Publication

2018 - Niyogi Books, New Delhi, India, India

Language

English

Word Count

119,750 words, Guess

Page Count

479 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-109386906473
  • ISBN-139789386906472
  • Library of Congress Control Number2018315609
  • OCLC Control Number1044932657
  • Better World BooksP8-BRS-023
and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC508.2
  • LCCNX575.8 .M66 2018

Description

The monsoon is the season of pouring rain and intense emotions: love and longing, hope and fear, pleasure and pain, devotion and joyous excess. Through a series of evocative essays exploring rain-drenched worlds of poetry, songs, paintings, architecture, films, gardens, festivals, music, and medicine, this lavishly illustrated collection examines the history of monsoon feelings in South Asia from the twelfth century to the present. Each essay is written by a specialist in the field of South Asian arts and culture, and investigates emotions as reflections and agents of social, cultural, and political change across borders of language and religion and between different arts and cultural practices. This history of emotions in the rain is as rich, surprising, beautiful and devastating as the thundering monsoon clouds, and will delight general and scholarly audiences alike.

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