The Indian Of Indian Literature

Sherman Alexie is a Native American man who is well known for his novels and short stories based on his experiences as a member of many different Native American tribes. In his short story “Indian Education”, Alexie details the struggles with bullying and discrimination one Native American boy went through during his time in school. Although “Indian Education” is written differently from other short stories it still conveys a solid theme and has a well written plot. Alexie’s style is also a benefit to the reader as they make their way through grade school with the main character, Victor.

Indian English Literature is defined as the contribution of Indian writers to the Literature in English. With the consolidation of the British power in India, English, the language of rulers also began to exercise its influence on the intellectuals of the country. To the educated people, English language is a gateway to western knowledge. English provided a window for the Indian intellectuals to have a look at the wide world.

By the 1970’s, a new genre in film was created: the “white man becoming Indian” genre. One of the most famous films of this genre was A Man Called Horse, starring English actor Richard Harris. It tells of Lord Morgan who is captured by the Sioux and treated as a slave. He is mistreated in their camp until earning their respect and ultimately becoming their leader after defending them against Shoshone braves and his completion of the Sun Dance ritual. Many films after this would follow this same format including Dances with Wolves, and James Cameron’s Avatar. The film tends to treat both the views of white men and Native Americans dispassionately, favoring neither side, but instead encompasses both cultures at once.

Indians gentry are mainly migrated to different countries like U.S.A, canada ,Australia, Africa and so on. In our English literature authors targeted these countries to make the prominent themes in their works and these themes comes under only one heading ' 'writings of the Disapora ' '. V.S Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Bharti Mukherjee,

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

Indian English Literature constitutes the works of the Indian authors, poets and literary artists who compose their works in English language. Indian English literature has drawn the attention from every quarter of the country, making the genre magnificent in its own right. The writers of this genre have skillfully made use of their own intelligence and intellect in weaving the web of their literary works. While studying their literary works, the Indian audience finds a kind of close association with the characters portrayed in them. Indian readers can identify themselves with their problems, tensions as well as with the social, political, economic and cultural background presented in the Indian English texts. Reference to Indian superstitions,

B. Bawake examines the changing morals and values as reflected in fiction while placing Adiga in the tradition of a long line of Indian English writers and identifying those who have influenced him.

English is a language which can be traced back to the 5th century by migration and resettlement of its speakers into the different parts of the world. Beginning its foundation of the American colonies into Europe and into the 17th century with its establishment of the East India Company (Paranjpe & Prasad, 2010). The 200 years of presence that English had in India left a huge impression on its language orientation. Both attitudinally and linguistically English has made its place into the new cultural environment and fresh communicative needs. Despite the government’s support towards Hindi, the language inculcating the largest number of speakers under it compared to the other Indian Languages has not yet been able to take up the prestige that English holds in India. India’s larger population is bilingual with proficiency in English. Today it has earned the privilege as the language of the world’s developed countries, their technologies and economy (Paranjpe & Prasad, 2010). It is the very reason that this language has caught the attention of the future generations irrespective of their home country to put English at the pedestal and give development of their native tongue a second place. The provision that English gives on the professional front is too strong as compared to any of the other languages in India. It has not only acquired a wide range of functions in the Indian society, but has also linguistically evolved its own characteristic features at the

It is not a revelation that the first chapter is focused on the identification of problems that the Muslims and “other foreigners” have been facing in understanding the Indian culture. However, in addition to defining the specific problems – such as pitfalls in language and the community’s resistance against foreigners, Al Biruni also elaborates on his personal encounter and approach to those problems. In his language analysis, for instance, he describes the physical difficulty in pronouncing and understanding some of the Sanskrit words as “our tongue and uvula could scarcely pronounce them” and “in order to fix the pronunciation we must change our orthographical points and signs.” From this effort to establish a personalized connection to the reader’s native language and accent, it can be inferred that he is trying to provide a foundational reference to the readers, to eventually ease their intrusion into the Hindu mindset.

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.

There is a very close relationship between language and literature. The part of linguistics that studies the language of literature is termed LITERARY STYLISTICS. It focuses on the study of linguistic features related to literary style.

Around 80,000 new titles in 24 unique dialects are distributed consistently in India. The nation is the 7th biggest book distributer on the planet and is the 3rd biggest English dialect books advertise on the planet after the U.S and U.K. On the other hand, it has a low every capita consumption every annum on books of Rs. 80 when contrasted with Rs. 4000 in U.K (Mackay, 2005, p.98).

The novelty of the new age demands that the soft and delicate language such as Braj Bhasha should be left out, we cannot remain with the feminine language because the new age demands new language and the new language came in the form of modern “Hindi”. The Awadh elites who were the bearers of “Hindi” were practically forced to invent the style, a culture, a new form of consciousness. The whole national consciousness was at stake as it was a matter of adopting a whole new consciousness. Through this piece, we get to discover that in the language matters, when there is a loss, there will also be a gain. For instance, the Khari Boli Hindi poetry was realized as a powerful invention which was slowly taken over by Urdu. But after this entire complex thing, we get to experience some gain, which came in the form of modern “Hindi” that brought a new social order and awareness.

Indian writing in English has a comparatively short but highly stimulating history. In 1793, Sake Dean Mahomed wrote conceivably the first book by an Indian in English, called The ‘Travels of Dean Mahomed’. However, most early Indian writing in English was non-fictional work, such as biographies and political essays.

Among the living writers of India there is hardly any parallel to the formidable creative genius of Bhalchandra Nemade. He is a novelist, a poet and a distinguished critic. The impact of his original thinking and the force of his powerful argument on the contemporary literary and intellectual life of India is unparalleled in recent history. His greatest contribution to Indian literary criticism is his theory of Nativism. As a literary critic he has been passionately advocating it. As a creative writer he has demonstrated how theory can be brought into practice. Hence his novels like ‘Kosala’ ‘Bidhar’ ‘Hul’ ‘Jhul’ ‘Jarilaa’ and ‘Hindu’ can be best described as experiments in Nativism. Most of Nemade’s critical ideas have been