Contents: Preface. Contributors. 1. The idea of nation/nationalism in Tagore's poetry/Arnab Baul. 2. Aurobindo and Rabindra: the Angel Eyes/Bithika D. Sarkar. 3. Style, Metre and imagery in the plays of Sri Aurobindo/Saryug Yadav. 4. Reflections of woman in the works of R.K. Narayan/Md. Ejaz Alam. 5. The concept of Gandhism in the novels of Bhabani Bhattacharya/Sudarshan Sharma. 6. Riding the tiger of deceit: a study of Kalo's character/Jitendra Prasad Singh 'Padma'. 7. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Get Ready for Battle: a critical study/Nagendra Kumar Singh. 8. The Devil's Wind: a nationalist or a rebel/Dinesh Chandra Kumar. 9. Dialectics of society and self in the novels of Kamala Markandaya's A Pleasure City/Nagendra Kumar Singh. 10. The problem of style in Anita Desai/Jagjiwan Prasad. 11. Alienation and disharmony in the novels of Anita Desai/Anita Singh. 12. The Autobiography of an Unknown India: a critique/S.P. Swain. 13. Nissim Ezekiel and his humanism/Rajiv K. Mallik. 14. The Failed Art of Arun Joshi/Ajay Kumar Srivastava. 15. Social and historical realism in The God of Small Things/R.S. Sharma and S.B. Talwar. 16. Sex for the Sake of Sex: a study of Shobha De's Starry Nights/Shivputra Shivraj Kanade. 17. The plays of Vijay Tendulkar: a brief Study/Amar Nath Prasad. 18. Manoranjan Das: an experimental playwright/Uma Sankar Padhy. Index.
"Indian Literature in English: Critical Assessments is an anthology of critical essays contributed by different teachers and scholars of English literature. The authors discussed in this book are R.N. Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, R.K. Narayan, Bhabani Bhattacharya, R.P. Jhabvala, Manohar Malgonkar, Kamala Markandaya, Anita Desai, Nirad Chaudhary, Nissim Ezekiel, Arun Joshi, Arundhati Roy, Shobha De, Vijay Tendulkar and Manoranjan Das. Most of the papers of this anthology are research papers prepared for presentation in the National and International seminars and conferences. They deals with the various aspects of Indian Writing in English e.g., nationalism, style and imagery, the persecution of women, Gandhian ideology, alienation and disharmony, Indianess and several other shades of Indian Literature in English.
The book, will certainly be fruitful for students, teachers and research scholars who want to be more conversant with the perspectives of Indian Writing in English." (jacket)
