Literary Culture in History

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ISBN: 9780520228214 | 0520228219
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Copyright: 4/1/2003

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This is the first comprehensive study of South Asian literary traditions to ever be published, and will prove invaluable not only to South Asianists but also to literary theorists and cultural historians.

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

xiii

Preface and Acknowledgements

Guide to Pronunciation

xxi

Introduction

(38)

Sheldon Pollock

PART 1. GLOBALIZING LITERARY CULTURES

Sanskrit Literary Culture from the Inside Out

(92)

Sheldon Pollock

The Culture and Politics of Persian in Precolonial Hindustan

131

(68)

Muzaffar Alam

The Historical Formation of Indian-English Literature

199

(72)

Vinay Dharwadker

PART 2. LITERATURE IN SOUTHERN LOCALES

Three Moments in the Genealogy of Tamil Literary Culture

271

(52)

Norman Cutler

Critical Tensions in the History of Kannada Literary Culture

323

(60)

D. R. Nagaraj

Multiple Literary Cultures in Telugu: Court, Temple, and Public

383

(54)

Velcheru Narayana Rao

Genre and Society: The Literary Culture of Premodern Kerala

437

(66)

Rich Freeman

PART 3. THE CENTRALITY OF BORDERLANDS

The Two Histories of Literary Culture in Bengal

503

(64)

Sudipta Kaviraj

From Hemacandra to Hind Svaraj: Region and Power in Gujarati Literary Culture

567

(45)

Sitamshu Yashaschandra

At the Crossroads of Indic and Iranian Civilizations: Sindhi Literary Culture

612

(37)

Ali S. Asani

PART 4. BUDDHIST CULTURES AND SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURES

What is Literature in Pali?

649

(40)

Steven Collins

Works and Persons in Sinhala Literary Culture

689

(58)

Charles Hallisey

The Indian Literary Identity in Tibet

747

(58)

Matthew T. Kapstein

PART 5. THE TWINNED HISTORIES OF URDU AND HINDI

A Long History of Urdu Literary Culture, Part 1: Naming and Placing a Literary Culture

805

(59)

Shamsur Rahman Faruqi

A Long History of Urdu Literary Culture, Part 2: Histories, Performances, and Masters

864

(48)

Frances W. Pritchett

The Progress of Hindi, Part 1: The Development of a Transregional Idiom

912

(46)

Stuart McGregor

The Progress of Hindi, Part 2: Hindi and the Nation

958

(65)

Harish Trivedi

Index

1023

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