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New Bearings in English Studies — A Festschrift for C.T. Indra: Edited by Azhagarasan, Bruce Bennett, Mohan Ramanana, R. Palanivel, T. Sriraman and C.Vijayasree: Orient Longman Private Limited, 1/24, Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi-110002.
Rs. 850.
This festschrift to C.T. Indra offers rich and varied fare beginning with tributes and reminiscences and modulates into the scholarly world of literary and cultural criticism which she has been practising for decades now. The tome of these essays ranges from the deeply felt and personal to the irrepressibly postmodern. The authors constitute an international cast and the subjects handled are as diverse as the sense of place and how poetry is inspired by it, the question of reading and response and their relation to theory, the playfulness of postmodernism, post-diasporic literary history, the discipline of English and the English teacher in India, globalisation and cosmopolitanism, transnationalism, making and breaking traditions, dramatic pedagogy, translation, the archive, imperialism, India and Australia, Indian and Canada, Bakhtinian discourse, the region, and caste.
A Concise History of Science in India (With Addenda by B.V. Subbarayappa): D.M.Bose — Chief Editor; S.N.Sen and B.V.Subbarayappa — Editors; Indian National Science Academy & Universities Press (India) Private Limited, 3-6-747/1/A & 3-6-754/1, Himayatnagar, Hyderabad-500029. Rs. 1295.
This book gives a brief account of the development of science, from early times to Independence, in one of the most ancient civilisations of the world. India’s contributions in the field of science have been very influential in the development of human civilisation. Yet there are only a few books which provide an unbiased and authentic view of this world. One reason for this is that the study of Indian science through the ages involves the complex integration of the knowledge of many languages and diverse scientific disciplines. Through the years, there has been growing interest in this study as an important aspect in understanding man’s interaction with nature, his material life and cultural patterns.
The Indian National Science Academy, through its History of Science Board (1958) and the National Commission for the Compilation of History of Sciences in India (1967) renamed in 1989 as the Indian National Commission for History of Science, sought further means to stimulate interest among universities and scholars which resulted in this book nearly four decades ago.
This revised edition, taken up by B.V.Subbarayappa, one of the three original editors, seeks to integrate the new information with the knowledge already at hand.
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