Indian literature

This study is concerned with the Indian "romance" (qissah ) genre, as it was understood from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Particularly during the Mughal era, oral and written romances represented an enchanted world populated by sorcerers, jinns, and other marv…

The 1990’s in India were a time of incredible transformation, both in economic and social terms. With the liberalization of the Indian economy in 1991, state-led developmentalism increasingly ceded ground to private investment, and social relations underwent a concomitantly rapi…