Description:
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.
Review Quotes:
"This rich collection explores the many meanings of modernity and modernism in India and the different forms they took in literature: as engagements with the new and as self-fashioning, as efforts at translating concepts and experiences, and as searches for new idioms and new readers, whatever the position of the writers on the political spectrum. A most valuable contribution to the scholarship on global modernisms and to Indian literary history."
Francesca Orsini, SOAS, Emerita