• ISBN13: 9788126924561
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: N/A
• Publication Date: May 25, 2021
• Pages: 196
• Original Price: INR 595.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 330 grams

Great Indian Novelists in English: A Critical Exploration, is an anthology of research papers contributed by teachers of English and research scholars hailing from different parts of India. It contains papers on the novelists of Indian Writing in English, i.e. Mulk Raj Anand, R.P. Jhabvala, Mahasweta Devi, Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Amitav Ghosh, Manju Kapur, Kiran Desai, Jhumpa Lahiri, Bharati Mukherjee, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Shobha De, Rohinton Mistry, Aravind Adiga and Daxa Damodar.
Indian Writing in English is flourishing by leaps and bounds. Indian writers of English have set several milestones in the field of fiction, poetry and drama.
This book is concerned with the Indian fictions in English with a new perspective. It will certainly be welcomed by the connoisseurs of fictions, especially those teachers, students and research scholars who want to know more and more of Indian fiction writing in English.

Dr. Amar Nath Prasad heads the P.G. Department of English at Jagdam College, J.P. University, Chapra, Bihar. He is a well-known editor and critic of Indian Writings in English. He has to his credit more than a dozen standard books of English Literature. Some of his well-known books are: 1. Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things: A Critical Elucidation, 2. British and Indian English Literature, 3. New Lights on Indian Women Novelists (in four volumes), 4. Studies in Indian Drama in English, 5. Indian Poetry in English, 6. Recritiquing John Keats, and 7. Trends and Movements in Indian Writing in English.
Dr. Prasad edits Unheard Melody, a biannual research journal of English Literature.
Dr. Ashish Gupta is Associate Professor in the Department of Postgraduate Studies of Research in English in J.H. Govt. P.G. College, Betul (M.P.). He has a teaching experience of 22 years. He has attended several national and international seminars and conferences. Till now, his more than 40 research papers have been published in reputed journals and anthologies. His co-edited book Women Sensibility in Indian Women Novelists has received accolades from different literary corners. He is the associate editor/member of the editorial/review/advisory boards of various prestigious international journals. He has edited one book and co-edited seven books.