Cultural Studies

A Visual Treat

Multiple Resonances

Territory of Desire: Representing the Valley of Kashmir Edited by Ananya Jahanara Kabir
Kashmiriyat: The Pluralist Sufi-Bhakti-Rishi Culture Edited by Madanjeet Singh

Gandhi on the Analytical Table

CLOTHING FOR LIBERATION: A COMMUNICATION ANALYSIS OF GANDHIS SWADESHI REVOLUTION Edited by Peter Gonsalves

Nuances Of Citizenship-in-Practice

MUSLIM BELONGING IN SECULAR INDIA: NEGOTIATING CITIZENSHIP IN POSTCOLONIAL HYDERABAD By Taylor C. Sherman

KARO-KOELI

KARO-KOELI By Gurucharan Murmu

BUMBU: TAS SE MAS NA HONE WALA GADHA

BUMBU: TAS SE MAS NA HONE WALA GADHA By Sujata Padamnabhan

MY FAVOURITE NATURE STORIES

MY FAVOURITE NATURE STORIES By Ruskin Bond

For the Chattering Classes

Becoming Indian: The Unfinished Revolution of CULTURE and IDENTITY By Pavan K. Varma

THE WORLD OUTSIDE MY WINDOW

THE WORLD OUTSIDE MY WINDOW By Ruskin Bond

A Visual Treat

The Artful Pose: Early Studio Photography in Mumbai c. 1855-1940 By Alkazi Collection of Photography

THE WHITE TIGER AND OTHER STORIES

THE WHITE TIGER AND OTHER STORIES By Ruskin Bond

Celebrating A Life

Amrita Sher-Gil: a self-portrait in letters & writings By Vivan Sundaram

FOOTPRINTS OF A YOUNG DANCER

FOOTPRINTS OF A YOUNG DANCER By Aburva Govindarajan

Words and Images

The Scope and the Context

Other Voices: The Struggle for Community Radio in India By Vinod Pavarala

Re-evaluating a Legacy

Raja Ravi Varma: Painter of Colonial India Edited by Rupika Chawla

Culture and Consciousness

Historicizing Cultures, Comparing Histories: Saanskritik Itihaas: Eik Tulnatmak Sarvekshan By Devesh Vijay

Arched Portals

The Torana in Indian and Southeast Asian Architecture Edited by Parul Pandya Dhar

Perspectives of Mughal Art

Interpreting Mughal Painting: Essays on Art, Society and Culture By Som Prakash Verma

The Idea and the Image

Victorious Ones: Jain Images of Perfection By Phyllis Granoff

Image Cultures of Modern India

Picturing the Nation: Iconographies of Modern India Edited by Richard Davis

Critiquing Karnad�s Oeuvre

Collected Plays Vol. I & II By Girish Karnad

At last, a Natyamitra!

THE OXFORD COMPANION TO INDIAN THEATRE Edited by Ananda Lal

Fragments Of Roland Barthes

INCIDENTS By Roland Barthes

Up from the Depths

THE HARIJAN ELITE By Sachchidananda

Where Lies India That Is Bharat?

The Cambridge Companion to Modern Indian Culture Edited by Vasudha Dalmia & Rashmi Sadana

Tagorolatry

Touch-me-not Village

The Remembered Village By M.N. Srinivas

Wide Ranging Canvas

Theatre beyond the Threshold: Colonialism, Nationalism and the Bengali Stage 1905-1947 By Minoti Chatterjee

Surveyors and Scholars

CASTE, CLASS AND POLITICS: AN EMPIRICAL PROFILE OF SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN MODERN INDIA By Anil Bhatt

When a Sthalamahatmya Reaches the Coffee-Table

Heaven on Earth: The Universe of Kerala's Guruvayur Temple By Pepita Seth

Woman Work By Delia Davin

Saint Sakharam and the Talkative Cyclist

Two Plays: The Cyclist; His Fifth Woman By Vijay Tendulkar

Kerala's Krishna Bhakti - the Classical and Vernacular

Puntanam and Melpattur: Two Measures of Bhakti Translated by Vijay Nambisan

Opening a Door

The Punjab Tradition

Conversations with Pandit Amarnath By Bindu Chawla

About Values

Culture and Public Action Edited by Vijayendra Rao

To Look Back And Remember

Re-Visioning the Past: Early Photography in Bengal, 1875-1915 By Malavika Karlekar

Eternal Dimensions of An Enigma

In Search of Sita: Revisiting Mythology Edited by Malashri Lal

Passion for Pashmina

Pashmina: The Kashmir Shawl and Beyond By Janet Rizvi and Monisha Ahmed

Updating Khayal History

Khayal Vocalism: Continuity within Change By Deepak Raja

The Shadow of Neocolonialism

Documenting a Musical Demi-Goddess

MS: A Life In Music By T.J.S. George

Making Memory Meaningful�Politically!

Power, Memory, Architecture: Contested Sites on India�s Deccan Plateau, 1300-1600 By Richard M. Eaton

Parameters of a Philosophical Quest

The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma By Gurcharan Das

Of Music and Musicians

Festschrift to a Thinker and Institution Builder

Grounding Morality: Freedom, Knowledge and the Plurality of Cultures Edited by Jyotirmaya Sharma

Middle Chola Temples By S.R. Balasubrahmanyam

Indian Aesthetics Revisited

Towards Ananda: Rethinking Indian Art & Aesthetics By Shakti Maira

The Couch and its Pla(y)cement in Today�s India

Psychoanalysis, Culture and Religion: Essays in honour of Sudhir Kakar Edited by Dinesh Sharma

Glimpse of a Lost World

Great Masters of Carnatic Music 1930-1965 By Indira Menon

Tracking Sikh Art

I See No Stranger: Early Sikh Art and Devotion By B.N. Goswamy and Caron Smith

A Multi-faceted Study of Coimbatore

PERSPECTIVES ON A REGIONAL CULTURE Edited by Brenda E.F. Beck

Life of a Legend

Bhupenda: The Bard of Brahmaputra By Kamal Kataki and Devajit Bhuyan

Masterpieces of Buddhist, Hindu and Jain Art

Indian Sculpture By Grace Morley

The Crescent Society

Music Galore

Historiography and Historians

Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy By Sugata Bose

POPULATION GEOGRAPHY OF MUSLIMS OF INDIA By Nafis Ahmad Siddiqui

A Maestro Idealized

Birju Maharaj: The Master Through My Eyes By Saswati Sen

Art in India�Past and Present

Much Maligned Monsters By Partha Mitter

Warp And Weft Of Textile Culture

GANGA TO MEKONG: A CULTURAL VOYAGE THROUGH TEXTILES By Hema Devare

Symbolice Forms and Human Encounters

Communication, Culture, and Confrontation (Communication Processes Volume 3) Edited by Bernard Bel

Material Culture of Akbar

ART AND MATERIAl-CULTURE IN THE PAINTINGS OF AKBAR'S By Som Prakash Verma

Music in Relation to its Times

Music and the Spiritual: Composers and Politics in the 20th Century By Antony Copley

Dancers and Their Lives

Mirrors and Gestures: Conversations with Women Dancers By C.S. Lakshmi

Continuity Among Ruptures

A VERY OLD MACHINE: THE MANY ORIGINS OF THE CINEMA IN INDIA Sudhir Mahadevan

Anatomy of Love

SACRED AND PROFANE DIMEN¬SIONS OF LOVE IN INDIAN TRADI¬TIONS AS EXEMPLIFIED IN THE GITAGOVINDA OF JAYADEVA By Lee Siegel

Of Art in Archives

Daniells� India: Views From The Eighteenth Centur By B.N. Goswamy

A Dissenting Perspective

Of Cricket, Guinness and Gandhi: Essays on Indian History and Culture By Vinay Lal

In Search of Aesthetic Divinity

Indian Painting: The Lesser Known Traditions Edited by Anna L. Dallapiccola

�Viewing� Mount Meru

Kailash and Manasarovar: A Quest beyond the Himalaya By Deb Mukharji

Homage to an Art Historian

Indian painting: Themes, Histories, Interpretations�Essays in Honour of B.N. Goswamy Edited by Mahesh Sharma

The Terrain of Culture

Reading Culture: Theory, Praxis, Politics By Pramod K. Nayar

Conversations, Edits and Erasures

India 20: Conversations with Contemporary Artists By Anupa Mehta

Modern Art And �Normative Secularity�

THE ART OF SECULARISM: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF MODERNIST ART IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA By Karin Zitzewitz

Where Lies The Burden of Moral Action?

Ethical Life in South Asia Edited by Anand Pandian

GURU NANAK AND THE SIKH RELIGION By W.H. McLeod

The Playwright's Struggle

The Theatre of Conscience: Three Plays By Manoj Mitra. Translated and introduced by Mousumi Roy Chowdhury

Stalwart Vocalists

Plays by Bengal Theatre

BENGALI THEATRE By Kironmoy Raha

FUNDAMENTALS OF INDIAN PHILOSOPHY By P. Nagaraja Rao

Beethoven Among the Bengalis

Beethoven and Friends By Kishore Chatterjee

Contextualizing a Sacred City

Banaras Eternity Watches Time By Manu Parekh

Qissa-Kahani & The Art of Dastan-goi

A Musical Persona Par Excellence

A Life in Three Octaves: The Musical Journey of Gangubai Hangal By Deepa Ganesh

Bombay Cinema

Dance from the Dance

Dance By M. Mukundan. Translated from the Malayalam by Dr. Krishna Aiyer and K.G. Ramakrishnan

How Tales Evolve Into Films

ALL TIME FAVORITE BOOKS AND MOVIES AND THEIR EPIC JOURNEY (NOT GONE WITH THE WIND) By Vishwas Patil

Sorties in Art, History, Politics and Culture

THE FIRST FIRANGIS: REMARKABLE STORIES OF HEROES, HEALERS, CHARLATANS, COURTESANS & OTHER FOREIGNERS WHO BECAME INDIAN By Jonathan Gil Harris

Assessing the Indian TV Juggernaut

BEHIND A BILLION SCREENS: WHAT TELEVISION TELLS US ABOUT MODERN INDIA By Nalin Mehta

A Sublime Heritage

Four Centuries of Sikh Traditon: History, Literature and Identity By J.S. Grewal

Charting Two Paths

A Rasika�s Journey Through Hindustani Music By Rajeev Nair

Of Music and Musicians

Indian Art

LOOKING AGAIN AT INDIAN ART By Vidya Dehejia

In 'Modernist' Hues

The Architecture of Shivdatt Sharma: Modernism in India Series By Vikramaditya Prakash

Lata's Story

Lata Mangeshkar: In Her Own Voice By Nasreen Munni Kabir

Restrictive Cultural Frames

Cultural Contours of North-East India By Birendranath Datta

Understanding a Culture

PRINCES AND PAINTERS IN MUGHAL DELHI, 1707-1857 Edited by William Dalrymple

How Truth Unfolds: The Documentary

From Raj to Swaraj: The non-Fiction Film in India By B.D. Garga

Muslim Exotica of Hindi Filmdom

Islamicate Cultures of Bombay Cinema By Ira Bhaskar & Richard Allen

Configuring Cultural History

Cultural History of Early South Asia: A Reader Edited by Shonaleeka Kaul

Through the Colonial Lens

In the Shadow of the Himalayas � Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim: A Photographic Record by John Claude White 1883-1908 By Kurt Meyer

The Unplanned Metropolis

KOLKATA SHAHARER ITIBRITYA By Benoy Ghosh

Post-Colonial/Pre-Modern

INNOVATIONS AND TURNING POINTS: TOWARD A HISTORY OF KAVYA LITERATURE Edited by Yigal Bronner

A Tolerant Faith

The Sufi Courtyard: Dargahs of Delhi By sadia Dehlvi

Creating A Synthesis

The Theatre of Bhanu Bharti: A New Perspective By Diwan Singh Bajeli

Music And The Metropolis

HINDUSTANI MUSIC IN COLONIAL BOMBAY By Aneesh Pradhan

Stalwarts of Hindustani Music

Topping The Edge of Imagination

The Search for Ravana�s Lanka: The Geography of Valmiki Ramayana By Sukanya Agashe

To Read, Enjoy and Perform

Rigmarole and Other Plays By Sai Paranjpye

A Colourful Sadhaka

Voice of the Veena: S. Balachander: a biography By Vikram Sampath

Cultural Referents

FORTS & PALACES OF INDIA: Sentinels of History By Bindu Manchanda

A Search Beyond Theoretical Closures

Engendering Performance: Indian Women in Search of An Identity By Bishnupriya Dutt

Documenting An Art Form

Sattriya: Classical Dance of Assam Edited by Sunil Kothari

The Story of Indian Dance

INDIAN CLASSICAL DANCE: THE RENAISSANCE AND BEYOND By Leela Venkataraman

A Descriptive Engagement

Becoming a Global Audience: Longing and Belonging in Indian Music Television By Vamsee Juluri

The Human Face of Great Masters

Art Without Contention

Of Silks and Saris and Craft

The Show Goes On

The Prithviwallahs By Shashi Kapoor

The Point is not to Pocket the Truth, But to Chase the Truth...

MONTAGE: Life, Politics, Cinema By Mrinal Sen

The Abha Cylinders

THE WONDER THAT WAS THE CYLINDER: EARLY AND RARE INDIAN CYLINDRICAL RECORDS By A.N. Sharma

A Star from the Backwaters

Gulab Bai: The Queen of Nautanki Theatre By Deepti Priya Mehrotra

Children of the Magic Pen

A collaboration of Ruchika Theatre Group and Association of Writers and Illustrators for Children (AWIC) By Nilima Sinha, Nita Berry, Devika Rangachari, Girija Rani Asthana

Into That Heaven of Freedom

Indigeneity: Culture and Representation Edited by G.N. Devy

Husain in Exile: Some Afterthoughts

Barefoot Across the Nation:Maqbool Fida Husain and the Idea of India Edited by Sumathi Ramaswamy

A Place Like No Other

Treasures of the Thunder Dragon- A Portrait of Bhutan By Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck

Plays for Our Times

The Dreams of Tipu Sultan; Bali: The Sacrifice By Girish Karnad

Of Popular Culture and Society

Where Gods Dwell: Central Himalayan Folktales and Legends By Kusum Budhwar

Flights Of Reality

Of Birds and Birdsong By M. Krishnan. Edited by Santhi and Ashish Chandola

A Carnatic Music Kutcheri

An incurable romantic: The musical journey of Lalgudi Jayaraman By Lakshmi Devnath

Desiccated in Time

Long Exposure: The Camera in Udaipur, 1857-1957 By K.G. Pramod Kumar

Capturing The Moment

PICTURING TIME: THE GREATEST PHOTOGRAPHS OF RAGHU RAI By Raghu Rai

Journey of Discovery

The Art of Adimoolam By Gayatri Sinha

Portrait of an Artist

Sant Singh Sekhon: Selected Writings Edited by Tejwant Singh Gill

Connoisseur Activism?

Hindustani Music: A Tradition in Transition By Deepak Raja

Power of Performance

Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance: Theatre and Politics in Colonial and Postcolonial India By Nandi Bhatia

Tracking the Trilogy

Mist of Tears, Angulimal, Kamroo: A Trilogy of Two Act Plays By Satish Vyas

Idea of Nation-ness Through Literature

Nation in Imagination: Essays on Nationalism, Sub-Nationalism and Narration Edited by C. Vijayasree

Ritikavya Genre

Pahari Paintings of an Ancient Romance: The Love Story of Usha-Aniruddha; Painted Words: Kangra Paintings of Matiram�s Rasraj By Harsha V. Dehejia

Mythological Sagas

A Window to Vanished 'Glories'

Animal Kingdoms: Hunting, The Environment, and Power in the Indian Princely States By Julie E. Hughes

CHITRA, SHILPA, VASTHUKATEGALU By Dr. Shivarama Karanth

Of Actors and Their Craft

The Act of Becoming: Actors talk Edited by Amal Allana

Social Art at its Best

Painting the Mughal Experience By Som Prakash Verma

Collating Performance Traditions

Heritage Builders

Carnatic Summer (Lives of twenty great exponents) By V. Sriram

The Playwright in the World

BADAL SIRCAR: TOWARDS A THEATRE OF CONSCIENCE By Anjum Katyal

Dispassionate Musings

ASIDES: Themes in Contemporary Indian Theatre By Nemichandra Jain

Enduring Melodies

Art On a Monumental Scale

Indian Painting: The Great Mural Tradition By Mira Seth

Live Cultural Heritages

Indian Shawls: Mantles of Splendour; Indian Carpets: A Hand-Knotted Heritage By Asha Rani Mathur

A �Formless� Form

THE RAGA-NESS OF RAGAS: RAGAS BEYOND THE GRAMMAR By Deepak Raja

Mangal Pandey: Brave Martyr Or Accidental Hero?; Parineeta By Rudrangshu Mukherjee

Textualization of Folklore

Print, Folklore and Nationalism in Colonial South India By Stuart Blackburn

What lies �Beyond Music�?

BEYOND MUSIC: MAESTROS IN CONVERSATION By Geeta Sahai

Interactions of a Personal Kind

Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan � His Life and Music By Malti Gilani

Record of A Dhrupad Family

SINGERS DIE TWICE: A JOURNEY TO THE LAND OF DHRUPAD By Peter Pannke

Recalling An Epic

Shakuntala: The play of Memory By Namita Gokhale

Indian Art in Words and Images

Dictionary of Indian Art & Artists By Pratima Sheth

Spiced Reality

An Unheard Melody: Annapurna Devi�An Authorised Biography By Swapan Kumar Bondyopadhyay

A Transition Illuminated

Understanding India: Cultural Influences on Indian Television Commercials By Rohitashya Chattopadhyay

Setting the Norm for Research

From the Tanjore Court to the Madras Music Academy: A Social History of Music in South India By Lakshmi Subramanian

Photographic Praxis in India

Nony Singh: The Archivist Text by Sabeena Gadihoke and Aveek Sen

Tribute to an Icon

Kunjamma�Ode to a Nightingale By Lakshmi Viswanathan

Puppet on a String

Kathputli: The world of Rajasthani Puppeteers By Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy

Our Cultural Heritage

A Profile of Indian Culture By Krishna Chaitanya

Interpreting An Ouvre

Alternate Lyricism: Jehangir Jani Edited by Ratnottama Sengupta

A Contemporary Survey

Music to Thy Ears: Great Masters of Hindustani Instrumental Music By Mohan Nadkarni

Biography of a Music Critic

BEYOND DESTINY � The Life and Times of Subbudu By Lada Guruden Singh

Sensitive Issues

Amrita By Usha Rajagopalan

In a Philosophical Idiom

The Story of a Dance: Bharata Natyam By Krishna Sahai

Positioning Indian Art in a Global Market

Francis Newton Souza: Bridging Western and Indian Modern Art By Aziz Kurtha

Worshipping Shrinathji

Materials, Methods & Symbolism in the Pichhwai Painting Tradition of Rajasthan By Desmond Peter Lazaro

Introduction to Ethnomusicology

The Tabla of Lucknow: A Cultural Analysis of a Musical Tradition By James Kippen

Lores of a Fascination

Folk Tales of Sikkim By George Kotturan

Contrasting Techniques

Violin Techniques in Western and South Indian Classical Music: A Comparative Study By M. Lalitha

Gourmet Cooking Simplified

THE FIRST TIME COOK BOOK: FOOLPROOF RECIPES FOR BEGINNERS AND OTHERS By Janet

Traversing Diverse Cultural Tracks

A Sensitive Portrayal

Hariprasad Chaurasia: Romance of the Bamboo Reed By Uma Vasudev

A Sub-culture in the World of Music

Brass Baja: Stories from the World of Indian Wedding Bands By Gregory Booth

An Undying City

Bhuj By Azhar Tyabji

A Canonical Text

Kshemraj ane Sadhvi: Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi Conceptualised and Edited by Hasit Mehta

How Public Culture is Shaped

Television at Large in South Asia Edited by Aswin Punathambekar and Shanti Kumar

City Beautiful?

City Adrift: A Short Biography of Bombay By Naresh Fernandes

Pioneering Book

Sufi Music of India and Pakistan: Sound, Context and Meaning in Qawwali By Regula Burckhardt Qureshi

Multiple Trajectories of the Modern

The Triumph of Modernism: India's Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1922-1947 By Partha Mitter

Fascinating Images

Umrao Singh Sher-Gil: His Misery and His Manuscript Edited by Vivan Sundaram and Devika Daulet-Singh

Ideology of Art Education

�Official� Chronicle of Mayo School of Art: Formative Years under J.L. Kipling (1874-94) Edited by Samina Choonara

Viewing Beyond Boundaries

Imagi-Nations and Borderless Television: Media, Culture and Politics Across Asia By Amos Owen Thomas

Writing the City

A Complex Pie

Islamic Architecture in South Asia: Pakistan � India � Bangladesh By Ahmad Nabi Khan

City by the Sea

Bengaluru, The Chaos That Is

Beantown, Boomtown: Bangalore in the World of Words By Jayanth Kodkani and R. Edwin Sudhir

Women's/Feminist Theatre

ACTING UP: GENDER AND THEATRE IN INDIA, 1979 ONWARDS By A. Mangai

Speaking of Suffering

Speaking Havoc, Social Suffering & South Asian Narratives By Ramu Nagappan

Reflecting Changing Aspirations

Rethinking Modernity: Towards Post Rational Architecture By Jaimini Mehta

Mapping An Unconventional Space

THE SCENES WE MADE: AN ORAL HISTORY OF EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE IN MUMBAI Edited by Shanta Gokhale

Border Gazing

Filming the Line of Control: The Indo-Pak Relationship Through the Cinematic Lens Edited by Meenakshi Bharat and Nirmal Kumar

Through the Prism of a Structure

The Chawls of Mumbai: Galleries of Life Edited by Neera Adarkar

Interrogating Social Biases

Staging Resistance: Plays by Women in Translation Edited by Tutun Mukherjee

Capturing a Citys Soul

Bombay Mumbai: Where Dreams Dont Die By Raghu Rai

Recording a By-gone Era

The Lost World of Hindustani Music By Kumar Prasad Mukherji

Resistance and Rasa in Pakistan

A CRITICAL STAGE: THE ROLE OF SECULAR ALTERNATIVE THEATRE IN PAKISTAN By Fawzia Afzal-Khan

The Men Behind Gulabi Aankhen

Glimpses of A World Gone By

The Making of Awadh Culture By Madhu Trivedi

Documenting A Movement

FILMING REALITY: THE INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY MOVEMENT IN INDIA By Shoma A. Chatterji

Of Myths And Legends

The Living Goddess: A journey into the Heart of Kathamandu By Isabella Tree

Print Culture

Power in Print: Popular Publishing and the Politics of Language and Culture in a Colonial Society By Anindita Ghosh

A Force to be Reckoned With

Theatre of the Streets Edited by Sudhanva Deshpande

Reliving A Legend

Begum Akhtar: The story of my Ammi By Shanti Hiranand

A Unique Entity

Hindi Film Song: Music Beyond Boundaries By Ashok Da. Ranade

An Enduring Classic

Umrao Jan Ada By Mirza Muhammad Hadi Ruswa

In The Artist�s Voice

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