Introduction: life histories in India / David Arnold, Stuart Blackburn
The self and the cell: Indian prison narratives as life histories / David Arnold
The reticent autobiographer: Mahadevi Varma's writings / Francesca Orsini
The invention of private life: a reading of Sibnath Sastri's Autobiography / Sudipta Kaviraj
The past in the present: instruction, pleasure, and blessing in Maulana Muhammad Zakariyya's Aap biitii / Barbara D. Metcalf
Hamara daur-i hayat: an Indian Muslim woman writes her life / Sylvia Vatuk
Cowherd or king? the Sanskrit biography of Ananda Ranga Pillai / David Shulman
Life histories as narrative strategy: prophecy, song, and truth-telling in Tamil tales and legends / Stuart Blackburn
Honor is honor, after all: silence and speech in the life stories of women in Kangra, North-West India / Kirin Narayan
Beyond silence: a Dalit life history in South India / Josiane Racine, Jean-Luc Racine
The marital history of a thumb-impression man / Jonathan P. Parry.