The Making of Indian English Literature

1. Introduction 2. Kylas Chunder Dutt: The First Writer of Indian English Fiction 3. Locating the Nation: Narrating the Nation, Re-writing History 4. Colonial Dilemma: A Study of Cultural Collision and Assimilation in the Early Indian English Fiction 5. Resistance and Reasoning: Shoshee Chunder Dutt’s Narration of the ‘Sepoy Mutiny’ 6. Towards the Horizon: A Study of the Early   Indian English Novel­ist’s Use of Language 7. Problem of Form in the Early Indian Novel   in English 8. Towards a Synthesis: The Theme of Reform in   the Early Indian Novel in English 9. Emergence of Biography and Autobiography in the Indian English Literature 10. Lost in ‘a strange light’: An Enquiry into Toru Dutt’s Legacy 11. Krupabai Satthianadhan: The Portrait of an Indian Lady 12. The Mystic as Kavyadarshi: Swami Vivekananda’s Engagement with Literature 13. The New Woman and Colonial Modernism: Sita Chatterjee’s The Knight Errant as an Exploration of Identity 14. Between the Commonwealth and the Postcolonial: A Study of Nationness and Identity in the Early Indian English Fiction 15. The Strange Case of Suresh Biswas: Interrogating the Myth of Colonial Masculinity 16. The Enigma of Hybridity: Mirza Moorad Alee Beg, the Author of Lalun the Beragun 17. An Indigenous Perception of ‘Myth’ and ‘Mysticism’: A Study in the Early Indian English Poetry 18. Politics of Self-assertion: A Study in the Early Indian Fiction in English Translation

Subhendu Mund is an Odia poet, writer, lexicographer and translator. He is presently a Visiting Professor at School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Management, IIT Bhubaneswar.