This book imagines the ocean as central to understanding the world and its connections in history, literature and the social sciences. It analyzes the histories of movement and traversing across connected spaces of water and land sedimented in literary texts, local histories, music and performance.

This book imagines the ocean as central to understanding the world and its connections in history, literature and the social sciences. It analyzes the histories of movement and traversing across connected spaces of water and land sedimented in literary texts, local histories, music and performance.

This volume studies the ways in which modernity has been conceived, practiced, and performed in Indian literatures from the 18th to 20th century. It brings together essays on writings in Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Odia, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and languages from Northeast India.

This volume critically engages with recent formulations and debates regarding the status of regional languages of the Indian subcontinent vis-à-vis English. It explores how language ideologies of the "vernacular" are positioned in relation to language ideologies of English in South Asia.

This volume critically engages with recent formulations and debates regarding the status of regional languages of the Indian subcontinent vis-à-vis English. It explores how language ideologies of the "vernacular" are positioned in relation to language ideologies of English in South Asia.