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).

The first history of Indian literature in English to cover the 200 years from Raja Rammohan Ray to Arundhati Roy

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