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Hindi, Urdu, Hindustani languages and literatures

  • Madhumalatiby Aditya Behl; Simon Weightman; Simon Manjhan

    OUP Oxford 2001; US$ 8.99

    The mystical romance Madhumalati tells the story of a prince, Manohar, and his love for the beautiful princess Madhumalati. When they are separated they have to endure suffering, adventure, and transformation before they can be reunited and experience true happiness. A delightful love story, the poem is also rich in mystical symbolism and the story... more...

  • Colloquial Hindi 2eby Tej K Bhatia

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 31.95

    This new and extensively revised edition of Colloquial Hindi is easy to use and completely up to date. Specially written by experienced teachers for self-study or class use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Hindi. No prior knowledge of the language is required. Colloquial Hindi is: interactive: with lots... more...

  • The Hagiographies of Anantadasby Winnand Callewaert

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 190.00

    Anantadas is the first 'biographer' who, around 1600, wrote about the most popular bhakti poets of the 15th and 16th centuries in Northern India. This critical study of these manuscripts yields a broad spectrum of the linguistic and morphological variants. It also reveals the processes of oral and scribal transmission during this time when sectarian... more...

  • Islam and Open Society Fidelity and Movement in the Philosophy of Muhammad Iqbalby Souleymane Bachir Diagne

    CODESRIA 2011; US$ 22.95

    In the atmosphere of suspicion and anger that characterizes our time, it is a joy to hear the voice of Iqbal, both passionate and serene. It is the voice of a soul that is deeply anchored in the Quranic Revelation, and precisely for that reason, open to all the other voices, seeking in them the path of his own fidelity. It is the voice of a man who... more...

  • Urdu Literary Cultureby Mehr Afshan Farooqi

    Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 90.00

    The book examines the impact of political circumstances on vernacular (Urdu) literary culture through an in-depth study of the writings of Muhammad Hasan Askari (1919 -78), Urdu's first and finest literary critic. Conceptually, the book melds the perspectives of literary studies and history since Askari's life was lived at the crossroads of early nation... more...

  • Songs of Kabirby Kabir; Arvind Krishna Mehrotra; Arvind Krishna Mehrotra; Wendy Doniger

    New York Review Books 2011; US$ 14.00

    A New York Review Books Original Transcending divisions of creed, challenging social distinctions of all sorts, and celebrating individual unity with the divine, the poetry of Kabir is one of passion and paradox, of mind-bending riddles and exultant riffs. These new translations by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, one of India’s finest contemporary... more...

  • Songs of Kabirby Kabir; Rabindranath Tagore

    The Floating Press 1915; US$ 5.99

    Kabir was an Indian poet in the 15th century. Songs of Kabir is the collection of his poetry, which first became accessible to the West in 1915. His deeply mystical poetry transcends specific religious ideology, and has thus touched a wide range of audiences. more...

  • Hindiby Yamuna Kachru

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 2006; US$ 188.00

    This book presents the structure of Hindi keeping in view the sociolinguistic context of language use. It includes descriptions of sounds, devices of word formation, rules of phrase and sentence construction and conventions of language use in spoken and written texts incorporating the insights gained by application of recent linguistic theories. The... more...

  • Negation and the Licensing of Negative Polarity Items in Hindi Syntaxby Rajesh Kumar

    Routledge 2006; US$ 70.00

    Studies syntax of NPIs and their interaction with sentential negatives in Hindi. This book outlines the clause structure of Hindi and locates the syntactic position of sentential negatives as well as constituent negatives within the structure. more...

  • The Life of a Textby Philip Lutgendorf

    University of California Press 1991; US$ 70.00

    The Life of a Text offers a vivid portrait of one community's interaction with its favorite text?the epic Ramcaritmanas ?and the way in which performances of the epic function as a flexible and evolving medium for cultural expression. Anthropologists, historians of religion, and readers interested in the culture of North India and the performance... more...