Introduction
Part I: Darkness and Light – Fiction in Translation
1. Dambaru bandadu (On the coming of tar)
2. Amasa
3. Moodala seemeli kolegile muntagi (Murder and whatnot in the eastern countryside)
4. Marikondavaru (The vended)
5. Odalala (The depth of the frame), an excerpt
6. Kusumabale, two excerpts
Part II: The Truth of Justice and the Justice of Truth – Nonfiction in Translation
7. In search of nonviolence
8. Untouchability, where did you spring from?
9. Untouchability, apartheid’s forefather
10. The history of the Tagaduru untouchable colony
11. The tale of a thumb impression
12. Around Lohia’s memory
13. On the beaten track of birth
14. To survive in agriculture
15. For accepting the Nripatunga award
16. At the farewell of senior students, with Pampa
17. The Performance Review of Adivasi Deities
18. Now
Part III: Understanding Mahadeva’s Literary World – Critical Examinations
19. K. Aravind Mitra: The life and times of Devanura Mahadeva, A résumé
20. Rajendra Chenni: Of peacocks and narratives: A note on Devanura Mahadeva’s writings
21. Vanamala Viswanatha: “When Will I Break Free from This House…Oh Shiva!” The critical humanism of Devanura Mahadeva
22. C. N. Ramachandran: Reader response theories and Devanura Mahadeva’s Kusumabale
23. Kamalakar Bhat: Devanura Mahadeva’s Kusumabale: A reflection on language and genre
24. Vijayakumar M. Boratti: Devanura Mahadeva, untouchability and the politics of translation
Part IV: Speaking with Mahadeva, and Speaking of Him – Conversations and Interviews
25. Devanura Mahadeva and contemporary Kannada literature, a conversation
26. An interview with Devanura Mahadeva
27. An interview with Susan Daniel, translator
28. An interview with C. Basavalingaiah, theatre director
29. An interview with T. L. Krishnegowda, farmer leader
30. An interview with Shobha Nayak, Kannada poet
Part V: In the Eyes of Contemporaries – Comments and Assessments
31. Devanura Mahadeva
Contributors: Arshia Sattar, Yogendra Yadav, Siddalingaiah, Prithvi Datta Chandra Shobhi, G.S. Amur, Nataraj Huliyar, U.R. Ananthamurthy, K. Ramdas
32. Dyavanooru and Odalala
Contributors: P. Lankesh, Siddalingaiah, U.R. Ananthamurthy, L.S. Seshagiri Rao, G.S. Amur, G.S. Avadhani
33. Kusumabale
Contributors: N. Manu Chakravarthy, Shibangi Dash, D.R. Nagaraj, V.S. Sreedhara, B. Vivek Rai, Susan Daniel, D.S. Nagabhushana, Vivek Shanbhag, Polanki Ramamoorthy, Mullur Nagaraj, G. Rajashekhar
34. Devanura Mahadeva’s Politics
Contributors: Sugata Srinivasaraju, Julio Ribeiro, Pratibha Nandakumar, Ramachandra Guha, H. Govindaiah, Rakshit S. Ponnathpur, D.S. Nagabhushana, Yogendra Yadav, Mogalli Ganesh
Devanura Mahadeva: A bio-chronology
Bibliography
Picture Gallery
Biography
Manu V. Devadevan, a historian, poet, and translator, is Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Himachal Pradesh. A multilingual author, he writes in English, Kannada, and Malayalam. His works of history include A Prehistory of Hinduism and The ‘Early Medieval’ Origins of India. He has published four volumes of poems in Kannada, and translated the twelfth-century Kannada vachanas into English. Devadevan is recipient of the Infosys Prize in Humanities for the year 2019.
