Indian Modernities

Nishat Zaidi is Professor and former Head, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.

• Notes on Contributors viiiAcknowledgments xiiIntroduction: Entanglements of Indian Modernities: Poetics, Praxis, Possibilities in Literary Cultures of India from the 18th to the 20th Century 1NISHAT ZAIDIPART IPerforming Modernity, Affecting Modernism 21A: Intimations of Modernity1 Registers of the New: Translating Modernity in 19thand 20th Century India 23SUPRIYA CHAUDHURI2 Tagore and the Modern 42SUKANTA CHAUDHURI3 Provincializing Modernity: From Imagined Community to Communitarian Imaginaries in Malayalam Fiction 50E.V. RAMAKRISHNAN4 Past Continuous: Munshi, Gujarat, and the Patan Trilogy 62RITA KOTHARI AND ABHIJIT KOTHARIB: Trajectories of Modernism5 B.S. Mardhekar’s Interliterary Poetics and the Emergence of Avant-garde Modernism in Marathi 81SACHIN C. KETKAR6 Moody Modernism: Miraji Becomes Sappho 97GEETA PATEL7 Modernisms in the Magazine: A Case for Recovery in Hindi 115AAKRITI MANDHWANI8 Dark Dispatches of Modernity and Nation Making: A Rereading of Nirmal Verma’s Dark Dispatches 132BHARTI ARORAPART IIModalities, Movements, Histories 1539 Fashioning Readers: Canon, Criticism, and Pedagogyin the Emergence of Modern Odia Literature 155PRITIPUSPA MISHRA10 Punjabi Kissa: Negotiating Modernities and Mediums 172AKSHAYA KUMAR11 “A People’s Literature”: Reimagining Telugu Literary History 187RAMA SUNDARI MANTENA12 Progressivism and Tamil Modernity: Tracing the History of Progressive Literature in Tamil, 1940–1970 201RAJESH VENKATASUBRAMANIAN13 An/Other Modernity and the Literary Cultures of Northeast India 226SUKALPA BHATTACHARJEEPART IIITranslating Modernity 23914 Negotiating Modernity: Translation as a Critique of the Orientalist Agenda With Special Reference to Tamil 241C.T. INDRA15 Translation and the Making of Modern Kannada Literature: English Geetagalu as a Canonical Text 258THARAKESHWAR V.B.Index 309

"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