Introduction - Indian Genre Fiction: Languages, Literatures, Classifications PART I. Emergence of Distinctions
1. Literary and Popular Fiction in Late Colonial Tamil Nadu
2. Homage to a ‘Magic-Writer’: The Mistr?z and Asr?r Novels of Urdu
3. A Series of Unfortunate Events: Natural Calamities in 19th-Century Bengali Chapbooks
4. Explorers of Subversive Knowledge: The Science Fantasy of Leela Majumdar and Sukumar Ray PART II. Postcolonial Reassertions
5. Hearts and Homes: A Perspective on Women Writers in Hindi
6. Genre Fiction and Aesthetic Relish: Reading Rasa in Contemporary Times
7. Community Fiction: Mamang Dai’s The Legends of Pensam and Temsula Ao’s These Hills Called Home: Stories from a War Zone PART III. Genres in the 21st Century
8. Post-Millennial ‘Mythology-Inspired Fiction’ in English: The Market, the Genre, and the (Global) Reader
9. Expanding World of Indian English Fiction: The Mahabharata Retold in Krishna Udayasankar’s The Aryavarta Chronicles and Amruta Patil’s Adi Parva 10. When Bhimayana Enters the Classroom…
11. From the Colloquial to the ‘Literary’: Hindi Pulp’s Journey from the Streets to the Bookshelves