Imagining Indianness

Imagining Indianness: Cultural Identity and Literature is an anthology exploring the interface between identity, culture, and literature in South Asian writing. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2017, the collection examines how national identity is imagined and conveyed through cultural discourses and national narratives.

The essays examine interpretations of India's past and present alongside ancient and venerated cultural symbols. Contributors assess the ideological implications of Indianness, considering how those interpretations reflect and influence power structures across contemporary South Asian societies.

Belonging to the Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology series, this English-language volume traces the ongoing processes of constructing, imagining, and narrating Indian identity across the literatures and cultures of India.