Santha Rama Rau

Santha Rama Rau was an Indian writer (1923–2009). She was born at Chennai and died at Amenia.

Santha Rama Rau in brief

Born
1923
Died
2009
Known for
writer
Place of birth
Chennai
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Catalogued works

26 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service, Open Library, The Art Institute of Chicago and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1909 to 1976.

A Passage to India. These Simple Things. World Literature 1999. Great Short Stories of the World. A princess remembers, dated 1976. View to the southeast. East of home. Home to India. The adventuress; a novel. The cooking of India. Home to India (Perennial library). EAST OF HOME, The Discovery of Asia By an Asian Educated in the West. Gifts of passage. This Is India. Remember the House. My Russian journey. Recipes. The adventuress. East of Home. INSCRIBED. GIFTS OF PASSAGE by Santha Rama Rau by Santha Rama Rau. Passagem para a Índia. The Cooking of India (Foods of the World). Recipes: the cooking of India. The trial of Jomo Kenyatta. Untitled, dated 1968, black ink, purple and black spray paint, white enamel paint and match sticks on cream wove paper, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 2022.1485. Personal, dated 1909-1984, held by Wellcome Collection.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 2 named public collections.

The Art Institute of Chicago: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Wellcome Collection: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

3 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

3. Home to India: Cooking with Santha Rama Rau, The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau, 2020. 1. Cold War Cosmopolitanism: The Education of Santha Rama Rau in the Age of Bandung, 1945–1960, The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau, 2020. Santha Rama Rau: A Footnote to History?, Литература двух Америк, 2022.

Digitised editions and texts

6 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive.

The Cooking of India (1969) — Internet Archive. remember the house (1956) — Internet Archive. Home to India (1945) — Internet Archive. East of home (1950) — Internet Archive. East of Home. [Signiert]. (1950) — Internet Archive. My Russian Journey (1959) — Internet Archive.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 13 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 6 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 6 means 6 genuinely separate publishers of record. 12 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Chronology

  1. 1923Santha Rama Rau born at Chennai.
  2. 1945Home to India digitised by Internet Archive.
  3. 1950East of home digitised by Internet Archive.
  4. 1950East of Home. [Signiert]. digitised by Internet Archive.
  5. 1956remember the house digitised by Internet Archive.
  6. 1959My Russian Journey digitised by Internet Archive.
  7. 1969The Cooking of India digitised by Internet Archive.
  8. 1976A princess remembers.
  9. 2009Santha Rama Rau died at Amenia.

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    “Santha Rama Rau”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

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  2. 2.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q2790907: Santha Rama Rau

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