This volume studies the ways in which modernity has been conceived, practiced, and performed in Indian literatures from the 18th to 20th century. It brings together essays on writings in Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Odia, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and languages from Northeast India.
This volume studies the ways in which modernity has been conceived, practiced, and performed in Indian literatures from the 18th to 20th century. It brings together essays on writings in Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Odia, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and languages from Northeast India.
Nishat Zaidi is Professor and former Head, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.
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Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xii Introduction: Entanglements of Indian Modernities: Poetics, Praxis, Possibilities in Literary Cultures of India from the 18th to the 20th Century 1 NISHAT ZAIDI PART I Performing Modernity, Affecting Modernism 21 A: Intimations of Modernity 1 Registers of the New: Translating Modernity in 19th and 20th Century India 23 SUPRIYA CHAUDHURI 2 Tagore and the Modern 42 SUKANTA CHAUDHURI 3 Provincializing Modernity: From Imagined Community to Communitarian Imaginaries in Malayalam Fiction 50 E.V. RAMAKRISHNAN 4 Past Continuous: Munshi, Gujarat, and the Patan Trilogy 62 RITA KOTHARI AND ABHIJIT KOTHARI B: Trajectories of Modernism 5 B.S. Mardhekar's Interliterary Poetics and the Emergence of Avant-garde Modernism in Marathi 81 SACHIN C. KETKAR 6 Moody Modernism: Miraji Becomes Sappho 97 GEETA PATEL 7 Modernisms in the Magazine: A Case for Recovery in Hindi 115 AAKRITI MANDHWANI 8 Dark Dispatches of Modernity and Nation Making: A Rereading of Nirmal Verma's Dark Dispatches 132 BHARTI ARORA PART II Modalities, Movements, Histories 153 9 Fashioning Readers: Canon, Criticism, and Pedagogy in the Emergence of Modern Odia Literature 155 PRITIPUSPA MISHRA 10 Punjabi Kissa: Negotiating Modernities and Mediums 172 AKSHAYA KUMAR 11 "A People's Literature": Reimagining Telugu Literary History 187 RAMA SUNDARI MANTENA 12 Progressivism and Tamil Modernity: Tracing the History of Progressive Literature in Tamil, 1940-1970 201 RAJESH VENKATASUBRAMANIAN 13 An/Other Modernity and the Literary Cultures of Northeast India 226 SUKALPA BHATTACHARJEE PART III Translating Modernity 239 14 Negotiating Modernity: Translation as a Critique of the Orientalist Agenda With Special Reference to Tamil 241 C.T. INDRA 15 Translation and the Making of Modern Kannada Literature: English Geetagalu as a Canonical Text 258 THARAKESHWAR V.B. Index 309
Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xii Introduction: Entanglements of Indian Modernities: Poetics, Praxis, Possibilities in Literary Cultures of India from the 18th to the 20th Century 1 NISHAT ZAIDI PART I Performing Modernity, Affecting Modernism 21 A: Intimations of Modernity 1 Registers of the New: Translating Modernity in 19th and 20th Century India 23 SUPRIYA CHAUDHURI 2 Tagore and the Modern 42 SUKANTA CHAUDHURI 3 Provincializing Modernity: From Imagined Community to Communitarian Imaginaries in Malayalam Fiction 50 E.V. RAMAKRISHNAN 4 Past Continuous: Munshi, Gujarat, and the Patan Trilogy 62 RITA KOTHARI AND ABHIJIT KOTHARI B: Trajectories of Modernism 5 B.S. Mardhekar's Interliterary Poetics and the Emergence of Avant-garde Modernism in Marathi 81 SACHIN C. KETKAR 6 Moody Modernism: Miraji Becomes Sappho 97 GEETA PATEL 7 Modernisms in the Magazine: A Case for Recovery in Hindi 115 AAKRITI MANDHWANI 8 Dark Dispatches of Modernity and Nation Making: A Rereading of Nirmal Verma's Dark Dispatches 132 BHARTI ARORA PART II Modalities, Movements, Histories 153 9 Fashioning Readers: Canon, Criticism, and Pedagogy in the Emergence of Modern Odia Literature 155 PRITIPUSPA MISHRA 10 Punjabi Kissa: Negotiating Modernities and Mediums 172 AKSHAYA KUMAR 11 "A People's Literature": Reimagining Telugu Literary History 187 RAMA SUNDARI MANTENA 12 Progressivism and Tamil Modernity: Tracing the History of Progressive Literature in Tamil, 1940-1970 201 RAJESH VENKATASUBRAMANIAN 13 An/Other Modernity and the Literary Cultures of Northeast India 226 SUKALPA BHATTACHARJEE PART III Translating Modernity 239 14 Negotiating Modernity: Translation as a Critique of the Orientalist Agenda With Special Reference to Tamil 241 C.T. INDRA 15 Translation and the Making of Modern Kannada Literature: English Geetagalu as a Canonical Text 258 THARAKESHWAR V.B. Index 309
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