Chapter 1 Introduction: Viewing Colonialism and Modernity through Indian Literature

Chapter 2 Critical Realisms in the Global South: Narrative Transculturation in Senapati’s Six Acres and a Third and García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude

Chapter 3 Views from Above and Below: George Eliot and Fakir Mohan Senapati

Chapter 4 Two Classic Tales of Village India: The Realist Epistemology of Chha Mana Atha Guntha and Godaan

Chapter 5 The Emergence of the Modern Subject in Oriya and Assamese Literatures: Fakir Mohan Senapati and Hemchandra Barua

Chapter 6 The Indigenous Modernity of Gurajada Apparao and Fakir Mohan Senapati

Chapter 7 “Why Don’t You Speak?”: The Narrative Politics of Silence in Senapati, Premchand, and Monica Ali

Chapter 8 The Representation of Women and Gender Relations in Six Acres and a Third

Chapter 10 The Tradition-Modernity Dialectic in Six Acres and a Third