Table of contents for Biography as history : Indian perspectives / edited by Vijaya Ramaswamy, Yogesh Sharma.


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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



Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Biography as a literary form, India Biography History and criticism, India History Sources