Literature in Translation


When the Kurinji Blooms

Rajam Krishnan, Translated from the original Tamil by: Uma Narayanan and Prema Seetharam
2023 | Paperback | 990

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The Eighteenth Parallel (Second edition)

Ashokamitran (Author), Translated from the original Tamil by Gomathi Narayanan
2023 | Paperback | 699

The Man Who Walked Backwards and Other Stories

S. Ramakrishnan, Translated from the original Tamil by Prabha Sridevan
2023 | Paperback | 635

Andaman aur Nicobar Dweepsamooh ki Bhashayen, Volume 2, Part 1 (Hindi) - Bharatiya Bhasha Lok S.......

G. N. Devy (Chief editor) and M. Sreenathan (Volume editor), N. Lakshmi Priya (Translator)
2023 | Hardback | 2125

Voices of Resistance: Telugu Progressive-Political Literature

Volga and Kalpana Kannabiran (Eds.), Vasanth Kannabiran (Tr.)
2023 | Paperback | 375

Writings from the Sundarbans

Indranil Acharya & Sayantan Dasgupta
2023 | Paperback | 690

The Third Eye and Other Works: Mahatma Phule’s Writings on Education

Rohini Mokashi-Punekar (Author), Foreword by Bhalchandra Nemade
2023 | Paperback | 855

Gandhi’s Travels in Tamil Nadu

A. Ramasamy, Translated from the original Tamil by P. C. Ramakrishna
2023 | Paperback | 1795

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Gandhi’s Travels in Tamil Nadu

A. Ramasamy, Translated from the original Tamil by P. C. Ramakrishna
2023 | Hardback | 1995

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The Idea of Indian Literature: Gender, Genre, and Comparative Method

Preetha Mani
2022 | Paperback | 695

A Most Noble Life: The Biography of Ashrafunnisa Begum (1840–1903) by Muhammadi Begum (1877–1908)

Translated from the original Urdu, with additional material, by C. M. Naim
2022 | Paperback

The Almond Flowers and Other Stories

Anil Gharai (Author), Edited by Indranil Acharya, Translated from the original Bengali by Anuradha Sen and Arun Pramanik, Foreword by Sayantan Dasgupta
2022 | Paperback | 740

The Sickle & the Scalpel

Volga
2022 | Paperback | 1315

Poetry of Kings: The Classical Hindi Literature of Mughal India

Allison Busch
2022 | Paperback | 895

The Puppets’ Tale

Manik Bandyopadhyay, Translated from the original Bengali by Ratan Kumar Chattopadhyay, Foreword by Samantak Das
2022 | Paperback | 910

Bangladesh: Writings on 1971, Across Borders

Rakhshanda Jalil and Debjani Sengupta
2022 | Paperback | 1050

Nandshankar: A Portrait in Nineteenth-century Surat

Vinayak Nandshankar Mehta Translated from the original Gujarati by: Radhika Jayakar Herzberger
2021 | Paperback

Wooden Cow

T. Janakiraman, Translated from the original Tamil by Lakshmi Kannan
2021 | Paperback

Tales of the Natural and the Supernatural

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay Translated from the original Bengali by: Debashish Sen With a Foreword by: Tathagata Banerjee
2021 | Paperback

Translation, Script and Orality: Becoming a Language of State

Rochelle Pinto
2021 | Hardback | 1260

The Languages of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Volume 2, Part 2 - People’s Linguistic Survey of .......

G. N. Devy (Chief Editor), M. Sreenathan (Ed.)
2020 | Hardback | 1460

Softly Dies a Lake

Akkineni Kutumbarao, Translated from the original Telugu by: Vasanth Kannabiran With a Foreword by: Kalpana Kannabiran
2020 | Paperback | 595

Shanti Parav: Treatise on Peace

Des Raj Kali, Translated from the original Punjabi by Neeti Singh
2020 | Paperback | 540

A Primal Issue: Stories of Women

Jagadish Gupta
2020 | Paperback | 540

Maharashtra Ki Bhashayen, Volume 17, Part 1 (Hindi) - Bharatiya Bhasha Lok Sarvekshan (BBLS)

G. N. Devy (Chief Editor) and Arun Jakhade (Ed.)
2019 | Hardback | 4770

Punjab Ki Bhashayen, Volume 24, Part 1 (Hindi) - Bharatiya Bhasha Lok Sarvekshan (BBLS)

G. N. Devy (Chief Editor) and Omkar N. Kaul, Roop Krishen Bhat (Eds.)
2019 | Hardback | 2295

The Languages of Goa, Volume 8, Part 2 - People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI)

G. N. Devy (Chief Editor) and Madhavi Sardesai, Damodar Mauzo (Eds.)
2019 | Hardback | 2335

The Languages of Telangana, Volume 3, Part 2 - TS - People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI)

G. N. Devy (Chief Editor), A. Usha Devi (Ed.)
2019 | Hardback | 2080

The Languages of Andhra Pradesh, Volume 3, Part 2 - AP - People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI)

G. N. Devy (Chief Editor), A. Usha Devi (Ed.)
2019 | Hardback | 2460

Of Closures and New Beginnings

Saniya and Keerti Ramachandra (tr.)
2019 | Paperback | 810

The Solitary Sprout: Selected Stories of R. Chudamani

R. Chudamani
2019 | Paperback | 715

A Sabda Reader: Language in Classical Indian Thought

Johannes Bronkhorst
2019 | Hardback | 1595

The Girl With Questioning Eyes: A Novel translated from the Hindi

Neelesh Raghuwanshi
2019 | Paperback | 495

Looking Back: The 1947 Partition of India, 70 Years On

Rakhshanda Jalil, Tarun K. Saint and Debjani Sengupta
2019 | Paperback | 1095

Sikkimka Bhashaharu, Volume 26, Part 3 (Nepali) - Bharatiya Bhasha Lok Sarvekshan (BBLS)

G. N. Devy (Chief Editor) and Balaram Pandey (Ed.)
2018 | Hardback | 3355

The Languages of Sikkim, Volume 26, Part 2 - People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI)

G. N. Devy (Chief Editor) and Balaram Pandey (Ed.)
2018 | Hardback | 2190

English and Other International Languages, Volume 37 - People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI)

G. N. Devy (Chief Editor) and T. Vijay Kumar (Ed.)
2018 | Hardback | 1860

The Languages of Jharkhand, Volume 13, Part 2 - People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI)

G. N. Devy (Chief Editor) and Ramnika Gupta, Prabhat kumar Singh (Eds.)
2018 | Hardback | 2235

The Languages of Mizoram, Volume 20, Part 2 - People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI)

G. N. Devy (Chief Editor) and Lalnunthangi Chhangte (Ed.)
2018 | Hardback | 2000

The Prisons We Broke (2nd Edition)

Baby Kamble, Translated from the Marathi by Maya Pandit
2018 | Paperback | 780

The Dalit Brahmin and Other Stories

Sharankumar Limbale, Priya Adarkar (tr.)
2018 | Paperback | 750

Agnipariksha: An Ordeal Remembered

Hamid Kureshi (Translated from the original Gujarati by Rita Kothari)
2018 | Paperback | 505

Prastavna: Bhashaka Svatva, Volume 1, Part 1 (Hindi) - Bhartiya Bhasha Lok Sarvekshan (BBLS)

G. N. Devy (Chief Editor)
2017 | Hardback | 1555

The Languages of Madhya Pradesh, Volume 16, Part 2 - People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI)

G. N. Devy (Chief Editor) and Damodar Jain, Prashant Mishra (Eds.)
2017 | Paperback | 2430

The Languages of Rajasthan, Volume 25, Part 2 - People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI)

G. N. Devy (Chief Editor) and Madan Meena, Suraj Rao (Eds.)
2017 | Hardback | 2220

The Languages of Assam, Volume 5, Part 2 - People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI)

G. N. Devy (Chief Editor) and Bibha Bharali, Banani Chakravarty (Eds.)
2017 | Hardback | 2995

The Languages of Maharashtra, Volume 17, Part 2 - People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI)

G. N. Devy (Chief Editor) and Arun Jakhade (Ed.)
2017 | Hardback | 3720

The Languages of Arunachal Pradesh, Volume 4, Part 2 - People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI)

G. N. Devy (Chief Editor) and Lisa Lomdak (Eds.)
2017 | Hardback | 2280

The Languages of Himachal Pradesh, Volume 11, Part 2 - People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI)

G. N. Devy (Chief Editor) and Tobdan (Ed.)
2017 | Hardback | 2820

The Languages of Haryana, Volume 10, Part 2 - People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI)

G. N. Devy (Chief Editor) and Roop Krishen Bhat & Omkar N. Koul (Eds.)
2017 | Hardback | 2040

‘Of Many Heroes’: An Indian Essay in Literary Historiography

Devy
2017 | Paperback | 900

Mobilizing Krishna’s World: The Writings of Prince Savant Singh of Kishangarh

Heidi R. M. Pauwels
2017 | Hardback | 1615

O N V Kurup: Selected Poems

O N V Kurup and K Jayakumar (tr.)
2017 | Paperback | 850

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Critique and Postcritique

Elizabeth S. Anker and Rita Felski
2017 | Hardback | 1845

A Short History of American Literature

Krishna Sen, Ashok Sengupta
2017 | Paperback | 690

Crossing Borders: Essays on Literature, Culture, and Society in Honor of Amritjit Singh

Tapan Basu and Tasneem Shahnaaz
2017 | Hardback | 1790

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask Žižek

Russell Sbriglia
2017 | Hardback | 1680

Looking Back: The 1947 Partition of India, 70 Years On

Rakhshanda Jalil, Tarun K. Saint and Debjani Sengupta
2017 | Hardback | 1915

Intimate Relations: Social Reform and the Late Nineteenth-Century South Asian Novel

Krupa Shandilya
2017 | Hardback | 1010

Gandharvi: Life of a Musician

Bani Basu, Jayita Sengupta (tr.)
2017 | Paperback | 780

To Surju, With Love

Jaiwanti Dimri
2017 | Paperback | 540

Uttar Pradesh Ki Bhashayen, Volume 29, Part 1 (Hindi) - Bharatiya Bhasha Lok Sarvekshan (BBLS)

G. N. Devy (Chief Editor) and Badri Narayan, Ramashankar Singh (Eds.)
2016 | Hardback | 3090

Odishara Bhasha Samooh, Volume 22, Part 3 (Odiya) - Bharatiya Bhasha Lok Sarvekshan (BBLS)

Ganesh Devy (Chief Editor) and D. P. Pattanayak, Mahendra Kumar Mishra (Eds.)
2016 | Hardback | 4740

Gujarat, Diu-Daman ane Dadra Nagar Havelini Bhasha, Volume 9, Part 3 - Bharatiya Bhasha Lok Sar.......

G. N. Devy (Chief Editor) and Kanji Patel (Ed.)
2016 | Hardback | 5340

The Languages of Tripura, Volume 28, Part 2 - People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI)

G. N. Devy (Chief Editor) and Sukhendu Debbarma (Ed.)
2016 | Hardback | 2035

The Languages of Manipur, Volume 18, Part 2 - People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI)

G. N. Devy (Chief Editor) and K. Nipuni Mao (Ed.)
2016 | Hardback | 2680

Multilingualism and Multiculturalism: Perceptions, Practices and Policy

Supriya Pattanayak, Chandrabhanu Pattanayak, Jennifer M Bayer (Eds.)
2016 | Hardback | 1705

The Languages of Punjab, Volume 24, Part 2 - People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI)

G. N. Devy (Chief Editor) and Omkar N Koul, Roop Krishen Bhat (Eds.)
2016 | Hardback | 1915

The Languages of Puducherry, Volume 23, Part 2 - People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI)

G. N. Devy (Chief Editor) and L. Ramamoorthy, G. Ravisankar (Eds.)
2016 | Hardback | 1300

The Languages of Nagaland, Volume 21, Part 2 - People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI)

G. N. Devy (Chief Editor) and Duovituo Kuolie (Ed.)
2016 | Hardback | 2460

A Path and Many Shadows & Twelve Stories

Rajelakshmy, translated from the original Malayalam by R. K. Jayasree
2016 | Paperback | 930

Tell the Tale, Urvashi

Dalip Kaur Tiwana,Bhupinder Singh(tr)
2016 | Paperback | 1290

An Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism

Ashok Chaskar, Anand B Kulkarni
2016 | Paperback | 295

Sarasvatichandra Part III: Ratnanagari’s Statecraft

Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi Translator: Tridip Suhrud(tr)
2016 | Paperback | 1110

Sorajjem

Akkineni Kutumbarao, Alladi Uma (tr) and M. Sridhar (tr)
2016 | Paperback | 540

Sarasvatichandra Part II: Gunasundari’s Household

Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi,Tridip Suhrud (tr.)
2016 | Paperback | 870

Madhya Pradesh Ki Bhashayen, Volume 16, Part 1 (Hindi) - Bharatiya Bhasha LokSarvekshan (BBLS)

G. N. Devy (Chief Editor) and Damodar Jain (Ed.)
2015 | Hardback | 3000

Jharkhand Ki Bhashayen, Volume 13, Part 1 (Hindi) - Bharatiya Bhasha Lok Sarvekshan (BBLS)

G. N. Devy (Chief Editor) and Ramnika Gupta, Prabhat Kumar Singh (Ed.)
2015 | Hardback | 2880

Himachal Pradesh Ki Bhashayen, Volume 11, Part 1 (Hindi) - Bharatiya Bhasha Lok Sarvekshan (BBLS)

G. N. Devy (Chief Editor) and Tobdan (Ed.)
2015 | Hardback | 2455

Chattisgarh Ki Bhashayen, Volume 7, Part 1 (Hindi) - Bharatiya Bhasha Lok Sarvekshan (BBLS)

G. N. Devy (Chief Editor) and Chitta Ranjan Kar (Ed.)
2015 | Hardback | 2340

The Languages of Tamil Nadu, Volume 27, Part 2 - People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI)

G. N. Devy (Chief Editor) and V. Gnanasundaram, K. Rangan (Eds.)
2015 | Hardback | 3090

The Languages of Uttarakhand, Volume 30, Part 2 - People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI)

G. N. Devy (Chief Editor) and Uma Bhatt, Shekhar Pathak (Eds.)
2015 | Hardback | 2430

The Languages of Kerala and Lakshadweep, Volume 15 - People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI)

G. N. Devy (Chief Editor) and M. Sreenathan and Joseph Koyipally (Eds.)
2015 | Hardback | 2400

Vegetarians Only: Stories of Telugu Muslims

Skybaaba
2015 | Paperback | 660

Sarasvatichandra Part I: Buddhidhan’s Administration

Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi and Tridip Suhrud (Translator)
2015 | Paperback | 1110

Readings on Dalit Identity: History, Literature and Religion

Swaraj Basu
2015 | Hardback | 995

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Konkaboti: The Extraordinary Journey of a Village Girl

Troilokyonath Mukhopadhyay—Translated from the Bangla by Arnab Bhattacharya
2015 | Paperback | 840

Three Essays on the Mahabharata: Exercises in Literary Hermeneutics

Sibaji Bandyopadhyay
2015 | Hardback | 1860

Fields of Play: Sport, Literature and Culture

Poonam Trivedi,Supriya Chaudhuri
2015 | Hardback | 1315

Kaanduri and Other Stories

Dash Benhur and Bikram Keshari Das (Trans.)
2015 | Paperback | 595

Rajasthan Ki Bhashayen, Volume 26, Part 1 (Hindi) - Bharatiya Bhasha Lok Sarvekshan (BBLS)

Ganesh N. Devy (Chief editor) and Madan Meena, Suraj Rao (Eds.)
2014 | Hardback | 3355

Uttarakhand Ki Bhashayen, Volume 30, Part 1 (Hindi) - Bharatiya Bhasha Lok Sarvekshan (BBLS)

G. N. Devy (Chief Editor) and Uma Bhatt, Shekhar Pathak (Eds.)
2014 | Hardback | 2310

Indian Sign Language(s), Volume 38 - People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI)

G. N. Devy (Chief Editor) and Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Nisha Grover & Surinder P. K. Randhawa (Eds.)
2014 | Hardback | 2100

The Languages of Jammu & Kashmir, Volume 12 - People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI)

G. N. Devy (Chief Editor) and Omkar N. Koul (Ed.)
2014 | Hardback | 2700

The Languages of Meghalaya, Volume 19, Part 2 - People's Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI)

G. N. Devy (Chief Editor) and Esther Syiem(Ed.)
2014 | Hardback | 2760

The Being of Bhasha: A General Introduction, Volume 1 - People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI)

G. N. Devy (Chief Editor)
2014 | Hardback | 1770

Four Tamil Plays

K Latha, Padma V Mckertich, Tanya C Lawrence
2014 | Paperback | 595

Arya and Other Stories

Chandrika Balan
2014 | Paperback | 930

Genesis: Select Stories

Lakshmi Kannan
2014 | Paperback | 1050

Varanasi

M. T. Vasudevan Nair, Translated by N. Gopalakrishnan
2013 | Paperback | 660

Cultural Encounters in India: The Local Co-Workers Of The Tranquebar Mission, 18th To 19th Centuries

Heike Liebau
2013 | Hardback | 750

Tales of Athiranippadam

S. K. Pottekkatt
2013 | Paperback | 1150

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Of Ghosts and Other Perils

Troilokyanath Mukhopadhyay & Arnab Bhattacharya
2013 | Paperback | 935

The Magic Web and Other Stories: Ashapurna Debi on the Widow and Her World

Ashapurna Debi and Jharna Sanyal (Tr.)
2012 | Paperback | 1230

Survival and Other Stories: Bangla Dalit Fiction in Translation

Indranil Acharya and Sankar Prasad Singha
2012 | Paperback | 550

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Not Without Reason and Other Stories

Rajee Seth, Raji Narasimhan (Tr.)
2012 | Paperback | 660

Understanding Islam

Nazir Ahmad and Mohammed Zakir (Tr.)
2012 | Paperback | 1380

The Boatman of the Padma

Ratan K. Chattopadhyay (Tr.)
2012 | Paperback | 660

Nandanvan & Other Stories

Lakshmi Kannan
2011 | Paperback | 835

Panchlight and other Stories

Phanishwar Nath Renu
2010 | Paperback | 630

The Westward Traveller (Translated from the original Bengali Paschimjatriki)

Durgabati Ghose, Somdatta Mandal (Tr.)
2010 | Paperback | 570

Selections from Galpaguchchha Vol 1: Kabuliwalla and other stories

Ratan Kumar Chattopadhyay (Translator)
2010 | Paperback | 1075

Selections from Galpaguchchha Vol 2: Manihara and Other Stories

Ratan Kumar Chattopadhyay (Translator)
2010 | Paperback | 835

Selections from Galpaguchchha Vol 3: Streer Patra and Other Stories

Ratan Kumar Chattopadhyay (Translator)
2010 | Paperback | 835

Poisoned Bread

Arjun Dangle (Ed.)
2009 | Paperback | 1230

The First Promise

Ashapurna Debi, translated from Bengali by Indira Chowdhury
2009 | Paperback | 1315

Umrao Jan Ada

Mirza Mohammad Hadi Ruswa, Translators: Khushwant Singh and M. A. Husaini
2009 | Paperback | 495

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Nazir Ahmad in His Own Words and Mine

Mirza Farhatullah Beg, Translated from Urdu by Mohammed Zakir
2009 | Paperback | 330

The Scar

K A Gunasekaran
2009 | Paperback | 540

First Promise, The

Ashapurna Debi , Translated by Indira Chowdhury
2009 | Paperback | 575

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The Prisons We Broke

Baby Kamble, Maya Pandit (tr.)
2008 | Paperback | 450

Samidha

Sadhana Amte, translated by Shobha Pawar
2008 | Paperback | 715

Mirage

Kokilam Subbiah
2007 | Paperback | 690

Moon Mountain

Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay, Translated by: Pradeep Kumar Sinha
2007 | Paperback | 580

Government Brahmana

Aravind Malagatti
2007 | Paperback | 630

The Grip of Change

P. Sivakami
2006 | Paperback

Pratidwandi

Sunil Gangopadhyay, Translated from Bangla by Enakshi Chatterjee
2004 | Paperback | 295

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Kuttiedathi and Other Stories

M T Vasudevan Nair
2004 | Paperback | 630

Mole!

Ashokamitran, Translated by N. Kalyan Raman
2004 | Paperback | 660

Towards an Aesthetic of Dalit Literature: History, Controversies and Considerations

Sharankumar Limbale
2004 | Paperback | 930

Son of the Moment

Nazir Ahmad, Translated by Mohammed Zakir
2002 | Paperback | 475

Sand and Other Stories

Ashokamitran
2002 | Paperback | 660

The Great Feast

Mannu Bhandari,Translated by Ruth Vanita
2002 | Hardback | 570

The Enemy Within

Bani Basu,Translated by Jayanti Datta
2002 | Paperback | 375

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Anaro and Other Stories

Manjul Bhagat
2001 | Paperback | 275

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The Primal Land

Pratibha Ray, Traslated by Bikram K.Das
2001 | Paperback | 690

‘Of Many Heroes’: An Indian Essay in Literary Historiography

G.N.Devy
1998 | Hardback | 900

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