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From:The Journal of the American Oriental Society (Vol. 124, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Vinaya commentary or 'Dul ba'i 'grel pa section of the Tibetan bsTan 'gyur contains translations of a number of texts important for our knowledge of Indian Buddhism. Perhaps the best known of these is Gunaprabha's...
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From:Resources for Feminist ResearchPeer-ReviewedIn this paper, I argue that Mahasweta Devi's meticulously researched "documentary/fiction," which moves fluidly between fiction, history, ethnography and reportage, provide a crucial antidote to three vexed problems in...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 31, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedR.K. Narayan employs the same technique of juxtaposing everyday life with the actions of mythic figures he uses in novels in his short story 'Naga.' The story portrays a young snake-charmer facing a chance to become more...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 91, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThe impact of British literature on India was profound, altering the poetry, fiction, and drama of the many cultures and languages unified by the empire, and it has lingered. Victorian attitudes in public entertainment...
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From: The Philosophy of the Upanishads[(essay date 1906) In the following excerpt, Deussen provides an overview of the Upanishads, discussing their history, composition, and ideological principles.] I. The Place of the Upanishads in the Literature of the...
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From: World Literature Today[(essay date 1996) In the following review, Thorpe examines various encounters with reality that Funny Boy’s young narrator-protagonist experiences over the course of the novel, noting that the familial conflicts Arjie...
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From: Raja Rao[(essay date 1978) In the following essay, Narasimhaiah provides a detailed reading of several of Rao's short stories.] That Raja Rao is India's most significant novelist writing in the English language today is now...
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From: Canadian Theatre Review[(essay date winter 2001) In the following essay, Budhiraja discusses a production of Generations in India and details how the Indian audience related to the Canadian drama.] M.S. University Baroda, in the state of...
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From: Fortnightly ReviewThe appearance of "The Poems of Rabindranath Tagore" is, to my mind, very important.I do not think I have ever undertaken so difficult a problem of criticism, for one can praise most poetry in a series of antitheses. In...
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From:Contemporary Literary Criticism (Vol. 255. )[(essay date 2008) Allen has been writing about contemporary and classic literary and genre fiction, as a freelance reviewer and independent scholar, since 1969. In the following specially commissioned essay, Allen...
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From:The Journal of the American Oriental Society (Vol. 118, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe premise that most of the Indic texts transmitted to China in the early centuries of the Common Era were written in a Northwest Middle Indic language called Gandhari was examined. A careful analysis of the translation...
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From:Feminist WritersThe term "feminism" occupies a peculiar position in many nations of the so-called "Third World." Its western origins make it suspect from a nationalist perspective, while its seemingly exclusive focus on women (which,...
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From: R. K. Narayan: Contemporary Critical Perspectives[(essay date 1993) In the following essay, Singh judges Narayan's work to be less engaging than that of Raja Rao and Mulk Raj Anand, two Indian contemporaries also writing in English, because Narayan is primarily a...
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From:Marg, A Magazine of the Arts (Vol. 64, Issue 2)Goa boasts of literary traditions in several languages--Konkani in Devanagari and Roman scripts, Portuguese, English, Marathi and even a few volumes in French in the late 19th and early 20th century. To an extent, the...
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From:Creative Forum (Vol. 20, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedDhvani system of Indian poetics deals with the constitution of internal and external creative environments primarily with emphasis on increasing universality on both the levels or stages. This position remains central...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 68, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedKunwar Narayan and Kedarnath Singh are two or the most prominent young poets in India in the nai kavita or new poetry movement. Singh, however, is most often associated with the progressive movement in its last stages....
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 68, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedContemporary Indian poetry in English is a product of postcolonial India where the majority of writers live in metropolitan centers where they are constantly exposed to the English language, culture and politics. To some...
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From:The Journal of the American Oriental Society (Vol. 117, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn the surviving tradition of Paninian grammar, there is a pervasive belief that the founding grammarian Panini was inspired by the divinity Siva to formulate his grammar and that it was Siva who revealed to him the...
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From: Gendering the Narrative: Indian English Fiction and Gender Discourse[(essay date 2015) In the following essay, Sharma discusses Devi’s portrayal of rape as virtually nonexistent in tribal lands but a fact of life when the women leave their homelands, due to their status as nonhumans in...
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From: Rabindranath Tagore: His Life and Work[In the following excerpt, Thompson traces various influences found in Tagore's works.] [Though] Rabindranath has never ceased to learn, and is as great a thief as any in all literature, it is in the pre-Manasi period...