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Literary cultures in history: reconstructions from South Asia

Literary cultures in history: reconstructions from South Asia
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ISBN 0520228219 (hardcover)
9780520228214 (hardcover)
Title Literary cultures in history : reconstructions from South Asia / edited by Sheldon Pollock
Publisher Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, 2003
Physical desc. xxix, 1066 pages ; illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Series Philip E. Lilienthal book
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Sheldon Pollock -- Part 1. Globalizing literary cultures. Sanskrit literary culture from the inside out / Sheldon Pollock -- The culture and politics of Persian in precolonial Hindustan / Muzaffar Alam -- The historical formation of Indian-English literature / Vinay Dharwadker -- Part 2: Literature in southern locales. Three moments in the genealogy of Tamil literary culture / Norman Cutler -- Critical tensions in the history of Kannada literary culture / D.R. Nagaraj -- Multiple literary cultures in Telegu: court, temple, and public / Velcheru Narayana Rao -- Genre and society: the literary culture of premodern Kerala / Rich Freeman -- Part 3: The centrality of borderlands. The two histories of literary culture in Bengal / Sudipta Kaviraj -- From Hemacandra to Hind Svarāj: region and power in Gujarati literary culture / Sitamshu Yashaschandra -- At the crossroads of Indic and Iranian civilizations: Sindhi literary culture / Ali S. Asani -- Part 4: Buddhist cultures and South Asian literatures. What is literature in Pali? / Steven Collins -- Works and persons in Sinhala literary culture / Charles Hallisey -- The Indian literary identity in Tibet / Matthew T. Kapstein -- Part 5: The twinned histories of Urdu and Hindi. A long history of Urdu literary culture, part 1: naming and placing a literary culture / Shamsur Rahman Faruqi -- A long history of Urdu literary culture, part 2: histories, performances, and masters / Frances W. Pritchett -- The progress of Hindi, part 1: the development of a transregional idiom / Stuart McGregor -- The progress of Hindi, part 2: Hindi and the nation / Harish Trivedi.
Subject Indic literature -- History and criticism
Literature and society -- South Asia -- History
Politics and literature -- South Asia -- History
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