Indian Writing in English: Critical Appraisals

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.