Description |
xii, 456 pages ; 23 cm |
Note |
"The present work reprints the full text of An Illustrated History of Indian Literature in English (2003), minus the illustrations, and with some minor emendations and corrections of fact."--P. xii. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary |
"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 (Slim Ali), and writers of the Indian disapora (Seepersad Naipaul, Shiva Naipaul, Ved Mehta)"--Provided by publisher. |
Contents |
Introduction / Arvind Krishna Mehrotra -- The English writings of Raja Rammohan Ray / Bruce Carlisle Robertson -- The Hindu College: Henry Derozio and Michael Madhusudan Dutt / Sajni Kripalani Mukherji -- The Dutt Family album: And Toru Dutt / Rosinka Chaudhuri -- Rudyard Kipling / Maria Couto -- Two faces of prose: Behramji Malabari and Govardhanram Tripathi / Sudhir Chandra -- The beginnings of the Indian novel / Meenakshi Mukherjee -- The English writings of Rabindranath Tagore / Amit Chaudhuri -- Sri Aurobindo / Peter Heehs -- Two early-twentieth-century women writers: Cornelia Sorabji and Sarojini Naidu / Ranjana Sidhanta Ash -- Gandhi and Nehru: The uses of English / Sunil Khilnani -- Verrier Elwin / Ramachandra Guha -- Novelists of the 1930s and 1940s / Leela Gandhi -- R.K. Narayan / Pankaj Mishra -- Nirad C. Chaudhuri / Eunice de Souza -- Novelists of the 1950s and 1960s / Shyamala A. Narayan & Jon Mee -- On V.S. Naipaul on India / Suvir Kaul -- Poetry since Independence / Rajeev S. Patke -- From sugar to Masala: Writing by the Indian diaspora / Sudesh Mishra -- Looking for A.K. Ramanujan / Arvind Krishna Mehrotra -- Salman Rushdie / Anuradha Dingwaney -- After midnight: The novel in the 1980s and 1990s / Jon Mee -- The dramatists / Shanta Gokhale -- Five nature writers: Jim Corbett, Kenneth Anderson, Sálim Ali, Kailash Sankhala, and M. Krishnan / Mahesh Rangarajan -- Translations into English / Arshia Sattar. |
Subject |
Indic literature (English) -- History and criticism.
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India -- In literature.
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Literatur
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India
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Englisch
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Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 (DE-603)085033405
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Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 (DE-603)085097128
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India (DE-588)4026722-2 (DE-603)085066931
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Englische Literatur -- Indien.
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Indic literature (English) (OCoLC)fst00970156
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Literature. (OCoLC)fst00999953
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India. (OCoLC)fst01210276
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Chronological Term |
Geschichte
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Indexed Term |
Indic literature (English) History and criticism |
Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Added Author |
Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna, 1947-
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ISBN |
9780230228528 (hardback) |
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0230228526 (hardback) |
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