Mapping the nation : an anthology of Indian poetry in English, 1870-1920 /
Focusing specifically on the poetic construction of India, 'Mapping the Nation' offers a broad selection of poetry written by Indians in English during the period 1870-1920. Centering upon the "(Bmapping" of India - both as a regional location and as a poetic ideal - this unique...
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Table of Contents:
- Contents note continued: a "Introductory Memoir" for Toru Dutt's Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan (London: 1882) / Edmund Gosse
- b. "Introduction" for Sarojini Naidu's The Golden Threshold (London: 1905) / Arthur Symons
- c. "Introductory Memoir" for Manmohan Ghose's Songs of Love and Death (Oxford: 1926) / Laurence Binyon
- d. "Introduction" for Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali (London: 1912) / W.B. Yeats
- 3. "Preface," "Introduction" and poems from A Garland of Ceylon Verse, 1837-1897 (Columbo: 1897), edited and with an introduction and notes / Isaac Tambyah.
- Machine generated contents note: EAST
- 1 Shoshee Chunder Dutt
- A Vision of Sumeru, and Other Poems (Calcutta: 1878)
- Address to the Ganges
- My Native Land
- Sonnets
- India
- 2. Greece Chunder Dutt
- Cherry Stones (Calcutta: 1879)
- XXVII. Sonnet (The Nepali Peasant)
- XXX. Sonnet (Near Goa)
- XLVII. Sonnet (1858)
- LIV. Sonnet (Sacoontala)
- 3. Joteendro Mohun Tagore
- Flights of Fancy in Prose and Verse (Calcutta: 1881)
- The Rajpootnee's Song
- Sonnet to the Kokil
- Song
- The Dewallee, or The Feast of Light
- Moonlight on the River
- Sonnet to India
- The Hindu Widow's Lament
- 4. Avadh Behari Lall
- The Irish Home Rule Bill, a poetical pamphlet (Calcutta: 1893)
- The Irish Home Rule Bill, a poetical pamphlet
- Behar, and other poems (Calcutta: 1898)
- An Epistle to the Right Hon'ble Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet-Laureate, England
- 5. Romesh Chunder Dutt
- Reminiscences of a Workman's Life (Calcutta: 1896)
- The Exile
- Home
- Lines on India
- Lines on Ireland
- Autumn-Night in a Bengal Rice-Field
- 6. Lala Prasanna Kumar Dey
- Indian Bouquet (Calcutta: 1906)
- War
- Svami Vivekananda at Chicago
- 7. A. S. H. Hussain
- Loyal Leaves (Calcutta: 1911)
- Ode for her Imperial Majesty Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee
- The Voice of Islam and other poems (Calcutta: 1914)
- The Voice of Islam
- 8. Charu Chandra Bose
- A Voice from Bengal: Welcome Address to Their Majesties Landed in India (Calcutta: 1912)
- Welcome Address to Their Majesties landed in India
- 9. Nanikram Vasanmal Thadani
- The Triumph of Delhi and Other Poems (Calcutta: 1916)
- The Triumph of Delhi
- 10. Ram Sharma
- The Poetical Works of Ram Sharma (Calcutta: 1919)
- Song of the Indian Conservative
- An Old Indian Melody
- The Song of the Tirhoot Planters
- The Anglo-Indian War-Cry, or Bluster in Excelsis
- India's Vindication of Lord Ripon and her Farewell
- Ode on the Meeting of the Congress at Allahabad on the 26th December 1888
- India to Britain
- To Indian Patriots
- Bande Mataram
- WEST
- 1. Behramji Merwanji Malabari
- The Indian Muse in English Garb (Bombay: 1876)
- "The dream of my youth" H. R. H. the Prince of Wales
- The Stages of a Hindu Female Life
- To the Missionaries of Faith
- Time of Famine
- The British Character
- A Protest
- 2. Cowasji Nowrosji Vesuvala
- Courting the Muse: being a Collection of Poems (Bombay: 1879)
- True Indian Opinion, or Native Croakers
- Sonnet: Bombay Harbour
- 3. Aurobindo Ghose
- Songs to Myrtilla and other poems (Baroda: 1895)
- O Coil, Coil
- Charles Stewart Parnell
- Lines on Ireland
- Saraswati with the Lotus
- 4. S. D. Saklatvala
- An Appeal for Peace, some verses (Bombay: 1910)
- [Excerpts]
- 5. C. R. Doraswami Naidu
- Heart Buds, poems (Ahmedabad: 1914)
- Foreword
- To the Motherland
- The Taj Mahal
- Agra
- To K.V.M., A Vision
- Young India
- 6. Jamasp Phiroze Dastur
- The Temple of Justice /a poem in praise of justice/(Bombay: 1916)
- The Temple of Justice
- 7. Rustam B. Paymaster
- Navroziana, or The Dawn of a New Era: Being Poems on Mr. Dadabhai Naoroji and Other Friends of India, with "The Voice of the East on the Great War" (Bombay: 1917)
- An Ode of Welcome / Mr. Dadabhai Naoroji
- On His 79th Birthday / Mr. Dadabhai Naoroji
- Dadabhai Naoroji
- The Late Hon. Mr. G. K. Gokhale, C. I. E.
- Lord Hardinge
- The Secret of a Successful Rule
- The Parsi New Year's Day
- NORTH
- 1. Babu S. C. Dutt [Shoshee Chunder Dutt]
- Last Moments of Pratapa (Lahore: 1893)
- Last Moments of Pratapa
- 2. Bipin Bihari Bose
- Congress Songs and Ballads (Lucknow: 1899)
- "Mother and Mother-Country are more estimable than Heaven itself"
- The Congress-man's Confession
- 3. Sir Mian Muhammad Shafi
- Poems (Lahore: 1907)
- To a Chinar-Tree
- The Sirinagar Flood and the Dal Lake
- On Entering the Kashmere Valley
- On the Occasion of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
- To Delhi
- The Rise and Fall of Islam
- To India!
- "To my mother"
- 4. Tej Shankar Kochak [a "Georgian Brahmin"]
- Oriental Welcome to Their Most Gracious Majesties the King-Emperor and the Queen-Empress (Cawnpore: 1911)
- [Excerpts]
- 5. Sushila Harkishen Lal
- Stray Thoughts (Lahore: 1918)
- Dreams
- SOUTH
- 1. R. Sivasankara Pandiya
- The Empress of India and Other Poems (Madras: 1888)
- Empress of India and Indian Poets
- The University of Madras
- 2. Krupabai Satthianadhan
- Miscellaneous Writings of Krupabai Satthianadhan (Madras: 1896)
- Recollections of Childhood
- Social Intercourse between Europeans and Natives
- 3. M.V. Venkatasubba Aiyar
- Ventures in Verse (Madras: 1899)
- To the Land of My Birth
- Sonnets, I. Faith
- Ravana's Doom
- 4. M. Dinakara
- A Ballad of the Boer War... in Celebration of the Prowess of the British Army (Ramnad: 1902)
- The Gathering
- How Great Britain was Regenerated and Became `Greater Britain'
- A Tribute to the Gallant Boers, Who Fought, and Fell, for their Country
- 5. Chilkur C. S. Narsimha Row
- The Poetical Works of Chilkur C. S. Nar Simha Row (Ellore: 1911)
- The Greatest Need of India
- Madras or Rome, where's thy home?
- Vande Mataram
- The grand old man of India
- India
- 6. C. Lakshminarayana Aiyer
- Poems (Tinnevelly: 1914)
- To the Lord Bhupalaswami, Srivaikuntam
- To His Gracious Majesty George V Emperor of India
- Coronation Song
- The New Year, 1912
- 7. P. Seshadri
- Bilhana: An Indian Romance, Adapted from Sanskrit (Madras: 1914)
- Bilhana
- Sonnets (Madras: 1914)
- Toru Dutt
- The Marquis of Ripon
- Victoria
- Romesh Chunder Dutt
- Champak Leaves (Madras: 1919, originally published 1915)
- The Sacrifice
- Jahangir and the Little Children
- Widowed
- Queen Tissarakshita's Jealousy
- Lali and Majnun
- Indumathi's Death
- A Sister's Wail
- The Exile
- The Rani of Ganore
- Anakarli
- 8. Ardeshir Framji Khabardar
- The Silken Tassel (Madras: 1918)
- An Indian Funeral Song
- To India
- The Patriot
- 9. Rabindranath Tagore
- The Gift of the Poet Laureate of India to National Education Week, 1918 (Adyar: 1918)
- 10. Harindranath Chattopadhyay
- The Feast of Youth (Madras: 1918)
- The Hour of Rest
- Sufi Worship
- The Coloured Garden (Madras: 1919)
- The Coloured Country
- Pride
- A Sad Thing
- 11. Aurobindo Ghose
- Baji Prabhou, a poem (Pondicherry: 1922, originally published 1909)
- Baji Prabhou
- 12. Nizamat Jung
- Poems (Hyderabad: 1954)
- Ode, The Awakening of the East
- The Imperial Coronation at Delhi
- India to England, 1914
- On the admission of Indians to the British Army
- In Memoriam
- ABROAD
- 1. Govin Chunder Dutt, et al.
- The Dutt Family Album (London: 1870)
- Home
- Lines (Written while on a Visit to Kalighat)
- Vizagapatam
- Madras
- 2. Toru Dutt
- Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan (London: 1882)
- Savitri
- Sita
- 3. Hamid Ali Khan
- A Farewell to London: The Story of the Slave and the Nose-Ring (London: 1885, 2nd ed.)
- A Farewell to London
- The Slave and the Nose-Ring
- 4. Dejen L. Roy
- The Lyrics of Ind (London: 1886)
- The Land of the Sun
- The Island
- 5. Greece Chunder Dutt
- Cherry Blossoms (London: 1887)
- The Soonderbuns
- The Neem Tree
- In the Bush
- The Taj Mahal
- On the Day of Lord Ripon's Departure from Calcutta
- Sita
- 6. T. (Pillai) Ramakrishna
- Tales of Ind, and Other Poems (London: 1896, 2nd ed.)
- Lord Tennyson
- Seeta and Rama, A Tale of the Indian Famine
- 7. Manmohan Ghose
- Love Songs and Elegies (London: 1898)
- The Exile
- Songs of Love and Death (Oxford: 1926)
- London
- Home-Thoughts
- Song of Britannia
- On the Centenary of the Presidency College
- 8. Romesh Chunder Dutt
- Ramayana: the Epic of Rama, Prince of India, Condensed into English Verse, trans. (London: 1899)
- Recital of the Ramayana
- 9. Hary Sing Gour
- Stepping Westward and Other Poems (London: 1890)
- Stepping Westward, or Emigrants to the West
- 10. Sarojini Naidu
- The Golden Threshold (London: 1905)
- To India
- Nightfall in the City of Hyderabad
- Ode to H. H. The Nizam of Hyderabad
- The Broken Wing: Songs of Love, Death & Destiny, 1915-1916 (London: 1917)
- Awake!
- The Gift of India
- 11. Roby Datta
- Echoes from East and West (Cambridge: 1909)
- The Grief of Ravan
- The Fair Martyrs
- The Sworn Hero
- Piyadasi
- On Tibet
- To Britain
- 12. Hasan Shahid Suhrawardy
- Faded Leaves, a collection of poems (London: 1910)
- Dedication
- The Indian Maid's Lament
- Swinburne
- 13. Rabindranath Tagore
- Gardener, trans. by author (London: 1913)
- [Excerpts]
- Fruit-Gathering, trans, by author (London: 1916)
- [Excerpts]
- 14. Peshoton Sorabji Goolbai Dubash
- Rationalistic and Other Poems (London: 1917)
- Britannia and Mother Hind
- 15. Sri Ananda Acharya
- Snow-birds (London: 1919)
- LXXXII. Ode on the Rishis, the Darsanikas, and the Sannyasins of India
- APPENDICES
- 1. Indian Poets on their Poetry
- a. "Preface" from The Indian Muse in English Garb (Bombay: 1876) / Behramji Merwanji Malabari
- b. "Prefaces" and "Appendix" from A Farewell to London: The Story of the Slave and the Nose-Ring (London: 1885, 2nd ed.) / Hamid Ali Khan
- c. "Translator's Epilogue" from Maha-Bharata: Epic of the Bharatas, Condensed into English Verse (London: 1898) / Romesh Chunder Dutt
- Note continued: d "Preface" from Behar, and other poems (Calcutta: 1898) / Avadh Behari Lall
- e. "Preface" from Echoes from East and West (Cambridge: 1909) / Roby Datta
- 2. British Poets/Critics on Indian Poets
- a. "Introductory Memoir" for Toru Dutt's Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan (London: 1882) / Edmund Gosse
- b. "Introduction" for Sarojini Naidu's The Golden Threshold (London: 1905) / Arthur Symons
- c. "Introductory Memoir" for Manmohan Ghose's Songs of Love and Death (Oxford: 1926) / Laurence Binyon
- d. "Introduction" for Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali (London: 1912) / W.B. Yeats
- 3. "Preface," "Introduction" and poems from A Garland of Ceylon Verse, 1837-1897 (Columbo: 1897), edited and with an introduction and notes / Isaac Tambyah.
- EAST
- 1 Shoshee Chunder Dutt
- Vision of Sumeru, and Other Poems (Calcutta: 1878)
- Address to the Ganges
- My Native Land
- Sonnets---India
- 2. Greece Chunder Dutt
- Cherry Stones (Calcutta: 1879)
- XXVII. Sonnet (The Nepali Peasant)
- XXX. Sonnet (Near Goa)
- XLVII. Sonnet (1858)
- LIV. Sonnet (Sacoontala)
- 3. Joteendro Mohun Tagore
- Flights of Fancy in Prose and Verse (Calcutta: 1881)
- Rajpootnee's Song
- Sonnet to the Kokil
- Song
- Dewallee, or The Feast of Light
- Moonlight on the River
- Sonnet to India
- Hindu Widow's Lament
- 4. Avadh Behari Lall
- Irish Home Rule Bill, a poetical pamphlet (Calcutta: 1893)
- Irish Home Rule Bill, a poetical pamphlet
- Behar, and other poems (Calcutta: 1898)
- Epistle to the Right Hon'ble Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet-Laureate, England
- 5. Romesh Chunder Dutt
- Reminiscences of a Workman's Life (Calcutta: 1896)
- Exile
- Home
- Lines on India
- Lines on Ireland
- Autumn-Night in a Bengal Rice-Field
- 6. Lala Prasanna Kumar Dey
- Indian Bouquet (Calcutta: 1906)
- War
- Svami Vivekananda at Chicago
- 7. A. S. H. Hussain
- Loyal Leaves (Calcutta: 1911)
- Ode for her Imperial Majesty Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee
- Voice of Islam and other poems (Calcutta: 1914)
- Voice of Islam
- 8. Charu Chandra Bose
- Voice from Bengal: Welcome Address to Their Majesties Landed in India (Calcutta: 1912)
- Welcome Address to Their Majesties landed in India
- 9. Nanikram Vasanmal Thadani
- Triumph of Delhi and Other Poems (Calcutta: 1916)
- Triumph of Delhi
- 10. Ram Sharma
- Poetical Works of Ram Sharma (Calcutta: 1919)
- Song of the Indian Conservative
- Old Indian Melody
- Song of the Tirhoot Planters
- Anglo-Indian War-Cry, or Bluster in Excelsis
- India's Vindication of Lord Ripon and her Farewell
- Ode on the Meeting of the Congress at Allahabad on the 26th December 1888
- India to Britain
- To Indian Patriots
- Bande Mataram
- WEST
- 1. Behramji Merwanji Malabari
- Indian Muse in English Garb (Bombay: 1876)
- "The dream of my youth" H. R. H. the Prince of Wales
- Stages of a Hindu Female Life
- To the Missionaries of Faith
- Time of Famine
- British Character
- Protest
- 2. Cowasji Nowrosji Vesuvala
- Courting the Muse: being a Collection of Poems (Bombay: 1879)
- True Indian Opinion, or Native Croakers
- Sonnet: Bombay Harbour
- 3. Aurobindo Ghose
- Songs to Myrtilla and other poems (Baroda: 1895)
- O Coil, Coil
- Charles Stewart Parnell
- Lines on Ireland
- Saraswati with the Lotus
- 4. S. D. Saklatvala
- Appeal for Peace, some verses (Bombay: 1910)
- [Excerpts]
- 5. C. R. Doraswami Naidu
- Heart Buds, poems (Ahmedabad: 1914)
- Foreword
- To the Motherland
- Taj Mahal - Agra
- To K.V.M., A Vision - Young India
- 6. Jamasp Phiroze Dastur
- Temple of Justice /a poem in praise of justice/(Bombay: 1916)
- Temple of Justice
- 7. Rustam B. Paymaster
- Navroziana, or The Dawn of a New Era: Being Poems on Mr. Dadabhai Naoroji and Other Friends of India, with "The Voice of the East on the Great War" (Bombay: 1917)
- Ode of Welcome / Mr. Dadabhai Naoroji
- On His 79th Birthday / Mr. Dadabhai Naoroji
- Dadabhai Naoroji
- Late Hon. Mr. G. K. Gokhale, C. I. E.
- Lord Hardinge
- Secret of a Successful Rule
- Parsi New Year's Day
- NORTH
- 1. Babu S. C. Dutt [Shoshee Chunder Dutt]
- Last Moments of Pratapa (Lahore: 1893)
- Last Moments of Pratapa
- 2. Bipin Bihari Bose
- Congress Songs and Ballads (Lucknow: 1899)
- "Mother and Mother-Country are more estimable than Heaven itself"
- Congress-man's Confession
- 3. Sir Mian Muhammad Shafi
- Poems (Lahore: 1907)
- To a Chinar-Tree
- Sirinagar Flood and the Dal Lake
- On Entering the Kashmere Valley
- On the Occasion of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
- To Delhi
- Rise and Fall of Islam
- To India!
- "To my mother"
- 4. Tej Shankar Kochak [a "Georgian Brahmin"]
- Oriental Welcome to Their Most Gracious Majesties the King-Emperor and the Queen-Empress (Cawnpore: 1911)
- [Excerpts]
- 5. Sushila Harkishen Lal
- Stray Thoughts (Lahore: 1918)
- Dreams
- SOUTH
- 1. R. Sivasankara Pandiya
- Empress of India and Other Poems (Madras: 1888)
- Empress of India and Indian Poets
- University of Madras
- 2. Krupabai Satthianadhan
- Miscellaneous Writings of Krupabai Satthianadhan (Madras: 1896)
- Recollections of Childhood
- Social Intercourse between Europeans and Natives
- 3. M.V. Venkatasubba Aiyar
- Ventures in Verse (Madras: 1899)
- To the Land of My Birth
- Sonnets, I. Faith
- Ravana's Doom
- 4. M. Dinakara
- Ballad of the Boer War... in Celebration of the Prowess of the British Army (Ramnad: 1902)
- Gathering
- How Great Britain was Regenerated and Became `Greater Britain'
- Tribute to the Gallant Boers, Who Fought, and Fell, for their Country
- 5. Chilkur C. S. Narsimha Row
- Poetical Works of Chilkur C. S. Nar Simha Row (Ellore: 1911)
- Greatest Need of India
- Madras or Rome, where's thy home?
- Vande Mataram
- grand old man of India
- India
- 6. C. Lakshminarayana Aiyer
- Poems (Tinnevelly: 1914)
- To the Lord Bhupalaswami, Srivaikuntam
- To His Gracious Majesty George V Emperor of India
- Coronation Song
- New Year, 1912
- 7. P. Seshadri
- Bilhana: An Indian Romance, Adapted from Sanskrit (Madras: 1914)
- Bilhana
- Sonnets (Madras: 1914)
- Toru Dutt
- Marquis of Ripon
- Victoria
- Romesh Chunder Dutt
- Champak Leaves (Madras: 1919, originally published 1915)
- Sacrifice
- Jahangir and the Little Children
- Widowed
- Queen Tissarakshita's Jealousy
- Lali and Majnun
- Indumathi's Death
- Sister's Wail
- Exile
- Rani of Ganore
- Anakarli
- 8. Ardeshir Framji Khabardar
- Silken Tassel (Madras: 1918)
- Indian Funeral Song
- To India
- Patriot
- 9. Rabindranath Tagore
- Gift of the Poet Laureate of India to National Education Week, 1918 (Adyar: 1918)
- 10. Harindranath Chattopadhyay
- Feast of Youth (Madras: 1918)
- Hour of Rest
- Sufi Worship
- Coloured Garden (Madras: 1919)
- Coloured Country
- Pride
- Sad Thing
- 11. Aurobindo Ghose
- Baji Prabhou, a poem (Pondicherry: 1922, originally published 1909)
- Baji Prabhou
- 12. Nizamat Jung
- Poems (Hyderabad: 1954)
- Ode, The Awakening of the East
- Imperial Coronation at Delhi
- India to England, 1914
- On the admission of Indians to the British Army
- In Memoriam
- ABROAD
- 1. Govin Chunder Dutt, et al.
- Dutt Family Album (London: 1870)
- Home
- Lines (Written while on a Visit to Kalighat)
- Vizagapatam
- Madras
- 2. Toru Dutt
- Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan (London: 1882)
- Savitri
- Sita
- 3. Hamid Ali Khan
- Farewell to London: The Story of the Slave and the Nose-Ring (London: 1885, 2nd ed.)
- Farewell to London
- Slave and the Nose-Ring
- 4. Dejen L. Roy
- Lyrics of Ind (London: 1886)
- Land of the Sun
- Island
- 5. Greece Chunder Dutt
- Cherry Blossoms (London: 1887)
- Soonderbuns
- Neem Tree
- In the Bush
- Taj Mahal
- On the Day of Lord Ripon's Departure from Calcutta
- Sita
- 6. T. (Pillai) Ramakrishna
- Tales of Ind, and Other Poems (London: 1896, 2nd ed.)
- Lord Tennyson
- Seeta and Rama, A Tale of the Indian Famine
- 7. Manmohan Ghose
- Love Songs and Elegies (London: 1898)
- Exile
- Songs of Love and Death (Oxford: 1926)
- London
- Home-Thoughts
- Song of Britannia
- On the Centenary of the Presidency College
- 8. Romesh Chunder Dutt
- Ramayana: the Epic of Rama, Prince of India, Condensed into English Verse, trans. (London: 1899)
- Recital of the Ramayana
- 9. Hary Sing Gour
- Stepping Westward and Other Poems (London: 1890)
- Stepping Westward, or Emigrants to the West
- 10. Sarojini Naidu
- Golden Threshold (London: 1905)
- To India
- Nightfall in the City of Hyderabad
- Ode to H. H.
- The Nizam of Hyderabad
- Broken Wing: Songs of Love, Death & Destiny, 1915-1916 (London: 1917)
- Awake!
- Gift of India
- 11 Roby Datta
- Echoes from East and West (Cambridge: 1909)
- Grief of Ravan
- Fair Martyrs
- Sworn Hero
- Piyadasi
- On Tibet
- To Britain
- 12. Hasan Shahid Suhrawardy
- Faded Leaves, a collection of poems (London: 1910)
- Dedication
- Indian Maid's Lament
- Swinburne
- 13. Rabindranath Tagore
- Gardener, trans. by author (London: 1913)
- [Excerpts]
- Fruit-Gathering, trans, by author (London: 1916)
- [Excerpts]
- 14. Peshoton Sorabji Goolbai Dubash
- Rationalistic and Other Poems (London: 1917)
- Britannia and Mother Hind
- 15. Sri Ananda Acharya
- Snow-birds (London: 1919)
- LXXXII. Ode on the Rishis, the Darsanikas, and the Sannyasins of India
- APPENDICES
- 1. Indian Poets on their Poetry
- a. "Preface" from The Indian Muse in English Garb (Bombay: 1876) / Behramji Merwanji Malabari
- b. "Prefaces" and "Appendix" from A Farewell to London: The Story of the Slave and the Nose-Ring (London: 1885, 2nd ed.) / Hamid Ali Khan
- c. "Translator's Epilogue" from Maha-Bharata: Epic of the Bharatas, Condensed into English Verse (London: 1898) / Romesh Chunder Dutt
- d. "Preface" from Behar, and other poems (Calcutta: 1898) / Avadh Behari Lall
- e. "Preface" from Echoes from East and West (Cambridge: 1909) / Roby Datta
- 2. British Poets/Critics on Indian Poets