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The Indian Imagination

Critical Essays on Indian Writing in English

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  • © 2000

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  1. K. D. Verma
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Indian Writing in English: Structure of Consciousness, Literary History and Critical Theory

    • K. D. Verma
    Pages 1-29

  3. Sri Aurobindo as a Poet: A Reassessment

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    Pages 31-46

  4. The Social and Political Vision of Sri Aurobindo

    • K. D. Verma
    Pages 47-60

  5. Sri Aurobindo as a Critic

    • K. D. Verma
    Pages 61-81

  6. Mulk Raj Anand: A Reappraisal

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    Pages 83-103

  7. Ideological Confrontation and Synthesis in Mulk Raj Anand’s Conversations in Bloomsbury

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    Pages 105-124

  8. Balachandra Rajan’s The Dark Dancer: A Critical Reading

    • K. D. Verma
    Pages 125-148

  9. Myth and Imagery in Nissim Ezekiel’s The Unfinished Man: A Critical Reading

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    Pages 149-161

  10. Humanity Defrauded: Notes toward a Reading of Anita Desai’s Baumgartner’s Bombay

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    Pages 163-188

  11. Alienation, Identity and Structure in Arun Joshi’s The Apprentice

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    Pages 189-202

  12. The Metaphysics and Metastructure of Appearance and Reality in Arun Joshi’s The Last Labyrinth

    • K. D. Verma
    Pages 203-210

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 211-268
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The Indian Imagination focuses on literary developments in English both in the colonial and postcolonial periods of Indian history. Six divergent writers - Aurobindo Ghose (Sri Aurobindo), Mulk Raj Anand, Balachandra Rajan, Nissim Ezekiel, Anita Desai, and Arun Joshi - represent a consciousness that has emerged from the confrontation between tradition and modernity. The colonial fantasy of British India was finally dissolved in the first half of this century, only to be succeeded by another fantasy, that of the reinstituted sovereign nation-state. This study argues that the two phases of history - like the two phases of Indian writing in English - together represent the sociohistorical process of colonization and decolonization and the affirmation of identity.

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K.D. Verma is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown.

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