"Of Many Heroes": An Indian Essay in Literary HistoriographyThis books is a sequel to After Amnesia, Dr Devy s Sahitya Akademi Award winning study. Of Many Heroes attempts to reconstruct the convention s of literary history in India prior to India s colonial encounter with the modern West. In some sections of the essay, the main focus is the mutual dependence of western literary history and cultural colonialism. |
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Some Indian Questions | 1 |
History and Literary History | 5 |
Time and Territory | 11 |
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