Department of Middle Eastern & South Asian Language & Cultures

This book presents the dilemmas, the innovations and also the helplessness of postcolonial subjects living life under the onslaught of transnational capital. The authors stories are fabulist whose intimacy with the Indian rural landscape is a protest against the rationalizing arrogance of the Western gaze its abstract and ultimately brute powers of surveillance and its defiling avarice.

The Oxford India Anthology of Modern Urdu Literature comprehensively and creatively surveys the field from the mid-nineteenth to late twentieth centuries. Covering 100 years of literary production, including about 90 authors and over 130 selections, and many new translations, the twin volumes covers major genres like poetry, drama, and fiction, as well as essays, autobiography, and letters. The 'Poetry and Prose Miscellany' volume begins with Akbar Ilahabadi (1846-1921) and ends with Tanveer Anjum (b.