Achebe, Chinua, 142

Adhikari, Madhumalati, 220, 224

Ahmad, Aijaz, 36, 59, 126, 172

allegory, 7, 16–17, 19, 21, 26, 29, 100, 113, 137, 139, 141, 152, 155, 222, 228, 244

America, 35

and migration, 60–63, 180–186, 192–199

as site of transformation, 167, 186

as ‘cool’ surface, 194–195, 236–238

American literature, 166–171

anachronisms, 29, 53, 259

Anand, Mulk Raj, 36, 85, 96, 99, 105, 132, 142, 163

Anandavardhana, 117

Anderson, Benedict, 12, 15

appetition, 49

Aristotle, 138

Arnold, Matthew, 6, 33, 50, 243

Ashcroft, Bill, 7, 137–138, 236

Aurangzeb, 3, 46, 166, 177, 182, 192, 217

Australia, 2, 60, 62, 118–119, 122, 142, 167, 208, 228

axial temporalities, 9, 20

Bajwa, Rupa, 245–247

Bakhtin, Mikhael, 133, 203, 249, 262

Ballard, J. G., 239

Bandler, Faith, 60

Bangladesh, 183, 187

Bankimchandra Chatterjee, 11, 46

Barat, Ubashi, 127–128, 225

Baroque, 16–17, 39–60, 71–72, 88, 108, 117, 133, 140, 144, 148, 151, 157, 165, 225, 248, 252, 258–259

Barthes, Roland, 38, 154

Bengal, 10–11, 13, 166, 185–189, 193–200, 217–225

Bengal famine, 212

Benjamin, Walter, 20, 83, 182, 206

Berger, John, 129

Bhabha Homi K., 7–8, 20, 34, 44, 71, 122, 142, 156, 169, 222–223, 237, 240, 251, 255

Bhattacharjea, Aditya, 107

Bollywood, 211–212, 246

Borges, Jorge Luis, 55, 95, 120, 257–259

Bose, Brinda, 106–107

Bose, Buddhadeva, 106

Browning, Robert, 97

Bulosan, Carlos, 60

calculus, 18–19, 72, 91, 133, 140, 254, 259

Camus, Albert, 27

canon, 4–8, 14, 18–19, 33–37, 42, 56, 73, 84, 126, 131, 138, 142, 243, 249, 252, 259

Carlyle, Thomas, 23–58, 224, 247, 256–258

Carrol, Lewis, 202

Carter, David, 139