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Consumable Texts in Contemporary India

Uncultured Books and Bibliographical Sociology

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  • © 2015

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Authors:
  1. Suman Gupta

    1. The Open University, UK

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Part of the book series: New Directions in Book History (NDBH)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Keywords and Preliminaries

    • Suman Gupta
    Pages 1-17

  3. Indian Commercial Fiction in English

    • Suman Gupta
    Pages 18-38

  4. Indian Vernacular Pulp Fiction in English Translation

    • Suman Gupta
    Pages 39-60

  5. On the Indian Readers of Hitler’s Mein Kampf

    • Suman Gupta
    Pages 61-79

  6. Framing Group Discussion Guidebooks

    • Suman Gupta
    Pages 80-99

  7. Low-End Group Discussion Guidebooks and Kunjis

    • Suman Gupta
    Pages 100-128

  8. Approaching Public Sector “Value Education” Publications

    • Suman Gupta
    Pages 129-144

  9. Mapping Public Sector “Value Education” Publications

    • Suman Gupta
    Pages 145-171

  10. Rules of Bibliographical Sociology’s Method

    • Suman Gupta
    Pages 172-179

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 180-204
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About this book

Through what he terms "bibliographical sociology", Suman Gupta explores the presence of English-language publications in the contemporary Indian context – their productions, circulations and readerships – to understand current social trends.

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“Gupta displays an easy familiarity with an admirable range of both, the academic and the non-academic—as well as cultured and uncultured—literatures and discourses, and not only applies them to a range of topics and issues that are unexpected (to say the least), but with remarkably accurate, insightful and incisive results. The analyses are subtle, sophisticated and frighteningly persuasive in their implications for the sheer reach and impact of such uncultured books, and the political and ideological effects they are likely to have.” (P K Vijayan, Economic Political Weekly, Vol. 51 (36), September 3, 2016)

Authors and Affiliations

  • The Open University, UK

    Suman Gupta

About the author

Suman Gupta is Professor of Literature and Cultural History at the Open University UK. He is the author of eleven previous books and editor of seven, including The Theory and Reality of Democracy, Social Constructionist Identity Politics and Literary Studies, Globalization and Literature, Imagining Iraq and Contemporary Literature: The Basics.

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