Literature And Nation Book

	Contributors	6
	Preface	7
	How to use this book	8
	Literature and history	9
	First encounters: works by Sir William Jones and others	29
	The British nation and the colonies: Mansfield Park	43
	Literature, nation and revolution: A Tale of Two Cities	55
	The White Man's Burden: Kim	67
	Poetry and nation: W. B. Yeats	78
	Liberal dilemmas in England and India: A Passage to India	95
	Gandhian nationalism: Kanthapura	107
	Fragmenting nations and lives: Sunlight on a Broken Column	121
	A post-colonial world: Look Back in Anger and the Enigma of Arrival	138
	Post-colonial hybridity: Midnight's Children	154
	Related Texts
	Literature and history	168
	The British penetration of India (map)	168
	The Republic of India (map)	169
	First encounters	170
	Warren Hastings, Preface to Charles Wilkins's translation of The Bhagavad-Gita	170
	Sir William Jones, Preface to Sacontala	174
	Sir William Jones, On the origin and families of nations	178
	Indian poetry in English	184
	Raja Rammohan Roy, On education in India	191
	Raja Rammohan Roy, On British moves to abolish the practice of female sacrifices	194
	Thomas Babington Macaulay, on education for India	198
	The British nation and the colonies	206
	Robert Southey, from The Curse of Kehama	206
	Thomas Moore, from Lalla Rookh	216
	Literature, nation and revolution	225
	Accounts of the events of 1857	225
	G. B. Malleson, from The Indian Mutiny of 1857	229
	J. F. Fanthorne, from Mariam: A Story of the Indian Mutiny of 1857	235
	The White Man's Burden	240
	Rabindranath Tagore, from Gora	240
	J. R. Seeley, from The Expansion of England	245
	Poetry and nation	256
	W. B. Yeats, 'Irish Writers Who Are Winning Fame'	256
	W. B. Yeats, 'Ireland and the Arts'	259
	W. B. Yeats, Introduction to Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali	263
	Rabindranath Tagore, Two poems from Gitanjali	267
	Rabindranath Tagore, from Nationalism	268
	Vallathol Narayana Menon, Selected poems	278
	Liberal dilemmas in England and India	286
	Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Home rule for India: radical ideas	286
	Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Home rule for India: moderate ideas	288
	The Indian princes and the future of India	293
	Edward Thompson, from The Reconstruction of India	294
	Gandhian nationalism	300
	Speeches and writings of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	300
	Premchand, 'A Special Holi'	310
	Premchand, from Rangabhumi	314
	Speeches and writings of Jawaharlal Nehru	317
	Fragmenting nations and lives	322
	Lalithambika Antharjanam, 'Childhood Memories'	322
	Lalithambika Antharjanam, 'A Leaf in the Storm'	329
	Bhishm Sahni, 'The Train Has Reached Amritsar'	336
	Ajneya [S. H. Vatsayan], 'Getting Even'	345
	Saadat Hasan Manto, 'Toba Tek Singh'	351
	A post-colonial world	357
	Christine Weston, 'Be Still, She Sleeps'	357
	Ruskin Bond, 'The Man Who Was Kipling'	360
	Ruskin Bond, 'The Last Time I Saw Delhi'	363
	Tom Stoppard, from Indian Ink	366
	Post-colonial hybridity	373
	Kamaleshwar, 'The Nose of King George the Fifth'	373
	Sharad Joshi, 'Who Isn't Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'	378
	Alka Saraogi, from Kali-katha: Via Bypass	384
	Acknowledgements	394
	Index	396