The Antekaal Awakens: Rendezvous with Rama (Rajya) and the Golden Past in India’s Anglophone Science Fiction

A specter of an indigenous pastism is haunting India—and India’s anglophone science fiction (ISFE) not only extrapolates but also harks back to a golden past, fusing “science” and “fiction”, “history” and “myth”, and “gods” and “aliens”. As a hybrid, eclectic mode, ISFE evolves unique strategies of...

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