Bibliography on Novels/Ethnographies
that might be suitable for an introductory survey of Asian Religions

Compiled by Tracy
Pintchman
Mishima, Runaway Horses
Chaudhuri, Nirad C.
Hinduism: A Religion to Live
By
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, _To
Whom She Will_.Fireside; 1st
Fireside edition
1989.
Karan Singh, Mountain of
Shiva
Anees Jung. _Night of the
New Moon. Encounters with Muslim Women in India._
Penguin, 1993.
R.K. Narayan. _The Dark
Room_U Chicago Press, 1981. (1st ed pub. in 1938)
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_Bengali
Women_, by Manisha Roy. U Chicago
Pr., 1972, 75.
Paul Zacharia,
Bhaskara Pattelar and Other Stories.
R.K. Narayan, The Painter
of Signs.
"Astride the
Wheel," originally published in Oriya by Chandrasekhar Rath, and
recently translated into English by J. K. Nayak.
R. K. Narayan, The Guide
Gods, Graves, and
Grandmothers (no author given)
The Village by the Sea (no
author given)
Lalithambika's "Admission of Guilt" (in her Cast Me
Out if You Will)
R.K. Narayan's Gods,
Demons, and Others
Profiles in Female Poverty by Leela Gulati.
V.K. Basheer's Me Grandad
'Ad An Elephant
Behind Mud Walls
Mother of Bliss by Lisa
Hallstrom
Shiva's Fire by Suzanne
Fisher Staples
Rama Mehta's Inside the
Haveli
Gita Mehta's A River Sutra
_Vamshavriksha_
by S. L Bhyrappa
Kathleen Erndl's Victory
to the Mother
Kirin Narayan, Mondays on
the Dark Night of the Moon
David Haberman's
Journey Through the Twelve Forests
D. B. Mokashi's, _Palkhi:
An Indian Pilgrimage
Ashok Mathur's ONCE UPON
AN ELEPHANT
Susan Wadley, Raja Nal and
the Goddess


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