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Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Tenet of realism and Romance. 3. Quest for identity/self. 4. Psychological realism in Roy's Novel. 5. Historical realism. 6. Social and gender discrimination. 7. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index. Arundhati Roy, Activist par excellence has ardent skill of sketching the picture of the time and environment. She presents post sixties Indian before us. Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things: a critical exploration of realism and romance reveals the reality barely and has been part of Roy's intention to cover the bare bones of story with details of social and historical settling and scenario in order to give the reader a feel of patterns of living and daily routine. Many social burning issues and concerns which should be seriously intimated and brooded upon is raised by the novelist in The God of small things got much interpretation in detail in the present book. Arundhati Roy's approach to life and her art are modernistic and is recognized as a harsh critic of the traditional way of Indian life especially the one that Indians have been leading. Concerning book confers moderate details regarding Roy's stances on various issues. (jacket).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. The colonial encounter. 3. Things fall apart. 4. No longer at ease. 5. Arrow of God. 6. A man of the people. 7. The common concerns. 8. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index. This book is a full length study of the novels of Chinua Achebe. It has been prepared in the light of Achebe's perception of the colonialism which he and the people of the world encountered. Achebe's writings have been exclusively dealt with. The present volume is expected to be a milestone on the literary works of Chinua Achebe who is prescribed in almost all the Universities of the world for teaching students. It is also useful for researchers on African Literature. (jacket).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Social realism. 3. Conflict of emotion. 4. Sex and marriage. 5.Exploitation and unemployment. 6. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index. This book is an in depth study of all the novels of R.P. Jhabvala. It examines many facets of her fiction society real lives emotional imbalances, sexist approaches matrimonial crises, exploitation in many ways leading to unemployment and thus it adds new dimensions to the volume of criticism on the works of Jhabvala. (jacket).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. The crow eaters: a real reflection of Parsi culture and tradition. 3. The Pakistani bride: a tale of orphan girl. 4. Ice-Canady man: a tale of partition and its repercussions. 5. An American Brat: a saga of cultural and religious conflicts. 6. Bapsi Sidhwa: Language and style. 7. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index. The Novels of Bapsi Sidhwa: A Critical Evaluation is an attempt to discover and analyze Bapsi Sidhwa's concern with the subjective truth of human personality as it finds adequate expression in her novels. Sidhwa's novels presents socio-cultural aspect of a minority community, i.e. Parsees, struggling hard for self-equalization in an absurd or oppressive world. This work is an indispensable source book for students, researches and teachers of Indian English and commonwealth literature in general and fiction of Bapsi Sidhwa. The Crow eaters 1978 is a novel about an endearing family which provides a vibrant window onto life and social as well as cultural milieu in India under the British colonial rule and a nation on the threshold of historical transformation. Sidhwa's assessment of the plight of women is quite prescient and provocative. The Pakistani Bride 1963 is full of socio-cultural realism. Ice-Candy-Man 1981 narrates exodus of Parsees from Pakistan to India during pre-partition era. An American Brat 1992 is a charming love story. The novels assign her a respectable place in world of literature. (jacket).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. On Milton, dryden, Pope and gray. 3. On Cowley, Collins Waller, Denham and other poets. 4. On poets obscure. 5. Concept of poetry. 6. Preface to Shakespeare. 7. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index. This book offers an analyses of criticism by Jonson on five poets obscure poets, contemporary critics Shakespeare's comedies and tragedies both. This study is a re-evaluation of the criticism by Jonson made during the period English literature flowered and gave new direction to its readers. (jacket).

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Voice of Dalits: The protest Against Caste Discrimination. 3. The Voice of Bonded Labourers: Speaking from the Margins of Poverty. 4. The Voice of gendered Subalterns: Resisting Patriarchy. 5. Conclusion.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Review of literature. 3. Population and sample. 4. Design of the study. 5. Analysis and interpretation. 6. Summary findings conclusions and recommendations. Bibliography. In India as well as in many other countries, men and women have their own role to play for the benefit of the society. Men are said to be the head of the family while the women care taker for the children and house. This practice has been on for generations it thereby stands as a draw back for girls and women in many fields especially education. Since education of boys is considered more important because they are made to look after their parents and family while the girls would be married out or they are considered as temporal members of the family. This book provides the report based on empirical study conducted in Gulbarga. Here, parents attitude towards girls and women education is discussed. It can be a resource for the researchers of social science social workers, and educationists and for those who are interested to study the educational status of women as presumed by their parents. (jacket).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Early Novels. 3. Middle novels. 4. Later novels. 5. R.K. Narayans the guide the tragic tale of a Vagabond. 6. Malgudi: the real heroes of R.K. Narayan's novels. 7. Husband wife relationship in R.K. Narayan's novels. 8. R.K. Narayan's The English Teacher: a quest for positive philosophy. 9. Female voices in R.K. Narayan's the dark room. 10. Social realism in R.K. Narayan's novels. 11. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index. R.K. Narayan is one of the most prominent novelists of Indian writing in English. His novels are full of realism and present mirror image of microcosmic India caught in the conventions, traditions and social changes. His characters are lively presentations of common Indians. Events reflect the real happenings of society. His heroines are replica of common Indian women, Narayan despite living like a pure Indian absorbed in religion and family has successfully achieved a feat of expressing his creative urge in an alien language, i.e. English, and has become one of the most popular novelists of the world. The book The Fictional World of R.K. Narayan is a humble attempt to assign him a due place among the Indian English novelists of international repute. The book reveals as to how R.K. Narayan presents the most lively and realistic pictures of Indian society in his novels. The artistic presentations is full of gentle irony and light humour. (jacket).

Contents Foreword Acknowledgement Preface 1 Introduction 2 VS Naipaul and The Caribbean 3 VS Naipaul and England 4 VS Naipaul and India 5 VS Naipaul and Islam 6 Naipaul?s Vision of other nations and cultures 7 Conclusion BibliographyThe present book is a diaphanous survey an incisive scrutiny and an in-depth study of the books and works of Naipaul bring us face to face with his variegated spectrum of different cultures and societies different races and classes carrying a universal and common thread of humanity with all its attendant struggles and strife trials and tribulations its joys and sorrows that in turn makes his works a powerful and colourful canvas of divergent cultures and societies where different issues and concerns values and goals are both explored ad expressed in all their shades shapes and nuances Since our times are times of conflicting ideas and ideals conflicting realities and divergent visions so our world bears the mutations of our histories and individuals are largely left on their own without the support system of society and family The centre has given way in face of the power politics of human enterprise VS Naipaul continues to be totally committed to this vision of the world to record this for the general mankind in spite of unsparing criticism from readers and scholars He is a writer who can go back to himself and acknowledge a fault or change of vision and a progression in his understanding of his world as and when such a change takes place In the proceeding chapters an attempt has been made to trace this progression in relation to his engagement with different cultures and societies to provide multinational canvas of the world with particular reference to The Caribbean England Islam India and some other cultures and societies like that of Africa and Trinidad This book provides perceptive and penetrating insights into the multi-coloured spectrum of a number of nations including those of the Third World VS Naipaul?s comments on these nations are penetrating and at times incisive and revealing This book examines and explores the traumas of postcolonial change and the plight of the exile the marginalized the uprooted with remarkable sagaciousness and sensitivity Since Naipaul oscillates between the stance of an insider and that of an outsider with regard to the societies he portrays and combines in an unsettling manner infused with irony severity and compassion so that makes his vision multidimensional vast and complex The West Indians view him as an Englishman because of his British education English look upon him as an Indian for his ancestry and the colour of his skin and the Indians regard him a West Indian writer But he is all rolled into one and still none 180 pp.

Contents Preface 1 Introduction 2 Ecocritical Theory 3 Midnight?s Children 4 Haroun and the Sea of Stories 5 The Ground Beneath Her Feet 6 Fury 7 Beyond Ecology In most of his novels Rushdie is concerned with the problem of human identity in the postmodernist and postcolonial context characterized by hybridity displacement and multiculturalism Rushdie believes that a human being does not exist in isolation human consciousness is a conglomeration of his environment It is a product of the physical-socio-historical-economic matrix in which he lives and grows Rushdie thus views human identity as ingrained in his environment Hence Rushdie?s novels cam be studies d from ecocritical viewpointA careful analysis of Rushdie?s works especially Midnight?s Children and Fury shows that Rushdie studies personal lives as ingrained in their socio-cultural-economic physical set-up Hence he does reveal concern for the environment and ecological upheavals as wellThere are in his novels direct descriptions of toxicity and environmental degradation found in the urban places especially the metropolitan cities in the present times Further some of the works are a condemnation of complexities generated by our civilization which have led to the present ecological crisis One can also discover in his writings a tacit search for a solution to this crisisThis book focuses on some of his works from this ecocritical viewpoint It will break fresh ground in Rushdie criticism While the present work offers to the student community an accessible and useful study material it is valuable source of reference for the teachers and researchers 190 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Review of related literature. 3. Profile of Gulbarga District and city. 4. Research design. 5. Data analysis and interpretation. 6. Summary, findings and conclusions. Bibliography. Index. The financial demands on the Indian families are becoming fiercer by day. The sky rocketing cost of living, increasing expenses on education of children increasing cost of housing properties in India force every family in India to look for ways and means of increasing the household income. As a result women in India who were mostly known as homemakers are forced to go for jobs and take up even careers that were considered only suitable for men such as working in night shifts in call centers of BPOs. They are left with no option but to fend for their families in all possible ways. Working women in India are faced with lot more challenges than their counterparts in the other parts of the world. In India men do not share on most of the household chores, it is women who have to cook clean the house do the dishes wash clothes, get their children ready for school etc. Men just took care of few chores that are to be dealt outside the house. So the major burden of running the family is on the shoulders of women. It was alright for women to handle all the chores as long as they were homemakers. Now with their increasing need for getting some income for the family they have to work all the more harder. They have to take up a 9 to 5 job plus handle all the household chores that they handled as a homemaker. Men's role has not changed much. (jacket).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Immigrant Canadian articulations provides an analysis of the theoretical critical and fictional works of South Asian and the Caribbean immigrant writers in Canada, and discusses their representative ness as writers of Canadian literature. Through the study of minority writing in Canada, Shaily Sharma portrays a dialogue between immigrant writers and the Canadian nation state within its multicultural framework. She argues that the Canadian nation state within its multicultural framework. She argues that the Canadian multicultural act might serve as a powerful weapon with the potential to accord social equality and liberty to all members of the society, it is still held responsible for ethnic exclusivity and commodification. The individual essays provide theoretical background to the development of Canadian nation and its integral aspect, i.e. multiculturalism as well as fictional works affected and effected by the politics of identity belongingness and memories of homeland. (jacket).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. 1. Ted hughes: a poet or a shamanic priest. 2. Creating new horizons. 3. Reviving human life. 4. Ritual death: a precondition for redemption. 5. The crow poems. 6. Ritual cleansing. 7. Poetic essence. The present book is an attempt to explore Ted Hughes extraordinary abilities as a Shamanic poet. He carries with him healing powers like a shaman and believes that a poet can lead his readers to a world of peace happiness and bliss through the rhythms of his poetry. Hughes endeavours in this respect reflect the teaching of all gnostic texts. All maintain the importance of re-union with the source for healing, revival and redemption of life. All confirm that there is no easy way that this can be achieved the only way is through repeated sacrifice, suffering humility and love. This is the path that the epic heroes tread and this is the path Hughes has chosen for himself. Despite the clear influence of eastern philosophies in some of Hughe's poetry, his path is not the eastern mystics path of retreat inwards ways from reality but the very western path of confrontation with the energies a confrontation which is however presented in Hughe's poetry as an inward journey. (jacket).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. I. Political novel: theoretical considerations: 1. Idea of political novel. II. Politics of idealogies: 2. Ideological intoxication: a study of Raja Rao's Kanthapura. 3. Torn between ideologies: a study of Mulk Raj Anand's the Sword and the sickle. 4. Ironical vision of an idealogy: a study of R.K. Narayan's waiting for the Mahatma. III. Politics of trauma and violence: 5. Politics of personal trauma and holocaust: a study of Manohar Malgonkar's the princes. 6. Politics of violence: a reading of Chaman Nahal's Azadi. 7. Politics of violence and reconciliation: a study of Khushwant Singh's train to Pakistan. IV. Political criticism: 8. Re-discovering Gandhi: a study of Nayantara Sahgal's Rich like us. 9. Criticism as allegory: a reading of Arun Joshi's the city and the river. V. De-constructing political histories: 10. Breaking historical handcuffs: a reading of Salman Rushdie's midnight's children. 11. Re-interpreting political histories: Shashi Tharoor's The Great Indian Novel. 12. Indian English political Novel: narrative strategies. 13. Conclusion. Select bibliography. Index.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. 1. Domestic violence in Kamala Markandaya's : a silence of desire/Balasaheb Sagade. 2. Negotiating political space in the post Independent India: A study of Rophinton Mistry's novels/D. Jockim. 3. Feministic perspectives in Bharati Mukherjee's middlemen and other stories/R. Madhavi. 4. The quest for feminine social identity in Shobha De's socialite evenings/Hyacinth Pink. 5. Geetha Hariharan's in times of Siege: a fusion of exile and nation/Archana Parashar. 6. Behind the curtains: endurance and silence/Srirupa Banerjee. 7. The theme of anti-colonialism in a bend in the Ganges/Basavaraj Naikar. 8. Nitin Bose as a schizophrenic in Gita Mehta's a river Sutra: a study/G. Dominic Savio and S.J. Kala. 9. Identity consciousness racial identity in the novels of Kamala Markandaya/Monisha Saxena. 10. A fabulous phenomena of story telling in P. Raja's The blood and other stories/Lily Arul Sharmila. 11. Move from feminine to female stages: Anita Desai's fire on the mountain/M.S. Chandra. 12. Suffering is not a matter of option for Rosie: a study of R.K. Narayan's the guide/Sau. Seema Sanjay Jagtap and Alka A. Bhise. 13. The theme of marital incompatibility in Gita Hariharan's The Thousand Faces of Night/K. Mangayarkarasi. 14. Political and cultural views in Nayantara Sahgal's storm in Chandigarh/S. Sabithashunmugapriya. 15. The image of modern Indian women in Manju Kapur's a married woman/K. Suneetha Reddy. 16. Immigrant experience depicted in the works of Jhumpa Lahiri/F. Mary Priya. 17. Bama: the apostle of Dalit feminism in India/K. Jayaraju. 18. Bhattacharya's so many hungers: an analytical study/T.M. Bhaskar. Index. Indian writers with artistic skill move many interesting things into the fabric of their creative writings. The telling of the tale is interesting and emits a unique aroma that captured the readers of all sections in India and abroad. The fictional world of the Indian Writers on English reflects contemporary life, present problems and changing human values. The new nations in the making, the old traditions crumbling and the brave new world that rose our of the computerised world is preserved in the creative writings. The writings of Indian fiction in English is a museum where every book has its own importance because it captured the change in time. Any casual reading of a short story or a novel will not only make us think about the conditions prevalent in the society but also makes us evaluate our own contribution to the mankind. (jacket).

Contents Preface 1 Dalit Writings in India-a New PardigmTSasikanth Reddy 2 Nayantara Sahgal?s Rich Like Us ? An Overview in context of illusions to History Gegraphy and current scienceTSasikanth Reddy 3 Immigrant experiences in Manju Kapur?s Novel ImmigrantRam Sharma 4 Theme of Hunger and Degradation in the Novels of Kamala MarkandayaBhupendra Pratap Singh Chauhan 5 Glimmering of Hopes The Binding VineKavita Chauhan 6 The Youth in Chetan Bhagat?s Three Mistakes in My LifeSmita Ajgaonkar Nayak 7 A Big Destructive Life A Study of Lillian Hellman?s The Children?s HourNeeta Satish Dhuman 8 Post-colonial Indian English LiteratureAnshu Sharma Bhardwaj and Ram Sharma 9 Significance of the stone in the poetry of Jayanta MahapatraVivekanand Jha 10 Ruth Prawar Jhabvala?s To Whom She Will The Feminist PerspectiveShashikant Mishra 11 The Diasporic Sensibility The Literature of Indian Diaspora in MauritiusOnkar Nath Upadhyay 12 The Survival strategies of the middle class in Girish Karnad?s Wedding AlbumBO Satyanarayana Reddy 13 Realism in Gita Mehta?s RajRuchi Banger 14 Packaging IndiannessIndian Heritage with reference to Bharati Mukherjee?s FictionMukta Sharma 15 An analysis of Anita Desai?s The AccompanistRam Sharma and Anshu Bhardwaj Sharma 16 Kenosis Plerosis and Liminal Movement and Criss-crossings in Arun Joshi?s The Strange Case of Billy BiswasJ Samuel Kirubahar 17 Arun Joshi?s Fictional ForteRajeev Kumar Sharma and Anita Sharma 18 Reportraying coloniality A Critical Review of Indian DramaMustajeeb A Khan 19 Quest for self in Kamla Das?s Summer in CalcuttaRam Sharma 20 Kumar?s Nude Before God A Critical StudyAnshu Sharma 21 R Parthasarthy?s Rough Passage A Record of Poet?s Growth of mindRam Shama 22 Cruel side of Humour Manjula Padmanabhan?s HarvestB Indira 23 Portrayal of modern sensational journalism in Vijay Tendulkar?s Play KamalaRam Sharma 24 Transgendered as Victim of society in Mahesh Dattani?s Seven steps Around the fireRam SharmaIndian English literature is related to our country and culture This is the field we should try to excplore it more Critical Explorations in Indian English Fiction This book tries to explore almost all the branches of Indian English Literature In this anthology there are more than twenty paapers that cover authors like Kamala Markendeya Anita Desai Shashi Deshpande Ruth Prawer Jhabwala Arun Joshi Gita Mehta Manju Kapur Chetan Bhagat Jayant Mahapatra Shiv K Kumar R Parathasarathy Kamala Das Girish Karnad Mahesh Dattani and Vijay Tendulkar etc these are stalwarts in their respective fields This anthology tries to cover poetry fiction and drama respectivelyThis anthology will prove useful not only to the students but also to the teachers of English literature and researchers in this field 220 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. 1. Salman Rushdie: Life and works. 2. Midnights children. 3. Arundhati Roy: Life and works. 4. The God of small things. 5. Kiran Desai: life and works. 6. The inheritance of loss. 7. Aravind Adiga: Life and works. 8. The white tiger. Selected bibliography. Index. This book presents a detailed study of four booker prize winning novels written by Indian novelists. Salman Rushdies midnights children Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, Kiran Desais The inheritance of loss and Aravind Adiga's the white tiger have won the prestigious man booker prize in the last three decades. There is a unique kind of thematic delineation in these novels. Constant human struggle in the vast panorama of human existence, changing social political and anthropological scenario a growing sense of globalization cross culturalism modern diseases like bewilderment anxiety aimlessness etc., from which human beings suffer a lot and a sense of compassion are visible in these novels everywhere. All these things provide epic dimension and broad field of study to the scholars. The present study based more on texts and less on critical remarks analyzes above mentioned features of these novels in detail. (jacket).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. The present anthology comprises twenty two research papers on different American fiction, poetry and plays. It includes one paper on Black literature and one on Afro-American literature. The major share goes to novel being the most dominant from of literature. However, it includes three papers on poetry of Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens and E.E. Cummings. They represent the two different currents of poetry in America which have yielded significant influence on Indian poetry in English. It comprises four papers on dramatist/drama namely Arthur Miller, Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun and Willy Loman's Death of a Salesman, Tennessee Williams it also includes three papers on short story. The short stories of W.S. Porter, Roals Dahi and Hemingway are perceptively studied here. The synoptic papers on American novels in the twenties Black English, afro-American literature and comprehensive studies of individual novelists like Hemingway, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison and Sherwood Anderson besides other papers on novels make it a useful reference book. The novels studied here are A Farewell to Arms, The Bluest Eye, Gone with the Wind, The Good Earth and The Possessing the Secret of joy. The twenty two critical essays are remarkable contribution to American literature in the sense that they present critical responses from a distance of time, place and milieu. I hope the book would be useful for students and researchers of American Literature as well as for general readers. (jacket).

Contents Foreword Preface I Theoretical explorations 1 Beyond Theory KV Raghupathi 2 Needs and Possibilities of Indigenous Theories Dev Vrat Sharma 3 The Text and the Reader Jiju Verghese II Indian Literary Theories 4 Indian Intellectual Tradition Aesthetics as Science and Philosophy of Fine Arts Shrawan K Sharma 5 The Stage Representations of Assimilation Differentiation Dichotomy A study in the Selected Plays of Kalidasa Malavikagnimitram Jayshree Singh III Postcolonial Theories 6 Contextualising Aravind Adigas The White Tiger in Postcolonial Paradigm Bhagabat Nayak 7 Ethnic Womens Discourses in a Postcolonial context A Cross cultural Study of Selected Works of Indo American African American and Native American Writers WS Kottiswari 8 Myth Morality and Colonisationjyoti Rane 9 Postcolonial and Postmodern Trends in the Works of Upamanyu Chatterjee Monti Mazumdar 10 Loss of Identity Colonial Past and Global Present Kiran Deep 11 Karnads Tughlaq An Aristotelian Protagonist Vinita Goyal 12 When Gandhi Came to Gorakhpur An Entry into the Postcolonial India Madhurima Nyati IV Feminist Theories 13 Rejection of a False Society in Ibsens A Dolls House Umed Singh 14 In between the Hijab and the Scarf The Complex Pattern of Identity Formation in Arab American Womens Writings Indrani Datta Chaudhuri 15 Heteronormativity and Homophobia Gloria Naylors The Two Eliza Joseph 16 Performing Gender Issues Evidence from Vijay Tendulkars PlaysAlpana Gupta V Ecocritical Theories 17 Ecocritical Reading of Yann Martels Life of PiSM Gupta 18 Eco consciousness in Arundhati Roys The God of Small Things Amitabh Roy VI Psychoanalytical Theories 19 Psychoanalytical Theories and Character Analysis A study of Iris Murdochs A Severed Head Cheena Puri Index The different approach of the book brings a fresh whiff of air into the corridors of literature The book Literary Theories in Application is a collection of well researched papers bearing scholarship of the erudite from various colleges and universities of India The essays concern with application discussion and interrogation of critical theories Subdivided into six sections the book begins with theoretical explorations of the critical scenario The second section relates to the application of Indian literary theories The third section is on postcolonial texts and theories The fourth section is on feminist theories The fifth and the sixth sections are on eco critical and psychoanalytical theories The book is an attempt to cater to the needs of students as well as teachers of English jacket 236 pp.

Contents Preface 1 Textile an introduction 2 Basic textile care structure storage and display 3 Laundry 4 Fibre 5 Ironing 6 Alternative clothes cleaning 7 Dyeing 8 Sewing Index This book takes into account the needs of consumers and home science students It deals with various aspects of textiles both natural and synthetic colours and dyes in fabrics and properties of soap and laundering The book delves on scope of textiles high tenacity viscose rayon permanent press in fabrics and home dyeing inter alia many other topics Emphasis has been laid on care of textiles particularly under Indian conditions This book covers a wide range of textile issues and attempt to introduce the subject in a comprehensive way It avoids the narrow focus and considerable complexity of many other books in this area where in depth treatments is required jacket 244 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. The idea of dominance/Jaba Kusum Singh and Sandhya Saxena. 2. Subaltern concern: a socio-political study of Mulk Raj Anand's novels/Manju Srivastava and Sadhya Saxena. 3. Gandhi the Messiah: a study of Kanthapura and Shadow from Ladakh/Jaba Kusum Singh. 4. Mimic men: a political reading of the early fictional works of V.S. Naipaul/Preeti Gautam. 5. Humanity in calamity a comparative study of Azadi and train to Pakistan/Madhubala Saxena. 6. Manohar Malgonkar's tryst with destiny: a bend in the Ganges/Sharda Iyer. 7. Humanism in Chaman Nahal's Azadi/Sanjay Johari. 8. Anita Desai's clear light of day: a study of polarization of family strata in post colonial India/Nilofar Akhtar. 9. Politics power values a reappraisal of post Independence politics through the study of Nayantara's fictional Cosmos/Sadhya Saxena. 10. Nayantara Sahgal's rich like us: political novel as non fiction/R.G. Hegde. Being the unacknowleged legislator of the world a literary artist derives substance for his legislation from diverse sources including politics. In the bewildering modern world which witnesses the over throw of existing conceptualized versions and definitions political situations have also altered astonishingly. Politics, today has acquired awesome dimensions. Socio-political dialectics dominate the global society and resultantly the world of literature too. (jacket).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. The anthology comprising twenty two papers is an attempt to study the select representative writers and some canonical works from different perspectives like narrative, stylistic, ecocritical and thematic. The areas chosen are fiction particularly novel, poetry and autobiography. The fiction writers included in it are R.K. Narayan,Mulk Raj Anand, V.S. Naipaul Anita Desai, Ruskin Bond and Saadat Hasan Manto. These synoptic studies are focused with a definite critical leans, for example Lacanian theory is applied to R.K. Narayan's novels and psycho narration is used for the study of Anita Desai's novels. Nine novels are taken up for in-depth evaluation, they are the white tiger, the inheritance of loss interpreter of Maladies, a beach boy the foreigner the sun behind the cloud midnights children the Girmitiya Saga and Azadi. In autobiography Leila Seth's on balance which is least explored is taken up for comprehensive assessment.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. 1. The trauma of partition in Azadi/Basavaraj Naikar. 2. Socialite evenings of Shobha de: a study in self actualization/Dilip K. Madhesiya. 3. Shashi Despande's protagonists: a harrowing experience/Satendra Kumar and H.C.S. Chauhan. 4. Reflection of gender identity and discrimination in Shashi Deshpande's novel: the binding vine/Grishma Khobragade. 5. Basavaraj Naikars light in the house: a hagiographical novel/Meenakshi Sundaram. 6. Naikar memorializes Babasaheb in the sun behind the cloud/Shyam S. Agarwalla. 7. Teaching English through Indian fiction in English/G. Sundari. 8. The queen and the colonial cage: a peep into Basavaraj Naikars the queen of Kittur/Sudhir K. Arora. 9. Violence as sine qua non: a study of select novels of Rohinton mistry and Amitav Ghosh/Ch. Swathi. 10. A thematic study of the novels of Kiran Desai/Satendra Kumar. Indian Fiction in English developed rapidly and also became a popular genre in Indian literature in English and in world literature. With its vast variety of themes, subject matter narrative technique and style it has won a unique place in the hearts of the literary lovers. The changing relationships in the changing world is well captured in the words, phrases, images and expressions by our writers. (jacket).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Contents: Introduction. 1. Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger: one of the contemporary slumdog millionarires/Ashok K. Saini. 2. Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger: another slumdog millionaire/N. Sharda Iyer. 3. The slumdog millionaires in Aravind Adiga's the white tiger/Shubha Mukherjee. 4. Rewriting the underdog narrative: a study of Aravind Adiga's the white tiger/Sanjukta Das. 5. Aravind Adiga's the white tiger: representation of modern Indian slumdog millionaires/Yakaiah Kathy. 6. Social criticism in Aravind Adiga's the white tiger/Radika Chopra. 7. The white tiger dark tale: a postmodern success story/Lakshmi Padmanabhan. 8. Democracy for common man or criminals as portrayed in Aravind Adiga's the white tiger/Anil Verma. 9. Aravind Adiga's the white tiger: a study of two contrastive faces of India/Rooble Verma and Manoj Verma. 10. Poverty and oppressive social structure of India: A study of Aravind Adiga's the white tiger/Neeru Tandon. 11. Aravind Adiga's the white tiger: The greater process of self examination/Prashant Subhahs Mothe. 12. The white tiger: a tale of materialistic success sans human values/Ketaki Datta. 13. Subaltern quest in Aravind Adiga's the white tiger/A.J. Sebastian sdb. 14. The golden bird India in the eyes of Aravind Adiga through the white tiger/A.S. Rao and Neelam. 15. A history of subaltern resistance and revolt: Aravind Adiga's the white tiger/K.M. Johnson. 16. Duality of human existence in Aravind Adiga the white tiger/Anita Sharma. Bibliography. Index. Perspectives on Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger is an anthology discussing the various issues concerning recent and emergent Indian public in general. The book showcase to extreme dimensions of modern India, on one side is the changing face of high-tech and rich India, particularly in the emergence of Bangalore as the IT city and outsourcing capital of the world and on the other side is the darker side of India, revealing the culture of caste and the snare of corruption. This book expediently contemplates on the perspectives on Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger. It has ascetic research papers drawn from teachers and researchers spread throughout India. The book it is expected, will indeed find a warm welcome in the hands of the connoisseur of The White Tiger and the Booker Prize winning writers of the world. (jacket).

Contents Preface 1 Indian Caste System 2 Indian Thinkers Gandhi and Ambedkar 3 Approach of Gandhi and Ambedkar for Removal of Untouchability 4 Post Ambedkar Dalit Movement 5 Ambedkar Gandhi views of Cast system 6 Ambedkar view on Salvation 7 Ambedkar for the Movement of Dalits 8 Ambedkar vs Gandhi on Village Life 9 Gandhi and Ambedkar Legends as a Weapon against Caste System 10 Gandhi and Racism 11 Ambedkar as Thinker 12 AmbedkarGandhi and Congress 13 Gandhi Ambedkar and Distributive Justice Index The reader thoughts views and feelings of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar in their own words quoted verbatim This book is a comprehensive design to offer and in depth analysis of the major and rather disturbing global problems in the human centred Gandhis and Ambedkars view of Indian caste ie dalit harijan and untouchability and peace oriented Gandhian framework 296 pp.

Contents Preface 1 Literature 2 Literary theory 3 History of American literature 4 Literature evaluation 5 Literary criticism 6 Chivalrous and romantic literature of the middle ages 7 The art of literature and literary 8 The drama in the 18th century 9 English abolitionist literature of the 19th century 10 Feminist literary criticism 11 Novel 12 Poetry Bibliography "Philosophy history journalism and legal and scientific writings traditionally ranked as literature The term English literature refers to literature written in the English language including literature composes in English by writers not necessarily from England; Joseph Conrad was Polish Robert Burns was Scottish James Joyce was Irish Salman Rushdie is Indian etc In other words English literature as diverse as the varieties and dialects of English spoken around the worldA Literary techniques or literary devices may be used by works of literature in order to produce a specific effect on the readerThe book comprehensively deals with literature literary theory literature evaluation feminist literary criticism etc" jacket 279 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Status of women journalists in the print media. 3. The image of women in mass media. 4. Depiction of women in Indian media. 5. Images of women in print media. 6. Women's media: challenging the status quo. 7. Setting standards for women in journalism: equality and quality. 8. Family business women in media discourse. 9. Women, work and employment. 10. Promoting women in the media. 11. Women, wellness, and the media. 12. Women on the web. 13. Women and men in sports and media. 14. Women and advertising. Index. Over the past few decades media have played a great royal in the development of business and industry. In this process, looking to the role of women in providing publicity to various products feminist media scholarship has flourished and become a major influence in the fields of media film and cultural studies. This book explores the changing and often ambivalent relationship between the women and media in the light of these recent debates. At the same time it places them in the boarder discussions within feminist theory of which they have formed a crucial part. Throughout the book explores key issues within feminist media studies both through specific examples and critical engagement. This book is an upto date study of the key areas of issues and debates in women media studies. (jacket).

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Cry, The Peacock. 3. Voices in the City. 4. Bye-Bye Blackbird. 5. Where Shall We Go this Summer? 6. Fire on the Mountain. 7. In Custody. 8. Baumgartner's Bombay. Conclusion.

Contents Preface 1 Introduction 2 Social responsibility of business 3 Business ethics 4 Enterprise 5 Economic system and state intervention 6 Economic system 7 Private sector and multi-national corporations in India 8 Industrial policy 9 Monetary policy 10 Fiscal policy 11 Export import policy 12 Public sector in India growth and problems 13 Privatisation and disinvestments 14 Foreign investment 15 Industrial sickness 16 Small scale industries 17 Economic controls 18 World trade organisation WTO 19 International business environment 20 Economic planning Business ethics in the smooth and successful running of business considered quite important Business ethics in business serve the purpose of different concerned of business ie stakeholders consumers society the government etc It is now widely recognised that business can sustained only by discharge its responsibility towards different concerned Business is governed by environment around it As such the environment around it should be healthy and positive to development 298 pp.

Contents Preface 1 Nature and Problems of Clinical Psychology 2 Nature of Mental Health 3 Clinical Assessment 4 Psychotherapies 5 Client 6 Psychoanalysis 7 Behaviour Therapy and Behaviour Modification 8 Contingency Management 9 Psychotherapy with Older Adults 10 Ethical issues in Clinical Psychology 11 Role of Technology in Clinical PsychologyThis book explains what clinical psychology is and what clinical psychologists do to a non-specialist but informed readership It explains the conceptual framework which clinical psychologists adopt the rationale behind their techniques and uses detailed examples to illustrate their material The book provides further accessible reading and a glossary of terms to introduce this growing area of work The authorities in the book are all leading clinicians and researchers and specialists in their fields This book comprehensively encompasses complete and updated information in the health care field It also reflects the continued expansion of the profession of clinical psychology all over the worldThis book presents an excellent comprehensive overview of psychological interventions with clients in a variety of settings and with differing types of difficulty The role of the clinical psychologists is clearly described in a way that potentially makes an important contribution to interdisciplinary understanding The book succeeds to a large extent in explaining what clinical psychology is it also the why how when where with whom and effect of applying psychology in a clinical setting 264 pp.