Modernity, Print and Sahitya: The Making of a New Literary Culture, 1866-1919

The advent of print heralded a significant chapter in the history of colonial modernity in South Asia. This book narrates the story of the emergence of a new literary culture, Utkal sahitya or Odia literature, in the context of similar but conflicting linguistic-territorial cultures of Eastern India.

Sumanyu Satpathy is Former Professor and Head of the Department of English, University of Delhi, India.