Review of Kulkarni’s World Literature and the Question of Genre in Colonial India | Dilip Menon

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World Literature and the Question of Genre in Colonial India: Poetry, Drama, and Print Culture 1790-1890

by Kedar Arun Kulkarni

Bloomsbury India, Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt. Ltd,
2022
249 pp.
ISBN 978-93-5435669-8

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Reviewed by Dilip Menon (University of Witwatersrand)

A generation ago, Ganesh Devy, when commencing his degree in literature, was recommended the standard works in English literary criticism as a prior education. This led him to reflect on the fact that colonialism had generated an ignorance about the rich traditions of classical and vernacular reflection in South Asia on literature and conclude that the subcontinent lived