Post-Independence India saw a significant development in Indian fiction-writing in English though it was expected that English as a language would leave India too, once the British quit the subcontinent. In the Vintage Book of Indian Writing, Salman Rushdie claimed that India's best writing since Independence may have been done in the language of the departed imperialists. The pre-Independence Indian English fiction had nationalism as the major theme. However ...
Indian English Fiction Since Independence: Readings From the Periphery