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"This volume discusses the development of cultural studies in India. It shows how inter-disciplinarity and cultural pluralism form the basis of this emerging field. It deals with contemporary debates and interpretations of post-colonial theory, subaltern studies, Marxism and post-Marxism, nationalism and post-nationalism. Drawing upon literature, linguistics, history, political science, media and theatre studies, and cultural anthropology, it explores themes such as caste, indigenous peoples, vernacular languages and folklore and their role in the making of historical consciousness. A significant intervention in the area, this book will be useful to scholars and students of cultural studies and theory, literature, history, cultural anthropology, sociology, and media and mass communication."

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Prologue -- Notes on contributors -- Part I Cultural studies and Indian context -- 1 Culture and English studies in India -- 2 The return of the silenced oral: culture and study in our time -- Part II Cultural studies and literary studies -- 3 The relevance of classical Indian aesthetics for contemporary culture studies -- 4 Popular culture studies in India today: issues and problems -- 5 Postcolonial cultural studies at the crossroads: theoretical approaches and practical realities -- 6 Dalit autobiographies in the Punjabi context -- Part III Cultural history and local traditions -- 7 Indianness: a battlefield -- 8 Cultural studies in Indian history: dominant models from South Asia -- 9 History, historiography and Punjabi folk literature: issues of canons and cultures -- 10 Uses of the folk: cultural historical practice and the Guga tradition -- Part IV Cultural politics and mass media -- 11 (In)visible publics: television and participatory culture in India -- 12 Transformative energy of performance: 'Budhan Theatre' as case study -- 13 Reinvention and appropriation of the folk in Daler Mehndi's pop videos -- 14 Subverting the male gaze: a case study of Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara -- Part V Cultural imagination and new identities -- 15 New cultures of remembering: the Indian memory project -- 16 Romantic imagination: science and empire in the works of Amitav Ghosh -- 17 Cultural economy of leisure and the Indian Premier League -- Index