Literature and Nationalist Ideology
Subtitle: Writing Histories of Modern Indian Languages
By: edited by Hans Harder
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9781315144870
Subjects: Indic literature; History and criticism; Culture in literature; Littérature de l'Inde; Histoire et critique; Culture dans la littérature; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY; Literary
Description: "Writing histories of literature means making selections, passing value judgments, and incorporating or rejecting foregoing traditions. The book argues that in many parts of India, literary histories play an important role in creating a cultural ethos. They are closely linked with nationalism in general and various regional 'sub-nationalisms' in particular. The contributors to this volume look at a great variety of aspects of the historiography of modern regional languages of India. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 Introduction  -- HANS HARder; title: chapter 2 Shaping a Literary Space: Early Literary Histories in Malayalam and Normative Uses of the Past --; title: chapter 3 Drowning in the Ocean of Tamil: Islamic Texts and the Historiography of Tamil Literature --; title: chapter 4 From Scattered Archives to the Centre of Discourse: Histories of Telugu Literature in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century --; title: chapter 5 Beyond the Nation: A Comparatist's Thoughts on Some Foundational Categories in the Literary Historiography of South Asian Literatures --; title: chapter 6 Dineshchandra Sen's The Folk Literature of Bengal: The Canonisation of Folk and the Conception of the Feminine --; title: chapter 7 Ethics or Aesthetics? Obscenity as a Category for Evaluating the Hindi Public Sphere in Colonial  -- North India; title: chapter 8 George Abraham Grierson's Literary Hindustan  -- IRA SARMA; title: chapter 9 The Impact of Sectarian Lobbyism on Hindi Literary Historiography: The Fascinating Story of Bhagvadacharya Ramanandi --; title: chapter 10 The Politics of Exclusion? The Place of Muslims, Urdu and its Literature in Ramchandra 1hukla's Hindi sahitya ka itihas --; title: chapter 11 A Discourse of Difference: 'Syncretism' as a Category in Indian Literary History --; title: chapter 12 Unscripted: The People of Arunachal Pradesh in Literary and Other National Histories --; title: chapter 13 Indian Literature in English and the Problem of Naturalisation --; title: chapter 14 The Mahatma as Proof: The Nationalist Origins of the Historiography of Indian Writing in English.