Vernacularizing Pasts: Odisha: Mahabharata to 'Modernity'

Examining questions of vernacularity and marginality, Vernacularizing Pasts explores critical concerns underlying history, time-space, modernity, and their associated discourses about Odisha. Illustrating the history of ideas of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book brings into focus the hitherto-unexplored literary and political figures of Odisha which ushered in a regional cultural transformation within the broader nationalist movement.

Chandi Prasad Nanda is Professor at the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, National Railway Transportation Institute (NRTI), Vadodara, Gujarat. He has also been Visiting Professor at the Department of Global Studies and the Department of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the author of Vocalising Silence: Political Protests in Orissa (1930-42) (2008) and has co-authored Rethinking Local History: Locating Kudmi Community in Odisha (2015) with Hermann Kulke.