Dhingra, Kanupriya (2021) The 'D-books' of Daryaganj sunday book market. Comparative Critical Studies, 18 (2-3). pp. 309-326. ISSN 17500109
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Abstract
Daryaganj Sunday Book Market, popularly known as Daryaganj Sunday Patri Kitab Bazaar, is a weekly informal market for used, rare, and pirated books that has been operating on the streets of Old Delhi for the past fifty years. In this essay, I focus on one of the circuits that has been flourishing in this market, that of pirated or ‘duplicate’ or D-books. In order to examine the forms in which piracy thrives in the present-day Patri Kitab Bazaar, and the reasons behind it, I compare two types of pirated books found here: a low-price self-help manual in Hindi and a ‘D’ copy of an English novel by popular Indian author Chetan Bhagat. As I examine the essential role that ‘randomness’ plays in the constitution of pirated texts, I suggest that there is organization to this apparent lack of pattern or unpredictability. Such permutation of order and chaos resonates with the location of the bazaar – a site that thrives on the serendipity of the streets.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | Piracy | Randomness | Book bazaar | Second-hand books | Communication circuit |
| Subjects: | Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Education |
| JGU School/Centre: | Jindal School of Languages & Literature |
| Depositing User: | Mr. Syed Anas |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Jan 2022 14:59 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Jan 2022 14:59 |
| Official URL: | https://doi.org/10.3366/ccs.2021.0408 |
| Additional Information: | This article is a part of my doctoral research at SOAS, University of London, sponsored by the Felix Scholarship Trust. |
| URI: | https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/720 |
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