"Organised by Department of English & CLS, Saurashtra University, Rajkot"--Prelim. p. ix.

Resistance through one's own concepts and terms -- From Gadar to Gandhi via Anand Math -- India response to Colonialism during the renaissance -- Dialogics of resistance with reference to Raja Rammohan Roy -- Inscaping the landscape -- Recalling Cornelia Sorabji -- Saguna -- Inter national-isation and Rabindranath Tagore -- Discourse of affirmative resistance -- Swami Vivekanand's discourses -- Words that were a certain good -- Sri Aurobindo's discourse of political resistance in "Conversation of the dead" -- Satyagrah in South Africa' or how a man (re) defined resistance -- Dis(h) course of resistance -- Sad and a cruel story of the exploited and the exploiter -- Resistance through self-correction -- Novel of protest with reference to Gujarati literature -- Dalpatram's Laxminatak and the question of reform in mid-nineteenth century Gujarat -- Determinants of literary discourse -- National consciousness in Zeverchand Meghani's poetry with reference to the Gujarati poetry of the Gandhi Yuga -- Drama as a medium of resistance in Bhartendu -- Gender centered discourse of resistance in the nineteenth century Hindi journal Balabodhini -- Reading into Bharatendu's "Bharatvarshonnati kaise ho sakati hai?" (How can India progress?).