Indian Modernities

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.

Autorentext

Nishat Zaidi is Professor and former Head, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.

Inhalt

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, 19401970 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