Translation As Recovery

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A sequel to the widely Translation as Discovery, not only builds on theground of the earlier book but also seeks to extend it. TranslationAs Recovery includes a perceptive account ofthe long history of translation in India, study of multiple translation ofsingle texts using perspectives of 'book history' as well as literary criticism,observations on translation as a craft, 'nearly equal' to art but not quite so, assessmentof the pedagogic and market possibilities of translated texts, accent on sturdilyindigenist translatorial practices and several other key concerns ofTranslation Studies, reflecting the author's life-long engagement with thevaried aspects of the discipline. Scholarly yet jargon-free, this book is a widely contextualized, toughly interrogative and highlyreadable work which will not so much impress and daunt the reader as it willdelight and persuade her.