Calcutta Exile
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Calcutta Exile
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Author : Bunny Suraiya
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2012-10-17
Calcutta Exile written by Bunny Suraiya and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-17 with Fiction categories.
'Bunny Suraiya, in a haunting, exquisite serenade, has written a history of heartbreak, tracing its subtleties through the metaphor of family, layer by layer, shadow by shadow' - M.J.Akbar Calcutta, 1959... a time when the city's social and cultural mosaic included Indians, the British and Anglo-Indians, who belonged to neither ommunity but claimed kinship with the English. The Ryans are a typical middle- class Anglo- Indian family. The head of the family, Robert, a senior executive with a managing agency, has dreams of going 'home' to England as soon as he can. His wife, the beautiful Grace, however, is unsure about leaving her comfortable life in india. Their two daughters, Shirley and Paddy, are meanwhile discovering new emotions and relationships which will make them cross invisible but inflexible boundaries. The Ryan household as included Ayah and her husband Apurru, a middle-aged Muslim couple who are making their own plans to go home - to an East Pakistan they have never seen. Also working in the same agency house as Robert is Ronen Mookerjee, the anglicized misfit son of a barrister who belongs to the Bengali landed gentry. Through the stories of these men and women, Calcutta Exile evokes a bygone era of one of the most vibrant and cosmopolitan cities in the world. It also raises questions about individual and collective identities, the foremost among which is: where is home?
Indian Writing In English
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Author : Amar Nath Prasad
language : en
Publisher: Sarup & Sons
Release Date : 2002
Indian Writing In English written by Amar Nath Prasad and has been published by Sarup & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Literary Criticism categories.
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Exile
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Author : Taslima Nasrin
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2018-02-01
Exile written by Taslima Nasrin and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-01 with Literary Collections categories.
On 22 November 2007, the city of Kolkata came to a rude, screeching halt as a virulent mob of religious fanatics took to the streets. Armed with a fatwa from their ideologues, the mob demanded Taslima Nasrin leave the city immediately. While the Kolkata Police allegedly stood watching, mere dumb witnesses to such hooliganism, a morally, intellectually and politically bankrupt Left Front government, tottering under the strain of their thirty-year-old backward-looking rule, decided to ban her book and drive her out of Kolkata, a city she has always considered her second home. Dark, provocative and, at times, surreal, Exile is a moving and shocking chronicle of Taslima Nasrin’s struggles in India over a period of five months, set against a rising tide of fundamentalism and intolerance that will resonate powerfully with the present sociopolitical scenario.
The Scattered Court
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Author : Richard David Williams
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2023-04-24
The Scattered Court written by Richard David Williams and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-24 with History categories.
"How far did colonialism transform north Indian art music? In the period between the Mughal empire and the British Raj, did the political landscape bleed into aesthetics, music, dance, and poetry? The Scattered Court presents a new history of how Hindustani court music responded to the political transitions of the nineteenth century. Examining musical culture through a diverse and multilingual archive, primarily using sources in Urdu, Bengali, and Hindi that have not been translated or critically examined before, challenges our assumptions about the period. The book presents a longer history of interactions between northern India and Bengal, with a core focus on the two courts of Wajid Ali Shah (1822-1887), the last ruler of the kingdom of Awadh. Wajid Ali Shah was one of the most colorful and controversial characters of the nineteenth century and has had a polarizing legacy. According to political histories and popular memory, he was a failure of a king, who was forced to surrender his kingdom to the East India Company, on the eve of the Indian Uprising of 1857. On the other hand, in musical histories, he is remembered either as a decadent aesthete or a path-breaking genius. The Scattered Court excavates the place of music in his court in Lucknow and his court-in-exile at Matiyaburj, Calcutta (1856-1887). The book charts the movement of musicians and dancers between these courts, as well as the transregional circulation of intellectual traditions and musical genres, and demonstrates the importance of the exile period for the rise of Calcutta as a celebrated center of Hindustani classical music. Since Lucknow is associated with late Mughal or Nawabi society, and Calcutta with colonial modernity, examining the relationship between the two cities sheds light on forms of continuity and transition over the nineteenth century, as artists and their patrons navigated political ruptures and social transformations. The Scattered Court challenges the existing historiography of Hindustani music and Indian culture under colonialism, by arguing that our focus on Anglophone sources and modernizing impulses has directed us away from the aesthetic subtleties, historical continuities, and emotional dimensions of nineteenth-century music"--
Being English
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Author : Sayan Chattopadhyay
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2021-11-29
Being English written by Sayan Chattopadhyay and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book critically examines the cultural desire for anglicisation of the Indian middle class in the context of postcolonial India. It looks at the history of anglicised self-fashioning as one of the major responses of the Indian middle class to British colonialism. The book explores the rich variety of nineteenth- and twentieth-century writings that document the attempts by the Indian middle class to innovatively interpret their personal histories, their putative racial histories, and the history of India to appropriate the English language and lay claim to an “English” identity. It discusses this unique quest for “Englishness” by reading the works of authors like Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Rabindranath Tagore, Cornelia Sorabji, Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Dom Moraes, and Salman Rushdie. An important intervention, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of postcolonial studies, Indian English literature, South Asian studies, cultural studies, and English literature in general.
Taraknath Das
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Author : Tapan K. Mukherjee
language : en
Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English
Release Date : 1998
Taraknath Das written by Tapan K. Mukherjee and has been published by National Council of Teachers of English this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Calcutta Review
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Author : University Of Calcutta
language : en
Publisher: General Books
Release Date : 2012-02
The Calcutta Review written by University Of Calcutta and has been published by General Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02 with categories.
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Aiit. III.?1. General Orders of the Bengal Army. 2. Beavforfs Digest of the Criminal Late. 3. T/te Indian Newspapers for 1856. The hot season is nearly finished. We have by this time almost made an end of the long, dreary, weary days of languor, confinement, and suffering which so richly entitle those who can endure them to the comparatively high rate of Indian allowances. Perhaps in our joy that we have Livkd through another of those given periods we have a little lost sight of the fact that we are another year the nearer to the great Assize. How have we spent the time ? Has the silence of the house, only been .broken by the chattering of the mynas over the water-pots in the verandah, the splashing of the tatty men, the whirr of the thermantidote, or the creak of the punkah press; has this stillness made audible been typical of an inner silence of the moral being;, the silence not of growth, but of decay ? Have we been merely playing the bird of passage; contributing indeed to the store of empty black bottles; otherwise leaving no traces in the desert to tell that we have passed another stage, and are still members of the caravan ? Mai de pays is hard to bear; but man's mental well-being has of old been said to depend more on the soul than the sky: home is not our long home; as Sir Humphrey Gilbert said in the storm, Heaven is as near from one place as another. If therefore we have been looking on this country merely in the light of a place where we are to spend certain painful years, and scrape together from the sweat of savages a miserable provision for a short period of retirement which may never come; or, coming, never satisfy; in such case, no wonder if the burthen of exile have been almost too much for us, if the undue light thrown over the distant view of ou...
The Anatomy Of Exile
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Author : Paul Tabori
language : en
Publisher: London : Harrap
Release Date : 1972
The Anatomy Of Exile written by Paul Tabori and has been published by London : Harrap this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Mapping The Nation
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Author : Sheshalatha Reddy
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2013-10-15
Mapping The Nation written by Sheshalatha Reddy and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-15 with Poetry categories.
Focusing specifically on the poetic construction of India, ‘Mapping the Nation’ offers a broad selection of poetry written by Indians in English during the period 1870–1920. Centering upon the “mapping” of India – both as a regional location and as a poetic ideal – this unique anthology presents poetry from various geographical nodal points of the subcontinent, as well as that written in the imperial metropole of England, to illustrate how the variety of India’s poetical imagining corresponded to the diversity of her inhabitants and geography.
An Introduction To Hindustani Classical Music A Beginners Guide
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Author : Vijay Prakash Singha
language : en
Publisher: Roli Books Private Limited
Release Date : 2018-05-31
An Introduction To Hindustani Classical Music A Beginners Guide written by Vijay Prakash Singha and has been published by Roli Books Private Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-31 with Music categories.
An Introduction to Hindustani Classical Music: A Guidebook for Beginners is Vijay Singha's comprehensive guide to savour and appreciate classical music. Written in a simple and easy-to-comprehend style, this book delves into the understanding of raga sangeet, semi-classical and fusion music, raga sangeet in Hindi films, as well as the future of classical music in India.