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(This list is intended as a resource and the readings for our trip will be drawn from this list. Students will be required to read a SMALL number of these readings and may refer to this list when continuing with their own research. Readings will be assigned in consultation with student interest.)

NEW DELHI
Dalrymple, William (b. 1965). City of Djinns. New York, NY: Penguin Group, 2003. (First Published in 1993 by Harper Collins Publishers, Great Britian.)
William Dalrymple is a writer and historian who has focused on Mughal history.
Dalrymple divides his time between New Delhi and London. City of Djinns covers a one year period in which he and his wife lived in New Delhi exploring the city and studying the various histories it contains.

RELIGION
Bhagavad Gita. London: Penguin 2003
Eck, Diana L. Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in India, Third Edition. New York,   NY: Columbia University Press, 1998.
            On reserve in the Flaxman Library.

CONTEMPORARY ART
Mehta, Anupa. “Introduction”. India 20: Conversations with Contemporary Artists. Ahmedabad:    Mapin Publishing, 2007. p.6-7.
            Posted on the portal.

Fiction
NEW DELHI:
Ali, Ahmed (1910-1994)Twilight in Delhi. New York, NY: New Direction Publishing Corporation, 1994
Singh, Khushwant. Delhi. New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 1990.

NOVELS AND FICTION BY INDIAN WRITERS:
Mehta, Gita. River Sutra. New York, NY: N. A. Talese, 1993.
Rushdie, Salman. The Enchantress of Florence. New York, NY:Random House, 2008.
            Set in Fatehpar Siterei at the time of Emperor Akbar's rule.

Seth, Vikram. A Suitable Boy. New York, NY: Harper Collins, 1993.

Indian History/Historical Novels
NOVELS:
Mistry, Rohinton. A Fine Balance. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1995.
            This wonderful novel follows the lives of a few common individuals at the time of The Emergency. It is set in Mumbai, India in the seventies.

COLONIAL INDIA (1502-1947):
Dalrymple, William. The Last Mughal. New York, NY. Vintage Books, 2006.

THE PARTITION (1947):
Earth, Dir. and Writ. Deepa Mehta. Perf . Shabana Azmi, Eric Peterson. DVD. 1998.

MODERN INDIAN ART HISTORY:
Kapur, Geeta. When Was Modernism, Essays on Contemporary Cultural Practice in India. New Delhi, India:Tulika Books, 2000.
            Geeta Kapur is on of Indian’s leading art historians and curators. Anything written by her is of interest.

INDIAN CONTEMPORARY ART:
Mehta, Anupa. India 20: Conversations with Contemporary Artists. Ahmedabad: Mapin Publishing, 2007.
            On reserve in the Flaxman Library.
Seid, Betty. New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India.   Ahmedabad: Mapin Publishing, 2007.
            This is the book and catalogue for the Exhibit New Narratives curated by Betty Seid. This is the first US Indian Contemporary Art Exhibit with works all form the 21st century. Its first showing was at the Chicago Cultural Center.
Art India, The Art News Magazine of India. Any issue.

FIBER
ed. Livingstone, Joan and John Ploff.  The Object of Labor. School of the Art Institute of Chicago Press, 2007.  
SUJUNI & KHATWA See also Leeman, Judith. “Stitching Women’s Lives. p.159 and 160; Srinivasan, Viji. “Forward.” p.161 and 162; Morrison, Dr. Skye. “Stitching Women’s Lives.” p. 163 to 172; Tyabji, Laila. “The Story Behind the Stiches.” p. 173 to 176; Caldwell, Dorothy. “The Stitch.” p. 177 to 180. All posted on the portal.
ed. Weiner, Anne and Schneider, Jane. Cloth and The Human Experience. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.
Excellent essays on the historical importance of cloth. See "Ghandi and Khadi, the Fabric of Indian Independence" by Susan S. Bean.

TRAVEL IN INDIA:
Kolanad, Gitanjali. Culture Shock India: A Guide to Customs and Etiquette. Portland, OR: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company, 2005.

GANDHI:
Gandhi, Mohandas. An Auto-biography: The Story of my Experiments with Truth. Boston: Beacon Press, 1957.

BOLLYWOOD:
Tharoor, Shashi. The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone:  Reflections on India the emerging 21st-Century Power.  New York: Arcade, 2007
Written by the former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nation this book is a glib group of writings about contemporary Indian culture.  Entertaining to read , particularly the introduction, the chapter about Bollywood and the Glossary

CONTEMPORARY INDIAN MOVIES:
Dir. Attenborough, Richard. Ghandi. Colombia Pictures, 1982
Lean, David.  A Passage to India. Columbia Pictures, 1984
Dir. Nair, Mira. Monsoon Wedding, Mirabai Films, Inc (USA), 2001
Dir. Nair, Mira. Salaam Bombay, Cinecom Pictures, 2001