A History of the Indian Novel in English

Cambridge University Press, 7/8/2015
EAN 9781107079960, ISBN10: 1107079969

Hardcover, 450 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm
Language: English

A History of the Indian Novel in English traces the development of the Indian novel from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century up until the present day. Beginning with an extensive introduction that charts important theoretical contributions to the field, this History includes extensive essays that shed light on the legacy of English in Indian writing. Organized thematically, these essays examine how English was 'made Indian' by writers who used the language to address specifically Indian concerns. Such concerns revolved around the question of what it means to be modern as well as how the novel could be used for anti-colonial activism. By the 1980s, the Indian novel in English was a global phenomenon, and India is now the third largest publisher of English-language books. Written by a host of leading scholars, this History invites readers to question conventional accounts of India's literary history.

1. Beginnings
Rajmohan's Wife and the novel in India Supriya Chaudhuri
2. The epistemic work of literary realism
two novels from colonial India Satya P. Mohanty
3. 'Because novels are true, and histories are false'
Indian women writing fiction in English, 1860–1918 Barnita Bagchi
4. When the pen was a sword
the radical career of the progressive novel in India Snehal Shingavi
5. The road less travelled
modernity and Gandhianism in the Indian English novel Rumina Sethi
6. The modernist novel in India
paradigms and practices Vinay Dharwadker
7. Handcuffed to history
partition and the Indian novel in English Ananya Jahanara Kabir
8. Women, reform, and nationalism in three novels of Muslim life Suvir Kaul
9. Found in translation
self, caste, and other in three modern texts Rashmi Sadana
10. Emergency fictions Ayelet Ben-Yishai and Eitan Bar-Yosef
11. Cosmopolitanism and the sonic imaginary in Salman Rushdie Vijay Mishra
12. Postcolonial realism in the novels of Rohinton Mistry Eli Park Sorensen
13. Far from the nation, closer to home
privacy, domesticity, and regionalism in Indian English fiction Saikat Majumdar
14. Ecologies of intimacy
gender, sexuality, and environment in Indian fiction Kavita Daiya
15. 'Some uses of history'
historiography, politics, and the Indian novel Alex Tickell
16. Virtue, virtuosity, and the virtual
experiments in the contemporary Indian English novel Rukmini Bhaya Nair
17. Of dystopias and deliriums
the millennial novel in India Mrinalini Chakravorty
18. 'Which colony? Which block?'
Violence, (post-) colonial urban planning, and the Indian novel Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee
19. Post-humanitarianism and the Indian novel in English Shameem Black
20. Chetan Bhagat
remaking the novel in India Priya Joshi
21. 'New India/n woman'
agency and identity in post-millennial chick lit E. Dawson Varughese
22. The politics and art of Indian English fantasy fiction Tabish Khair and Sébastien Doubinsky
23. The graphic novel in India Corey K. Creekmur
24. 'Coming to a multiplex near you'
Indian fiction in English and new Bollywood cinema Sangita Gopal
25. Caste, complicity, and the contemporary Toral Jatin Gajarawala.