TY - BOOK AU - Mukherjee,Meenakshi TI - The perishable empire : essays on Indian writing in English SN - 0195651472 U1 - 820.9954 PY - 2000/// CY - New Delhi, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Indic literature (English) KW - History and criticism KW - Indic literature (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism KW - Letterkunde KW - Engels. KW - Littérature indienne (de l'Inde) de langue anglaise -- Histoire et critique. Roman. KW - Roman. KW - Literatur. KW - Geschichte. KW - Indien KW - Englisch. N1 - Nation, novel, language -- Rajmohan's wife : the first Indian English novel -- Churning the seas of treacle : three ways -- Ambiguous discourse : the novels of Krupa Satthianadhan -- Hearing her own voice : defective acoustics in colonial India -- "We say Desh" : the other Nirad Babu -- Maps and mirrors : co-ordinates of meaning in The shadow lines -- Haroun and the sea of stories : fantasy or fable? -- The anxiety of Indianness -- Divided by a common language ER -