Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Prologue -- Notes on contributors -- Part I Cultural studies and Indian context -- 1 Culture and English studies in India -- 2 The return of the silenced oral: culture and study in our time -- Part II Cultural studies and literary studies -- 3 The relevance of classical Indian aesthetics for contemporary culture studies -- 4 Popular culture studies in India today: issues and problems -- 5 Postcolonial cultural studies at the crossroads: theoretical approaches and practical realities -- 6 Dalit autobiographies in the Punjabi context -- Part III Cultural history and local traditions -- 7 Indianness: a battlefield -- 8 Cultural studies in Indian history: dominant models from South Asia -- 9 History, historiography and Punjabi folk literature: issues of canons and cultures -- 10 Uses of the folk: cultural historical practice and the Guga tradition -- Part IV Cultural politics and mass media -- 11 (In)visible publics: television and participatory culture in India -- 12 Transformative energy of performance: 'Budhan Theatre' as case study -- 13 Reinvention and appropriation of the folk in Daler Mehndi's pop videos -- 14 Subverting the male gaze: a case study of Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara -- Part V Cultural imagination and new identities -- 15 New cultures of remembering: the Indian memory project -- 16 Romantic imagination: science and empire in the works of Amitav Ghosh -- 17 Cultural economy of leisure and the Indian Premier League -- Index