Contents: Preface. 1. Imagery in Sri Aurobindo's plays/A.K. Sinha. 2. The Indian philosophy and Indianism in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri/S.K. Paul. 3. Tradition and modernity: an interpretation of Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable/Kanupriya. 4. Gandhian ideology and Raja Rao/Sudarshan Sharma. 5. East-west encounter in Raja Rao's The cat and Shakespeare/V.K. Sinha. 6. The novels of U.R. Anantha Murthy: a critical study/V.R. Badiger. 7. Dialectics of society and self in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Heat and Dust/Nagendra Kumar Singh. 8. Arun Joshi and The Gita/O.P. Mathur. 9. Dialectics of society and self in the novels of Kamala Markandaya's A Handful of Rice/Nagendra Kumar Singh. 10. Social web and cry of the self: a critical analysis of Anita Brookner's Hotel du Lac and Anita Desai's Where Shall We Go This Summer?/B. Janaki and Renu Josan. 11. Amitav Ghosh in an antique land: a post-modernist 's rendezvous with history/Uday Shankar Ojha. 12. Difficult Daughters: Travails in self identity/P. Sudha Shree. 13. Revelation of Indian culture and civilization: a study of Nirad C. Chaudhuri's The Continent of Circe and Hinduism/Ashok Kumar. 14. Nissim Ezekiel's "Enterprise": an interpretation/Ramesh K. Srivastava. 15. Ghashiram Kotwal in the eyes of audiences/M.B. Gaijan. 16. My life is not my own: a glimpse into Rani's life in Girish Karnad's Nagmandala/S. Prasanna Sree. 17. Gay themes in Dattani's plays/Chittaranjan Misra. 18. A kaleidoscopic vision: short stories of Basavaraj Naikar/S.G. Vaidya. 19. The emerging 'I' among Indian women poets:/Pashupati Jha. 20. East-west encounter in Indian poetry in English/O.P. Bhatnagar. 21. Indian Drama in English: an introduction/Amar Nath Prasad. Index.

"Indian Writing in English: Tradition and Modernity is a collection of scholarly articles and research papers contributed by different scholars hailing from the different parts of the country. It critically evaluates the various aspects of Indian writing in English. Some of the papers are also related to the different trends of Indian writing in English. All the papers of this book have been so judiciously selected that they may certainly, as it is hoped, cater to the need of all types of readers--students, teachers and those research scholars who want to be acquainted with the writers of both modernity and tradition in Indian writing in English." (jacket)