Cold War Genres investigates the interplay between post-independence Hindi literature and Nehruvian India's internationalism during the early Cold War and non-aligned movement era. In this context, debates over realism and modernism are analyzed in terms of their influence on literary form across genre. The project reveals how literary form and experimentation with genre respond to the social and cultural contradictions of Nehruvian India and the challenges of literary realism within postcolonial literary modernity. The result, this project argues, was a transformation of literary genre as poetry engaged with problems of prose fiction. The project explores questions of genre and form across various literary cultures, contributing to our understanding of the literary history of the Cold War world.