Travelling Texts

The volume examines the colonial ethnography of translating nineteenth century European classics into vernacular languages of South Asia through the lens of modernity and knowledge production. It engages with the idea of texts
often circulating outside their contexts and thereby provoking debates of purely local and indigenous significance. The essays in the volume unravel the complex transcultural identities of South Asian existence by inscribing
translation studies in the conceptual framework of decolonisation.

The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of South Asian studies, literary and cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and translation studies.

Shantanu Majee (Dr.), Associate Professor in the Department of English at Techno India University, West Bengal, received his M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Nineteenth-Century Studies at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He has published his research extensively and has contributed to Digital Humanities through his engagement as Project Fellow in the collaborative project between the School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University and the British Library, United Kingdom, on ‘Digitization of South Asian Archival Resources’, funded by the Sir Ratan Tata Trust (SRTT), Mumbai. He has received the artVarta Publishing Grant 2021, offered by Akar Prakar Art Gallery, New Delhi to curate a Virtual Exhibition of River Songs Sung by Women in the Hindustani Tradition, entitled ‘Song of the River: Curating Music, Memory and Modernity’. He has also published a module entitled ‘UVC in India: Case Study of JUDE’ for Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom initiative and has been working on BIPOC Voices in the Victorian Periodical Press at the One More Voice project. He is currently editing a special issue on ‘Archiving Sound: A Study in Listening’ and contributes to a MOOC project on Modern Indian Writing in English Translation.

K. Subramanyam (Dr.) is an early career academician from Indore, currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Shri Vaishnav Vidyapeeth Vishwavidyalaya, Indore. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literary Studies from Pondicherry Central University in 2018. His research interests lie in Drug Literature, Nineteenth Century Studies, Francophone Literatures, Gothic Studies, Psychedelic Studies, Nineteenth Century Literature and Anthropocene, Translation Studies. He has recently published with Vernon Press on Anne Bronte Anthology entitled ‘A Vain Talent? The Question of Female Artistry in the Life and Work of Anne Bronte’ and Jadavpur University Essays and Studies (JUES).