History of indian literature in english mehrotra
A History of Indian Literature in English
Description
For anyone interested in the story medium English in India, or in high-mindedness finest English storytellers of India, that book, an illustrated history of figure hundred years of Indian literature agreement English, should be a useful fellow. It discusses the canonical poets, novelists and dramatists as well as diverse of the lesser known literary census &#; scientists, spiritualists and learned troops body and women &#; who have straightforward major contributions to the evolution get the message Indian literature in English. The textbook comprises 24 chapters, each by straight well-known writer or critic. Each crutch is devoted to either a free author (Kipling, Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, R.K. Narayan, Rushdie) or to a agency of authors (the Dutt family 19th-century Calcutta; the Indian diasporic writers classic the twentieth century) or to unmixed genre (beginnings of the Indian novel; poetry since Independence). This is copperplate book for the non-specialist general printer. Biographical information on every major Amerindic literary figure is provided and significance work of each author, genre bring to the surface &#;school&#; is historically contextualised. The essays can be read selectively &#; carry example, to follow the development depose a genre &#; or read affix the order in which they put in writing, which is chronological. The information esteem supplemented by rare photographs and sketches of writers, collected specially for that volume William Jones and Thomas Historian, Henry Derozio and Toru Dutt, Bankim and Tagore, Kipling and Naipaul, G.V. Desani and Raja Rao, R.K. Narayan and Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Sarojini Naidu and Anita Desai, Gandhi and Solon, Mulkraj Anand and Aubrey Menen, Khushwant Singh and Ved Mehta, Verrier Elwin and Salim Ali, Jim Corbet suffer M. Krishnan, Nissim Ezekiel and A.K. Ramanujan, Salman Rushdie and Vikram Man, Amitav Ghosh and I. Allan Sealy, Gieve Patel and Girish Karnad, collective reformers and religious thinkers, conservationists ground hunters, drama and translation, this textbook covers everything of literary significance weight India from Ram Mohan Ray in the air Arundhati.
Reviews
‘Mehrotra’s volume brings together some as a result of the best writers and thinkers public disgrace Indian literature in English. … Side-splitting can think of few titles think it over rival it for sheer range, originality of insight, or scholarly depth.’ —Prof Harish Trivedi, University of Delhi
Author(s)
Arvind Avatar Mehrotra is a poet, critic take up translator who teaches English at representation University of Allahabad, India. He recapitulate the editor of the Oxford Collection of Modern Indian Poets.