Taking the absence of discussion on transnationalism in South Asia as a crucial juncture as well as a point of intervention, this book intends to push the boundaries further by organizing a dialogue between the nation-state and many nationalisms and the emergent method of transnationalism.

Parichay Patra is Assistant Professor, School of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India.

Amitendu Bhattacharya is Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani - K.K. Birla Goa Campus, India.

List of Contributors

Introduction

- Parichay Patra and Amitendu Bhattacharya

Part I: Nation and Its Porous Frontiers

Chapter 1: The Politics of Spectatorship: Textual Traditions, Cinematograph and the Moral Dilemma of the Natives of Assam in British India (1900-1935)

-Kaushik Thakur Bhuyan

Chapter 2: Then and Now: Nation and Transnational Identity in Jyoti Prasad Agarwala's Joymati (1935) and Jahnu Barua's Ajeyo (2014)

- Asha Kuthari Chaudhuri

Chapter 3 Humour and Cinema: A Study of Language Politics in Assam

-Simona Sarma and Sukrity Gogoi

Chapter 4: The Transnational City of Pondicherry: Elite Indian Identity Crisis and Cortes' Receding French Image

-Andrea Rodrigues

Chapter 5: Cartography of Goa: Analysis of the Tangible Loci of Culture in the Sketches of Mario Miranda

- Amrita Biswas

Part II: Nation, Cultural Histories, Trans-Nation: The Cinematic Imagi-Nation

Chapter 6: That Which Flows

- Moinak Biswas

Chapter 7: Ray at Large: Cinema In and Out of Literature in Region, Nation, Transnation

- Kaushik Bhaumik

Chapter 8: Beckett and Avikunthak: Lineages of the Avant-Garde

-Brinda Bose

Chapter 9: The Partitioning of Bengal, 1971 and National Identity Formation in Tanvir Mokammel's Films

- Fakrul Alam

Part III: Nation, Cultural Histories, Trans-Nation: The Literary Imagi-Nation

Chapter 10: Region, Nation, Border: Histories of Land and Water

- Supriya Chaudhuri

Chapter 11: Travelling On: Bengali and English Literatures of Transnational Worlding

- Arka Chattopadhyay

Chapter 12: Capitalist World-Ecology, Food Crisis, and Embodied Aesthetics in in Kamala Markandaya's Nectar in a Sieve

- Sourit Bhattacharya

Chapter 13: Modernity on Wheels: Reading Trains as Sites of Encounter and Disaster

- Anuparna Mukherjee

Chapter 14: "The lights cut out quickly": Nation, Nationalism and City-lit during 1980-1990s

- Dibyakusum Ray

Part IV: South Asian Transactions: Between Subcontinental Flow and Transnational Frictions

Chapter 15: Tagorean Cosmopolitanism and Ceylonic Indigenization Movement

- Saman M. Kariyakarawane and S. S. A. Senevirathne

Chapter 16: From Villain to Superhero: Reimaginings of Ravana in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Sri Lanka

- Kanchuka Dharmasiri

Index