Contents: Preface. 1. Marlowe's Dr. Faustus: a play of Vedantic philosophy. 2. Shakespeare's Othello: a confluence of craft and creativity. 3. The poetry of William Wordsworth: a manifestation of Vedantic knowledge. 4. Coleridge's Ancient Mariner: a thematic appraisal. 5. The Vedantic Concept of Yoga in Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale". 6. The search for identity in Dicken's Novels. 7. Five selected poems of Indian poetry in English: a case study. 8. Some short poems of Sri Aurobindo: a blending of art and mysticism. 9. Tagore's Fruit Gathering: a work of symbolic exuberances. 10. Rabindra Nath Tagore's "The Postmaster": A fine fusion of philosophy and poetry. 11. Tagore's Chitra: a mirror of music and metaphoric structure. 12. Sarojini Naidu's poetry: an evergreen plant of Vedantic fruit and poetic fragrance. 13. Mulk Raj Anand: the lawyer of the lowly and the lost. 14. R.K. Narayan's The Guide: a work of technical perfection. 15. Feminism and gender discrimination in The God of Small Things. 16. Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things: a novel of psycho-analytical treatment. 17. Arundhati Roy's The End of Imagination: an apocalyptic vision of nuclearisation. 18. The plays of Vijay Tendulkar: a brief study. 19. Ghashiram Kotwal: a play of technical perfection. 20. The plays of Mahesh Dattani: a fine fusion of feeling and form. 21. The poetry of Nissim Ezekiel: a critical appraisal. 22. Jayant Mahapatra: a poet of competent craft. 23. Indian drama in English: an introduction. 24. Women novelists in Indian writing in English: a study. Index.

"British and Indian English Literature : A Critical Study is humble attempt to evaluate critically some well-known authors of British and Indian Literature in English. It is collection of more than twenty critical papers meant for presentation in different National and International Level Seminars and Conferences. The included articles in this book are related to Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge, John Keats, Charles Dickens, Toru Dutt, Sri Aurobindo, R.N. Tagore, Sarojini Naidu, Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan, Arundhati Roy, Vijay Tendulkar, Mahesh Dattani, Nissim Ezekiel and Jayant Mahapatra. Most of the papers analyse the works of the Great Masters in the light of Vedantic concept and Indian aesthetics.

The book will prove to be a great asset to all those readers who want to be more conversant with the various doyens, and their respective works, both in British and Indian Literature." (jacket)