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Synopsis Indian English Fiction: New Perspectives puts together sixteen scholarly essays on Indian fiction written in English for more than five decades. They focus on different areas and aspects like the development of Indian English fiction, humanism, language and style, ontology, nationalism, subjectivity, feminism, social, historical and psychological realism, ambivalence, joys and sorrows of womanhood, religious tolerance, dialectics of enchained sensibility, irony, ecology, identity crisis, politics and ecology of print culture. The writers discussed are Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan, Raja Rao, Kamala Markandaya, Khushwant Singh, Shobha De’, Arundhati Roy, Shashi Tharoor, Shashi Despande, Manohar Malgonkar, Arun Joshi, Rohinton Mistry and Nayantara Sahgal among others. The book, it is hoped, will be of use to the scholars who take up Indian English fiction for their research and also to all those who are interested in familiarising themselves with the recent trends in this area.