This volume focuses on the publisher's series as a cultural formation - a material artifact and component of cultural hierarchies. Contributors engage with archival research, cultural theory, literary and bibliometric analysis (amongst a range of other approaches) to contextualize the publisher's series in terms of its cultural and economic work.

List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction; R.Fraser & M.Hammond The 'Book' in India: Orality, Manu-Script, Print, (Post)Colonialism; H.Trivedi The Many Worlds of the Vernacular Book: Performance, Literacy and Print in Colonial Bengal; A.Ghosh Publishing and Translating Hafez under Empire; K.Scoular Datta Missionary Writing and the Self-Fashioning of Assamese Cultural Identity in Colonial India: Revisiting the Past, Understanding the Present; H.Medhi Futures Past: Books, Reading, Culture in the Age of Liberalization; P.Joshi Book Circulation and Reader Responses in Colonial India; D.Finkelstein Thacker, Spink and Company: Bookselling and Printing in Mid Nineteenth-Century Calcutta; V.Condie Two Paradigms of Literary Production: The Production, Circulation and Legal Status of Rudyard Kipling's Departmental Ditties and Indian Railway Library Texts; S.Towheed War and the Colonial Book Trade: The Case of OUP India; R.Fraser Between Bloomsbury, Gandhi and Transcultural Modernities: The Publication and Reception of Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable ; S.Nasta Talking to India: The Literary Production and Consumption of South Asian Anglophone Writers in Britain, 1940-55; R.Ranasinha Salman Rushdie and Zulfikar Ghosh in the Literary Marketplace; S.Brouillette Bibliography Index