"A Routledge India Original" -- cover.

First published 2016; reprint 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Cultural Studies and Indian Context. 1. Culture and English studies in India / Kapil Kapoor -- 2. The return of the silenced oral: culture and study in our time / G.N.Devy ; Part II. Cultural Studies and Literary Studies. 3. The relevance of classical Indian aesthetics for contemporary culture studies / Saugata Bhaduri -- 4. Popular culture studies in India today: issues and problems / Simi Malhotra -- 5. Postcolonial cultural studies at the crossroads: theoretical approaches and practical realities / Rumina Sethi -- 6. Dalit autobiographies in the Punjabi context / Akshaya Kumar ; Part III: Cultural History and Local Traditions. 7. Indianness: a battlefield / Sushil Kumar -- 8. Cultural studies in Indian history: dominant models from South Asia / Mahesh Sharma -- 9. History, historiography and Punjabi folk literature: issues of canon and cultures / Ishwar Dayal Gaur -- 10. Uses of the folk: cultural historical practice and the Guga tradition / Anne Murphy ; Part IV. Cultural Politics and Mass Media. 11. (In)visible publics: television and participatory culture in India / Abhijit Roy -- 12. Transformative energy of performance: 'Budhan Theatre' as case study / Tutan Mukherjee -- 13. Reinvention and appropriation of the folk in Daler Mehndi's pop videos / Pushpinder Syal -- 14. Subverting the male gaze: a case study of Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara / Vivek Sachdeva ; Part V. Cultural Imagination and New Identities. 15. New cultures of remembering: the Indian memory project / Pramod K. Nayar -- 16. Romantic imagination: science and empire in teh works of Amitav Ghosh / Sakoon N. Singh -- 17. Cultural economy of leisure and the Indian Premier League / Raj Thakur.

"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." --Publisher.