Books Without Borders, Volume 2: Perspectives from South Asia

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction From Palmyra to Print: The Book in South Asia....Pages 1-11
The ‘Book’ in India: Orality, Manu-Script, Print (Post)Colonialism....Pages 12-33
The Many Worlds of the Vernacular Book: Performance, Literacy and Print in Colonial Bengal....Pages 34-57
Publishing and Translating Hafez Under Empire....Pages 58-70
Missionary Writing and the Self-Fashioning of Assamese Cultural Identity in Colonial India: Revisiting the Past, Understanding the Present....Pages 71-84
Futures Past: Books, Reading, Culture in the Age of Liberalization....Pages 85-99
Book Circulation and Reader Responses in Colonial India....Pages 100-111
Thacker, Spink and Company: Bookselling and Publishing in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Calcutta....Pages 112-124
Two Paradigms of Literary Production: The Production, Circulation and Legal Status of Rudyard Kipling’s Departmental Ditties and Indian Railway Library Texts....Pages 125-136
War and the Colonial Book Trade: The Case of OUP India....Pages 137-150
Between Bloomsbury and Gandhi? The Background to the Publication and Reception of Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable....Pages 151-169
Talking to India: The Literary Production and Consumption of Selected South Asian Anglophone Writers in Britain and the USA (1940s–1950s)....Pages 170-180
Salman Rushdie and Zulfikar Ghose in the Literary Marketplace....Pages 181-195
Back Matter....Pages 196-204