This page will give research scholars, and visitors who are interested in Indian Literature and SCILET, an idea or sample of the kinds of books acquired for the library. The list will be eventually updated as and when new books are acquired and it will be a random and not an exhaustive list.

Books recently acquired

Mohandas Moses. Last Frontiers of the Mind
Shakti Maira. Towards Ananda
M.J. Akbar. Blood Borthers: A Family Saga
Ravi Kalia. Gandhinagar: Building National Identity
Geoffrey A. Oddie. Imagined Hinduism

Shahid Amin. Event, Metaphor, Memory
Vasudha Dalmia. Poetics, Plays, and Performances
M.S. Nagarajan. English Literary Criticism and Theory
Edward W. Said. On Late Style
Simon Digby. Wonder-Tales of South Asia

Khushwant Singh. HarperCollins Book of New Indian Fiction
Aditya Bhattacharjea. The Fiction of St Stephen’s
Kiran Desai. The Inheritance of Loss
Keki Daruwalla. Collected Poems 1970-2005
Ranjit Hoskote. Vanishing Acts: New and Selected Poems

Griffin Ondaatje (ed). Scarless Face and Other Stories
Mulk Raj Anand. Selected Short Stories
Vilas Sarang. The Women in Cages: Collected Stories
Vikram Chandra. Sacred Games
Vedanayakam Pillai. Life and Times of Pratapa Mudaliar

Shree Ghatage. Brahma’s Dream: A Novel
Bapsi Sidhwa. Water: A Novel
Pandey Bechan Sharma. Chocolate and Other Writings
Gooptu. Cornelia Sorabji: India’s Pioneer Woman Lawyer
Nausheen Pasha-Zaidi. The Colour of Mehndi