Includes songs by Buddhist nuns, testimonies of medieval rebel poets and court historians, and the voices of more than 60 other writers of the 18th and 19th cen
The second volume following on from the first, which spanned the years 600 BC to the early-20th century, this book offers a new reading of cultural history that
These ground-breaking collections offer 200 texts from eleven languages, never before available in English or as a collection, along with a new reading of cultu
How can we understand India today, fifty years after Independence and only months after its nuclear tests outraged the world? The novelist Arundhati Roy has wri