Description

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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 (S lim Ali), and writers of the Indian disapora (Seepersad Naipaul, Shiva Naipaul, Ved Mehta).

About the Author

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RANJANA SIDHANTA ASH Journalist and former Editor of Heinemann Asian Writers Series SUDHIR CHANDRA Former Senior Fellow, Centre for Social Studies, Surat, India AMIT CHAUDHURI Novelist ROSINKA CHAUDHURI Fellow in Culture Studies, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India MARIA COUTO Critic EUNICE DE SOUZA Poet, novelist and former Head of English, St Xavier's College, Bombay, India ANURADHA DINGWANEY Professor of English, Oberlin College, Ohio, USA PETER HEEHS Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives and Research Library, Pondicherry, India LEELA GANDHI Professor of English, Chicago University, USA SHANTA GOKHALE Novelist and critic RAMACHANDRA GUHA Historian, biographer and cricket writer SUVIR KAUL Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, USA SUNIL KHILNANI Professor of Politics, Johns Hopkins University, USA JON MEE Margaret Candfield Fellow in English, University College, Oxford, UK PANKAJ MISHRA Novelist and journalist SUDESH MISHRA Critic, poet and playwright MEENAKSHI MUKHERJEE Former Professor of English, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India SAJNI KRIPALANI MUKHERJI Professor of English, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India SHYAMALA A. NARAYAN Former Reader in English, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, India RAJEEV S. PATKE Associate Professor of English, National University of Singapore MAHESH RANGARAJAN Professor of Modern Indian History, University of Delhi, India BRUCE CARLISLE ROBERTSONFormer Lecturer in the School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, USA ARSHIA SATTAR Journalist and translator