India at 70

Ruth Maxey is Associate Professor in Modern American Literature at the University of Nottingham. She is the author of South Asian Atlantic Literature, 1970-2010 (2012) and Understanding Bharati Mukherjee (2019). Paul McGarr is Associate Professor in US Foreign Policy at the University of Nottingham and author of The Cold War in South Asia, 1945-1965 (2013). He is currently writing a book on the history of Anglo-American secret intelligence and security interventions in India and Pakistan.

List of Contributors

Introduction

Ruth Maxey and Paul McGarr

Part I Political and Historical Context: At Home and Abroad

1 The Making of the New Kashmir Manifesto

Andrew Whitehead

2 Half-Widows and the Travesty of Justice in Indian-administered Kashmir

Sohini Chatterjee

3 The RSS’ "Village Republics"

Rakesh Ankit

4 Cartooning Politics: Reading the Daily Mail, Dawn and Hindustan Times

Nassif Muhammed Ali

Part II Aesthetic responses to Indian modernity

5 The Experience of the Left Cultural Movement in India: 1942 to the Present

Arjun Ghosh

6 Contested Natures and Tribal Identities: Regional Nationalism as Ethnography – Re-reading Rajam Krishnan’s When the

Kurinji Blooms

Anita Balakrishnan

7 Material Memory and the Partition of India: A Narrative Interview with Aanchal Malhotra

E. Dawson Varughese

8 Thinking Gender in 21st-century India: Reflections on Drawing the Line: Indian Women Fight Back

Sukeshi Kamra

Index