Contents: Preface. 1. A critique of Raja Rao’s art/K. Ratna Shiela Mani. 2. Untouchable – the Dawn of the excluded/Smita Nagrecha. 3. R.K. Narayan’s The Guide from the verbal to the visual: an analysis in comparison/Nair Anup Chandrasekharan. 4. Paradigms of myth in The Dark Room/Digambar Singh Dewari. 5. Space in Bhabani Battacharya’s fiction/Pramod K. Nayar. 6. ‘Whiffs of Chutney’ – history, nation and self in the major works of Salman Rushdie/Nila Shah. 7. Naipaul’s narration of fictional auto/biographies/K.H. Mehta. 8. A discourse analysis of Khushwant Singh’s novel ‘Train to Pakistan’/F.A. Shaikh. 9. Marriage and domesticity in Vikram Seth’s A suitable Boy and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice/H. Kalpana and Vidya Gangadharan. 10. Itihas, history and novel in The Great Indian novel/Preeti S. Pathak. 11. The Metaphor of ‘The shadow lines’ in Amitav Ghosh novel/Novy Kapadia. 12. Firdaus Kanga’s Trying to grow: a critique/Jaydipsinh Dodiya. 13. Rehabilitation of an Indian nationalist hero in Basavaraj Naikar’s novel: The sun behind the cloud/M.A. Jeyaraju. 14. A taxonomy of violations: Shashi Deshpande’s The dark holds no terrors/Anna Kurian. 15. A post colonial analysis of a few of Shashi Deshpande’s novels/Joya Chakravarty. 16. Convergence of myth and symbols: a critique of Geeta Mehta’s A river sutra/Nawal Kishor Sharma. 17. Progression from feminine to female in the novels of Bharati Mukherjee/Anita Myles. 18. Deepa Agarwal and Indian children’s literature in English: an introduction/Nandini Nayar. 19. Passion, pride and predicament: Basavaraj Naikar’s The Thief of Nagarahalli and Other stories/H.V. Deshpande. 20. A Kaleidoscopic vision: Short stories of Basavaraj Naikar/S.G. Vaidya. 21. An exploration of indianness in R.P. Jhabvala’s out of India/Krishna Daiya.

“It is beyond doubt that the present book makes a pioneering attempt at the evaluation of the entire range of Indian English Fiction. It certainly makes a rich contribution to the areas of Indian English literature and commonwealth fiction.” (jacket)