Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 8, 164

Chandra, Vikram, 160, 227–253

chaos theory, 42, 169–170, 191, 216, 219

Chatterjee, Upamanyu (English, August),, 3, 101, 109, 152, 204

Chaudhuri, Amit, 14, 109

chronicle, 29, 40–42, 52–55, 144–147, 162–163, 148

chronotope, 190, 203, 249

cinema, 111–112

class, 3, 6–8, 12, 15, 61–62, 64, 71, 99, 105–108, 113–115, 119–124, 131, 151–156, 183, 187, 194, 196, 204, 214, 219, 244–247, 255

Clifford, James, 202, 238

cloth, clothes, 16, 23–57, 72, 157, 196–197, 206, 241, 255–256

Coetzee, J. M., 176

colonial romance, 120, 147, 150, 155, 159, 161, 171, 176, 181, 220, 228

commodification, 62, 197, 225

Commonwealth Literature, 7, 19, 37, 84, 97, 106, 218, 243, 249, 255–256

computer programs, 43, 166–168, 182–183, 217–219, 223–226

concert, 17

constellation, of literary relations without priority, 37–38, 250, 259

Conrad, Joseph, 129–130

Coomaraswamy, Ananda, 108

Crowley, Aleister, 86

Dabydeen, David, 60

De Certeau, Michel, 119

Deleuze, Gilles, 16–20, 34, 40–50, 55–57, 71, 88, 91, 133, 140, 157, 165, 225, 235, 250–253, 259

Delourme, Chantal, 132–133

DeRozio, Henry, 93–96

Derrida, Jacques, 20, 41, 44–45, 174, 191, 202, 215, 253

pharmakon, 191

tain, 20, 58, 202, 253

Desai, Anita, 193, 204

Bye Bye Blackbird,, 59–72

Fire on the Mountain,, 75–89

Desani, G. V., 21–37, 40, 45–47, 57, 120, 140, 160, 165, 222, 256, 258

Descartes, René, 49, 53, 140

Deshpande, Shashi, 245

Desi, 16, 36, 131, 247

De Souza, Eunice, 114

Devy, G. N., 36

Dhar, T. N., 13, 154, 203

diaspora, 60–72, 179–181, 192, 234, 238

as amnesia, 186

and audience, 172, 191, 195–196

and nostalgia, 170, 187, 214

diasporic return, 229

temporalities, 237

Dickens, Charles, 7, 70, 129, 142

Dilthey, 54

discontinuous histories, 8, 237, 256

dispersive citation, 118, 123

Emergency, 103, 179

English language, 1–2, 4, 6–7, 13, 15–16, 34, 73, 88–90, 106, 114–115, 154, 218, 226, 234, 244–247

English-medium schooling, 89, 119, 216, 245

folded with vernaculars, 165, 206

as lens/ filter, 203, 215–216, 225

as enabling irony, 214