Very special thanks and gratitude go to Rachel Goodyear for her invaluable editorial role in preparing the manuscript for publication. We would also like to thank numerous colleagues in our respective institutions and, lastly, our partners Amina Yaqin and Rachel Goodyear for their forbearance, grace under pressure and living cheerfully for four years with this troll under the stairs. Leavis Award Committee, and especially Jack Donovan, at the Modern School, University of York for their generous assistance in providing funds to allow for the completion of the project. We would like to thank Gordon Collier and the editorial team at Editions Rodopi for their encouragement and advice as we completed the manuscript the contributors for their patience during the volume’s lengthy gestation period the Research Committee of the School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies, University of London and the F.R. C RANE Inscribing a Sikh India: An Alternative Reading of Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan S HARMILA S EN No Passports, No Visas: The Line of Control Between India and Pakistan in Contemporary Bombay Cinema Afterword Contributors Index S UJALA S INGH The Routes of National Identity in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines P ETER M OREY Communalism, Corruption and Duty in Rohinton Mistry’s Family Matters
S HIRLEY C HEW “Cutting Across Time”: Memory, Narrative, and Identity in Shashi Deshpande’s Small Remedies A MINA Y AQIN The Communalization and Disintegration of Urdu in Anita Desai’s In CustodyĪ SHOK B ERY “Reflexive Worlds”: The Indias of A.K. M ONDAL The Limits of Secularism and the Construction of Composite National Identity in IndiaĪ LEX T ICKELL The Discovery of Aryavarta: Hindu Nationalism and Early Indian Fiction in English E LLEKE B OEHMER “First Realise Your Need”: Manju Kapur’s Erotic Nation
P ETER M OREY AND A LEX T ICKELL Introduction ix A NSHUMAN A. ISBN: 9-1 ©Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam - New York, NY 2005 Printed in The Netherlands The paper on which this book is printed meets the requirements of "ISO 9706:1994, Information and documentation - Paper for documents Requirements for permanence". Every effort has been made to trace copyright holders.
The cover montage includes elements from paintings of the Mughal school, Akbar period, c. Readings in the Post / Colonial Literatures in EnglishĨ2 Series Editors Gordon Collier (Giessen) Alternative Indias Writing, Nation and Communalism
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