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Small-circulation literary journals in Bengali, Malayalam, Marathi, Hindi and other languages once launched the country’s modernist writers. Ask whether their failure was economic, political, linguistic, or partly a myth of survival. What replaced them, and what was lost when they went?
pitch this essayExistentialist themes entered Indian languages through translation, adaptation, and local debate. Trace what bhasha modernists kept, changed, or rejected.
pitch this essayThe Progressive Writers’ Association held that writing should serve social change, while modernists defended the writer’s autonomy. The dispute is still unresolved.
pitch this essayObscenity cases reveal official assumptions about morality, public order, and art. What is literature permitted to say about sex, class, and desire?
pitch this essayInteriority (a character’s inner life rendered at length) was not a classical Indian priority. How did Bankim, Premchand and later Vinod Kumar Shukla adapt or resist it?
pitch this essayHow did British colonialism distort or clear India’s path to modernity? What alternative visions of modernity did Indian thinkers propose? Can core modern values be reconciled with “Indian Knowledge Systems”? Is a distinct “Multiple Modernities” framework possible for India?
pitch this essayBoth were imperial second cities with rich intellectual lives and no real political power. The comparison asks what that produces, in creativity and in frustration.
pitch this essayHow did a European academic painting technique shape how modern Hindus picture their deities?
pitch this essayTwo Bengali filmmakers gave opposite answers to modernity, one restrained and humanist, the other anguished and mythic. What does each show that the other cannot?
pitch this essayWere Husain, Souza and Raza internationalists who happened to be Indian, or did they produce a distinct Indian modernism?
pitch this essayBoth press on the limits of language, but the resemblance is easy to overstate. Where does the comparison hold and where does it break?
pitch this essay“Being” and Brahman look alike at a distance. Why do such comparisons usually mislead?
pitch this essaySome Western historians say no. The dispute is whether philosophy is a method, a subject matter or a European tradition.
pitch this essayHow much of present-day “traditional” sexual conservatism, including Section 377, came from British law and not from Indian sources?
pitch this essayMost of it concerns urban manners, courtship and household management. What does it show about the social world of the nagaraka (the cultivated city man)?
pitch this essayClassical texts and temple sculpture suggest so, but they were produced by elites. Breaking “India” down by class, period and region changes the answer.
pitch this essayKatherine Mayo’s Mother India (1927), a book by an American, used Indian sexuality to argue against self-rule and provoked a nationalist response. The essay traces why the argument took this form.
pitch this essayTexts like the Kuttanimata (an 8th-century Kashmiri work in which a procuress instructs a courtesan) and the Sanskrit plays show her as educated, wealthy and socially visible. The piece compares her with the Athenian hetaira and the Japanese geisha.
pitch this essayThree claims are usually merged: the word is recent, the practices are old, and the unification into one religion is modern. Each has a different answer.
pitch this essayCharvaka, Samkhya and Mimamsa were non-theistic schools. What would a non-theistic religiosity look like today?
pitch this essayWhat is regional and what is essential?
pitch this essayA trading firm that became a state. The company form, not “Britain”, may explain more of what happened.
pitch this essayEach name builds in a theory of what India was at the time.
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