Imagining Indianness

1. Introduction: On “Indianness” and Indian Cultural Identity in South Asian Literature
Diana Dimitrova

Part I. Indianness, Literature and Culture: A Critical Perspective

2. Of Many Indias: Alternative Nationhoods in Contemporary Indian Poetry
K. Satchidanandan

3. Reviewing Nirmal Varma, Jaidev and the Indianness of Indian Literature
Hans Harder

4. Indianness as a Category in Literary Criticism on Nayī Kahānī

Thomas Bruijn

5. Imagining “Indianness” and Modern Hindi Drama
Diana Dimitrova

Part II. Indian Cultural Identity and the Crisis of Modernity: Reworking of Myth and Tradition

6. The Indian Contexts and Subtexts of My Text
Krishna Baldev Vaid

7. Kishorilal Gosvami’s Indumatī

G. H. Schokker

8. Indianness, Absurdism, Existentialism, and the Work of Imagination: Vinod Kumar Shukla’s Naukar kī kamīz

Martin Christof-Fuechsle

9.
‘Subah kī sair’ and ‘Dūsrī duniyā’, Two Short Stories by Nirmal Varma
Mariola Offredi

Keywords: Social Sciences, Anthropology, Asian Culture, Asian Literature, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies