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Random Thoughts is a collection of fifteen essays in literary criticism, some revised, improved and reprinted, and others in print for the first time. These essays are the outcome of the author's intensive reading and revaluation of a wide variety of Indian, British, African, Singaporean and Pakistani writers and their works in English. Ranging from William Shakespeare to Rabindranath Tagore, from Edward Said to Salman Rushdie, from Chinua Achebe to Edwin Thumboo, from Shiv K. Kumar to K. N. Daruwalla, from Shashi Deshpande to Cyrus Mistry, they are the evidence of exercises in critical intell

Indic literature (English) --- English literature --- Indo-English literature --- Indic literature --- History and criticism.

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This book reveals the impact of English not only as a language but also as medium, culture, politics, lifestyle, writing and social change in the context of Indian women.

Indic literature (English) --- English language --- Women and literature --- English literature --- Indo-English literature --- Indic literature --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Germanic languages

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This study offers a comprehensive overview of Indian writing in English in the 21st century. Through ten exemplary analyses in which canonical authors stand next to less well-known and diasporic ones Christoph Senft provides deep insights into India’s complex literary world and develops an argumentative framework in which narrative texts are interpreted as transmodern re-readings of history, historicity and memory. Reconciling different postmodern and postcolonial theoretical approaches to the interpretation and construction of literature and history, Senft substitutes traditional, Eurocentric and universalistic views on past and present by decolonial and pluralistic practices. He thus helps to better understand the entanglements of colonial politics and cultural production, not only on the subcontinent.

Littérature indienne (de l'Inde) de langue anglaise --- Littérature indienne (de l'Inde) de langue anglaise. --- Indic literature (English) --- Literature and history --- History in literature. --- Memory in literature. --- Modernism (Literature) --- Memory as a theme in literature --- History and literature --- History and poetry --- Poetry and history --- History --- English literature --- Indo-English literature --- Indic literature --- History and criticism.

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This book by eminent author Jasbir Jain explores the many ways the diaspora remembers and reflects upon the lost homeland, and their relationship with their own ancestry, history of the homeland, culture and the current political conflicts. Amongst the questions this book asks is, ‘how does the diaspora relate to their home, and what is the homeland’s relationship to the diaspora as representatives of the contemporary homeland in another country?’. The last is an interesting point of discussion since the ‘present’ of the homeland and of the diaspora cannot be equated. The transformations that new locations have brought about as migrants have travelled through time and interacted with the politics of their settled lands—Africa, Fiji, the Caribbean Islands, the UK, the US, Canada, as well as the countries created out of British India, such as Pakistan and Bangladesh—have altered their affiliations and perspectives.   This book gathers multiple dispersions of emigrant writers and artistes from South Asia across time and space to the various homelands they relate to now. The word ‘write’ is used in its multiplicity to refer to creative expression, as an inscription, as connectivity, and remembrance. Writing is also a representation and carries its own baggage of poetics and aesthetics, categories which need to be problematised vis-à-vis the writer and his/her emotional location.  .

Indic literature (English) --- History and criticism. --- English literature --- Indo-English literature --- Indic literature --- Ethnology. --- Literature   . --- Cultural Anthropology. --- Postcolonial/World Literature. --- Social Anthropology. --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship

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Other Tongues: Rethinking the Language Debates in India explores the implications of the energetic and, at times, acrimonious public debate among Indian authors and academics over the hegemonic role of Indian writing in English. From the 1960s the debate in India has centered on the role of the English language in perpetuating and maintaining the cultural and ideological aspects of imperialism. The debate received renewed attention following controversial claims by Salman Rushdie and V.S. Naipaul on the inferior status of contemporary Indian-language literatures.

English language --- Indic literature. --- Indic literature (English) --- Indic literature --- English language. --- East Indian literature --- Indian literature (East Indian) --- Indo-Aryan literature --- Indo-English literature --- Germanic languages --- History and criticism. --- Translations. --- India. --- Bharat --- Bhārata --- Government of India --- Ḣindiston Respublikasi --- Inde --- Indi --- Indien --- Indii͡ --- Indland --- Indo --- Republic of India --- Sāthāranarat ʻIndīa --- Yin-tu