A History of Indian Literature in EnglishColumbia University Press, 2003 - 406页 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 contextualised. 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 In -- Publisher. |
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The English Writings of Raja Rammohan Ray | 27 |
Henry Derozio and Michael Madhusudan Dutt | 41 |
And Toru Dutt | 53 |
Rudyard Kipling 70 | 70 |
Behramji Malabari and Govardhanram Tripathi | 82 |
The Beginnings of the Indian Novel | 92 |
The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore | 103 |
Sri Aurobindo | 116 |
R K Narayan | 193 |
Nirad C Chaudhuri | 209 |
On V S Naipaul on India | 232 |
Writing by the Indian Diaspora | 276 |
Looking for A K Ramanujan | 295 |
Salman Rushdie | 308 |
The Dramatists | 337 |
Jim Corbett Kenneth Anderson Sálim Ali | 351 |
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