Inlays of Subjectivity Affect and Action in Modern Indian Literature

Nikhil Govind, Associate Professor and Head, Manipal Centre for Humanities

Nikhil Govind is Associate Professor and Head, Manipal Centre for Humanities, Manipal Academy for Higher Education (MAHE). His doctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley, was on the consonance between revolutionary and literary form in strands of Bengali and Hindi literature. He is the author of BETWEEN LOVE AND FREEDOM: THE REVOLUTIONARY IN THE HINDI NOVEL (Routledge, 2014, reprinted 2018). He is a Working Editor and on the Editorial Board of the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (IJME). He writes regularly for mainstream media on Indian literature, cinema, higher education, and contemporary culture.

In Gratitude
Prelude
First Study: Injustice and the Self
Second Study: Ambition and Achievement
Third Study: Modes of the Bildung-Humour and the Lyric
Fourth Study: Desire as Inner Mutuality
Fifth Study: A Skein of Voices
Coda
Bibliography
Index
About the Author