Literary cultures in history: reconstructions from South Asia

pt. 1. Globalizing literary cultures

Sanskrit literary culture from the inside out / Sheldon Pollock

The culture and politics of Persian in precolonial Hindustan / Muzaffar Alam

The historical formation of Indian-English literature / Vinay Dharwadker

pt. 2. Literature in southern locales

Three moments in the genealogy of Tamil literary culture / Norman Cutler

Critical tensions in the history of Kannada literary culture / D. R. Nagaraj

Multiple literary cultures in Telugu: court, temple, and public / Velcheru Narayana Rao

Genre and society: the literary culture of premodern Kerala / Rich Freeman

pt. 3. The centrality of borderlands

The two histories of literary culture in Bengal / Sudipta Kaviraj

From Hermacandra to Hind Svarāj: region and power in Gujarati literary culture / Sitamshu Yashaschandra

At the crossroads of Indic and Iranian civilizations: Sindhi literary culture / Ali S. Asani

pt. 4. Buddhist cultures and South Asian literatures

What is literature in Pali? / Steven Collins

Works and persons in Sinhala literary culture / Charles Hallisey

- The Indian literary identity in Tibet / Matthew T. Kapstein

pt. 5. The twinned histories of Urdu and Hindi

A long history of Urdu literary culture, part 1: naming and placing a literary culture / Shamsur Rahman Faruqi

A long history of Urdu literary culture, part 2: histories, performances, and masters / Frances W. Pritchett

The progress of Hindi, part 1: the development of a transregional idiom / Stuart McGregor

The progress of Hindi, part 2: Hindi and the nation / Harish Trivedi.