1st Edition
Between Resistance and Conformity Premchand’s Fiction in Colonial North India
By Shailendra Kumar Singh
Copyright 2025
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines the questions of conformity and resistance with respect to Premchand’s literary corpus. Mapping the various complexities, challenges, and contradictions of interwar India, it demonstrates how the passive peasant protagonists of the writer’s fictional works present a diametrically opposed definition of dharma as compared to their dissident nationalist counterparts. Through a... Read more
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Peasants’ Conformity or the Prose of Counter-Insurgency?
2. Nationalism and the Question of Civil Resistance
3. Between Conformity and Resistance: Shifting Ideals of Womanhood?
4. Hidden Transcripts and Everyday Forms of Resistance in Premchand’s Fiction
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Shailendra Kumar Singh
