Amit Chaudhuri's collection of essays, Clearing a Space: Reflections on India, Literature, and Culture, was published in the UK and US by Peter Lang in July 2008, and in India in August by Black Kite/ Permanent Black.

"This extraordinary and wide-ranging collection, through a series of highly-focussed aperçus, puts in question the
key terms of self-understanding of much modern literature: 'modernism' and 'post-modernity', for instance; and this from the standpoint of an insightful observer who has moved between more than one Indian and several Euro-American vantage points. The book offers among other things a fascinating insight into the specificity of certain Indian itineraries within the multiple modernities we inhabit today; including that of a largely unrecognized 'secular spirituality'. This and much else make this book a treasure trove of acute and thought-provoking perceptions."
—Charles Taylor

"Amit Chaudhuri's collected essays and reviews constitute an intellectual autobiography of the first importance." —Rajeswari Sunder Rajan