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The Writing of the Nation by Its Elite

This volume examines the idea of India as it emerges in the writing of its anglophone elite, post-2000. Drawing on a variety of genres, including fiction, histories, non-fiction assessments economic, political, and business travel accounts, and so on, this book maps the explosion of English language writing in India after the economic liberalization and points to the nations sense of its growing importance as a producer of culture. From Ramachandra Guha to William Dalrymple, from Arundhati Roy to Pankaj Mishra, from Jhumpa Lahiri to Amitav Ghosh, from Amartya Sen to Gurcharan Das, from Barkha Dutt to Tarun Tejpal, this investigation takes us from aesthetic imaginings of the nation to its fractured political fault lines, the ideological predispositions of the writers often pointing to an asymmetrically constituted India.

A major intervention on how postcolonial India is written about and imagined in the anglophone world, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of cultural studies, literature, history, and South Asian studies. It will also be of interest to general readers with an inclination towards India and Indian writing.

MK Raghavendra is a writer on culture, literature, and politics, specializing in film, particularly its political side. After getting a masters degree in science and working in the financial sector for over two decades, he has become a full-time writer. He won the National Award, the Swarna Kamal for Best Film Critic in 1997, and received a Homi Bhabha Fellowship in 2000.

He has authored several volumes of academic scholarship from international publishers Seduced by the Familiar: Narration and Meaning in Indian Popular Cinema; Bipolar Identity: Region, Nation and the Kannada Language Film; The Politics of Hindi Cinema in the New Millennium: Bollywood and the Anglophone Indian Nation; and Locating World Cinema: Interpretations of Film as Culture. His recent publications also include Philosophical Issues in Indian Cinema: Approximate Terms and Concepts (Routledge, 2020) and a book on politics, The Hindu Nation: A Reconciliation with Modernity (2021). He has also published four volumes of popular film criticism.

His writing has been anthologized internationally, and he has written journalistic pieces on a variety of political and cultural issues for The Hindu, The Indian Express, Hindustan Times, Times of India, Firstpost, and Deccan Herald. He has contributed essays to national-level journals and periodicals including Economic and Political Weekly, Caravan, Frontline, The Book Review, and Biblio: A Review of Books. He is Founder-Editor of Phalanx, an online journal dedicated to debate.

Literary Cultures of the Global South

Series Editors: Russell West-Pavlov

University of Tbingen, Germany

Makarand R. Paranjape

Director, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, India

Recent years have seen challenging new formulations of the flows of influence in transnational cultural configurations and developments. In the wake of the end of the Cold War, the notion of the Global South has arguably succeeded the demise of the tripartite conceptual division of the First, Second and Third Worlds. This notion is a flexible one referring to the developing nations of the once-colonized sections of the globe. The concept does not merely indicate shifts in geopolitics and in the respective affiliations of nations, and the economic transformations that have occurred, but also registers an emergent perception of a new set of relationships between nations of the Global South as their respective connections to nations of the north (either USA/USSR or the old colonial powers) diminish in significance. New social and cultural connections have become evident. This book series explores the literary manifestations (in their often intermedial, networked forms) of those south south cultural connections together with academic leaders from those societies and cultures concerned.

Editorial Advisory Board

Bruce Robbins, Columbia University

Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago

Elleke Boehmer, University of Oxford

Laura I. P. Izarra, University of Sao Paulo

Pal Ahluwalia, University of Portsmouth

Robert J. C. Young, New York University

Simon During, University of Queensland

Vronique Tadjo, University of Witwatersrand

THE WRITING OF THE NATION BY ITS ELITE

The Politics of Anglophone Indian Literature in the Global Age

MK Raghavendra

For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/Literary-Cultures-of-the-Global-South/book-series/LCGS

The Writing of the Nation by Its Elite

The Politics of Anglophone Indian Literature in the Global Age

MK Raghavendra

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2022 MK Raghavendra

The right of MK Raghavendra to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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ISBN: 978-0-367-54129-3 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-367-55422-4 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-003-09347-3 (ebk)

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Indian Review of Books,

and those involved in it,

Subashree Krishnaswamy, Revathi Venkataraman, Vidya Mani

and its publisher the late KS Padmanabhan

Contents

1. Half Title
2. Series

1. i
2. ii

Guide

The Global South is a descriptive and analytical term that has recently come to the fore across a broad range of social sciences disciplines. It takes on different inflections in varying disciplinary contexts as a mere geographical descriptor, denoting a network of geopolitical regions, primarily in the southern hemisphere, with a common history of colonization; driven by processes of transformation (the Global South has and continues to be the site of an ongoing neo-colonial economic legacy as also of a number of emergent global economies such as India, China, Brazil, and South Africa); as an index of a condition of economic and social precarity which, though primarily manifest in the global

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