King, Bruce, 6, 139

Kipling, Rudyard, 15, 52, 58, 119–121, 146, 155, 232, 257

Koch, Christopher, 124, 126, 132, 208

Kristeva, Julia, 37

Kumar, Amitava, 126

Kunzru, Hari, 143–149

Kureishi, Hanif, 60

labour history, 11, 59–64, 126–129, 156, 170

Lagaan,, 235

Lahiri, Jhumpa, 193–199

Lakshman, Nirmala, 209

Lal, Malashri, 180–183, 189

La Martiniere College, 51–52, 216

Lamming, George, 156

language

creolising of, 22, 34, 179

as flesh/garment, 41

and fold, 226

no original authority, 12, 91, 244

regional/vernacular versus English, 72, 225, 234, 247

unreliability of, 202–203, 216

Lannoy, Richard, 98

Lawrence, D. H., 77

Leavis, F. R., 7, 117

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 16–20, 39–57, 91, 133, 140, 202, 225, 250, 258–259

literary history

as fluid, broken, rhizomic, 18, 34, 56, 173, 206

as more than relativised uniformity, 73

national literary history as plural, 6

not evolutionary, 19

as more than comparative national, 59

as nationalist encyclopaedic, linearSee also history, 131

Lukács, Georgy, 14, 47, 146

Macaulay’s Minute, 27

magic realism, 20, 43, 60, 139, 210, 217, 221, 245, 254

The Mahabharata,, 130–131, 142, 160, 228, 236

Maini, Darshan Singh, 76

Maniam, K. S., 60

marg/desi traditions. See desi

Markandaya, Kamala, 3, 106

Mee, John, 216, 244

Mehrotra, A. K., 5

Mehta, Gita, 3, 152

metafiction, 29, 43, 186, 206, 220, 244, 253, 257

metahistory, 11

metaphor and metonymy, 137–157, 238, 256–258

migrant identity, 22, 61–72, 166–200

mimicry, 34, 117, 122, 223

Mishra, Pankaj, 109

Mistry, Rohinton, 160

A Fine Balance,, 103, 125, 151

Family Matters,, 214

monad, 17, 20, 42–47, 56, 72–73, 133, 140, 225, 248, 250

Mondal, Anshuman, 11–12, 142

Mughal painting, 53, 78, 166–167, 206, 217

Mukherjee, Bharati, 196, 218–219

Desirable Daughters,, 183–192

Jasmine,, 180, 193, 198