The Picador book of modern Indian literature
By: edited by Amit Chaudhuri.
Contributors: Chaudhuri, Amit, 1962-
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 638
Subjects: Indic literature (English) -- 20th century.; Indic literature -- Translations into English.; Indic literature -- 20th century.; Indic literature -- 19th century.
Genres: Translations into English.
Other titles: Modern Indian literature
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: iv / Acknowledgements; title: INTRODUCTION; title: xvii / Modernity and the Vernacular; title: xxiii / The Construction of the Indian Novel in English; title: xxxii / A Note on the Selection; title: THE BENGAL RENAISSANCE AND AFTER; title: 3 / Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824-73); title: 5 / from The Anglo-Saxon and the Hindu'; title: 7 / Two Letters; title: 12 / Bankimchandra Chatterjee (1838-94); title: 13 / 'A Popular Literature for Bengal'; title: 19 / The Confession of a Young Bengal'; title: 24 / from Rajani; title: 26 / Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941); title: 29 / The Postmaster'; title: 34 / Five Letters; title: 39 / An Essay on Nursery Rhymes; title: 42 / from the Introduction to ThakurmarJhuli; title: 45 / Sukumar Ray (1887-1923); title: 46 / 'A Topsy-Turvy Tale'; title: 66 / Bibhuti Bhushan Banerjee (1894-1950); title: 68 / from Pather Panchali; title: 88 / Parashuram (Rajshekhar Basu) (1880-1960); title: 89 / Blue Star'; title: 97 / The Jackal-Faced Tongs'; title: 106 / Buddhadev Bose (1908-74); title: 107 / from Tithidore; title: 114 / from An Acre of Green Grass: A Review of Modern; title: Bengali Literature; title: 122 / Mahashweta Devi (b. 1926); title: 123/ Arjun'; title: HINDI; title: 133 / Premdhand (Dhanpat Rai) (1880-1936); title: 134 / 'The Chess Players'; title: 145 / Nirmal Verma (b. 1929); title: 146 / 'Terminal'; title: 156 / Krishna Sobti (b. 1925); title: 157 / from Ai Ladki; title: URDU; title: 187 / Sadat Hasan Manto (1912-55); title: 188/ Peerun'; title: 193 / The Black Shalwar; title: 205 / Qurratulain Hyder (b. 1927); title: 206 / 'Memories of an Indian Childhood'; title: 220 / Naiyer Masud (b. 1936); title: 221 / 'Sheesha Ghar; title: THE SOUTH; title: 239 / U. R. Anantha Murthy (b. 1932); title: 240 / A Horsefor the Sun'; title: 266 / Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (c 1908-94); title: 267 / Walls'; title: 290 / 0. V. Vijayan (b. 1930); title: 291 / The Rocks'; title: 297 / Ambai (C. S. Lakshmi) (b. 1945); title: 298 / 'Gifts'; title: PAGES FROM AUTOBIOGRAPHIES; title: 309 / Fakir Mohan Senapati (1843-1918); title: 310 / from Story of My Life; title: 330 / Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897-1998); title: 331 / from The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian; title: 347 / Aubrey Menen (1912-89); title: 347 / from Dead Man in the Silver Market; title: 355 / Pankaj Mishra (b. 1969); title: 356 / 'Edmund Wilson in Benares'; title: ENGLISH; title: 375 / R K. Narayan (b. 1907); title: 376 / from The English Teacher; title: 397 / Raja Rao (b. 1908); title: 398 / from The Serpent and the Rope; title: 414 / Ruskin Bond (b. 1934); title: 415 / The Night Train at Deoli'; title: 419 / A. K Ramanujan (1929-93); title: 420 / Is There an Indian Way of Thinking? An Informal Essay'; title: 438 / Dom Moraes (b. 1938); title: 439 / from Answered by Flutes; title: 455 / Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (b. 1947); title: 456 / from The Emperor Has No Clothes'; title: 478 / AdilJussawalla (b. 1940); title: 478 / 'Make Mine Movies'; title: 484 / Salman Rushdie (b. 1947); title: 486 / from Midnights Children; title: 508 / Vikram Seth (b. 1952); title: 509 / from The Golden Gate; title: 538 / Amitav Ghosh (b. 1956); title: 538 / Tibetan Dinner'; title: 542 / 'Four Corners'; title: 547 / Upamanyu Chatterjee (b. 1959); title: 548 / from English, August: An Indian Story; title: 563 / Vikram Chandra (b. 1961); title: 564 / 'Siege in Kailashpada' from a novel in progress; title: 582 / Sunetra Gupta (b. 1965); title: 583 / from Memories of Rain; title: 595 / Aamer Hussein (b. 1955); title: 596 / The Colour of a Loved Person's Eyes'; title: 605 / Ashok Banker (b. 1964); title: 606 / from Vertigo; title: 617 / Rohit Manchanda (b. 1963); title: 618 / from In the Light of the Black Sun; title: 632 / Notes on Translators; title: 635 / Permissions Acknowledgements.