A Survey of Indian-English Prose

by
Satish Kumar



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ISBN 978-81-7977-656-8

Price: Rs. 450.00

pp. 384



A Survey of Indian-English Prose presents a comprehensive and updated review of the evolution of Indian English prose. It records major social and political crosscurrents which influenced major writers, stimulated their thoughts, provided them with thematic variety and impacted their stylistic and linguistic devices. This book is conspicuous for its scrupulous researched presentation of how all great writers from Mahatma Gandhi to A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and Gurchran Das have been shaped by the milieu and their innate impulses and how they have articulated transformative political and socio-economic changes in India in their works. It also elaborately discusses various innovative stylistic and linguistic devices which all great writers have employed in their works. Simplicity, clarity and lucidity of expression distinguish it .

Contents include:

Prologue; Indian Renaissance; The Saint Writers; Towards the Dawn; Mahatma Gandhi; Rabindranath Tagore; Sri Aurobindo; Jawaharlal Nehru; Sri Paramhansa Yogananda; Dr. S. Radhakrishnan; Modern Indian English Prose; Nirad C. Chaudhuri; Khushwant Singh; Ved Mehta; Contemporary Prose; Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam; Gurcharan Das; Denouement; Bibliography; Chronological Table; Index

About the author:

Dr. Satish Kumar, formerly in U.P. Government Higher Education Service, is a distinguished critic on Indian English literature, his area of specialisation for over five decades. He has commendably authored over two dozen books on literature, especially Indian English literature. Mulkraj Anand appreciating his book A Survey of Indian English Novel observed : “…It is a comprehensive critical review of Indian English writing from before the war years and coming of freedom till now… from the point of view of its contents it is the most comprehensive recreation of Indian English Writers after the first book of Dr. Srinivas Iyengar.”