Print Areas: Book History in IndiaSwapan Chakravorty, Abhijit Gupta This Pioneering Attempt To Bring Together The Work Of Leading Contemporary Academics In Relation To The Book In India Is A Much Welcome Effort. |
Contents
The Novel the Colonial Library | 17 |
The Oxford University Press and | 65 |
Publishing in Nineteenth | 103 |
Vernacular Culture and Political Formation in Western | 139 |
Contesting Print Cultures in | 169 |
A Note on Nineteenthcentury | 197 |
Evidence | 227 |
The Making of a Book | 242 |
Common terms and phrases
Abol tabol annas authors Balshastri Bandyopadhyay bangla bangla gadya Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay Battala Benares Bengali language Bengali prose bhadralok bilingual block-printing Bombay book history brahman Brajbhasa British Library Calcutta Cambridge Catalogue Chattopadhyay cheap Colonial and Home Colonial Library commercial publishing copies Delegates Delhi Dhaka Doble early editions élite English essay European fiction firm firm's Fort William College Frowde Ganpat Gell to Hunter Gell's genres half-tone Haraprasad Shastri Hindi Hindu Home Library Ibid Indian readers Japanese Kegan Paul Kolkata letter linguistic literary literature London Macmillan Archives Maharashtra manuscript Marathi modern movable type multilingual native nineteenth century north India novelists novels pandits Parisat Persian poems political popular prabhus pre-colonial Price printed books printers printing press produced Rabindranath Tagore readership reading realism religious Report sahitya Sanskrit Sanskritised Shastri social Society standardisation Sukumar Tagore texts titles traditions translation typography Upendrakisor Urdu writing wrote