A SHORT READING LIST FOR

INDIAN LITERATURE

 

Sachin Ketkar

Reader

Dept of English

The MS University of Baroda

Baroda-2

 

1.       Amit Chaudhuri, ed., The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature, Picador, 2001

 

2.       Amiya Dev, ed. Narrative: A Seminar, New Delhi: Sahitya Academi,1994

 

3.       Anuradha Dingwaney and Carol Maier. eds. Between Languages and Cultures: Translation and Cross-Cultural Texts. Delhi: Oxford University Press. 1996

 

4.       Arvind Krishna Mehrotra ed. The Oxford Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets, Delhi, OUP, 1992

 

5.       ___________ Ed.  An Illustrated History of Indian Literature in English, Permanent Black, Delhi,2002

6.       Bruce King, Modern Indian Poetry in English, Revised Edition Delhi, OUP, 2001

7.       __________, Three Indian Poets: Nissim Ezekiel, A K Ramanujan, Dom Moraes. Delhi: Oxford University Press

8.       EV Ramakrishnan ed. The Tree of Tongues   An Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Rashtrapati Nivas, Summer Hill, Shimla-171005.

9.       ______________ Making it New: Modernism in Malayalam, Marathi and Hindi Poetry, Shimla, 1995

10.   _______________ed. The Tree of Tongues: An Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla-171005.

11.   ______________ed.  Modern Indian Short Stories (1900-2000) New Delhi, Sahitya Akademi, 2005

12.   _______________ed. Narrating India: The Novel in Search of a Nation, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1992

13.   G.N. Devy.   In Another Tongue: Essays on Indian English Literature. Madras: Macmillan India, 1993.

14.   __________ Of Many Heroes: An Indian Essay in Literary Historiography. Mumbai: Orient Longman, 1998.

15.   ___________,  After Amnesia: Tradition and Change in Indian Literary Criticism, Orient Longman, 1992

16.   ____________ed. Indian Literary Criticism : Theory and Interpretation, New Delhi, Orient Longman, 2002

17.   ______________ ed. Painted Words: An Anthology of Tribal Literature. Penguin, 2002

18.   Kapil Kapoor, Literary Theory: Indian Conceptual Framework, Affliated East West Press Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 1998

19.   K.M. George et. Al. ed. Modern Indian Literature , Three volumes, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 1992

20.   ______________Comparative Indian Literature. New Delhi, Sahitya Akademi, 1984

21.   K Satchidanandan ed. Signatures: One Hundred Indian Poets, New Delhi.National Book Trust, 2000

22.   _____________ ed., Indian Poetry: Modernism and After, Sahitya Akademi, 2001

23.   ______________ Indian Literature: Positions and Propositions. Delhi: Pencraft International, 1999

24.   Makarand Paranjape ed. In Diaspora: Theories, Histories, Texts, Indialog Publications, 2001

25.   ________________ Towards a Poetics of the Indian English Novel, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, 2000

26.   ________________  Nativism: Essays in Criticism, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1997

27.   Meenakshi Mukherjee,   Realism and Reality: The Novel and Society in India, Delhi, OUP, 1985

28.   __________________, The Twice Born Fiction:  Themes and Techniques of the Indian Novel in English, rev.  ed.  1974

29.    _________________ The Perishable Empire: Essays in Indian Writing in English, OUP, 2002

1.       MK Naik & Shyamala Narayan, Indian English Literature1 980-2000, A Critical Survey, New Delhi: Pencraft, 2004

2.       Mohan Lal et al. eds. Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature. Vol I to V, New Delhi. Sahitya Akademi. 1992

3.       Mulk Raj Anand and Eleanor Zelliot eds., An Anthology of Dalit Literature, New Delhi, Gyan Publishing House, 1992

4.       Nalini Natarajan, Emmanuel Sampath Nelson. Ed. Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996

5.       Prabhakar Machwe. Modernity and Contemporary Indian Literature. Delhi. Chetana Publications, 1978

6.       ________________ Four decades of Indian literature: a Critical Evaluation . Delhi. Chetana Publications,  1976

7.       Ranjit Hoskote ed. Reasons for Belonging: Fourteen Contemporary Indian Poets. Viking/Penguin Books India, New Delhi, 2002.

8.       Rukmini Bhaya Nair, ed. Translation, Text & Theory: The Paradigm of India. Sage Publications, 2002

9.       Ruth Vanita, `Queering India: Same Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Society and Culture’ , Routledge, 2002

10.   Salman Rushdie and Elizabeth West ed. The Vintage Book of Indian Writing (1947-1997). London: Vintage, 1997.

11.   Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands. Essays and Criticisms (1981-1991). London: Granta, 1991.

12.   Sharankumar Limbale, ` Towards an Aesthetic of Dalit Literature: History, Controversies and Considerations’, Orient Longman, 2004

13.   Sisir Kumar Das, A History of  Indian Literature, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 2006

14.   Sudhir Kakar ` The Inner World: A Psycho-Analytic Study of Childhood and Society in India , Orient Longman,

15.   Sujit Mukherjee, Towards a Literary History of India, Shimla: IIAS, 1975  

16.   _____________Translation as Discovery and Other Essays on Indian Literature in English Translation. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 1994

17.   _____________ A Dictionary of Indian Literature: Beginnings to 1850. Orient Longman, 1998

18.   ____________Translation as Recovery, Pencraft International, Delhi,2004

19.   Susan Bassnett and Harish Trivedi. Ed. Post-Colonial Translation: Theory and Practice. London and NY: Routledge, 1999

20.   Susie Tharu and K Lalita, ed., Women Writing in India, 2 Vols. New Delhi, OUP, 1993

21.   Tabish Khair. Babu Fictions: Alienation in Contemporary Indian English Novels Babu Fictions:     Alienation in Contemporary Indian English Novels. OUP, 2005

22.   Tejaswini Niranjana, Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism, and the Colonial Context. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 1999

23.   Umashanker Joshi, ` The Idea of Indian Literature’, New Delhi. Sahitya Akademi, 1990

24.   Vinay Dharwadkar and AK Ramanujan ed., the Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry, OUP, 1994

25.   William Walsh, Indian Literature in English, London: Longman, 1990.

26.   William Radice, Poetry and Community: Lectures and Essays 1991-2001, Chronicle Books, Orient Longman, 2001

 

 

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