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Imagining India

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  • © 1989

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Authors:
  1. Richard Cronin

    1. University of Glasgow, UK

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Richard Cronin
    Pages 1-3

  3. The English Indian Novel: Kim and Midnight’s Children

    • Richard Cronin
    Pages 4-17

  4. The Indian English Novel: Nation of Fools and The Man-Eater of Malgudi

    • Richard Cronin
    Pages 18-33

  5. Riding the Beast: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala in India

    • Richard Cronin
    Pages 34-44

  6. The Quiet and the Loud: Anita Desai’s India

    • Richard Cronin
    Pages 45-58

  7. The Politics of R.K. Narayan

    • Richard Cronin
    Pages 59-74

  8. Indian Trains

    • Richard Cronin
    Pages 75-88

  9. Indian Fugues

    • Richard Cronin
    Pages 89-102

  10. An Area of Darkness

    • Richard Cronin
    Pages 103-113

  11. Indian Autobiography

    • Richard Cronin
    Pages 114-146

  12. Sex in the Indian Novel

    • Richard Cronin
    Pages 147-160

  13. The Hill of Devi and Heat and Dust

    • Richard Cronin
    Pages 161-176

  14. A Passage to India

    • Richard Cronin
    Pages 177-194

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 195-203
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This book investigates what happens to the English language when it seeks to accommodate India and what happens to India when it is accommodated within the language of a far-off European country. It explores the work of writers from Kipling to Salman Rushdie, Ghandhi to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.

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  • University of Glasgow, UK

    Richard Cronin

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