Bombay modern : Arun Kolatkar and bilingual literary culture / Anjali Nerlekar.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-279) and index.

PART ONE: The context -- Overview: The Sathottari Period -- Little magazines and the new space for literary writing -- Small presses and stabilizing "littles" -- Translation and the local nexus of the global in Sathottari Indian literature

PART TWO: The texts -- Overview: Arun Kolarkar's life and work -- The book as a little magazine: The Cosmopolitan Localism of Bhijaki Vahi -- Material modernisms of small press publishing in Jejuri, Kala Ghoda Poems, and Sarpa Satra -- The rough ground of Translation in the Marathi and English Jejuri.

Anjali Nerlekar's Bombay Modern relocates the genre of poetry to the center of both Indian literary modernist studies and postcolonial Indian studies. It uncovers an alternative and provincial modernism through poetry, a genre that is marginal to postcolonial studies, and through bilingual scholarship across English and Marathi texts, a methodology that is currently peripheral at best. Eschewing any attempt to define an overarching or universal modernism, Nerlekar Focuses on "Bombay" and to the "post-1960" (sathottari) period to examine the specific way in which this poetry redeployed the regional, the national, and the international to create a very tangible yet transient local.