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Nineteenth Century Indian English Prose: A Selection is an attempt to represent the facility with which Indians used the English language in the nineteenth century. It also represents the various ways in which Indians wrote or spoke of their country and as such it is a selection of statements about India and the idea of the Indian Nation. It includes political, cultural, religious and literary pieces and everywhere the preference has been for pieces which show Indian eloquence in English. The figures included are Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Dadabhai Naoroji, Keshab Chandra Sen, Mahadev Govind Ranade, Woomesh Chandra Bannerjee, Badruddin Tyabji, Sir Ferozeshah Mehta, Romesh Chunder Dutt, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Swami Vivekananda, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, V.S. Srinivasa Sastri, Mahatma Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo. There is a general introduction outlining the relevant contexts of the period and each author selected is also introduced briefly. The collection is reader friendly but the reader will have to engage actively with the authors and make the necessary connections of themes and ideas to benefit fully from the anthology.