Literary cultures in history: reconstructions from South Asia

Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 10
list of illustrations......Page 12
list of contributors......Page 14
preface and acknowledgments......Page 16
guide to pronunciation......Page 22
1. Sanskrit Literary Culture from the Inside Out......Page 76
2. The Culture and Politics of Persian in Precolonial Hindustan......Page 168
3. The Historical Formation of Indian-English Literature......Page 236
4. Three Moments in the Genealogy of Tamil Literary Culture......Page 308
5. Critical Tensions in the Histor y of K annada Literar y Culture......Page 360
6. Multiple Literar y Cultures in Telugu: Cour t, Temple, and Public......Page 420
7. Genre and Society: The Literary Culture of Premodern Kerala......Page 474
8. The Two Histories of Literary Culture in Bengal......Page 540
9. From Hemacandra to Hind Svaraj......Page 604
10. At the Crossroads of Indic and Iranian Civilizations......Page 649
11. What Is Literature in Pali?......Page 686
12. Works and Persons in Sinhala Literary Culture......Page 726
13. The Indian Literary Identity in Tibet......Page 784
14. A Long History of Urdu Literary Culture, Part 1......Page 842
15. A Long History of Urdu Literary Culture, Part 2......Page 901
16. The Progress of Hindi, Part 1......Page 949
17. The Progress of Hindi, Part 2......Page 995
index......Page 1060