Preetha Mani examines canonical Hindi and Tamil short stories of the mid-twentieth century to redefine Indian literature as constituted by the irresolvable questions of its multiple languages' relationship to its literatures.
Employing postcolonial and Marxist frameworks, Late Colonial Sublime offers a fresh look at romanticism and epic from the vantage point of late colonial India, with a focus on overlapping Hindi and Urdu literary cultures.
In Intimate Relations Krupa Shandilya focuses primarily on social reform movements that negotiated the intimate relations between men and women in Hindu and Muslim society, namely, the widow remarriage act in Bengal (1856) and the education of women promoted by the Aligarh movement (1858–1900).
Anjali Nerlekar's Bombay Modern is a close reading of Arun Kolatkar's canonical poetic works that relocates the genre of poetry to the center of both Indian literary modernist studies and postcolonial Indian studies.
