in diaspora, 61–73, 166, 171, 179, 186, 191, 235

as discipline opposed to history as past events, 6, 91, 118, 123–124, 133

as dominating literature, 6, 201

as Eurocentric, 4, 46, 155, 159, 231

as encyclopaedic facts, 52, 55, 217, 221

as interactive with historian, 53–55, 176, 212, 216, 218, 221, 223–225

incommensurate stories, 8, 249

and literature, 6–7, 11, 13, 53, 120, 147, 150, 202, 208, 216, 234, 250

and literary history, 56, 139–140, 175, 206, 244, 247, 252

as modernity, 3, 6, 12

as moment or process, 20, 56, 185

as more than data, 170–171, 176

and nama chronicle, 144–147, 162, 164, 227–229, 236

as nonlinear, 128, 132, 137, 145, 235, 237

opposed to myth, 7, 9, 11, 78, 83–84, 105–107, 132, 141–142, 154, 156, 159, 167, 171, 221, 229, 241, 254

plural histories, 5, 8, 10, 19, 60, 108, 165, 169, 230, 248–249, 251, 255–256, 258

as photography, 207–211

as political struggle, 8–10, 103, 128, 174, 232–233

as realist determinist, 2, 36, 128, 139, 141, 170

as undertheorisedSee also allegory; Baroque;, 18–19

Benjamin; Carlyle; Hegel; nation; subaltern; Vico

Hodge, Bob, 69

Hutcheon, Linda, 123

hybridity, 16, 34–36, 71–72, 143, 168–169, 180, 192, 222, 251, 253

Ibrahim, Taisha, 118

incest, 93–115, 125–127, 134

Indian English writing, 1–5, 12–20, 33, 36, 124, 131, 143, 206, 245

as incestuous coterie, 106–107

Indian nation, 3, 8, 39, 46, 52, 57, 106, 113, 141, 151, 154, 240, 253

and NRIs, 173, 234

loss of ideals, 103, 108, 114

intertextuality, 13, 20, 23, 32, 37, 89, 95, 106, 112, 120, 147, 201, 218, 252, 257

irony, 123, 154

itihasa, 154, 231

Jameson, Fredric, 7, 59, 100, 126

JanMohamed, Abdul, 222

Jha, Raj Kamal, 97–115

Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 114

Joshi, Arun, 240

Kakar, Sudhir, 98–99

Kamani, Ginu, 98

Kapur, Manju, 245

Kathakali, 119–133

Keats, John, 167, 177, 225

Kesavan, Mukul, 5, 10–11, 108, 201–217, 244

Khair, Tabish, 5, 16

Khatibi, Abdelkebir, 60