The Works of Basavaraj Naikar : Critical Perceptions, Vols. I and II

Contents: Vol. I. Introduction. 1. Home grown tales of Indian life: Basavaraj Naikar\'s The Thief of Nagarahalli and other stories/Shankar Prasad Singha. 2. The tale as useful artefact: Basavaraj Naikar\'s The Thief of Nagarahalli and other stories/Christopher Rollason. 3. Society and the individual in the short stories of Basavaraj Naikar/O.P. Mathur. 4. The world of Basavaraj Naikar\'s short stories/Usha Bande. 5. A Kaleidoscopic vision: short stories of Basavaraj Naikar/S.G. Vaidya. 6. The Thief of Nagarahalli and other stories: essentially Indian stories: essentially Indian stories/Asha Choubey. 7. The silent women: a study of the position of women in The Thief of Nagarahalli and other stories/Aroonima Sinha. 8. Passion, pride and predicament: Basavaraj Naikar\'s The Thief of Nagarahalli and other stories/H.V. Deshpande. 9. Marriage and morals in the stories of Basavaraj Naikar: a post-colonial approach/B.Y. Patil. 10. Life\'s like that: a rendezvous with The Thief of Nagarahalli/Asha Choubey. 11. Conflicting images: Naikar\'s The Thief of Nagarahalli and other stories/Alka Singh. 12. Style and technique in The Thief of Nagarhalli and The Rebellious Rani of Belavadi and other stories/A.S. Arabole and S.B. Bhambar. 13. All for gold and sex: a thematic analysis of Basavaraj Naikar\'s short stories/Pashupati Jha and T. Ravichandran. 14. Admirably an elegant story teller/Stephen Gill. 15. Love and marriage in "All for God"/Nirmala C. Prakash. 16. Socio-cultural and politico-historical reflections in Basavaraj Naikar\'s short story: The rebellious Rani of Belavadi/Kh. Kunjo Singh. 17. The short story writer as a historian and social chronicler: a consideration of Basavaraj Naikar\'s The Rebellious Rani of Belavadi and other Stories/S. John Peter Joseph. 18. Socio-ethical perspectives in Basavaraj Naikar\'s fictional world: a study of The Rebellious Rani/Bhagabat Nayak. 19. Struggle for honour and freedom in The Sun Behind The Cloud/S.G. Vaidya. 20. The colonial encounter: a critical response to Basavaraj Naikar\'s The Sun Behind the Cloud/S. John Peter Joseph. 21. Basavaraj Naikar\'s The Sun Behind the cloud: a typical Indian historical novel/Jibesh Bhattacharya.

Vol. II. 22. The power and the glory; review of Naikar\'s The Sun behind the cloud/Asha Choubey. 23. Rehabilitation of an Indian nationalist hero in Basavaraj Naikar\'s novel: The Sun Behind the Cloud/M.A. Jeyaraju. 24. The Sun behind the cloud: a critical perceptions/Bhaskar Roy Barman. 25. Turning historical material into art: a study of The Devil\'s Wind and The Sun Behind The Cloud/S.B. Singh. 26. Naikar Memorializes Babasaheb in The Sun Behind the Cloud/Shyam S. Agarwalla. 27. The poet as social chronicler and reformer: a Study of Basavaraj Naikar\'s (Trans.) Musings of Sarvajna/S. John Peter Joseph. 28. Dynamics of spirituality in Kalburgi\'s Fall of Kalyana/P. Obula Reddy.  29. From static to dynamic: a critical study of M.M. Kalburgi\'s (Trans. Basavaraj Naikar) Fall of Kalyana/S. John Peter Joseph. 30. M.M. Kalburgi\'s Fall of Kalyana: A study of philosophical heteroglossia in historical teleology/Bhagabat Nayak. 31. A treatise on good governance: Fall of Kalyana/T.S. Chandra Mouli. 32. The world III lost: a critical analysis of Sangya Balya: betrayal/S.G. Vaidya. 33. Sangya-Balya: Betrayal: a folk tragedy/S. John Peter Joseph. 34. Sangya Balya: a tragedy of elemental passion/Ravishankar Rao. 35. Human concerns and relationships in Rayuappa Pattar\'s Sangya-Balya: betrayal/Kh. Kunjo Singh. 36. Basavaraj Naikar\'s Kannada translations: an overview/Mallikarjun Patil. 37. Success despite inadequacy: analysis of Basavaraj Naikar\'s translation of Sangya Balya: betrayal/M.C. Prakash. 38. Sharif Saheb a symbol of religious and communal harmony: a critical response to Basavaraj Naikar\'s Light in the House/S. John Peter Joseph. 39. Basavaraj Naikar\'s Light in the House as a philosophical Novel/Piragouda Ghanti. 40. Basavaraj Naikar\'s Light in the house: A novel of magic realism and cultural synthesis/Piragouda Ghanti. 41. The vision of harmony in Light in the House/S.G. Vaidya. 42. Spiritual quest in Basavaraj Naikar\'s Light in the House/S.B. Bhambar. Index.