About the Book: Positions: Essays on Indian Literature
Positions features a careful selection from K. Satchidanandans essays on Indian
literature, written over the past 25 years. The general theme of the book is
Indian literature(s). The book contains essays that look for paradigms based on
Indian textual practices and reading traditions, while also drawing freely on
Indian and Western critical concepts and close readings of certain texts. The
first part of the book discusses questions on the idea of Indian literature, the
poetics of Bhakti, the concept of the modern, the location of English writing in
India, the conflicting ideas of India, projected especially by the