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xxxiv, 638 p. ; 24 cm. Machine generated contents note: iv / Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTION -- xvii / Modernity and the Vernacular -- xxiii / The Construction of the Indian Novel in English -- xxxii / A Note on the Selection -- THE BENGAL RENAISSANCE AND AFTER -- 3 / Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824-73) -- 5 / from The Anglo-Saxon and the Hindu' -- 7 / Two Letters -- 12 / Bankimchandra Chatterjee (1838-94) -- 13 / 'A Popular Literature for Bengal' -- 19 / The Confession of a Young Bengal' -- 24 / from Rajani -- 26 / Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) -- 29 / The Postmaster' -- 34 / Five Letters -- 39 / An Essay on Nursery Rhymes -- 42 / from the Introduction to ThakurmarJhuli -- 45 / Sukumar Ray (1887-1923) -- 46 / 'A Topsy-Turvy Tale' -- 66 / Bibhuti Bhushan Banerjee (1894-1950) -- 68 / from Pather Panchali -- 88 / Parashuram (Rajshekhar Basu) (1880-1960) -- 89 / Blue Star' -- 97 / The Jackal-Faced Tongs' -- 106 / Buddhadev Bose (1908-74) -- 107 / from Tithidore -- 114 / from An Acre of Green Grass: A Review of Modern -- Bengali Literature -- 122 / Mahashweta Devi (b. 1926) -- 123/ Arjun' -- HINDI -- 133 / Premdhand (Dhanpat Rai) (1880-1936) -- 134 / 'The Chess Players' -- 145 / Nirmal Verma (b. 1929) -- 146 / 'Terminal' -- 156 / Krishna Sobti (b. 1925) -- 157 / from Ai Ladki -- URDU -- 187 / Sadat Hasan Manto (1912-55) -- 188/ Peerun' -- 193 / The Black Shalwar -- 205 / Qurratulain Hyder (b. 1927) -- 206 / 'Memories of an Indian Childhood' -- 220 / Naiyer Masud (b. 1936) -- 221 / 'Sheesha Ghar -- THE SOUTH -- 239 / U. R. Anantha Murthy (b. 1932) -- 240 / A Horsefor the Sun' -- 266 / Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (c 1908-94) -- 267 / Walls' -- 290 / 0. V. Vijayan (b. 1930) -- 291 / The Rocks' -- 297 / Ambai (C. S. Lakshmi) (b. 1945) -- 298 / 'Gifts' -- PAGES FROM AUTOBIOGRAPHIES -- 309 / Fakir Mohan Senapati (1843-1918) -- 310 / from Story of My Life -- 330 / Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897-1998) -- 331 / from The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian -- 347 / Aubrey Menen (1912-89) -- 347 / from Dead Man in the Silver Market -- 355 / Pankaj Mishra (b. 1969) -- 356 / 'Edmund Wilson in Benares' -- ENGLISH -- 375 / R K. Narayan (b. 1907) -- 376 / from The English Teacher -- 397 / Raja Rao (b. 1908) -- 398 / from The Serpent and the Rope -- 414 / Ruskin Bond (b. 1934) -- 415 / The Night Train at Deoli' -- 419 / A. K Ramanujan (1929-93) -- 420 / Is There an Indian Way of Thinking? An Informal Essay' -- 438 / Dom Moraes (b. 1938) -- 439 / from Answered by Flutes -- 455 / Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (b. 1947) -- 456 / from The Emperor Has No Clothes' -- 478 / AdilJussawalla (b. 1940) -- 478 / 'Make Mine Movies' -- 484 / Salman Rushdie (b. 1947) -- 486 / from Midnights Children -- 508 / Vikram Seth (b. 1952) -- 509 / from The Golden Gate -- 538 / Amitav Ghosh (b. 1956) -- 538 / Tibetan Dinner' -- 542 / 'Four Corners' -- 547 / Upamanyu Chatterjee (b. 1959) -- 548 / from English, August: An Indian Story -- 563 / Vikram Chandra (b. 1961) -- 564 / 'Siege in Kailashpada' from a novel in progress -- 582 / Sunetra Gupta (b. 1965) -- 583 / from Memories of Rain -- 595 / Aamer Hussein (b. 1955) -- 596 / The Colour of a Loved Person's Eyes' -- 605 / Ashok Banker (b. 1964) -- 606 / from Vertigo -- 617 / Rohit Manchanda (b. 1963) -- 618 / from In the Light of the Black Sun -- 632 / Notes on Translators -- 635 / Permissions Acknowledgements. adult edited by Amit Chaudhuri. Indic literature (English) 20th century Indic literature Translations into English Indic literature 20th century Indic literature 19th century PR9494.9 P53 2001 891.4 PIC 0330343637 2001431861 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy031/2001431861.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy031/2001431861.html DLC 010222 20170125112055.0 12572788