The Begum And The Dastan
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The Begum And The Dastan
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Author : Tarana Husain Khan
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2023-02-20
The Begum And The Dastan written by Tarana Husain Khan and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-20 with Fiction categories.
Lined with grandeur, tragedy and fantasy, Tarana Husain Khan's odyssey maps the social, political and religious contours of 1897 Sherpur with the fascinating and strong-willed Feroza Begum at the centre of the storm. On an evening not too many evenings ago, the blue-eyed Feroza, flouting her family's orders, attended Nawab Shams Ali Khan's sawani celebrations at the Benazir Palace. Tragedy coloured the night when she found herself kidnapped and withheld in the Nawab's harem - bustling, tantalizing and rife with sinister power play. As tyranny and repression tightened their hold inside the royal walls, at the Bazaar Chowk, dastangoi Kallan Mirza enchanted his listeners with the legend of sorcerer Tareek Jaan and his chimeric city, the Tilism-e-Azam, where women were confined in underground basements. Misfortune and subjugation link eras when Ameera, Feroza's great-granddaughter, is restricted to her house and finds solace in her Dadi's retelling of Feroza's tragedy. When Ameera's circumstances begin mirroring the strife and indignities pervasive in 1897 Sherpur, she must reflect if society has shifted enough for women and their choices. Written with careful flamboyance and striking evocativeness, The Begum and the Dastan is a world imbued with love, splendour and heartbreak, only saved by the women who refuse to play by the rule book.
Dastan E Ghadar
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Author : Zahir Dehlvi
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Pvt.Limited
Release Date : 2017
Dastan E Ghadar written by Zahir Dehlvi and has been published by Penguin Random House India Pvt.Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with categories.
Dozakhnama
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Author : Rabisankar Bal
language : en
Publisher: Random House India
Release Date : 2012-12-28
Dozakhnama written by Rabisankar Bal and has been published by Random House India this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-28 with Fiction categories.
Dozakhnama: Conversations in Hell is an extraordinary novel, a biography of Manto and Ghalib and a history of Indian culture rolled into one. Exhumed from dust, Manto’s unpublished novel surfaces in Lucknow. Is it real or is it a fake? In this dastan, Manto and Ghalib converse, entwining their lives in shared dreams. The result is an intellectual journey that takes us into the people and events that shape us as a culture. As one writer describes it, ‘I discovered Rabisankar Bal like a torch in the darkness of the history of this subcontinent. This is the real story of two centuries of our own country.’ Rabisankar Bal’s audacious novel, told by reflections in a mirror and forged in the fires of hell, is both an oral tale and a shield against oblivion. An echo of distant screams. Inscribed by the devil’s quill, Dozakhnama is an outstanding performance of subterranean memory.
City Of My Heart
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-09-18
City Of My Heart written by and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-18 with History categories.
Dilli, Hindustan ka Dil... Through nuanced translations of four Urdu narratives spanning the period of turmoil that led to the Revolt of 1857, and culminated in the fall of the Mughal Empire, this compelling volume reveals the tragic and affecting story of a royalty in decline. Vividly documenting the twilight years of not just a historical era but also an entire way of life, these first-hand accounts – gleaned from princes and paupers alike – provide rare insight into how the royals and their subjects experienced life on either side of the cataclysm. Tales of suffering describe the perfidy of the British and the plight of the last royals as they are disbanded and pushed into dire poverty; livelier accounts of fealty and treachery detail palace intrigues; and nostalgic reminiscences recreate the days of past glory and communal comity – of feasting and festivals, and shared faith and devotion. An intimate chronicle of a crucial era in India’s history, City of My Heart is the saga of a changing city and a people experiencing the end of life as they know it.
Desi Delicacies
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Author : Claire Chambers
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2020-12-21
Desi Delicacies written by Claire Chambers and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-21 with Cooking categories.
The kitchen is often the heart of South Asian homes. Muslim South Asian kitchens, in particular, are the engines of an entire culture. The alchemy that takes place within them affects nations and economies, politics and history, and of course human relationships. There is proof of it in Desi Delicacies, Claire Chambers’ anthology of essays, stories and recipes supplied by some of the region’s most well-loved writers, historians and chefs. An unexpected revelation awaits Nadeem Aslam in a London restaurant as he yearns for a special delicacy from Pakistan. Rana Safvi recounts the history of Awadhi cooking and the origins of qorma, while Sadaf Hussain tells us how the samosa came to be paired with chai and of his own newly found love for the beverage. Tabish Khair examines our attitudes towards food that is ‘jootha’. Death comes with an aftertaste of taar roti for the protagonist of Tarana Husain Khan’s story set in Rampur. Gulla puts his heart into making the perfect nardoo yakhni but is taken aback by a hairy surprise in Asiya Zahoor’s ‘The Hairy Curry’. A multitude of flavours blend with love, joy, grief, regret and nostalgia in this book which is not only a beautiful collection of food writing, but also a rich helping of the histories and cultures of Muslim South Asia and its diasporas. With a Foreword by Bina Shah and an Afterword by Siobhan Lambert-Hurley The cover image is a painting from the Nimatnama, a collection of recipes partly compiled during the reign of the moustachioed Sultan Ghiyas-ud-din of the Delhi Sultanate, who features on the cover.
The Tale Of The Missing Man
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Author : Manzoor Ahtesham
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 2018-08-15
The Tale Of The Missing Man written by Manzoor Ahtesham and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-15 with Fiction categories.
Winner of the Global Humanities Translation Prize The Tale of the Missing Man (Dastan-e Lapata) is a milestone in Indo-Muslim literature. A refreshingly playful novel, it explores modern Muslim life in the wake of the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan. Zamir Ahmad Khan suffers from a mix of alienation, guilt, and postmodern anxiety that defies diagnosis. His wife abandons him to his reflections about his childhood, writing, ill-fated affairs, and his hometown, Bhopal, as he attempts to unravel the lies that brought him to his current state (while weaving new ones). A novel of a heroic quest gone awry, The Tale of the Missing Man artfully twists the conventions of the Urdu romance, or dastan, tradition, where heroes chase brave exploits that are invariably rewarded by love. The hero of Ahtesham’s tale, living in the fast-changing city of Bhopal during the 1970s and ’80s, suffers an identity crisis of epic proportions: he is lost, missing, and unknown both to himself and to others. The result is a twofold quest in which the fate of protagonist and writer become inextricably and ironically linked. The lost hero sets out in search of himself, while the author goes in search of the lost hero, his fictionalized alter ego. New York magazine cited the book as one of “the world's best untranslated novels.” In addition to raising important questions about Muslim identity, Ahtesham offers a very funny and thoroughly self-reflective commentary on the modern author’s difficulties in writing autobiography. The Global Humanities Translation Prize is awarded annually to a previously unpublished translation that strikes the delicate balance between scholarly rigor, aesthetic grace, and general readability, as judged by a rotating committee of Northwestern faculty, distinguished international scholars, writers, and public intellectuals. The Prize is organized by the Global Humanities Initiative, which is jointly supported by Northwestern University’s Buffett Institute for Global Studies and Kaplan Institute for the Humanities.
Life In The Clocktower Valley
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Author : Shakoor Rather
language : en
Publisher: Speaking Tiger Books
Release Date : 2021-03
Life In The Clocktower Valley written by Shakoor Rather and has been published by Speaking Tiger Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03 with Fiction categories.
Description Srinagar, summer of 2008: the chinar trees are shedding leaves, outdated matadors are still polluting the streets and checkpoints with men in army fatigue dot the city. Samar, a college student, is head over heels in love with Rabiya, his batchmate. Secret rendezvous in matadors, campus corridors and at the city's historical sites help them to get to know each other better. But will their love survive the unending curfews and their families' opposing political allegiances? Sheikh Mubarak, Samar's neighbour, is a famed metal craftsman stuck in a loveless marriage. He is further distanced from his unsympathetic wife, Naziya, when he loses his cherished pregnant cow on a curfewed night. Will their marriage survive the arrival of Rosaline, a tourist from New York? Sana, Mubarak and Naziya's five-year-old daughter, is best friends with Pintoji, the neighbourhood simpleton. Both chase their little dreams together with a wide-eyed curiosity, ignoring the adults who frequently indulge in the stonethrowing game. But what happens when Pintoji ventures out without a care during a curfew? Delicate and sensitive, Life in the Clock Tower Valley is an unusual debut novel that travels between Kashmir's pristine past, its grievous present and alwaysuncertain future, giving us an insider's view to everyday life and emotions in the conflict-ridden valley
In Freedom S Shade
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Author : Anis Kidwai
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2011-03-01
In Freedom S Shade written by Anis Kidwai and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Appearing for the first time in English translation, In Freedom’s Shade is Anis Kidwai’s moving personal memoir of the first two years of nascent India. It is an activist’s record that reveals both the architecture of the violence during Partition as well as the efforts of ordinary citizens to bring the cycle of reprisal and retribution to a close. Beginning from the murder of her husband in October 1947, with a rare frankness, sympathy and depth of insight, Anis Kidwai tells the stories of the thousands who were driven away from their homelands in Delhi and its neighbouring areas by eviction or abduction or the threat of forced religious conversion. Of historical importance for its account of the activities of the Shanti Dal, the recovery of abducted women and the history of Delhi, In Freedom’s Shade also has an equal contemporary relevance. In part a delineation of the roots of the afflictions that beset Indian society and in part prophetic about the plagues that were to come, Anis Kidwai’s testament is an enduring reminder that memory without truth is futile; only when it serves the objective of reconciliation, does it achieve meaning and significance.
Lucknow
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Author : P. C. Sarkar
language : en
Publisher: Gyan Books
Release Date : 2015
Lucknow written by P. C. Sarkar and has been published by Gyan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Fiction categories.
The Title 'LUCKNOW: Buildings, Begums and the British written by PC Sarkar' was published in the year 2015. The ISBN number 9789351281399 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 220 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Kalpaz Publications. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is History, About The Book: - Lucknow: Buildings, Begums and The British is not about history; rather it is a book on heritage ? defined as the legacy of physical artef
The Great Hindu Civilisation Achievement Neglect Bias And The Way Forward
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Author : Pavan K. Varma
language : en
Publisher: Westland
Release Date :
The Great Hindu Civilisation Achievement Neglect Bias And The Way Forward written by Pavan K. Varma and has been published by Westland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with History categories.
About the Book A SUCCINCT ACCOUNT OF THE PROGRESS OF THE HINDU CIVILISATION AND ITS CURRENT CRISIS What do we mean by the Hindu civilisation? What are the texts and legacies that moved it forward from one century to another? How much of it has to do with inherited religious beliefs and how has the politicisation of these beliefs changed the prism through which Hindus view themselves and others, especially those identifying with different belief systems? These are the questions the author sets out to answer with this potted history of the Hindu world, in the context of changing empires and leaderships, through colonisation and conquest, leading up to the present challenges presented by the proponents of Hindutva. Direct, hard-hitting and wise, this is an invaluable treatise for our times.