Acknowledgements
Introduction
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SECTION 1: NATIONS AND NATIONALISM:
CONTEXTS OF CULTURE AND POWER
Searching for a Narrative in Times of Globalisation
NeeiaChandhoke
21
Imagining a Future: The Narrative in
Search of* Secular Space
Jasbiijain
51
Recent Nation Theory and the Nationalist
Quest in Indian Novel
Gurbhagat Singh
72
SECTION 2: ARTICUIA TING COMMUNITY:
MEMORY, HISTORY, IDENTITY
Memory, History and Fictional Representation
of the Partition
Alok Bhalla
84
The Partition of India and the Hindi Novel
Abdul Bismillah
122
The Re/Discovery of India: The Engagement of
Contemporary English Novel with Indian History
Avadhesh Kumar Singh
130
Region-Country Dialectic in Punjabi Novel
Tejwant Singh GUI
158
The Other Voice: Women's Writing in India
Joya Mitra
182
The Nation in Search of Narration: A Note on the
Dalit Novel in Malayalam
K. Ayyappa Paniker
192
The Lead Melts and Severed Tongues Find Voice:
A Note on the Emergent Gujarari Dalit Novel
NecravPatcl
198
SECTION 3: NATION AND IMAGINATION:
FROM TEXTS TO PEOPLE
Early Formulations of the Nation: Govardhanram
Tripathi's Sarasvatiehandra in Gujarati
Svatijoshi
209
Reading InduUkha: Muslim in the processes of
Nation-Translation
MTAnsari
225
Nationalism, the Novel and Prcmchand
Manager Pandey
243
The Village and the Nation: Sattnath Bhaduri's
Dhonrai Charit Manas
Sumanta Banerjee
257
Narrating Nation, Narrating Communities:
Construction of Muslim Identity in Qurratulain
Hyder's Aag ka Darya
M. Asaduddin
283
The Ethics of Witnessing: Vaikom Muhammad
Basheer and the Subject of Historical Narration
Udaya Kumar
305
The Tin Drum Docs Not Stop to Beat: A New
Reading of Anand's Aaikkoottam
V. Rajakruhnan
329
Caste, Class and Gender in M ahasweta:
Dmtloti as a National Allegory
Jaidev
343
The Nation and the Anglo-Indian: A Study of
The Trotter-Nama
Shyamala A. Narayan
379
The Novel and the Crisis of the Nation/Nation-State:
A Reading of Some Malayalam Novels
E.V. Ramakrishnan
393
Contributors
409
PPN: 25215763X
Titel: Narrating India : the novel in search of the nation / edited by E. V. Ramakrishnan. - New
Delhi : Sahitya Akademi, 2005
ISBN: 81-260-2072-5(pbk.)
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