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215 Index 3 Idiots, 178 Achebe, Chinua, 196n15 Adiga, Aravind, 11–14 Advani, Rukun, 53, 56, 58, 66, 191n21, 192n24; Civil Lines, 67–70 Advertisements, 2, 9, 56 African literature, and English language, 107–8, 196n15 Agra, 5 Ahmad, Aijaz, 20, 189n29 Algebra of Infinite Justice, The, 99, 173 Allahabad, 25, 59, 67, 87 Ali, Ahmed, 33–38, 39, 41, 43, 44, 47 Altbach, Philip, 50 Amar Akbar Anthony, 45–46 Ambedkar, B.R., 185n29, 187n43 Amrita Bazar Patrika, 30–31 Anand, Mulk Raj, 18 Ananthamurthy, U.R., 64, 104, 119–20 Anglo-American literary markets, and Indian literature, 153–54 Ansari Road, publishing houses on, 24, 63, 71, 76, 78, 79, 91 Anthropology, xv, 12; of literature, 7. See also Ethnography Anti-Hindi agitations, 20 Appadurai, Arjun, 7, 160, 199n4 Argumentative Indian, The, 3 Asaf Ali Road, 83 Authors, 66, 73, 139, 150, 160, 169, 171; association with causes, 169; contribution to social mores, 7; refusal of awards, 169–72. See also individual authors Authenticity, 8, 137–43, 151, 166, 196n13; of English, 10, 20–21, 30 68, 94, 138, 139; of Hindi translation (see Suitable Boy); linguistic, 9, 10, 22, 26, 143, 150; transnationality as index of, 143 Awadhi, 19 Awards: Amitav Ghosh, and Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, 169–73; Arundhati Roy, and Sahitya Akademi Award, 171, 172, 173; Bhasha Samman Award, 102; Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, 104, 169–70, 181n1, 202n26; Cultural Freedom Prize, 172; Dan David Prize for Amitav Ghosh, 173; Eurasia Prize (see Commonwealth Writers’ Prize); Jnanpith, 72; Man Booker Prize (see Man Booker Prize); politics behind refusal of, 170–71, 172–73, 174; of Sahitya Akademi, 97, 98, 99–100, 136 Bachchan, Amitabh, 1, 2, 45 Bahurupiya Shehr, 91 Bahu Vachan, 88 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 102–3 Bangladesh, xiii Barista café chain, 98 Barthes, Roland, 197n8 216 | Index “Being There: Aspects of an Indian Crisis,” 165 “Bel Patra,” 124 Bengali, xiv, 15, 18, 24, 31, 65; book publication in, 75; and Hindi, 9; translation of A Suitable Boy into, 145, 146 Best-sellers, pavement sales of, 1, 3, 175 Béteille, André, 69 Bhabha, Homi, 60 Bhagat, Chetan, 175, 176, 178, 179; Five Point Someone: What Not to Do at IIT, 175–77 Bharat Bhavan, 87 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), 89, 200n20 Bhasha, 14, 18, 77, 108–9, 139, 169–71, 173; vs English language, 18–19, 47, 94, 105–6, 118, 120, 168, 170; promotion, role of Sahitya Akademi in, 100–102; and upper-caste culture, 22; works, translations of, 168; writers, 64, 133, 143, 160–61, 195n1; writers, and English language, 109, 113–14, 137–38, 166. See also Mother tongue Bhasha Samman Award, 102 Bhojpuri, 19 Bhopal, as cultural centre, 26 Bihar, 18, 74 Bilingualism, 60, 130, 134, 141 Book Review, 143 Bookshop cafés, of south Delhi, 97–98 Bourdieu, Pierre, notion of literary field, 7, 183n12 Brahminism, 145, 146, 149; English language and, 20 Britain (United Kingdom), xiii, 34, 36, 61, 155, 157, 200n3, 203n28 British citizenship, notion of, 155 British colonialism: criticism of, 30; English as language of government during, 19; Indian languages under, 16 British Commonwealth, xiii, xiv British Council, 83 British liberalism, 31 Brown, Dan, 3 Buford, Bill, 154–56, 157 Bureaucracy, and English language, 17, 20 Butalia, Urvashi, 192n26, 182n3 Canada, xiii Casanova, Pascale, 16 Caste, 4, 8, 22, 61, 119, 145, 200n21; and class, 149; and language politics, 21. See also Chamars; Dalits Censorship, of vernacular press, 30, 79 Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), 91 Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 34 Chamars, 145, 146, 147, 150 Chandni Chowk, 61, 71, 83 Chandra, Sudhir, 120–21 Chandra, Vikram, 156, 163–65, 167; “Cult of Authenticity, The,” 163; Sacred Games, 164 Chatterjee, Enakshi, critique of Hindi translation of A Suitable Boy, 144–49 Chatterjee, Partha, 31, 188n3 Chatterjee, Upamanyu, 178, 191n21; English, August, 178–79 Chaudhuri, Amit, 154, 156, 202n19 Chaudhuri, Nirad, 48–49 Chawri Bazaar, 63, 71 Chennai (Madras), 23, 62 Chughtai, Ismat, 75 Civil Lines, 67–70, 192n24 Coelho, Paulo, 3 Coetzee, J.M., 13, 195n1 Coffee Day chain cafés, 98 Cohen, Lawrence, 127 Colonial languages, appropriation as form of resistance, xv Commonwealth Foundation, 169 “‘Commonwealth Literature’ does Not Exist,” 104, 170 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, 104, 169–73, 202n26 Constitution of India, Eighth Schedule, 15, 102 Cosmopolitanism, 47, 52, 57, 64, 65, 93, 106, 124; Hindi, 82, 83–89, 90, 93; regional, 164 Cow belt, 146 Creative process, 106, 129, 157, 164 Cuckold, 136, 137 “Cult of Authenticity, The,” 163 Cultural authenticity, 8, 10, 137, 140...
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