Makarand R Paranjape
Biographic Data
| ID | 476940 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Makarand R Paranjape |
| GIVEN NAMES | Makarand R |
| FAMILY NAME | Paranjape |
| SIGNATURE | PARANJAPE M R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Critical Posthumanism and Planetary Futures
Critical Posthumanism and Planetary Futures
Cultural Politics in Modern India
Cultural Politics in Modern India
India’s global proximities derive in good measure from its struggle against British imperialism. In its efforts to become a nation, India turned modern in its own unusual way. At the heart of this metamorphosis was a "colourful cosmopolitanism," the unique manner in which India made the world its neighbourhood. The most creative thinkers and leaders of that period reimagined diverse horizons. They collaborated not only in widespread anti-colonial…
Beyond the subaltern syndrome
Using some of Amitav Ghosh’s influential non-fictional writings to understand his own novels, this paper problematizes Ghosh’s works in terms of the crisis of the bhadrasamaj or the middle class makers of the nation and civil society in India. Indeed, we may detect a direct line of literary and cultural descent from the two iconic figures of recent Bangla culture, Rabindranath Tagore and Satyajit Ray, to Ghosh’s complex career. But instead of a c…
‘East Indian’ Cosmopolitanism
In this essay I reassess the legacy of Henry Vivian Louis Derozio (1809–31) through the first extended interpretation of The Fakeer of Jungheera (1828), his 2,050-line poem, published when he was barely nineteen. What makes this poem notable, even unique, is that it is the first long poem written by any Indian in the English language. More remarkably, it is also an intriguing conjuncture of a complex set of relations at the very beginnings of mod…
Mutations of the Calcutta Chromosome? Amitav Ghosh and the Mapping of a “Minor” Literature
Tagore's Idea of World Literature
Though it seems to have re-surfaced in a dramatic way, Rabindranath Tagore's essay remained untranslated till 2001. Though Tagore only comes to world literature in the end, the essay is an important statement of Tagore's view of the purpose of human life and the role art in its fruition; indeed, we might consider the essay to be a concise formulation of Tagore's aesthetic philosophy itself. What Tagore meant by world literature was the essential …
Indian English and 'vernacular' India
Papers presented at a seminar on Indian English and vernacular India : (con)texts and (con)tests, held at New Delhi during 28-30 March 2005.
Science, Spirituality and the Modernization of India
The Ideology of Form
Is the Third World Novel in general and more specifically the Indian English novel different from the Western novel? If so, how do we account for and understand this difference? Moreover, what is the ideological relationship between the Western novel and the Third World novel? My paper tries to discuss such questions. Though my discussion centres on the novel, I shall be interested in broader issues of cultural interaction. I hope, then, to use t…
Beyond the subaltern syndrome
Using some of Amitav Ghosh’s influential non-fictional writings to understand his own novels, this paper problematizes Ghosh’s works in terms of the crisis of the bhadrasamaj or the middle class makers of the nation and civil society in India. Indeed, we may detect a direct line of literary and cultural descent from the two iconic figures of recent Bangla culture, Rabindranath Tagore and Satyajit Ray, to Ghosh’s complex career. But instead of a c…
Cultural Politics in Modern India
India’s global proximities derive in good measure from its struggle against British imperialism. In its efforts to become a nation, India turned modern in its own unusual way. At the heart of this metamorphosis was a "colourful cosmopolitanism," the unique manner in which India made the world its neighbourhood. The most creative thinkers and leaders of that period reimagined diverse horizons. They collaborated not only in widespread anti-colonial…
Mutations of the Calcutta Chromosome? Amitav Ghosh and the Mapping of a “Minor” Literature
The Ideology of Form
Is the Third World Novel in general and more specifically the Indian English novel different from the Western novel? If so, how do we account for and understand this difference? Moreover, what is the ideological relationship between the Western novel and the Third World novel? My paper tries to discuss such questions. Though my discussion centres on the novel, I shall be interested in broader issues of cultural interaction. I hope, then, to use t…
Science, Spirituality and the Modernization of India
Indian English and 'vernacular' India
Papers presented at a seminar on Indian English and vernacular India : (con)texts and (con)tests, held at New Delhi during 28-30 March 2005.
‘East Indian’ Cosmopolitanism
In this essay I reassess the legacy of Henry Vivian Louis Derozio (1809–31) through the first extended interpretation of The Fakeer of Jungheera (1828), his 2,050-line poem, published when he was barely nineteen. What makes this poem notable, even unique, is that it is the first long poem written by any Indian in the English language. More remarkably, it is also an intriguing conjuncture of a complex set of relations at the very beginnings of mod…
Mutations of the Calcutta Chromosome? Amitav Ghosh and the Mapping of a “Minor” Literature
Tagore's Idea of World Literature
Though it seems to have re-surfaced in a dramatic way, Rabindranath Tagore's essay remained untranslated till 2001. Though Tagore only comes to world literature in the end, the essay is an important statement of Tagore's view of the purpose of human life and the role art in its fruition; indeed, we might consider the essay to be a concise formulation of Tagore's aesthetic philosophy itself. What Tagore meant by world literature was the essential …
Beyond the subaltern syndrome
Using some of Amitav Ghosh’s influential non-fictional writings to understand his own novels, this paper problematizes Ghosh’s works in terms of the crisis of the bhadrasamaj or the middle class makers of the nation and civil society in India. Indeed, we may detect a direct line of literary and cultural descent from the two iconic figures of recent Bangla culture, Rabindranath Tagore and Satyajit Ray, to Ghosh’s complex career. But instead of a c…
Critical Posthumanism and Planetary Futures
Critical Posthumanism and Planetary Futures
Cultural Politics in Modern India
Cultural Politics in Modern India
India’s global proximities derive in good measure from its struggle against British imperialism. In its efforts to become a nation, India turned modern in its own unusual way. At the heart of this metamorphosis was a "colourful cosmopolitanism," the unique manner in which India made the world its neighbourhood. The most creative thinkers and leaders of that period reimagined diverse horizons. They collaborated not only in widespread anti-colonial…
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