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02300nam a22002657a 4500 |
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20251014114630.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780143478645 |
| 037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION |
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| Terms of availability |
Purchased |
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Current Books, Convent Junction, Market Road, Ernakulam |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
English |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
891.4 |
| Item number |
NEW |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Nil |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
NEW WRITING IN INDIA |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
1 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Haryana |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Vintage - Penguin Books |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2025 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Size of unit |
299 |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
<br/>Adil Jussawalla’s anthology of Indian writing was first published in 1974. Today, more than half a century later, it remains one of the landmarks of our literature, featuring writers from various Indian languages, including English, whose works have stood the test of time.<br/><br/>The book traces a map of what Jussawalla calls ‘literary and linguistic cross-currents’, through the writings of Nirmal Verma (Hindi), Sunil Gangopadhyay (Bengali), Bhalchandra Nemade (Marathi), P. Lankesh (Kannada) and Ashokamitran (Tamil), among other literary greats.<br/><br/>This anthology challenges the colonial notion of Indian literature as a collection of exotica as well as the terrible misconception that modern Indian writing is an inferior mimicry of Western forms. What we have here is a literary record that stands out for the originality of the voices it contains and yet underscores a set of shared themes and artistic concerns that galvanized these writers and brought them together.<br/><br/>When this book was first published, the pieces collected here were barely a decade old and hence were presented under the rubric of ‘New Indian Writing’ of the time. But as Amit Chaudhuri reminds us in his introduction to the anniversary edition, the term ‘new’ in the title is not merely a reference to recency but to a ‘self-replenishing, revolutionary’ quality that never diminishes in great literature.<br/><br/>Ezra Pound once said that literature is news that stays news. New Writing in India bears testament to those words and to the multifarious tradition of Indian writing. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Literature & rhetoric |
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Other literatures |
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East Indo-European and Celtic literatures |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Modern Indic languages |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Adil Jussawalla (ed.) |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
Lending |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |