Indian Modernities

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, 1940-1970 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