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The kind of feeling created by the creation of states on linguistic ground is absent when one encounters Sanskrit. There is a general belief that Sanskrit is a dead language and it has ceased to be the medium of cultural communication.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe present volume entitled Sanskrit Writings in Independent India is sufficient to demonstrate that Sanskrit continues to be a very powerful and popular medium of cultural communication through the ages. It is a powerful medium because scholars have kept on writing in this language even after Independence besides creative and critical writings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is amazing to see how much literature was written in Sanskrit of all genres and all forms all over the country during the last 55 years. Literally, all aspects of human life have formed the subject matter of these works. More or less in all regions of the country, works have been written in Sanskrit voluminously in prose and poetry. 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Whether located in the 20th century or the 16th, his work has a timeless quality. There are authors who write under several pseudonyms and yet their writing is always recognisable. Nagarkar writes under his own name but his books are so different from each other, it is difficult to believe that they are by the same author.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs one of India's leading writers, and also one of its most unpredictable, Nagarkar demands serious scrutiny and study. It is the intention of this book to unravel Nagarkar's craft and vision and thus enhance the reader's enjoyment through essays by some of the leading scholars and writers in India and abroad, thus providing a perspective both from India and the West. 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This commemorative volume An Epitomic of English Literature is a humble attempt to treasure them and inspire generations of lovers of English literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book will help understand Dr R K Sinha better through tributes, reminiscences and essays, contributed by eminent scholars of the world, including the President of India, four Governors of different states, Vice-Chancellors of Oxford, Cambridge, London Universities, Professor C D Narsimhaiah, Professor Damodar Thakur and Dr Bindeshwar Pathak.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoreover, essays on metaphysical poetry, d H Lawrence, Commonwealth literature, F r Leavis, History of Criticism, Teaching Language through literature, Chaucer, aesthetics and various topics of English and American literature are revealing and can be used as references. 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The President of India has addressed even his students as eminent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eREVIEWS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eR K Sinha an eminent and outstanding English Professor of Patna University.\u003cbr\u003e-(A P J Abdul Kalam, Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI had the privilege of being taught by R K Sinha, he commanded respect, by his sincerity, depth of knowledge and teaching ability, he became a colossus, in English literature.\u003cbr\u003e-(Lt General S K Sinha, Governor, J \u0026amp; K)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDr Sinha, whose student I had been a legend in his life time, a versatile Professor of English of the Patna University, was a living encyclopaedia of English literature and an ocean of knowledge.\u003cbr\u003e-(D N Sahay, Governor, Tripura)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe noteworthy academic contribution of the late Dr R K Sinha, would long be remembered.\u003cbr\u003e-Kailash Pati Mishra, Governor, Gujarat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDr Sinha served his country, his University, and scholarship with great distinction and imbued generations of students with love of the English language and its literature.\u003cbr\u003e(A F Richard, The Vice-Chancellor University of Cambridge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt, commemorative volume is a thoroughly worthy objective, for the eminent Professor R K Sinha.\u003cbr\u003e-Randolph Quirk, Former Vice-Chancellor London University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDR R K SINHA was born, in an affluent family on 1st January, 1917 at Maheshpur in the district of Munger in Bihar. He was a gold medallist in M A (English) and obtained D Phil from Oxford University in 1950, he had been teaching at the University of Patna from 7th July, 1938 to 31st January, 1979, the topic of his research was Literary Influences on D H Lawrence. His guide was Lord David Cecil, and authority on Victorian novels. Dr Sinha has been doing research from October 1946 to December 1949 under his supervision.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDr R K Shinha guided more than 50 researches for PhD, and D Litt one can hear and see him in the pages of those researches also. 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This dualism is characteristic of the historical processes of Indian renaissance and the liberal democratic revolution in Indian that gained momentum with the growth of the freedom movement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnand being a representative voice of this historical epoch reveals a propensity for ambivalent responses in his fictional works-a historically conditioned ambivalence which seems to leave its indelible mark on his novels as aesthetic structures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this refreshing addition to Anand criticism, Dr P K Rajan makes a textual study of the novels of Anand which revels how Anand’s humanistic ambivalence becomes decisive not only in terms of the thematic content but in terms of the fictional forms of his works. 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The 1980s witnessed a further intensification of the private voice in a bid to liberate it from the shackles of social responsibility.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe thirteen Novels discussed in this book therefore represent a significant phase in the development of Indian writing in English and reflect the country's changing social, economic, political, and cultural consciousness during this period.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                   CONTENTS:  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLiterature as Ideology - Raja Rao's The Serpent and the Rope \u003cbr\u003eRise of the demos: A Study of Malgaonkar's The Princes\u003cbr\u003eWest Meets East: A Study of Kamala  Markandaya's Possession\u003cbr\u003eThe Ailing aliens: Anita Desai's Bye Bye Blackbird as a symposotic study of ...\u003cbr\u003eDestiny of a Nation: Arun Joshi's The Apprentice\u003cbr\u003eThe Household Cactus: A Note on R K Narayan's The Painter of Design\u003cbr\u003eCritique of Communism in Raja Rao's Comrade Kirillov\u003cbr\u003eThe Triumph of timeless India: Rama Mehta's Inside the Haveli\u003cbr\u003eFictional change in Anita Desai's Fire on the Mountain\u003cbr\u003eThe four dimensional reality in Anita Desai's Clear Light of Day\u003cbr\u003eA metaphor of reality: A study of the protagonist of Midnight Children\u003cbr\u003eThe perfect bubble: A Study of Anita Desai's In Custody\u003cbr\u003eAn Image of India in Shourie Daniel's A City of Children\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Sudhakar Pandey \/ Orient Longman \/ Hardcover","offer_id":40776438153385,"sku":"1911","price":30.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/1048\/4393\/products\/1526_0210c387-06fe-44f2-90dd-19dacf50a2fe.jpg?v=1625526251"},{"product_id":"19271-literature-and-social-reform-in-colonial-orissa","title":"Literature and Social Reform in Colonial Orissa","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Sachidananda Mohanty\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Sahitya Akademi\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2006\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 243\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 8126022981\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRetrieval and interpretation of India’s colonial past remains an essential task before literary critics and historians of culture. 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