A Concise History of Indian Literature in English de A. Mehrotra

A Concise History of Indian Literature in English

A. Mehrotra

The first history of Indian literature in English to cover the 200 years from Raja Rammohan Ray to Arundhati Roy, including in its scope canonical poets and novelists, social reformers (Behramji Malabari), anthropologists (Verrier Elwin), nature writers (Sálim Ali), and writers of the Indian disapora (Seepersad Naipaul, Shiva Naipaul, Ved Mehta).

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Editor's Preface Introduction; A.K.Mehrotra The English Writings of Raja Rammohan Ray; B.C.Robertson The Hindu College: Henry Derozio and Michael Madhusudan Dutt; S.K.Mukherji The Dutt Family Album: And Toru Dutt; R.Chaudhuri Rudyard Kipling; M.Couto Two Faces of Prose: Behramji Malabari and Govardhanram Tripathi; S.Chandra The Beginnings of the Indian Novel; M.Mukherjee The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore; A.Chaudhuri Sri Aurobindo; P.Heehs Two Early-Twentieth-Century Women Writers: Cornelia Sorabji and Sarojini Naidu; R.S.Ash Gandhi and Nehru: The Uses of English; S.Khilnani Verrier Elwin; R.Guha Novelists of the 1930s and 1940s; L.Gandhi R.K. Narayan; P.Mishra Nirad C. Chaudhuri; E.Desouza Novelists of the 1950s and 1960s; S.A.Narayan & J.Mee On V.S. Naipaul on India; S.Kaul Poetry Since Independence; R.S.Patke From Sugar to Masala: Writing by the Indian Diaspora; S.Mishra Looking for A.K. Ramanujan; A.K.Mehrotra Salman Rushdie; A.Dingwaney After Midnight: The Novel in the 1980s and 1990s; J.Mee The Dramatists; S.Gokhale Five Nature Writers: Jim Corbett, Kenneth Anderson, Sálim Ali, Kailash Sankhala, and M. Krishnan; M.Rangarajan Translations into English; A.Sattar Note on Contributors Further Reading Index

Notă biografică

RANJANA SIDHANTA ASH Journalist and former Editor of Heinemann Asian Writers SeriesSUDHIR CHANDRA Former Senior Fellow, Centre for Social Studies, Surat, IndiaAMIT CHAUDHURI NovelistROSINKA CHAUDHURI Fellow in Culture Studies, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, IndiaMARIA COUTO CriticEUNICE DE SOUZA Poet, novelist and former Head of English, St Xavier's College, Bombay, IndiaANURADHA DINGWANEY Professor of English, Oberlin College, Ohio, USAPETER HEEHS Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives and Research Library, Pondicherry, IndiaLEELA GANDHI Professor of English, Chicago University, USASHANTA GOKHALE Novelist and criticRAMACHANDRA GUHA Historian, biographer and cricket writerSUVIR KAUL Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, USASUNIL KHILNANI Professor of Politics, Johns Hopkins University, USAJON MEE Margaret Candfield Fellow in English, University College, Oxford, UKPANKAJ MISHRA Novelist and journalistSUDESH MISHRA Critic, poet and playwrightMEENAKSHI MUKHERJEE Former Professor of English, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, IndiaSAJNI KRIPALANI MUKHERJI Professor of English, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, IndiaSHYAMALA A. NARAYAN Former Reader in English, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, IndiaRAJEEV S. PATKE Associate Professor of English, National University of SingaporeMAHESH RANGARAJAN Professor of Modern Indian History, University of Delhi, IndiaBRUCE CARLISLE ROBERTSONFormer Lecturer in the School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, USAARSHIA SATTAR Journalist and translator