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Synopsis Indian English Literature confirms authoritatively some definitive trends in its rapid development after 1950. It now spreads something on its imaginative process and creative drive the linguistic and narrative inventiveness and innovativeness. The galvanization of indigenous and nativistic cultural heritage through, myths, legends and the symbolization of objects for transpersonalizing the universal validity of human emotions, the cultural paradigms and the historic sense. The entire body corpus of Indian English Literature after 1950 deals with the assimilation of exteriority of human behaviour into the interiority of human psyche that includes the analysis of different human problems and the emerging prospects therein. The twenty two papers included in this anthology clothe and screen a wider range of the works of R.K. Narayan, Manohar Malgonkar, Kamala Markandaya, Anita Desai, Ruth, Prawer Jhabvala, Bharati Mukherjee, Shashi Deshpande, Arundhati Roy, Attia Hosain, Khuswant Singh, Salman Rushdie, Chitra Divakaruni and Kiran Desai. Apart from the works of these novelists, this book consists of an article on Jhumpa Lahiri's art of short story and an interview with contemporary Indian English Poet, Charu Sheel Singh. Since Indian English Literature has now become an alternative/compulsory subject at undergraduate and postgraduate levels of studies along with the first choice of research work in various universities, this book in the present format will certainly be a unique contribution to both the students and scholars alike.