Listening To The Loom

Essays on Literature,

Politics, and Violence

Edited and with an introduction by Prithvi Datta Chandra Shobhi

Permanent Black

388 pages, R750

DR Nagaraj (1954–98) has been widely recognised as one of India’s most important thinkers in the broad area of cultural politics. This book showcases some of Nagaraj’s most important writings in the area and is essential reading for anyone interested in vernacular cultures, subaltern histories, hinterland political discourses and metropolis-periphery relations. Some of the 13 pieces here have been translated from Kannada into English for the first time, while others, long unavailable, have been tracked down from scattered sources.