CONTENTS
Introduction: When We 'Multilingual', Do We Translate? 1
Part I
Translating in Times of Devotion
1: When a Text is a Song - Linda Hess 25
2: Na Hindu Na Turk: Shared Languages, Accents and Located Meanings- Francesca Orsini 50
3: Songs on the Move: Mira in Gujarat, Narasinha Mehta in Rajasthan-Neelima Shukla-Bhatt 70
Part II
Making and Breaking Boundaries in Colonial India and After
4: Unfixing Multilingualism: India Translated in French Travel Accounts - Sanjukta Banerjee 97
5: Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India: Acts of Naming and Translating- Rita Kothari 116
6: Three Languages and a Book: Of Languages and Modernities - Sowmya Dechamma 133
7: Language as Contestation: Phule's Interventions in Education in Nineteenth-Century Maharashtra - Rohini Mokashi-Punekar 149
8: Representing Kamrupi: Ideologies of Grammar and the Question of Linguistic Boundaries- Madhumita Sengupta 172
9: Translation and the Indian Social Sciences - Veena Naregal 196
Part III
Texts and Practices
10: When India's North-East Is 'Translated' into English - Mitra Phukan 225
11: On Translating (and-not-translating)Sarasvatichandra - Tridip Suhrud 245
12: Multilingual Narratives from Western India: Jhaverchand Meghani and the Folk - Krupa Shah 257
13: Dancing in a Hall of Mirrors: Translation Between Indian Languages- Mini Chandran 273
14: Translating Belonging in Ahmedabad: Representing Some Malayali Voices- Pooja Thomas 291
Part IV Re-imagining the Time of Translation
15: Conceptual Priority of Translation Over Language - Madhava Chippali and Sundar Sarukkai 309
16: Changing Script - Ganesh Devy 325
Epilogue: Ficus Benghalensisby Supriya Chaudhuri 337
Index 351
About the Editor and Contributors 361