“This history unfolds the ways through which the cultural elite in India have appropriated the material and cultural production of the subalterns while denying both subaltern’s contributions and elite’s own history of appropriation, thus reinforcing their own sense of self and glorifying their own cultural violence. I would argue in this paper that against the master narratives of modernism Ramkinkar has tactically deployed a minor linguistic idiom which has written the first ‘counter-history’ of mainstream modernism and paved the way for many modernisms in Indian art.” - See more at: http://utharakalam.com/english/?p=204#sthash.NKgRN7jK.dpuf