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This volume forms part of the
Critical Discourses in South Asia series, which deals with schools, movements, and discursive practices in major South Asian languages. It offers crucial insights into the making of Gujarati literature and its critical tradition across a century.
List of contents
List of Translators
Preface
Introduction: Critical Discourse in Gujarati: A
Vikalpa Vachana SITANSHU YASHASCHANDRA
1 Sections Ka 1-5: Prarambha/Beginnings - Real Contra Colonial: Gujarati Critical Discourse from 12th to 18th Centuries C.E.
Bhalan (15th Century)
Mandana Bandharo (16th Century)
Akho Sonaro (16th/17th Century)
Mana-Bhatt Premanand (17th Century)
Shamal Bhatt (18th Century)
2 Sections Kha 1-3:
Pratham Vivarta/First Variation: 1820-1915: Anya-bodha/Sva-bodha Kal/Period of Alien Cognition/Indigenous Cognition
Part I: 1820-1875 Sudharak Yug/Times of the Reformers
Dalpatram (1820-1898)
Narmadashankar Dave (Narmad)
Navalram Pandya
3 Sections Ga 1-7: Pratham Vivarta/First Variation: Part II: 1875-1915
Anandshankar Dhruv (1869-1942) Govardhanram Tripathi (1855-1907) Manilal Nabhubhai Dvivedi (1858-1898) Ramanbhai Nilkanth (1868-1928) Narasimharao Divetiya (1859-1937) Nanalal Kavi (1877-1946)
Balavantaray Thakor (1869-1952)
4 Sections Gha 1-9: Dvitiya Vivarta/Second Variation: 1915-1955: Hind Svaraj Kal/Period of India Engendering its Freedom
Gha 1: Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
Gha 2: K. M. Munshi (1887-1971)
Gha 3: Ramnarayan V. Pathak (1887-1955)
Gha 4: 'Sundaram' (Tribhuvandas Luhar) (1908-1991)
Gha 5: Umashankar Joshi (1911-1988)
Gha 6: Jhaverchand Meghani (1896-1947)
Gha 7: Ramprasad Bakshi (1894-1989)
Gha 8: Vishnuprasad Trivedi (1899-1991)
5 Sections Cha 1-9: Trutiya Vivarta/Third Variation: 1955 Onwards: Vyapana Shakti Kal. / Time of Energies for Enlargement
Suresh Joshi (1921-1986)
Niranjan Bhagat (1926-2018)
Harivallabh Bhayani (1917-2000)
Shirish Panchal (1943)
Chandrakant Topiwala (1936)
Himanshi Shelat (1947)
Babu Suthar (1955)
Bhagavandas Patel (1943)
Kanti Malsatar (1978)
Editor's Note on Appendices 1, 2 3
Index
About the author
Sitanshu Yashaschandra is a renowned Gujarati language poet, playwright, translator and academic. He has received Sahitya Akademi Award, Kabir Samman (Madhya Pradesh), Gangadhar Maher Award (Orissa), Kusumagraja Samman (Maharashtra) and was awarded Padma Shri in 2006.
