TY - BOOK TI - Indian writing in English : past and present SN - 9788176254427 U1 - 820.9954 PY - 2004/// CY - New Delhi PB - Sarup & Sons, KW - Indic literature (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism. KW - Indic literature (English) N1 - Includes index; 1. R.K. Narayan's The Guide : A Work of Technical Perfection -- 2. The Evolution of Self in R.K. Narayan's Major Women Characters -- 3. The Dark Room : A Moving Tale of a Tormented Wife -- 4. Women in the Novels of Maturity in R.K. Narayan -- 5. The Mother—Portraiture : A Study in R.K. Narayan's The Bachelor of Arts -- 6. Tradition versus Modernity : An Interpretation of R.K. Narayan's The Vendor of Sweets -- 7. Bhattachaiya's Novels : The Portrayal of Poverty and Hunger 8. Ironic Vision in Kamala Markandaya's 'Nectar in a Sieve' -- 9. Nectar in a Sieve : A Study -- 10. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala : The Weaver of Tales -- 11. Malgonkar's Portrayal of the Glamour and Glory of the Feudal Past in The Princes -- 12. Colonial Consciousness and Racial Conflict : An Analysis of Immigrant Experience in Anita Desai Bye-Bye Blackbird -- 13. Environmental Changes and Social Values in Bharati Mukheijee's Jasmine -- 14. Believable Slice of Life : An Eivaluation of Jhumpa Lahiris' Interpreter of Maladies -- 15. Interpreter of Maladies : A Saga of Asian Immigrants -- 16. Politics in Rushdie's Shame -- 17. Women : In the Company of Women -- 18. Aspects of a Novel : Rajendra Singh's The Shirt of Flame : An Epic of Rural India -- 19. Perseus the Deliverer : A Study 25Xfndia Then and Now : The Contemporar Relevance of Girish Kamad's Tale-Danda -- 21. Fall of Sultan : A Study of Tughlaq. -- 22 Indianness in Girish Kamad's Hayavadana -- 23. Celebration of Violence : A Study of Vijay Tendulkar's The Viuture ER -