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A concise history of Indian literature in English /

"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 di...

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Other Authors: Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: New Delhi : Permanent black, c2008.
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245 0 2 |a A concise history of Indian literature in English /  |c edited by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra. 
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300 |a xii, 456 p. ;  |c 23 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 8 |a Machine generated contents note: Editors 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, Slim Ali, Kailash Sankhala, and M. Krishnan--M.Rangarajan * Translations into English--A.Sattar * Note on Contributors * Further Reading * Index. 
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