LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic

Paper · Semantic Scholar

Contemporary South Asian English fiction has become a significant literary space for exploring issues of identity, gender, and cultural resistance in societies shaped by colonial histories, globalization, religious nationalism, and socio-political transformations. This study examines the representation of identity formation, gender politics, and cultural resistance in Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness…

Reference · Wikidata

branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

The Indo-Aryan languages are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family. As of the early 21st century, there were 800 million speakers, primarily concentrated east of the Indus River in South Asia, spread across Eastern Pakistan, Northern India, southern Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Maldives. Moreover, apart from the Indian subcontinent, large immigrant and expatriate Indo-Aryan…

Book · DOAB

I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies The devotional and mystical literature of the Ismailis in the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent is a little known but rich seam of creativity in the cultural heritage of Islam. This book focuses on the ginans - a large corpus of hymns and poems composed in a variety of Indic languages and attributed to a series of preacher-saints who propogated the Ismaili fo…