Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing

The study Mythos und Moloch examines Hindi urban literature in the period between 1970 and the present. Using popular myths such as the "deceptive city" (māyāvī śahar), characters such as the flaneur and places such as the tea stall, it shows how regional-language narratives form an interface between global and national discourses and local worlds of experience. Hindi urban literature opens a critical discourse space for social self-questioning in modern India.