Rana Nayar is a Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh.Pushpinder Syal is a Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh.Akshaya Kumar is a Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh.

• Prologue. Part I: Cultural Studies & Indian Context 1. Culture and English Studies in India Kapil Kapoor 2. The Return of the Silenced Oral: Culture and Study in Our Time Ganesh N. Devy 3. The Relevance of Classical Indian Aesthetics to Contemporary Culture Studies Saugata Bhaduri Part II: Cultural Studies & Literary Studies 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 & Local Traditions 7. Indianness: A Battlefield Sushil Kumar 8. Cultural Studies in Indian History: Dominant Models from South Asia Mahesh Sharma 9. History, Historiography & Punjabi Folk Literature: Issues of Canons and Cultures I. D. Gaur 10. Uses of the Folk: Towards a Cultural History of the Guga Tradition Anne Murphy Part IV: Cultural Politics & Mass Media 11. When Was Participation? The Many Legacies of Indian Television’s Public Abhijit Roy 12. The Transformative Energy of Performance Tutun Mukherjee 13. Re-invention and Appropriation of 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 & New Identities 15. New Cultures of Remembering: The Indian Memory Project Pramod Nayar 16. Romantic Imagination: Science and Empire in the works of Amitav Ghosh Sakoon K. Chhabra 17. Cultural Economy of Leisure and IPL Raj Thakur

Rana Nayar is a Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh.Pushpinder Syal is a Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh.Akshaya Kumar is a Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh.

• Prologue. Part I: Cultural Studies & Indian Context 1. Culture and English Studies in India Kapil Kapoor 2. The Return of the Silenced Oral: Culture and Study in Our Time Ganesh N. Devy 3. The Relevance of Classical Indian Aesthetics to Contemporary Culture Studies Saugata Bhaduri Part II: Cultural Studies & Literary Studies 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 & Local Traditions 7. Indianness: A Battlefield Sushil Kumar 8. Cultural Studies in Indian History: Dominant Models from South Asia Mahesh Sharma 9. History, Historiography & Punjabi Folk Literature: Issues of Canons and Cultures I. D. Gaur 10. Uses of the Folk: Towards a Cultural History of the Guga Tradition Anne Murphy Part IV: Cultural Politics & Mass Media 11. When Was Participation? The Many Legacies of Indian Television’s Public Abhijit Roy 12. The Transformative Energy of Performance Tutun Mukherjee 13. Re-invention and Appropriation of 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 & New Identities 15. New Cultures of Remembering: The Indian Memory Project Pramod Nayar 16. Romantic Imagination: Science and Empire in the works of Amitav Ghosh Sakoon K. Chhabra 17. Cultural Economy of Leisure and IPL Raj Thakur

Rana Nayar is a Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh.Pushpinder Syal is a Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh.Akshaya Kumar is a Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh.

• Prologue. Part I: Cultural Studies & Indian Context 1. Culture and English Studies in India Kapil Kapoor 2. The Return of the Silenced Oral: Culture and Study in Our Time Ganesh N. Devy 3. The Relevance of Classical Indian Aesthetics to Contemporary Culture Studies Saugata Bhaduri Part II: Cultural Studies & Literary Studies 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 & Local Traditions 7. Indianness: A Battlefield Sushil Kumar 8. Cultural Studies in Indian History: Dominant Models from South Asia Mahesh Sharma 9. History, Historiography & Punjabi Folk Literature: Issues of Canons and Cultures I. D. Gaur 10. Uses of the Folk: Towards a Cultural History of the Guga Tradition Anne Murphy Part IV: Cultural Politics & Mass Media 11. When Was Participation? The Many Legacies of Indian Television’s Public Abhijit Roy 12. The Transformative Energy of Performance Tutun Mukherjee 13. Re-invention and Appropriation of 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 & New Identities 15. New Cultures of Remembering: The Indian Memory Project Pramod Nayar 16. Romantic Imagination: Science and Empire in the works of Amitav Ghosh Sakoon K. Chhabra 17. Cultural Economy of Leisure and IPL Raj Thakur