Encyclopaedia of Indian writers: Akademi Laurels, Vol.2: Bengali, foreword by Vachaspati Upadhyaya

Sinha, Biswajit et al.

ISBN: 9788186339435, 8186339434

Encyclopaedia of South Indian literature, 3 vols., by Madhubala Sinha

ISBN: 9788126137404, 8126137401

Deals with the linguistic topics, ranging through the Dravidian family as a whole; others concentrate on specific languages, such as Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam.

Encyclopaedia of the Sikh literature, Vol.1, English tr. by Gurmukh Singh et al

ISBN: 9788130200750, 8130200759

This work is the English version of Gurushabad Ratnakar Mohan Kosh by Bhai Kahan Singh Nabha, first published in 1930. It is considered as the greatest work of scholarship designed to provide comprehensive and authentic version about the growth and development of Sikh literature.

Encyclopaedic biographies of Indian laureates, 5 vols., by Rakesh Kumar

ISBN: 9788126137015, 8126137010

This work contains biographical sketches of great Indian writers.

An Encyclopaedic dictionary of Indian culture

Dash, Narendra Kumar (b.1960)

ISBN: 9788173200830, 8173200831

This encyclopaedic dictionary of Indian culture is a compilation of technical terms related to ancient geography, religion, archaeology, architecture, astrology, epigraphy, linguistics, literature, mythology, philosophy and history etc.

An encyclopaedic dictionary of Indian languages-- literature, by A.N. Kapoor et al

ISBN: 9788174873842, 8174873848

Encyclopaedic dictionary of Marathi literature, 2 vols., ed. by Sunita Deshpande

ISBN: 9788182202214, 8182202213

This work covers not only men of letters but also all aspects characterising the growth of Marathi literature from the early period to the present day.

Encyclopaedic dictionary of Punjabi literature, 2 vols., ed. by R.P. Malhotra et al

ISBN: 9788182206687, 8182206685

An attempt to cover an in-depth study of 167 Punjabi literati and 395 prominent literary works from the earliest period to contemporary writings.

Encyclopaedic history of India, 50 vols., by Mahesh Vikram Singh et al., foreword by Bipan Chandra

ISBN: 9789380836508, 9380836503

The term `history' is derived from the Greek word `historia' that means knowledge acquired through investigation. Obviously, this knowledge can be correct if the method of investigation is objective and not vitiated by any kind of bias. In other words, if the study of human past is comprehensive and obtained through scientific inquiry, it can provide perspective on the present day problems and ...

An encyclopedia of Hemant Kumar: tum pukar lo

Raj (ed.)

ISBN: 9789380628707, 9380628706

Hemant Kumar is a noted singer in Indian Cinema.

The Chandayan, with essays by Naman P. Ahuja et al.,

ISBN: 9788195587841, 8195587844

One of the greats of Hindi literature, the Chandayan is an epic, presented here in English translation along with 530 known paintings used to illustrate it in the sultanate period. The 16th-century historian Badayuni tells us that the Chandayan was selected for religious instruction by the Sufi, Maulana Da'ud, in the Tughlaq period. A racy yarn recounting the romance of Lorik and Chanda, it was...

Bibi's room: Hyderabadi women and twentieth-century Urdu prose

Akhtar, Nazia

ISBN: 9789354420641, 9354420648

This book studies the lives and work of three women writers from Hyderabad who wrote in Urdu: Zeenath Sajida, Najma Nikhat, and Jeelani Bano. It addresses the absence of scholarship on Hyderabadi women writers in three ways: representative translations; short, nuanced biographies; and critical analyses of their oeuvres-all framed against twentieth-century Hyderabadi history, politics, culture, ...

A case of Indian marvels: dazzling stories from the country's finest new writers,

ISBN: 9789391047641, 9391047645

This book contains forty unforgettable stories from writers aged forty and under.

Erotics in Kalidasa-II: carnal conditions, types of love, stages of love, text with Hindi tr.

Kulshreshtha, Sushma (ed.)

ISBN: 9788186339800, 8186339809

Erotics in Sanskrit & English literature-I with special reference to Kalidasa & Shakespeare

Kulshreshtha, Sushma

ISBN: 9788186339480, 8186339485

This volume is divided into six sections:;(i) Erotics in Kalidasa's epic poems;(ii) Erotics in Kalidasa's lyric poems ;(iii) Erotics in Kalidasa's dramas;(iv) Woman & sexuality;(v) Erotics in Sanskrit literature;(vi) Erotics in English literature with special reference to Shakespeare

Roma and the steel route

Chandra, Lokesh

ISBN: 9788194085041, 8194085047

It is a comprehensive work on the history, language, Atharvanic rituals and human rights of the Roma across countries and centuries. It discusses various opinions about the romance of the Roma who left India either in the pre-Christian era as steel-smiths manufacturing arms across ancient Iran and Greece, or they left after the battle of Tarain. The Roma have preserved magical cures which go ba...

Essays on comparative literature

Banerjee, Ashutosh

ISBN: 9788180641138, 8180641139

Contains four essays previously published in 1999. First two essays resulted after intense reading of Tolstoy while last two represent author's great love for Sanskrit and Bengali Literature.

Essays on Indian writing in English: twice-born or cosmopolitan literature?

Riemenschneider, Dieter

ISBN: 9788131608142, 813160814X

The book is a collection of author's fifteen essays on Indian fictional writing and poetry in English, as it reflects his lifelong commitment to Indian literary culture.

Essays on Oriya literature, compiled and with an afterword by Ganeswar Mishra

Boulton, John

The author offers a refreshingly new perspective on Sarala Dasa, Phakirmohana Senapati and several other Oriya writers, which deepens our understanding of their work and their milieu.

Essays on Persian literature, ed. by S.H. Qasemi

Ahmed, Nazir

Contains seventeen research articles of Prof. Nazir Ahmed, an erudite Indian scholar of Persian language and literature.