INTRODUCTION: Critical Discourse in Gujarati: A Vikalpa Vachana.
Sitanshu Yashaschandra.
CHAPTER 1/ Ka. ( Sections Ka. 1 to Ka. 5.)
Beginnings -- Real contra Colonial : Gujarati Critical Discourse from 12th to 18th cent. CE.
Ka 1. Bhalan ( 15th century). Excerpts from his Critical Discourse in verse.
i. From Nalakhyan.
ii From Kadambari.
iii From Chandi Akhyan.
Ka 2: Mandana Bandharo (16th Century). Excerpts from his Critical Discourse in verse.
From Prabodh Batrisi.
Ka 3: Akho Sonaro (16th/ 17th Century). Excerpts from his Critical Discourse in verse, see Introduction.
Ka 4: Mana-Bhatt Premanand (17th century). Excerpts from his Critical Discourse in verse.
i: From Shamalashah-no Moto Vivah. [ Longer Narrative Poem on Marriage of [Narasimha Maheta’s son, Shamalashah].
ii: From Shamalashah-no Moto Vivah.
Ka 5: Shamal Bhatt. (18th Century.) Excerpts from his Critical Discourse in verse.
i: From: Chandra Chandravatini Varata.
ii: From: Nanadabatrisi.
CHAPTER 2/ Kha. (Sections Kha. 1 to Kha. 3.)
Pratham Vivarta / First Variation (1820 – 1915).
Para-bodha/Sva-bodha Kal.
Period of Alien Cognition / Indigenous Cognition.
Part I. Sudharak Yug / Times of the Reformers. (1820 -1875).
Sections Kha 1 to Kha 3.
Kha 1: Dalpatram Dahtabhai Travadi (Dalapat).
i: From ‘Deshi Bhasha Prayojan’ ‘Purpose of the Native Language’.
ii: From his Preface to Alamkaradarsh.
Kha 2: Narmadashankar Dave (Narmad).
From His essay “Kavi ane Kavita.’ The Poet and Poetry.
Kha 3: Navalram Pandya
i: From ‘Musings on Poetry’.
ii: From ‘One Language in Hindustan’ (1871).
CHAPTER 3/ Ga.
Pratham Vivarta / First Variation. (1820 -1915).
Para-bodha/Sva-bodha Kal. – Period of Alien Cognition / Indigenous Cognition.
Part II. Pandit Yug/ Era of the Erudite. (1875 -1915).
Sections Ga 1 to 7.
Ga 1. Anandashankar Dhruv
i: Poetry: A (Playful) Part of Ātman.
ii: Literature and the Nation
Ga 2: Govardhanram Tripathi.
Classical Poets of Gujarat.
Ga 3: Manilal Nabhubhai Dvivedi.
Literature.
Ga 4: Ramanbhai Nilkanth.
Svanubhava Rasik and Sarvanubhava Rasik : The Two Worlds of Poetry
Ga 5: Narasimharao Divetiya.
Art and Turth: Reflection on Aesthetics
Ga 6: Nanalal Kavi.
Gujarati poetry and Musicality.
Ga 7: Balavantaray Thakor (1869 -1952)
Beyond the Lyric
CHAPTER 4 / Gha. (Sections Gha 1 to Gha 8)
Dvitiya Vivarta / Second Variation : 1915 – 1955.
Hind Svaraj Kal / Period of India Engendering its Freedom.
Gha 1: Mahatma Gandhi.
i: Speech at Gujarati Sahitya Parishad. Ahmadabad, October 31,1936.
ii: Foreword by M K Gandhi to K M Munshi’s Gujarat and Its Literature.
Gha 2: Kaniayalal M. Munshi.
Gujarat: The Land and the People.
Gha 3: Ramnarayan V. Pathak
Literature and Life
Gha 4: ‘Sundaram’ (Tribhuvandas Luhar).
Perspectives in Literary Criticiscism
Gha 5: Umashankar Joshi.
Style.
Gha 6: Jhaverchand Meghani.
The Cultural Forces that Constituted Folk Literature of Gujarat.
Gha 7: Ramprasad Bakshi.
Spirituality and Literature
Gha 8: Vishnuprasad Trivedi
The Devotion to Beauty
CHAPTER 5. Cha. (Sections Cha 1 to Cha 9)
Trutiya Vivarta / Third Variation: 1955 onwards
Vyapana Shakti Kal. / Time of Energies for Enlargement.
Cha 1. Suresh Joshi.
Our Literary Criticism.
Cha 2. Niranjan Bhagat.
Dharma, Science and Poetry
Cha 3 Harivallabh Bhayani.
Stylistics Approaches - Western and Indian
Cha 4. Shirish Panchal.
Crisis in Criticism.
Cha 5. Chandrakant Topiwala.
The Consumate Indian Rasa Theory. Chnadrakant Topiwala
Cha 6. Himanshi Shelat.
Feminism in Gujarati literary Fiction (1975 - 1999)
Cha 7. Babu Suthar.
Locating a Regional Language in a Globalization Process.
Cha 8. Bhagvandas Patel.
The Direction of My Research.
Cha 9. Kanti Malsatar.
Some Views on Dalit Literature
Editor’s Note on APPENDICE 1, 2 3. / S.Y.
Appendix 1. A Vision of the Ancient Vallabhinagar for the Present
Harivallabh Bhayani
Appendix 2. Mahamaatya Vastupal and His Literary Circle.
Bhogilal Sandesara.
Appendix 3. Some Chronological Markers in History of Gujarati Literary Culture.
Biography
Sitanshu Yashaschandra is a renowned Gujarati language poet, playwright, translator and academic. He has received Sahitya Akademi Award, Kabir Samman (Madhya Pradesh), Gangadhar Maher Award (Orissa), Kusumagraja Samman (Maharashtra) and was awarded Padma Shri in 2006.
