Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia

Table of contents

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• Literary Cultures in History *
• Title Page *
• Contents ix
• Illustrations xi
• Contributors xiii
• Preface and Acknowledgments xv
• Guide to Pronunciation xxi
• Introduction 1
• Bibliography 34
• Part 1 - Globalizing Literary Cultures 37
• 1 - Sanskrit Literary Culture from the Inside Out 39
• Bibliography 121
• 2 - The Culture and Politics of Persian in Precolonial Hindustan 131
• Bibliography 189
• 3 - The Historical Formation of Indian-English Literature 199
• Bibliography 262

• Literary Cultures in History *
• Title Page *
• Contents ix
• Illustrations xi
• Contributors xiii
• Preface and Acknowledgments xv
• Guide to Pronunciation xxi
• Introduction 1
• Bibliography 34
• Part 1 - Globalizing Literary Cultures 37
• 1 - Sanskrit Literary Culture from the Inside Out 39
• Bibliography 121
• 2 - The Culture and Politics of Persian in Precolonial Hindustan 131
• Bibliography 189
• 3 - The Historical Formation of Indian-English Literature 199
• Bibliography 262
• Part 2 - Literature in Southern Locales 269
• 4 - Three Moments in the Genealogy of Tamil Literary Culture 271
• Bibliography 320
• 5 - Critical Tensions in the History of Kannada Literary Culture 323
• Bibliography 380
• 6 - Court, Temple, and Public 383
• Bibliography 433
• 7 - The Literary Culture of Premodern Kerala 437
• Bibliography 496
• Part 3 - The Centrality of Borderlands 501
• 8 - The Two Histories of Literary Culture in Bengal 503
• Bibliography 564
• 9 - Region and Power in Gujarati Literary Culture 567
• Bibliography 608
• 10 - Sindhi Literary Culture 612
• Bibliography 643
• Part 4 - Buddhist Cultures and South Asian Literatures 647
• 11 - What is Literature in Pali? 649
• Bibliography 684
• 12 - Works and Persons in Sinhala Literary Culture 689
• Bibliography 743
• 13 - The Indian Literary Identity in Tibet 747
• Bibliography 794
• Part 5 - The Twinned Histories of Urdu and Hindi 803
• 14 - Naming and Placing a Literary Culture 805
• Bibliography 858
• 15 - Histories, Performances, and Masters 864
• Bibliography 908
• 16 - The Development of a Transregional Idiom 912
• Bibliography 954
• 17 - Hindi and the Nation 958
• Bibliography 1018
• Index 1023