Contents: Preface. 1. Indian novelists in English: an introduction/Amar Nath Prasad. 2. Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable: a triumph of narrative skill/U.S. Rukhaiyar. 3. Fantastic realism in The Cat and Shakespeare/Thomas Augustine Mundamattom. 4. The language of R.K. Narayan: a discourse analysis/Ejaz Alam. 5. Gandhian ideology and Bhabani Bhattacharya/Sudarshan Sharma. 6. Bhawani Bhattacharya' s novels: a sociological approach/Jitendra Prasad Singh 'Padma'. 7. Dialectics of society and self in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's A backward Place/Nagendra Kumar Singh. 8. Distant Drum: triumph of duty/Dinesh Chandra Kumar. 9. Kamala Markandaya's The Golden Honeycomb: a colonial history/S. John Peter Joseph. 10. Dialectics of society and self in Kamala Markandaya's Two Virgins/Nagendra Kumar Singh. 11. Indian novelists and Anita Desai: a critical exploration/Anita Singh. 12. Indian woman sensibility in Shashi Deshpande's 'Intrusion and Other Stories'/R.N. Upadhyay. 13. Facets of feminism in Shashi Deshpande's The Dark Holds No Terrors/Bhabani S. Baral. 14. Deception and dualities of Indu in Shashi Deshpande's "Roots and Shadows"/Shivani R. Upadhyay. 15. Shashi Deshpande's Small Remedies: a de tour of widening horizons/Binod Mishra. 16. Shashi Deshpande's A Matter of Time: a study/S. Prasanna Sree. 17. Humanistic concerns in Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace/N.K. Neb. 18. Style and technique in Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things"/Sharad Rajimwale. 19. Indian English literature and crisis in value system: a study of 'Difficult Daughters' by Manju Kapur/B.R. Agrawal. 20. Recent Indian English novel and changing tradition/B.R. Agrawal. 21. In pursuit of excellence: treatment of women in Indo-Anglian literature/Ashok Kumar. Index.
"Indian Fiction in English: Roots and Blossoms is a modest attempt to evaluate both roots and blossoms, tradition and modernity of Indian Fiction in English. It contains more than twenty scholarly research papers concerning the various aspects of Indian fictions. It covers almost all the great novelists of Indian writing e.g., Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan, Raja Rao, Bhabani Bhattacharya, R.P. Jhabvala, Manohar Malgonkar, Kamala Markandaya, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy and Manju Kapur. The last two scholarly papers deal with the general recent trends regarding Indian fiction in English.
A special attempt has been made to give the shape of book in such a way that it may be able to cater to the needs of the readers and scholars wishing to be acquainted with the various aspects of Indian fictions and the novelists." (jacket)
