Culture, History and Politics South Asian Narratives

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Shared Inheritance The one, The one, the ones: Advaita and Select South Asian Poetics ........13 South Asian politics and Tibetan Buddhism: Changing perceptions and Global Ramifications.............29 Bulleh Shah and Kabir: Sufi and Bhakti movements in Socio- Historical Contexts ............43 The outsider`s Eye: The travelogues of Pietro della Valle and Mountstuart Elphinstone ............55 Politics of the rhetoric of Nations Before the Midnight Hour, August 1947............67 2. Histories of Resistance and Reconciliation The dialectics of History: Narratives of the Subcontinent`s Participation in the Empire`s Wars ..............83 Competing narratives of Partition: Voices from Indian and Pakistan .................93 Socio-Political Subversion in the Tribal Narratives of North-East India and North-west pakistan ..........107 Languages of Resistance in Mujibur Rahman`s The unfinished memoirs and Benazir Bhutto`s Daughter of the East .............117 Myths of Redemption across faith and culture: Sri Lanka and pakistan ............131 Rewriting the nation : Drama in India and Pakistan ..........141 The hope, the Aspirations, the Guilt embedded in our shaken lives: Romesh gunesekera`s Noontide toll ................153 3. The gendered Voice . Religion, ritual, identity: Treatment of Gender conflict in South Asian Fiction .........171 Resistance and Resilience in the Novels of South Asian Women writers ..............181 Re-contextualizing self and Language: Women poets of South Asia .............191 Exploring multiple realities of South- Asian life through cinema: With special focus on Gender ..........205 The confines of Creativity in the subcontinent: Religion, Culture and Respectability ...........219