List of Figures
Preface to the series
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction: Devanura Mahadeva and the script of alterity
MANU V. DEVADEVAN
PART I
Darkness and light—(fiction in translation)
1 Dambaru Bandadu (on the coming of tar)
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2 Amasa
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3 Moodala Seemeli Kolegile Muntagi (murder and whatnot in the eastern countryside)
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4 Marikondavaru (the vended)
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5 Odalala (the depth of the frame): An excerpt
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6 Kusumabale: Two excerpts
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PART II
The truth of justice and the justice of truth (nonfiction in translation)
1 In search of nonviolence
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2 Untouchability, where do you spring from? TRANSLATED BY MANU V. DEVADEVAN
3 Untouchability, apartheid’s forefather
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4 The history of the Tagaduru untouchable colony
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5 The tale of a thumb impression
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6 Around Lohia’s memory
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7 On the beaten track of birth
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8 To survive in agriculture
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9 For accepting the Nripatunga award (a letter)
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10 At the farewell of senior students, with Pampa
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11 The performance review of Adivasi deities
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12 Now (an excerpt from chapter 5 of RSS Aala Mattu Agala)
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PART III
Understanding Mahadeva literary world (critical examinations)
1 The life and times of Devanura Mahadeva: a résumé
K. ARAVIND MITRA
2 Of peacocks and narratives: A note on Devanura Mahadeva’s writings
RAJENDRA CHENNI
3 ‘When will I break free from this house . . . Oh Shiva!’: The critical humanism of Devanura Mahadeva
VANAMALA VISWANATHA
4 Reader response theories and Devanura Mahadeva’s Kusumabale
C. N. RAMACHANDRAN
5 Devanura Mahadeva’s Kusumabale: A reflection on language and genre
KAMALAKAR BHAT
6 Devanura Mahadeva, untouchability, and the politics of translation
VIJAYAKUMAR M. BORATTI
PART IV
Speaking with Mahadeva, and speaking of him (conversations and interviews)
1 Devanura Mahadeva and contemporary Kannada literature—a conversation: participants
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2 Interview with Devanura Mahadeva
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3 An Interview with Susan Daniel, translator
4 Interview with C. Basavalingaiah, theatre director TRANSLATED BY MANU V. DEVADEVAN
5 Interview with T. L. Krishnegowda, farmer leader
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6 Interview with Shobha Nayak, Kannada Poet
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PART V
In the eyes of his contemporaries (comments and assessments)
1 Devanura Mahadeva
2 Dyavanooru and Odalala
3 Kusumabale
4 Mahadeva’s politics
Devanura Mahadeva: a bio-chronology
Devanura Mahadeva—a bibliography
Figures gallery
Index
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 a recipient of
the Infosys Prize in Humanities for the year 2019.
