Decentering Translation Studies

About the Book: Decentering Translation Studies: India and beyond The book deals with translation in several non- western traditions. The essays show how social and historical contexts have shaped the way translations are rendered. They focus on multiple contexts of translation mainly in India, but also in Korea, Japan and South Africa. Content Preface to the South Asian Edition Acknowledgements Foreword Ganesh Devy Introduction Caste in and recasting language: Tamil in translation Translation as resistance: The role of translation in the making of Malayalam literary tradition Tellings and renderings in medieval Karnataka: The episode of Kirata Shiva and Arjuna Translating tragedy into Kannada: Politics of genre and the nationalist elite The afterlives of panditry: Rethinking fidelity in sacred texts with multiple origins Beyond textual acts of translation: Kitab At-Tawhid and the politics of Muslims identity in British India Reading Gandhi in two tongues Being-in-translation: Sufism i