Author: Benjamin Lewis RicePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385527945
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Mysore and Coorg. A Gazetteer Compiled for the Government of India
Author: Benjamin Lewis RicePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385527945
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Early Writings on India
Author: H.K. KaulPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351867172
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
This book, first published in 1975, is a comprehensive list of all the books on India, written in English before 1900. It is an invaluable reference source on India of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Apart from the work of professional writers, there are the writings of a cross-section of society from soldiers to scientists. We find dictionaries of obscure dialects written by government officials, descriptions of their travels by visiting clerics, homely details of everyday life by housewives, as well as technical and scientific works written by scholars.
Tiger Hills
Author: Sarita MandannaPublisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 044657418X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
As the first girl to be born into the Nachimanda family in over thirty-five years, the beautiful Devi is the object of adoration of her entire family. Spirited and strong-willed, she befriends the shy Devanna, a young boy whose mother has died in tragic circumstances. Together they grow up amidst the luscious jungles, rolling hills, and coffee plantations of Coorg in Southern India; cocooned by an extended family whose roots to this beautiful land can be traced for centuries. Their futures seem inevitably linked, but everything changes when, one night, they attend a "tiger wedding." It is there that Devi gets her first glimpse of Machu, the celebrated tiger killer and a hunter of great repute. Although she is still a child and Machu is a man, Devi vows to marry him one day. It is this love that will gradually drive a wedge between Devi and Devanna, sowing the seed of a devastating tragedy that will change the fate of all three --- an event that has unforeseen and far-reaching consequences for generations to come. Told in rich, lyrical prose and set against the background of a changing society, Tiger Hills is a sweeping saga about one woman's determination to live life on her own terms --- and a riveting novel about the choices we make in the name of family, nation, and love. .
The Monthly Notes of the Library Association of the United Kingdom
Author: Trübner & Co.'s Monthly List
Author: Motherhood in India
Author: Maithreyi KrishnarajPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136517804
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
This book presents an overview of the varied experiences and representations of motherhood in India from ancient to modern times. The thrust of the arguments made by the various contributors is that the centrality of motherhood as an ideology in a woman’s life is manufactured. This is demonstrated by analysing various institutional structures of society – language, religion, media, law and technology. The articles in this book are chronologically arranged, tracing the different stages that motherhood as a concept has traversed in India – from goddess worship to nationalism, to being a vehicle of reproduction of the sexual division of labour and the inheritance of property via the male-line. Underlying these stages are the dialectics between them that have been facilitated by agents such as the state – the ultimate controller of a woman’s reproductive powers. The feminist critique of ‘essentialising’ the role of a woman has been employed to deconstruct and humanise the experiences and lives of mothers. This anthology therefore attempts to initiate a meaningful and ‘sensitive’ engagement with issues pertaining to a woman’s autonomy over her body and her role also as a mother.
Trubner's American and Oriental Literary Record
Author: Trübner's American and oriental literary record
Author: Trübner's American, European, & Oriental Literary Record
Author: Ethnography (Castes and Tribes)
Author: Athelstane BainesPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3112383885
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description