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Between History and Literature: Essays for Dipesh Chakrabarty

by Siddharth Satpathy , Girish D. Pawar
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781032958620
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 176
  • Original Price: GBP 171.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: 1
  • Item Weight: 504 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Asia / South / General

This book explores the value of bhasa literature through the lens of Dipesh Chakrabarty's scholarship, offering a nuanced perspective on his passionate engagement with literature at large and with Bengali literature, in particular. These essays, dedicated to Chakrabarty, in different ways extend Chakrabarty's preoccupation with the relationship between history and literature, and with the subject of modernity in India.

The themes covered in this book are wide-ranging: from the modern reception of Sarala Das's Mahabharata and a revisionist reading of Ismat Chugtai's Lihaff, to studies of agrarian representations in colonial Bengal and the printing cultures of Bareilly, including the Hindi translation of Benjamin Franklin's biography; from early account of colonial bureaucrats' engagement with Gujarati kavya and itihasa in compiling modern histories to the study of the formation of a sonic theology in early modern Bengal; from the genesis and reception history of Vande Mataram to an account of the evolution of a modern Bengali vocabulary which enabled vernacular geographers in the nineteenth century to represent the imperial global world. This volume will be of particular interest to students and researchers in South Asian studies, history, literary theory, and postcolonial studies.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture.

Siddharth Satpathy teaches in the Department of English, University of Hyderabad, India. His most recent publications include a co-edited special issue, "Vernacular Victoria: The Queen in the Languages of South Asia," for the journal Victorian Literature and Culture.

Girish D. Pawar teaches in the Department of English, Central University of Hyderabad, India. His teaching and research interests include British literature in the long Eighteenth Century, Film Studies, Popular Culture in India, and Marathi Theatre.

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