Focusing specifically on the poetic construction of India, ‘Mapping the Nation’ offers a broad selection of poetry written by Indians in English during the period 1870–1920. Centering upon the “mapping” of India – both as a regional location and as a poetic ideal – this unique anthology presents poetry from various geographical nodal points of the subcontinent, as well as that written in the imperial metropole of England, to illustrate how the variety of India’s poetical imagining corresponded to the diversity of her inhabitants and geography.
Author(s): Sheshalatha Reddy
Series: Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series
Publisher: Anthem Press
Year: 2012
Language: English
Pages: 520
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Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Transcription and Transliteration
Note on Abbreviations
Critical Introduction
Mapping “India”
English in India
Indian Poetry in English
Indian English?
Excavating the Archives and (De)Forming the Canon
East
Shoshee Chunder Dutt
A Vision of Sumeru, and Other Poems (Calcutta: 1878)
Address to the Ganges
My Native Land
Sonnets—India
Greece Chunder Dutt
Cherry Stones (Calcutta: 1879)
XXVII. Sonnet
XXX. Sonnet
XLVII. Sonnet
LIV. Sonnet
Joteendro Mohun Tagore
Flights of Fancy in Prose and Verse (Calcutta: 1881)
The Rajpootnee’s Song
Sonnet to the Kokil
Song
The Dewallee, or The Feast of Light
Moonlight on the River
Sonnet to India
The Hindu Widow’s Lament
Avadh Behari Lall
The Irish Home Rule Bill, a poetical pamphlet (Calcutta: 1893)
The Irish Home Rule Bill, a poetical pamphlet
Behar, and other poems (Calcutta: 1898)
An Epistle to the Right Hon’ble Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet-Laureate, England
Romesh Chunder Dutt
Reminiscences of a Workman’s Life (Calcutta: 1896)
The Exile
Home
Lines on India
Lines on Ireland
Autumn-Night in a Bengal Rice-Field
Lala Prasanna Kumar Dey
Indian Bouquet (Calcutta: 1906)
War
Svami Vivekananda at Chicago
A. S. H. Hussain
Loyal Leaves (Calcutta: 1911)
Ode for her Imperial Majesty Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee
The Voice of Islam and other poems (Calcutta: 1914)
The Voice of Islam
Charu Chandra Bose
A Voice from Bengal: Welcome Address to Their Majesties Landed in India (Calcutta: 1912)
Welcome Address to Their Majesties landed in India
Nanikram Vasanmal Thadani
The Triumph of Delhi and Other Poems (Calcutta: 1916)
The Triumph of Delhi
Ram Sharma
The Poetical Works of Ram Sharma (Calcutta: 1919)
Song of the Indian Conservative
An Old Indian Melody
The Song of the Tirhoot Planters
The Anglo-Indian War-Cry, or Bluster in Excelsis
India’s Vindication of Lord Ripon and her Farewell
Ode on the Meeting of the Congress at Allahabad on the 26th December 1888
India to Britain
To Indian Patriots
Bande Mataram
West
Behramji Merwanji Malabari
The Indian Muse in English Garb (Bombay: 1876)
“The dream of my youth” H. R. H. the Prince of Wales
The Stages of a Hindu Female Life
To the Missionaries of Faith
Time of Famine
The British Character
A Protest
Cowasji Nowrosji Vesuvala
Courting the Muse: being a Collection of Poems (Bombay: 1879; printed at the Industrial Press, Fort)
True Indian Opinion, or Native Croakers
Sonnet: Bombay Harbour
Aurobindo Ghose
Songs to Myrtilla and other poems (Baroda: 1895)
O Coil, Coil
Charles Stewart Parnell
Lines on Ireland
Saraswati with the Lotus
S. D. Saklatvala
An Appeal for Peace, some verses (Bombay: 1910)
An Appeal for Peace
C. R. Doraswami Naidu
Heart Buds, poems (Ahmedabad: 1914)
Foreword
To the Motherland
The Taj Mahal – Agra
To K.V. M. A Vision – Young India
Jamasp Phiroze Dastur
The Temple of Justice [a poem in praise of justice] (Bombay: 1916)
The Temple of Justice
Rustam B. Paymaster
Navroziana, or The Dawn of a New Era: Being Poems on Mr. Dadabhai Naoroji and Other Friends of India, with “The Voice of the East on the Great War” (2nd series) (Bombay: 1917)
Mr. Dadabhai Naoroji, An Ode of Welcome
Mr. Dadabhai Naoroji, On His 79th Birthday
Dadabhai Naoroji
The Late Hon. Mr. G. K. Gokhale, C. I. E.
Lord Hardinge
The Secret of a Successful Rule
The Parsi New Year’s Day
North
Babu S. C. Dutt [Shoshee Chunder Dutt]
Last Moments of Pratapa (Lahore: 1893)
Last Moments of Pratapa
Bipin Bihari Bose
Congress Songs and Ballads (Lucknow: 1899)
“Mother and Mother-Country are more estimable than Heaven itself”
The Congress-man’s Confession
Sir Mian Muhammad Shafi
Poems (Lahore: 1907)
To a Chinar-Tree
The Sirinagar Flood and the Dal Lake
On Entering the Kashmere Valley
On the Occasion of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee
To Delhi
The Rise and Fall of Islam
To India!
“To my mother”
Tej Shankar Kochak [a “Georgian Brahmin”]
Oriental Welcome to Their Most Gracious Majesties the King-Emperor and the Queen-Empress (Cawnpore: 1911)
Sushila Harkishen Lal
Stray Thoughts (Lahore: 1918)
Dreams
South
R. Sivasankara Pandiya
The Empress of India and Other Poems (Madras: 1888)
Empress of India and Indian Poets
The University of Madras
Krupabai Satthianadhan
Miscellaneous Writings of Krupabai Satthianadhan (Madras: 1896)
Recollections of Childhood
Social Intercourse between Europeans and Natives
M. V. Venkatasubba Aiyar
Ventures in Verse (Madras: 1899)
To the Land of My Birth
Sonnets, I. Faith
Ravana’s Doom
M. Dinakara
A Ballad of the Boer War, Written for the Day of the Coronation of Their Most Gracious Majesties the King Emperor Edward VII and Queen Alexandra in Celebration of the Prowess of the British Army (Ramnad: 1902)
The Gathering
How Great Britain was Regenerated and Became ‘Greater Britain’
A Tribute to the Gallant Boers, Who Fought, and Fell, for their Country
Chilkur C. S. Narsimha Row
The Poetical Works of Chilkur C. S. Nar Simha Row (Ellore: 1911)
The Greatest Need of India
Madras or Rome, where’s thy home?
Vande Mataram
The grand old man of India
India
C. Lakshminarayana Aiyer
Poems (Tinnevelly: 1914)
To the Lord Bhupalaswami, Srivaikuntam
To His Gracious Majesty George V Emperor of India
Coronation Song
The New Year, 1912
P. Seshadri
Bilhana: An Indian Romance, Adapted from Sanskrit (Madras: 1914)
Bilhana
Sonnets (Madras: 1914)
Toru Dutt
The Marquis of Ripon
Victoria
Romesh Chunder Dutt
Champak Leaves (Madras: 1919, originally published 1915)
The Sacrifice
Jahangir and the Little Children
Widowed
Queen Tissarakshita’s Jealousy
Lali and Majnun
Indumathi’s Death
A Sister’s Wail
The Exile
The Rani of Ganore
Anakarli
Ardeshir Framji Khabardar
The Silken Tassel (Madras: 1918)
An Indian Funeral Song
To India
The Patriot
Rabindranath Tagore
The Gift of the Poet Laureate of India to NationalEducation Week, 1918 (Adyar: 1918)
Harindranath Chattopadhyay
The Feast of Youth (Madras: 1918)
The Hour of Rest
Sufi Worship
The Coloured Garden (Madras: 1919)
The Coloured Country
Pride
A Sad Thing
Aurobindo Ghose
Baji Prabhou, a poem (Pondicherry: 1922, originally published 1909)
Baji Prabhou
Nizamat Jung
Poems (Hyderabad: 1954)
Ode
The Imperial Coronation at Delhi
India to England, 1914
On the admission of Indians to the British Army
In Memoriam
Abroad
Govin Chunder Dutt, et al.
The Dutt Family Album (London: 1870)
Home
Lines
Vizagapatam
Madras
Toru Dutt
Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan (London: 1882)
Savitri
Sîta
Hamid Ali Khan
A Farewell to London: The Story of the Slave and the Nose-Ring (London: 1885, 2nd ed.)
A Farewell to London
The Slave and the Nose-Ring
Dejen L. Roy
The Lyrics of Ind (London: 1886)
The Land of the Sun
The Island
Greece Chunder Dutt
Cherry Blossoms (London: 1887)
The Soonderbuns
The Neem Tree
In the Bush
The Taj Mahal
On the Day of Lord Ripon’s Departure from Calcutta
Sita
T. (Pillai) Ramakrishna
Tales of Ind, and Other Poems (London: 1896, 2nd ed.)
Lord Tennyson
Seeta and Rama
Manmohan Ghose
Love Songs and Elegies (London: 1898)
The Exile
Songs of Love and Death (Oxford: 1926)
London
Home-Thoughts
Song of Britannia
On the Centenary of the Presidency College
Romesh Chunder Dutt
Ramayana: the Epic of Rama, Prince of India, Condensed into English Verse (London: 1899)
Recital of the Ramayana
Hary Sing Gour
Stepping Westward and Other Poems (London: 1890)
Stepping Westward, or Emigrants to the West
Sarojini Naidu
The Golden Threshold (London: 1905)
To India
Nightfall in the City of Hyderabad
Ode to H. H. The Nizam of Hyderabad
The Broken Wing: Songs of Love, Death & Destiny, 1915–1916 (London: 1917)
Awake!
The Gift of India
Roby Datta
Echoes from East and West (Cambridge: 1909)
The Grief of Ravan
The Fair Martyrs
The Sworn Hero
Piyadasi
On Tibet
To Britain
Hasan Shahid Suhrawardy
Faded Leaves, a collection of poems (London: 1910)
Dedication
The Indian Maid’s Lament
Swinburne
Rabindranath Tagore
Gardener, trans. by author (London: 1913)
Fruit-Gathering, trans. by author (London: 1916)
Peshoton Sorabji Goolbai Dubash
Rationalistic and Other Poems (London: 1917)
Britannia and Mother Hind
S´rî Ânanda Acharya
Snow-birds (London: 1919)
LXXXII. Ode on the Rishis, the Darsanikas, and the Sannyasins of India
Appendices
Indian Poets on their Poetry
“Preface” by Behramji Merwanji Malabari, from The Indian Muse in English Garb (Bombay: 1876)1
“Prefaces” and “Appendix” by Hamid Ali Khan, from
A Farewell to London: The Story of the Slave and the Nose-Ring
(London: 1885, 2nd ed.)
“Translator’s Epilogue” by Romesh Chunder Dutt, from Maha-Bharata: Epic of the Bharatas, Condensed into English Verse (London: 1898)
“Preface” by Avadh Behari Lall, from Behar, and other poems (Calcutta: 1898)23
“Preface” by Roby Datta, from Echoes from East and West (Cambridge: 1909)
British Poets/Critics on Indian Poets
“Introductory Memoir” by Edmund Gosse for Toru Dutt’s Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan (London: 1882)
“Introduction” by Arthur Symons for Sarojini Naidu’s The Golden Threshold (London: 1905)
“Introductory Memoir” by Laurence Binyon for Manmohan Ghose’s Songs of Love and Death (Oxford: 1926)
“Introduction” by W. B. Yeats for Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali (London: 1912)
“Preface,” “Introduction” and poems from A Garland of Ceylon Verse, 1837–1897 (Columbo: 1897), edited and with an introduction and notes by Isaac Tambyah
Bibliography
Index of Titles
Index of Authors
