Indian Writing in English: Critical Appraisals

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Indian Writing in English : Critical Appraisals is a critical attempt to evaluate some poets, dramatists and novelists of India who wrote their works in English. It contains twenty scholarly papers presented by great scholars and teachers of English who belong to the different universities in India. The writers discussed in this anthology are Swami Vivekananda, R.N. Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan, Raja Rao, R.P. Jhabvala, Kamala Markandaya, Manohar Malgonkar, Anita Desai, Salman Rushdie, Nergis Dalal, Arundhati Roy, Maha Nand Sharma and Basavraj Naikar. It also contains two other articles which critically deal with Indian poetry in English and Bengali theatre and its contribution to Indian literature. The book, it is hoped, will certainly receive a warm welcome in the hands of those readers, research scholars and teachers who want to be acquainted with various critical aspects of Indian writing in English.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Amar Nath Prasad

Dr. Amar Nath Prasad teaches English at Jagdam College (Jaiprakash University Chapra, Bihar. He is gold medallist in English. He has attended a number of seminars and conferences. Most of his scholarly poems/papers have been published in different books and journals, magazines and newspapers. Recently he has completed his Ph. D. Degree on Arundathi Roy's The God of Small Things. He has edited more than half a dozen standard books of English literature. He has also authored three books: 1. Practical Criticism; 2. Arundathi Roy's The God of Small Things. 3. Critical Essays on Indian Writing in English.