Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-389) and index

The English writings of Raja Rammohan Ray / Bruce Carlisle Robertson -- The Hindu college: Henry Derozio and Michael Madhusudan Dutt / Sajni Kripalani Mukherji -- The Dutt family album: and Toru Dutt / Rosinka Chaudhuri -- Rudyard Kipling / Maria Couto -- Two faces of prose: Behramji Malabari and Govardhanram Tripathi / Sudhir Chandra -- The beginnings of the Indian novel / Meenakshi Mukherjee -- The English writings of Rabindranath Tagore / Amit Chaudhuri -- Sri Aurobindo / Peter Heehs -- Two early-twentieth-century women writers: Cornelia Sorabji and Sarojini Naidu / Ranjana Sidhanta Ash -- Gandhi and Nehru: the uses fo English / Sunil Khilnani -- Verrier Elwin / Ramachandra Guha -- Novelists of the 1930s and 1940s / Leela Gandhi -- R.K. Narayan / Pankaj Mishra -- Nirad C. Chaudhuri / Eunice de Souza -- Novelists of the 1950s and 1960s / Shyamala A. Narayan and Jon Mee -- On V.S. Naipaul on India / Suvir Kaul -- Poetry since independence / Rajeev S. Patke -- From sugar to Masala: writing by the Indian

diaspora / Sudeh Mishra -- Looking for A.K. Ramanujan / Arvind Krishna Mehrotra -- Salman Rushdie / Anuradha Dingwaney -- After midnight: the novel in the 1980s and 1990s / Jon Mee -- The dramatists / Shanta Gokhale -- Five nature writers: Jim Corbett, Kenneth Anderson, Sálim Ali, Kailash Sankhala, and M. Krishnan / Mahesh Rangarajan -- Translations into English / Arshia Sattar