Rethinking Borders: How Modern Literature Is Shaped By Expansive Dispersion

Professors Anjali Nerlekar and Ulka Anjaria discuss their co-edited volume, the Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures, in this episode of TOI Bookmark. The two scholars – who have extensive backgrounds in multilingual Indian modernisms, South Asian literature, and associated research fields – reflect on the inherent complexitiesinvolved in the term ‘Indian literature’ and the challenges posed by trying to define or subsume regional modernisms, as exemplified by questions raised about Tamil modernism’s place within a broader Indian context.