Indian Writing in English: Critical Perspectives consists of essays by distinguished Indian academics on a variety of topics covering Indian Writing in English, which is a relatively recent phenomenon reaching global status. The book introduces the contemporary debates comprising the vast aspects of the canon. IWE has become a robust literature that holds its place in world literature and appears perfectly as Indigenous literature. As a result of multiculturalism, literature is the manifestation of hybrid cultures, and globalization has affected the literary scene for centuries. The present anthology, edited by Dr Vishwanath Bite and Dr Arvind Nawale, consists of twenty well-researched articles throwing a flood of light on various aspects. Indian Writing in English is the body of work of writers in India who write in English and whose mother tongue is usually one of the numerous languages of India. It is also associated with the works of members of the Indian diaspora, especially people like Salman Rushdie, who were born in India. As a category, this production comes under the broader realm of postcolonial literature- the production from previously colonised countries such as India. The present book explores works of eminent authors like Anurag Mathur’s Inscrutable Americans, Arun Joshi’s The Strange Case of Billy Biswas, Gita Mehta’s Raj, Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines, Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq and Hayavadana, Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence, Arundhati Roy’s Resistant of Bare Life, Baby Bush go Back, Anita Desai’s Journey to Ithaca, Paulo Coelo’s The Alchemist, Prakash Deshpande’s Bardana, Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan, Lakshmi Bai and Durga Khote’s Autobiographies, Mulk Raj Anand’s The Old Woman and The Cow, Gita Hariharan’s When Dreams Travel, Vijay Tendulkar’s Silence! The Court is in Session Mahashweta Devi’s Standayini Arvind Adiga’s The White Tiger through different perspectives. The present volume will prove an ideal reference book for students, researchers and teachers of Indian Writing in English.
