Indian English Literature in both its matter and manner incorporates continuity with change, an unquestioned commitment to some basic tenets of the traditional blended with a reaching out to explore the new, a shifting of the focus to the individual and the personal but without severing of links with the familial and the societal. The scholarly studies, specially written for this volume, explore Indian English poets and novelists to arrive at diverse revealing insights, hitherto unexperienced, from this penetrating perspective. The writers taken up for analysis include Kamala Das, A.K. Ramanujan, R. Parthasarathy, Raja Rao, Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan, Kamala Markandaya, Manohar Malgonkar, Anita Desai, Arundhati Roy and others. Painstaking perusal of the modern and the mythical in seminal works of Indian English literature, taken up individually and also as part of the writer’s oeuvre. A critical introduction to Indian English poetry and fiction. A sustained study of recent publications of seminal significance. A source Book for sociologists and critics, teachers and scholars, students and lay readers. An indispensable compendium for further studies in Indian English poetry and fiction.

Table of Contents:
1. Continuity with Change in Indian English Literature—Dr. M.K. Bhatnagar 2. The Poems of Kamala Das : An Assessment—Dr. N.V. Raveendran 3. Suffering and Humiliation in Kamala Das’s Poetry—Dr. K.V. Surendran 4. Kamala Das and the Confessional Mode—Dr. N. Ramadevi 5. The Craftsmanship of A.K. Ramanujan—Dr. K.V. Surendran 6. The ‘Two Cultures’ in Rough Passage—Dr. K.V. Surendran 7. A Plea and a Cheer for Indian A Note on Raja Rao—Alessandro Monti 8. Gauri/The Cow : The Issue of Female Identity in Mulk Raj Anand’s Novel—Alessandro Monti 9. The Neglected and the Tormented in The Dark Room—Dr. K.V. Surendran 10. R.K. Narayan’s The Man-eater of Malgudi Problematising the Nation—Syed Mujeebuddin 11. Rural India in Transition : A Study Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve—Dr. (Mrs.) C.K. Naik 12. The Strugglers and the Survivors in Nectar in a Sieve—Dr. K.V. Surendran 13. Re-reading of History in Manohar Malgonkar’s The Devil’s Wind—Dr. M.A. Jeyaraju and Others 14. Multiple Meanings of Marginality in Anita Desai’s Baumgartner’s Bombay—J. Wilson 15. Victims and Survivors in the ‘Sugar-Sticky Web of Family Conflict’: A Reading of Anita Desai’s Fasting, Feasting—Pamela Oliver 16. New Styles of Architecture in The God of Small Things—Dr. K.V. Surendran 17. Damayanti’s Predicament—Dr. K.V. Surendran 18. From India to India—Dr. K.V. Surendran