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Tables of Contents for Literary Culture in History
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
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