Indian Stories / edited by Rudrangshu Mukherjee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mukherjee, Rudrangshu, editor.

Series:

Everyman's pocket classics

Everyman's Library (Series)

Everyman's Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, Indic (English).

Short stories, Indic (English)--Translations into English.

India--Social conditions--19th century--Fiction.

India.

Genre:

short stories.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

544 pages ; 19 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2026.

Summary:

"A uniquely diverse Pocket Classics collection of short stories from all of the major cultures and languages of India. India has a long tradition of storytelling. To use Salman Rushdie's phrase it is "an ocean of stories." When British rule brought the Western forms of the novel and the short story to India, they were grafted onto more ancient and varied oral traditions. Rabindranath Tagore was the first to popularize this form of writing with the short story collections he published in the 1890s, but the form swiftly captured the imagination of literary figures across India and in every Indian language. India is not only rich in stories but also in languages, and the thirty-seven stories in this collection are taken from all the major languages of India, including Tamil, Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, and many more, as well as writers in some regions who wrote primarily in English (N. K. Narayan, for example). This anthology includes one story from each region or culture, notably including several areas that are traditionally marginalized. The stories reflect a variety of themes, ideas, and emotions, with subjects including the poverty aggravated by the dominance of landlords and the caste system; the position of women within the family; and the call of the city in a country that was and still is predominantly rural and agricultural. Indian literary fiction, born though it was under a Western star, reflected invariably realities that were distinctly Indian, and this unique anthology offers a dazzlingly varied overview of the rich cultures of the subcontinent. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free, cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket." --Amazon.

Contents:

Values / Mamoni Raisom Goswami

The smell of bamboo blossoms / Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi

Mahesh / Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

Drobomoyee's sojourn in Kashi / Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

An astrologer's day / R.K. Narayan

The great Indian tee and snakes / Kritika Pandey

A letter / K.M. Munshi

Jumo bhishti / Dhumketu

Deliverance /Prem Chand

Mirror of illusion / Nirmal Verma

Mouni / E.R. Ananthamurthy

Sharavana services / Vivek Shanbhag

Be a woman once, oh lord! / Banu Mushtaq

Reply-paid card / Dinanath Nadim

The beggars at Dargah / Taj Begum Renzu

Coinsanv's cattle / Damodar Mauzo

Tale of a toilet / Ramnath Gajanan Gawade

After the hanging / O.V. Vijayan

Vision / M.T. Vasudevan Nair

As spring arrived / Kshetrimayum Subadani

Gold from the graves / Anna Chau Sathe

Kalluri's radio / Vilas Sarang

Immanuel Kant in Shillong / Anjum Hasan

The missing portrait / Cindy Zothanpuii Tlau

Where the hills grow houses / Emisenla Jamir

The power to forgive / Avinuo Kire

Rebati / Fakir Mohan Senapati

The solution / Gopinath Mohanty

Stench of kerosene / Amrita Pritam

Savage harvest / Mohinder Singh Sarna

Countless Hitlers / Vijaydan Detha

The story of a crow learning prosody / Subramania Bharati

The governor's visit / Kalki

The Madiga girl / Chalam

House number / Kavana Sarma

The quilt / Ismat Chughtai

Laajwanti / Rajinder Singh Bedi.

ISBN:

9798217008216

OCLC:

1587604813

Publisher Number:

90104595779