Preliminaries; Contents; list of illustrations; list of contributors; preface and acknowledgments; guide to pronunciation; 1. Sanskrit Literary Culture from the Inside Out; 2. The Culture and Politics of Persian in Precolonial Hindustan; 3. The Historical Formation of Indian-English Literature; 4. Three Moments in the Genealogy of Tamil Literary Culture; 5. Critical Tensions in the Histor y of K annada Literar y Culture; 6. Multiple Literar y Cultures in Telugu: Cour t, Temple, and Public; 7. Genre and Society: The Literary Culture of Premodern Kerala
Summary
A comprehensive history of the rich literary traditions of South Asia, this text contains essays which consider 15 South Asian literary traditions - including Hindi, Indian-English, Persian, Sanskrit, Tibetan and Urdu - in their full historical and cultural variety
