Authors and Texts
Dr. Robert Churchill's Handbook for the Study of Eastern Literatures
Indian Writing in English (information on authors like Anita Desai, R. K. Narayan, etc.)
Bengali Literature (authors, texts, bibliography, etc.)
Salman Rushdie (works, images, bibliography, interviews, links)
SASIALIT LIST (discussion of contemporary literature of Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka; authors discussed include: Anita Desai, Farrukh Dhondy, Amitav Ghosh, Romesh Gunesekera, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Hanif Kureishi, Gita Mehta, Rohinton Mistry, Bharati Mukherjee, V.S. Naipaul, R.K. Narayan, Raja Rao, Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth, and Bapsi Sidhwa)
Locations
Call numbers refer to the collections at Creighton University's Reinert Alumni Library (RAL) Other locations include the World Literature Library (Hitchcock Communication Arts Building Room 303) and the English Department's Library (Hitchcock Communication Arts Building Room 305). For assistance with materials held in the World Literature and English Department libraries call (402) 280-2822 or (402) 280-2522.
Altekar, A. S., The Position of Women in Hindu Civilization (1938) (on order)
Alston, A. J., The Devotional Poems of Mirabai (1980) (on order)
Archer, W. G., The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry (1957) (on order)
Bandhyopadhyay, Asit Kumar, Modern Bengali Literature (1986) (on order)
Bardhan, Kalpana, Of Women, Outcastes, Peasants, and
Rebels: A Selection of Short Stories (1990) PK1716 .O4
1990 
Basham, Arthur Llewellyn, The Wonder that was India (1954) DS425 .B33 1959
Bloomfield, Maurice. The Religion of the Veda. BL 1115 .B566
Brockington, J. L., Righteous Rama: The Evolution of an Epic (1984) (on order)
Burton, Richard, trans. The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana (1923) (on order)
Chandidasa, Love Songs of Chandidasa, trans. Deberi Bhattacharya (1967) (on order)
Conze, Edward, Buddhism: Its Essence and Development (1957) BQ4012 .C6 1957
Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. and Sister Nivedita (Margaret E. Noble) Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists (1967) BL2001 .N6 1967
De Bary, William Theodore, Sources of Indian Tradition (1958) DS423 .D33
Desai, Anita, Clear Light of Day (1980) PR9499.3.D465 C54
Dimock, C. Edward, The Literatures of India: An Introduction (1974) (on order)
Dimock, C. Edward. and Denise Levertov, trans., In
Praise of Krishna : Songs from the Bengali (1967)
PK1771.E3 I5 1981
Dutt, Manmatha Nath, A Prose English Translation of the Mahabharata (1895-1905) (on order)
Gaeffke, Peter, Hindi Literature in the 20th Century (1978) (on order)
Hawley, John Stratton & Mark Juergensmeyer, ed. &
trans., Songs of the Saints of India (1988)
PK2141.E3 S66 1988
Herman, A.L. A Brief Introduction to Hinduism. BL 1212. 72
Hess, Linda & Shukdev Singh, The Bijak of Kabir (1986) (on order)
Hopkin, Thomas J., The Hindu Religious Tradition (1971) BL1202 .H66
Ingalls, Daniel H. H., trans., Sanskrit Poetry, from Vidyakara's Treasury (1968) PK4474.A3 V5 1968
-----, An Anthology of Sanskrit Court Poetry: Vidyakara's "Subhasiaratnakosa." (1965)
Ions, Veronica, Indian Mythology (1967) BL2003 .I6
Jain, Jasbir, Stairs to the Attic: The Novels of Anita Desai (1987) (on order)
Jayadeva, Love Song of the Dark Lord : Jayadeva's
Gitagovinda, trans. Barbara Stoller Miller (1977)
PK3794.J3 G53 1977
Jussawalla, Feroza, Family Quarrels: Towards a Criticism of Indian Writing in English (1985) (on order)
Kabir, Humayun, The Bengali Novel (1968) (on order)
Kali for Women, ed., Truth Tales: Contemporary Stories Written by Women Writers of India (1986) (on order)
Kalidasa, The Origin of the Young God, trans.
Hank Heifetz (1985) PK3796.K7 H44 1985
Karve, Irawati, Yuganta: The End of an Epoch (1971) (on order)
Keith, Arthur Berriedale, A History of Sanskrit Literature (1928) PK2903 .K45
Kinsley, David. Hinduism: A Cultural Perspective, 2nd.ed. BL 1202 .K48 1982
Kripalani, Krishna, Tagore: A Life (1962/1971) BL1265.T3 K7
Krishnamoorthy, K., Kalidasa, by K. Krishnamoorthy (1972) PK3797 .K68
Lal, P., trans. and ed., Great Sanskrit Plays (1964) PK4474.A5 L3
Macnicol, Margaret, Poems by Indian Women (1923) (on order)
Meyer, J. J., Sexual Life in Ancient India (1930) (on order)
Miller, Barbara Stoller, The Bhagavad-Gita: Krishna's Counsel in Time of War (1986) BL1138.62 .E5 1986
-----, ed., Theatre of Memory: The Plays of Kalidasa (1984) (on order)
Minor, Robert N., Modern Indian Interpreters of the
Bhagavadgita (1986) BL1138.66 .M63 1986
-----, Bhagavad-Gita: An Exegetical Commentary. PK 3642.B5 M54 1982
Mukherjee, Meenakshi, The Twice-Born Fiction (1971) (on order)
Narasimhan, Chakravarthi V., Mahabharata : An English Version Based on Selected Verses (1965) PK3633.A2 N3 1965.
Natarajan, Nalini and Emmanuel S. Nelson, eds., Handbook of Twentieth-Century Literatures of India (1996) REFERENCE PK5416 .H27 1996
Prakash, Chandra Gupta, Premchand (1968) (on order)
Premchand, The Gift of a Cow, trans. Gordon Roadarmel (1968) (on order)
Rai, Amrit, Premchand: His Life and Times (1991) (on order)
Rajagopalachari, C., Ramayana (1951)
PL4758.9.R2595 R34 1993
Ramanujan, A. K., Hymns for the Drowning (1981) (on order)
-----, Speaking of Siva (1973) (on order)
Renou, Louis. Indian Literature. PK 2903 .R543
Richman, Paula, Many Ramayanas : The Diversity of a
Narrative Tradition in Asia (1991) PK2907.R25 M36 1991
Roadarmel, Gordon, ed. & trans., A Death in Delhi (1972) (on order)
Robinson, Richard H., Willard L. Johnson, and Shinzen Young Tsai. The Buddhist Religion : A Historical Introduction (1982) BQ4012 .R6 1982
Rubin, David, The World of Premchand (1969) (on order)
Sharpe, Eric J., The Universal Gita: Western Images of the Bhagavad Gita (1985) BL1138.67 .S53 1985
Shastri, Hari Prasad, The Ramayana of Valmiki (1957) (on order)
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (1987) HM101 .S773 1987
Srivastava, Ramesh K., Perspectives on Anita Desai (1984) (on order)
Sukthankar, V. S., The Meaning of the Mahabharata (1957) (on order)
Tagore, Rabindranath, Quartet, trans. Kaiser Haq (1993) PK1723.C4 E5 1993
-----, Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Short Stories, ed. William Radice (1991) (on order)
-----, The Housewarming, and Other Selected Writings, trans. Mary Lago, ed. Tarun Gupta (1965/1977) PK1722.A2 L3 1977
-----, The Diary of a Westward Voyage (1962/1975) PK1725.A4313 D5 1975
-----, Gitanjali (1971) PK1719 1971
-----, Sheaves: Poems and Songs, trans. Nagendranath Gupta (1971) PK1722.A2 G8 1971
-----, A Tagore Reader, ed. Amiya Chakravarty (1961) PK1718.T24 A23
-----, The Religion of Man (1931/1961) BL25 .H5 1961b
-----, The Cycle of Spring (1917) PR6035.A8 C8 1917
Tharu Susie & K. Lalitha, eds., Women Writing in India (1991) (on order)
Valmiki, The Ramayana of Valmiki : An Epic of Ancient India, trans. Rosalind Lefeber, ed. Robert P. Goldman (1984/1994) PK4474 .V3513 1994
Van Nooten, Barend A., The Mahabharata; Attributed to Krsna Dvaipayana Vyasa, (1971) BL1130 .V28
Venkatasananda, Swami, The Concise Ramayana (1988) (on order)
Vidyapati, Love Songs of Vidyapati, trans. Deberi Bhattacharya (1963) (on order)
Walsh, William, Indian Literature in English (1990) (on order)
Wells, Henry W., The Classical Drama of India (1963) PK2931 .W4 1975
Zaehner, Robert Charles, Hinduism (1962) BL1202 .Z3
Zbavitel, Dushan, Bengali Literature (1976) (on order)
Locations
Call numbers refer to the collections at Creighton University's Reinert Alumni Library (RAL) Other locations include the World Literature Library (Hitchcock Communication Arts Building Room 303) and the English Department's Library (Hitchcock Communication Arts Building Room 305). For assistance with materials held in the World Literature and English Department libraries call (402) 280-2822 or (402) 280-2522.
Bhagavad-Gita, reading by Jacob Needleman of Barbara Stoller Miller's translation (2 audiocassettes) (2 hrs 30 min) (World Lit Library, CA 303)
Desai, Anita, Anita Desai, fiction reading and interview with Marilyn Samuels, December 14, 1989, 1 videocassette, 30 min (World Literature Library, CA 303)
Jensen, Timothy A., "Teaching Oriental Classics to Western Students", lecture (August 20, 1993), 1 videocassette (World Lit Library, CA 303)
----- "Oriental Religions and Philosophy," lecture (August28, 1993) (World Lit Library, CA 303)
The Mahabharata, directed by Peter Brook (1989), 3 videocassettes (328 min.) MEDIA 1273
Ramayana, reading by Ram Dass of William Buck's translation (3 audiocassettes) (4 hrs) (World Lit Library, CA 303)
Sanghvi, Neha, "Chudiya Khanakagai" live student dance performance (October 24, 1996), from the soundtrack of the film "Moment," 15 min. (World Lit Library, CA 303)
Locations
Call numbers refer to the collections at Creighton University's Reinert Alumni Library (RAL) Other locations include the World Literature Library (Hitchcock Communication Arts Building Room 303) and the English Department's Library (Hitchcock Communication Arts Building Room 305). For assistance with materials held in the World Literature and English Department libraries call (402) 280-2822 or (402) 280-2522.