Literary Cultures in History : Reconstructions from South Asia

List of Illustrations xi List of Contributors xiii Preface and Acknowledgements xv Guide to Pronunciation xxi Introduction 1(38) Sheldon Pollock PART 1. GLOBALIZING LITERARY CULTURES Sanskrit Literary Culture from the Inside Out 39(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