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Index of Indian, Nepali,
Bangla, and Pakistani Literature
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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:
- 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: The Reluctant Fundamentalist (B)
- [HANIF, Mohammed: A Case of Exploding Mangoes]
- HARIHARAN, Githa:
- HUSAIN, Intizar: A Chronicle of the Peacocks (B+)
- HYDER, Qurratulain:
- Fireflies in the Mist (B+)
- River of Fire (B+)
- JAYÁNTA Bhaṭṭa: Much Ado about Religion (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:
- 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)
- PREMCHAND: The Gift of a Cow (B+)
- RAJA Rao: Comrade Kirillov (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: The Demon's Daughter (B)
- SWARUP, Vikas: Q & A (B-) (also published as: Slumdog Millionaire)
- TYREWALA, Altaf: No God In Sight (B+)
- VIJAYAN, O.V.:
- The Legends of Khasak (A-)
- The Saga of Dharmapuri (B+)
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Books about India under Review
- India: A Mosaic (B), ed. Robert B. SILVERS and Barbara EPSTEIN
- BABUR, Zahiruddin Muhammad: Baburnama (B+)
- DALRYMPLE, William: White Mughals (B+)
- DRUMMOND, Bill: Annual Report (A-)
- FIGUEIRA, D.M.: Translating the Orient (B+) - The Reception of Sakuntala in Nineteenth-Century Europe
- IRVING, John: A Son of the Circus (B-)
- 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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