SOUTH ASIAN REVIEW
Volume 30, Number 2
October / November 2009
Table of Contents
EDITOR’S COLUMN
TRIBUTE TO DR. BALACHANDRA RAJAN
7
In Remembrance
TILOTTAMA RAJAN
13
The Postcolonial Critic
ELIZABETH SAUER
21
Professor B. Rajan: In Memoriam
HIREN GOHAIN
33
Genius of the Shore: Memorial Address
for Dr. Balachandra Rajan
DAVID L. CLARK
Professor B. Rajan: In Memoriam
K.B. GULATI
45
55
Dr. Balachandra Rajan: From India to Canada,
Fragments in Search of a Narrative: In Memoriam
TERESA HUBEL
Balachandra Rajan: A Memoir
GOVIND NARAIN SHARMA
69
ARTICLES
Images for a Godless World: Violence After the Sacred
in the Millennial Indian Novel
SCOTT MCCLINTOCK
73
“Orientalised at all points”: Sensibility and Consumption
in Hartly House, Calcutta
PRIYA J. SHAH
97
You Are What You Eat: Postcolonial Eating
in the Novels of Salman Rushdie
SARAH UPSTONE
117
Whose History Is it Anyway?: The Politics of Hindu
Nationalism in Githa Hariharan’s In Times of Siege
MADHUPARNA MITRA
133
The Nation and Its Outcastes: A Reading of Mahasweta
Devi’s Douloti the Bountiful
NIVEDITA MAJUMDAR
India’s Bandit Queen: Two Disrupted and Disruptive
Life Stories
153
BONNIE ZARE
167
The Role of Early British Women Writers in Shaping
Perspectives of India
ROSEMARY RAZA
187
Dangerous Memories: Social Justice and the Politics
of the Present in Mahasweta Devi’s Statue
MADHURIMA CHAKRABORTY
211
BOOK REVIEWS
Uday C. Naval and Soofia K. Hussain. Striped Zebra:
The Immigrant Psyche
HIREN GOHAIN
225
Ananya Jahanara Kabir. Territory of Desire: Representing
the Valley of Kashmir
ERIN DUBOIS
227
Jhumpa Lahiri. Unaccustomed Earth
MICHAEL W. COX
230
Patrick Deer. Culture in Camouflage: War, Empire, and
Modern British Literature
ANN REA
233
Revathi Krishnaswamy and John C. Hawley, eds. The
Postcolonial and the Global
MARYSE JAYASURIYA
237
Rochona Majumdar. Marriage and Modernity: Family Values
in Colonial Bengal
ROBIN E. FIELD
241
Kiran Narayan. My Family & Other Saints
MICHAEL W. COX
244
CONTRIBUTORS
ABSTRACTS
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