This thesis is a critical study of the anglophone little magazine in late twentieth-century Bombay. The project takes as its focus a period of roughly two decades from 1960 to 1980 and the publications of “second generation” post-independence Indian writers. Deploying a mixed methodology of book history, literary-historical analysis, data visualisation, and close reading, I argue that the Bombay little inaugurates unique interventions in questions of space, mapping, and belonging in a newly independent India. Alongside the primary geographical site of Bombay, I include tangential considerations of underground literatures in related urban spaces, chiefly Calcutta and New York. This project has two primary goals. The first is to foreground an understudied body of texts and, through them, highlight the often-occluded material dimensions of postcolonial Indian writing. The second is to argue for an understanding of the little magazine as cartographic tool, linking the project of literary study with the concerns of critical geography. An illustrative selection of eight little magazines forms the core of this thesis (damn you, ezra, Kavi, Vrishchik, The Bombay Duck, Blunt, tornado, and Dionysus), accompanied by two publishing houses (Newground and Clearing House) that emerged from their networks. Reflecting (and querying) the cartography of nation-building, the project is structured in four sections, corresponding to widening geographic scales. Chapter One opens with the idea of literary space, providing a thorough mapping of the independent literary field in India (its various schools, affiliations, and geographical co-ordinates) and creating a portrait of a community of writers. From here, Chapter Two turns to the spatial politics of urban literary production, examining Bombay as spatial determinant, locus of national identity, and imaginative object of literature. Expanding outwards, Chapter Three examines the idea of linguistic space, considering the relationship between text, language, and land against the backdrop of the linguistic redrawing of state boundaries in 1960s India. Finally, bringing this dissertation to a close, Chapter Four turns from the nation to the international. With particular attention to (dis)connections, this chapter considers the maps of affiliation of the Bombay little against those of the Indian State, asking how zones of circulation (perceived and actual) may reveal directions of affiliation and imaginations of world. Taken together, the four sections of this thesis aim to provide a historical overview of a significant literary moment, afford critical consideration to individual publications, and reveal the geographic and literary potential of the little magazine form.