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Section I: Biographical Traditions Two: The Artful Biographer: Sandhyakaranandin's Ramacharitam 17 KUMKUM ROY Three: Making a Modern Self in Colonial Tamil Nadu 30 A.R. VENKATACHALAPATHY Four: Writing the Life of the Guru: Chattampi Swamikal, Sree Narayana Guru and Modes of Biographical Construction 53 UDAYA KUMAR Five: Between History and Hagiography: Vivekananda's Ramakrishna 88 AMIYA R SEN Section II: Biography From the Margins Six: Presenting the Self: Norms and Emotions in Ardhakathanaka 105 FARHAT HASAN Seven: Muffled Narratives: The Life and Times of Neelambikai Ammaiyar 123 VIJAYA RAMASWAMY Eight: Recovery, Recontextualisation and Performance: Questions on the Margin 152 RIML BHATTACHARYA Section m: European Memoirs in Indian Settings Nine: A Merchant-Adventurer in Portuguese Asia: Filipe De Brito (1580-1615) 179 RADHIKA CHADDHA Ten: A Chronicle of the Times: The Memoires of Fran§ois Martin (1665-1696) 205 YOGESH SHARMA Eleven: Memoire sur 'I'nde: The Memoirs of Piveron de Moriat (1745-1813) 229 JEAN-MARIE LAFONT Section IV: Writing Biographies: Reminiscences and Reflections. Twelve: The Historian as Biographer 247 B.R. NANDA Thirteen: Its Time to Put Down Memories 252 S. MUTHAIAH Fourteen: Women Narrating Wpmen 259 APARNA BASU