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This volume studies the ways in which modernity has been conceived, practiced, and performed in Indian literatures from the 18th to 20th century. It brings together essays on writings in Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Odia, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and languages from Northeast India. Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Entanglements of Indian Modernities: Poetics, Praxis, Possibilities in Literary Cultures of India from the 18th to the 20th Century -- Part I Performing Modernity, Affecting Modernism -- A: Intimations of Modernity -- 1 Registers of the New: Translating Modernity in 19th and 20th Century India -- 2 Tagore and the Modern -- 3 Provincializing Modernity: From Imagined Community to Communitarian Imaginaries in Malayalam Fiction -- 4 Past Continuous: Munshi, Gujarat, and the Patan Trilogy -- B: Trajectories of Modernism -- 5 B.S. Mardhekar's Interliterary Poetics and the Emergence of Avant-garde Modernism in Marathi -- 6 Moody Modernism: Miraji Becomes Sappho -- 7 Modernisms in the Magazine: A Case for Recovery in Hindi -- 8 Dark Dispatches of Modernity and Nation Making: A Rereading of Nirmal Verma's Dark Dispatches -- Part II Modalities, Movements, Histories -- 9 Fashioning Readers: Canon, Criticism, and Pedagogy in the Emergence of Modern Odia Literature -- 10 Punjabi Kissa: Negotiating Modernities and Mediums -- 11 "A People's Literature": Reimagining Telugu Literary History -- 12 Progressivism and Tamil Modernity: Tracing the History of Progressive Literature in Tamil, 1940-1970 -- 13 An/Other Modernity and the Literary Cultures of Northeast India -- Part III Translating Modernity -- 14 Negotiating Modernity: Translation as a Critique of the Orientalist Agenda With Special Reference to Tamil -- 15 Translation and the Making of Modern Kannada Literature: English Geetagalu as a Canonical Text -- Index.
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