Consumable Texts in Contemporary India [electronic resource] : Uncultured Books and Bibliographical Sociology /
Gupta, S.author.
Through what he terms "bibliographical sociology", Suman Gupta explores the presence of English-language publications in the contemporary Indian context - their productions, circulations and readerships - to understand current social trends.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Keywords and Preliminaries; Appropriate terms; Provocation to academia; Books as social symptoms; 2 Indian Commercial Fiction in English; Commercial and literary; Local/global; Middle-class youth; 3 Indian Vernacular Pulp Fiction in English Translation; Indian Translation Studies and English; The habitual English reader's view; The Hindi commentators' view; Back to translation studies; 4 On the Indian Readers of Hitler's Mein Kampf; Circulations; Who reads it and why?; Leadership and youth; A bigger picture; Ideological coherence
5 Framing Group Discussion GuidebooksJobseekers and students for business; What happens in Group Discussion; 6 Low-End Group Discussion Guidebooks and Kunjis; High-end and low-end; The pressure of English; The quasi-encyclopaedic function; Production of failure?; 7 Approaching Public Sector "Value Education" Publications; The form of scholarly texts; International and national contexts; Public sector publishing; 8 Mapping Public Sector "Value Education" Publications; Self-reporting publications: Government policy; Esoteric and mystical texts; Supporting publications: Textbooks and academic
Books that ought to exist but don't9 Rules of Bibliographical Sociology's Method; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Through what he terms "bibliographical sociology", Suman Gupta explores the presence of English-language publications in the contemporary Indian context - their productions, circulations and readerships - to understand current social trends.
Ethnology
Oriental literature.
Languages.
Language and languages.
Culture.
Literature
Culture
Asian Culture.
Asian Literature.
Asian Languages.
Sociology of Culture.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.