Bangkok. Orchid. 1998. xx + 187pp, index, bibliography, appendices, dustjacket. This book is about cultural translation and comparison between Hinduism and capitalism, which can both be concieved as sociocultural systems which influence the ways people think, feel and communicate. When referring to this item please quote stockid 48941... More
Albany. State University of New York Press. 1998. Notes, bibliography, index, xx + 205pp.. A good paperback copy. "Examines the legendary life and poetic works of Ramprasad, the eighteenth-century Bengali devotee of the Goddess, whose songs were influential in his own time and remain popular today." (Publisher's description). (When referring..... More
New York. Penguin. 2006. New ed. Introduction by Pankaj Mishra, xviii + 157pp, glossary. "The Ramayana" is, quite simply, the greatest of Indian epics - and one of the world's supreme masterpieces of storytelling. 'Almost every individual living in India,' writes R. K. Narayan in the Introduction to this new..... More
