Chapter One: What is Freedom?
Text- A: Jotirao Phule, Lettertothe Conferenceof MarathiAuthors
Translated by G.P. Deshpande
Text-B:Jotirao Phule, Slavery
Translated by Maya Pandit
Chapter Two: What is Gender?
Tarabai Shinde. A Comparison between Women and Men
Translated by Rosalind Ohanlon
Chapter Three: What is Fiction?
V. K. Rajwade, The Novel,
Translated by Shanta Gokhale
Chapter Four: What is Caste?
B. R. Ambedkar, Castes in India: Their Genesis, Mechanism and Development
Chapter Five: What is Aesthetics?
B. S. Mardhekar, Poetry and the Aesthetic Theory
Chapter Six: What is Myth?
Iravati Karve, Yuganta: The End of an Era
Chapter Seven: What is Discourse?
G. P. Deshpande, Philosophical Discourse in Modern Marathi
Chapter Eight: What is Historiography?
Govind Pansare, Who Was Shivaji?
Translated by Uday Narkar
Chapter Nine: What is Poetry?
Ashok R. Kelkar, The Being of a Poem
Chapter Ten: What is Literature?
R. B. Patankar, Aesthetics: Some Important Problems
Chapter Eleven: What is Dalit Politics?
Text--A: Dalit Panthers Manifesto-1973
Text--B: Raja Dhale Interview by Anagha Bhat Behere’
Chapter Twelve: What is Multiculturalism?
Dilip Chitre, Life on the Bridge
Chapter Thirteen: What is ‘Folk-culture’
Sharmila Rege, Conceptualising Popular Culture: Lavani and Powada in Maharashtra
Chapter Fourteen: What is Form?
Arun Khopkar, Feeling the Form
Translated by the author
Chapter Fifteen: The Making of Marathi Critical Discourse
Sachin Ketkar, The 19th century foundations of Moder
Biography
G. N. Devy is former Professor of English at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of English, is currently the Obadi Siddiqi Chair Professor at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore and Honorary Senior Fellow of the Asiatic Society of Mumbai. He has published extensively in areas such as Literary Criticism, Philosophy, History, Education, Linguistics and Anthropology. He writes in Marathi, Gujarati and English. He has received the fourth highest civilian honour of Padmashri for his work in culture and education.
