Studies in Indian and Anglo-Indian Fiction

Author: Soros CowasjeePublisher: HarperCollinsYear: 1996Language: EnglishPages: 178ISBN/UPC (if available): 817223242X DescriptionA most enjoyable collection which offers a summary overview of author's scholarly achievements and provocative insights.This volume contains a selection of the author's papers, articles and essays on Indian and Anglo-Indian fiction. Of continuing interest is his essays on exile and its effect on Indian writers abroad; equally perceptive is the essay on the problems associated with getting an Indian novel across to Western readers, His The partition in Indo-Anglian Fiction was among the first on the subject and the forerunner of several studies that have appeared in recent years. But, perhaps, Cowasjee's most interesting essays are on the writers of the Raj. He introduces us to novels and short stories we know little about and, he brings many of these writers out of an undeserved obscurity. Cowasjee maintains a high degree of objectivity towards the Indian