Imagining India

by Richard Cronin

Overview

This book investigates what happens to the English language when it seeks to accommodate India and what happens to India when it is accommodated within the language of a far-off European country. It explores the work of writers from Kipling to Salman Rushdie, Ghandhi to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349203390
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/1989
Edition description:	1st ed. 1989
Pages:	203
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction - The English Indian Novel: Kim and Midnight's Children - The Indian English Novel: Nations of Fools and The Man-Eater of Malgudi - Riding the Beast: Ruther Prawer Jhabvala in India - The Quiet and the Loud: Anita Desai's India - The Politics of R.K.Narayan - Indian Trains - Indian Fugues - An Area of Darkness - Indian Autobiography - Sex in the Indian Novel - The Hill of Devi and Heat and Dust - A Passage to India - References - Notes - Index