Between History and Literature - Essays for Dipesh Chakrabarty

This book explores the value of bhasa literature through the lens of Dipesh Chakrabarty's scholarship, offering a nuanced perspective on his passionate engagement with literature at large and with Bengali literature, in particular.

List of contents

1. The Bhasa of History-an essay for Dipesh Chakrabarty 2. Sarala Mahabharata in the colonial Odia public sphere 3. Textualizing the agrarian: plots and forms in British India 4. Utopias of the past: a reading of A. K. Forbes' Ras Mala 5. Reading Benjamin Franklin's life story in Bareilly 6. 'No one heard me!': sexual self-fashioning and the child in 'Lih¿f' 7. Spatial imagination in colonial Bengal 8. 'Prithak Pranav', the Krishna-Kali Conundrum: Historical and Literary Complexities of Sectarian Bengal 9. Provincial Victorians: global capital and literary taste in colonial Odisha 10. Bankimchandra Chatterjee's Vande M¿taram and the Patriotic Song Tradition in India

About the author

Siddharth Satpathy teaches in the Department of English, University of Hyderabad, India. His most recent publications include a co-edited special issue, "Vernacular Victoria: The Queen in the Languages of South Asia," for the journal Victorian Literature and Culture.
Girish D. Pawar teaches in the Department of English, Central University of Hyderabad, India. His teaching and research interests include British literature in the long Eighteenth Century, Film Studies, Popular Culture in India, and Marathi Theatre.

Product details

• Authors: Siddharth Pawar Satpathy
• Assisted by: Girish D. Pawar (Editor), Siddharth Satpathy (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032958620
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3295862-0
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Social & cultural history, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting, India, Bengali, Colonialism & imperialism, Regional Studies, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: general, Colonialism and imperialism, Regional / International studies, Asian History, Language teaching and learning, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT), HISTORY / Asia / South / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies