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Item Code: IDH059
Publisher: Oxford India Paperbacks
Author: Susie Tharuand K. Lalita
Language: English
Edition: 2005
ISBN: 0195632192
Pages: 641
Cover: Paperback
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About the Book

This groundbreaking volume offers a selection of writing in ten languages which have never before been available either as a collection or in English. Providing an extraordinary body of literature and an important documentary resource, these writings illuminate the lives of Indian women over a period of great social and political change. The ciritical introductions and biographical headnotes map women's shifting roles and varying responses to the social, political, and cultural.

upheavals of the time

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'….as engrossing and intellectually stimulating a piece of argument as anyone has read, its strong beam illuminating the texts that follow.'

-The Times of India

'… the introductory essays and headnotes are themselves stellar pieces.'

-The New York Times Book Review

'The selection also demonstrate the need to question one's assumptions about what is literature and what is great literature.'-Studies in History.

'…asks for a revaluation of how history is recorded… and of whose stories may be told.'

'A book that is revolutionary.. Which it will be impossible ever again to ignore.'

'…Remarkable for [its] extensive research…the sensitive and rigorous…translations of each piece, and the impressive introductions to each section….'

-Meenakshi Mukherjee

CONTENTS
Prefacexv
Acknowledgementsxxv
Introduction1
LITERATURE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
41
The Twentieth Century: Women Writing The Nation43
Rasheed Jahan (1905-1952) Urdu 117
Who (That One) 119
Indira Sant (b.1914) Marathi122
Kanav (Compassion)123
Dhukyasarakha (Mistlike)124
Shapit (Spellbound)125
Ismat Chugtai (1915-1991) Urdu 126
Lihaf (The Quilt)129
M.K. Indira (b. 1917) Kannada138
Phaniyamma139
[Chapter 10]139
Razia Sajjad Zaheer (1917-1979) Urdu144
Neech (Lowborn)145
Illindala Saraswati Devi (b. 1918) Telugu154
Anaswasita (The Need for Sympathy)155
Amrita Pritam (b.1919) Hindi 160
Ek Bat (A Story)162
Jada (Winter)163
K. Saraswathi Amma (1919-1975) Malayalam 164
Vivahangal Swargatil Vecchu Nadattapedunnu (Marriages are Made in Heaven)165
Shanta Shelke (b.1921) Marathi170
Pannashi Ultunhi (Even Past Fifty)171
Achanta Sarada Devi (b.1922) Telugu172
Shivani (Gaura Pant, b. 1923) Hindi 180
Dadi (Grandmother)181
Hamsa Wadkar (1923-1972) Marathi188
Sangatye Aika (I'm Telling You, Listen)190
Chapter 8190
Siddiqa Begum Sevharvi (b.1925) Urdu197
Tare Laraz Rahe Hai (The Stars Are Trembling)198
Rajam Krishnan (b.1925) Tamil 205
Kaipidite Kadaloruvanai (Lending a Helping Hand)208
Dudala Salamma (b. ca. 1925) Telugu216
Dudala Salamma, Khila Shapur (Dudala Salamma of Quila Shapur)218
Dhiruben Patel (b. 1926) Gujarati224
Sheemlana Phool (Flowers of the Silk-Cotton Tree)226
Chapter 1 226
Mahasweta Devi (b. 1926) Bengali234
Shishu (Children 236
Sajida Zaidi (b. 1926) Urdu251
Rishta (Kinship)252
Naye Zaviye (New Angles)253
Anuradha Potdar (b. 1927) Marathi 253
Tumache He Sojwal Samsar (Your Pious and Irreproachable Homes)254
Kundanika Kapadia (b. 1927) Gujarathi254
Sat Paglan Akashman (Seven Paces in the sky)256
Chapter 3256
Kamal Desai (b. 1928) Marathi265
Tila Bandh (Close Sesamc)267
Triveni (Anasuya Shankar, 1928-1963) Kannada285
Koneya Nirdhara (The Final Decision)286
Sulekha Sanyal (1928-1962) Bengali291
Nabankur (The Germinating Seed)292
Chapter 4 292
Chapter 29296
Chapter 31301
Chapter 32305
Boby Kamble (b. 1929) Marathi 307
Jina Amucha (Our [Wretched] Lives)308
Chapter 8308
Saroj Pathak (1929-1989) Gujarati312
Saugandh (The Vow)314
Zahida Zaidi (b. 1930) Urdu322
Bachpana Chod Do (Stop Being Childish)322
Rajalekshmy (1930-1965) Malayalam323
Atmahatya (Suicide)325
Kabita Sinha (b. 1931) Bengali329
Ishwarke Eve (Eve Speaks to God)330
Deho (Body) 332
Mahasweta (For Mahasweta Devi)333
Chudamani Raghavan (b. 1931) Tamil334
Nangam Ashramam (The Fourth Ashram)335
Mannu Bhandari (b. 1931) Hindi343
Saza (The Sentence)345
Ratakonda Vasundhara Devi (b. 1931) Telugu357
Picchi (Madness)358
Meena Kumari Naz (1932-1972) Urdu363
[Bit by bit the splintered day has ended]364
Jaya Mehta (b. 1932) Gujarati365
Lokshahiman (In a Democracy)366
Ekoham Bahusyam? (I Am One, I Can Become Many?)367
Dushmannu Lashkar Pasar Thai Gayu (The Enemy Army Has Passed Through)367
Abburi Chaya Devi (b. 1933) Telugu368
Srimathi-Udyogini (Wife-Working Woman)369
Panna Naik (b. 1933) Gujarati379
Billi (Cat)380
Shishu (The Child)381
Anupama Niranjana (1934-1991) Kannada382
Ondu Ghatane Mattu Anantara (The Incident-and After)384
Brahmotri Mohanty (b. 1934) Oriya392
Thare Mo Goda Khasijiba Pare (After My Feet Had Slipped Suddenly, Once)392
Darpana (Mirror)393
Madhavikutty (Kamala Das, b. 1934) Malayalam393
Neipayasam (Rice Pudding)395
Sugatha Kumari (b. 1934) Malayalam398
Rathrimazha (Night Rain) 399
Rajee Seth (b. 1935) Hindi401
Uska Akash (His Bit of Sky)402
Wajeda Tabassum (b. 1935) Urdu409
Utran (Castoffs)411
Binapani Mohanty (b. 1936) Oriya416
Asru Anala (Tears of Fire)417
Manjul Bhagat (b. 1936) Hindi 428
Bebeji429
Jeelani Bano (b. 1936) Urdu 434
Tamasha (Fun and Games)435
P. Vatsala (b. 1938) Malayalam438
Oru Tadavuchatatinde Kadha (The Escape)440
Nabaneeta Dev Sen (b. 1938) Bengali447
Monsieur Hulor Holiday (Monsieur Hulo's Holiday)448
Malati Pattanshetti (b. 1940) Kannada460
Sambandha (Relationship)461
Nita Ramaiya (b. 1940) Gujarati461
Ognisso-Ognyaeshinun Varas (The Year 1979) 462
Treeji ankhnun Jantarmantar (The Spell of the Third Eye)463
Varsha Adalja (b. 140) Gujarati465
Bichari Champudi (Poor Champudi)466
Gauri Deshpande (b. 1942) Marathi 471
Ahe He Ase Ahe (That's the Way It Is)472
Malini Bhattacharya (b. 1942) Bengali477
Meye Dile Sajiye (To Give a Daughter Away) 478
Scene 3478
Ambai (C. S. Lakshmi, b. 1944) Tamil 487
Anil (The Squirrel) 488
Chhaya Datar (b. 1944) Marathi495
Swatahchya Shodhat (In Search of Myself) 496
Meherunnisa Parvez (b. 1944) Hindi501
Tona (Black Magic)503
Pratibha Ray (b. 1944) Oriya512
Kambala (The Blanket)512
Pratibha Satpathy (b. 1945) Oriya524
Kakara Topa (Dew Drop)524
Veena Shanteshwar (b. 1945) Kannada526
Avala Svatantrya (Her Independence)527
Vaidehi (Janaki Srinivas Murthy, b. 1945) Kannada 533
Shakuntable Yondige Kaleda Aparahna (An Afternoon with Shakuntala)535
Mrinal Pande (b. 1946) Hindi547
Hum Safar (Fellow Travelers) 548
Saroop Dhruv (b. 1948) Gujarati556
Eknun Ek Vastra (My One and Only Garment)558
Flapdoorni Arpar (Beyond the Flapdoor)561
Sarah Joseph (b. 1948) Malayalam561
Mazha (Rain)562
O.V Usha (b. 1948) Malayalam567
Mrigaya (The Hunt)567
Shashikala Veerayya Swamy (b. 1948) Kannada569
Menabatti (Candle)569
Hajira Shakoor (b. 1950) Urdu570
Umr Qaid (Life Sentence)571
Nidumanuri Revati Devi (1951-1981) Telugu579
Mugavoyina Gonthu (My Stricken Voice)580
Asagni Renuvu (Embers of Hope)581
Kamala Hemmige (b. 1952) Kannada582
Gini (The Parrot)582
Vijaya Dabbe (b. 1952) Kannada584
Narimanigalige Ondu Kivimatu (Advice to Gentlewomen)584
Farida Begum (Mrs. Farida)585
Miruguva Gorigalu (Glittering Tombs)586
Jameela Nishat (Jameela Syed, b. 1953) Urdu587
[What fire is this]588
Hema Pattanshetti (b. 1954) Kannada589
Hattaralli Hannondagi (Eleventh among Ten)590
S. Usha (b. 1954) Kannada590
I Nelada Hadu (Song of This Earth)591
Pravasini Mahakud (b. 1957) Oriya594
Satare Ete Nisangata Keunthi Thae (This Voice of Loneliness)594
A. Jayaprabha (b. 1957) Telugu595
Chupulu (Stares)596
Chitlina Akula Maunam (A Split Leaf's Silence)597
Vimala (b. 1959) Telugu598
Vantillu (The Kitchen)599
Nischala Chitram (Still Life)601
Appendix: Guide to Pronunciation of authors' Names and Titles of works 603
Bibliography 613
Original-Language sources: Volumes I and II 629
Index637
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