TY - BOOK TI - India's literary history : essays on the nineteenth century SN - 8178241722 U1 - 891.409 PY - 2004/// CY - Delhi PB - Permanent Black KW - Indic Literature (English) KW - History and Criticism KW - Indic Literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Introduction /Stuart Blackburn and Vasudha Dalmia Performance and Identity 2. Between print and performance /Indira Viswanathan Peterson -- 3. Language, Community and the theatrical public /Kathryn Hansen -- Impersonation, narration, desire, and the Parsi Theatre /Anuradha Kapur Print and Prose Narratives 5. The burden of authenticity /Stuart Blackburn -- 6. Print and prose /Velcheru Narayan Rao -- 7. Entertainment and reform /Christina Oesterheld -- 8. Multiple temporalities, unsettled boundaries, trickster women /Kumkum Sangari Publication, Circulation, and Control 9. Hindi publishing in the heart of an Indo-Persian cultural metropolis /Ulrike Stark -- 10. Reading in the public eye /Priya Joshi The Genre of the New City 11. Dalpatram and the nature of literary shifts in nineteenth-century Ahmedabad /Svati Joshi -- The modern Babu and the metropolis /Hans Harder -- Generic questions /Vasudha Dalmia -- Detective novels /Francesca Orsini -- A place elsewhere /Dilip M. Menon ER -