English Literature

Mulk Raj Anand is widely recognised as one of the most prominent English novelists in India. Translated into many languages both within India and abroad, he is universally acclaimed as a progressive writer. This anthology of critical essays delves...

Arun Joshi’s fictional world is most strange. Peeling the multiple layers of artificiality, his protagonists seek to confront the mystery of life beyond the last labyrinth. His work represents a unique depiction of the dual between the internal an...

Anita Desai’s work represents a unique blending of the Indian and the western. Her novels catch the bewilderment of the individual psyche confronted with the overbearing socio-cultural environment and the ever-beckoning modern promise of self-grat...

R.K. Narayan’s career as a novelist and short story writer spans almost eight decades from Swami and Friends (1935) to Grandmother’s Tale (1992) until his death on 13 May 2001 at the ripe age of 95. His distinctive sense of humour, his trade mark ...

The study is a painstaking probe into the unfolding of a hitherto ignored thematic and stylistic dimension of modern Indian English Fiction. Beginning with an in-depth analysis of the political underpinnings in the early phase, the study moves to ...

Indian English literature has established its credentials all over the world. Still litterateurs in this stream have to be continuously appraised and evaluated and key issues like the impact of multiculturality and the role assigned to women have ...

Indian English Literature in both its matter and manner incorporates continuity with change, an unquestioned commitment to some basic tenets of the traditional blended with a reaching out to explore the new, a shifting of the focus to the individu...