TY - BOOK TI - Literature and nationalist ideology: writing histories of modern Indian languages SN - 9788187358336 U1 - 954.0072 PY - 2010/// CY - New Delhi, Bangalore PB - Social Science Press, Distributed by Orient Blackswan KW - Indic literature KW - History and criticism KW - Nationalism KW - India KW - History KW - Historiography N1 - 1; Introduction ; Hans Harder; 2; Shaping a Literary Space: Early Literary Histories in Malayalam and Normative Uses of the Past ; Udaya Kumar; 3; Drowning in the Ocean of Tamil: Islamic Texts and the Historiography of Tamil Literature ; Torsten Tschacher; 4; From Scattered Archives to the Centre of Discourse: Histories of Telugu Literature in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century ; Heiko Frese; 5; Beyond the Nation: A Comparatist's Thoughts on Some Foundational Categories in the Literary Historiography of South Asian Literatures ; Ipshita Chanda; 6; Dineshchandra Sen's The Folk Literature of Bengal: The Canonisation of Folk and the Conception of the Feminine ; Sourav Kargupta; 7; Ethics or Aesthetics? Obscenity as a Category for Evaluating the Hindi Public Sphere in Colonial North India ; Charu Gupta; 8; George Abraham Grierson's Literary Hindustan ; Ira Sarma; 9; The Impact of Sectarian Lobbyism on Hindi Literary Historiography: The Fascinating Story of Bhagvadacharya Ramanandi ; Purushottam Agarawal; 10; The Politics of Exclusion? The Place of Muslims, Urdu and its Literature in Ramchandra Shukla's Hindi sahitya ka itihas ; Navina Gupta; 11; A Discourse of Difference: 'Syncretism' as a Category in Indian Literary History ; Thomas De Bruijn; 12; Unscripted: The People of Arunachal Pradesh in Literary and Other National Histories ; Stuart Blackburn; 13; Indian Literature in English and the Problem of Naturalisation ; Hans Harder; 14; The Mahatma as Proof: The Nationalist Origins of the Historiography of Indian Writing in English ; Snehal Shingavi ER -