The Indian Postcolonial A Critical Reader

Introduction – Elleke Boehmer and Rosinka Chaudhuri  Part 1 - Visual Cultures  Introduction – Elleke Boehmer and Rosinka Chaudhuri  1. Partha Chatterjee. ‘Nationalist Icon to Secular Image’  2. Tapati Guha Thakurta. ‘Religious Icon and Art: The Case of M.F. Hussain'  3. Robert Young, ‘Sanjayit Ray’  4. M. Madhava Prasad, ‘Fan Bhakti and Subaltern Sovereignty: Enthusiasm as a Political Factor’  Part 2 - Translating Cultural Traditions  Introduction – Elleke Boehmer and Rosinka Chaudhuri  5. Aamir Mufti, ‘Auerbach in Istanbul’  6. Vinayak Chaturvedi, ‘Vinayak and Me’  7. Dipesh Chakrabarty, ‘Belatedness as Possibility: Subaltern Histories, once again’  8. Aniket Jaiware, ‘Of Demons and Angels'  Part 3 - The Ethical Text  Introduction – Elleke Boehmer and Rosinka Chaudhuri  9. Gayatri Spivak, ‘Ethics and Politics in Tagore and Coetzee’  10. Udaya Kumar, ‘Self, Body and Inner Sense’. 　Studies in History'  11. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, ‘Gandhian Ethics’  12. Ashis Nandy, ‘Humiliation: The Politics and Cultural Psychology of the Limits of Human Degradation’  Part 4 - Global/cosmopolitan worlds  Introduction – Elleke Boehmer and Rosinka Chaudhuri  13. Amit Chaudhuri, ‘The Alien Face of Cosmopolitanism’  14. Santanu Das, ‘India, Empire, and First World War writing’ 15. Nivedita Menon, ‘Thinking through the Postnation’  16. Ranajit Guha, ‘A Colonial City and its Times’

Biography

Elleke Boehmer, Rosinka Chaudhuri

'Readers of this anthology will find much to read and much to reflect upon; they will be (re-acquainted with the diversity and richness of Indian social sciences and humanities; they will be convinced by the necessity to refocus and relocate the work of postcolonial theory.' - Commonwealth Essays and Studies