English Novelists of India : Critical Perspectives
Contents: 1. Mulk Raj Anand: A Novelist Par-Excellence/Meenu Dubey.
2. Incompatibility of Interests in Human Relationships in the Novels of R. K. Narayan/Beena R Zanwer (Rathi). 3. Kanthapura and Malgudi, Miniature Indias: A Comparative Study/Jaya Srivastava. 4. Serpent Symbolism: A Note on Two Short Stories of Raja Rao and Khushwant Singh/S.G. Vaidya. 5. Dialectics of Society and Self in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s The Householder/Nagendra Kumar Singh. 6. Dialectics of Society and Self in Kamala Markandaya’s A Handful of Rice/ Nagendra Kumar Singh. 7. The Quest for Identity in Fasting, Feasting/G. Rajasekaran. 8. Where Shall We Go This Summer? A Psycho-analytical Study of Conflict between Reasoning and Fantasy/Ashish Gupta. 9. The Dark Holds No Terrors: A Woman’s Search for Refuge/Jaya Srivastava. 10. Feminist-Feminism in the Novels of Shashi Deshpande/S.K. Salahuddin. 11. The Character of Saleem Sinai in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children/S.I. Noorani. 12. Arundhati Roy’s Art of Characterization: A Study in Realism and Romance/Amar Nath Prasad. 13. Theme of Partition in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines/Noorani, S.I. 14. “Speed Post”. A Written Record of Wonderful Relationships/Shweta Sharma. 15. Feminism in Shobha De’s Socialite Evenings/Ram Sharma and Amit Kumar. 16. Sex And Sensuality in Shobha De’s Novel ‘Sisters’/Suresh Dhoke. 17. Feminist Concerns in the Fiction of Shobha De: A Study/Vipin Kumar Pandey. 18. Feminine Sensibility in the Works of Shobha De/Ruby Milhoutra. 19. A Comparative Study of Siddhartha and The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari/Shrikant Singh. 20. Sharif Sahib: A Symbol of Religious and Communal Harmony: A Critical Response to Basavaraj Naikar’s Light in the House/S. John Peter Joseph. Index.
“English Novelists of India: Critical Perspectives is a modest attempt to critically analyze and discuss the various Indian novelists of India and their respective works. The book contains twenty critical research papers contributed by different English teachers and scholars hailing from the different parts of India. It features articles on Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan, Raja Rao, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Kamala Markandaya, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Amitav Ghosh, Shobha De, Robin S. Sharma.”(jacket)
