Indian Writing in English: Perspectives looks at Indo-Anglican writings from two aspects—as a social document and as a work of literature. The essays included in this volume focus on some of the works of some of the writers who wrote in the period 1947-2001. The novel “Azadi” chronicles a transitional as well as a turbulent period in the history of India. From the 1960s onwards one can discern a change in the style of writers writing in English. They became bolder and stronger in expressing their emotional needs. Kamala Das’s writings epitomise this change. Degeneration of old values and corruption that creep in with modernization are depicted in the writings of Upmanyu Chatterjee and Arundhati Roy. The favourite theme of nearly all the writers analysed here has been human relationships. Our lives revolve around them in some form or the other. Relationship make all the difference in life. Relationships cannot grow from nothing. They develop through association and require a long gestation period between conception and delivery. The contributors who have contributed articles for this volume are teachers and researchers of great merit. They have debated and discussed on Indo-Anglican Fiction at seminars and workshops. I am sure this volume will be of great help to students and scholars of Indian Writing in English.

Table of Contents:
1. Chaman Nahal’s Azadi: An Appraisal –S.C. Singh 2. Raja Rao and The Frontiers of Fiction –Ratri Ray 3. Theme and Form in R.K. Narayan’s The Man Eater of Malgudi –Sangita Nagpal 4. The Evolution of The Guide: The Individual — Society Equation in The Indian and The Western Contexts –Arun Soule 5. Images of Women in Bhabani Bhattacharya’s Fiction –Suman Mehta 6. An Analysis of Kamala Das’s Padmavati The Harlot and Other Stories –Joya Chakravarty 7. Fair Treatment to the Fair Sex –Nishi Upadhyaya 8. How Difficult it was to be Backhome! Vikram Seth’s From Heaven Lake Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet –Suresh K. Shukla 9. Confronting Modernity and Post-Coloniality: The Last Burden and English, August: An Indian Story –Namratha Mogaral 10. The Demon of Debt: Mukul Kesavan’s Looking Through Glass –Nandini Nayar 11. “Tracing” Vacuities: The Poetry of Niranjan Mohanty –Promod K. Nayar 12. The Changing Trends in Indian Writing in English with Special Reference to Shobha De –Jaidipsinh Dodiya 13. Imitiaz Dharkar—Voicing Protest –Ashok K. Tiwari 14. A Comparative Analysis of Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and Manju Kapoor’s Difficult Daughters –Joya Chakravarty 15. Of Places and Things: The Poetry of Keki N. Daruwalla –Ravi Nandan Sinha 16. Narratives of Exclusion: Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” and Laxman Gaikwad’s “The Branded” 108 –Nafisa Hatmi 17. Radha-Krishna Love-Lore: A Quest For True Love in The Poetry of Kamala Das –Vandana Sharma 18. A Post-colonial Reading of Anita Nair’s Ladies Coupe –Indira Nityanandam 19. The Changing Pattern of Man-Woman Relationship in Modern Indian English Novels—1980-2000 –Joya Chakravarty 20. Violence Against Women as Represented In Cowasjee and Duggal’s “Orphans of the Storm” –Poonam Yadav 21. Narrating Indianness: Gita Mehta’s A River Sutra –Shubhshree 22. Culture Commodification and the Market: Bharati Mukherjee’s Fiction Diasporic Writer –Nafisa Hatmi