Preface
Author’s Acknowledgements

Prologue: Notes towards the History/Theory of Genres
Reading Indian and Indian English Literatures
1. Locating/Dis-locating Indian Literatures: A Metacritical Narrative
2. Re-contextualising the Post-1980s Indian Novel in English
3. Emerging Trends in Post-Independence Indian English Drama
Punjabi Literature: Some Contexts and Texts
4. Punjabi Literature through the Prism of History
5. The Novel as a Site of Cultural Memory: Gurdial Singh’s Parsa
6. Atamjit Singh’s Kamloops Dian Macchian: Polyphonic Discourse and Dramatic Art
7. Narratives of Dispersal: Reading Raghbir Dhand’s Stories
8. Postcolonial Katha: Continuities and Ruptures in Videshi Punjabi Short Fiction
Reading Translation(s)
9. Author as Translator: Paradigms and Possibilities in the Indian Context
10. Punjabi and English: Mediating the History of Language, Literature and Translation
11. Bhisham Sahni’s Tamas: Multiple Historical Perspectives and Literary Art
12. Mahasweta Devi’s Hajar Churashir Ma: A Narrative of Healing
Power, Hegemony and Mass Media: Case Studies in Popular Consciousness
13. Of Language, Consciousness and Mass Media
14. Of Influence, Power and Empowerment
15. Of Little Magazines in Punjabi: A Historical Overview
16. Class, Ideology and Politics of Globalisation: A Case Study of Aravind Adiga
Epilogue: Rediscovering Humanities in Life and Literature

Index