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...

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...

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...

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...

This book brings together sixteen comic artists, all women, from India and Germany to explore how women see the world and themselves, and how that is similar and different across cultures. In the striking, surprising, often funny drawings featured he...

Combining myth, legend, geography, history, and politics, "The Saga of Satisar" is the panoramic history of the Kashmiri Pandits. In it, award-winning Hindi writer Chandrakanta unspools a novel that spans two centuries, illustrating how Kashmiri live...

Twenty-five long years after the war that was supposed to liberate Bangladesh – and that instead, for far too many people, merely brought fear, violence, and loss – a young researcher arrives on the doorstep of one survivor in Dhaka, Mariam, armed wi...

In the mid-nineties, Birjees Dawar Ali returns to Pakistan to seek out a history left unfinished long ago; one from which, nursing heartbreak and betrayal, she had previously fled home to partitioned India. Will she find the family that so generously...

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay was a remarkable woman – a gifted writer and an activist central to the making of the modern Indian nation. India's representative to the Global South for many years after independence, Kamaladevi figured prominently in discu...

Salma is a major Indian political leader, who in 2003 faced obscenity charges and violent threats for her collection of erotic poetry. Undeterred, she's back with a beautiful, evocative, and poetic novel – now available for the first time in English"...