Print History: Abhijit Gupta- Book History in India
Abhijit Gupta is one of the leading practitioners of book history in twenty-first century India. He looks back at the work done in the past twenty years and considers the challenges ahead in a conversation with Murali Ranganathan When did you realise that you had evolved into a book historian from a professor of English literature? How did the evolution happen? It happened the other way around. I started teaching in an English department in 1999 and prior to that I had completed a PhD during 1994-96 on the publishing histories of some women novelists in late 19th-century E...
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