The site of literary and cultural productions in Indian languages complicates perceptions of the Euro-American model of modernity. This essay examines select literary writings in Indian languages and, in light of their differently paced and varied negotiations with everyday experiences of coloniality and modernity, urges the need for a decolonial model. It proposes transmodernity as a frame that can accommodate and account for the multiple, contested, incommensurate social worlds ensconced in literatures in Indian languages. Such a frame would allow us to valorize multivocality and entanglements through intercultural dialogues and transversal engagements.
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