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To request A Sourcebook To Accompany Humanities West’s "India Rising: Tradition Meets Modernity", please
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Download the India Rising: Tradition Meets Modernity Newsletter (pdf document)
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Suggested
Reading and Resources
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Note: Titles which are underlined may be purchased at Amazon.com by clicking on the title. A percentage of each purchase (or any other purchase made through these links) helps fund Humanities West programs.
Many of these books are also available
at local bookstores including Cody's
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What if I want to read just one book?
A Short Resource List for India Rising compiled by Charles Sieloff, PhD
India is a land of staggering complexity and diversity, so it is not easy to come up with a short list of accessible resources for those who have lots of curiosity, but only limited time to devote to the topic. If you are looking for a brief introduction to the grand sweep of Indian history, try India: An Illustrated History
by Prem Kishore and Anuradha Kishore Ganpati (2003, 200 pp, paperback).
Our keynote speaker, Shashi Tharoor, has recently published a collection of essays about the tensions between tradition and modernity in today’s India: The Elephant, The Tiger, And the Cell Phone: Reflections on India, the Emerging 21st-Century Power
(2008, 498pp, paperback). Another interesting collection of essays dealing with India’s cultural diversity is Gita Mehta’s Snakes and Ladders
(1998, 320pp, paperback; also available in audio book format from Amazon or Audible.com).
During the program, Vikram Chandra will be reading from his massive award-winning novel, Sacred Games ; he has also published a book of short stories and novellas called Love and Longing in Bombay
(1998, 272pp, paperback), which might provide a more accessible introduction to his work. For fans of Indian cinema, Netflix offers 8-10 movies by Satyajit Ray, and a separate genre category devoted to the "Best of Bollywood."
For a brief overview of India, click here. (pdf file)
Selected Resources, Compiled by Stanford Intern Andrew Linford
Banerji, Chitrita. Eating India: An Odyssey into the Food and Culture of the Land of Spices (2008)
Chandra, Vikram. Sacred Games (2007)
Chandra, Vikram. Love and Longing in Bombay (1997)
Chandra, Vikram. Red Earth and Pouring Rain
(1995)
Chopra, Anupama. King of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema (2007)
Crites, Mitchell Shelby. Nanji Ameeta. Levick, Melba. India Sublime: Princely Palace Hotels of Rajasthan (2007)
Eck, Diana L. Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in India (1998)
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand. Gandhi, an Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth (1993)
Gandhi, Mohandas. Freedom’s Battle, Young India (1922)
Guha, Ramacharandra. India After Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy (2007)
Husain, M. F. “An Artist and a Movement.” Excerpted From Frontline:“India’s National Magazine” August 9-22, 1997
Jha, Subhash K. The Essential Guide to Bollywood (2005)
Kabir, Nasreen Munni. Bollywood: The India Cinema Story (2002) (currently out of print)
Luce, Edward. In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India (2007)
Kamdar, Mira. Planet India: The Turbulent Rise of the Largest Democracy and the Future of Our World (2007)
Menon, Ramesh. The Rmayana: A Modern Retelling of the Great Indian Epic (2004)
Mitter, Partha. Indian Art (Oxford History of Art) (2001)
Ray, Raka. Katzenstein, Mary Fainsod. Social Movements in India: Poverty, Power, and Politics (2005)
Ray, Raka. Fields of Protest: Women's Movements in India (1999)
Roberts, Fredric. Humanitas II: The People of Gujarat (2007)
Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things (1997)
Rushdie, Salman. Midnight’s Children (1981)
Sen, Amartyn. The Argumentative Indian (2005)
Sher-gil, Amrita. Sher-gil, Umrao. Amrita Sher-Gil: An Indian Artist Family of the Twentieth Century (2007)
Sheth, Ketaki. Bombay Mix: Street Photographs (2008)
Tharoor, Shashi. The Elephant, The Tiger, And the Cell Phone: Reflections on India, the Emerging 21st-Century Power (2007)
Tharoor, Shashi. India: From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond
(1997)
Tharoor, Shashi. Nehru: The Invention of India
(2003)
Zimmer, Heinrich Robert. Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization (1972)
Online Resources:
Ray, Satyajit.
"The Chess Players" (1977 – DVD 2006)
Documentary on Satyajit Ray. YouTube video.
Tharoor, Shashi. Essays. YouTube video 1, YouTube video 2.
This youtube video discusses the effects of dowries on Indian women.
Shashi Tharoor talking about his new book: The Tiger the Elephant and the Cell Phone (2007).
YouTube video 1, YouTube video 2.
Vikram Chandra reading from some of his writing.
YouTube video.
Performance on the Sitar by Ravi Shankar.
YouTube video.
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