From the Editors
The annual holiday season in India is in October/November when the festival of Diwali is celebrated across the country. In the state of Maharashtra, among the Marathi speaking communities, for over a century now there is a unique tradition of this festival being celebrated with the reading of the “ diwāḷī aṅka ” (the Diwali issue) of various periodicals, both high literary and middlebrow. Along with the excitement of new clothes,...Read more
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The aim of this cluster is to provide an alternative to the disciplinary reliance on Anglo-European imperiality as a structuring force for what is considered global within global modernisms. Collectively the cluster aims to expand understanding of the relationship between modernism, imperialism, and the global by reconceptualizing how modernism engaged with entangled colonial networks in which Europe is influential, but not the sole player....
Jul 31, 2025



