The Editor

Meenakshi Shivram is the winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award for her translation of the novel, Topi Shukla (Oxford University Press), and has taught English Literature at Mumbai University, Madras University, and Christ University in Bengaluru.

Publisher’s Acknowledgements
Foreword
Jerry Pinto
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Meenakshi Shivram

Part I
1. Emma: The Nested Appeal of the Matryoshka
Usha K. R.

2. Belying Time and Space: Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park for Millennials
Anusha Ramanathan

3. Reflections on Second Chances in Persuasion: Reading Jane Austen again as an Indian
Nikita Mamtora

4. What do we do with Jane? Adapting Austen for the Screen in the 2020s
Ana Manuella Viegas

5. English Wine in Indian Bottles: Austen’s Women – in England then, in India now
Usha Subramanian

6. Eco-precarity, Climate Change, and Austen
Ragesree Roy

7. The Balanced Self: Individualism and Conformity in Austen’s Heroines
Aayushee Garg

8. Postcolonial Pedagogy and Media Literacy: Jane Austen's Free Indirect Discourse as a
Tool for Framing the Universal via the Particular
Anupama Nayar CV

9. Do You Mean What You Say, Jane Austen?
Revathi Siva Kumar

10. Chronicling the Self Through the Poetry of Jane Austen
Bidyut Bhusan Jena

11. The Range of Austen’s Characters: An Algorithmic String
Meenakshi Shivram

Part II: Interviews with Indian Novelists

12. Nandini Sengupta
13. Nandita Bose
14. Prajwal Parajuly
15. Shinie Antony
16. Usha K. R.

Afterword
Githa Hariharan

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