
The Writing of the Nation by Its Elite
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A major intervention on how postcolonial India is written about and imagined in the anglophone world, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of cultural studies, literature, history, and South Asian studies. It will also be of interest to general readers with an inclination towards India and Indian writing.
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He has authored several volumes of academic scholarship from international publishers - Seduced by the Familiar: Narration and Meaning in Indian Popular Cinema; Bipolar Identity: Region, Nation and the Kannada Language Film; The Politics of Hindi Cinema in the New Millennium: Bollywood and the Anglophone Indian Nation; and Locating World Cinema: Interpretations of Film as Culture. His recent publications also include Philosophical Issues in Indian Cinema: Approximate Terms and Concepts (Routledge, 2020) and a book on politics, The Hindu Nation: A Reconciliation with Modernity (2021). He has also published four volumes of popular film criticism.
His writing has been anthologized internationally, and he has written journalistic pieces on a variety of political and cultural issues for The Hindu, The Indian Express, Hindustan Times, Times of India, Firstpost, and Deccan Herald. He has contributed essays to national-level journals and periodicals including Economic and Political Weekly, Caravan, Frontline, The Book Review, and Biblio: A Review of Books. He is Founder-Editor of Phalanx, an online journal dedicated to debate.
Content
1. Politics and Literary Style: Arundhati Roy's Essays and Interviews (2001-14)
2. The Well-Born Englishman in India: William Dalrymple's White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in 18th Century India (2002)
3. Unfinished Renunciation: Suketu Mehta's Maximum City (2004) and Jeet Thayil's Narcopolis (2012)
4. The Anglophone Hierarchy: Chetan Bhagat's Fiction and Non-Fiction (2004-14)
5. A Desirable Nation: Amartya Sen's The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian Culture, History and Identity (2005)
6. Taking Sides: Pankaj Mishra and Temptations of the West: How to be Modern in India, Pakistan and beyond (2006)
7. Nation as Exposition: Ramachandra Guha's India after Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy (2007)
8. Past as Pastiche: Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies (2008)
9. Economics without Politics: Nandan Nilekani's Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century (2009)
10. The Other Half: Tarun J Tejpal's The Story of My Assassins (2009)
11. Dharma and Ideology: Gurcharan Das's The Difficulty of Being Good: The Subtle Art of Dharma (2009) and India Grows at Night: A Liberal Case for a Strong India (2012)
12. Democracy and the Lesser Nation: Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen's An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions (2013)
13. Cultural Capital: Jhumpa Lahiri and The Lowland (2013)
14. Rarefied Spaces: Barkha Dutt's This Unquiet Land: Stories from India's Fault Lines (2015)
15. An Unresisting People: Shashi Tharoor's An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India (2016).
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