East of Delhi : multilingual literary culture and world literature /
"This chapter sets out the located and multilingual approach to literary history employed in the book. It outlines the geographical and historical scope of the book and traces the changing political boundaries of Purab (East), the region east of Delhi in the Gangetic plain of northern India lat...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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| Series: | South Asia research (New York, N.Y.)
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "This chapter sets out the located and multilingual approach to literary history employed in the book. It outlines the geographical and historical scope of the book and traces the changing political boundaries of Purab (East), the region east of Delhi in the Gangetic plain of northern India later better known as Awadh, from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. The presence of many small towns (qasbas), which were administrative, economic, and cultural nodes, but no capital city until the eighteenth century marks the decentered character of the region. The chapter also makes a case that the multilingual approach 'from the ground up employed in this book can help produce a richer and more textured take on world literature"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 288 pages) : illustrations, map. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0197658318 9780197658321 0197658326 9780197658307 019765830X 9780197658314 |