And So The Qawwali Meets The Meera Bhajan

And So The Qawwali Meets The Meera Bhajan

Book REVIEW:

Don't be distracted by his novelist reputation; Amit Chaudhuri proves to be an incisive cultural critic

By Alok Rai

The argument? The remarkable thing is that there is an argument, because of course this book is an assemblage of pieces that were written at different times, for different audiences. Further, Chaudhuri is fighting on several fronts at the same time—he is an Indian writer in English who must not only overcome "nationalist" suspicion, but must also combat "postcolonial" orthodoxy, wherein particular histories of cultural creation are lost in a fog of jargon.

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