1st Edition
English and Indian Literature Precolonial to Postcolonial
Introduction
Acknowledgements
I. Precolonial and Colonial Engagements
1. The ‘Clever Wife’ in All’s Well That Ends Well and Two Indian Texts
Rajiva Verma
2. John Stuart Mill’s Views on the Teaching of English in India: A Reassessment from a Postcolonial Perspective
Jyoti Bajaj
3. Tagore’s Critique of the Alienation of Pure Art from the Human in Western Modernity
Shirshendu Chakrabarti
4. Sultana’s Dream and Tagore’s Nightmare: A Gender Perspective on Dreams for Social Change
Malashri Lal
5. ‘The Comprehensiveness of Sympathy’—Gender and Species in Tagore
Ruth Vanita
6. An Indian Judge, an English Gentlewoman, and India’s Freedom Struggle
R.W. Desai
7. Five Approaches to A Passage to India
Bijay Kumar Das
8. Interrogating History and Myth as Affirmative Strategies in L.H. Myers’ The Near and the Far Tetralogy
Anil Aneja and Mukta Aneja
II. Postcolonial Anxieties
9. Babasaheb Ambedkar: Scholar Extraordinaire
Tapan Basu
10. ‘Rival Shakuntalas’: Nehru, Jayaprakash Narayan and Shankar’s India
Christel R. Devadawson
11. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak on Mahasweta Devi: A Critique
Rajnath
12. From Haripir to Haripur: Problems of Plurality in The Assassin’s Song
Harish Narang
13. For Pepper and Christ: The Dawn of India’s Colonization
Evelyne Hanquart-Turner
14. English Studies Then and Now: Some Personal Reflections
Prafulla C. Kar
III. Literature at Large
15. Random Reflections on Literature and the Sacred
M.L. Raina
16. ‘Poor Parsons’ Daughters’ in Jane Austen, the Brontës and Mrs. Gaskell
Prashant K. Sinha
17. Christy Hero: The Evolution of the Playboy
Mohini Khot
18. The ‘Strange God?’: D.H. Lawrence’s Quarrel with Christianity and T.S. Eliot
Sumanyu Satpathy
19. The ‘Circumambient World’: D.H. Lawrence and Environment
G.K. Das
Notes on Contributors
Index
Biography
R.W. Desai was Professor at the University of Delhi, India and Editor of the journal Hamlet Studies from 1970 to 2003.
Christel R. Devadawson is Professor, Department of English, University of Delhi, India. She has also been Head of the English Department at St. Stephen’s College, and at Delhi University.
Rajiva Varma was Professor of English at the University of Delhi, India. He is a founding member and a former President of the Shakespeare Society India.
