Debating the 'Post' Condition in India

How was the post-modernist project contested, subverted and assimilated in India? This book offers a personal account and an intellectual history of its reception and response. Tracing independent India’s engagement with Western critical theory, Paranjape outlines both its past and ‘post’. The book explores the discursive trajectories of post-mo <p><em>Preface</em>. Introduction - 'Post' Positions: A 'Selfish' Review <b>PART I. Critical Vernaculars 1. </b><em>Parampara</em> <b>2. </b><em>Gunas</em> <b>3. </b><em>Desivad</em> <b>4.</b> Criticism <b>PART II. Unauthorised Modernities </b><b>5. </b>Invasion of Theory <b>6.</b> Svaraj <b>7.</b> Three States <b>8. </b>Duality <b>PART III. Postcolonial Contentions 9.</b> Discontents<b> 10. </b>Alterities <b>11. </b>Ends <b>12.</b> Prospects. <i>Index</i></p>