A history of Indian literature in English / Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indic literature (English)--20th century--History and criticism.

Indic literature (English).

Physical Description:

xxii, 406 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2003]

Summary:

From Ram Mohan Ray to Arundhati Roy, two hundred years of Indian literature in English are covered in this volume, essential for anyone interested in this increasingly important literary tradition. Spanning a period from 1800 to the present, this collection of historical essays covers the canonical Indian poets, novelists, and dramatists writing in English -names like Rudyard Kipling, Rabrindanath Tagore, R.K. Narayan, and Salman Rushdie -as well as lesser-known literary figures -scientists, social reformers, anthropologists -who have made significant contributions to the evolution of Indian literature in English. The essays in this volume are arranged chronologically and the book includes 150 rare photographs and sketches of writers and their contexts.

Contents:

The English writings of Raja Rammohan Ray / Bruce Carlisle Robertson

The Hindu college: Henry Derozio and Michael Madhusudan Dutt / Sajni Kripalani Mukherji

The Dutt family album: and Toru Dutt / Rosinka Chaudhuri

Rudyard Kipling / Maria Couto

Two faces of prose: Behramji Malabari and Govardhanram Tripathi / Sudhir Chandra

The beginnings of the Indian novel / Meenakshi Mukherjee

The English writings of Rabindranath Tagore / Amit Chaudhuri

Sri Aurobindo / Peter Heehs

Two early-twentieth-century women writers: Cornelia Sorabji and Sarojini Naidu / Ranjana Sidhanta Ash

Gandhi and Nehru: the uses fo English / Sunil Khilnani

Verrier Elwin / Ramachandra Guha

Novelists of the 1930s and 1940s / Leela Gandhi

R.K. Narayan / Pankaj Mishra

Nirad C. Chaudhuri / Eunice de Souza

Novelists of the 1950s and 1960s / Shyamala A. Narayan and Jon Mee

On V.S. Naipaul on India / Suvir Kaul

Poetry since independence / Rajeev S. Patke

From sugar to Masala: writing by the Indian diaspora / Sudeh Mishra

Looking for A.K. Ramanujan / Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

Salman Rushdie / Anuradha Dingwaney

After midnight: the novel in the 1980s and 1990s / Jon Mee

The dramatists / Shanta Gokhale

Five nature writers: Jim Corbett, Kenneth Anderson, Sálim Ali, Kailash Sankhala, and M. Krishnan / Mahesh Rangarajan

Translations into English / Arshia Sattar.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [381]-389) and index.

ISBN:

023112810X

OCLC:

49519072