Contents: Preface. Contributors. 1. Dalits in Mulkraj Anand's "Untouchable" and Joseph Macwan's "Angaliyat"/M.B. Gaijan. 2. R.K. Narayan: the making of the artist/Md. Ejaz Alam. 3. Feminine aspects in "The World of Nagaraj" by R.K. Narayan/Sonal K. Mehta. 4. Gandhian spirit as role model in the creative writings of Bhabani Bhattacharya/Siv Narayan Dash. 5. A Dream in Hawaii: a critique/Jitendra Prasad Singh 'Padma'. 6. Ironic vision in Jhabvala's Fiction Before 1975/Anshu Bhardwaj. 7. The works of R.P. Jhabvala and Kamala Markandaya: an introduction/Nagendra Kumar Singh. 8. Marriage without Love and Love without Marriage: R.P. Jhabvala's Heat and Dust/M.A. Waheed. 9. The Dark Dancer: a critique/Smita Jha. 10. Manohar Malgonkar's Combat of Shadows: Desire and Aversion/Dinesh Chandra Kumar. 11. Decoding the forbidden erotic landscapes: a study of Kamala Markandaya's Novels/Sudhir K. Arora. 12. The concept of alienation and rootlessness in Kamala Markandaya's novel Nectar in a Sieve/Rasheeda Begum. 13. Tremors and Traumas: a psycho-familial analysis in Kamala Markandaya's Nectar in a Sieve, Anita Desai's In Custody and Shashi Deshpande's That Long Silence/C. Anna Latha Devi. 14. The search for meaningful life in the novels of Anita Desai/Anita Singh. 15. The picture of a new woman in Shashi Deshpande's The Dark Holds No Terrors/Ajay Kumar Shukla. 16. Psychological realism in The God of Small Things/R.S. Sharma and S.B. Talwar. 17. Trends and thoughts in The God of Small Things/Amar Nath Prasad. 18. Filigree and sovereignty of human bonds--a study of dynamics in Ameeta Rathore's Blood Ties/P. Rajendra Karmarkar. 19. The idea of women's liberation and the portrayal of women in Modern Indian Writing in English/Gulrez Roshan Rahman. 20. Gandhian ideology in Indian Fiction in English/Sudarshan Sharma. Index.
"Indian Writing in English is now a deep-rooted blooming plant diffusing its aroma in every nook and corner. It is being read and taught in various universities of the world. The modern Indian writers in English are also receiving national and international awards and accolades in the field of fiction, poetry and drama. So a fitting critical response is needed to enhance the creative and aesthetic process of the writers. This book which is an anthology of scholarly research papers of the various contributors hailing from the different places of India is a modest attempt to critically analyse the well-known works of Indian novelists in English. The papers are related to Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan, Bhabani Bhattacharya, R.P. Jhabvala, Balachandra Rajan, Manohar Malgonkar, Kamala Markandaya, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Arundhati Roy and Ameeta Rathore.
The book, will surely be very helpful and informative to all those teachers, students and research scholars who want to be more familiar with the various aspects of Indian Fiction in English." (jacket)
