{"product_id":"colonial-karma-j-rege-9781403964007","title":"Colonial Karma: The Problem of Action in the Indian English Novel","description":"Colonial Karma tracks the Indian English novel from its colonial origins to the present, each chapter focusing on a particular historical moment. Linking the novel's development with that of Indian cultural nationalism, it argues that nationalism seeks to solve the problem of action for its middle-class subject by redefining the Bhagavad-Gita's concept of karma for political purposes. Two figures serve to exemplify this problem: Arjuna in the Bhagavad-Gita and Saleem in Midnight's Children . After considering influential early novels in Indian languages, Colonial Karma discusses novels in English by Narayan, Anand, Rao, Anita Desai, Salman Rushdie, Shashi Deshpande and Githa Hariharan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. Rege\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1403964009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781403964007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/16\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.50h x 6.38w x 0.77d","brand":"J. Rege","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44123422163199,"sku":"9781403964007","price":54.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b000d773-5b97-4227-add3-e050a815574e.jpg?v=1687430801","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/colonial-karma-j-rege-9781403964007","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}