Contents

pp v-viii

Contributors

pp ix-xvi

Acknowledgments

pp xvii-xviii

Introduction

pp 1-18

SECTION I - THE BROAD NINETEENTH CENTURY: INDIANS IN ENGLISH AND THE ENGLISH IN INDIA

pp 19-20

1 - The First Indian Poet in English: Henry Louis Vivian Derozio

pp 21-31

2 - English Poetry in India: The Early Years

pp 32-47

3 - From Albion's Exile to India's Prodigal Son: The English Poetry of Michael Madhusudan Datta (1824–1873)

pp 48-63

4 - Transforming Late Romanticism, Transforming Home: Women Poets in Colonial India

pp 64-81

5 - The Locations and Dislocations of Toru and Aru Dutt

pp 82-97

6 - Poetry of the Everyday: Comic Verse in the Nineteenth Century

pp 98-113

7 - Toru Dutt and “An Eurasian Poet”

pp 114-129

8 - Rabindranath Translated to Tagore: Gitanjali Song Offerings (1912)

pp 130-144

SECTION II - PUBLISHERS, PUBLISHING HOUSES, AND THE PERIODICAL PRESS

pp 145-146

9 - “Zig Zag sublimity“: John Grant, the Tank School of Poetry, and the India Gazette (1822–1829)

pp 147-161

10 - “The Torch Not the Sceptre”: Writers Workshop, Calcutta

pp 162-175

11 - The Blue Rexine Archive: A Short History of Clearing House, a Poets’ Cooperative of the 1970s

pp 176-189

12 - “Melted Out of Circulation”: Little Magazines and Bombay Poetry in the 1960's and 1970's

pp 190-202

SECTION III - POETRY: 1950–2000

pp 203-204

13 - Nissim Ezekiel: Poet of a Minor Literature

pp 205-222

14 - Dom Moraes: A Poet's Progress

pp 223-234

15 - Interpretative Testimony: Kamala Das and Eunice de Souza

pp 235-250

16 - Adil Jussawala and the Double Edge of Poetry

pp 251-266

17 - Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and the Interplay of Languages

pp 267-283

18 - Arun Kolatkar: A Singular Poetry in Two Languages

pp 284-298

19 - Imagery and Imagination in the Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra

pp 299-312

20 - Modernisms and Modernity: Keki Daruwalla and Gieve Patel

pp 313-327

21 - The Third Generation: Melanie Silgardo and Manohar Shetty

pp 328-344

SECTION IV - POETS OF THE DIASPORA

pp 345-346