Modern Indian poetry in English / Bruce King.

Includes index.

INTRODUCTION -- HISTORY AND PUBLISHING CIRCLES -- THE POETS, THEIR READERS AND THE MARKET -- TOWARDS A CANON -- POETICS AND CRITICISM -- EZEKIEL AND HIS INFLUENCE -- THE POETS INDIA I: EZEKIEL, RAMANUJAN, PATEL, DARUWALLA, SHIV KUMAR -- THE POET'S INDIA II -- PEERADINA, RODRIGUES, DE SOUZA, SHETTY, SILGARDO -- WOMEN'S VOICES: KAMALA DAS, DE SOUZA, SILGARDO -- TWO BILINGUAL EXPERIMENTALISTS: KOLATKAR AND CHITRE -- EXPERIMENTALISTS II: MEHTOTRA AND MAHAPATRA -- EXILE: RAMANUJAN, SHARAT CHANDRA, KUMAR, NAZARETH, SETH -- AND RETURN: PARTHASARATHY AND JUSSAWALLA -- PART 2: THE DISAPORA: AGHA SHAHID ALI'S TRICULTURAL NOSTALGIA -- PUBLISHING 1987-99 -- MATURITY: MORAES, PEERADINA, RAMANUJAN, PATEL, SHETTY, MEHROTRA, DARUWALLA, DE SOUZA, ALEXANDER -- NEW WOMEN POETS: SHIVDASANI, PATEL, D'SOUZA, SAMBRANI, DHARKER, DIVAKARUNI, BHATT -- NEW POETS, STYLES, AND FEELINGS: HOSKOTE, THAYIL, SURENDRAN, NAMBISAN, MERCHANT, RAO, PADHI, KHAIR, PRASAD, RAMAKRISHNAN -- CHRONOLOGY OF SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATIONS, JOURNALS AND EVENTS, 1947-99 -- CHART -- I: LIFE AND CAREER DETAILS OF SOME POETS -- CHART 2: ANTHOLOGIES, PUBLISHERS AND AWARDS, CHART 3: IMPORTANT ANTHOLOGIZED POEMS -- INDEX