Introduction

intellectual traditions of India in dialogue with Mikhail Bakhtin

Lakshmi Bandlamudi, E. V. Ramakrishnan

1-19

From Indo-European philology to the Bakhtin circle

Craig Brandist

21-36

Carnival and transgression in India

towards a global spring?

Sunthar Visuvalingam

37-53

The rule of freedom

Rabelais, Bakhtin, Abhinavagupta

Elizabeth Chalier-Visuvalingam

55-71

Dancing in the sky of consciousness

architectonics and answerability in the aesthetic vision of Malavika Sarukkai

Lakshmi Bandlamudi

73-92

The dialogicity of travel

Nanak's Udasis

Jasbir Jain

93-104

"You yourself are a mosque with ten doors"

a Bakhtinian reading of the dialogic tradition in Indian poetry

E. V. Ramakrishnan

105-119

Animal as hero

narrative dynamics of alterity and answerability in the elephant stories of Aithihyamala

121-133

Translation as dialogue

a perspective

Pooja J. Mehta

135-141

A Bakhtinian view of the development of the novelistic genre in India

Jyoti S. Rane

143-156

Dialoguing the web

digital technologies and pedagogy

Atanu Bhattacharya

157-171

Talking texts, writing memory

a Bakhtinian reading of Meena Alexander's fault lines

Paromita Chakrabarti

173-184

Exploring Bakhtin's dialogic potential in self, culture, and history

a study of V.S. Naipaul's India

Jasmine Anand

185-194

Dead text or living consciousnesses?

Bakhtinian poetics in the Francophone African context

Foara Adhikari

195-212