Source — Wikipedia, "Tejaswini Niranjana"
- Title: Tejaswini Niranjana
- Publication: Wikipedia
- URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tejaswini_Niranjana
- Type: tertiary — neutral encyclopedic stance; unauthored/crowd-edited.
- Accessed: 2026-08-30
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- Niranjana (b. 26 July 1958) is an Indian cultural theorist, translator, and author working across cultural studies, gender studies, translation, and ethnomusicology.
- She is "best known for her theory of the relationship between colonialism and translation" — her foundational book on this is Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism, and the Colonial Context (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1992).
- A related article, "Colonialism and the Aesthetics of Translation" (1993, in Interrogating Modernity: Culture and Colonialism in India), extended the same concerns.
Gaps in this source (flagged, not filled here)
- This page gives almost no detail on Siting Translation's actual argument — no mention of Benjamin, Derrida, or de Man, none of Niranjana's own formulations, and no engagement with her core claim that translation practice helped constitute colonial power. Everything on those points, in the wiki page this source feeds, is drawn from the literariness.org secondary source instead — flag this Wikipedia page as confirming only the book's existence, date, publisher, and Niranjana's general reputation, not its content.
- Not checked against a primary reading of Siting Translation itself.