menen (1912-1996) -- The Jellicut / M. Krishnan (1912-1996) -- Modern Indian art: imitating the forms of the past / Amrita Sher-Gil (1913-1941) -- With Shivan and Kitty in New Delhi / Santha Ramu Rau (1923-2009) -- Naipault's India and mine / Nissim Ezekiel (1924-2004) -- Nirvana of a maggot / Francis Newton Souza (1924-2002) -- My aunt Gracie / Qurratulain Hyder (1927-2007) -- An ordinary man / Ashok Mitra (1928-2018) -- 108 varities / Dharma Kumar (1928-2001) -- Baua / Sheila Dhar (1929-2001) -- The three faces of an Indian / Victor Anant (1929-1999) -- House with nine rooms / Arun Kolatkar (1931-2004) -- The dining room. Winter evenings. Dining at the long tables. / Madhur Jaffrey (1933- ) -- The last time I saw Delhi / Ruskin Bond (1934- ) -- A secret connivance / Anita Desai (1937- ) -- On God / Dom Moraes (1938-2004) -- When Earth rose up to get me / Adil Jussawalla (1940- ) -- Patoler ma / Chitrita Banerji (1947- ) -- The Anglo-Indians / Irwin Allan Sealy (1951- ) -- In Whitman's country / Meena Alexander (1951-2018) -- Art as politics / Gautam Bhatia (1952- ) -- March / Shama Futehally (1952-2004) -- The imam and the Indian / Amitav Ghosh (1956- ) -- On not writing / Sara Rai (1956- ) -- The ugliness of the Indian male / Mukul Kesavan (1957- ) -- The coconuts of Bengal: brown men, white affinities / Ramachandra Guha (1958- ) -- Gandhi's styled life / Sunil Khilnani (1961- ) -- Sky above and grass below / Sohini Ghosh (1961- ) -- Another Booker flop / Sanjay Subrahmanyam (1961- ) -- Money matters / Amit Chaudhuri (1962- ) -- Mashobra / Pankaj Mishra (1069- ).
ISBN:
9389253632
9789389253634
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1233704624
LCCN:
2020325646
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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