Marathi literary theory emerged only in the second half of the nineteenth century—when it was “both, possible and necessary”. It emerged as an ideological need of the hour when popular critical discourse was absorbing and normalizing the colonia…
The book problematizes the official conceptualization of the nature and purpose of literacy in the Indian context today. It necessarily touches upon the methodology for literacy 'transaction' that is in consonance with the official perception of liter…