CONTENTS: Introduction: A Transregional, Transcultural and Translational Poetics for Bhasha Literatures -E V Ramakrishnan, 1. It there a “South Asian Poetics”? -Mrinal Kaul, 2. Towards an Indian Poetics -Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, 3. Revisiting Urdu Literary Culture: The Curious Case of Razmia Anisur Rahman, 4. Scripture or Poetry? Anandvardhana on How to Read an Epic -C Rajendran, 5. Spouses in thiNai Songs and Gaha Sattasai: A puththiNai Reading -Nirmal Selvamony, 6. Re-inventing the Literary: Two Moments in the History of Kannada Tradition -Rajendra Chenni, 7. A Local Habitation and a Name for Knowledge: The Case of Odia Bhasha Literature -Debendra K Dash, Dipti R Pattanaik, 8. World Literature and the Literary Historiography of Pre-colonial South Asian Vernaculars: Towards a Methodological Model -Sachin Ketkar, 9. Embodied Inheritance of a Dancing Philosophy: Text and Practice in the Chaitanya Charitamitra -Sukanya Sarbadhikary, 10. Visual Poetics of the Vaishnava Literary Culture of Assam: Towards a Multimedial Exposition -Dhurjjati Sarma, 11. The Social Imaginary and the Evolution of Modern Indian Literature -P Raveendran, 12. The Search for Form and Authenticity in Bangla Novels: A Reading of Debes Ray’s Tistaparer Brittanta -Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta, 13. Kumaran Asan and the Poetics of Freedom -Vipin K Kadavath, 14. The Lives of Aithihyamala: Textuality, Region, History -B S Bini, 15. Adaptation/Transformation: Locating Amar Chitra Katha’s Mahabharata within Indian Bhasha Narrative Traditions -Tonisha Guin, 16. Quest for a New Discourse in Literary Criticism in Nineteenth Century: Interface between Gujarati and English, 1850-1890 -Hiren Patel, 17. Domestication of English, Education and Perpetuation of Sexual Difference: A Study of Govardhan Ram’s Leelavati Jeevanakala -Zarana Maheshwari, 18. From the Poetics of Self-Knowledge to the Politics of Social Change: Sree Narayana Guru as a Social Reformer and Philosopher-Poet -E V Ramakrishnan, Notes on Contributors.