3. Anandamath (1882)
Palashir Juddha (1875)
Iswar Gupta Ratchanaboli (vol.1)
“Barna Parichoy”
“Sahaj Path” (Prothom
bhag)
Almost 1/3 population of Bengal either
absent or derogatorily represented &
All in praise for LOOTERA
BRITISH.
4. margin means border
Of, relating to, located at, or constituting, a
margin, a border, or an edge
Psychology: relating to or located at the fringe of
consciousness
One that is considered to be at a lower or outer
limit, as of social acceptability
People who live on the, 3rd edition)(American Heritage Dictionary, 3rd edition)
5. In Saratchandra’s Srikanta he writes thus: “in
school today there will be a football match
between Bengalees and Muslims.”
(Sukumar sen, ed. Sarat Sahitya Samagra.Vol.1.
p. 268) 1393 bangabda.
recurrent conscious
mistake???
Identity crisis
6. Pipasha (1902)
Sultana’s Dream (1908)
Saogat (1918)
Padmarag (1924)
Narir Adhiker (an unfinished essay)
A History of Indian English literature by MK
Naik (1999)
NO REFRENCE
IndianWriting in English by KR Srinivas
Iyenger (2006)
7. Aamir Ali’s Conflict, Assignment in Kashmir,Via Geneva
Ahmed Ali’s Twilight in Delhi (1940)
Asif Curimbhoy’s Tourist Mecca,The Restaurant,The
Captives,The Refugee, DarjeelingTea,The doldrummers, Sonar
Bangla,This alen…Native Land
Iqbalmunnisa Hussain’s Purdah and Polygamy
Muhammad Iqbal’s His Six Lectures
Maulana Abdul Maudoodi’s Nationalism and India
MuhammadAli’s My life: A Fragment, SelectWritings
Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column, Phoneix Fled
Hmuayun Kabir’s Men and Rivers (1945)
no
reference
or slight
8. Wilhelm von Schlegal in 1823 used the term ‘Indian Literature’ ,first meaning
mainly Sanskrit literature
History of literature books published in 19th and early 20th century did not
recognize works written in Pali, Prakrit, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, andTamil
:M Garcin deTassey’s two volume History of the Literature of Hindu and
Hidustani (French original, 1839-47)
AlbrehctWeber’s History of Indian literature ( German original,1852)
Vedic/Upanishadic against Regional literatures
GeorgeA Grierson’s ModernVernacular Literature of Hindustan (1889)
Ernst P Horowitz’ A Short History of Indian Literature (1907)
MauriceWinternitz’s three volume History of Indian Literature (German
original,1908-22)
Herbert H Gowen’s History of Indian Literature (1931)
Friedrich Max Müller’s works such as A History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature so
far As It illustrates the Primitive Religions of Brahmins (1859)
9. K R Srinivasa Iyengar, Sri Aurobindo, Krishna Kripalini, Umashankar
Joshi,VK Gokak, Suniti Kumar Chatterjee, Sujit Mukherjee, Sisir
Kumar Das, (exception,Aijaz Ahmad), IPWA and Sahitya Akademy
(1954)
GRAND DESIGN AND MOTTO
Essential indian Culture (aryan culture)
”Indian literature is basically one though written in
many languges” Pandit Nehru
plurality and
heterogeneity of
Indian culture ???
10. In India in every 40kms after different dialects
William Jones’s establishment of Asiatic Society 1784
Glory of ancient Indian past (Sanskrit texts)/ orientalist
discourse
intellectul mastery to legitimise physical control (imperial)
dismissive of regional/ local languages/cultures
Macaulay's “Minute on Education” 1835 “Indian in blood
and colour, but English in taste and opinion”
Establishment of Hindu college 1817/Anglicist agenda
dismissive of regional/ local languages/cultures
12. Enlightened society is a finite complex of centre and margins,
opposed to one another.The outside remains what it was in Kant:
unknowable, in the shadow of silence, mute, and beyond the
reaches of enlightenment. (margin of margin, P. 233, Ajit
Chaudhury et al) no need to be sivilized
Bhabha destabilizes binaries ( centre/margin, civilized/ savaged,
enlightened/ ignorant …) and once it is done, he argues, that culture
can be understood to interact, transgress, and transform each other
in a much complex and ambivalent ways, giving birth to hybridity or
third space.
And Chaudhury in opposition of Bhabha, theorizes a
concept(margin of margin) where interaction ceases to work and
transformation does not take place. It is a place beyond the ‘gaze’ of
power. Let the uncivilized stay uncivilized .
To be ‘sivilized ’ or not?
14. “Then a ploughman said, Speak to us ofWork.
And he answered, saying:
You work that you may keep pace with the earth and the soul of
the earth.”
_____KHALIL GIBRAN
Dr. Abu Siddik
Assistant Professor thanking you
Dept. Of English
Falakata College
Jalpaiguri, 735211
abufktsid@gmail.com
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