Literature and Nationalist Ideology: Writing Histories of Modern Indian Languages

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
List of Contributors
1. Introduction
2. Shaping a Literary Space: Early Literary Histories in Malayalam and Normative Uses of the Past
3. Drowning in the Ocean of Tamil: Islamic Texts and the Historiography of Tamil Literature
4. From Scattered Archives to the Centre of Discourse: Histories of Telugu Literature in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
5. Beyond the Nation: A Comparatist’s Thoughts on Some Foundational Categories in the Literary Historiography of South Asian Literatures
6. Dineshchandra Sen’s The Folk Literature of Bengal: The Canonisation of Folk and the Conception of the Feminine
7. Ethics or Aesthetics? Obscenity as a Category for Evaluating the Hindi Public Sphere in Colonial North India
8. George Abraham Grierson’s Literary Hindustan
9. The Impact of Sectarian Lobbyism on Hindi Literary Historiography: The Fascinating Story of Bhagvadacharya Ramanandi
10. The Politics of Exclusion? The Place of Muslims, Urdu and its Literature in Rāmchandra Śhukla’s Hindī sāhitya kā itihās
11. A Discourse of Difference: ‘Syncretism’ as a Category in Indian Literary History
12. Unscripted: The People of Arunachal Pradesh in Literary and Other National Histories
13. Indian Literature in English and the Problem of Naturalisation
14. The Mahatma as Proof: The Nationalist Origins of the Historiography of Indian Writing in English
Index