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349. How (Not) to Write the History of Indian Literature
Harish Trivedi
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The annual U.R. Ananthamurthy Memorial Lecture, 2024, hosted by Bahuvachana, Rujuvathu, and BIC, features Prof. Harish Trivedi delivering a talk titled How (Not) to Write the History of Indian Literature.
The talk will explore the challenges that complicate any effort to write a history of Indian literature. It will self-reflexively examine several such histories, including a recent volume, Indian Literary Historiography (published by the Sahitya Akademi, 2024). Prof. Trivedi will propose some radical ideas for writing a popular history of Indian literature in about 250 pages. The lecture will also discuss a short history authored by the speaker, which deliberately sets aside pedantic conventions.
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Speakers
Harish Trivedi
Harish Trivedi, former Professor of English at the University of Delhi, was visiting professor at the universities of Chicago and London. Author of Colonial Transactions: English Literature and India (1993), Literature and Nation: Britain and India 1800-1990 (2001); and Post-colonial Translation: Theory and Practice (1999), he has co-edited Kipling in India: India in Kipling (2021), Prof Trivedi translates both ways between Hindi and English, and has edited a book in Hindi on the medieval poet Rahim (2019). He has authored a four volume, History of South Asian Literature for Literature: A World History, general editor David Damrosch (2022). 100 Years of A Passage to India: International Assessments, and Indian Literary Historiography: Concepts, Languages, Histories are books that have been published this year.
