Contents: Preface. Foreword. Contributors. 1. Some short poems of Sri Aurobindo: a blending of art and mysticism/Amar Nath Prasad. 2. Sri Aurobindo's life, mind and art/Saryug Yadav. 3. Tagore's 'Four Chapters': Terrorist vs Humanist Ethic/Nilesh Arvindrao Tare. 4. Rabindranath Tagore's prose and drama : an evaluation of his literary contribution to South-Asian studies/S.K. Paul. 5. The outcaste and the downtrodden in the fictions of M.R. Anand/Sunita Sinha. 6. The true voice of the artist/Md. Ejaz Alam. 7. An account of the Indian freedom struggle of the Gandhian era in Raja Rao's Kanthapura/M.A. Waheed. 8. Dialectics of society and self in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Esmond in India/Nagendra Kumar Singh. 9. Tradition versus modernity: a consideration of Kamala Markandaya's Two Virgins/S. John Peter Joseph. 10. Dialetics of society and self in Kamala Markandaya's Nectar in a Sieve/Nagendra Kumar Singh. 11. Anita Desai's Recent Novels: a critical study/Anita Singh. 12. The new women in Anita Desai's Novels/Shubha Mukherjee. 13. Choreographing complexities: narrative, structural strategies in Anita Desai's Fiction/Purnendu S. Goswami. 14. Poetry of Revolt Against Marginalization of Matriarchal Section in India: a thematic study of Kamala Das's Poetry/R.K. Mishra. 15. An equal music: a lovely tale of music/Satish Barbuddhe. 16. Shobha De's "Spouse": the truth about marriage: a handbook/Beena V. Rathi. 17. Annotating the reality of the Indian context: a study of the poetry of Nissim Ezekiel, Keki N. Daruwalla, Adil Jussawalla and Gieve Patel/Sunanda Sinha. 18. Trends of mysticism in contemporary Indian poetry in English/D.K. Mandal. 19. The Thespian Art of Maheh Dattani : a critique/Smita Lakhotia. 20. Niranjan Mohanty's poetry and desire: an appraisal/Ashok Kumar. 21. Gandhian Ideology and some novelists/Sudarshan Sharma. 22. Dalit Literature: its growth and evaluation/S.K. Paul. Index.
"Indian Literature in English : Critical Views is a modest attempt to evaluate some prominent literary figures in Indian Writing in English. It is an anthology of critical essays contributed by more than twenty scholars of English Literature. Most of the papers of this book have been prepared for presentation of various National and International Seminars and Conferences. The writers included and discussed in this anthology are: Sri Aurobindo, Rabindranath Tagore, M.R. Anand, R.K. Narayan, Raja Rao, R.P. Jhabvala, Kamala Markandaya, Anita Desai, Kamala Das, Vikram Seth, Shobha De, Nissim Ezekiel, Keki N. Daruwalla, Adil Jussawalla, Gieve Patel, Mahesh Dattani and Niranjan Mohanty. The book also contains three other scholarly papers dealing with the theme of Mysticism in Modern Indian Poetry, Dalit Literature and Gandhian impact on Indian Fiction in English." (jacket)
