... 0.11 Independents 12 5.25 Source: Election Commission of India. Table 5.2: National Front Government Name Party Post(s) Rank Vishwanath Pratap Singh JD Prime Minister Cabinet Minister Devi Lai JD Agriculture Cabinet Minister Ajeet Singh...

... Melissa Christ Carol monotheism Saundarya Laharī divinization Jantzen Grace male perspective limits of Pintchman Tracy Hauke Manfred reading Holy Spirit Johnson Elizabeth Wisdom Apirāmi Devī Jesus Mary Śrī Trinity Adams Henry Daly Mary patriarchy Warner Marina Kristeva Julia...

...In an attempt to ground this volume solidly in India's past, this chapter discusses Sita Devi, one sanctioned, premodern South Asian female guru, to demonstrate that the current seeming profusion of female gurus in the West is not merely the product of contemporary feminist indignation, nor...

... of feminist “interruption” by bringing together Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio, Mahasweta Devi's “Pterodactyl” and “The Fairy Tale of Mohanpur,” and the creative writings, and political statements of Dabindu—an NGO group of Sri Lankan free-trade-zone garment factory workers...

... by the Indian anticolonial writer Mulk Raj Anand; the American proletarian writer Tillie Olsen; Sri Lankan Tamil/Black British writer and political journalist Ambalavaner Sivanandan; Indian writer and bonded-labor activist Mahasweta Devi; South African-born Botswanan Bessie Head; and the fiction and poetry...

...Chapter 1 offers a foundational reading of two contemporary works in which literal, embodied ghosts or specters intrude into and transform the terrain of traditional literary realism: Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Mahasweta Devi’s novella, “Pterodactyl, Puran Sahay, and Pirtha...

...This chapter focuses on Sita-devi, an old woman who shared her favorite songs with the author. Like many accomplished singers of her generation, Sita-devi most valued songs carrying mythological events and metaphysical insights. To convey a sense of the vast knowledge that a person without written...

... to heaven. It also draws on the songs of Janaki-devi that associate women with plants: withering in harsh circumstances, roaming in gardens when sad, and blossoming with happiness like bright orange marigolds. plants Saili wisdom duty to share in laws ritual work care caste Kangra well being...

... of transcendence. While the last three chapters focused on deities, this chapter honors Asha-devi while assembling songs about devotees attuned to the divine. At first glance, these are male devotees: Sudama and Uddhava from Krishna mythology, and Kabir from historical legends. But a closer look reveals women's...

...This chapter describes how Labbi Devi and his family were attacked while traveling from Pakistan to India, a month after the Partition of India. In September 1947, Devi’s family together with seventeen family members were traveling on a train headed to Amritsar. A group of Muslim mobs attacked...

... Sherif Ali, a cousin of Lady Amina, was an international figure in the feminist world. Three other women whom the author met in Lady Amina's house were Princess Durru Shehwar and the two daughters of Sarojini Naidu. In Hyderabad, the author also saw Kamala Devi. Hyderabad Hyderi Sir Akbar Naidu...

...Keshab: Bengal’s Forgotten Prophet. John A. Stevens, Oxford University Press (2018). © John A. Stevens. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190901752.003.0006 This chapter explores the motivations behind and the consequences of the disastrous marriage of Keshab Chandra Sen’s daughter, Suniti Devi...

...Two sisters: Sarala and Hironmoyee Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain This chapter briefly reviews the lives of the two women, Sarala Devi Chaudhurani and Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. Sarala and Rokeya were contemporaries, and were both concerned with the condition and status of women and their advancement...

...This chapter explores three compositions concerning the goddess in the Dasam Granth: Chandi Charitra Ukti Bilas, Chandi Charitra 2, and Var Durga Ki (Chandi di Var). The chapter compares these goddess tales to the Sanskrit Devi Mahatmya...

... answer lies in my second epigraph above, taken from the critic and translator Radha Chakravarty’s interview with the Bengali-language writer, Mahasweta Devi (1926–2016), which appears in a recent milestone volume on the author (Chakravarty). While other artists might be reluctantly pigeonholed...

... Amélie Nothomb, Ananda Devi, Marie Darrieussecq and Nina Bouraoui. Revealing an emphasis on the becoming of the body in recent culture, it illuminates the implications of such a concept for a feminist politics, for women’s writing and for the cultural signification of contemporary female corporeality....

...This chapter examines the efforts of propagandists to illustrate how Wu Zhao was the avatar of Buddhist devi Jingguang (Sanskrit: Vimalaprabhā). In a sutra that reached China in the sixth century, the Buddha prophesies that Jingguang will “obtain great sovereignty” and “be a bodhisattva who...

... of non-human agency within a broader historical context. Mahasweta Devi’s “Dhowli” anchors an examination of a worldwide history of waste, which begins (for John Locke) when “all the world was America.” Devi’s story bears the traces of successive waves of conquest and enclosure in India and offers...

...These excerpts from written exchanges between Julia Waters and Ananda Devi offer valuable insights into the translation and publishing processes from the point of view of an author who is also a translator. The main topics that are addressed are: Devi's publishing trajectory, from small local...

... A Room of One’s Own in the context of texts, such as those by Swarnakumari Devi, in the world that came before Woolf created those iconic phrases. In short, this essay proposes a way of reading Woolf in the world before Woolf was in the world. Virginia Woolf A Room of Ones Own...