Reading India in a Transnational era: The Works of Raja Rao

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Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
Part I Re-routing Raja Rao’s politics, national identity, and postcolonial criticism
1 The lure of monarchy in the pursuit of truth: Raja Rao’s royalism in The Serpent and the Rope
2 From national to metaphysical: Raja Rao’s idea of India in a transnational era
3 Resisting the British empire: Raja Rao’s two political anthologies Changing India and Whither India?
4 Threads of identity: caste, clothing, and community in Raja Rao’s Kanthapura
5 The Cat and Shakespeare, the problem of the ego-self, and the vagaries of literary reputation
Part II Philosophy, aesthetics, gender, and the novel
6 Comrade Kirillov: ‘a New Novel’ newly understood
7 Women and the narrative of nationalism in Raja Rao’s The Cow of the Barricades
8 Posthumanism in Raja Rao’s The Cat and Shakespeare: redrawing the boundaries
9 The cat and the chessmaster: deconstructing ‘Play’ in two novels by Raja Rao
10 The unknown quantity: mathematics and metaphysics in Raja Rao’s The Chessmaster and His Moves
Part III Multicultural politics, habitat, and translation
11 ‘I Am Not Gandhi’: Kanthapura and the problem of allegory
12 Nature and landscape: an evolutionary psychological analysis of Raja Rao’s writing
13 Search in confusion: reading transnational friendships in Raja Rao’s Kanthapura and Ahmed Ali’s Twilight in Delhi
14 On translating Raja Rao in the transnational era
Part IV Reminiscences
Raja Rao at his bed table
Raja Rao: the untold story
Krishna: (for Raja Rao)
Afterword
Glossary
List of contributors
Index