1st Edition
Between History and Literature Essays for Dipesh Chakrabarty
1. The Bhasa of History—an essay for Dipesh Chakrabarty
Siddharth Satpathy
2. Sarala Mahabharata in the colonial Odia public sphere
Urmishree Bedamatta
3. Textualizing the agrarian: plots and forms in British India
Upal Chakrabarti
4. Utopias of the past: a reading of A. K. Forbes’ Ras Mala
dhārā k. chotāi
5. Reading Benjamin Franklin’s life story in Bareilly
Smita Gandotra
6. ‘No one heard me!’: sexual self-fashioning and the child in ‘Lihāf’
Anupama Mohan
7. Spatial imagination in colonial Bengal
Anindita Mukhopadhyay
8. ‘Prithak Pranav’, the Krishna-Kali Conundrum: Historical and Literary Complexities of Sectarian Bengal
Sukanya Sarbadhikary
9. Provincial Victorians: global capital and literary taste in colonial Odisha
Siddharth Satpathy
10. Bankimchandra Chatterjee’s Vande Mātaram and the Patriotic Song Tradition in India
Suddhaseel Sen
Biography
Siddharth Satpathy teaches in the Department of English, University of Hyderabad, India. His most recent publications include a co-edited special issue, “Vernacular Victoria: The Queen in the Languages of South Asia,” for the journal Victorian Literature and Culture.
Girish D. Pawar teaches in the Department of English, Central University of Hyderabad, India. His teaching and research interests include British literature in the long Eighteenth Century, Film Studies, Popular Culture in India, and Marathi Theatre.
