This book provides an informed and lively introduction to the Indian novel in English which is now a fixture on the international literary scene. Covering several major authors, this study offers historical context as well as critical arguments that will deepen an understanding of English-language fiction from India. It is accompanied by suggestions for further reading, notes, and a timeline of key historical events.

Timeline; Maps; Introduction: Ideas of India; 1. Making English India; 2. Ethnography, Gender, and Nation; 3. Mahatma-Magic': Gandhi and Literary India; 4. Writing Partition; 5. Midnight's Legacies: Two Epic Novels of Nation; 6. Bombay and the Novel; 7. Family Matters: Domesticity and Gender; 8. Imagining'Origins': The Literature of Migration; Conclusion: The Contemporary Scene; Bibliography

, Priyamvada GopalChurchill College, Cambridge