Telling lives in India : biography, autobiography, and life history

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Full Title:: Telling lives in India : biography, autobiography, and life history / edited by David Arnold & Stuart Blackburn

Additional Author/Creators:: Arnold, David, 1946-
Blackburn, Stuart H.
University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies

Table of Contents:: Introduction: life histories in India / David Arnold, Stuart Blackburn -- The self and the cell: Indian prison narratives as life histories / David Arnold -- The reticent autobiographer: Mahadevi Varma's writings / Francesca Orsini -- The invention of private life: a reading of Sibnath Sastri's Autobiography / Sudipta Kaviraj -- The past in the present: instruction, pleasure, and blessing in Maulana Muhammad Zakariyya's Aap biitii / Barbara D. Metcalf -- Hamara Daur-i Hayat: an Indian Muslim woman writes her life / Sylvia Vatuk -- Cowherd or king? the Sanskrit biography of Ananda Ranga Pillai / David Shulman -- Life histories as narrative strategy: prophecy, song, and truth-telling in Tamil tales and legends / Stuart Blackburn -- Honor is honor, after all: silence and speech in the life stories of women in Kangra, North-West India / Kirin Narayan -- Beyond silence: a Dalit life history in South India / Josiane Racine, Jean-Luc Racine -- The marital history of a thumb-impression man / Jonathan P. Parry.
Summary:: Essays drawn from a "Life Histories" project established at the School of Oriental and African Studies ... in London and presented at a workshop held on 15-17 May 2000, British Library, London.
Language:: English
Physical Type/Description:: x, 323 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Catalog ID (MMSID):: 990003622550302486
ISBN:: 0253344867 (cloth : alk. paper)
025321727X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780253344861 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780253217271 (pbk. : alk. paper)
OCLC Number:: 57663627
Barcode:: 010000965836