Indian print literatures were assembled by culturally beleaguered petty-bourgeois str

Evidence

The pattern of their schooling served only to deepen these contradictions, since the link with the spoken and lived language was strongest at the lower levels, while English kept taking over more and more as they went further up into colleges and universities. It was mainly, though by no means exclusively, in the hands of these culturally beleaguered individuals, belonging neither to the colonial elite nor to the truly oppressed classes, who were themselves riven by the contradiction between the language of administrative command and the language of felt life, .that the print literatures of India, in languages of our own speech, were first assembled on any appreciable scale. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 1190

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Realism took root in Indian literature because it matched bourgeois class upheaval — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 1183; Indo literary production caricatured full-blooded colonial elites. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 999; Metropolitan and Indian bourgeois elites form a class alliance canonizing English cosmopolitan literature. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 299 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Indo literary production caricatured full-blooded colonial elites. #expands (0.80) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 999
• Anglicized Indian elites faced permanent subordination despite assimilation #expands (0.80) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 367
• Metropolitan and Indian bourgeois elites form a class alliance canonizing English cosmopolitan literature. #expands (0.75) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 299
• Indian literature’s unity is an effect of geography and the nation-state #expands (0.75) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 512