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Index of Indian, Nepali, Bangla,
Sri Lankan, and Pakistani Literature
under review
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We are liberal in our interpretation of what is Indian and include in this index all those authors with some sort of tie to the country.
Note that very few of the Indian authors known in the West actually live in India
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+)
- ADIGA, Aravind:
- AJNEYA: To Each his Stranger (B)
- ANANTHAMURTHY, U.R.: Samskara (B+)
- APPARAO, Gurajada: Girls for Sale (B)
- BALASUBRAMANYAM, Rajeev: In Beautiful Disguises (B)
- BHAGAT, Chetan:
- BORDOLOI, Rajanikanta: Miri Jiyori (B-)
- BOSE, Buddhadeva: My Kind of Girl (B)
- CHANDRA, Vikram: Sacred Games (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+)
- CHAUDHURI, Amit:
- A New World (B)
- Real Time (B)
- CHETTRI, Lil Bahadur: Mountains Painted with Turmeric (B+)
- DEVI, Mahasweta: Bait (B)
- GHOSH, Amitav:
- HAMID, Mohsin:
- [HANIF, Mohammed: A Case of Exploding Mangoes]
- HARIHARAN, Githa:
- HUSAIN, Intizar:
- Basti (B+)
- A Chronicle of the Peacocks (B+)
- HYDER, Qurratulain:
- Fireflies in the Mist (B+)
- River of Fire (B+)
- JAYÁNTA Bhaṭṭa: Much Ado about Religion (B)
- JOSEPH, Manu: The Illicit Happiness of Other People (B+)
- KAKAR, Sudhir:
- The Ascetic of Desire (B)
- Ecstasy (C)
- KALIDASA:
- 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)
- Meghaduta:
- KARUNATILAKA, Shehan: Chinaman (US title: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew) (B+)
- MAHAJAN, Karan: Family Planning (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)
- MUKUNDAN, Maniyambath: Nrittam (Indian title: Dance) (C-)
- NAGARAJAN, Abhay: Corporate Atyaachaar (B-)
- NASRIN, Taslima: Revenge (B-)
- PATHAK, Surender Mohan: The 65 Lakh Heist (B)
- PRAKASH, Uday: The Girl with the Golden Parasol (B+)
- PREMCHAND: The Gift of a Cow (B+)
- RAJA Rao: Comrade Kirillov (B)
- RAO, Ranga: Fowl-Filcher (B)
- RUSHDIE, Salman:
- SETH, Vikram: An Equal Music (B-)
- SHAH, Hasan: The Dancing Girl (B)
- SHARAR, Abdul Halim: Paradise of the Assassins (B+)
- SINGH, Ajay: Give 'em Hell, Hari (B)
- SŪRANNA, Piṅgaḷi:
- SWARUP, Vikas: Q & A (B-) (also published as: Slumdog Millionaire)
- TEJPAL, Tarun J.: The Story of my Assassins (B+)
- TYREWALA, Altaf: No God In Sight (B+)
- VATSYAYANA: Kama Sutra (B)
- VIJAYAN, O.V.:
- The Legends of Khasak (A-)
- The Saga of Dharmapuri (B+)
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Books about India and Pakistan under Review
- India: A Mosaic (B), ed. Robert B. SILVERS and Barbara EPSTEIN
- ALBINIA, Alice: Leela's Book (B+)
- BABUR, Zahiruddin Muhammad: Baburnama (B+)
- DALRYMPLE, William: White Mughals (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)
- 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+)
- POLIER, Antoine-Louis Henri: I'Jaz-i Arsalani (Persian Letters) (--)
- SENGOOPTA, Chandak: Imprint of the Raj (B+)
- 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+)
- THEROUX, Paul:
- A Dead Hand (B)
- The Elephanta Suite (B+)
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