Studies in Contemporary Indian-English Short Story

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This compilation of critical essays constitutes a comprehensive and an up-to-date investigation into the origin, growth and expansion of contemporary Indian Short Story in English, which is commonly regarded as a leisurely offshoot of contemporary Indian fiction in English. Though the genre has its deep roots in Indian lore and literature, as may be seen in Panchatantra and Kathasaritasagar, it has not received adequate critical attention so far. The present collection will fill in this gap to a great extent. Divided into two sections, it brings into limelight a hitherto comparatively, unexplored area. The first section focuses attention on the genre itself and the second deals with individual writers like Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan, Raja rao, Manohar Malgonkar, Khushwant Singh, Ruth Prawar Jhabvala, Anita Desai, Arun Joshi, Manoj Das, and a few others. Most of the contributors to this compilation are seasoned professors of English in Indian and foreign universities, and have accomplished their assigned task competently. A bibliography of the works of short story writers has been given at the end of the volume to make it useful for scholars and researchers. In its present shape and size, it is hoped, this collection will have wide appeal.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR A N Dwivedi

Amar Nath Dwivedi has taught graduate and post-graduate classes since 1965, lastly at the University of Allahabad, where he was a professor in English. Presently Dr. Dwivedi is Senior Consultant in English at U.P. Rajarshi Tandon Open University, Allahabad. A recipient of the state Bursary for four years (1961-1965), he was awarded a Teacher’s Research Grant by the ASRC (Hyderabad) in 1972. He was conferred the Ph.D. degree in 1975 for this dissertation ‘Indian Thought and Tradition in T.S. Eliot’s Poetry”, which was later published in both India and Austria with a Foreword by Professor Grover Smith of the Duke University, U.S.A. Dr. Dwivedi has published about a dozen books and seventy-five research papers and serious articles.