Decentering Translation Studies -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Untold Stories -- Unsettling the foundations -- Micro-archives -- 'Translation' -- Translation between non-European languages -- Power, (sub)nation and representation -- Theorising translation vs living in translation -- References -- Caste in and Recasting language -- Tamil and Sanskrit: A fraught relationship -- Tolkappiyam and translation -- Hybridisation and purification -- The impact of Europeans on Tamil -- The politics of Tamil nationalism -- Conclusion -- References -- Translation as resistance -- Defining and redefining literary culture in Kerala -- Assimilating the alien in Krishnagatha -- The assimilation of two worlds in Ezuthachan's Ramayana -- Translation as a mode of negotiating conflict in Nambiar's works -- Conclusion -- References -- Tellings and renderings in medieval Karnataka -- Introduction -- The episode of Kirata Shiva and Arjuna in the written tradition -- Tellings and renderings as cultural transactions in medieval Karnataka -- Monopolistic aspect of tellings and renderings -- Conclusion -- References -- Translating tragedy into Kannada -- Introduction -- The equation between civilisation and the emergence of genres in England -- Orientalists on Sanskrit drama and the absence of tragedy -- Negotiation of the perceived 'lacuna' by nationalist intellectuals -- Reinterpreting traditional characters -- B. M. Srikantia as tragedy writer/editor -- Srikantia as tragedy transformer -- Srikantia as tragedy translator -- The construction of traditions -- References -- The afterlives of panditry -- Ideologies of colonial interpretation -- The limits of life across borders -- Classifying the afterlife -- References -- Beyond textual acts of translation -- Introduction.

Muhammad Ibn Abdul-Wahab and his times -- The privatisation of Islam in Kitab At-Tawhid -- Creation and articulation of the object in Kitab At-Tawhid -- The translation and its historical baggage -- References -- Reading Gandhi in two tongues -- Introduction -- Translation as cultural transformation -- Translation as a philosophical problem -- Limits of translation -- Conclusion -- References -- Being-in-translation -- Introduction -- Sufism: Origins, tenets and movement -- Sindh: A region of Muslim yogis and Hindu Sufis -- Being-in-translation in the poetry of Latif and Sarmast -- Conclusion -- References -- (Mis)Representation of Sufism through translation -- Introduction -- Translation of Sufi works from Arabic -- Translation of Sufi works from Persian -- Translation strategies -- Treatment of Sufi themes and terms in translation -- Love -- Patience -- Conclusion -- References -- Translating Indian poetry in the Colonial Period in Korea -- Introduction -- Reception of Tagore in Korea during the Colonial Period -- Translations of Indian poetry -- Background to the Translations of Tagore and Naidu -- Debates over Translation -- O Ch'on-Sok -- No A -- T'ae Bong -- Kim Ok -- Other translators -- Translations of Tagore and the creation of new literary forms during the 1920s and 1930s -- Pang Chong-Hwan -- Yun Sok-Chung -- Yang Ju-Dong -- Kim Ok -- Translations of Naidu and new feminine images -- Conclusion -- References -- Primary source -- Secondary sources -- A. K. Ramanujan -- The mixed messages of the library -- The values of difference -- The aesthetics of difference -- The poet-translator -- References -- An etymological exploration of 'translation' in Japan -- Rationale for an etymological disquisition -- Terminological (dis)continuities -- Indigenous terms -- Kambun kundoku: Translation as (re-)reading -- Hon'yaku -- Chokuyaku.

Free translation -- Hon'yaku-chō -- Layers of metalanguage -- Conclusion -- References -- Translating against the grain -- Untranslating and retranslating -- Background to the trial -- Imperial discourse -- Colonial discourse -- The trial and Zulu customary law -- Bishop Colenso's 'translation' of the trial -- Against-the-grain negotiation between oral and written traditions -- Conclusion -- References -- Index -- The series Benjamins Translation Library.