EDITORIAL BOARD EXECUTIVE EDITORS Geeta Kapur Kuwkum Sangay! Indira Chandrasekhar Madan Gopal Singh Ashish Rajadhyak&ha MANAGERIAL EDITORS Vivan Sundaram Rajendra Prasad Romi Khosia ADVISORY EDITORS aR Deshpande Kalpana Sahni AsadZaidi Pra$anna Anuradha Kapur AnilBhatti Chandial Chauhan Sashi Kumar CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Malini Bhattacharya Neela Bhagwat SaeedAkhtarMirza Mihir Bhattacharya M.S. Sathyu Stidhir Patwardhan P, Govmda Pillai M.S. Prabhakara Artm Khopkar SUBSCRIPTION RATES In India Individuals (4 issues): Rs 100 Institutions (4 Issues): Rs 200 Outside India Individual <4 issues)! $ 30 WRITE TO Indira Chandrasekhar Journal of Arts & Ideas C-20 Qutab Institutional Area New Delhi 110 016 PUBLISHED BY Tulika Print Communication Services, for G.P. Deshpande PRINTED AT Pauls Press, E 44/11 Okhia Phase H, New Delhi 110 020 CONTENTS Careers of Modernity Introduction Tejaswini Niranjana g Imagined Economies Satish Deshpande Cartier-Bresson and the Birth of Modern India R. Srivatsan Modern India ^ The Epic Melodrama __ Ashish Rajadhyaksha ^ Cinema and the Desire for Modernity __ Madhava Prasad g7 Chowringhee: Modernity and Popular Fiction Sibaji Bandyopadhyay 4QR. Re-membering the Present ___ Sasheej Hegde ^c Caste and the Secular Self ___ Vivek Dhareshwar ^yf Re-writing History in the Brahmin's Shadow V. Geetha 7^ Whose Culture Is It? Contesting the lww Modern Tejaswini Niranjana ^ARTS^DEAS NUMBERS 25-26 December 1993