Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. List of Illustrations xi
4. List of Contributors xiii
5. Preface and Acknowledgments xv
6. Guide to Pronunciation xxi
7. Introduction 1
8. Part 1. Globalizing Literary Cultures
9. 1. Sanskrit Literary Culture from the Inside Out 39
10. 2. The Culture and Politics of Persian in Precolonial Hindustan 131
11. 3. The Historical Formation of Indian-English Literature 199
12. Part 2. Literature in Southern Locales
13. 4. Three Moments in the Genealogy of Tamil Literary Culture 271
14. 5. Critical Tensions in the History of Kannada Literary Culture 323
15. 6. Multiple Literary Cultures in Telugu: Court, Temple, and Public 383
16. 7. Genre and Society: The Literary Culture of Premodern Kerala 437
17. Part 3. The Centrality of Borderlands
18. 8. The Two Histories of Literary Culture in Bengal 503
19. 9. From Hemacandra to Hind Svaraj: Region and Power in Gujarati Literary Culture 567
20. 10. At the Crossroads of Indic and Iranian Civilizations: Sindhi Literary Culture 612
21. Part 4. Buddhist Cultures and South Asian Literatures
22. 11. What Is Literature in Pali? 649
23. 12. Works and Persons in Sinhala Literary Culture 689
24. 13. The Indian Literary Identity in Tibet 747
25. Part 5. The Twinned Histories of Urdu and Hindi
26. 14. A Long History of Urdu Literary Culture, Part 1: Naming and Placing a Literary Culture 805
27. 15. A Long History of Urdu Literary Culture, Part 2: Histories, Performances, and Masters 864
28. 16. The Progress of Hindi, Part 1: The Development of a Transregional Idiom 912
29. 17. The Progress of Hindi, Part 2: Hindi and the Nation 958
30. Index 1023