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Drawn from the author's experiences as a political prisoner and as a refugee, this novel features Rasul Hamid who describes the eight different ways he fled his home in Iraq and the eight different ways he has failed to find a way home. It is a literary looking glass between two cultures, between two places, and between East and West.

Histories for the Subordinated brings together the key writings of David Hardiman, one of the foremost contemporary historians of the subcontinent. Hardimans practice as a historian - his enormously rich empiricism, archival work, and fieldwork, as well as his clarity - has been an inspiration to many, even as it has implicitly questioned some of the fashionably arcane modes of history-writing. Ranging across politics, environmental issues, G...

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Two fathers with two daughters: Martin, professor of German, writes but is studying Earth Sciences at MIT, Tariq, a doctor in Baghdad and Muna, is studying the archaeology of a region that is seen as the cradle of civilization. These two parallel relationships in two very different parts of the world expose the human similarities beneath cultural differences. In Thomas Lehr⿿s moving and realistic novel, the similarities between these men becom...

Translation of: La ragazza indicibile: mito e mistero di Kore.

Originally published as ... Goethe schtirbt"--Title page verso.

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The poems in this volume were originally published in Thomas Bernhard, Gesammelte Gedichte A Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt um main, 1991, and Gedichte A Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin, 2015."--Title page verso.

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This book analyses the development of Jinnahs relationship with Indias Muslims from his entry into politics until 1934. It shows that a dominant view of Jinnah - that he was an ambassador of Hindu Muslim unity in the 1920s who became a communalist in the 1940s - is far from the truth. The book argues that the "two Jinnahs" approach over-simplifies the trajectory of a complex and evolving political thinker and strategist. The primary changes in...

Bards, Ballads and Boundaries" presents an atlas of one of the worlds richest historical musical traditions. The Atlas is a cartography and catalogue of musicians and music-making in the Western districts of Rajasthan State in contemporary India. Based on extensive statistical and cultural data, it provides an ethnographic survey of musical traditions organized on the basis of specific communities of music specialists, their patrons, and the m...

With the Apu Trilogy - Pather Panchali, Aparajito and Apur Sansar - in the fifties, Satyajit Ray caught the attention of film enthusiasts all over the world. The trilogy is the story of growing up in India. It traces Apus growth from childhood - cruelly poor but brightened by a passion for creativity and learning - to battered maturity. This 50th Anniversary volume, containing a foreword and working sketches by Ray presents the first authorize...

Following into death" is an ancient and widespread custom which entails one or more people - voluntarily or involuntarily - following a dead man or woman into death. The event is ritualized as a public act. The decisive feature is not the manner of dying but the intent, which is to accompany a dead person into the hereafter. "Burning Women" explores how this custom - of which the Indian Hindu custom of sati, or widow burning, is the best known...

From plays to cartoons, books to Teddy Bears--interest groups, often using the language of human rights, are claiming that they are offended and attempting to ban, gag, even kill, those deemed to be the offenders. Intellectual heavyweights throughout the Anglo-American world of letters have charged to the defense of free expression. There have been many highly charged incidents, in particular around Islam, offering opportunities for an orgy of...