Studies In Indian English Literature

Contents: Foreword. Author’s note. Introduction. I. Poetry: 1. Toru Dutt’s poetry. 2. Sarojini Naidu’s poetry. 3. The poetry of Kamala Das. 4. The poetry of A.K. Ramanujan. 5. The poetry of Gieve Patel. 6. Two Christian Poetesses. 7. Love and protest in Parimal Naik’s Poetry. 8. Celebration of life in K.B. Rai’s poetry. II. Prose: 9. Nirad Chaudhari: “The Sword of the British Empire”. 10. Armando Menezes’s writings. 11. Meena Alexander’s Fault Lines. III. Drama: 12. Mahesh Dattani’s Dance Like a Man as a sentimental play. 13. Asif Currimbhoy’s Goa as a depiction of Goa Liberation. IV. Fiction: 14. The life of the underprivileged in Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable. 15. Raja Rao’s Kanthapura: a portrait of village Gandhi. 16. G.V. Desani’s All About H. Hatterr: a brief overview. 17. Bhabani Bhattacharya’s So Many Hungers! 18. Arun Joshi: The novelist. 19. Manohar Malgonkar’s works. 20. Comic and realistic spirit in Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan. 21. Kamala Markandaya’s Necter in a Seive as portrait of rural India. 22. Bharathi Mukherjee’s Wife: a post modernist novel. 23. Nargis Dalal’s Minari. 24. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. 25. Anita Desai’s life and works. 26. Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds no Terror as a feminist work. 27. Salman Rushdie’s writings. 28. “Basavaraj Naikar’s Portrayal of St. Kabir of Karnataka in Light in the House. 29. Sunita Namjoshi as a writer. 30. Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things: and experiment in language. 31. Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome as a science fiction. 32. Jhumpa Lahiri’s short stories. 33. Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss as a post-modern novel. 34. Anita Nair’s Satyr of the Subway as urban tales. 35. P.C.K. Prem’s a Night of Storms as a psychological novel. 36. Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger as a critique of Indian life. Index.