1. LATEST ADDITIONS TO MAHATMA GANDHI UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
Plain Tales for the British Empire: images of British India,
Africa and South East- Asia by Charles Allen, Ed.
Plain Tales from the British Empire gathers together Charles Allen’s best
loved books: Plain Tales from the Raj, Tales from the South China Seas
and Tales from the Dark Continent. They are first hand recollections from
taped reminiscences broadcast by BBC. At the start of the Second World
War, British empire was the most extensive the world have ever known,
with approximately a quarter of the world’s population under its sway.
Within three decades that empire had been almost totally dismembered. As
newly decolonized countries set out to recover their national identities or to
construct new ones, beginning with Indian and Pakistan in 1947, it was
inevitable that those who had been associated with colonial rule took on
the role of scapegoats, to be vilified as oppressors or mocked as stock
figures of fun. The book challenges these simplistic attitudes – not by
glorifying or mythologizing the Raj but by humanizing the colonial
experience. British rule was made up of many constituent parts, some
negative and damaging, others positive and beneficial. It was a self serving
exercise in throwing national weight about, but it was also about people
and the gambles they took with their lives, their interaction with other
cultures and its results that continues to affect both sides to this day. The
book gives an evocative and unique glimpse into the lost days of the
Empire across India, Africa and the territories fringing the South China
Sea. It is a highly valuable record of colonial life in the east. The content is
intimate, vivid and immensely enjoyable'. London, Abacus, 2009.
(Location: MG University Central Library, First floor, Shelf No.
909.09712141 P8)
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Philosophy, Religion, Sociology, Political Science, Economics
113.8/ P8 Ashvin Desai Between eternities: ideas on life and the cosmos. - Penguin, 2008
181.452/ P81 Patanjali Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra. - Penguin, 2008
181.452 09/ P3 Osho The essence of yoga. - Penguin, 2003
294.382 322/ N6 Eknath Eswaran, Tr The Dhammapada. - Penguin, 1996
294.592 18/ P0 Roebuck, Valerie J, Tr The Upanishads. - Penguin, 2000
294.592 2/ N5;1 Narayan, R K The Indian epics retold. - Penguin, 2000
294.5922045/ P2 Sundaram, P S, Tr Kamba Ramayana. - Penguin, 2002
294.5922046/ P8 Devdutt Pattanaik The book of Ram. - Penguin, 2008
294.5923045/ P92 Namita Gokhale The Puffin Mahabharata. - Puffin Books, 2009
294.5926/ 111N1;1 Manu The laws of Manu. - Penguin, 2000
294.638/ P8 Khushwant Singh Songs of the Gurus: from Nanak to Gobind Singh. - Penguin, 2008
297.095 4/ P8 Gill, S S Islam and the Muslims of India. - Penguin, 2008
297.122/ P6 Dawood, N J, Tr The Koran. - Penguin, 2006
297.409/ P81 Osho Just like that: talk on Sufi stories. - Penguin, 2008
301.095 4/ P61 Sudha Murty The old man and his God. - Penguin, 2006
305.8924095483/ P8 Fernandes, Edna The last Jews of Kerala. - Penguin, 2008
320.9540905/ P9 Mani Shankar Aiyar A time of transition: Rajiv Gandhi to the 21st century. - Penguin, 2008
320.954 91/ P8 Zahid Hussain Frontline Pakistan: the path to catastrophe and the killing of
Benazir Bhutto. - Penguin, 2008
330/ P9 Levitt, Steven D Freakonomics. - Penguin, 2009
338.954/ P5 Abdul Kalam, A P J Mission India: a vision for Indian youth. - Penguin, 2005
363.738 74/ P91 Walker, Gabrielle The hot topic: how to tackle global warming and still keep the
lights on. - Bloomsbury, 2009
398.245 4/ P8 Bibek Debroy Sarama and her children: the dog in Indian myth. - Penguin, 2008
Astronomy, Zoology, Medicine, Management, Arts
523.1/ P82 Mani Bhaumik The cosmic detective. - Puffin Books, 2008
590/ P8 Ranjit Lal Wild city: nature wonders next door. - Penguin, 2008
615.538/ P1;1 Wujastyk, Dominik, Tr The roots of Ayurveda: selections from Sanskrit medical
writings. - Penguin, 2001
658.4/ P7 Handy, Charles Gods of management. - Penguin, 2007
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2. 658.406 3/ P8 Lafley, A G The game-changer: how every leader can drive everything
innovation. - Penguin, 2008
741.5/ P8 Amruta Patil Kari: graphic novel. - HarperCollins, 2008
745.67/ P7 Mamta Dalal Mangaldas The kidnapping of Amir Hamza. - HarperCollins, 2007
Literature
808.068:294 5922/ N8 Milly Acharya The Ramayana for young readers. - HarperCollins, 2004
808.0683 ROW/H5/ P7 Rowling, J K Harry Potter and the order of phoenix. - Bloomsbury, 2007
808.068 31/ N8 Aesop The complete fables. - Penguin, 1998
808.068 31/ P8 Kipling, Rudyard Just so stories. - Puffin Books, 2008
808.803254147/ P8 Amit Chaudhuri, Ed Memory’s gold: writings on Calcutta. - Penguin, 2008
In 820.8/ P5.4 First proof: the Penguin book of new writing from India 4. -
Penguin, 2008
In 821 KAM/S/ P4 Kamala Das Summer in Calcutta. - D C Books, 2009
In 823 AMI/G/ P0 Amitav Ghosh The glass palace. - HarperCollins, 2009
In 823 AMI/H/ P0 Amitav Ghosh The hungry tide. - HarperCollins, 2009
In 823 ANI/VI/ M4 Anita Desai The village by the sea. - Puffin Books, 1984
In 823 DEV/P/ P8 Devdutt Pattanaik The pregnant king. - Penguin, 2008
In 823 KAM/H/ P8 Kamala Markandaya A handful of rice. - Penguin, 2008
In 823 KEK/F/ P9 Keki N Daruwalla For pepper and Christ. - Penguin, 2009
In 823 MEE/Y/ P8 Meenakshi Reddy You are here. - Penguin, 2008
Madhavan
In 823 MUL/P/ P8 Mulk Raj Anand Private life of an Indian Prince. - HarperCollins, 2008
In 823 NAR/MAL/ P6 Narayan, R K Malgudi days. - Penguin, 2006
In 823 NAR/S/ P2 Narayan, R K Malgudi school days. - Puffin Books, 2002
In 823 TIM/I/ P9 Timeri N Murari The imperial agent. - Penguin, 2009
In 824 ARU/A/ P2 Arundhati Roy The algebra of infinite justice. - Penguin, 2002
813 PUZ/S/ P9 Puzo, Mario Six graves to Munich. -Maclehose Press, 2009
823 CHR1/B/ P2 Christie, Agatha The big four. - HarperCollins, 2002
823 CHR1/DEA/ P1 Christie, Agatha Death in the clouds. - HarperCollins, 2001
823 CHR1/DU/ P2 Christie, Agatha Dumb witness. - HarperCollins, 2002
823 CHR1/O/ P2 Christie, Agatha One, two, buckle my shoe. - HarperCollins, 2002
823 CHR1/PA/ P3 Christie, Agatha Parker pyne investigates. - HarperCollins, 2003
823 CHR1/SA/ P1 Christie, Agatha Sad cypress. - HarperCollins, 2001
823 CHR1/TA/ P2 Christie, Agatha Taken at the flood. - HarperCollins, 2002
823 DIC/MY/ P2 Dickens, Charles The mystery of Edwin Drood. - Penguin, 2002
823 DIC/PI/ N8 Dickens, Charles Pictures from Italy. - Penguin, 1998
823 FIE/H/ P5 Fielding, Henry The history of Tom Jones, a foundling. - Penguin, 2005
823 KIP/A/ P9 Kipling, Rudyard The adventures of Mowgli. - Puffin Books, 2009
823 RAT/M/ P8 Rathbone, Julian The mutiny: novel. - Abacus, 2008
823.01 STO/D/ P3 Stoker, Bram Dracula. - Penguin, 2003
823.0872 DOY/A/ P9 Doyle, Arthur Conan The adventures of Sherlock Holmes. - Penguin, 2009
843 HUG/L/ 111M2 Hugo, Victor Les miserables. - Penguin, 1982
843 LEC/F/ 111P8 Le Clezio, J M G The flood; tr by Peter Green. - Penguin, 2008
843 LEC/FE/ 111P8 Le Clezio, J M G Fever; tr by Daphne Woodward. - Penguin, 2008
843 LEC/T/ 111P8 Le Clezio, J M G Terra Amata; tr by Barbara Bray. - Penguin, 2008
863 MAR/C/ 111N6 Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Chronicle of a death foretold. - Penguin, 1996
863 MAR/LO/ 111M8;1 Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Love in the time of cholera. - Penguin, 1988
863 MAR/ON/ 111N6;1 Marquez, Gabriel Garcia One hundred years of solitude. - Penguin, 1996
869.3 COE/A/ 111N8;1 Coelho, Paulo The alchemists. - HarperCollins, 2009
869.3 COE/L/ 111P6 Coelho, Paulo Like the flowing river. - HarperCollins, 2006
869.3 COE/P/ 111N8;1 Coelho, Paulo The pilgrimage. - HarperCollins, 2008
869.3 COE/V/ 111N8;1 Coelho, Paulo The valkyries. - HarperCollins, 2010
869.3 COE/W/ 111P7 Coelho, Paulo The witch of Portobello. - HarperCollins, 2007
891.21 KAL 08/ Kalidasa The loom of time: selections of his plays and poems; tr by
111M9 Chandra Rajan. - Penguin, 1999
891.23 DAN/D/ 111P8 Dandi Tales of the ten Princes; tr by A N D Haksar. -Penguin,2008
891.230 1 NAR/H/ Narayana The hitopadesa; tr by A N D Haksar. - Penguin, 1998
111N8
891.230 1 SIV/V/ Sivadasa The five and twenty tales of the genie. - Penguin, 1995
111N5
891.230 1 SOM/K/ Somadeva Tales from the Kathasaritsagara. - Penguin, 1994
111N4
891.230 1 VIS/P/ Vishnusarma The panchatantra; tr by Chandra Rajan. - Penguin, 1993
111N3
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3. 891.304 1 SAT/G/ Satavahana Hala The absent traveler: Prakrit love story. - Penguin, 2008
111P8
891.40430108/ 111P31 Khushwant Singh, Ed Best Indian short stories (v. 2). - HarperCollins, 2008
891.431 KAB/W/ 111P3 Kabir The weaver’s songs. - Penguin, 2003
891.433 DEV/C/111P8 Devakinandan Khatri Chandrakanta; tr by Deepa Agarwal. - Puffin Books, 2008
891.433 KAM/K/ 111P6 Kamaleshwar Partitions: novel; tr by Ameena Kazi Ansari. - Penguin, 2006
891.433 RAH/A/ 111P3 Rahi Masoom Reza A village divided. - Penguin, 2003
891.433 01 PRE/C/ Premchand The co-wife and other stories. - Penguin, 2006
111P8
891.439 3 MIR1/B/ Mir Amman A tale of four dervishes. - Penguin, 1994
111N4
891.441 JIB/S/ 111P6 Jibanananda Das Selected poems; tr by Chidananda Das. - Penguin, 2006
891.443 ROK/S/ 111P5 Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain Sultana’s dream and Padmarag. - Penguin, 2005
891.443 SUK/A/ 111P8 Sukumar Ray Wordyguardyboom. - Puffin Books, 2008
891.443 TAG/G/ 111P5 Tagore, Rabindranath Home and the world. - Penguin, 2005
891.443 TAG/S/ 111P7 Tagore, Rabindranath He; tr by Aparna Chaudhuri. - Penguin, 2006
891.443 01 PAR/S/ Parashuram Selected stories; tr by Sukanta Chaudhuri. - Penguin, 2006
111P6
891.443 01 SAT/D/ Satyajit Ray The diary of a space traveller and other stories. -Penguin,
111P8 2008
891.443 01 SAT/O/ Satyajit Ray One dozen stories. - Puffin Books, 2008
111P8
891.479 301 VIJ/N/ Vijai Dan Detha New life: selected stories. - Penguin, 2008
111P8
891.73 DOS/C/ 111P3 Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Crime and punishment. - Penguin, 2003
891.730 1 TOL/CO/ Tolstoy, Leo The cossacks and other stories. - Penguin, 2006
111P6
894.811 105 NAM/H/ Nammalvar Hymns for the drowning: poems for Visnu. - Penguin, 1993
111N3
894.811 105 08/ Richman, Paula, Tr Extraordinary child: poems from a south Indian devotional
111P8 genre. - Penguin, 2008
894.8121008/ 111P9 Poonthanam Two measures of bhakti. - Penguin, 2009
Travelogue, Biography, History
909.097 124 1/ P8 Allen, Charles, Ed Plain tales from the British Empire. - Abacus, 2008
915.404/ P9 Vassanji, M G A place within: rediscovering India. - Penguin, 2008
915.420 4/ P8 Vikramajit Ram Dreaming Vishnus: a journey through central India. -Penguin, 2008
915.483 04/ P9 Dominique-Sila Khan Sacred Kerala: a spiritual pilgrimage. - Penguin, 2009
915.496 04/ P8 Timeri N Murari Limping to the centre of the world. - Penguin, 2008
920 GAN/ P9 Fischer, Louis The life of Mahatma Gandhi. - HarperCollins, 2009
920.054/ P9 Dalrymple, William Nine lives: in search of the sacred in modern India. -
Bloomsbury, 2009
923.036 25 BIN/ P9 Cool, Steve The Bin Ladens: oil, money, terrorism and the secret
Saudi world. - Penguin, 2008
923.1 RAN/ P8 Khushwant Singh Ranjit Singh: Maharaja of the Punjab. - Penguin, 2008
923.2 KHA/ P8 Rajmohan Gandhi Ghaffar Khan. - Penguin, 2008
923.2 KRI1/ P8 Krishna Bose An outsider in politics. - Penguin, 2008
923.2 MAD/ P9 Vir Sanghvi Madhavrao Scindia. - Penguin, 2009
923.4 SHA/ P8 Shanti Bhushan Courting destiny. - Penguin, 2008
923.6 AMB/ P8 Gail Omvedt Ambedkar: towards an enlightened India. - Penguin, 2008
924 CHO/ P8 Chomsky, Noam The essential Chomsky; ed by Anthony Amove. - Penguin, 2008
926.1 ATU/ P7 Atul Gawande Better: a Surgeon’s notes on performance. - Penguin, 2007
927.914 3 ROS/ P8 Dileep Padgaokar Under her spell: Roberto Rosselini in India. - Penguin, 2008
928 BAN2/ P9 Banarasidas Ardhakathanak. - Penguin, 2009
928 KAM/ 111P3;1 Kamala Das A childhood in Malabar. - Penguin, 2003
928 MUL/ P5 Mulk Raj Anand Seven summers. - Penguin, 2005
928 SHA1/ P7 Bryson, Bill Shakespeare: the world as a stage. - HarperCollins, 2007
938.03/ P3 Herodotus The histories. - Penguin, 2003
945.632/ N6 Tacitus, Cornelius The annals of imperial Rome. - Penguin, 1996
954.035/ P8 (R) Pavan K Varma, Ed The illustrated history of the freedom struggle. -Penguin,2008
954.04/ P01 Bipan Chandra India since independence. - Penguin, 2008
954.051/ P9 Khushwant Singh Why I supported the emergency. - Penguin, 2009
954.2/ P8 Tillotson, Giles Taj Mahal. - Penguin, 2008
954.56/ P7 Ranjana Sengupta Delhi metropolitan. - Penguin, 2007
954.83/ P71 Sreedhara Menon, A A survey of Kerala. - D C Books, 2008
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4. Theses awarded by M G University
006.693/ Q0 Bindu, K Improved methods for computer generation of realistic images of three
dimensional scenes
332.672 52/ Q0 Johnson Varghese Investments of state governments: a study with reference to
Government of Kerala
338.479 109 548 3/ Q0 Preemy P Thachil The economic impact of CIAL in the development of tourism in Kerala
with special reference to Cochin
370.711/ Q0 Anita Mathai Effect of reflective teaching strategies on communicative competence
of teacher educands at primary level
371.07115095483/ Q0 Elizabeth Kuruvilla Educational activities of the Mar Thoma Syrian church of Malabar in
Kerala
372.708 694/ Q0 Gokuladasan Pillai, C A study of effectiveness of remedial programmes in mathematics for
the disadvantaged children of primary schools
373.246 095 483/ Q0 Reene Kuncheria A study on the educational and vocational problems and needs of
students in the vocational higher secondary schools of Kerala
381.41383095483/ Q0 Thomas, T P Problems and prospects of the spices trade in Kerala
519.24/ Q01 Uma, P Ramifications and applications of generalized Alpha-Laplace
distributions and process
530.413/ P3 Isaac Paul Invitro studies on the growth and properties of urinary crystals
539.752/ Q0 Jose P Abraham Studies on environmental impact of atomic minerals processing in
Cochin backwaters
571.962 96/ Q0 Meera, C R Studies on the antineoplastic properties of polysaccharides isolated
from a wood rotting macrofungus Phellinus Rimosus (BERK) Pilat
578.755 275 3/ Q0 Jojo George Roadside vegetation in relation to heavy metal contamination in
Kottayam district, Kerala
616.9940610724/ Q0 Manu, K A Effect of natural products on the activation of NF-kB and expression of
inducible nitric oxide synthase gene during tumor specific
angiogenesis and metastasis
660.284 24/ Q0 Jissy Mathew Development and pressure driven transport studies of polyelectrolyte
membranes
In 823 NAR 09/ Q0 Dominic, K V East-west conflict in the novels of R K Narayan with special reference
to The vendor of sweets, Waiting for the Mahatma, The painter of
signs and The guide
821 THO 09/ Q0 Mary Paul Ambivalent contours in the poetry of R S Thomas
Chakachamparambil
823 BRO 09/ Q0 Lata Marina Varghese The storm and the calm: Emily Bronte’s Wuthering heights and
Arundhati Roy’s The God of small things- a thematic and stylistic study
891.433 010 9/ Q0 Soosy Joseph Dalit saahithya: ek sarvekshan- Hindi katha saahithya ke vishesh
sandarbh mem
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