“A Government of India undertaking . . .”

Title“A Government of India undertaking . . .”
Year for Search1984
AuthorsPadmanabhan, Manjula(b. 1953)
Secondary TitleImprint (Bombay, India)
Volume / Edition24.1
Pagination88-93, 95-96
Date PublishedApril 1984
KeywordsFemale author, Indian author
Annotation

Dystopian Kafkaesque satire focusing on the “Bureau of Reincarnation and Transmigration of Souls--A Government of India Undertaking.” 

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in In Other Words: New Writing by Indian Women. Ed. Urvashi Butalia and Ritu Menon (Delhi, India: Kali for Women, 1992), 1-24.  U.K. ed. (London: The Women’s Press, 1993), 1-24; U.S. ed. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994), 1-24. Rpt. in Critical Quarterly 35.4 (December 1993): 66-79; in her Hot Death, Cold Soup: Twelve Short Stories (Delhi, India: Kali for Women, 1996), 111-32. Rpt. (Reading, Eng.: Garnet Publishing, 1997), 99-117; and in her Three Virgins and Other Stories (New Delhi, India: Zubaan, 2013), 17-38. 

Holding Institutions

DLC, PSt, PU

Author Note

Indian female author (b. 1953) living in the United States

Full Text

1984 Padmanabhan, Manjula (b. 1953). “A Government of India undertaking . . .” Imprint (Bombay, India) 24.1 (April 1984): 88-93, 95-96. Rpt. in In Other Words: New Writing by Indian Women. Ed. Urvashi Butalia and Ritu Menon (Delhi, India: Kali for Women, 1992), 1-24.  U.K. ed. (London: The Women’s Press, 1993), 1-24; U.S. ed. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994), 1-24. Rpt. in Critical Quarterly 35.4 (December 1993): 66-79; in her Hot Death, Cold Soup: Twelve Short Stories (Delhi, India: Kali for Women, 1996), 111-32. Rpt. (Reading, Eng.: Garnet Publishing, 1997), 99-117; and in her Three Virgins and Other Stories (New Delhi, India: Zubaan, 2013), 17-38. DLC, PSt, PU

Dystopian Kafkaesque satire focusing on the “Bureau of Reincarnation and Transmigration of Souls--A Government of India Undertaking.” Indian female author living in the United States.