Ruth Maxey is Associate Professor in Modern American Literature at the University of Nottingham. She is the author of South Asian Atlantic Literature, 1970-2010 (2012) and Understanding Bharati Mukherjee (2019).Paul McGarr is Associate Professor in US Foreign Policy at the University of Nottingham and author of The Cold War in South Asia, 1945-1965 (2013). He is currently writing a book on the history of Anglo-American secret intelligence and security interventions in India and Pakistan.

• List of ContributorsIntroduction Ruth Maxey and Paul McGarr Part I Political and Historical Context: At Home and Abroad1 The Making of the New Kashmir ManifestoAndrew Whitehead 2 Half-Widows and the Travesty of Justice in Indian-administered KashmirSohini Chatterjee 3 The RSS’ "Village Republics"Rakesh Ankit 4 Cartooning Politics: Reading the Daily Mail, Dawn and Hindustan TimesNassif Muhammed Ali Part II Aesthetic responses to Indian modernity5 The Experience of the Left Cultural Movement in India: 1942 to the Present Arjun Ghosh 6 Contested Natures and Tribal Identities: Regional Nationalism as Ethnography – Re-reading Rajam Krishnan’s When the Kurinji BloomsAnita Balakrishnan 7 Material Memory and the Partition of India: A Narrative Interview with Aanchal Malhotra E. Dawson Varughese 8 Thinking Gender in 21st-century India: Reflections on Drawing the Line: Indian Women Fight Back Sukeshi Kamra Index

Ruth Maxey is Associate Professor in Modern American Literature at the University of Nottingham. She is the author of South Asian Atlantic Literature, 1970-2010 (2012) and Understanding Bharati Mukherjee (2019).Paul McGarr is Associate Professor in US Foreign Policy at the University of Nottingham and author of The Cold War in South Asia, 1945-1965 (2013). He is currently writing a book on the history of Anglo-American secret intelligence and security interventions in India and Pakistan.

• List of ContributorsIntroduction Ruth Maxey and Paul McGarr Part I Political and Historical Context: At Home and Abroad1 The Making of the New Kashmir ManifestoAndrew Whitehead 2 Half-Widows and the Travesty of Justice in Indian-administered KashmirSohini Chatterjee 3 The RSS’ "Village Republics"Rakesh Ankit 4 Cartooning Politics: Reading the Daily Mail, Dawn and Hindustan TimesNassif Muhammed Ali Part II Aesthetic responses to Indian modernity5 The Experience of the Left Cultural Movement in India: 1942 to the Present Arjun Ghosh 6 Contested Natures and Tribal Identities: Regional Nationalism as Ethnography – Re-reading Rajam Krishnan’s When the Kurinji BloomsAnita Balakrishnan 7 Material Memory and the Partition of India: A Narrative Interview with Aanchal Malhotra E. Dawson Varughese 8 Thinking Gender in 21st-century India: Reflections on Drawing the Line: Indian Women Fight Back Sukeshi Kamra Index

Ruth Maxey is Associate Professor in Modern American Literature at the University of Nottingham. She is the author of South Asian Atlantic Literature, 1970-2010 (2012) and Understanding Bharati Mukherjee (2019).Paul McGarr is Associate Professor in US Foreign Policy at the University of Nottingham and author of The Cold War in South Asia, 1945-1965 (2013). He is currently writing a book on the history of Anglo-American secret intelligence and security interventions in India and Pakistan.

• List of ContributorsIntroduction Ruth Maxey and Paul McGarr Part I Political and Historical Context: At Home and Abroad1 The Making of the New Kashmir ManifestoAndrew Whitehead 2 Half-Widows and the Travesty of Justice in Indian-administered KashmirSohini Chatterjee 3 The RSS’ "Village Republics"Rakesh Ankit 4 Cartooning Politics: Reading the Daily Mail, Dawn and Hindustan TimesNassif Muhammed Ali Part II Aesthetic responses to Indian modernity5 The Experience of the Left Cultural Movement in India: 1942 to the Present Arjun Ghosh 6 Contested Natures and Tribal Identities: Regional Nationalism as Ethnography – Re-reading Rajam Krishnan’s When the Kurinji BloomsAnita Balakrishnan 7 Material Memory and the Partition of India: A Narrative Interview with Aanchal Malhotra E. Dawson Varughese 8 Thinking Gender in 21st-century India: Reflections on Drawing the Line: Indian Women Fight Back Sukeshi Kamra Index