History of Indian English Literature
Publisher:
Sahitya Akademi
Language:
English
Pages:
320
Country of Origin:
India
Age Range:
18-100
Average Reading Time
640 mins
Book Description
Indian English literature began as an interesting by-product of an eventful encounter in the late eighteenth cntury between a vigorous and enterprising Britain and a stagnant and chaotic India, and is now nealy twi hundred years old. It is literature written originally in English by authors Indian by birth, ancestry or nationality. It is no part of English literature any more than American literature or Australian lterature can be said to be branch of British literature. It is legitimatly a part of Indian literature, since its differntia is the expression in it of an Indian ethos.
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