The Indian postcolonial: a critical reader

"This collection offers an in-depth investigation of the work produced with regard to a particular political and national location of postcoloniality, offering a new direction for the subject. Focusing on the presentation of postcolonial theory within an Indian context, this Critical Reader includes sections on visual cultures, translating cultural traditions, the ethical text, and global/cosmopolitan worlds. Each section collects work from contemporary critics on these issues, and is prefaced with a short introduction highlighting the part they play in the national and international postcolonial debate"--Provided by publisher.

The sacred circulation of national images / Partha Chatterjee -- The blurring of distinctions: the artwork and the religious icon in contemporary India / Tapati Guha-Thakurta -- Ray, ventriloquism and illusion / Robert J.C. Young -- Fan bhakti and subaltern sovereignty: enthusiasm as a political factor / M. Madhava Prasad -- Auerbach in Istanbul: Edward Said, secular criticism, and the question of minority culture / Aamir R. Mufti -- Vinayak and me: Hindutva and the politics of naming / Vinayak Chaturvedi / Belatedness as possibility: subaltern histories, once again / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- Of demons and angels and historical humans: some events and questions in translation and postcolonial theory / Aniket Jaaware -- Ethics and politics in Tagore, Coetzee and certain scenes of teaching / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak / Self, body and inner sense: some reflections on Sree Narayana Guru and Kumaran Asan / Udaya Kumar -- Postcolonial relations: Gandhi, Nehru and the ethical imperatives of the national-popular / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan / Humiliation: the politics and cultural psychology of the limits of human degradation / Ashis Nandy -- The alien face of cosmopolitanism: an Indian reading…