AnIllustrated History of

Indian Literaturein English

Edited by

ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA

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Contents

Illustrations vii

Editors Preface xix

Introduction 1ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA

1 The English Writings of Raja Rammohan Ray 27BRUCE CARLISLE ROBERTSON

2 The Hindu College: Henry Derozio and Michael Madhusudan Dutt 41SAJNI KRIPALANI MUKHERJI

3 The Dutt Family Album: And Toru Dutt 53ROSINKA CHAUDHURI

4 Rudyard Kipling 70MARIA COUTO

5 Two Faces of Prose: Behramji Malabari and Govardhanram Tripathi 82SUDHIR CHANDRA

6 The Beginnings of the Indian Novel 92MEENAKSHI MUKHERJEE

7 The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore 103AMIT CHAUDHURI

8 Sri Aurobindo 116PETER HEEHS

9 Two Early-Twentieth-Century Women Writers: Cornelia Sorabjiand Sarojini Naidu 126RANJANA SIDHANTA ASH

10 Gandhi and Nehru: The Uses of English , 135SUNIL KHILNANI

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11 Verrier ElwinRAMACHANDRA GUHA

12 Novelists of the 1930s and 1940sLEELA GANDHI

13 R.K. NarayanPANKAJ MISHRA

14 Nirad C. ChaudhuriEUNICE DE SOUZA

15 Novelists of the 1950s and 1960sSHYAMALA A. NARAYAN AND JON MEE

16 On V.S. Naipaul on IndiaSUVIR KAUL

17 Poetry Since IndependenceRAJEEV S. PATKE

18 From Sugar to Masala: Writing by the Indian DiasporaSUDESH MISHRA

19 Looking for A.K. RamanujanARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA

20 Salman RushdieANURADHA DINGWANEY

21 After Midnight: The Novel in the 1980s and 1990sJON MEE

22 The DramatistsSHANTA GOKHALE

23 Five Nature Writers: Jim Corbett, Kenneth Anderson, Salim Ali,Kailash Sankhala, and M. KrishnanMAHESH RANGARAJAN

24 Translations into EnglishARSHIA SATTAR

Note on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Further Reading

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