Literature and Nationalist Ideology: Writing Histories of Modern Indian Languages

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Hans Harder
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018 - History - 387 pages
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Shaping a Literary Space: Early Literary Histories in Malayalam and Normative Uses of the Past -- 3. Drowning in the Ocean of Tamil: Islamic Texts and the Historiography of Tamil Literature -- 4. From Scattered Archives to the Centre of Discourse: Histories of Telugu Literature in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century -- 5. Beyond the Nation: A Comparatist's Thoughts on Some Foundational Categories in the Literary Historiography of South Asian Literatures -- 6. Dineshchandra Sen's The Folk Literature of Bengal: The Canonisation of Folk and the Conception of the Feminine -- 7. Ethics or Aesthetics? Obscenity as a Category for Evaluating the Hindi Public Sphere in Colonial North India -- 8. George Abraham Grierson's Literary Hindustan -- 9. The Impact of Sectarian Lobbyism on Hindi Literary Historiography: The Fascinating Story of Bhagvadacharya Ramanandi -- 10. The Politics of Exclusion? The Place of Muslims, Urdu and its Literature in Rāmchandra Śhukla's Hindī sāhitya kā itihās -- 11. A Discourse of Difference: 'Syncretism' as a Category in Indian Literary History -- 12. Unscripted: The People of Arunachal Pradesh in Literary and Other National Histories -- 13. Indian Literature in English and the Problem of Naturalisation -- 14. The Mahatma as Proof: The Nationalist Origins of the Historiography of Indian Writing in English -- Index

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Hans Harder teaches Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany.

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