Table of Contents

Foreword - B G Deshmukh
Introduction - Kamala Ganesh
Fields of Culture: Conversations and Contestations
From Interior Landscapes into Cyberspace - Kapila Vatsyayan
Fluidity and Dynamics of Tradition
From Sankara to Fusion - Ashok Ranade
An Indian Musical Spectrum
Lineages of the Modern in Indian Art - Tapati Guha-Thakurta
The making of a National History
Divided by a Common Language - Meenakshi Mukherjee
Novel in India, in English and in English Translation
Translating Sensibility - Dilip Chitre
What does Translation Mean in India? - U R Ananthamurthy
Interculturalism and the Question of Body - Anuradha Kapur
Interculturalism and Intraculturalism in Theatre - Vijaya Mehta
A Personal Response
Stri Shakti - Vimla Bahuguna
Dimensions of Woman Power in India
Vimla Bahuguna and the Legacy of Gandhian Politics - Usha Thakkar
Heritage of Bhakti - Vidyut Bhagwat
Sant Women′s Writings in Marathi
Feminism and Feminist Expression - Devaki Jain
A Dialogue
`Re′ Inscribing the Past - Uma Chakravarti
Inserting Women into Indian History
The Humanist Perspective and the Civilising Role of History - Mariam Dossal
Indigenous Knowledges and the Hegemony of Science - Claude Alvares
Towards an Informed Science Criticism - Gita Chadha
The Debate on Science in Post-Independence India
Index

About the Author

Usha Thakkar is Honorary Director, Institute of Research on Gandhian Thought and Rural Development; and Honorary Secretary, Mani Bhavan Gandhi Sangrahalaya, Mumbai. She retired as Professor and Head, Department of Political Science, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai. She has done postdoctoral research at the University of Chicago on Fulbright Fellowship, at Cornell University on Sr. Fulbright Fellowship and at York University (Canada) on WID Fellowship from the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute. Her research areas are Women’s Studies, Gandhian Studies and Indian Politics. Her publications include Politics in Maharashtra (co-editor, 1995); Women in Indian Society (co-author, 2001); Zero Point Bombay: In and Around Horniman Circle (co-editor, 2008) and Culture and Making of Identity in Contemporary India (co-editor, 2005).

Reviews

Truly interdisciplinary in nature...The articles are written by some very distinguished scholars and practitioners including poets and activists...All the articles provide a discourse on Indian culture, providing a link between knowledge, culture and identity. This book will be of immense interest to researchers working on Indian culture
International Sociology Review of Books