Indo Anglian Literature

Indian fiction in English has matured itself over the years. It has become more expressive and experimental, both thematically and stylistically, than ever, and has come to establish itself as an indigenous branch of world literature. With the passage of time novel in English became recognized as an effective vehicle of human relationships in Indian society. Novelists since the formative years of this genre have been exploring through it, human relationships in the complex Indian society. R.K. Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, Anita Desai, Shashi Despande, Arundhti Roy, Kiran Desai, Jumpha Lahiri, Geeta Mehta, and Githa Hariharan etc., have produced social novels which deal with the theory of human relationships in the traditional and

“It may be that writers in my position, exiles, or emigrants, are haunted by some sense of loss, some urge to reclaim, to look back, even at the risk of being mutilated into pillars of salt. But if we do look back, we must do in the knowledge – which give rise to profound uncertainties – that our physical alienation from India almost inevitably means that we will not be capable of reclaiming precisely the thing that was lost, that we will, in short, create fictions, not actual cities or villages, but invisible ones, imaginary homelands, India of the mind.” Anonymous

The central theme of the novel The Guide by R.K Narayan is the transformation of Raju from his role as a tour guide to that of a spiritual guide. The title of the novel, The Guide, has a double meaning, and Raju is in a sense a double character. As a tour guide and lover, he is impulsive, unprincipled, and self-indulgent. After his imprisonment, and after his transformation as a holy man, he is careful, thoughtful, and self-disciplined.

The Serpent and the Rope, Raja Rao’s second novel, was an immediate success. Its popularity can be measured as it has received maximum number of critical responses, not only in India but from abroad too, among all his novels. Add to that, announcement of the Sahitya Akademi award for the year 1963 attracted greater readership and academic demand. It has been prescribed in the syllabi of many universities. It is the story of Ramaswamy, a young Brahmin from the south India. He goes to France to do research in history, there meets and marries Madeleine, a teacher of history, but drift apart gradually as Ramaswamy comes to realize the gulf between the Indian and Western concepts of love, marriage, and family. It is important to note that the gap

In the novel The Namesake one of our main protagonist, Ashima, is a foreigner from India

The dominant idiom of Indian writing today is firmly entrenched in pain, anxiety of displacement, nostalgia, yearning to belong to roots, and so on. Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss are two such novels that explore the tragedy of man on several levels using different perspectives. Both the novels are about averted culture-clash tragedies, homogeneity vs. heterogeneity, and about Indian sensibilities.

Kim gives a vivid picture of the complexities in India under British rule. It shows the life of the bazaar mystics, of the natives, of the British military. There is a great deal of action and movement, for Kipling's vast canvas painted in full detail. The dialogue in the novel makes use of Indian phrases translated by the author, they give the flavor of native speech in India. They are also touches of the native behavior and shrewdness.

Indian English Literature is a literature which is a combination of Indian literature and Indian literature written in English. Indian writings in English are a product of the historical encounter between the two cultures – Indian and the western—for

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster is a novel set in 1920’s against the British backdrop over India. During the 1920’s, India becomes colonized by the European Government (mostly Britain). Since the Indians are weaker compare to the English, their nation starts to get imperialised by England. Just as the time, Forster visits India and becomes bothered by the racial oppression and deep cultural misunderstandings. Despite of these issues, Forster tries to connect the friendship between the British colonizers and the colonized Indians. Throughout the novel, major concern of the British colonialism over India is that

One of the things that also affect the development of literary work is Orientalism. Orientalism is one of colonial ideologies which can be found in literary work which can show author’s colonial

India’s of the Mind is a combination of two stories that are written by two different authors; Interpreter of Maladies by Jumpa Lahiri (1967) and Imaginary Homelands by Salman Rushdie (1947). Jhumpa Lahiri is an Indian descent, born in London and raised by Bengali parents. Salman Rushdie is a British-Indian novelist who was born in Bombay, India. All his writing inspiration came from traveling experience. His books have been translated into over forty languages and he has received many awards for his books and novels.

inspirational message for readers. His book got good market in his society and it was biggest

Indo-Anglian literature forms an integral part of English and it has attained a distinct place in the literary landscape in the literary landscape of India. It is a synthesis of two great literary traditions-Indian and Anglian. It is an offshoot of colonial rule and in more or less a synthesis of two great cultural traditions. For the past two decades it has grown from strength to strength and acquired a new change and life with the emergence of talented second generation of writers who are at home in English language more than the native speakers. Among the second generation of writers may be included Amitav Ghosh, Vikram Seth, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Shashi Tharoor, Shashi

The novel is a departure from the existing oeuvre of Arun Joshi in as much as it is 'a commentary on the time'1 and "a

E.M. Forster’s classic novel “A Passage to India” tells the story of a young doctor, Dr. Aziz, and his interactions with the British citizens who are residing in India during the time of the British Raj. Throughout the novel, the reader gets many different viewpoints on the people and the culture of India during this point in history. The reader sees through the eyes of the Indian people primarily through the character of Dr. Aziz, and the perceptions of the British through the characters of Mr. Fielding, Adela Quested, and Mrs. Moore. Through the different characters, and their differing viewpoints, the reader can see that Forster was creating a work that expressed a criticism that he held of the behavior of the British towards their Indian subjects.