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Modernity, Print and Sahitya The Making of a New Literary Culture, 1866-1919
By Sumanyu Satpathy
Copyright 2024
238 Pages
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Routledge India
238 Pages
by
Routledge India
238 Pages
by
Routledge India
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The advent of print heralded a significant chapter in the history of colonial modernity in South Asia that led to the emergence of new literary cultures in the region. This book documents the story of Odia literature, in the context of similar but conflicting linguistic-territorial cultures of Eastern India.
Through an in-depth study of a large corpus of archival material, the volume traces... Read more
Introduction 1. Sahitya in Times of Crisis: Transformations in a Literary Field 2. Print, Periodicals and the Odia Public Sphere 3. Reappraisals and Renewals: The Ancient versus the Modern 4. Mapping the Terrain and Legitimising the Past: The Carving of “Utkal Sahitya” 5. Towards the Shaping of a Moral Community 6. Odia Literary Modernity: Consolidations 7. Conclusion
Biography
Sumanyu Satpathy is Former Professor and Head of the Department of English, University of Delhi, India.
