For anyone interested in the story of English in India, or in the
finest English storytellers of India, this book, an illustrated
history of two hundred years of Indian literature in English,
should be a useful companion. It discusses the canonical poets,
novelists and dramatists as well as many of the lesser known
literary figures - scientists, spiritualists and learned men and
women - who have made major contributions to the evolution of
Indian literature in English. The book comprises 24 chapters, each
by a well-known writer or critic. Each chapter is devoted to either
a single author (Kipling, Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, R.K. Narayan,
Rushdie) or to a group of authors (the Dutt family 19th-century
Calcutta; the Indian diasporic writers of the twentieth century) or
to a genre (beginnings of the Indian novel; poetry since
Independence). This is a book for the non-specialist general
reader. Biographical information on every major Indian literary
figure is provided and the work of each author, genre or "school"
is historically contextualized. The essays can be read selectively
- for example, to follow the development of a genre - or read in
the order in which they appear, which is chronological. The
information is supplemented by 150 rare photographs and sketches of
writers, collected specially for this volume William Jones and
Thomas Macaulay, Henry Derozio and Toru Dutt, Bankim and Tagore,
Kipling and Naipaul, G.V. Desani and Raja Rao, R.K. Narayan and
Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Sarojini Naidu and Anita Desai, Gandhi and
Nehru, Mulkraj Anand and Aubrey Menen, Khushwant Singh and Ved
Mehta, Verrier Elwin and Salim Ali, Jim Corbet and M. Krishnan,
Nissim Ezekiel and A.K. Ramanujan, Salman Rushdie and Vikram Seth,
Amitav Ghosh and I. Allan Sealy, Gieve Patel and Girish Karnad,
social reformers and religious thinkers, conservationists and
hunters, drama and translation, this volume covers everything of
literary significance in India from Ram Mohan Ray to Arundhati.
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