ABSTRACT
India at 70: Multidisciplinary Approaches examines Indian independence in August 1947 and its multiple afterlives. With nine contributions by a range of international scholars, it interrogates 1947 and its complex, bloody aftermath in historical, political and aesthetic terms. This original collection conceives of Indian independence in bold and innovative ways by moving across national boundaries and disciplinary, geopolitical and linguistic landscapes; and by examining a wealth of under-researched primary material, both recent and historical. India at 70 is a unique and indispensable contribution to Indian history, literary and cultural studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|1 pages
Political and historical context: At home and abroad
part 1|1 pages
Aesthetic responses to Indian modernity
chapter 6|12 pages
Contested natures and tribal identities
Regional nationalism as ethnography – rereading Rajam Krishnan’s When the Kurinji Blooms
chapter 7|13 pages
Material memory and the Partition of India
A narrative interview with Aanchal Malhotra
chapter 8|13 pages
Thinking gender in 21st-century India
Reflections on Drawing the Line: Indian Women Fight Back
