Topi Shukla

Author : Rāhī Māsūma Razā
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015064774352

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Topi Shukla by Rāhī Māsūma Razā Pdf

"Set in Aligarh in the early 1960s, after the dust of Partition has ostensibly settled, Topi Shukla is a story of two friends - one Hindu and the other Muslim." "Through the characters of people like Topi and Iffan, the novel looks at the lives of ordinary people trying to survive in a society that insists on a brutal conformity of behaviour. It is about individuals whose spirits are paralysed because they cannot conform, and about history's inability to teach mankind any worthwhile lessons." "Language plays an important part in this narrative, operating almost as a character in its own right. Topi, as a Hindi bull in the Urdu china shop, invokes the historical stand-off between the two languages. The novel also explores the culture and psyche of Uttar Pradesh with its very Muslim Aligarh, its very Hindu Benares, and their exotic confluence in Lucknow."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Tarun K. Saint
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429560002

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Witnessing Partition by Tarun K. Saint Pdf

This book interrogates representations – fiction, literary motifs and narratives – of the Partition of India. Delving into the writings of Khushwant Singh, Balachandra Rajan, Attia Hosain, Abdullah Hussein, Rahi Masoom Raza and Anita Desai, among many others, it highlights the modes of ‘fictive’ testimony that sought to articulate the inarticulate – the experiences of trauma and violence, of loss and longing, and of diaspora and displacement. The author discusses representational techniques and formal innovations in writing across three generations of twentieth-century writers in India and Pakistan, invoking theoretical debates on history, memory, witnessing and trauma. With a new afterword, the second edition of this volume draws attention to recent developments in Partition studies and sheds new light as regards ongoing debates about an event that still casts a shadow on contemporary South Asian society and culture. A key text, this is essential reading for scholars, researchers and students of literary criticism, South Asian studies, cultural studies and modern history.

Author : Malik,Carl Lieberman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004643741

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Politics and the Novel in India by Malik,Carl Lieberman Pdf

Author : Rahi Masoom Raza
Publisher : Rajkamal Prakashan
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Hindi fiction
ISBN : 8126709111

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Topi Shukla by Rahi Masoom Raza Pdf

‘आधा गाँव’ के ख्यातिप्राप्त रचनाकार की यह एक अत्यन्त प्रभावपूर्ण और मर्म पर चोट करने वाली कहानी है। टोपी शुक्ला ऐसे हिन्दुस्तानी नागरिक का प्रतीक है जो मुस्लिम लीग की दो राष्ट्रवाली थ्योरी और भारत विभाजन के बावजूद आज भी अपने को विशुद्ध भारतीय समझता है - हिन्दू-मुस्लिम या शुक्ला, गुप्त, मिश्रा जैसे संकुचित अभिधानों को वह नहीं मानता। ऐसे स्वजनों से उसे घृणा है जो वेश्यावृत्ति करते हुए ब्राह्मणपना बचाकर रखते हैं, पर स्वयं उससे इसलिए घृणा करते हैं कि वह मुस्लिम मित्रों का समर्थक और हामी है। अन्त में टोपी शुक्ला ऐसे ही लोगों से कम्प्रोमाइज नहीं कर पाता और आत्महत्या कर लेता है। व्यंग्य-प्रधान शैली में लिखा गया यह उपन्यास आज के हिन्दू-मुस्लिम सम्बन्धों को पूरी सच्चाई के साथ पेश करते हुए हमारे आज के बुद्धिजीवियों के सामने एक प्रश्नचिद्द खड़ा करता है।

Author : Attia Hosain
Publisher : Katha
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 8187649046

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Translating Partition by Attia Hosain Pdf

This collection is about those on the wrong side of the border. Apart from offering a perspective on displaced people and communities, the stories talk about people as religious and linguistic minorities in post-Partition India and Pakistan. These narratives offer insights into individual experience, and break the silence of the collective sphere.

Author : Yamini,
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789356400245

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Imagining a Postcolonial Nation by Yamini, Pdf

This book explores narratives of nationalism in the Hindi novel (1940s–80s), engaging with mainstream, populist, political conceptualisation of a postcolonial nation and local, cultural, often marginalised fictional parallels and alternatives to it. Analysing processes of nation-formation and nationalism(s) via experiments with the novel form and versions of realism in Hindi, conversations between the political and the cultural, rural/borders and the urban/central spaces, individual subjectivity and social structures, and the challenges Hindi novels' internal linguistic diversity poses to formalised Hindi's hegemony, Imagining a Postcolonial Nation: Hindi Novels and Forms of India (1940s–80s) traces Hindi fiction's history of postcolonial India. The multiplicity of realisms indicates significant responses to postcolonial nationalism, idealistic, critical, regional, satirical and psychological. Looking at indigenous narrative methods employed by authors to critically evolve Western ideas of the nation and novel, the book explores the simultaneous convergences and divergences between literary and political understandings of ideological, religious and linguistic nationalisms. Surveying the broad sentiments of idealism, enchantment and disenchantment with freedom and postcoloniality, it studies the possibilities of fiction embodying national history without an outright commitment to mainstream nationalism or nationalist literary canon formation. It also briefly tries to understand the repercussions of nationalism as a masculinist project and its gendered nature affecting a section of writing, novels by women authors, to present counter-narratives to both national and literary canons. Choosing a fairly broad historical timeframe, the book reveals the radical potential of narratives that have over the years been critically categorised as canonical. It reopens discussions around nationalism within novels that have been often canonised as apparently uncritically nationalist.

Author : Anand Patil
Publisher : Sahitya Akademi
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 812601458X

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Uddhav Shelke by Anand Patil Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Books
ISBN : UVA:X030131081

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The Book Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bodh Prakash
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Hindi literature
ISBN : 8131719324

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Writing Partition by Bodh Prakash Pdf

Author : Chandana Dutta
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000510676

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Joginder Paul by Chandana Dutta Pdf

This book is a comprehensive volume on the life and works of Joginder Paul, a well-known Urdu fiction writer and thinker. It presents a selection from the writer’s oeuvre – a few of his short stories, extracts from his long fiction, samples of his micro-fiction, personal reminiscences, and some of his incisive critical essays written in Urdu as well as in English that lay out his ideas on the role of the writer and the art of writing. The volume also contextualises his work within the Urdu literary tradition and beyond through some critical essays on him from across time and geography. It situates Paul as a notable fiction writer and an essayist who broke convention in his writing and crafted his own individual style. It shows how he was received in Urdu while also placing him as an important creative voice within a larger pan-Indian literary context. The book also focuses on Paul’s efforts to effect a change in how fiction should be perceived, particularly by his readers who he considered the most important ally-participant in his effort to create stories. This volume will help to evolve a deeper understanding of the thematic subtleties in his fiction, as well as the critical perspectives he offers in his non-fiction. Part of the Writer in Context series, this book will be indispensable to scholars and researchers in literature, history, sociology, language and creative writing, Partition studies, translation studies, Indian writings, Urdu literature, postcolonial studies, and South Asian Studies.

Author : Yasir Abbasi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789387471054

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Yeh Un Dinoñ Ki Baat Hai by Yasir Abbasi Pdf

Peppered with heartfelt accounts and charming anecdotes, Urdu film magazines were in great favour with the public from the 1930s through the 1990s – a considerable period of seven decades. Unfortunately, as Urdu got progressively marginalised in later years, these magazines were not archived, for the most part; leading to their inevitable disappearance from popular imagination. Tracking down these lost publications, Yasir Abbasi followed leads – some futile, some fruitful – to obscure towns and people's homes in a last-ditch effort to save valuable records of Indian cinema. As challenging as it was to locate faded issues and original texts, he managed to uncover and translate many fabulous memoirs covering a wide gamut of our favourite old artistes at their candid best. A gloom-laced piece on Meena Kumari by Nargis, a rollicking description by Raja Mehdi Ali Khan of an eventful evening with Manto (not to mention a mysterious woman and a house on fire), Jaidev writing about his chequered career, Balraj Sahni introspecting about the relevance of Hindi and Urdu in films – it's a rich mix of engrossing narratives brought back from oblivion.

Author : Francesca Orsini
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197658291

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East of Delhi by Francesca Orsini Pdf

"This chapter sets out the located and multilingual approach to literary history employed in the book. It outlines the geographical and historical scope of the book and traces the changing political boundaries of Purab (East), the region east of Delhi in the Gangetic plain of northern India later better known as Awadh, from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. The presence of many small towns (qasbas), which were administrative, economic, and cultural nodes, but no capital city until the eighteenth century marks the decentered character of the region. The chapter also makes a case that the multilingual approach 'from the ground up employed in this book can help produce a richer and more textured take on world literature"--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Indic literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066019483

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Indian Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jasbir Jain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015067816036

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Narrative of the Village: Centre of the Periphery by Jasbir Jain Pdf

Abridged versions of the papers presented in a seminar on 2-4 May 2005; articles chiefly on depiction of the condition of rural people in India in the fictional works of 20th century Indic authors.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Indic literature
ISBN : UVA:X001477432

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Journal of South Asian Literature by Anonim Pdf