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Clone

Sarukkai Chabria Priya

ISBN: HB: 9789385932434, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, March 2019
320 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

A revolutionary take on the classic dystopian science fiction novel, "The Clone" inaugurates a new kind of writing in India. Priya Sarukkai Chabria weaves the tale of a fourteenth-generation clone in twenty-fourth-century India who struggles against...

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Mahuldiha Days

Agnihotri Anita

ISBN: HB: 9789385932175, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, December 2018
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Set deep in the forests of Bengal, India, "Mahuldiha Days" is the moving story of a young woman coming of age in her personal and professional life. Anita Agnihotri paints a vivid picture in this novel of life in a rural Indian setting that is quickl...

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Foxy Aesop On the Edge

Namjoshi Suniti

ISBN: HB: 9789385932427, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2018
160 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Very little is known about Aesop who was supposed to have been a slave on the island of Samos in the sixth century BC. It is his fables (and those attributed to him) that have come down to us through the centuries. In this version, a fabulist from...

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Swarnalata

Misra Tilottoma

ISBN: HB: 9789385932458, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2018
300 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Set in mid-nineteenth-century Assam, when new concepts of modernity are increasingly challenging tradition, "Swarnalata" tells the story of three women from very different social backgrounds. Each of them swept up in the whirlpool of change, they her...

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Women Studies

Voices and Values The Politics of Feminist Evaluation

Sudarshan Ratna, Nandi Rajib

ISBN: HB: 9789385932397, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2018
300 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Over the last several years, regular evaluation of development programs has become essential in measuring and understanding their true impact. Feminist and gender-sensitive evaluations have gradually emerged, drawing attention to existing inequities...

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Empty Room

Abbas Sadia

ISBN: HB: 9789385932267, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2018
320 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In 1960s Karachi, a place of ever increasing violence and political and social uncertainty, a beautiful and talented artist, Tahira, tries to hold her life together as it shatters around her. Her marriage is quickly revealed to be a sham, a trap from...

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Women Studies

Mannequin Working Women in India's Glamour Industry

Bhattacharya Manjima

ISBN: HB: 9789385932229, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2018
250 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

The fashion industry in India is huge, employing more than sixty million people and, at $70 billion, accounting for a sizable chunk of the nation's economic activity. Despite that, it remains a startlingly unprofessional industry – particularly when...

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Monsoon of Music

Phukan Mitra

ISBN: HB: 9789385932441, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2018
432 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

A bright young student, a globetrotting star, and a highly respected married couple – each deeply immersed in the tradition of Hindustani classical music".A Monsoon of Music" tells the story of these four musicians whose lives intersect in the small...

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Gender Studies

Landscapes of Fear Understanding Impunity in India

Hoenig Patrick, Singh Navsharan

ISBN: PB: 9789383074938, ISBN: HB: 9789383074204, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, September 2018
600 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

"Landscapes of Fear" tackles a set of intricate questions about the workings of impunity in India. Considering why the world's largest democracy condones systematic violations of some human rights, and questioning how victims of abuse and survivors o...

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Women Studies

Centrepiece Women's Writing and Art from Northeast India

Singh Parismita

ISBN: HB: 9789385932410, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, June 2018
200 pp., 24.8x18.4 cm, colour illus. throughout

Though the northeastern region of India contains eight ethnically diverse, politically complex, and historically different states, it is often homogenized into a problematic category called "the northeast". Many stereotype it as a region of conflict...

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