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Index of Indian, Nepali, Bangla,
Sri Lankan, and Pakistani Literature
under review
at
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This index covers all those authors under review with some sort of tie to the countries of the subcontinent.
This index also includes an index of books about India. |
Sub-continental Literature under Review
- (Anonymous): Simhāsana Dvātriṃśikā: Thirty-Two Tales of the Throne of Vikramaditya (B+)
- Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit (B), ed. R. Parthasarathy
- ADIGA, Aravind:
- AHMED, K. Anis: The World in my Hands (B)
- AHTESHAM, Manzoor: The Tale of the Missing Man (B)
- AJNEYA: To Each his Stranger (B)
- ANANTHAMURTHY, U.R.:
- Bharathipura (B)
- Samskara (B+)
- APPARAO, Gurajada: Girls for Sale (B)
- ASHK, Upendranath:
- Falling Walls (B+)
- In the City a Mirror Wandering (B+)
- ASHOKAMITRAN: Sand (B)
- BALASUBRAMANYAM, Rajeev: In Beautiful Disguises (B)
- BANDOPADHYAY, Bibhutibhushan: Pather Panchali (B+)
- BANDOPADHYAY, Saradindu: By the Tungabhadra (B)
- BASU, Samaresh: Fever (B+)
- BASU, Samit: Turbulence (B+)
- BENYAMIN: Goat Days (B)
- BHAGAT, Chetan:
- Five Point Someone (B-)
- One night @ the call center (C-)
- Revolution 2020 (B-)
- The Three Mistakes of my Life (B-)
- BHARATCHANDRA Ray: In Praise of Annada (B)
- BHARAVI: Arjuna and the Hunter (A-)
- BORDOLOI, Rajanikanta: Miri Jiyori (B-)
- BOSE, Buddhadeva: My Kind of Girl (B)
- BUDHASVĀMIN: The Emperor of the Sorcerers (B+)
- CHANDRA, Vikram: Sacred Games (B+)
- CHARU Nivedita: Zero Degree (B)
- CHATTERJEE, Bankim-Chandra: Krishnakanta's Will (B)
- CHATTERJEE, Upamanyu:
- See the complete review's Upamanyu Chatterjee page
- English, August (A-)
- The Last Burden (A-)
- The Mammaries of the Welfare State (B+)
- CHATTOPADHYAY, Saratchandra: Devdas (B+)
- CHAUDHURI, Amit:
- Friend of My Youth (B+)
- A New World (B)
- Real Time (B)
- Sojourn (B+)
- CHETTRI, Lil Bahadur: Mountains Painted with Turmeric (B+)
- CHUGHTAI, Ismat: The Crooked Line (B+)
- DAṆḌIN: What Ten Young Men Did (B)
- DEVI, Mahasweta: Bait (B)
- DHUMKETU: The Shehnai Virtuoso (B+)
- GHOSH, Amitav:
- HAMID, Mohsin:
- HANDA, Rohit: Comrade Sahib (B+)
- [HANIF, Mohammed: A Case of Exploding Mangoes]
- HARIHARAN, Githa:
- HARSHA: Priyadarśikā (B)
- HUSAIN, Intizar:
- Basti (B+)
- A Chronicle of the Peacocks (B+)
- The Sea Lies Ahead (B+)
- HYDER, Qurratulain:
- Fireflies in the Mist (B+)
- River of Fire (B+)
- JAGADĒŚVARA Bhaṭṭāchārya: The Ocean of Mirth (B)
- JAYÁNTA Bhaṭṭa: Much Ado about Religion (B)
- JOSEPH, Manu:
- KAKAR, Sudhir:
- The Ascetic of Desire (B)
- Ecstasy (C)
- KALIDASA:
- The Birth of Kumára (B+)
- The Lineage of the Raghus (B+)
- Meghaduta:
- as The Cloud-Messenger, (B) (trans. Arthur W. Ryder)
- as The Cloud Messenger, (B) (trans. F. and E.Edgerton)
- as The Transport of Love, (B) (trans. Leonard Nathan)
- Sakuntala:
- Abhijnanasakuntalam, (B) (trans. Chandra Raja
- The Recognition of Sakuntala, (B+) (trans. Arthur W. Ryder)
- The Recognition of Shakúntala (B+), (trans. Somadeva Vasudeva)
- Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, (B+) (trans. B.S. Miller)
- KAMBAR, Chandrasekhar: Karimayi (B)
- KARUNATILAKA, Shehan:
- Chinaman (US title: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew) (B+)
- The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (B)
- MAGHA: The Killing of Shishupala (B+)
- MAHADEVA, Devanoora: Kusumabale (B)
- MAHAJAN, Karan: Family Planning (B)
- MASTUR, Khadija: The Women's Courtyard (B+)
- MASUD, Naiyer: Essence of Camphor (B+)
- MATHUR, Anurag: The Inscrutable Americans (B)
- MATHUR, Ashok:
- MEHTA, Ved: Delinquent Chacha (B-)
- MIR AMMAN: A Tale of Four Dervishes (B+)
- MISHRA, Pankaj: The Romantics (B)
- MISRA, Subimal:
- MUKUNDAN, Maniyambath: Nrittam (Indian title: Dance) (C-)
- NAGARAJAN, Abhay: Corporate Atyaachaar (B-)
- NAGARKAR, Kiran:
- Cuckold (B+)
- Seven Sixes are Forty-Three (B+)
- NASRIN, Taslima: Revenge (B-)
- NIRALA (Suryakant Tripathi): A Life Misspent (B)
- PATHAK, Surender Mohan: The 65 Lakh Heist (B)
- PEDDANA, Allasani: The Story of Manu (B+)
- PERUMAL Murugan: One Part Woman (B+)
- PINTO, Jerry: Em and the Big Hoom (B+)
- PREMCHAND: The Gift of a Cow (B+)
- RAGHAVANKA: The Life of Harishchandra (B+)
- RAHMAN, Zia Haider: In the Light of What We Know (B)
- RAJA Rao:
- Comrade Kirillov (B)
- The Serpent and the Rope (B+)
- RAO, Ranga: Fowl-Filcher (B)
- RAY, Satyajit:
- The Buccaneer of Bombay (a.k.a. The Bandits of Bombay) (B)
- The Golden Fortress (B)
- ROKEYA Sakhawat Hossain: Sultana's Dream and Padmarag (B)
- RUSHDIE, Salman:
- RUSWA, Muhammad Hadi: The Madness of Waiting (-)
- SANKAR: Chowringhee (B)
- SETH, Vikram: An Equal Music (B-)
- SHAH, Hasan: The Dancing Girl (B)
- SHANBHAG, Vivek: Ghachar Ghochar (B+)
- SHARAR, Abdul Halim: Paradise of the Assassins (B+)
- SHREE, Geetanjali:
- The Empty Space (B)
- Tomb of Sand (A-)
- SINGH, Ajay: Give 'em Hell, Hari (B)
- SUBANDHU: Vāsavadattā (B)
- ŚŪDRAKA: The Little Clay Cart (B+)
- SŪRANNA, Piṅgaḷi:
- SWARUP, Vikas: Q & A (B-) (also published as: Slumdog Millionaire)
- TAGORE, Rabindranath: Farewell my Friend (B+)
- TASEER, Aatish: The Way Things Were (B+)
- TEJPAL, Tarun J.: The Story of my Assassins (B+)
- TSERING Döndrup: The Handsome Monk (B)
- TYREWALA, Altaf: No God In Sight (B+)
- UDAY Prakash:
- VATSYAYANA: Kama Sutra (B)
- VASUDEVAN NAIR, M.T.: Bhima (B)
- VERMA, Shrikant: Magadh (B+)
- VIJAYAN, O.V.:
- The Infinity Of Grace (B+)
- The Legends of Khasak (A-)
- The Saga of Dharmapuri (B+)
- VISHÁKHA·DATTA: Rákshasa's Ring (B+)
- WAGLE, Narayan: Palpasa Café (B+)
- YASHPAL: Divya (B+)
- YOUSUFI, Mushtaq Ahmed: Mirages of the Mind (B)
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Books about India and Pakistan under Review
- India: A Mosaic (B), ed. Robert B. SILVERS and Barbara EPSTEIN
- ABU'L-FAZL: The History of Akbar (I) (-)
- ALBINIA, Alice: Leela's Book (B+)
- BABUR, Zahiruddin Muhammad: Baburnama (B+)
- CAMÕES, Luís Vaz de: The Lusíads (B+)
- DALRYMPLE, William: White Mughals (B+)
- DONIGER, Wendy: Redeeming the Kamasutra (B+)
- DRUMMOND, Bill: Annual Report (A-)
- ENDO Shusaku: Deep River (B)
- FIGUEIRA, D.M.: Translating the Orient (B+) - The Reception of Sakuntala in Nineteenth-Century Europe
- IRVING, John: A Son of the Circus (B-)
- JALAL, Ayesha: The Pity of Partition (B) - Manto's Life, Times, and Work across the India-Pakistan Divide
- LAINE, James W.: Shivaji (B) - Hindu King in Islamic India
- MAHOMED, Dean:
- The First Indian Author in English (ed. M.H.Fisher) (B+)
- The Travels of Dean Mahomet (ed. M.H.Fisher) (B)
- MAURENSIG, Paolo: Game of the Gods (B)
- MICHAUX, Henri: A Barbarian in Asia (A-)
- MIR: Zikr-i Mir (B-)
- MISHRA, Pankaj: Butter Chicken in Ludhiana (B+)
- PAZ, Octavio:
- In Light of India (B+)
- A Tale of Two Gardens (B+)
- PINTO, Jerry: Helen (B) -- The Life and Times of an H-Bomb
- POLIER, Antoine-Louis Henri: I'Jaz-i Arsalani (Persian Letters) (--)
- SASSON, Vanessa R.: Yasodhara and the Buddha (B)
- SENGOOPTA, Chandak: Imprint of the Raj (B+)
- SHARMA, Jyotirmaya: The Ocean of Mirth (B) - Reading Hāsyārṇava-Prahasanaṁ of Jagadēśvara Bhaṭṭāchārya, A Political Satire for All Times
- SIEGEL, Lee: Love in a Dead Language (C)
- STOCKS, Mike: White Man Falling (A-)
- SUTCLIFFE, William: Are you Experienced ? (B-)
- TABUCCHI, Antonio: Indian Nocturne (B+)
- TAVARES, Gonçalo M.: A Voyage to India (B+)
- THEROUX, Paul:
- A Dead Hand (B)
- The Elephanta Suite (B+)
- ŻUKROWSKI, Wojciech: Stone Tablets (B)
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