Module 1: Introduction to the practice of translation
  Lecture 2: History of Translation in India
 

 

Assignments

  1. What are the multiple strands that go into the history of translation in India?
  2. Attempt to catalogue the translations that have gone into the making of the literature of your mother-tongue.

References

Mukherjee, Meenakshi. Realism and Reality: The Novel and Society in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Ramakrishna, Shanta. “Cultural Transmission through Translation: An Indian Perspective. Changing the Terms: Translating in the Postcolonial Era. Sherry Simon and Paul St-Pierre, Eds. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2002: 87 – 100.

Richman, Paula. Editor. Many Ramayanas: The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia. Berkeley: University of California Press, c 1991 1991
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