This book presents a collection of essays and research papers on Indian English Poetry and Fiction. It has been classified in two section. Section A comprises essays on poets such as Toru Dutt, Aurobindo Ghose, Krishna Srinivas and Kamala Das. Section B contains essays on Indian English novelists like- R.K. Narayan, Raja Rao, Bhabani Bhattacharaya, Anita Desai, Khushwant Singh, Kamala Markandaya, Shashi Deshpande, Shobha De and Arun Joshi. The research papers in the book by some distinguished University teachers and professors of English posted in Indian Universities cover a brief critical survey of Indian English poetry and novel since their birth upto the present day. A brief survey of Indian English Religious Poetry and Humanistic Trends in Contemporary Indo-English Fiction has also been included.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR K.A. Agrawal
Krishna Avtar Agrawal obtained his M.A. Degree from Lucknow University and Ph.D. degree from Meerut University. He started his teaching career as Lecturer in English in 1967. At present, he is Reader in English at Gurukul Kangri University, Hardwar (Uttaranchal). Dr. Agrawal has contributed a large number of research papers, articles and reviews to prestigious journals of India. He has published more than one dozen books on English and Indo-Anglian literatures. He has also edited two books on Swami Shraddhananda Saraswati- Socio-Political observations of Swami Shraddhananda and Editorial observations of Swami Shraddhananda. He has also co-edited two books- Swami Shraddhananda Ki Samkalin Tipanniya and Reflections on Indian English Literature. He has taken part in so many national seminars and conferences, and contributed research papers to them. At present, he is working on his forthcoming books on Raja Rao and Asif Currimbhoy.
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