Decoding Indian Literary Theories: A Quiz for the Discerning Reader

New Criticism is a Western school of literary theory that focuses on the close reading of texts. It is not a major school of Indian literary theory.

A.K. Ramanujan is considered the father of modern Indian literary theory. He was a poet, translator, and scholar who wrote extensively about Indian literature and culture.

Ranajit Guha coined the term "subaltern studies" in his book "Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India" (1983).

Dipesh Chakrabarty has written extensively about the concept of "the nation" in his book "Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference" (2000).

G.N. Devy has written about the concept of "vernacular modernism" in his book "After Amnesia: Tradition and Change in Indian Literary Criticism" (2006).

Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd has written about the concept of "Dalit literature" in his book "Why I Am Not a Hindu: A Sudra Critique of Hindutva Philosophy, Culture and Political Economy" (1996).

Verrier Elwin has written about the concept of "tribal literature" in his book "The Muria and Their Ghotul" (1947).

Amitav Ghosh has written about the concept of "diaspora literature" in his book "In an Antique Land" (1992).

Tejaswini Niranjana has written about the concept of "translation studies" in her book "Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism, and the Colonial Context" (1992).