Rita Kothari teaches English at St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad (Gujarat), where she runs a translation research centre on behalf of Katha. She has published widely on literary sociology, postcolonialism and translation issues. Kothari is one of the leading translators from Gujarat. Her first book (a collaboration with Suguna Ramanathan) was on English translation of Gujarati poetry (Modern Gujarati Poetry: A Selection, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 1998). Her English translation of the path-breaking Gujarati Dalit novel Angaliyat is in press (The Stepchild, Oxford University Press). She is currently working on an English translation of Gujarati short stories by women of Gujarat, a study of the nineteenth-century narratives of Gujarat, and is also engaged in a project on the Sindhi identity in India.

• 1 Introduction2 Recalling: English Translations in Colonial India Phenomenon: Old and New Knowing the Orient The Indian Intervention Gitanjali3 The Two Worlds Theory Mother Tongue Other Tongue A.K. Ramanujan4 Within Academia Translation Theories: Here and There English Studies Feminism Postcolonialism5 Outside the Discipline Machine Readerships Culture and Commerce The English Eth(n)ic Unity and Diversity6 Publishers' Perspective An Historical Introduction Post-eighties Scenario The Cultural Economics of English Translation Do Translations Sell?7 The Case of Gujarati Linguistic Framework Translation in GujaratPublishing Analyses Socio-historical Background Language PolicyGujarat Today A Bibliographical Supplement8 Summing Up

Rita Kothari teaches English at St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad (Gujarat), where she runs a translation research centre on behalf of Katha. She has published widely on literary sociology, postcolonialism and translation issues. Kothari is one of the leading translators from Gujarat. Her first book (a collaboration with Suguna Ramanathan) was on English translation of Gujarati poetry (Modern Gujarati Poetry: A Selection, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 1998). Her English translation of the path-breaking Gujarati Dalit novel Angaliyat is in press (The Stepchild, Oxford University Press). She is currently working on an English translation of Gujarati short stories by women of Gujarat, a study of the nineteenth-century narratives of Gujarat, and is also engaged in a project on the Sindhi identity in India.

• 1 Introduction2 Recalling: English Translations in Colonial India Phenomenon: Old and New Knowing the Orient The Indian Intervention Gitanjali3 The Two Worlds Theory Mother Tongue Other Tongue A.K. Ramanujan4 Within Academia Translation Theories: Here and There English Studies Feminism Postcolonialism5 Outside the Discipline Machine Readerships Culture and Commerce The English Eth(n)ic Unity and Diversity6 Publishers' Perspective An Historical Introduction Post-eighties Scenario The Cultural Economics of English Translation Do Translations Sell?7 The Case of Gujarati Linguistic Framework Translation in GujaratPublishing Analyses Socio-historical Background Language PolicyGujarat Today A Bibliographical Supplement8 Summing Up

Rita Kothari teaches English at St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad (Gujarat), where she runs a translation research centre on behalf of Katha. She has published widely on literary sociology, postcolonialism and translation issues. Kothari is one of the leading translators from Gujarat. Her first book (a collaboration with Suguna Ramanathan) was on English translation of Gujarati poetry (Modern Gujarati Poetry: A Selection, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 1998). Her English translation of the path-breaking Gujarati Dalit novel Angaliyat is in press (The Stepchild, Oxford University Press). She is currently working on an English translation of Gujarati short stories by women of Gujarat, a study of the nineteenth-century narratives of Gujarat, and is also engaged in a project on the Sindhi identity in India.

• 1 Introduction2 Recalling: English Translations in Colonial India Phenomenon: Old and New Knowing the Orient The Indian Intervention Gitanjali3 The Two Worlds Theory Mother Tongue Other Tongue A.K. Ramanujan4 Within Academia Translation Theories: Here and There English Studies Feminism Postcolonialism5 Outside the Discipline Machine Readerships Culture and Commerce The English Eth(n)ic Unity and Diversity6 Publishers' Perspective An Historical Introduction Post-eighties Scenario The Cultural Economics of English Translation Do Translations Sell?7 The Case of Gujarati Linguistic Framework Translation in GujaratPublishing Analyses Socio-historical Background Language PolicyGujarat Today A Bibliographical Supplement8 Summing Up