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Kamasutra : A New, Complete English Translation Of The Sanskrit Text : With Excerpts From The Sanskrit Jayamangala Commentary Of Yashodhara Indrapada, The Hindi Jaya Commentary Of Devadatta Shastri, And Explanatory Notes By The Translators

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Vatsayana Mallanaga ; translated and edited by Wendy Doniger and Sudhir KakarPublication Details
BookOxford University Press2003Description
The lively and entertaining introduction by translator Wendy Doniger, one of the world’s foremost Sanskrit scholars, discusses the history of The Kamasutra and its reception in India and Europe, analyses its attitudes toward gender and sexual violence, and sets it in the context of ancient Indian social theory, scientific method, and sexual ethics. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
Women And Social Reform In Modern India : A Reader

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edited by Sumit Sarkar & Tanika SarkarPublication Details
BookIndiana University Press2008Description
Social reforms aimed at changing the social, political, or economic status of women in India were important both to British colonial rule and to nascent nationalist movements. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HQ1743 .W59 2008 AVAILABLE
Atlas Of Unknowns

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Tania JamesPublication Details
Book1st edAlfred A. Knopf2009Description
When Anju goes missing, Linno strikes out farther still, with a scheme to procure a visa so that she can travel to America to search for her vanished sister. The convergence of their journeys?toward each other, toward America, toward a new understanding of self and country, and toward a heartbreaking mystery long buried in their shared past?brings to life a predicament that is at once modern and timeless: the hunger for independence and the longing for home; (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) PS3610.A458 A92 2009 AVAILABLE
A Proper Education For Girls : A Novel

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Elaine di RolloPublication Details
Book1st edCrown Publishing2009Description
Not since the Bronts have we seen the likes of the Talbot sisters, plucky peach growers with a peculiar upbringing and a flair for subversion. Set in England and India in the mutinous year of 1857, A Proper Education for Girls tells the story of Alice and Lilian Talbot, twins separated for the first time in their lives by their martinet father. While Mr. Talbot is absorbed in the eccentric but seemingly benign Society for the Propagation of Useful and Interesting Knowledge, Alice plots her escape from both her oppressive father and Dr. Cattermole?s unspeakable plans for her future. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) PR6118.O42 P43 2009 DUE 01-03-10
Haunting Bombay

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Shilpa AgarwalPublication Details
BookSoho Press, Inc2009Description
Haunting Bombay flirts deliciously with the true spirit of India.??Aimee Liu, author of Flash House After her mother?s death crossing the border from Pakistan to India during Partition, baby Pinky was taken in by her grandmother, Maji, the matriarch of the powerful Mittal family. Now thirteen years old, Pinky lives with her grandmother and her uncle?s family in a bungalow on the Malabar Heights in Bombay. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) PS3601.G37 H38 2009 AVAILABLE
Kipling Sahib : India And The Making Of Rudyard Kipling

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Charles AllenPublication Details
Book1st Pegasus Books cloth edPegasus Books2009Description
The first biography of Kipling’s younger years: his Indian childhood, abandonment in England, and coming of age as a writer. In this tale of family and Empire, Allen traces the Indian experiences of Kipling’s parents, Lockwood and Alice, and reveals what kind of culture the young writer was born into and how it would shape his life and writing over the next twenty years. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PR4856 .A535 2009 DUE 11-07-09
The Weight Of Heaven : A Novel

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Thrity UmrigarPublication Details
Book1st edHarper2009Description
When Frank and Ellie Benton lose their only child, seven-year-old Benny, to a sudden illness, the perfect life they had built is shattered. Life in Girbaug, India, holds promise?and peril?when Frank befriends Ramesh, a bright, curious boy who quickly becomes the focus of the grieving man’s attentions. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) PS3621.M75 W45 2009 AVAILABLE
Art For A Modern India, 1947-1980

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Rebecca M. BrownPublication Details
BookDuke University Press2009Description
Following India?s independence in 1947, Indian artists creating modern works of art sought to maintain a local idiom, an ?Indianness? in his acclaimed Apu Trilogy, how the painter Bhupen Khakhar reworked Indian folk idioms and borrowed iconic images from calendar prints in his paintings of urban dwellers, and how Indian architects developed a revivalist style of bold architectural gestures anchored in India?s past as they planned the Ashok Hotel and the Vigyan Bhavan Conference Center, both in New Delhi. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) N7304 .B68 2009 AVAILABLE
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