Fiction as History
The Novel and the City in Modern North India
1st Edition
Published on 9. July 2019
458 pages
978-1-4384-7607-0 (ISBN)
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Explains the Hindi novel's role in anticipating and creating the story of middle-class modernity and modernization in North India.
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Vasudha Dalmia is Professor Emerita of Hindi and Modern South Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She has written, edited, and translated many books, including Hindu Pasts: Women, Religion, Histories, also published by SUNY Press; The Nationalization of Hindu Traditions: Bharatendu Harischandra and Nineteenth-Century Banaras; and Poetics, Plays, and Performances: The Politics of Modern Indian Theatre.
Content
Preface
Introduction: North Indian Cities and the Hindi Novel
Part I. Towards Modernity
1. Merchant Lives in Mughal Agra and British Delhi
2. Wife and Courtesan in Banaras
3. The Holy City as the Field of Action
4. Lahore, Delhi, and the Bitter Truth of Independence
Part II. Modernist Conundrums
5. City, Civilization, and Nature
6. Culture Wars and a Cult Novel
7. On the Rooftops of Agra
8. Culture, Claustrophobia, and the New Capital of the Nation
Epilogue
Index
Introduction: North Indian Cities and the Hindi Novel
Part I. Towards Modernity
1. Merchant Lives in Mughal Agra and British Delhi
2. Wife and Courtesan in Banaras
3. The Holy City as the Field of Action
4. Lahore, Delhi, and the Bitter Truth of Independence
Part II. Modernist Conundrums
5. City, Civilization, and Nature
6. Culture Wars and a Cult Novel
7. On the Rooftops of Agra
8. Culture, Claustrophobia, and the New Capital of the Nation
Epilogue
Index
